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Speaker 2: I want you to put the word up there. We

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Speaker 2: back them, understand me, We backam.

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Speaker 3: Well, good afternoon, Welcome in. It's the Monday midday Quarterback

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Speaker 3: and you're listening on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: And I I'm Tony Pike alongside here with Austin Elmore

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Speaker 3: and obviously obviously a lot is happening. And first and foremost,

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Speaker 3: let me just say I am excited to be back

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Speaker 3: in this chair talking to you right now. More importantly,

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Speaker 3: I am I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity here to

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Speaker 3: be back on the air with the Wcky family and

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Speaker 3: reconnect with obviously the listeners who have always supported me.

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Speaker 3: This journey at times takes unexpected turns. I'm here, I'm ready.

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Speaker 3: I could not be more excited to get back to

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Speaker 3: doing what I love doing, and that is talking to

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Speaker 3: you each and every afternoon from noon to three on

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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati sports station. That today obviously goes

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Speaker 3: a little bit longer because I'll be with Moeger and

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Speaker 3: Florence from three to six, so essentially just here from

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Speaker 3: noon to two today, Austin has our number three. I

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Speaker 3: would be remissed as well not to just say a

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Speaker 3: sincere thank you, literally from the bottom of my heart

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Speaker 3: to everyone that has reached out, that has texted, that

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Speaker 3: has called, that has tweeted in some way or another,

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Speaker 3: that has reached out and supported me through what has

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Speaker 3: been a very difficult time, an unknown time. And again,

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Speaker 3: I'm grateful that I'm back here now. I didn't know

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Speaker 3: this over the last couple of weeks of what was

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Speaker 3: as has my family, on the support that those that

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Speaker 3: listen to this show have given since the time I've

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Speaker 3: been gone I apologize to so many people that I

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Speaker 3: haven't even gotten back to yet. It is it was

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Speaker 3: a lot, It was a lot to take in. I

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Speaker 3: probably should be apologizing to my wife and my kids

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Speaker 3: because of how I've been the last week or so,

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Speaker 3: because I know I haven't been pleasant to be around.

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Speaker 3: Then I uh, I need to My wife needs to

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Speaker 3: know how much I appreciate her and and and who

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Speaker 3: she's been even more than what she normally is during

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Speaker 3: a very hard and difficult time for our family and

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Speaker 3: UH with my kids and and immediate family and friends

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Speaker 3: and everyone else. I'm I'm so grateful and I'm so

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Speaker 3: thankful to UH to have a chance to be back

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Speaker 3: on and UH to be back on alongside Austin as well. Austin.

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Speaker 3: Obviously people were wondering, you know this, this has to

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Speaker 3: mean that you and I are still here, and yes,

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Speaker 3: in fact, we are still here. Austin is right there

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Speaker 3: as well. Hi, Tony, Hello Austin. Hey man, I have

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Speaker 3: to say, Austin, I uh, gosh, I believe this was

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Speaker 3: I had to remind people.

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Speaker 3: You caught yourself about halfway through, you said, and Tony's

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Speaker 2: I sent you up.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you in person as well. I

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the words you shared. I appreciated the words

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Speaker 2: So it did, you know, make me feel good that like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it was heard throughout this process and in many

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Speaker 2: different ways, and then there's the side of it. Austin

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Speaker 2: from a sports side, missed quite a bit. I missed,

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Speaker 2: I missed your trip to Green Bay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I missed Joe Flacco be coming a Bengal and

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Speaker 3: for a while, Austin, I was a free agent. I'm

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Speaker 3: getting ready to watch last Thursday, and I'm like, well,

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Speaker 2: Than I am. Yeah, I don't see time to get

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Speaker 2: joke at one point that the Bengals chose Joe Flacco

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Speaker 3: I uh, I went to uh uh. There was twice

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Speaker 2: Can I say something just to circle back to the

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Speaker 2: to me, that really meant a lot to me. Well,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm glad that it took Joe Flacco

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Speaker 3: coming in to realize if you just peppered the ball

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Speaker 2: That's fun.

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Speaker 3: We get to talk about that the Bengals have a

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Speaker 3: discuss that the winless Jets are coming in with guess who,

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Speaker 3: speaking of wanting to give it a go again, my

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Speaker 3: Tyrod Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Is back with the Jets.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna start a football game Yeah, unbelievable time.

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Speaker 2: He's excited Flacco and Tarrod Taylor, who were teammates in Baltimore,

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Speaker 2: gosh about fourteen years ago, which is kind of hard

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Speaker 2: to believe. I do know Aaron Glynn, the Jets head coach.

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Speaker 2: They do their media in the mornings on Mondays. He

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Speaker 2: not it's Justin Fields or Torod Taylor.

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Speaker 3: Who would you rather face? Tyrod Taylor? Oh, there's just something.

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Speaker 3: Justin Field still has a threat. I know he's not

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Speaker 3: I don't think Tyrod is as much of a threat.

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Speaker 3: Also, may I say about them Bearcats? Oh, you're allowed

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Speaker 3: six and one, four and zero. The Big Twelve right now,

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Speaker 3: tied with BYU atop the league. The only two undefeated

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Speaker 3: BYU's next two weeks at Iowa State and then at

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Speaker 3: You see, in control of their Destiny to play in Dallas,

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Speaker 3: Texas for a Big twelve championship game. They beat Oklahoma

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Speaker 3: three levels of the Bearcats having success, and what this

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Speaker 3: Homecoming on Saturday. Hall of Fame weekend Friday night. It's

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Speaker 3: For the born and bred for you see, yeah, bornham raised.

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Speaker 2: This is the So who's going to the Hall of Fame?

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Speaker 2: A couple of folks like who? Illustrious class?

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Speaker 2: Who are some of the guys who Mike Mickens, Oh,

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Speaker 2: I remember him. I'm gonna be inducted into the Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame Friday night. I am.

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Speaker 3: I get to take part in the Hall of Fame

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Speaker 3: homecoming parade on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Really, YEA, to be a Grand Marshall face should give

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Speaker 2: you like little mini footballs to throw people. I was

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Speaker 2: thinking that, Yeah, I was thinking that, just to prove

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Speaker 3: Yeah, worst Falorat. Yeah's worst Falorat. That's exciting. Uh FC Cincinnati, Austin.

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Speaker 3: How about this post round?

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Speaker 2: You're burying the lead. Michael Jordan's a Bengals fan. You

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Speaker 2: see this? No, I talked about this for like an

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. Is this move? Michael Jordans is a Bengals fan.

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Speaker 2: According to Chris Collinsworth, Wow, you and I love Michael

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Speaker 2: Jordan the goat. We love his company. He's the goat,

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Speaker 2: And according to Chris collins Worth, Michael Jordan for some reason,

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Speaker 2: watch every game thinking me and Michael Jordan are doing

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Speaker 2: the same thing right now, and I just think we

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Speaker 2: shape or form, you know, like what you think I've

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Speaker 2: been walking around the last couple of days thinking about

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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco. You think Michael Jordan's doing the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, when he wakes up before he goes to bed, Yeah, Flacco, man,

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Speaker 3: he still got it. Michael Jordan, He's just like a

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Speaker 3: he spins it man. Shout out to Michael Jordan, Shout

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Speaker 3: out to FC Cincinnati. Yes, how about this? Could you?

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Speaker 3: Could you write a better first round matchup than hell

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Football in the Natie. Yes, I'm I'm Tony Pike.

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Speaker 3: I'm back here. Austin is here on ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 2: Tarrell Austin is their defensive coordinators. This is who we are.

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Speaker 2: I was at a game in twenty eighteen when Tarrell

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Speaker 2: Austin was the defensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals. The

435
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Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints scored on every possession. Fifty two to fourteen,

436
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Speaker 2: I believe was the final score. Yeah, and that was

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Speaker 2: I believe Arret Austin got fired after that. Marvin Lewis

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Speaker 2: started calling the defense. So I'm not surprised because Tarrell

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Speaker 2: Austin's a terrible defensive coordinator. They have too many good

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Speaker 2: players to be that bad. Yeah, what I like the most.

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Speaker 2: And I stayed up because I didn't get up for

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Speaker 2: work the next morning. I stayed up and I listened

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Speaker 2: to Joe Flacco and Jamar Chase come back out and

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Speaker 2: talk to the guys from Prime. And there was a

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Speaker 2: particular play where Flaco hit Yoshivash down the middle for

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Speaker 2: thirty seven yards and hearing him describe that play of like,

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Speaker 2: we knew going in that eventually they were going to

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Speaker 2: have to bracket both Jamar and t Higgins, and when

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Speaker 2: they did, we had to hit it.

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Speaker 3: And Flacco is like, he sounds like a kid in

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Speaker 3: a candy story. He's like, I came up to the

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Speaker 3: line and they were both bracketed, and I knew we

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Speaker 3: had it.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: He still made an unbelievable throw. But I'm listening to

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, who's been around this thing a long time,

457
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Speaker 3: Austin a long time, and I'm listening to him, and

458
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Speaker 3: I thought, man, he sounds like anyone else that would

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Speaker 3: get to be a quarterback for Jamar Chase and T

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Speaker 3: Higgins during the week. I don't know if you caught it,

461
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Speaker 3: but he was like, hey, you know, we got out

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Speaker 3: of Green Bay and we lost. He had some good

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Speaker 3: things in the second half, and all week. I'm on

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Speaker 3: the phone with my brothers, I'm on the phone with

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Speaker 3: my friends, and I'm like, guys, like these two are amazing,

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Speaker 3: Like just how giddy Flacco is to get to throw

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Speaker 3: the ball to these guys. He looks like he's renewed,

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Speaker 3: he looks like he's refreshed. And to have that and

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Speaker 3: somehow Austin they hit a play late in that game.

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Speaker 3: Flacco put the ball in the air on a deep

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Speaker 3: out well before Jamar Chase was out of his break.

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Speaker 3: Chase caught the ball, got both feet in, moved the chains.

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Speaker 3: That is a throw that for many quarterbacks and receivers

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Speaker 3: takes years to develop. He did it in ten days.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing for a receiver to be open and

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Speaker 3: you throw them open, but to have the timing and

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Speaker 3: the discipline to not only throw it to a guy

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Speaker 3: twenty three times, but that ball beyond the money to

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Speaker 3: catch as many times as it was. I can't speak

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Speaker 3: at a quarterback level how impressive it is what Joe

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Speaker 3: Flacco did. And it's even more impressive because everyone says, well,

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Speaker 3: ten days, ten days, ten days. They played Sunday and

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Speaker 3: then turn around and played Thursday. You don't have the

484
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Speaker 3: same game plan for both games, so he actually had

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Speaker 3: less time to get ready for the Pittsburgh Steelers and

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Speaker 3: still was able to do what he did. It was

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Speaker 3: one of the most impressive quarterback performances I've seen, because

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine how hard it was to get caught

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Speaker 3: up that quick, and he did it and in doing so.

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Speaker 3: I listened to James Rapine before the game and he

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Speaker 3: called it essentially a must win game, almost an elimination

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Speaker 3: game for the Cincinnati Bengals. And now on the other

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Speaker 3: side of it, as we just discussed here, we are

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Speaker 3: talking about a team in the Bengals that should at

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Speaker 3: home be favored over the next two weeks, and if

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Speaker 3: they take care of business at home, they're five and

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Speaker 3: four going into the bye week. And do you know

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Speaker 3: what happens if you get to five and four going

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Speaker 3: into the bye Maybe you start to peak ahead, Maybe

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Speaker 3: you start to inquire about some Joe Burrow updates. Maybe

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Speaker 3: you start to see a light at the end of

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Speaker 3: the tunnel there. The Patriots are good, they come to town.

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Speaker 3: The Ravens still just one win. I don't think people

504
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Speaker 3: are shutting the door completely on them. But if things

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Speaker 3: don't go well for the Ravens over the next few

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Speaker 3: what are they playing for By the time those two

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Speaker 3: games come around. There are opportunities to be had, and

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Speaker 3: that changed because of what happened on Thursday night, and

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Speaker 3: the Bengals have put themselves into that position. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: more about the Bengals first. Let's talk more about the

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Speaker 3: Bearcats when we get back as well. It is the

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Speaker 3: Monday midday quarterback ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 5: You've been listening to football in the NATI on ESPN

514
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Speaker 5: fifteen point thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 6: For ten years.

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Speaker 7: Jackson catches a shorter high snap, throws a slant, picked off, intercepted.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati is running it back.

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Speaker 3: This is McDoom up the far sideline, tight roping the sideline.

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Speaker 4: He's at the forty, the thirty, the twenty, the ten

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Speaker 4: to the end zone. Touchdown. Bear canally.

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Speaker 3: About that, Oh, Matt McDoom baby mczoom mg zoom school record,

522
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Speaker 3: all time school record for longest interception returned by a

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Speaker 3: bear Cat. Previous record was held against Oklahoma State.

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Speaker 2: As well.

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Speaker 3: That was en route to a Bearcat's forty nine to

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Speaker 3: seventeen route of Oklahoma State. Good for our wind Shulers

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Speaker 3: call of the day, thanks to our friends at wind Shulers.

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Speaker 3: Don't take our word for it. Just go try wind

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Speaker 3: Shulers for yourself any of their four amazing flavors. It's

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Speaker 3: not really a tailgate, it's not really a holiday get

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Speaker 3: together if win Shulers isn't a part of it. So

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Speaker 3: make them a part of your next get together. Matt McDoom, Austin.

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Speaker 3: You know that was the first defensive where special team

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Speaker 3: touchdown that the Bearcats have scored in the Scott Saderfield

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Speaker 3: era Wow thirty one games without a defensive or special

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Speaker 3: teams touchdown that ended thanks to mc zoom. It also

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00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 3: gave the Bearcats a much more comfortable lead they eventually

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Speaker 3: went at forty nine to seventeen. The stats speak for

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00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: themselves right now with the Cincinnati Bearcats Austin, I I

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00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 3: said at the beginning of the year, I think they

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Speaker 3: were going to go over their posted win total. I

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00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 3: didn't know that they'd be where they are now, But

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00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 3: looking at this team's makeup and what they're able to do.

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Speaker 3: They ran the ball for five yards of carry on

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Speaker 3: Saturday night, Evan Pryor seven yards of carry, Tywee Walker

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Speaker 3: thirty eight. Sworsby can run the ball, though he wasn't

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Speaker 3: much of a runner the other night. And now all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden, Austin, they've realized that Joe Royer is

549
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Speaker 3: an NFL tight end. He can block in the run game,

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Speaker 3: he blocks in the passing game. He's a strong receiver,

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Speaker 3: sure handed, but also can run after the catch. Joe

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Speaker 3: Royer is one of the top three tight ends that

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00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 3: will be in the draft this upcoming year. Noah Jennings,

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Speaker 3: Jeff Cadwell, Cyrus Allen all coming into their own. Caleb

555
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Speaker 3: Goodies had a big year. They have talent on the outside.

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Speaker 3: Royer's an NFL talent, Sworsby's playing as one of the

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Speaker 3: best quarterbacks in the country. They have a two headed

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Speaker 3: monster at running back, and behind all of that Austin,

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Speaker 3: they have an offensive line who's given up two sacks

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Speaker 3: on the year and has won Big Twelve Offensive Line

561
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Speaker 3: of the Week three times. Where's their offensive weakness? Special

562
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 3: teams night and day where they were Stephen Russknacks not

563
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 3: missed a kick dating back to last year. He's a weapon.

564
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: Max Fletcher is a weapon. Their return units, their coverage

565
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: units are weapons. Now you could say that the defense

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Speaker 3: needs to be better, and I'll agree with you. Oklahoma

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00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: State offensively should not have been able to have the

568
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Speaker 3: numbers that they did. But in back to back weeks

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Speaker 3: it has felt like the defense has been gashed at times.

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Speaker 3: And yet you look on the scoreboard. They gave up

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Speaker 3: seventeen on Saturday night, and they gave up eleven against UCF.

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Speaker 3: They are the epitome of a bend but don't break

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Speaker 3: defense in between the twenties. They play softer, not softer upfront,

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Speaker 3: but softer coverage. They keep everything in front, they limit

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Speaker 3: the explosives, and then they are a really good defense

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Speaker 3: when the opponent crosses the fifty, especially when the opponent

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Speaker 3: gets into the red zone. Do you see Bearcats in

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00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,959
Speaker 3: talking about the red zone? Austin perfect on the season,

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Speaker 3: best in college football one hundred percent scoring in the

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Speaker 3: red zone and the highest touchdown rate in the nation

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Speaker 3: by any team who has been one hundred percent in

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Speaker 3: the red zone. Baylor comes into town, a tough trip

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Speaker 3: to Utah, Arizona at home. I think the best remaining

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Speaker 3: team on the schedule is BYU. They host BYU and

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Speaker 3: then they go to TCU Austin. There is a path

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Speaker 3: for the UC Bearcats to take care of business and

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Speaker 3: represent themselves in Dallas for a big twelve championship game.

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Speaker 3: With what you've seen of UC, do you see that

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Speaker 3: as being attainable?

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Speaker 2: Still, it's hard. It's kind of surprising, like to hear

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Speaker 2: you say that and like realize that is a possibility,

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Speaker 2: and they've done a great job of putting themselves in

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Speaker 2: that position offensively. Yes, you know, I was also and

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Speaker 2: I know I'm labeled the Bearcat hater a lot, but

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Speaker 2: I was also one of those people before the season

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Speaker 2: that said, I believe in this team. I believe in

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Speaker 2: Scott Saderfield, and I especially believe in the offense. Defense

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00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 2: needs to be more consistent, without a doubt. But it

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00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: goes without saying there is a path to get there,

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Speaker 2: and they've done what they've needed to do. They've taken

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Speaker 2: care of business, They've done it, you know, defensively this week,

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, the score was what it was, but

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people would still wait to

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Speaker 2: see a little bit more defensively. But if you're finding

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Speaker 2: ways to win, and you continue to get better, they're

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Speaker 2: gonna have a chance. Yeah, it's not crazy to think

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Speaker 2: along those lines of like, okay, and.

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Speaker 3: There's somebody said about winning and feeling like you've left

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Speaker 3: a lot out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean Chase Brown said that Thursday and

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Speaker 2: he had a great game. But like, yeah, if you're

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Speaker 2: able to just understand this is what we did, this

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Speaker 2: is how we succeeded, this is what we could have done.

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Speaker 2: Apply that throughout the week going into a next game,

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Speaker 2: I think that that can bode well for you. See,

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Speaker 2: there are six teams Austin. I also can't help but

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00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 2: think back to Arizona State last year, YEP, in a

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Speaker 2: similar situation where people are like, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: Arizona State's gonna make it, and they made it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right now, Austin, there are five teams with one or

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Speaker 3: one loss or zero losses in the Big Twelve. The

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Speaker 3: top six in the Big twelve are Iowa State, Houston,

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Speaker 3: Texas Tech, Arizona State, Cincinnati BYU Cincinnati By you're the

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Speaker 3: only undefeated teams left. You have a heads up win

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Speaker 3: over Iowa State already. They have two Big Twelve losses.

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Speaker 3: You don't play Houston on the schedule, you don't play

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Speaker 3: Texas Tech on the schedule, and you don't play Arizona State.

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Speaker 3: So the three one loss teams aren't on your schedule.

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Speaker 3: The other undefeated team is at Nippert Stadium, and I've

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Speaker 3: watched enough Utah that I know it's gonna be tough

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Speaker 3: to go on the road at Utah. I'm not wowed

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Speaker 3: by Utah's offense. That would be what concerns me if

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Speaker 3: you're go against the Bearcats. I think they can score

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Speaker 3: against anybody. Elite offenses would worry me. You toss not

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Speaker 3: an elite offense. So just look where the standings are

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Speaker 3: right now in the Big twelve, and you've got a

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Speaker 3: shot now that starts with taking care of business at

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Speaker 3: homecoming on Saturday. You're a five and a half point

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Speaker 3: favored against Baylor. But they are a very good special

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Speaker 3: teams unit. They are an extremely impressive offensive unit. And

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Speaker 3: Austin whet in this city, he's taken a lot of heat.

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Speaker 3: He deserves credit as well for what Scott Sadderfield's built.

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Speaker 2: I agree those.

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Speaker 3: Players being in the locker room after the game, they

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Speaker 3: love Scott Soaderfield you look at Royer and Swarsby and Corleone.

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Speaker 3: They all decided we're coming back because they believe in Scott.

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00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 3: So the locker room believes in him. Now you're starting

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Speaker 3: to see his imprint on this offense. And what are

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Speaker 3: we also seeing at the same time off they're running

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Speaker 3: Luke Thicke Loot of Wisconsin. Scott Souderfield looks to be

651
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Speaker 3: the guy at the University of Cincinnati, and there's a

652
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Speaker 3: lot of people that owe him an apology for that,

653
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 3: but it all means nothing if you don't take care

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Speaker 3: of business at home. On Saturday. They are Bowl eligible,

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Speaker 3: so they are going bowling. But being around this team,

656
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 3: it's not just something they say now that you want

657
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 3: to win a championship. Everyone starts a year and says, well,

658
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 3: our goal is a Big Twelve championship. They legitimately believe

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Speaker 3: that they can win the Big Twelve championship, and I

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Speaker 3: think that makes them even more dangerous. Let's take a break,

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Speaker 3: let's come back. More football ahead. On the Monday midday quarterback,

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Speaker 3: you're listening on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station.

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Speaker 2: You see gay wise, since it not going on in

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Speaker 2: the NFL.

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Speaker 8: Getting ESPN is fifteen thirty from iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back Monday Midday Quarterback, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: Sports Station. Yes, this is not a rerun from weeks

668
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Speaker 3: or months ago. I am I'm back here, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: Austin is here, Austin. I think Rob Johnson. I got

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00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 3: to shout him out on social media because I think

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Speaker 3: he figured things out.

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00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: I was on a ten.

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Speaker 3: Day deal with an NFL squad. That's where I went

674
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 3: was that. I can't say legally, I had a ten

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Speaker 3: day contract.

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00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: And I was checking the transaction wire. I didn't see

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00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 2: that come through. Yeah, you wouldn't have seen it was

678
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: it was. It was the Kentucky barrels.

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Speaker 3: And much like Jay Gruden, much like Jake Gruden said

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00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 3: years ago, I just didn't have the confidence. But the

681
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 3: ten day is over. I did not make the cuts,

682
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 3: and I'm back and I'm very appreciative to be back.

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Speaker 3: What else happened across the college football world? Austin a lot?

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Speaker 2: Uh Luke Fickle? How does he still have a jam?

685
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Has there ever been shut out in

686
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 2: back to back weeks at home against Iowa?

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Speaker 3: And has there ever been like a just a more

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00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 3: demoralizing thirty four to nothing loss, Like there was no

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Speaker 3: point in that game where I thought like Wisconsin was

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Speaker 3: even going to score.

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Speaker 2: And it never really felt like Ohio State even played

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Speaker 2: that well. No, to be honest, that's a crazy thing.

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Speaker 2: What Matt Patricia has done with that defense is insane,

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Speaker 2: and Julian Sayan has been phenomenal. Yeah, he continues to

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Speaker 2: like kind of take the next step in a college

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Speaker 2: for them, But.

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Speaker 3: In a college football world where I don't know how

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Speaker 3: many good teams they are far and above the upper

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Speaker 3: class of this season, like Miami was number two. They

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Speaker 3: lose on Friday night, Yeah, Nebraska got walloped on Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Iowa just lost their best defense or not?

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Speaker 4: Iowa?

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Speaker 2: Indiana just lost their best defensive player for the rest

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Speaker 2: of it. Do they play Ohio State regular season or no,

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Speaker 2: they don't. I was talking about this earlier. If I'm

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Speaker 2: an Ohio State fan, which I am, why do I

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Speaker 2: care about the Big Ten champions? You don't. The only

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Speaker 2: reason really would be seating, and that obviously would come

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Speaker 2: into you know, play a little bit closer to the

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Speaker 2: actual game. But like, so long as they win out

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Speaker 2: and even if they lose to Michigan, which Lord knows

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Speaker 2: that's the possibility. It's kind of reached the point where

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Speaker 2: that's the expectation until Ryan Day proves otherwise. But like

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Speaker 2: you kind of at the point where it's like, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like the Big Ten Championship game

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Speaker 2: has no value anymore, no other than seating and how

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Speaker 2: Oregon won it last year and they got screwed in

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Speaker 2: the seating. It's just the weird stuff I'm thinking about

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Speaker 2: is out at Florida. What about you, Luke? What about

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Speaker 2: Mike Norvell? Luke got the dreaded vote of confidence today?

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Speaker 2: Did you see that from the ad? Athletic Director Chris

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Speaker 2: McIntosh wrote a letter to Badgers fans today. So this

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Speaker 2: season has fallen well short of our standards. Blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: says Coach Fickle sees the potential and what this team

725
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Speaker 2: can be as do I, and he shares the same

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Speaker 2: disappointment and frustration. We continue to stand and fight with

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Speaker 2: character and pride as we battle through this moment of adversity,

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Speaker 2: and they deserve our supporting battle.

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Speaker 3: I saw an article that said the Athletic director has

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Speaker 3: backed Luke Fickle and has targeted a financial push.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine in Wisconsin saying, hey, Luke's our guy,

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Speaker 2: but we need more money. You need a little bit

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Speaker 2: more cash, No chance, Probably give it to the basketball team.

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Speaker 3: What's Florida's take going to do with Mike Norvel? Remember

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Speaker 3: when they were good at the start of the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they got beat by Stanford. They all said they were

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Speaker 3: back and they're not back. Like right now, who in

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Speaker 3: college football is No? One's on Ohio State's level. Who's

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Speaker 3: on the next level, who's on the tier just below?

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Speaker 3: I would say Indiana, is there, Texas, A and m

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Speaker 3: maybe Alabama. Like I don't think Georgia's is dominant. I

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Speaker 3: don't think Oregans is dominant.

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Speaker 2: Alabama's heading in the right direction, but it's like Georgia

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Speaker 2: Tech Old Miss. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: There's just it doesn't feel like there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: clear cut dominant teams this year.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I you gotta feel good if you're an Ohio State

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Speaker 3: fan right now? Yeah, I mean, how much different does

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Speaker 3: the Penn State game all of a sudden become I.

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Speaker 2: Know, and that you know, we're kind of counting on

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Speaker 2: a game like that at some point to you know,

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Speaker 2: help legitimize what you're thinking, But there is a narrative

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Speaker 2: out there around Ohio State that suggests that they aren't

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Speaker 2: as good maybe as we think, because their quote unquote

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Speaker 2: best win barely survived Kentucky over the weekend with what

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Speaker 2: Texas is doing and dropped a spot now behind Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: at number twenty two in the AP pole. So I

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Speaker 2: do think there is that narrative out there that maybe

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Speaker 2: Ohio State just hasn't played anybody good. And the schedule

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Speaker 2: has been Texas, Grambling, Ou, Ohio, Washington, Minnesota, beat Illinois

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Speaker 2: number seventeen at Illinois, at Wisconsin, Penn State isn't what

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Speaker 2: you thought they would be, at Purdue, Ucla, Ucla who

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Speaker 2: has come on strong, Rutgers, and then Michigan, who's ranked

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Speaker 2: at the moment as well. Yeah, so it isn't the

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Speaker 2: strongest schedule. I'll be the first to admit that. You

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Speaker 2: want to talk about a schedule. Now, Wisconsin, now you

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Speaker 2: got to go to Oregon, then play Washington, and then

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Speaker 2: you're at Indiana and then you play Illinois. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if Wisconsin wins another game, do they score another point?

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Speaker 3: Did you see what their team total is for Saturday.

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Speaker 3: I did not take a guess, Beani just over under

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Speaker 3: has been set at this number on how many points

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Speaker 3: they'll score fourteen and a half, seven and a half,

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, seven and a half. All Wisconsin needs

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Speaker 3: to do is score a touchdown in a field goal.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember seeing a total that low.

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Speaker 2: I don't either. The total for the game is.

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Speaker 3: Forty two and a half, forty six and a half,

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Speaker 3: but the spreads thirty four and a half, seven and

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Speaker 3: a half is the team total.

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Speaker 2: That's wild. That's unbelievable. It seems unfathomable.

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Speaker 3: It is college football Wisconsin. Unbelievable stuff going around with

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Speaker 3: uh with Luke Fickle. We'll get back to the Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 3: and we'll take a couple of phone calls as well.

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Speaker 3: Starting hour number two, Monday Midday Quarterback, ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: It's our number two Monday midday Quarterback ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati Sports Station. And yes, if you missed it earlier,

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Speaker 3: I'm Tony Pike. I'm back. Austin is still here. Nothing

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Speaker 3: has changed between Austin and I, although it is feels different.

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Speaker 2: Are there are going to be some changes? Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: feels different. They're they're putting your name on the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're gonna put my on the show. It's a big thing.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be called Tony Pikes since he three to sixty.

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00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 2: That's catchy. Yeah, let's catchy. So I'm chopped liver and

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00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 2: then we'll add him with Austin Elmore. It's gonna be funny.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, this is Tony Pike. Since he three

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Speaker 2: sixty and Tony's gonna be gone for an hour. Here's

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Speaker 2: Austin Elmore.

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Speaker 3: It's Austin Elmore's Monday midday quarterback two to three.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really think that one through, did they? What

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00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 2: about when you leave on Fridays to travel with the Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that maybe need to be

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00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: thought through. I'm glad you're back, though I don't want to.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to come off, do you opposite? Do

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Speaker 2: you know who else is glad? Sincey shirts?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 3: And I'm glad for Sincy shirts. Did you see what

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Speaker 3: Cinty shirts were released today?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I did. Now I'm a.

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Speaker 3: Big fan of Cinti shirts already Sincey shirts posted earlier today.

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Speaker 3: It says Tony has always been in our Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 3: but this weekend he gets to go into another one.

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Speaker 3: Come to Loveland or Fort Mitchell get this shirt. This

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Speaker 3: week They've got the Tony Pike Hall of Fame Class

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five shirt.

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Speaker 2: And what I love about it is the predominant photo

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Speaker 2: in it is when you were playing with a broken

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Speaker 2: left arm. Yes, just all around toughness. Yeah, the tough

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Speaker 2: Tony Pike, grit Tony toughness Pike, grit Week, grit Week,

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Speaker 2: grit Week. And you can see the big cast on

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Speaker 2: your left arm yep as you raise your hands into

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Speaker 2: the air, and then a couple one with your your

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Speaker 2: looking mobile another when you're you're cocking back to throw

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Speaker 2: one to Cam Chancellor. So, I mean, just really cool,

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Speaker 2: really cool photo it is. Ah, it's awesome. Thanks to

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Speaker 2: Sincy shirts. You can go buy one if you want

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Speaker 2: to come, if you're coming to the event on Friday,

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Speaker 2: or you're coming to the game Saturday. Now Austin, they

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Speaker 2: sent out a that they sent out like an itinerary

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Speaker 2: for Friday and Saturday, and the dress attire for Friday

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Speaker 2: is called bearcatch chic. What the what's the word?

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Speaker 11: She mean?

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Speaker 2: You want the official definition? Yes, all right, give me

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Speaker 2: just a second. Uh chic elegantly and stylishly fashionable. Okay, chic?

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00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 2: Can you spell it?

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 2: I can't spell it.

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Speaker 8: C H.

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Speaker 2: I see now eloquently, elegantly and stylishly fashionable.

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Speaker 11: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know if that shirt would be bearcat chic.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's something you would wear Friday night.

860
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 3: But you can certainly wear it Saturday. I think you

861
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 3: wear it whenever you want down to the game. You

862
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 3: can find a way to dress that up. Man, I'm

863
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 3: gonna be getting dressed up on Friday night. More to

864
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 3: come on that. I don't know what that means. Well,

865
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 3: you know you you uh, I don't know if you did.

866
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 3: You see the photo that you see put together when

867
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 3: they they threw me under the bus by putting that

868
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 3: like fresh in year suit photo where I was in

869
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 3: a suit that I think the off I think like

870
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 3: offensive lineman were in the same suit. It looked like

871
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 3: it was eighteen sizes too big for my ishues in

872
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 3: the same jacket you said, yeah, same shirt. Yeah, I'm

873
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 3: gonna get fitted. I'm gonna get fitted for Friday night.

874
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 3: Good for you, man, I can't wait. How many hall

875
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 3: of Fames does this make you?

876
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 2: You in Redding Hall of Fame Honor, I'm I'm in

877
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 2: reading you're in Cincy shirts has one? Apparently, Yeah, you're

878
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: in their Hall of Fame. You since three sixty Ring

879
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 2: of Honor, your self inducted yourself into the Sincy three

880
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 2: sixty Ring of Honor a few years ago, and now

881
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 2: this would be the UC Athletics Hall of Fame. Yes,

882
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: that's so mean. That's a pretty impressive resume.

883
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 4: It is.

884
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 3: There was another one I got inducted in, but I honestly,

885
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 3: on the top of my head, I can't remember.

886
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 2: The name of it. Wow, dude, so Southern Ohio High

887
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 2: School Football Hall of Fame or something like that.

888
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 3: It was.

889
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 2: It was it was something like that.

890
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, still outside, I've always enjoyed the Lrosas. I'm outside

891
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 3: looking in on the on the lo Rosa. Still what

892
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 3: l Ross has a Hall of Fame in Cincinnati? Yeah, oh, I.

893
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 2: Didn't know that. Yep.

894
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,439
Speaker 3: Okay, it's interesting. It's pretty good. But wait to see

895
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 3: what the folks uh from Waldo do here. Uh this Friday,

896
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get fitted, man, no idea what you're talking.

897
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 3: I'm getting fitted. I'm gonna look better than that that

898
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 3: picture that they they threw out there. But shout out

899
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 3: to Cynthy Schurch for getting that done. And uh, I'm

900
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:27,439
Speaker 3: happy to be back.

901
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 2: Go check them out. I am.

902
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here and uh, more than anything,

903
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 3: I'm just glad to be able to talk some football.

904
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 3: That's what the Monday Midday Quarterback is about.

905
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 2: And in doing so.

906
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 3: One of the things I've missed most Austin is being

907
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 3: able to talk to the listeners as well.

908
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 2: Can we do that? Sure? Can we take a phone

909
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 2: call or too? Yeah, what's up John, Tony.

910
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 13: It's so great to hear you.

911
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: It really is. Thank you.

912
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 13: I had so much hope that you come back, and

913
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 13: I think what has happened is I don't think you're

914
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 13: gonna release this story, but this is my take and

915
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 13: I'm gonna stick with it. I think you would pulled

916
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,240
Speaker 13: off the air so you could go under cover because

917
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 13: you've broken the flacoad to the Cucinnati Bengals deal. Then

918
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 13: you degraded him in the city. He's a little older

919
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 13: than you, and you're like, just throw it into my

920
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 13: chase and see Higgins and you'll be fine.

921
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 10: I think that's I was really what you were doing

922
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 10: in the last two weeks.

923
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 3: I'm going that I can neither confirm and deny that

924
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 3: I might have been called before Flacco and things may

925
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 3: or may not have worked out poorly on that on

926
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 3: that workout.

927
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 13: Now, as far as dressing up on Friday night, you

928
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 13: have the most stylish quarterback in the NFL in Cincinnati and.

929
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, so I think you've got to.

930
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 13: Reach out to him or his stylist.

931
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 2: He has a stylist.

932
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 13: I think you were a little taller than Joe, if

933
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 13: I'm not mistaken.

934
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm taller. I don't think I could pull off.

935
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 3: You know, I thought about maybe the back list suit,

936
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 3: but I don't think I could pull that off.

937
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 13: No, we're getting too old for that kind of stuff, right,

938
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 13: that's that's reserve.

939
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: If it's twenty something, correct, you're telling.

940
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 10: Me their sixties.

941
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 2: I certainly could not pull it off.

942
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 13: But it's great to hear you and Austin you are

943
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 13: you are anything but chupliver my friends.

944
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: I love to listening to both of you guys. Thank you, Josh. Absolutely.

945
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 13: As far as Thursday night's game, in terms of the

946
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 13: running game, we've talked about this all season long, how

947
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 13: much more effective the running game is when the quarterback

948
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 13: is under center, and we.

949
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 2: Saw that on Thursday night.

950
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 13: Going forward, when Borrow comes back, will they be able

951
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 13: to get him under center more often so that it will.

952
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 2: Help the running game?

953
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 13: And I think I watched obviously Drake May you know

954
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 13: every week here with the New England Patriots since they've

955
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 13: been multiple with him. He's zoomed up like the MVP

956
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 13: discussion incredibly because he's under center a lot. But he's

957
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 13: also in the gun. You can throw from under center,

958
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 13: you could run from the gun. There's just a lot

959
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 13: of you know, a lot of options there. I would

960
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 13: love to see them do that with Burrow when he

961
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 13: comes back, because that obviously helps with containing the pass rush.

962
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 2: We saw that the other night. The ability to run

963
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 2: just kind of.

964
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 13: Held that pass rush back and Flacco was pretty clean

965
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 13: in the pocket.

966
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 14: Yeah.

967
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 3: That and the more I see this, John, that's the

968
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 3: more I question. Is this something that Burrow just says

969
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 3: absolutely not. I don't want to deal because if not,

970
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 3: and you saw the success years ago that Browning had

971
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 3: in that stant under center, and you saw what Joe

972
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 3: Flacco going under center did for this offense, then you

973
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 3: would just immediately think, well, that just that's better. They

974
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 3: operate better. But if you go back to what Joe

975
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 3: Burrow did that year at LSU, his senior year, he

976
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 3: was he was out of gun on everything, and I

977
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 3: wonder how much his level of comfort says I'm not

978
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 3: going under center and he just nixes that. I don't

979
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 3: know if that's the case or not. But when we

980
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 3: see other teams and other quarterbacks for this team have

981
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 3: success under center, why else would you not be under center?

982
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 3: If you're the Bengals with Joe Burrow.

983
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 13: Well, no question. I mean I love Borrow obviously heard me,

984
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 13: you know, talking enough about him over the last six

985
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 13: eight months. But sometimes quarterbacks and your quarterback you need

986
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 13: to be coached and you need to be held to

987
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 13: a higher standard and to protect yourself. Maybe he doesn't

988
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 13: like doing it, but I think some of these injuries

989
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 13: have come because.

990
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 11: You know, he's getting rush.

991
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 13: One point three seconds was the last in You know,

992
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 13: maybe that's not going to happen if you're on the

993
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 13: center because there's the possibility of a rush. So obviously

994
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 13: maybe Flacko, being a forty year old quarterback.

995
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 2: Is here.

996
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 13: Maybe going forward, he's a backup quarterback who knows he

997
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 13: seems to really like it, and he could be the

998
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 13: guy who can kind of communicate with Borrow and say, look,

999
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 13: this is better for you than just being in the

1000
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 13: gun the whole time.

1001
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: LSU. That was a joke.

1002
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 13: I mean that that we had the best quarterback in

1003
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 13: college football and the two best wide receivers I mean,

1004
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 13: they could have done whatever. He could have thrown left

1005
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 13: handed and brought me when the height trophy. But yeah,

1006
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 13: I'm so with you on that because I just watched that,

1007
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 13: and I watched Drake Man every week, and he's he's

1008
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 13: really doing some great things with the Patriots. He's under

1009
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 13: center a lot, then he's in the gun. They can

1010
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 13: run out of the gun, they can throw under the center.

1011
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 13: It's just it's multiple, a multiple offense, which just opens

1012
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 13: up so many things for quarterbacks. Whereas with Borrow it

1013
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 13: seems like he almost wants to make it more difficult

1014
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 13: on himself. We know he's very bright, but you know,

1015
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 13: sometimes make it easier and you know things will be

1016
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 13: even better.

1017
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 2: A great great John. Great to hear from you, man.

1018
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 3: Thank you, Yes, Sir Austin Nutt. That was one of

1019
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 3: the things I was looking back Thursday and thinking, because

1020
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 3: I don't know how there's not a coincidence, and how

1021
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 3: good the running game looked against the Steelers and seeing

1022
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 3: Flacco under center more, could you see Joe essentially saying

1023
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 3: I don't want to be under center? Yeah, And if so,

1024
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 3: how do you handle that if you were Zach Taylor?

1025
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 2: Well, I think part of it has been in the

1026
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 2: past that Joe Burrow doesn't like to turn his back

1027
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 2: to the defense, especially if you're going to play action. Right,

1028
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 2: So you take the snap from under center, you turn,

1029
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 2: you play fake to the running back, and by the

1030
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 2: time you turn around, where is everybody?

1031
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 3: Right?

1032
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 2: So I understand that if I'm Joe Burrow, but also

1033
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 2: his superpower is supposed to be his processing, his ability

1034
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 2: to see the field nowhere guys are going and what

1035
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 2: they're doing. If you noticed against the Steelers on Thursday,

1036
00:54:55,680 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 2: the Bengals did something they never ever ever do, which

1037
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,959
Speaker 2: is that they did a straight pass out of under center.

1038
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 2: I think it was four or five times where Flacco

1039
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 2: under center, took the snap, did a three five seven

1040
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 2: step drop whatever it was, and throw the ball. This

1041
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 2: is slowly but surely coming back in the NFL, YEP

1042
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 2: and the Bengals, I don't know that they have ever

1043
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,240
Speaker 2: done that since Zach Taylor has been the head coach.

1044
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: And so because of that, I think it all of

1045
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: a sudden, Pittsburgh's like, oh crap, they might throw it

1046
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 2: when they go under center instead of a run to

1047
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 2: the right of the left or a play action. We

1048
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 2: have time to let it develop. It adds something else

1049
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: that a team has to be prepared for. And a

1050
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 2: couple of those were quick hitteror that went for big games,

1051
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 2: and so that I think is a way to mitigate it.

1052
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 2: The desire of Joe Burrow not to turn his back

1053
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 2: to the defense. Okay, snap it into a five step drop.

1054
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: There was.

1055
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 3: There was I believe only a handful of instances in

1056
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen he was under center. And that's even like

1057
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 3: short yardage. They were almost exclusive shotgun. And I wonder

1058
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 3: how much of that and the success hehead in that

1059
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 3: is saying I'm not I don't want to go under center.

1060
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 3: And again, what I think is difficult now, Austin, if

1061
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 3: you're Zach Taylor, how do you go about that? Like

1062
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 3: do you have to sit down as the coach and say, listen,

1063
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 3: I know you don't like to do it, but if

1064
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 3: we're going to operate effectively.

1065
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 2: You have to do it.

1066
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 3: I think that's part of it, and I think that's

1067
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 3: hard for Zach to do with Joe yep. So I

1068
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 3: think that's a hard conversation to have. Let's give a

1069
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 3: couple more phone calls here. What's up, Kevin.

1070
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 15: Hey Town gonna see you back man, here you're back

1071
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 15: on the radio.

1072
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 11: Big.

1073
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 15: That was a big blessing to hear you guys today

1074
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 15: back together, and maybe maybe they made it feel like home.

1075
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 10: I'm like some are saying, you.

1076
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 11: Know, who's this new guy?

1077
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 15: I think it is it hit guy helped made the

1078
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 15: Kelsey's famous there at Cincinnati or you know, but Austin,

1079
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,760
Speaker 15: you're definitely not chopped Lever. You're definitely not Jake Browning

1080
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 15: probably of.

1081
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 4: The scene either.

1082
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 15: So I hope God, I say you're more like Flaco,

1083
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 15: more like.

1084
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: Burrow there on that. Man, I'll take that thing.

1085
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 15: But man, but that just man, wow, just maybe my

1086
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 15: day maybe thanks Vin And yes, sir, and I'll say

1087
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 15: this and that's what else?

1088
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 4: Have a turn?

1089
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 15: Man, how bad you gotta feel.

1090
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: If you're Jake Browning.

1091
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 15: Here's this veteran comes in in ten days and operates

1092
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 15: this whole offense better than you have in three years.

1093
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 2: It is It's tough, man, It's tough. I think.

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00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 3: As much as that is, it also speaks volumes to

1095
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 3: how unbelievable Flacco is at this point in his career

1096
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 3: to still be spending it like that. Uh, he was awesome.

1097
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 3: He was awesome and so much more so, keV, thank

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00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 3: you so much, man. I appreciate the words.

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00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,959
Speaker 11: Yes, so yes, sir, thank you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Kevin.

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00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 3: You know Austin as impressive as Flacco was the fact

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Speaker 3: that Rogers, when he needs to can still put the

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00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 3: ball seventy yards in the airs.

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00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 2: Nuts sixty nine point eight yards is the longest unbelievable

1105
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 2: air in air throw, I guess is the way to

1106
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 2: describe it since twenty seventeen.

1107
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 3: And according to next g instance and that throw he

1108
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 3: put on a rope to Friar Moose to take the

1109
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 3: lead was incredible. Yeah, now he's doing Now he's walking

1110
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 3: a line of scrimmage. Why why Geno Stone is playing

1111
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 3: cover two? Is the safety on the hash or on

1112
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 3: the numbers? I don't know. We'll get to that at

1113
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 3: at some other point of a breakdown. But how about

1114
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 3: how about Rogers getting tackled after that? Did you see

1115
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 3: his reaction when his lineman tackled him after the touchdown pass?

1116
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. Guys, just forty one years old throwing a

1117
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 3: touchdown pass and he's he's getting tackled by his lineman.

1118
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 3: Not a good look. Not a good look. But uh

1119
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 3: a win. Nonetheless, we got time today. We'll take a

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00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: couple more phone calls. Mike Independence, what's.

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00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,959
Speaker 2: Up, hey, Tony, how you doing good?

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00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 16: Good Austin, nice to hear you both. I woke up

1123
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 16: this morning thought I was so loucinating.

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00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 11: This afternoon I turned on the show, was to.

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Speaker 16: Go twelve nine, just start to play on them talking here?

1126
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 10: What's going on?

1127
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 14: But yeah, good to have you back.

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00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 16: It was a great game on Thursday.

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00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 17: It seemed like the Coachmanel lost some sleep over the

1130
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 17: week and had some wrinkles in there and put some

1131
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 17: deep thought in what they could do to help out

1132
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 17: the offense. Uh, and it seemed to work so great atmosphere.

1133
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 17: Loved it as far as U see goes Man, It's

1134
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 17: exciting right now. Offense is clicking. I feel like the

1135
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 17: defense has got so much speed. It just got to

1136
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 17: get a little bit better and technique and where they're at,

1137
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 17: and they're gonna be doing great things as well.

1138
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 16: So sciding year right now, deciding to have you back.

1139
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 16: I liked Austin by himself. I ain't go live, but

1140
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 16: Tony a little bit extra to the show.

1141
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 10: I appreciate it all you do good luck this weekend,

1142
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 10: my friend.

1143
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you know one of the uh one of

1144
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 3: the things about the game as well, Austin and I know,

1145
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 3: stat wise, it doesn't show a ton I think Ryan's

1146
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 3: been really good for this team.

1147
00:59:58,960 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 2: I agree with that.

1148
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 3: Again, his stat line is just seven carries for thirty

1149
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 3: one yards, but his pass protection, he runs hard. I

1150
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 3: think he's been a welcome site for this.

1151
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 2: Team's been a bit of a change of pace from

1152
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 2: Chess Brown, different styles of runners, maybe a little bit

1153
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 2: more patient than Chase Brown. He's been solid in special teams,

1154
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 2: been solid in the kick return game. Yep. And I

1155
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 2: thought Chase Brown also had one of his best games

1156
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 2: in past protection on Thursday as well. And I do

1157
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 2: think some of that is credited to the impact of

1158
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 2: Sama JP Rhn agreed.

1159
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 4: Paul.

1160
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 2: What's up, Paul?

1161
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 10: Hey, how's it going.

1162
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 6: I have to admit to this. I met you at

1163
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 6: the Reading Taylor game.

1164
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I met you. When I met you, Paul,

1165
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 3: Reading was in much better shape than what they finished in.

1166
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 6: Yes, that what a crazy ass game that was. It

1167
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 6: was pretty crazy.

1168
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 3: Although Taylor's had that ever since then, they've had some

1169
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 3: comfort behind victories.

1170
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 6: I'm actually seeing a specialist this week. For my heart.

1171
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 6: The last three weeks has been absolutely nuts. But what

1172
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 6: I was gonna say is, after meeting you and then

1173
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 6: all of a sudden you weren't on the radio, I

1174
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 6: started blaming myself, like I jinxed you in some way.

1175
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 6: And then when I heard you on the radio today,

1176
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, thank you. It wasn't me. I didn't

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01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 6: do it. So but yeah, what you said about Samaji

1178
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 6: Peter and I was literally just thinking that he has

1179
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 6: been the difference maker. It's not always about the stats,

1180
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 6: it's that it's that leadership, little bit of leadership there.

1181
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 6: And I mean, I still can't believe Joe Flacco. Austin.

1182
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 6: You mentioned all the guys that the that the Bengals

1183
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 6: were looking at as possible candidates, as backups or to

1184
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 6: bring in, and I'm looking at that list that I'm thinking,

1185
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 6: there's only one name on there that I would have taken,

1186
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 6: and that was Joe Flacco because of the experience. Yeah,

1187
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 6: nobody else there really was showing me anything. And I thought, man,

1188
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 6: I really think we got a steal of a deal

1189
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 6: for I mean, we got a what a fifth round

1190
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 6: pick we gave up? I mean and we got six

1191
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 6: of them. I mean, we really gave up a case

1192
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 6: of you know, football's for this guy. Yeah, to me,

1193
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 6: that's that's amazing.

1194
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Paul, thank you so much for the words. Man,

1195
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 3: appreciate the call.

1196
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was about roughly eighty spots that

1197
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 2: the Bengals moved back in the draft right around that. Now.

1198
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 3: I mean, we know what p Roun was before he

1199
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 3: left here. They thought enough of him in key situations

1200
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 3: that he was the guy in the game over Joe mixing.

1201
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 3: The Flacco thing. Man, if you're a Browns fan and

1202
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 3: now you see Mike Tomlins, you can see why he

1203
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 3: got why he was pissed. Yeah, you're you're in a

1204
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 3: division and you traded your opening day starter for nothing.

1205
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 2: And they brought up they brought back the clip from

1206
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 2: when Flacco is with the Colts a year or two

1207
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 2: ago and they were playing the Steelers, and Mike Tomlins

1208
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 2: said he told Flacco came into the game after Anthony

1209
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 2: Richardson got hurt an engineer to come back to beat

1210
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 2: the Steelers, and Mike Tomlin said he had told his

1211
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 2: defense to keep Richardson upright, we don't want Flacco in

1212
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 2: the game. Yep. So Mike, I'll will just lose his

1213
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 2: sleep over. Joe fla good good, great good. Uh Steve,

1214
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 2: what's up?

1215
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 14: What's up?

1216
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 3: Buddy?

1217
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 15: How are you welcome back?

1218
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 18: Man on the So I met Tonya at the Holy

1219
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 18: Grail a couple of weeks ago.

1220
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, so uh now that.

1221
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 18: You're coming back, now, I gotta I gotta pony up

1222
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 18: that that battle of packing.

1223
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 2: Let's go.

1224
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 6: I'll Sunday, Yeah, I will, so I live here.

1225
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, I'm slammed and work.

1226
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 18: I let my operations manager have my tickets, uh to

1227
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 18: the Thursday night whiteout game, and now I think he's

1228
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 18: gonna ban me from the stadium because he thinks I'm

1229
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 18: a schlep rock. You know, every time I go to

1230
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 18: a game, it seems like they get.

1231
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 11: Their ass kicks.

1232
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 10: So but uh, so you guys are talking about Samogi.

1233
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 18: You know what, whenever it was Samaji and Joe on

1234
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 18: the team, Joe Mixon, I think I would have rather

1235
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 18: let Joe go and kept Sumoji because if you remember,

1236
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 18: whenever they were playing together, anytime they put Sumaji into

1237
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 18: a short, that dude pushed the entire line of scrimmage like.

1238
01:03:57,240 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 2: Four or five yards.

1239
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 18: Yes, he was almost automatic. And then Joe came in

1240
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 18: and he was he's a great running back. But I

1241
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 18: was whenever they said they were going to bring him back. Man,

1242
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 18: I'm so happy that he's back. I think Joe Flacco,

1243
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 18: he's like he's reborn again. I just love watching this guy.

1244
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 18: Just the calmness, the way he jokes. Thursday Night football,

1245
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 18: he showed up to the to the desk with no

1246
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 18: shoes on.

1247
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 2: Yep.

1248
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 18: I think I think everybody's just relaxed.

1249
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 4: Man.

1250
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 18: They're so relaxed with him around.

1251
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 2: But it's a different vibe. Welcome back.

1252
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 11: It is.

1253
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 18: Whenever I get back up there, Man, I got your bottle.

1254
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,600
Speaker 18: I got Mo's also, brother, let's go, thank you, happy man,

1255
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 18: have a good one.

1256
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1257
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 3: Steve came up at the the last Holy Grail show

1258
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 3: I did and said, hey, I'm I'm uh. I live

1259
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 3: in Charlotte, but I listened to to you guys a

1260
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 3: ton and he said, I know you and moa bourbon guys,

1261
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 3: he said, I and I meant to bring a bottle

1262
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 3: of bourbon that I have for you and Mo.

1263
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 2: And I like, oh, man, thanks.

1264
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 3: He said it was a poppy oh and I'm like,

1265
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 3: well that's a different your ears perk up now?

1266
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1267
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 3: I text moa text Thursday. I said, hey, let me

1268
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,959
Speaker 3: know if Steve showed up, come on down.

1269
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 2: All right?

1270
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, in today's world of technology Austin, sometimes

1271
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 3: things are just not working. Yeah, talkback, we must have

1272
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:13,439
Speaker 3: broke talkbacks today. Well, so many people wanted to leave one.

1273
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 3: There was what's called Amazon Web Services. There was an outage.

1274
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 3: I believe it's continuing as we speak. That affects a

1275
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 3: bunch of different websites. And I know there's also been

1276
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 3: some maintenance going on with talkbacks and the system that

1277
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 3: we use. So there was one talkback that actually got

1278
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 3: delivered today.

1279
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 12: Wow.

1280
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 2: I know that there have been hundreds, if not thousands

1281
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 2: submitted in the Return of Tony Pike, but there's only

1282
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 2: one that actually made it through. So we'll take a break.

1283
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 2: We'll do the intro, we'll play that one talkback, and

1284
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 2: then we'll do talkback calls. We'll go back to the phone.

1285
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 2: Should we do we?

1286
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 3: I mean, we've done this once before and it was

1287
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 3: a great success.

1288
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 2: You're gonna make me nervous. I know what you're thinking.

1289
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 2: Talkback phone calls. Yeah, who cares, Let's just do it.

1290
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 3: Monday midday quarterback continues next thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1291
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 19: Now is that time for talkbacks? Press the microphone, handy coach,

1292
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 19: your message for us, stand and tone, please keep it

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Speaker 19: clean and don't be mean, and a sprinkle, sprinkled, drip drip.

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Speaker 19: It's that time for talkbacks. It's our favorite part of

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Speaker 19: Sancy three sixties. Austin Buddy played that talkback on your screen,

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Speaker 19: and please try not too sabotage, dude.

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01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 3: Do Yeah, well, we're not sabotaging it. They're just not

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01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 3: working today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, somebody somewhere is sabotage.

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01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 3: There is no bigger fan than I am of listening

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01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 3: to your talkbacks.

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01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 4: Well, so.

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01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 2: All right, let's just be honest here. So I was

1304
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 2: under the impression that I'd never speak to you again

1305
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 2: on the air. Yeah, and all of our talkback jingles

1306
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 2: feature your name and mind, And so I put it

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01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 2: out there to the people. Hey, maybe if you guys

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01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 2: have time, can come up with a new uh, yeah,

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01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 2: come up with a new talk jingle. So I find

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Speaker 2: out on Friday, minutes before I take the air that

1311
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 2: you're gonna be back on Monday. Then over the weekend

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01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 2: I get an email with a new talkback jingle. Oh,

1313
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 2: take a listen to this.

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01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 3: It's a time for talkbacks.

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01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 20: Go and grab your phone and record a message.

1316
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 4: Just hit that microphone.

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01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 2: Please keep it clean, okay.

1318
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 21: And and those.

1319
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 3: Sprinkle sprinkle drip drifts.

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01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 20: It's a times it's suck favorite party since e three sixty.

1321
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 20: So Austin, buddy, play those talkbacks on your screen and

1322
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 20: please drive not to sabotage it.

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01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 3: Nice.

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01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 2: I mean that is like good, actually professionally done by

1325
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 2: our guy. And I'm blown away by that. Now that

1326
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 2: is like seriously good, like we he could be paid

1327
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 2: for that. Yeah, now don't quote me on that, but

1328
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 2: I think we might have to use that might be

1329
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 2: the jingle moving forward now we're talkbacks, especially because one

1330
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 2: of us will probably.

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01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 3: Get was the system down on the Wednesday when I

1332
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 3: wasn't here?

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01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 2: It was? It was not I know, in order to

1334
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 2: preserve my job. I didn't blame him.

1335
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 3: I knew I did started and then I was like,

1336
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 3: probably pretty good idea to not air those today.

1337
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was I do want to clear the

1338
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 2: air on that because a lot of people said that

1339
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 2: iHeart like said I couldn't do it. That's not true.

1340
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 2: I had the choice of whether or not I wanted

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 2: to do that. I chose not to, so just to

1342
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 2: out of fairness. A right, here's the one talkback we

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01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:47,679
Speaker 2: got this morning.

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01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 15: What our body man? Still thinking about that Bengals waying

1345
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 15: on Fire's Day.

1346
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 6: I was nervous when money.

1347
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,679
Speaker 2: Back went out, So we go kick that field gold.

1348
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 15: I han't flashed back to a few years ago when

1349
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 15: he could have wanted against pitch Berg and him.

1350
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,599
Speaker 6: Oh man, Roger's throwing at seventy yard.

1351
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 2: Barling like, oh no, they're not going to catch you.

1352
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 14: Sorry.

1353
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 15: So anyways, now we're on to the j E T S.

1354
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 2: What is that really stand for?

1355
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 4: J E T S?

1356
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 2: Just in the season? Man, I like it. I like it.

1357
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 2: I like it when people mess with acronyms. Yep.

1358
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 3: So, now, because we can't get talkbacks today, we'll take

1359
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 3: some phone calls today.

1360
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 2: Let's do it.

1361
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:30,480
Speaker 3: How about our former president of both this country and talkbacks,

1362
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan?

1363
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 10: Hello, Hello, Tony.

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01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 12: There there you go again, And I'm glad you. Did

1365
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,520
Speaker 12: you know when the show started this morning or this afternoon?

1366
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 12: No kidding. My first reaction was I hollered out to

1367
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 12: Nancy and I said, hey, Nance, check it out. Bodie's

1368
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 12: even starting to sound like Tony. I couldn't believe in

1369
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 12: my ears when you came on. Yeah, I'm so glad.

1370
01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 12: In fact, I was. I was in such a funk

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01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 12: cal all week last week. I started just writing off

1372
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 12: sports left and right. It was so bad I even

1373
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 12: watched soccer. But seriously, hey, Audie, you are not Chop Liver.

1374
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 12: You and Tony are like Lennon and McCartney, Arnum and Bailey.

1375
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 2: I mean this, man.

1376
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 12: I am so glad to be able to listen to

1377
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:27,679
Speaker 12: you guys every afternoon again. And I promised to reinstate

1378
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 12: all the budget cuts I went hastily just pad last week.

1379
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 2: So yes, we appreciate that. Thank you, mister president.

1380
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 12: Thank you have a great show.

1381
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:40,639
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, there you go again again. What's up, Chris?

1382
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 3: What's happening?

1383
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 14: Hey, Tony? Welcome back?

1384
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 12: Hey again.

1385
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 14: It's it's great here and you go. You both back

1386
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 14: on the radio here together again. But in regards to

1387
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:58,839
Speaker 14: Joe Flacco running the offense, I've said it since Thursday.

1388
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 14: It seems like I feel much more comfortable with Flaco

1389
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 14: running the offense compared to what Joe Burrow does. Is

1390
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 14: that because just the way that Flaco in terms of, like,

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01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 14: you know, it was more willing to go under center,

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01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 14: and because we had a running game on Thursday night

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01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 14: compared to what we normally do with Burrow, who likes

1394
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 14: to go you know, spread five wide and everything like that.

1395
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:27,719
Speaker 14: Is that something that I mean? Obviously, you know Burrow

1396
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 14: being our quarterback is phenomenal, But in terms of running

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01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 14: the offense and the way Zach Taylor likes to call it,

1398
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 14: do you think it's fitting better with Flaco than compared

1399
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:39,559
Speaker 14: to what Burrow?

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01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 2: Chris, thank you for the phone call.

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01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 3: I think that the way Zach is comfortable in calling

1402
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 3: the system is more under center stuff. But I also

1403
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:53,639
Speaker 3: think it's the coordinator's job to adapt to the personnel

1404
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 3: you have. And you know that Joe Burrow wants to

1405
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 3: run more out of shotgun, So can you game? Can

1406
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 3: you build personnel differently to accommodate that from Joe Burrow?

1407
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 3: I think is the question because it's look, it's Flacco

1408
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 3: is not better than Joe Burrow. Let's let's start that

1409
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 3: right now. Joe Flacco went under center. That helped out

1410
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 3: a ton, but he also was smart enough to pepper

1411
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase twenty three times in t Higgins ten. I

1412
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 3: think there's a lot of success that's built into that,

1413
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 3: and Joe does have the ability. In Flacco Joe's ability

1414
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 3: is to go under center, and that does help out

1415
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 3: the running game, and is Austin alluded to earlier, it

1416
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 3: helps out because when they go under center, they have

1417
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 3: the threat to pass now as well. So yeah, it's

1418
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 3: it's not Flacco's better than Burrow, but I do think

1419
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 3: Zach is more comfortable as a play caller being able

1420
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:53,080
Speaker 3: to utilize more under center stuff. I think that part

1421
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 3: is fair. Uh, what's up, Johnny?

1422
01:12:57,800 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 22: Oh hate Tony longtime.

1423
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:09,599
Speaker 2: It's been a while. It's been a while. Also, just wait, Henny, Yeah,

1424
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 2: figure it out, Johnny or something.

1425
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 14: I feel like I feel like talkback matters die right,

1426
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 14: You're messing up this.

1427
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,679
Speaker 15: I'm so sorry, Tony.

1428
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:21,600
Speaker 18: I was talking to someboddies.

1429
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 22: I was like, you know, what think of your average

1430
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 22: listener that only like listens like twice a week.

1431
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 10: They probably got on the radio today hurt Tony Pike

1432
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,879
Speaker 10: and didn't think much of it because the other two times.

1433
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:35,560
Speaker 22: They put in, like, ah, I heard Chad Brandell's in

1434
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 22: every now and then and hurt often. I heard it

1435
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 22: feels that way and just part of the course for

1436
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 22: part time pikes.

1437
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:42,599
Speaker 14: Don't you think.

1438
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 3: That's just just another vacation.

1439
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 2: It's another ten day triumph.

1440
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 6: Another vacation.

1441
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 22: Right, Hey, I know you've missed a little bit, but

1442
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 22: you've missed a lot because Johnny has Flacco fever right now, stop.

1443
01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 14: I bought one of those you know, those vendors that are.

1444
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 22: Like outside the stay held stuff for way too much money.

1445
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:05,599
Speaker 22: Oh yes, uh yeah, Well guess what drunk Johnny saw

1446
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 22: a flock around and find out Shane and I won't

1447
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 22: tell you how much I paid for it, but I'll

1448
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 22: tell you it was worth every penny because I was

1449
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 22: walking out of that stadium drunk as the skunk and

1450
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,120
Speaker 22: white is all hackedy because those bangles are awesome.

1451
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 9: Man.

1452
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 22: I'm gonna hang up and let you talk now.

1453
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 3: Who aund and find out those vendors that's their audience,

1454
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 3: Johnny after a couple of drinks coming around and being like, yeah, baby,

1455
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:37,919
Speaker 3: that matches, Yep, that matches.

1456
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 2: What's up?

1457
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 16: Jt Hey, Tony said, legs her back on the air,

1458
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 16: and when you went off. To be honest with you,

1459
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 16: I had to see a psychiatrist and he diagnosed me

1460
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:52,919
Speaker 16: legit with parasocial breakup the stress. This is an emotional

1461
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 16: reaction that occurs when a parasocial relationship.

1462
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 11: Comes to an end.

1463
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 16: One might ask, where's a parasocial relationship answer? This is

1464
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 16: a one sided psychological bond that an audience member forms

1465
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 16: with a media figure like an actor, celebrity, or radio host.

1466
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 16: I feel like you know them even though they don't

1467
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 16: know you. In conclusion, this phenomenon is phenomenon, is not uncommon,

1468
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 16: and your feelings are normal. According to my shrink, It's

1469
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 16: a normal response to the termination of the meaningful, albeit

1470
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 16: one sided connection.

1471
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 2: Wow, oh man, JT. I hope you're better now. Sorry,

1472
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 2: we cause on medication.

1473
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 16: They gave me some They give me some Pike antibiotics,

1474
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 16: and I think I'm back on my way to being

1475
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:34,719
Speaker 16: a functional member of society.

1476
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 2: JT. Thank you, man, I appreciate your j that's on

1477
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 2: your diagnosis.

1478
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 3: This, this now, Austin, is where things can get dangerous.

1479
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 3: You know, this is our normal talkbacks A lot talkbacks

1480
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 3: are down today, So I have five calls here. We

1481
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 3: don't know who we're going to be talking to. We're

1482
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 3: just going to take these at random. Let's start with

1483
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 3: number four. Hello, Caler, you're on the air. What's your name?

1484
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 3: Oh Y, Yeah, it's you.

1485
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 23: Hey, Tony, Brody Tony, It's Brody the Cicada. There ain't

1486
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 23: ever been a bigger comeback since I return. I just

1487
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 23: want to wish you a happy return. It's so glad

1488
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:20,600
Speaker 23: to hear you browdcasting across.

1489
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 16: The airwaves again.

1490
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 2: I tried Brody, Addie.

1491
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 23: And it just didn't hit it hard as your return has.

1492
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 22: So this would be great.

1493
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:30,679
Speaker 23: I can't wait.

1494
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 11: I can't wait to have Brody Brody Tony.

1495
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 24: This weekend at the Hall of Fame induction. I might

1496
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,920
Speaker 24: even come back again. Broke you to Cicada out. So

1497
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 24: glad to hear you color number four, I should be

1498
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 24: called number one, Addie. It's so good to hear your baby,

1499
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:55,600
Speaker 24: but Tony, Tony's Brody the Cicada.

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01:16:56,479 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 3: What is happening already?

1501
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 2: Wow? Did he use Broadway? I think he did. I

1502
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 2: don't know if that was like, because cicadas are brudes.

1503
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was going for that. What

1504
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 2: a world we're in, man, I got people in therapy,

1505
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 2: we got people cosplaying as cicadas. Man, that was one

1506
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:22,800
Speaker 2: of my all time favorites.

1507
01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 3: And connections to Pappy van Winkle. That was one of

1508
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 3: my all time favorites. When our Cicada experts Austin, what

1509
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 3: numbering would you like to take you to?

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01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 2: Number two? Hello caller? What's your name?

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01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 25: This is Adam and Mount Adams.

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01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 2: How you doing? Fellas wonderful?

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01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 11: Hey U?

1514
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 16: Just real quick.

1515
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 25: I leapt out of my chair at work this morning

1516
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 25: or what this afternoon when I heard Tony's voice. It

1517
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 25: was like a Vanderscuorter free kick, but I was celebrating

1518
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 25: the return. Welcome back to brother, thanks for taking the call.

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01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 25: Yeah yeah, just real quick, Like you two are the

1520
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:55,759
Speaker 25: best together.

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01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:56,000
Speaker 6: Man.

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01:17:56,040 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 25: You compliment each other well the post traumatic breakup disordered

1523
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 25: the guy who's talking about it's kind of real. I

1524
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 25: was listening to Austin, you know, missing a part of

1525
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 25: the relationship. But this is the best part of the show.

1526
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 25: You guys just compliment each other so well. So it's

1527
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 25: good to have you back, man, Thank you, thank you.

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01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:14,680
Speaker 16: Just want to touch on.

1529
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 10: We got a big week.

1530
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 25: Hell is Reel is coming to Monday. Bengals, Jeff My

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01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 25: Hoosiers are number two and those is a Heisman favorite.

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01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:24,879
Speaker 10: Welcome back, Tom.

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01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 11: Thank you for the best.

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01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 3: Thank you, we appreciate that. Listen, you know, Austin in

1535
01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:32,759
Speaker 3: all honesty, this U see game on Saturday is massive,

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01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 3: the Bengals getting back to five hundred massive and then

1537
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 3: hell is reel on Monday. That's a heck of a

1538
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 3: Saturday Sunday Monday. Oh yeah, we're back, baby, sports is

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01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 3: back number one.

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01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 2: What's up?

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01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:48,759
Speaker 11: It's the Lord?

1542
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 2: Lord? Hello, Lord, Hello? Have you heard I've been trying

1543
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 2: to talk to you a lot. We've been trying to

1544
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 2: get in touch with you, big fellow.

1545
01:18:58,320 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 11: Welcome back, Tony.

1546
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:03,679
Speaker 10: Hey, are you going to be doing the Tony IMO

1547
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 10: Football Show as well?

1548
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:05,639
Speaker 2: Yes?

1549
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 3: Yes, on that as well.

1550
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean as as well as I know.

1551
01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 10: I was watching some football this weekend and I watched

1552
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 10: the train wreck that was the Miami Dolphins and the.

1553
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 11: New York Jets.

1554
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 18: And if the Bengals don't beat the Jets like two touchdowns,

1555
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 18: then they should be kicked out of the league.

1556
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 2: Fair, fair, But we just want to win at this point.

1557
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 21: Lord, Yeah, welcome back.

1558
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 3: Thank you talking to him a lot. Oh how about six?

1559
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 3: Hello caller, Hello, it's Mike. What's up, Mike?

1560
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 10: What's shaken?

1561
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:45,559
Speaker 18: Dead Man?

1562
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 2: This is it. We're back.

1563
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:51,240
Speaker 10: It's like, uh, yeah, I'm very glad to hear that.

1564
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 10: It's like, uh, it's pretty epic. It's like Lazarus coming

1565
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 10: back from the dead in the Bible.

1566
01:19:59,520 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 3: You know.

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01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:02,639
Speaker 2: My we had we finally have something in common with Jesus.

1568
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 3: A little behind the scenes, Mike, we had a we

1569
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 3: had a member of the sales team here that had

1570
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 3: a healthcare I believe some time ago, and uh and

1571
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 3: was was just brought back into the office today. And

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01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 3: I was sitting here talking with him this morning, and

1573
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 3: Moe walked in and Moe literally said, Wow, two people

1574
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 3: are back from the dead. And it felt it felt

1575
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 3: pretty pretty pretty true.

1576
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 10: That's pretty cool, ton So how long were you gone?

1577
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:32,840
Speaker 10: A couple of weeks.

1578
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,800
Speaker 2: I think it was twelve days somewhere around there.

1579
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 10: Well what twelve days hours that I.

1580
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, not that I haven't breaking broken down into seconds,

1581
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 3: but somewhere around there long enough that I have a guy.

1582
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 3: I congratulate you. Your Dodgers are back in the World Series

1583
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 3: waiting the winner of Game seven tonight.

1584
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, and they are showing there. They're finally healthy.

1585
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 10: They're finally healthy after this whole year battling nothing but

1586
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 10: terrible injuries. And I don't care if it's I can't

1587
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 10: see the Mariners or the Blue Jays beating them, not

1588
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 10: not unless they just completely crept out. But I'm hoping

1589
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:13,839
Speaker 10: for an all West Coast series because that never happens.

1590
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,559
Speaker 10: You get a lot of East Coast stuff, Philly Yankee, but.

1591
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 3: That the power, the power in Toronto makes them interesting

1592
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 3: because they can score when they're hitting the ball well.

1593
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 3: But I love what Dave Roberts. I love that he

1594
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:28,240
Speaker 3: leaned into the villain role and said we got four

1595
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 3: more wins to ruin baseball. I thought that was fantastic.

1596
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,639
Speaker 10: It was really I thought I got a big kick out. Hey,

1597
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 10: I bet Mayor, and Mayor was glad you came back

1598
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:39,640
Speaker 10: to work because you were probably driving or not.

1599
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 2: She couldn't wait to get me out of the house.

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01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 10: Mike, Hey, how about the Ramps? How about Matthew Stafford

1601
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 10: slicing and dice and the Jags without without Puka, And

1602
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:57,800
Speaker 10: they just demolished that team. And he's thirty seven years old,

1603
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 10: so I'm not worried about his back. I think he's

1604
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 10: going to be all right, don't you.

1605
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks great. They look great. In the NFC

1606
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 3: West right now. I love everything that they're doing. San

1607
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:11,680
Speaker 3: Francisco got a heck of a win last night, as shorthanded,

1608
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 3: as devastated as they've been with injuries, that was a

1609
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,719
Speaker 3: heck of a win. I still love Tampa in the NFC.

1610
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 3: They're short handed to night against Detroit, which should be

1611
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 3: a phenomenal game.

1612
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:21,519
Speaker 2: But man, it's.

1613
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 3: Almost like the the the powers have shifted. The NFC

1614
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 3: is now the dominant conference.

1615
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 2: They are.

1616
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,200
Speaker 3: There are legitimate title contenders across the NFC, whereas there's

1617
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 3: not as many, I think as people thought in the

1618
01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:33,400
Speaker 3: AFC right now.

1619
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 10: Yeah, and that was pretty much a consensus with all

1620
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 10: these alleged experts. Did you shoot? I hate it when

1621
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 10: I do this, when I lose my training, so it's

1622
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 10: kind of.

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01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 12: Scam it.

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01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 10: Anyway, forget it. So I heard a rumor over at

1625
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 10: the VA that you were kind of like Stephen A. Smith,

1626
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,600
Speaker 10: that you were on sabbatical doing guests, cameo appearances on

1627
01:22:58,720 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 10: a general hospital.

1628
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 4: No, I was.

1629
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:02,599
Speaker 2: I was trying out for NFL teams.

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01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:06,679
Speaker 3: You know, Stafford is thirty seven, uh, Flacco's forty, Rogers

1631
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:08,679
Speaker 3: is forty one. I thought, I'm just now coming into

1632
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 3: my quarterback prime. Unfortunately, none of the tryouts work. So

1633
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 3: I'm back here.

1634
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 2: You should strike while the iron's hot and start a

1635
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 2: cameo account you and Jimmy Claus and can do them together.

1636
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,559
Speaker 10: Yes, I got you. I know you gotta go there.

1637
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 2: Thanks, Mike.

1638
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 10: I'm really glad you're back.

1639
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Mike. Good to hear from you.

1640
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:27,720
Speaker 10: God bless you, brother, God bless you.

1641
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:30,960
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's always fun when we can do this.

1642
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 2: Mike was one of the people I was most worried

1643
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:37,920
Speaker 2: about because of how much he just loves sports talk radio. Yeah,

1644
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 2: so good to hear Mike. I also did I think

1645
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 2: the day, the day after everything happened, I said, when

1646
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 2: the time is right, I was gonna make a joke

1647
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 2: about you getting fired before Zach Taylor.

1648
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 3: You told me that in person, or you told me

1649
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 3: that over the fame, Like, when the time is right,

1650
01:23:57,720 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 3: I'd like to do them like I I've had.

1651
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 2: It, man, I never even got a chance have at it.

1652
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. We'll come back one segment, ye two,

1653
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 2: we'll forget how this will do one segment. It'll be

1654
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 2: football in the net.

1655
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 3: All right, that is next. I'll head to Florence. After that, Austin,

1656
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:18,799
Speaker 3: we'll have hour three all coming up next. The Monday

1657
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,599
Speaker 3: Midday Quarterback ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 5: Is Football in the Natti, brought you in part by

1659
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 5: Blood Light and by Oakley Greens on ESPN fifteen point thirty,

1660
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 5: the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 2: Welcome back.

1662
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 3: It's the Monday Midday Quarterback ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

1663
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:45,479
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be back.

1664
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:48,040
Speaker 3: If you missed it any anytime earlier, just tuning in,

1665
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 3: Grateful to be back, Excited to be back, looking forward

1666
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:53,760
Speaker 3: to so much that's ahead, Austin. If someone were to

1667
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 3: tune in in the next segment, they would probably know

1668
01:24:56,479 --> 01:24:57,200
Speaker 3: nothing's happening.

1669
01:24:57,479 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, should I just should I not say anything?

1670
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 3: Yeah? I would just keep going. Okay, just see how

1671
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 3: if you can get away with everything. It will be

1672
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 3: Austin in the next segment, because I'm gonna head to Florence.

1673
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:11,160
Speaker 3: Y'all twin peaks in Florence real quick. To Monday night

1674
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 3: football games tonight. One's a good one, one's a bad one.

1675
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,519
Speaker 3: Texan Seahawks' is I think the bad one. Buccaneers Lions

1676
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 3: should be a good one. I saw a lot of

1677
01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:23,640
Speaker 3: this yesterday Austin of folks commenting on with all the

1678
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:28,680
Speaker 3: games being moved overseas with Monday night doubleheaders, are we

1679
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,000
Speaker 3: ruining Sunday football in the NFL.

1680
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:34,640
Speaker 2: You're taking away from what makes Sunday special. And I

1681
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:39,520
Speaker 2: think you're also taking away from the standalone games on Mondays,

1682
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:43,360
Speaker 2: on Thursdays and to an extent, on Sunday nights.

1683
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 3: That lineup yesterday stunk. Those games were awful, Yeah, And

1684
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 3: I get why they do the the overseas games. Those

1685
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,759
Speaker 3: games are normally not good either. Yeah, They're either boring

1686
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:54,800
Speaker 3: or their non competitive.

1687
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 2: There's two more coming up, one in Germany and one

1688
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 2: in Spain. At least the Colts are going to be

1689
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 2: playing in one, and they seem to be a real

1690
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 2: uh contender, which is a good thing. But yeah, I mean,

1691
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:07,839
Speaker 2: it's just it's difficult and.

1692
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 3: Berlin is the Falcons and the Colts, Yeah, which I mean,

1693
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 3: on paper is not a bad game.

1694
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 2: The Falcons have had a lot of standalone games. Yeah

1695
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 2: this year. I just it's just something I just I

1696
01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 2: wouldn't continue to mess with. Well, the NFL eventually wants

1697
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 2: it to be where there's an international game every week. Yes,

1698
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 2: I think they want to do like a twenty week

1699
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:32,000
Speaker 2: season and maybe two bye weeks or whatever. But like,

1700
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 2: if that's the case, the NFL Players Association has to

1701
01:26:36,120 --> 01:26:39,599
Speaker 2: make it a living hell on the owners. Number one,

1702
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 2: And I don't know how much the Players Association has

1703
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:46,560
Speaker 2: to do with this, but like, no more publicly funded stadiums.

1704
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:48,920
Speaker 2: If you're going to be taking away one game a year,

1705
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 2: yeah from us, from that, then you can fund your

1706
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 2: own damn stadium. Number one. Number two, every single place

1707
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 2: we play better have natural grass, And we want more

1708
01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:02,040
Speaker 2: guaranteed money. If you're gonna extend the season by a

1709
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 2: game or two and make us play an overseas game

1710
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:09,320
Speaker 2: every single week, then those would be my starting demands.

1711
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:12,599
Speaker 2: If I'm with the NFL Players Association and everybody knows

1712
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 2: they want more guaranteed money. But I've always wondered, and

1713
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:18,640
Speaker 2: I tweeted about this, if the NFL would get so

1714
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,639
Speaker 2: big to a point where it screws something up, And

1715
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:26,760
Speaker 2: it does feel like for the common fan who isn't

1716
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:31,160
Speaker 2: subscribed to Red Zone or isn't subscribed to NFL Sunday Ticket,

1717
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 2: you're making the product worse for them. Yeah, that's an issue.

1718
01:27:35,560 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 2: And by the way, when you spread out more Monday

1719
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 2: doubleheaders and Thursdays and nine am games, you're also making

1720
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 2: the product worse for those people who've subscribed to your

1721
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:44,839
Speaker 2: digital assets.

1722
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 3: Correct, doesn't make sense real quick. From the NFL yesterday,

1723
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:51,400
Speaker 3: ho about the Carolina Panthers are four and three? Bryce

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01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 3: Young high ankle spring, Yeah, Andy Dalton, time here we go.

1725
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 3: Rams dominant overseas. Bears have won four in a row.

1726
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 3: They beat the same Dolphins are terrible. Who gets fired first?

1727
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:05,440
Speaker 3: Fickler McDaniel.

1728
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 2: I thought Mike McDaniel would get fired today and he didn't.

1729
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 2: Quinchawn Judkins looks like a real deal. Cleveland's rookie touchdowns.

1730
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 3: Patriots dominated the Titans Chiefs as we mentioned earlier, uh oh,

1731
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 3: Chiefs starting to play better thirty one to nothing over

1732
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 3: the Raiders. Eagles beat the Vikings. How about the Broncos

1733
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 3: dropping thirty three in the fourth quarter?

1734
01:28:26,720 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 2: Amazing? They dropped thirty three points.

1735
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,240
Speaker 3: Giants score and take the lead with under a minute

1736
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:33,479
Speaker 3: left in that game to go up thirty two to

1737
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,679
Speaker 3: thirty and then miss the extra point. Bo Nicks drives

1738
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 3: Denver back down. They win it at the Gun thirty

1739
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:44,599
Speaker 3: three thirty two Colts. The final score wasn't even indicative

1740
01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 3: as how dominant they were thirty eight to twenty four.

1741
01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 3: They dominated the Chargers. Colts are for real Austin.

1742
01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wrote that down today as well. Is okay?

1743
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:55,720
Speaker 2: I want to see exactly who they are and they

1744
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 2: got on the West Coast. The physical team in the Chargers,

1745
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 2: even though LA has got some injuries. Who are the

1746
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 2: Colts and they keep answering the bell on offense and

1747
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 2: that run game makes it a lot easier. Are the

1748
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:09,160
Speaker 2: Cowboys a threat? No, their defense is like worse than

1749
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 2: the bank.

1750
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1751
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 2: Commanders are in a bad shape.

1752
01:29:11,200 --> 01:29:11,559
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1753
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:15,400
Speaker 3: Now Jayden Daniels with the hamstring injury, he's getting evaluated.

1754
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 2: Packers win. They keep doing so.

1755
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 3: They're four to one and one, although I don't think

1756
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 3: as dominant as maybe we thought earlier in the year.

1757
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not convinced that the Packers are a really

1758
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:25,400
Speaker 2: good football team.

1759
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:29,599
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know who's really good Christian McCaffrey. He is

1760
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:33,720
Speaker 3: last night dominant for the San Francisco forty nine Ers,

1761
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:35,600
Speaker 3: who continue to find ways to win. They're five and

1762
01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 3: two and they have been dealt so many devastating injuries,

1763
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 3: and yet they find ways to win. Disappointing effort from

1764
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:44,639
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Falcons. I keep waiting to see if they're

1765
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:46,120
Speaker 3: for real or not. It does not look like they

1766
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 3: are a legitimate contender. But good on the San Francisco

1767
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:52,120
Speaker 3: forty nine ers. McCaffrey one hundred and twenty nine on

1768
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 3: the ground, two scores. He also led the team in

1769
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 3: receiving with seventy two yards and was back to his

1770
01:29:57,520 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 3: dominant self too. Monday Night Games Tonight, a whole nother

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01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 3: hour of the Monday Midday Quarterback coming up next with

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Speaker 3: Austin Elmore. I'm heading to Florence. Come on out, Twin

1773
01:30:07,360 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 3: Peaks and Florence, y'all from three to six for the

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01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:11,759
Speaker 3: Tony and Mo Football Show. This is still the Monday

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Speaker 3: Midday Quarterback. Next on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 5: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals WCD.

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1787
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Speaker 2: Hi, Hello, welcome in our three of the Monday midday

1788
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 2: quarterback here on ESPN fifteen thirty. My name is Austin Elmore.

1789
01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful Monday, and in a way a

1790
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:24,839
Speaker 2: victory Monday, even though the Bengals played on Thursday. Definitely

1791
01:31:24,880 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 2: a victory Monday when you consider the dismantling of Oklahoma

1792
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 2: State that the Bearcats had over the weekend in a

1793
01:31:30,920 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 2: big win for Scott's adderfield and his program taking care

1794
01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:37,160
Speaker 2: of business the way that they were supposed to. So yeah,

1795
01:31:37,240 --> 01:31:39,680
Speaker 2: it's a victory Monday. Coming up at three o'clock, the

1796
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:45,080
Speaker 2: Tony and mo Football Show returns. That's right in case

1797
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 2: you missed it at noon at one o'clock or earlier today.

1798
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:53,559
Speaker 2: On social media, Tony Pike has returned. The Big Fella

1799
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:57,559
Speaker 2: will be back in the chair weekdays from twelve to

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01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 2: three right here on ESPN fifteen thirty. And yeah, I'm

1801
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled for him because I love working with Tony

1802
01:32:08,160 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 2: and he makes every day fun. And I talked about

1803
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 2: all of that in the aftermath of him being laid

1804
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:18,600
Speaker 2: off by iHeart and I'm not gonna lie. So, you know,

1805
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 2: I've been how do I want to talk about this?

1806
01:32:24,040 --> 01:32:28,040
Speaker 2: So I've been told as I get, you know, work

1807
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:30,559
Speaker 2: my way up through this business and try to make

1808
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:33,640
Speaker 2: a name for myself, that I need to come up

1809
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:36,960
Speaker 2: with a shtick, you know, like I need to have

1810
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 2: a shtick. Everybody who's on air has a shtick, and

1811
01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:44,160
Speaker 2: I've wrestled with that. I've been told that a couple

1812
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 2: of times. What's your stick? And I don't know that

1813
01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:51,720
Speaker 2: I have one. I think maybe my shtick is that

1814
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:55,400
Speaker 2: I don't have a shtick. That I'm just brutally honest,

1815
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:57,800
Speaker 2: like I'm transparent. I'll tell you what I think and

1816
01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 2: how I feel. And so so I do kind of

1817
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:04,120
Speaker 2: want to start the hour that I'm on by talking

1818
01:33:04,160 --> 01:33:08,920
Speaker 2: about that, because I received a ton, a ton of

1819
01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 2: wonderful messages and support messages in support and supportive phone

1820
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:18,720
Speaker 2: calls and everything. When I was on this show a

1821
01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 2: week ago Tuesday, and I had been told that it

1822
01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:25,160
Speaker 2: was mine for the foreseeable future, and I was really

1823
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:27,799
Speaker 2: excited about that. I was thrilled. I had no idea

1824
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 2: that Tony returning was even a possibility or something that

1825
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:34,960
Speaker 2: was being talked about. And next thing I know, I'm

1826
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 2: told that Tony is coming back. So it's been an

1827
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 2: up and down. It's been a roller coaster. I didn't

1828
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 2: know any of that was happening. I didn't know. It's

1829
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 2: been a wild couple of weeks. And so on one hand,

1830
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:49,960
Speaker 2: I feel like an idiot for eulogizing the guy for

1831
01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 2: two weeks and then saying I'm excited to take over

1832
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:56,200
Speaker 2: the show and put my own spin on it, and

1833
01:33:56,240 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 2: then two days later I find out Tony's coming back.

1834
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 2: So in a way, I feel like an idiot for

1835
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:04,400
Speaker 2: doing that. But also I'm not gonna lie to you

1836
01:34:05,080 --> 01:34:09,000
Speaker 2: like I'm just I don't believe in that. I believe

1837
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:12,640
Speaker 2: in transparency, especially with this audience who has been so

1838
01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:15,439
Speaker 2: great to us. And so yeah, it's been difficult, it's

1839
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:20,040
Speaker 2: been weird. It's been strange. There's been tears, there's been frustration,

1840
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:23,080
Speaker 2: but Tony and I are in a good place. He's

1841
01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 2: still one of my best friends. I have a ton

1842
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 2: of respect for him, and I am thrilled to keep

1843
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:32,200
Speaker 2: working with him and alongside him. And as I said earlier,

1844
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:33,760
Speaker 2: the show is going to change a little bit. They're

1845
01:34:33,800 --> 01:34:37,599
Speaker 2: gonna do a rebrand of it and put Tony's name

1846
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,800
Speaker 2: on it and all that, so it is going to change.

1847
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:43,200
Speaker 2: I don't know what the next day is going to bring.

1848
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:46,760
Speaker 2: That is the nature of this business. You never know

1849
01:34:47,400 --> 01:34:49,640
Speaker 2: what the next day, what the next hour, what the

1850
01:34:49,680 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 2: next minute is going to look like. So it's been

1851
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:56,200
Speaker 2: a strange, strange couple of days. But I hope that

1852
01:34:56,360 --> 01:35:00,920
Speaker 2: Tony coming back and this show coming back to what

1853
01:35:01,080 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 2: you've been known and grown accustomed to, can provide some

1854
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:11,640
Speaker 2: comfort to you the listener, and can provide some excitement

1855
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:14,880
Speaker 2: and some normalcy to you, because we love doing the

1856
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:17,840
Speaker 2: show together. We love working together, we love having fun,

1857
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,760
Speaker 2: all the laughs. Like that's what's made the last couple

1858
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:22,800
Speaker 2: of weeks so hard, is because you don't get to

1859
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 2: share it with someone anymore, and you think back of

1860
01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:27,920
Speaker 2: all the different memories and all the different things that

1861
01:35:28,439 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 2: you know you've gotten to do together, and it just

1862
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,640
Speaker 2: is difficult when it goes from two to one. And

1863
01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 2: so I'm thankful that it's back to two and that

1864
01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:39,160
Speaker 2: we get to do that. But I'm always gonna be

1865
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 2: honest with you. I'm always going to be transparent with you.

1866
01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:45,479
Speaker 2: That's my belief. I feel strongly about that, and I

1867
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:49,200
Speaker 2: think our audience deserves that. And so yeah, I found

1868
01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:52,240
Speaker 2: out that Tony was coming back on Friday right before

1869
01:35:52,560 --> 01:35:56,800
Speaker 2: the show started and then really wasn't sure what to

1870
01:35:56,920 --> 01:36:01,040
Speaker 2: expect until today, And for the most part, I feel

1871
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:02,679
Speaker 2: like we kind of picked up where we left off.

1872
01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 2: So I'm happy about that and happy about the future

1873
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 2: of since E three point sixty, whatever it may be called.

1874
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 2: And I do appreciate all the people who reached out

1875
01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:17,880
Speaker 2: to me, especially last week, and gave me some words

1876
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:20,479
Speaker 2: to support and offered to help and all that stuff.

1877
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 2: That really does mean a lot to me, and I

1878
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 2: do appreciate it. So maybe we can stop talking about

1879
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:30,679
Speaker 2: our own personal drama and lives and start talking about

1880
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 2: sports again, because I think everybody wants to get to

1881
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:37,799
Speaker 2: that point, and so for me, obviously, not a Bengals

1882
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:40,880
Speaker 2: game to talk about from over the weekend. But when

1883
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:44,760
Speaker 2: I look around at the rest of the AFC and

1884
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:46,280
Speaker 2: where the Colts are at, and as we was just

1885
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 2: talking with Tony, it feels like, Okay, that's a legitimate team.

1886
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:55,560
Speaker 2: They have arrived. Their quarterback play is steady, it's consistent,

1887
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 2: They have a good run game, and there are weapons

1888
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:02,400
Speaker 2: in that offense that allows Daniel Jones to move it

1889
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 2: around to not really be predictable. They can stretch the field,

1890
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:08,880
Speaker 2: they can go underneath, They've worked that seam in the

1891
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 2: middle of the field with Tyler Warren, and obviously Jonathan

1892
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 2: Taylor is a threat in both the run and the

1893
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:18,960
Speaker 2: pass game. And defensively, lou An Arumo's group feels pretty

1894
01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 2: solid right now, and they've created turnovers and they've got

1895
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 2: some good players, and so Indianapolis deserves credit and they

1896
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 2: certainly are a deserving number one seed in the AFC

1897
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 2: right now. And I understand it's a little bit ridiculous

1898
01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 2: to start talking playoff seatings in the month of October.

1899
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,640
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be honest, how many times over the

1900
01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 2: last couple of years have the Bengals been dead in

1901
01:37:40,160 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 2: the water or basically useless in the middle of October

1902
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:48,479
Speaker 2: and next thing you know here they come in November

1903
01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:51,720
Speaker 2: and December. A lot can change between now and the

1904
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 2: end of the season, and the Bengals are gonna need

1905
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:58,320
Speaker 2: that to happen. The Bengals are gonna need the Patriots

1906
01:37:58,320 --> 01:37:59,680
Speaker 2: to come back down to earth, and they have an

1907
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:02,880
Speaker 2: oppera tunity against the Patriots here in a week or two,

1908
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:05,639
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks to beat them here at pay

1909
01:38:05,680 --> 01:38:08,639
Speaker 2: Corpse Stadium. Now they already let the Denver game get

1910
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:11,800
Speaker 2: away from them, But I still can't quite figure out

1911
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:14,639
Speaker 2: the Broncos. They're five and two. They should have lost

1912
01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 2: that game yesterday, and yet they found a way to

1913
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:21,599
Speaker 2: win thanks to some rookie mistakes and some bad coaching

1914
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:24,200
Speaker 2: decisions I think by the New York Giants. But Denver

1915
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 2: is right there and kind of keeping the Chiefs and

1916
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:32,679
Speaker 2: the Chargers at an arm's length in the AFC. West.

1917
01:38:33,360 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is four and two, But I don't know that

1918
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:39,639
Speaker 2: anybody would really tell you they feel confident about the Steelers' ability,

1919
01:38:40,160 --> 01:38:43,000
Speaker 2: and maybe even Steelers fans would say that because of

1920
01:38:43,040 --> 01:38:46,920
Speaker 2: how bad that defense has been. It really comes down

1921
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:50,760
Speaker 2: to can Aaron Rodgers work his magic and can that

1922
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 2: one and seventy five million dollar defense or whatever it is,

1923
01:38:54,960 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 2: finally show up. Buffalo was off this week, but there

1924
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:02,959
Speaker 2: are some fans in Buffalo clamoring for a better offense.

1925
01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 2: Joe Brady has kind of fallen out of favor with

1926
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:10,040
Speaker 2: Buffalo fans. Their offense is inconsistent and at times has

1927
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:13,840
Speaker 2: completely disappeared. I think that's an interesting one to keep

1928
01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:17,320
Speaker 2: an eye on the Chargers. They've got injuries left and right,

1929
01:39:17,360 --> 01:39:22,080
Speaker 2: and especially injuries up front and in their running back room,

1930
01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:25,760
Speaker 2: which is their identity under Jim Harbaugh. And I think

1931
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:27,640
Speaker 2: you've seen over the last couple of weeks when it's

1932
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:32,760
Speaker 2: all on Justin Herbert, it's not always effective. And that

1933
01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 2: is a team who with the surging Chiefs and the

1934
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,040
Speaker 2: Broncos ahead of them, I wonder about their staying power.

1935
01:39:40,920 --> 01:39:43,040
Speaker 2: You've got Jacksonville after that at four and three. The

1936
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:45,920
Speaker 2: Bengals have already beaten them, and they have come crashing

1937
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:48,600
Speaker 2: back down to earth over the last two weeks and

1938
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:51,360
Speaker 2: got their face bashed in in London on Sunday by

1939
01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 2: the Rams and Matthew Stafford through for like three or

1940
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:56,920
Speaker 2: four touchdowns in one hundred and seventy yards it was wild.

1941
01:39:57,520 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 2: Then you've got Kansas City at four and three, and

1942
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 2: as we talk, they look scary. All of a sudden,

1943
01:40:02,439 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 2: they look scary again. And Mahomes is the odds on

1944
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:10,000
Speaker 2: favorite to win the MVP. But overall, I look at

1945
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:16,519
Speaker 2: the AFC and all those teams ahead of the Bengals, Chiefs, Jags, Chargers, Bills, Steelers, Broncos, Pats, Colts,

1946
01:40:17,240 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 2: and I think, Okay, there's not one team outside of

1947
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:25,799
Speaker 2: maybe the Colts and maybe the Chiefs that I feel

1948
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:31,520
Speaker 2: like is a surefire bet to go deep into the playoffs,

1949
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:35,760
Speaker 2: like I believe until proven otherwise that Patrick Mahomes is

1950
01:40:35,760 --> 01:40:38,439
Speaker 2: gonna do it because he always does. And the Colts,

1951
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:40,559
Speaker 2: I just love the way that they're built right now

1952
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:44,120
Speaker 2: that looks like a formidable team. All those other teams,

1953
01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:48,880
Speaker 2: their flaws feel like they could be fatal, which brings

1954
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:53,639
Speaker 2: me to the Bengals. Do you feel like, after listening

1955
01:40:53,720 --> 01:40:56,760
Speaker 2: to that list and watching those teams in the AFC,

1956
01:40:57,680 --> 01:41:00,600
Speaker 2: that the Bengals are heads and shoulders above any of

1957
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:06,920
Speaker 2: those teams. I don't. I want them to be, but

1958
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 2: I don't see them as heads and shoulders above any

1959
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 2: of those other teams. And as we talked about earlier,

1960
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:19,160
Speaker 2: the teams that are below the Bengals, like Houston, like

1961
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:27,680
Speaker 2: the Titans. Teams like that, like the Bengals, have opportunities

1962
01:41:27,720 --> 01:41:31,240
Speaker 2: coming up in their schedule against teams that are well

1963
01:41:31,280 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 2: below them in the standings, Teams like Cleveland at the

1964
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:38,880
Speaker 2: end of the year, Baltimore twice, Miami, who's a complete

1965
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:44,080
Speaker 2: train wreck, And obviously this week the Jets. Five of

1966
01:41:44,120 --> 01:41:46,479
Speaker 2: the next ten for Cincinnati are against teams in the

1967
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 2: bottom five of the conference Baltimore, Miami, Tennessee, the Jets,

1968
01:41:52,360 --> 01:41:55,400
Speaker 2: and Cleveland. And so that right there, in and of

1969
01:41:55,439 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 2: itself is an opportunity for the Bengals. But my honest

1970
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:05,840
Speaker 2: question for you, as a Bengals fan and as a

1971
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:12,440
Speaker 2: consumer of professional football, does it feel like the Bengals

1972
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 2: are closer to the bottom five in the AFC or

1973
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:19,759
Speaker 2: the top five in the AFC. Now, I'm not trying

1974
01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:23,400
Speaker 2: to pour cold water over an awesome win on Thursday

1975
01:42:23,920 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 2: over Pittsburgh. And anytime you win you should celebrate. Anytime

1976
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:30,920
Speaker 2: you beat Pittsburgh you should celebrate. And anytime you win

1977
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:35,879
Speaker 2: in primetime you should celebrate. Because we know those three things,

1978
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:39,640
Speaker 2: especially when combined, have been fleeting at times over the

1979
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 2: years as a Bengals fan. But are the Bengals closer

1980
01:42:43,439 --> 01:42:48,120
Speaker 2: to the Colts, Patriots, Broncos, Steelers, and Bills, or are

1981
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 2: they closer to the Browns, Ravens, Dolphins, Titans and Jets.

1982
01:42:55,240 --> 01:42:57,519
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, this is Joe Flacco at quarterback, and

1983
01:42:57,560 --> 01:43:00,439
Speaker 2: while he was phenomenal the other night, that is an

1984
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 2: unbelievably bad defense in Pittsburgh. The defense that you're going

1985
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 2: to go up against with the Jets, it's a much

1986
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:12,640
Speaker 2: better group than Pittsburgh is. Overall. The Jets are seventeenth

1987
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:16,920
Speaker 2: in the NFL and defense and against the pass. You

1988
01:43:16,960 --> 01:43:20,519
Speaker 2: guys know about Sauce Gardner. They're ninth in the NFL

1989
01:43:20,560 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 2: against the pass, not as great against the run, twenty third.

1990
01:43:25,760 --> 01:43:29,519
Speaker 2: But still I don't know that the Bengals, when you

1991
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:33,439
Speaker 2: look at their rankings across the NFL, and we'll get

1992
01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:36,680
Speaker 2: into them in the next segment, with the uncertainty of

1993
01:43:36,720 --> 01:43:41,760
Speaker 2: the quarterback position and with other position groups that I

1994
01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:45,280
Speaker 2: feel like are question marks, I don't know that I

1995
01:43:45,360 --> 01:43:49,679
Speaker 2: go into Sunday with supreme confidence even though the Bengals

1996
01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:52,280
Speaker 2: are three and four, and even though the Jets are

1997
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:55,559
Speaker 2: zero and seven, that the Bengals are gonna curb stop

1998
01:43:55,640 --> 01:43:59,280
Speaker 2: New York in pay Corp Stadium. How do you feel?

1999
01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 2: Five three seven four nine, fifteen thirty Phone lines are open.

2000
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:05,120
Speaker 2: I also put up a poll question at Audiel Moore

2001
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:07,920
Speaker 2: A U T y E L M O r E.

2002
01:44:08,160 --> 01:44:11,160
Speaker 2: If you could only watch one tonight, which are you

2003
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:18,599
Speaker 2: watching a ALCS game seven Seattle at Toronto or Monday

2004
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:23,479
Speaker 2: Night football Tampa at Detroit right now? Fifty one percent

2005
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:27,920
Speaker 2: say ALCS Game seven between Seattle and Toronto. You can

2006
01:44:27,960 --> 01:44:31,719
Speaker 2: go vote at Audiel More AU T y E LM

2007
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:33,920
Speaker 2: O Are you well, take a break, We'll come back.

2008
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 2: Phone calls and continuing the Bengals conversation on the Home

2009
01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 2: of the Bengals ESPN fifteen thirty.

2010
01:44:40,320 --> 01:44:45,160
Speaker 26: Snap Back on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

2011
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Monday midday Quarterback on Austin Elmore. This

2012
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:54,559
Speaker 2: is ESPN fifteen thirty. Phone lines open at five one three,

2013
01:44:54,680 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 2: seven four nine, fifteen thirty, twenty five minutes from right now,

2014
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:03,200
Speaker 2: Tony Pike and Moegger Toni and mo Football Show. Let

2015
01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:05,080
Speaker 2: me trying to give you a dose a reality here.

2016
01:45:05,120 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 2: The Bengals have a bad offensive line and they have

2017
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:12,839
Speaker 2: a bad defense, like a really bad defense. Overall, Bengals

2018
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:17,799
Speaker 2: thirty first in total defense in the NFL. That's second

2019
01:45:17,800 --> 01:45:23,040
Speaker 2: from last. They're the thirtieth worst pass defense in the NFL.

2020
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:26,080
Speaker 2: Teams can just throw all over them. They're the twenty

2021
01:45:26,160 --> 01:45:31,639
Speaker 2: seventh worst run defense in the NFL. Now they're going

2022
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:34,719
Speaker 2: up against a Jets offense that is the worst passing

2023
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:39,799
Speaker 2: offense in the NFL and the ninth best rushing offense

2024
01:45:39,880 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 2: in the NFL. So I think the plan for the

2025
01:45:42,400 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 2: Jets is going to be run the football and get

2026
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 2: it out the playmakers in space, because you've seen the

2027
01:45:48,320 --> 01:45:50,839
Speaker 2: blueprint of how teams are trying to attack the Bengals.

2028
01:45:51,280 --> 01:45:53,880
Speaker 2: Get it out to the perimeter, force them to make

2029
01:45:53,920 --> 01:45:58,320
Speaker 2: a tackle. The Bengals don't tackle well. So let's just

2030
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 2: put this all this all up together. You have a

2031
01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 2: bad offensive line, you have a bad tackling defense, and

2032
01:46:06,120 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 2: you overall don't have a good defense. Those three things

2033
01:46:10,840 --> 01:46:16,400
Speaker 2: are imperative to being a good football team. Cincinnati is

2034
01:46:16,439 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 2: three to four. They won a game against Pittsburgh on

2035
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 2: Thursday Night football. That's a good thing. They have given

2036
01:46:23,520 --> 01:46:27,680
Speaker 2: themselves a chance. But if they tackle the way they

2037
01:46:27,720 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 2: tackled against Pittsburgh, if they allow running the way that

2038
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:35,720
Speaker 2: they allowed it against Pittsburgh, if they continue to be

2039
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:39,720
Speaker 2: inconsistent in the secondary, and certainly, if you tackle the

2040
01:46:39,760 --> 01:46:41,880
Speaker 2: way you tackled against Pittsburgh, I'm gonna say it again,

2041
01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:47,519
Speaker 2: you will get beat by the New York Jets. First

2042
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 2: and foremost, this is the National Football League, and if

2043
01:46:50,120 --> 01:46:53,479
Speaker 2: you've been watching the way I've been watching, it does

2044
01:46:53,600 --> 01:46:57,080
Speaker 2: not matter who your opponent is. You can get beat

2045
01:46:57,280 --> 01:47:02,560
Speaker 2: any given Sunday, especially this season. The Jets are embarrassed.

2046
01:47:02,680 --> 01:47:05,320
Speaker 2: They don't know who their quarterback is gonna be. There's

2047
01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:08,400
Speaker 2: already talk about Aaron Glenn getting fired before his first

2048
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:13,800
Speaker 2: season is even over. This is a team that wants

2049
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:17,800
Speaker 2: to win badly, and they are good at something. You're

2050
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:21,960
Speaker 2: not ninth best rush offense in the NFL against the

2051
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 2: twenty seventh worst rush defense in the NFL. There has

2052
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:32,280
Speaker 2: to be something here for the Bengals to focus on,

2053
01:47:32,400 --> 01:47:38,960
Speaker 2: to hone in on, and to take control of, even

2054
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:42,639
Speaker 2: though they're zero to seven. When you have three bad

2055
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:48,799
Speaker 2: units like Cincinnati does that secondary, that offensive line quite frankly,

2056
01:47:48,840 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 2: the defensive line. Hopefully Trey plays, but if he's not

2057
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 2: I mean, good lord, we saw that even to Rod

2058
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:56,599
Speaker 2: Taylor can sit back there and dice up a defense. Hell,

2059
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:58,639
Speaker 2: I would even say Justin Fields can do it. He's

2060
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:05,960
Speaker 2: beaten the Bengals before. But let's just say the point

2061
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:08,639
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make here. When you have a bad defense,

2062
01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:11,760
Speaker 2: a bad offensive line, and you can't tackle, there are

2063
01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:15,639
Speaker 2: no easy wins in the NFL. You cannot go into

2064
01:48:15,720 --> 01:48:19,360
Speaker 2: a game, even against an zero to seven team, expecting

2065
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:23,759
Speaker 2: to win. I say that as a fan of the team.

2066
01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 2: I don't just every game the Bengals play expect them

2067
01:48:26,960 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 2: to win. The Bengals, I don't think should just go

2068
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:32,920
Speaker 2: into every game the players and the coaches themselves expecting

2069
01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 2: to win. It should be we need to do these

2070
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:38,599
Speaker 2: things if we want to win. It starts with tackling,

2071
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:42,000
Speaker 2: It starts with protecting the quarterback, and it starts with

2072
01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:46,320
Speaker 2: getting pressure on the opposing quarterback. They're not good of

2073
01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:50,680
Speaker 2: any of those three things. So while I am excited

2074
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:53,920
Speaker 2: about a game in which the Bengals are gonna be

2075
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:56,439
Speaker 2: favored to win, and this opened up with Cincinnati a

2076
01:48:56,560 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 2: six point favorite, it's already down to five and a

2077
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:03,320
Speaker 2: half against a winless opponent after a big time win

2078
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:06,759
Speaker 2: and a mini buy. It's all in the direction pushing

2079
01:49:06,760 --> 01:49:09,960
Speaker 2: in the direction of the Bengals. Bengals, Bengals, Bengals, You've

2080
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 2: got to take advantage of it, because I know if

2081
01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:17,400
Speaker 2: you tackle and perform the way you did defensively against Chicago,

2082
01:49:17,479 --> 01:49:21,200
Speaker 2: you will get beaten that game too, like you will.

2083
01:49:22,520 --> 01:49:25,679
Speaker 2: So while we can all be happy that the Bengals

2084
01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:28,120
Speaker 2: are where they are and they have given themselves a chance,

2085
01:49:28,960 --> 01:49:32,920
Speaker 2: don't let that overshadow the issues that still plague this team.

2086
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:36,400
Speaker 2: You will get beat in the National Football League if

2087
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:38,680
Speaker 2: they don't clean it up. It doesn't matter if your

2088
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:41,240
Speaker 2: opponent's all in seven or nine, doesn't matter if it's

2089
01:49:41,320 --> 01:49:44,559
Speaker 2: Justin Fields or Aaron Rodgers, doesn't matter if it's Josh

2090
01:49:44,640 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 2: Allen or Tarrod Taylor. You'll lose if you don't do

2091
01:49:48,360 --> 01:49:52,840
Speaker 2: the essentials. And I hope that the Bengals understand that

2092
01:49:52,880 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 2: and aren't just, you know, kind of sleep walking in

2093
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 2: to this game against the Jets this week expecting to win.

2094
01:50:00,520 --> 01:50:02,960
Speaker 2: Let me rewind the clock for you. Let's go back

2095
01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:06,440
Speaker 2: to twenty nineteen. Do you remember that season, that dreadful

2096
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:11,760
Speaker 2: two and fourteen season that the Bengals had, Well, it

2097
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:15,160
Speaker 2: was week twelve, if I'm not mistaken, Week twelve or

2098
01:50:15,160 --> 01:50:21,320
Speaker 2: week thirteen, and the Bengals had just benched Andy Dalton

2099
01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:24,479
Speaker 2: for three games. You remember that it was Andy Dalton's birthday.

2100
01:50:25,240 --> 01:50:27,960
Speaker 2: And they're like, hey, man, uh, we're gonna bench you.

2101
01:50:28,200 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna go with Ryan Finley. Now, this was all

2102
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:34,840
Speaker 2: probably part of the ultimate ploy to stink bad enough

2103
01:50:34,880 --> 01:50:38,719
Speaker 2: to get Joe Burrow. But the Bengals benched Ryan Finley.

2104
01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:41,720
Speaker 2: I think they went out to Las Vegas or they

2105
01:50:41,760 --> 01:50:44,080
Speaker 2: went out to Oakland and played the Raiders. Whatever. They

2106
01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:46,800
Speaker 2: had lost three in a row with Andy Dalton on

2107
01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:51,640
Speaker 2: the bench. The Bengals were zero and eleven when the

2108
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:54,799
Speaker 2: New York Jets came to town in twenty nineteen. Andy

2109
01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:59,639
Speaker 2: Dalton returned after a three week exile, as it was known.

2110
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:03,760
Speaker 2: So the Bengals are zero to eleven, the Jets are

2111
01:51:03,840 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 2: four and seven, and they come into pay Corpse Stadium.

2112
01:51:10,520 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 2: Bengals were not favored in this game. Nobody expected the

2113
01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 2: Bengals to win the game. Cincinnati beat him twenty two

2114
01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:28,040
Speaker 2: to six, first win in the career of Zach Taylor.

2115
01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:34,120
Speaker 2: Bengals smoked them twenty two to six, Nobody believed that

2116
01:51:34,120 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 2: the Bengals could win that game. Andy Dalton was twenty

2117
01:51:37,600 --> 01:51:41,000
Speaker 2: two of thirty seven. Joe Mixon had nineteen carries. The

2118
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 2: Bengals leading receiver that day, Audentate he had sixty six yards.

2119
01:51:47,960 --> 01:51:51,800
Speaker 2: It was a bad football team that went out and

2120
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:55,080
Speaker 2: beat the New York Jets, and nobody expected them to

2121
01:51:55,120 --> 01:51:59,479
Speaker 2: do it. Similar situation here. Jets are row and seven.

2122
01:52:00,200 --> 01:52:02,640
Speaker 2: Bengals are the darlings of the NFL again because of

2123
01:52:02,720 --> 01:52:08,000
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco, former New York Jet quarterback Joe Flacco. But

2124
01:52:08,040 --> 01:52:13,120
Speaker 2: the Bengals have issues. You know, I've been watching that

2125
01:52:13,200 --> 01:52:18,000
Speaker 2: clip it's been going around social media this weekend from

2126
01:52:18,040 --> 01:52:21,719
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly a couple weeks ago at LSU Nick Saban

2127
01:52:21,960 --> 01:52:25,479
Speaker 2: when he was the coach at LSU, and it was

2128
01:52:25,520 --> 01:52:28,559
Speaker 2: probably a month or so ago. LSU wins a game,

2129
01:52:28,680 --> 01:52:31,040
Speaker 2: but they play really bad on offense. It was the

2130
01:52:31,080 --> 01:52:34,080
Speaker 2: game I think against Florida where they had five interceptions,

2131
01:52:34,120 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 2: but offensively they were awful. And the first question to

2132
01:52:37,520 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly was about the offense, and he lost his

2133
01:52:41,439 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 2: mind that we just won a football game and you

2134
01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:47,040
Speaker 2: want to focus on the negatives. And then he goes

2135
01:52:47,040 --> 01:52:50,200
Speaker 2: out and says that LSU fans are spoiled and the

2136
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:55,400
Speaker 2: media is spoiled. Well, no, it's not that they're spoiled.

2137
01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 2: It's that there is an expectation, and you understand when

2138
01:52:58,840 --> 01:53:03,160
Speaker 2: the expectation is not being met, and you know that

2139
01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:06,679
Speaker 2: when the expectations not being met, there could be signs

2140
01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:11,160
Speaker 2: of a problem there, there could be cracks in the foundation,

2141
01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:13,800
Speaker 2: and you know that could come back to bite them

2142
01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 2: later on. Well, let's come back to bite LSU. Their

2143
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 2: offense stinks and they lost again because the standards not

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01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 2: being met when Joe Burrow got here. After that twenty

2145
01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:31,680
Speaker 2: twenty season, and you go into twenty one, go to

2146
01:53:31,720 --> 01:53:35,559
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, twenty two, back to the AFC Championship game,

2147
01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:39,960
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, there's a standard that's been set,

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01:53:40,760 --> 01:53:43,920
Speaker 2: an expectation for how you want to play. And even

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01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:47,439
Speaker 2: in twenty three, prior to Burrow getting hurt, and even

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01:53:47,520 --> 01:53:49,559
Speaker 2: after Burrow getting hurt, when they went on that run

2151
01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:53,679
Speaker 2: to nearly make the playoffs, the expectation had been said, Okay,

2152
01:53:53,720 --> 01:53:57,559
Speaker 2: this is how we expect to play football. And so

2153
01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:02,160
Speaker 2: last years start going south. Burrow's playing out of his mind,

2154
01:54:02,200 --> 01:54:04,400
Speaker 2: but the defense isn't tackling well, and the young guys

2155
01:54:04,439 --> 01:54:06,680
Speaker 2: aren't showing up. And that's why we asked all those

2156
01:54:06,760 --> 01:54:10,000
Speaker 2: questions of Miles Murphy after the twenty three draft, and

2157
01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:12,320
Speaker 2: you know, what about this guy and what about Jackson

2158
01:54:12,439 --> 01:54:14,880
Speaker 2: Carmen And why'd you decide to go with this pick

2159
01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:17,559
Speaker 2: over that pick? And why isn't Dax Hill doing this

2160
01:54:17,560 --> 01:54:21,080
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah, because you know, there's an

2161
01:54:21,120 --> 01:54:25,880
Speaker 2: issue with the foundation here of this defense. And so

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01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:29,600
Speaker 2: I'm trying to point that out again, not because I

2163
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:33,240
Speaker 2: expect the Bengals to lose on Sunday, but because just

2164
01:54:33,320 --> 01:54:36,680
Speaker 2: because you beat the Pittsburgh Steelers doesn't mean that you're

2165
01:54:36,720 --> 01:54:40,560
Speaker 2: just gonna roll over the New York Jets. There are

2166
01:54:40,640 --> 01:54:44,040
Speaker 2: still issues that have to be fixed. And while winning

2167
01:54:44,080 --> 01:54:51,040
Speaker 2: makes everything better, losing can happen still too. And just

2168
01:54:51,120 --> 01:54:54,080
Speaker 2: because the Jets are winless doesn't mean you just say, ah,

2169
01:54:54,240 --> 01:54:56,920
Speaker 2: easy win, easy win. I hope it is. Hope the

2170
01:54:56,920 --> 01:54:59,840
Speaker 2: Bengals blow him out, Ring of Honor game, Dave Lap,

2171
01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:03,280
Speaker 2: them leaping Lamar Parish, sign me up. I hope they do.

2172
01:55:05,720 --> 01:55:08,440
Speaker 2: But go Lee, man, you can't overlook this football team.

2173
01:55:08,600 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 2: All that positive momentum can be ripped right out from

2174
01:55:11,320 --> 01:55:13,200
Speaker 2: underneath you. I think we all know what that feels like.

2175
01:55:14,480 --> 01:55:17,240
Speaker 2: We've been there as humans and as fans of the Bengals,

2176
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:19,600
Speaker 2: when just when it feels like things are going well,

2177
01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:23,880
Speaker 2: you rip the rug out from underneath you. So I

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01:55:23,920 --> 01:55:26,240
Speaker 2: hope that Zach Taylor's team is focused this week and

2179
01:55:26,280 --> 01:55:29,640
Speaker 2: they understand based off the way the rest of the

2180
01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:32,200
Speaker 2: conference is playing and the way the rest of the

2181
01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:35,600
Speaker 2: division is playing, and the confidence that you've established by

2182
01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:38,839
Speaker 2: beating Pittsburgh on a home Thursday night game, that it's

2183
01:55:39,120 --> 01:55:42,280
Speaker 2: it's still within reach here and there can be no

2184
01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:45,520
Speaker 2: false steps against teams like New York. You've got to

2185
01:55:45,560 --> 01:55:48,760
Speaker 2: avoid the dreaded hangover game after a mini bye. If

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01:55:48,760 --> 01:55:52,000
Speaker 2: you're the Bengals. Five point three, seven four nine, fifteen

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Speaker 2: thirty is the phone number. Take a break, we'll come back.

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Speaker 2: This is the Monday Midday Quarterback on ESPN fifteen thirty at.

2189
01:55:57,480 --> 01:56:06,080
Speaker 5: Exercise ESPN fifteen thirty.

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01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:08,800
Speaker 2: Monday Midday Quarterback, ESPN fifteen thirty High. I'm Austin hillmore

2191
01:56:10,040 --> 01:56:12,960
Speaker 2: Tony and MO Football Show three to six this afternoon.

2192
01:56:13,280 --> 01:56:15,480
Speaker 2: They'll join us about ten minutes from right now from

2193
01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:19,120
Speaker 2: Twin Peaks in Florence. But between now and then it's

2194
01:56:19,160 --> 01:56:22,280
Speaker 2: phone calls. We've got a couple of lines taken up.

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01:56:22,320 --> 01:56:24,440
Speaker 2: You can call in five on three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. Let's start in Newport and talk to Calvin.

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01:56:28,280 --> 01:56:29,280
Speaker 2: Hey Calvin, what's up?

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01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 16: Hey, Hodi, how are you doing?

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01:56:31,360 --> 01:56:32,760
Speaker 2: I'm all right, man, what's on your mind?

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01:56:33,760 --> 01:56:35,640
Speaker 10: I'll tell you what you were talking about?

2201
01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:38,720
Speaker 21: The Bengals maybe looking a little too far down the calendar.

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01:56:38,720 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 21: And it reminds me of a Reds fan when we

2203
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:43,520
Speaker 21: swept the Yankees and then came home and got swept.

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01:56:43,160 --> 01:56:45,000
Speaker 6: By the Tigers.

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01:56:45,160 --> 01:56:48,720
Speaker 21: Yeah, and I'm wondering if maybe the old man Joe

2206
01:56:48,720 --> 01:56:52,040
Speaker 21: Flacco might might have a few of those experiences himself

2207
01:56:52,080 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 21: and help keep the locker room under control.

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01:56:54,520 --> 01:56:56,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good that's a good point. I don't

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01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:59,840
Speaker 2: know how much of like a leader he can become

2210
01:57:00,080 --> 01:57:02,600
Speaker 2: right away, but I would imagine based off the way

2211
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:07,240
Speaker 2: he played on Thursday, at the bare minimum, they have

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01:57:07,360 --> 01:57:10,080
Speaker 2: confidence to be like, Okay, we can still do this,

2213
01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:13,960
Speaker 2: and the way that his personality seems to be showing

2214
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:16,560
Speaker 2: through in the media interviews, and I would imagine it's

2215
01:57:16,640 --> 01:57:19,360
Speaker 2: very similar behind the scenes. I do think that's a

2216
01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:21,400
Speaker 2: breath of fresh air, and it's like a guy that's

2217
01:57:21,440 --> 01:57:23,160
Speaker 2: easy to kind of get behind.

2218
01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:26,960
Speaker 21: Yeah, and it definitely seems like t and Jamar have

2219
01:57:27,120 --> 01:57:29,080
Speaker 21: a fire lit under them this season.

2220
01:57:29,480 --> 01:57:31,560
Speaker 10: Says that's nice to see.

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01:57:31,960 --> 01:57:34,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think you bring up a good point, Calvin,

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01:57:34,040 --> 01:57:36,720
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone call, specifically about Jamar Chase.

2223
01:57:37,440 --> 01:57:42,120
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase has been the guy, maybe unexpectedly, but he's

2224
01:57:42,160 --> 01:57:45,200
Speaker 2: been the one who's emerged as the leader. He's been

2225
01:57:45,240 --> 01:57:48,200
Speaker 2: the guy in the absence of Joe Burrow that has said,

2226
01:57:48,840 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 2: we have a standard that we're not meeting. We have

2227
01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:53,560
Speaker 2: to be better. He said it about the defense, he

2228
01:57:53,640 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 2: said it about the offense, he said it about himself

2229
01:57:56,160 --> 01:57:59,560
Speaker 2: about the run game. He's been unafraid to go up

2230
01:57:59,560 --> 01:58:02,440
Speaker 2: to Zach Taylor, knowing the cameras around him, and make

2231
01:58:02,520 --> 01:58:06,000
Speaker 2: his voice heard. He's been transparent about his conversations and

2232
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:10,760
Speaker 2: his feelings about Zach Taylor, and in the biggest moments

2233
01:58:11,040 --> 01:58:14,120
Speaker 2: he showed up. He's put the team on his back.

2234
01:58:15,440 --> 01:58:18,440
Speaker 2: I think back to that run that he by Chase

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01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:22,120
Speaker 2: Brown on Thursday, or who's down there forty yards downfield

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01:58:22,120 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 2: block informs Jamar Chase and Zach Taylor had said, you know,

2237
01:58:26,040 --> 01:58:28,280
Speaker 2: I'm showing that to the team, like this is a

2238
01:58:28,320 --> 01:58:31,360
Speaker 2: guy who's the highest paid wide receiver in the history

2239
01:58:31,400 --> 01:58:34,680
Speaker 2: of the National Football League. He very easily could mail

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Speaker 2: it in on a play where he's not supposed to

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01:58:36,720 --> 01:58:40,040
Speaker 2: be getting the ball and instead he's busting his butt

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01:58:40,080 --> 01:58:42,000
Speaker 2: down the field to go get a block for Chase Brown.

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01:58:42,640 --> 01:58:47,720
Speaker 2: And in times where things are difficult, Chase Jamar Chase

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01:58:47,800 --> 01:58:51,360
Speaker 2: chose to do that. That sort of stuff, coupled with

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01:58:51,400 --> 01:58:55,840
Speaker 2: the belief alongside Joe Flacco, can give a team a

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01:58:55,880 --> 01:59:00,440
Speaker 2: renewed energy, a renewed focus, a renewed confidence to make

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01:59:00,480 --> 01:59:03,760
Speaker 2: it happen. Let's go out to mister Ace. What's up,

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01:59:03,800 --> 01:59:04,560
Speaker 2: mister Race.

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Speaker 11: Austin. I am very happy to see the dynamic duel

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01:59:11,200 --> 01:59:17,400
Speaker 11: that we have here in Cincinnati at midday teaming back together.

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01:59:18,240 --> 01:59:22,440
Speaker 11: And even though I'm still somewhat selfish for my desire

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01:59:22,480 --> 01:59:26,560
Speaker 11: to see Anthony Pike is the next head football coach

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01:59:26,640 --> 01:59:30,560
Speaker 11: of the University of Cincinnati, I'm willing to hold off

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01:59:30,600 --> 01:59:33,480
Speaker 11: one that at least until Saderfield is hired by our

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01:59:33,480 --> 01:59:34,360
Speaker 11: bigger program.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, and I guess some.

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Speaker 11: Point next year because it looks like he's going to

2258
01:59:39,160 --> 01:59:42,000
Speaker 11: have the Bearcats bowling with another win.

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01:59:42,200 --> 01:59:44,919
Speaker 2: Are you all in on coach sat now, mister Ace.

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01:59:45,200 --> 01:59:49,480
Speaker 11: No, not all. I said, I'll hold off on my

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01:59:49,560 --> 01:59:53,920
Speaker 11: Anthony Pike from make ucy coach until around Jay you were,

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01:59:56,160 --> 01:59:59,200
Speaker 11: now hey, I'll put it like this. If Satterfield wins

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01:59:59,200 --> 02:00:01,640
Speaker 11: the Big Twill, I hate to say it, he will

2264
02:00:01,720 --> 02:00:04,680
Speaker 11: not be UC's coach next year. There will be somebody

2265
02:00:04,720 --> 02:00:07,600
Speaker 11: who will buy his contract out and he will most

2266
02:00:07,720 --> 02:00:13,880
Speaker 11: likely be in a Big ten job or a SEC job,

2267
02:00:13,960 --> 02:00:18,400
Speaker 11: because unfortunately, they got more money. If you can fire

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02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:23,560
Speaker 11: a coach like Penn State and it's a state university

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02:00:24,120 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 11: and you gotta pay this guy millions of dollars and

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02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:30,600
Speaker 11: not have people who are just like regular people in

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02:00:30,640 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 11: the state of Pitchburg, people from Philadelphia, people from Pitchburg,

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02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:38,560
Speaker 11: people from Happy Valley that are unhappy about you paying

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02:00:38,600 --> 02:00:43,120
Speaker 11: for a college coach to be fired early. Then you

2274
02:00:43,200 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 11: got a lot of money. I told you, well, y'all

2275
02:00:46,800 --> 02:00:48,200
Speaker 11: know why I used to live in the SEC, and

2276
02:00:48,240 --> 02:00:50,640
Speaker 11: I told y'all all my SEC stories from time to

2277
02:00:50,640 --> 02:00:53,200
Speaker 11: time and how those are the most obnoxious fans period.

2278
02:00:53,560 --> 02:00:55,400
Speaker 11: But they got to go away money and they will

2279
02:00:55,440 --> 02:00:59,080
Speaker 11: fire folks to send them away and keep on moving. Yeah,

2280
02:01:00,080 --> 02:01:01,160
Speaker 11: think that that will happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope it doesn't, mister Ace, thank you, thank

2282
02:01:04,360 --> 02:01:06,840
Speaker 2: you for the phone call. I hope it doesn't because

2283
02:01:06,880 --> 02:01:09,320
Speaker 2: I would like to see him with an opportunity to

2284
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:12,880
Speaker 2: keep building. And I think he's done a really good

2285
02:01:12,960 --> 02:01:14,640
Speaker 2: job in the portal. The Bearcats as a whole have

2286
02:01:14,640 --> 02:01:16,080
Speaker 2: done a good job in the portal to kind of

2287
02:01:16,080 --> 02:01:18,320
Speaker 2: fix some of those weaknesses. And if you can continue

2288
02:01:18,320 --> 02:01:20,720
Speaker 2: to do that, and I've seen they flip some commitments recently,

2289
02:01:21,320 --> 02:01:24,360
Speaker 2: then you can have some positive momentum going in the

2290
02:01:24,400 --> 02:01:26,800
Speaker 2: right direction. If you're Scott's Saderfield, I'm sure he'll get

2291
02:01:26,800 --> 02:01:27,320
Speaker 2: a phone call.

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02:01:27,440 --> 02:01:27,880
Speaker 4: They all do.

2293
02:01:28,040 --> 02:01:30,800
Speaker 2: It's a coaching carousel, that's how it works. I don't

2294
02:01:30,840 --> 02:01:34,080
Speaker 2: know that Penn State is, you know, going crazy trying

2295
02:01:34,080 --> 02:01:37,080
Speaker 2: to pick up the phone for Scott's Sadderfield, But you know,

2296
02:01:37,480 --> 02:01:39,800
Speaker 2: it is an unfortunate reality with the history of the

2297
02:01:39,800 --> 02:01:43,080
Speaker 2: Bearcat football program is that you get a coach that's good,

2298
02:01:43,280 --> 02:01:45,800
Speaker 2: and get a coach that builds something, and then another

2299
02:01:45,840 --> 02:01:48,720
Speaker 2: team comes calling. I would hope that now that they're

2300
02:01:48,760 --> 02:01:51,160
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve, and now that they do have

2301
02:01:51,640 --> 02:01:57,920
Speaker 2: you know, a reputation as a program that you can

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02:01:57,960 --> 02:02:00,960
Speaker 2: win at and you can be in the conversation. And

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02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:03,040
Speaker 2: the way that the College Football Playoff is expanding and

2304
02:02:03,080 --> 02:02:06,080
Speaker 2: may continue to expand. I would say that's a good

2305
02:02:06,160 --> 02:02:08,760
Speaker 2: job that it's not going to be easy or as

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02:02:08,880 --> 02:02:14,600
Speaker 2: easy for coaches to leave. It's not going to be

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02:02:14,680 --> 02:02:19,760
Speaker 2: as easy for coaches to leave Cincinnati as it has

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02:02:19,800 --> 02:02:22,640
Speaker 2: been in the past. If that makes sense, We'll take

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02:02:22,680 --> 02:02:25,600
Speaker 2: a break, will come back. When we do, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: to Tony Pike and Mo Egar. Yes, Tony and Mo

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Speaker 2: the Football Show coming up from three to six this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: They'll join me for quick hits next. This is Monday

2313
02:02:36,920 --> 02:02:39,200
Speaker 2: mid day Quarterback on the home of the Bengals Cincinnati

2314
02:02:39,240 --> 02:02:40,560
Speaker 2: is ESPN fifteen.

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Speaker 26: Thirty sixty continues on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports station.

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Speaker 26: It's time for Cincy three sixty Quick Hits on ESPN

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Speaker 26: fifteen thirty.

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02:02:51,400 --> 02:02:53,520
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed it is. Even though this is the Monday

2319
02:02:53,560 --> 02:02:56,160
Speaker 2: midday Quarterback, we still do quick hits, and we do

2320
02:02:56,320 --> 02:02:59,840
Speaker 2: so now with Tony Pike and Moeger. Ahead of the

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02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,520
Speaker 2: time Tony and Mo Football Show, The Fellas at Twin

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02:03:02,560 --> 02:03:03,400
Speaker 2: Peaks in Florence.

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Speaker 3: Hi guys, Hello Austin Audie.

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Speaker 4: How are we doing?

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Speaker 2: You know what, I'm not doing too bad. I'm trying

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02:03:09,000 --> 02:03:11,160
Speaker 2: to think of some of the great comebacks of all time.

2327
02:03:11,800 --> 02:03:14,800
Speaker 2: You know, you had Michael Jordan go to play baseball

2328
02:03:14,840 --> 02:03:17,760
Speaker 2: and then he came back. Yeah, you had was the

2329
02:03:17,800 --> 02:03:20,680
Speaker 2: Bills were down like thirty five to three in the playoffs,

2330
02:03:21,040 --> 02:03:24,560
Speaker 2: the Broncos yesterday. The Broncos yesterday thirty three points in

2331
02:03:24,600 --> 02:03:27,400
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. I mean, mo, when you see Tony

2332
02:03:27,440 --> 02:03:29,680
Speaker 2: Pike sitting across from you at Twin Peaks right now,

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02:03:29,680 --> 02:03:30,600
Speaker 2: what comes to mind?

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Speaker 4: I'm just happy. Then I'll leave it at that. I'm

2335
02:03:35,280 --> 02:03:38,360
Speaker 4: just happy Tony's here. I've said a lot.

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Speaker 7: About what's happened over the last two weeks, publicly and privately.

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02:03:43,200 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 7: You know what people don't know is this wasn't an

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02:03:45,760 --> 02:03:48,840
Speaker 7: iHeart thing. You may have followed. I don't know if

2339
02:03:48,880 --> 02:03:52,000
Speaker 7: you follow politics. The President of the United States is

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02:03:52,000 --> 02:03:53,280
Speaker 7: now commuting sentences?

2341
02:03:53,800 --> 02:03:54,800
Speaker 4: Is George Santos?

2342
02:03:54,840 --> 02:03:55,080
Speaker 26: Guy?

2343
02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:59,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, who like invented a persona to become elected to Congress?

2344
02:03:59,120 --> 02:03:59,960
Speaker 4: This is Trump?

2345
02:04:00,080 --> 02:04:03,760
Speaker 3: Yep, got a ton Yeah, so thanks to Trump. Also,

2346
02:04:03,800 --> 02:04:05,760
Speaker 3: what I was actually doing over the last twelve days.

2347
02:04:05,760 --> 02:04:08,440
Speaker 3: I had a couple of tryouts. Did you Stafford thirty

2348
02:04:08,480 --> 02:04:11,000
Speaker 3: seven is still slinging? And then you watch Joe Flatt.

2349
02:04:11,040 --> 02:04:13,680
Speaker 3: I was black on Rogers and I'm like, okay, I

2350
02:04:13,720 --> 02:04:16,520
Speaker 3: was on a ten day deal. I can't announce the

2351
02:04:16,560 --> 02:04:18,280
Speaker 3: team that I was on, but.

2352
02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:21,200
Speaker 2: You did say earlier the Kentucky barrels. We're interest Kentucky

2353
02:04:21,240 --> 02:04:22,120
Speaker 2: Barrels have reached down.

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Speaker 7: Here's here's the welcome however, that we have gotten here

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Speaker 7: for Tony coming back. We're a twin peaks and Florence,

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Speaker 7: one of the servers just asked us to turn it down.

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Speaker 2: So okay, we're welcome.

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Speaker 4: Back to It's good to have you.

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Speaker 11: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Is James or Pene gonna walk into the next ten minutes?

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02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:40,240
Speaker 2: Anybody tell him he's not on the air today.

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Speaker 7: James for texting me like noon, He's like, so I'm

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Speaker 7: not needed today. I'm like, buddy, inn' come on out

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Speaker 7: and fill in for me. All everybody probably prefer that,

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Speaker 7: but no, so so I had a discussion with James.

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Speaker 7: So I do thank James for filling in last week. Yes,

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Speaker 7: and I'm I'm sure week one of next year. Ton No,

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Speaker 7: you're gonna go play golf, so James.

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Speaker 3: Will and I know Maso was still gonna come last week.

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Speaker 3: I would have came with him and just been a

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Speaker 3: fan of the show that.

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Speaker 4: I was kind of waiting for that when I saw

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Speaker 4: them walk in.

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Speaker 3: Longtime co host, first time audience member. Glad to be here.

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Speaker 3: Could I have won the giveaway last week?

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Speaker 4: We didn't have a giveaway last week.

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Speaker 7: Today, we do have tickets to go see Nate Bargatzi

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Speaker 7: Sunday downtown. Yeah, so you could come by. We have

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Speaker 7: a pair of tickets to give away for that show

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Speaker 7: on Sunday. You can maybe make it a downtown Sunday night,

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Speaker 7: which is not a joke. I'm gonna go away from

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02:05:33,760 --> 02:05:34,720
Speaker 7: that one, but you can.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you already dipped into politics once, you might

2384
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Speaker 2: as well keep going.

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Speaker 7: You can watch the Bengals play the Jets. Austin just

2386
02:05:41,240 --> 02:05:43,280
Speaker 7: made it sound like they're playing the Joe Namath Jets.

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Speaker 7: And then you could go see Nate Bargatzi downtown.

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Speaker 2: Wow, there's a lot going on. What's gonna be on

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Speaker 2: the show this afternoon, The Tony and Mo Football Show.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm assuming it's gonna be Bearcats, Bearcats, bear

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Speaker 2: cat Well.

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Speaker 3: Well, my biggest question from a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: go first is what we did? Yeah, both teams won.

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02:06:03,800 --> 02:06:07,560
Speaker 3: Who goes first now? And how will Texas Tech respond

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02:06:07,600 --> 02:06:10,160
Speaker 3: to the big news today that they're banning throwing tortillas

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Speaker 3: at their stadium.

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Speaker 4: It's a good question. It's a good question.

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Speaker 7: What I'd like to talk about is the guy who

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Speaker 7: I want to work for next is Wisconsin's athletic director.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, voter confidence came.

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02:06:19,960 --> 02:06:22,320
Speaker 7: Out today and he's like Nap, Luke's our guy, but

2402
02:06:22,360 --> 02:06:23,520
Speaker 7: we need some cash.

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02:06:23,560 --> 02:06:26,320
Speaker 3: We like Luke, we're staying here. We need you to

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Speaker 3: pony up some more money.

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Speaker 7: That guy guy can't get fired, no, so.

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Speaker 3: It's harder for him to get fired and Wisconsin it

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Speaker 3: was for me at iHeart.

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Speaker 7: Okay, So you know since Tony was last with us,

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Speaker 7: a lot has happened, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you think about the.

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Speaker 7: Last Tonymo football show was two weeks ago. Since then,

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02:06:52,400 --> 02:06:55,360
Speaker 7: Joe Flacco has been traded for played against the Packers,

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Speaker 7: played against the Steelers. Now the Bengals might not lose

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Speaker 7: another game, so we'll spend some time on that. Everything

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Speaker 7: that went down yesterday was really fun. Sunday Week seven

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02:07:04,160 --> 02:07:08,520
Speaker 7: of the NFL. The Bearcats win again. Cincinnati is now

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02:07:08,600 --> 02:07:12,600
Speaker 7: Bowl eligible. Can they go over their posted total this season?

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Speaker 7: On Sunday?

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02:07:13,520 --> 02:07:15,839
Speaker 4: There is a lot to discuss here at Twin Peaks

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Speaker 4: in Florence.

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Speaker 2: Let's say you can only watch one tonight Game seven

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02:07:19,880 --> 02:07:24,160
Speaker 2: ALCS or Monday night football Tampa at Detroit? What are

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Speaker 2: you watching?

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02:07:24,880 --> 02:07:26,040
Speaker 3: Why not Houston Seattle?

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02:07:27,000 --> 02:07:28,000
Speaker 2: But it's not an option.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I will still watch football tonight.

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Speaker 4: Fortunately it's twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I don't have to get off my couch

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Speaker 7: and walk over to the set top television and change

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Speaker 7: the channel during commercials.

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Speaker 3: But if let's say the game's tied in the NFL

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Speaker 3: and the fourth and the game's tied in the sixth.

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Speaker 4: It's a game seven. Well it's game seven, man, right?

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Speaker 7: I mean, if I can only pay attention to one,

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02:07:51,760 --> 02:07:56,000
Speaker 7: I would ask which prison am I in? But if

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02:07:56,040 --> 02:07:58,800
Speaker 7: I can only pay attention to what game? If you

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02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:01,160
Speaker 7: said you could have a ten, you gonna have a

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Speaker 7: ticket to one of those games, that's a better way

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02:08:02,840 --> 02:08:04,640
Speaker 7: of putting it, you get, I'd say, give me a

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Speaker 7: game seven right now.

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Speaker 2: On my Twitter, I asked that question poll question fifty

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Speaker 2: percent game seven fifty percent Monday Night Football Tampa to

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Speaker 2: try out.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, if like, if like, the second prize was Monday

2445
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:22,240
Speaker 7: Night Football Lions Bucks. Dude, I'm in like that's that's

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02:08:22,240 --> 02:08:24,880
Speaker 7: a really fun game. But if I could only go

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02:08:24,960 --> 02:08:26,960
Speaker 7: to one, it would be it'd begin.

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Speaker 3: Will you be in?

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Speaker 11: Uh?

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Speaker 3: What would your plans be? Wednesday Night?

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02:08:30,720 --> 02:08:32,880
Speaker 7: Nix Calves Mix Calves, New York three and a half

2452
02:08:32,920 --> 02:08:36,440
Speaker 7: point favorite over Cleveland. One might say these are the

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Speaker 7: two favorites in the East. We'll see Boston and.

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Speaker 4: Indiana could still have something to say about that.

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Speaker 2: Through Bze Lissen to Bulls, But yeah, I.

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Speaker 7: Believe Detroit is going to have something to say about that.

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02:08:45,360 --> 02:08:47,880
Speaker 7: But I'm stoked. This is this kind of feels like

2458
02:08:47,960 --> 02:08:49,000
Speaker 7: Championship or bust.

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Speaker 3: It is the football show. Yeah, we branched into baseball

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02:08:51,840 --> 02:08:53,720
Speaker 3: at one point this year. Will we talk at all

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Speaker 3: about the ongoing dominance of the UC Bearcats against the

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Speaker 3: Big Ten and exhibition games?

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Speaker 4: Did you? Yeah? Did you?

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Speaker 7: We did not watch it live, we were in Oklahoma,

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Speaker 7: So did you watch the game on YouTube?

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Speaker 3: I've watched highlights of the game, so I scrolled through

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Speaker 3: it this morning.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Shanabayev I'm gonna be a fan of his.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I'm not gonna overreact. Reacted when they beat Ohio

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Speaker 3: State in the exhibition last year.

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Speaker 2: That was my thought too.

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Speaker 7: Who's more guilty of overreaction Bearcat fans, because for now

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02:09:23,840 --> 02:09:26,120
Speaker 7: Yaxel Landenborg might be the best player in the country

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Speaker 7: and you see had no answer for him in the

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Speaker 7: second half. You see fans like us overreacting to that

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Speaker 7: road win in an exhibition or Xavier fans who believe

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02:09:34,640 --> 02:09:37,760
Speaker 7: the team might not win a game this season Murray State.

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Speaker 7: And by the way, I get Richard Patino credit because

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Speaker 7: he was having fun with it on Twitter. Yeah, and

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Speaker 7: even like came out to say, like, this doesn't counts.

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Speaker 7: We have a lot of work to do, which is

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Speaker 7: what you're supposed to say. If you lose the exhibition game,

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Speaker 7: this doesn't counts, right if.

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Speaker 3: You win the exhibition game game on loves love what

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Speaker 3: we're seeing.

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Speaker 2: I learned my lesson last year because after watching Ohio

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02:09:57,560 --> 02:09:59,800
Speaker 2: State and you see in person, I was convinced the

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Speaker 2: bear CA's we're going to the Final four. I'm gonna

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02:10:02,920 --> 02:10:05,120
Speaker 2: give them a couple more to figure that out.

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Speaker 7: Fair, I'm gonna I want them to play great in

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02:10:10,000 --> 02:10:16,080
Speaker 7: November and December, but Big twelve plays a different animal,

2493
02:10:16,400 --> 02:10:19,360
Speaker 7: and so what I I didn't feel like they were

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02:10:19,400 --> 02:10:22,040
Speaker 7: ready for Big twelve play after they played all their

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Speaker 7: non conference games. And that came despite beating Dayton came,

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Speaker 7: despite beating Xavier, came despite going to Georgia Tech and winning.

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Speaker 7: I think Wes would be the first to admit that

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Speaker 7: whatever skepticism is built in is deserved because of how

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Speaker 7: last year's team performed. But we've said it often, Tony.

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Speaker 7: I think they constructed a roster this year instead of

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Speaker 7: just accumulating talent, and I think that's gonna pay off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of different animals, is the greatest baseball player

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Speaker 2: that's ever lived.

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02:10:53,320 --> 02:10:55,240
Speaker 4: He's the greatest show in sports right now.

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Speaker 3: Moen I had a front row seat to that on

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Speaker 3: Friday night.

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Speaker 4: We were not at the game.

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02:11:01,280 --> 02:11:02,680
Speaker 3: We weren't at the game, but we were the only

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02:11:02,760 --> 02:11:06,800
Speaker 3: two sitting at a bar watching it.

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Speaker 4: That's a surprise.

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02:11:08,040 --> 02:11:09,920
Speaker 3: Bartender couldn't have told you what was going on either,

2512
02:11:10,000 --> 02:11:13,360
Speaker 3: had no idea about anything with sports or anything else

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02:11:13,440 --> 02:11:16,320
Speaker 3: or anything else for that. But it was probably the

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Speaker 3: most impressive game performance I've ever seen across any sport.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's the greatest show in sports right now.

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Speaker 7: You know, to do that three homers, strikeout ten, hit

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02:11:27,640 --> 02:11:30,520
Speaker 7: more home runs than hits given up in a clinching

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02:11:30,560 --> 02:11:33,120
Speaker 7: game against the best team in baseball, or at least

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Speaker 7: the team with the best record in baseball. I don't

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Speaker 7: know if he's the greatest baseball player ever.

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Speaker 4: There have been.

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Speaker 7: You know, if you Babe Ruth was a two way guy,

2523
02:11:42,800 --> 02:11:46,080
Speaker 7: but holy crap, there's nothing like that in sports. And

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Speaker 7: I know it's the Dodgers, and people hate the Dodgers

2525
02:11:48,280 --> 02:11:51,720
Speaker 7: and they resent that they've got certain financial advantages. But

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02:11:52,480 --> 02:11:55,160
Speaker 7: if you're just a fan of the sport, how you

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02:11:55,200 --> 02:11:57,560
Speaker 7: don't at least have a deep appreciation for what that

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Speaker 7: dude does.

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Speaker 4: But first of all, his home runs are.

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Speaker 2: No doubts, one left the stadium entirely.

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Speaker 7: Yes, he seems like and again it's just watching from

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Speaker 7: a distance. Seems like his teammates adore him.

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Speaker 4: Seems like a good.

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Speaker 7: Guy, takes the ball, hits like he's the best shown sports.

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Speaker 14: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about it this weekend. Like we've seen

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady, Who've seen Michael Jordan. He's in that conversation already.

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Speaker 2: And obviously if they go and win the World Series

2539
02:12:27,760 --> 02:12:30,160
Speaker 2: again this year's he's right there towards the top of it.

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Speaker 3: But look, said Michael Jordan.

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02:12:31,440 --> 02:12:33,360
Speaker 2: Yes, Bengals fan Michael Jordan.

2542
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Speaker 4: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 7: Okay, I'll localize this all right now. Nobody is in

2544
02:12:37,200 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 7: shoe Hayo Tani's class. But shoe Hayo Tani toiled in

2545
02:12:40,400 --> 02:12:43,760
Speaker 7: obscurity with the La Angels, and for years we would

2546
02:12:43,760 --> 02:12:46,440
Speaker 7: go god, unless you like you get the MLB package

2547
02:12:46,480 --> 02:12:48,360
Speaker 7: and stay up late and watch West Coast games. He

2548
02:12:48,400 --> 02:12:50,280
Speaker 7: never get a chance to watch him. Yep, he got

2549
02:12:50,280 --> 02:12:53,000
Speaker 7: the postseason stage last year, got injured in the World Series,

2550
02:12:53,040 --> 02:12:55,720
Speaker 7: but he got the postseason stage last year. He's got

2551
02:12:55,840 --> 02:13:00,000
Speaker 7: the postseason stage this year. If you're a certain shortstops

2552
02:13:00,120 --> 02:13:03,640
Speaker 7: lash center fielder maybe who has aspirations of being the

2553
02:13:03,680 --> 02:13:07,000
Speaker 7: best in the sport, that's the stage you want. How

2554
02:13:07,040 --> 02:13:09,080
Speaker 7: he kind of got it this year and frankly failed

2555
02:13:09,120 --> 02:13:11,320
Speaker 7: on it. But that's the stage you want.

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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02:13:11,720 --> 02:13:14,000
Speaker 3: Banner worthy? If the Reds were to be eliminated by

2558
02:13:14,040 --> 02:13:16,280
Speaker 3: the World Series champions.

2559
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean they already made the playoffs. I expect Banner,

2560
02:13:19,960 --> 02:13:20,839
Speaker 7: we'll make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And lose to the the eventual champions, Yeah.

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02:13:26,280 --> 02:13:28,640
Speaker 7: Or what if they lose to the Mariners that the

2563
02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:31,400
Speaker 7: Mariners win tonight, do they hang a banner like, oh,

2564
02:13:31,400 --> 02:13:34,240
Speaker 7: we used to have a Uhaneo Suarez and Luis Castillo.

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02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:35,720
Speaker 2: And they got half of our old team. Yeah.

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02:13:36,080 --> 02:13:37,320
Speaker 3: Probably still playing some of those.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful Tony and Mo Football Show with more groundbreaking analysis

2568
02:13:40,840 --> 02:13:44,280
Speaker 2: like banner Talk coming up from three to six this afternoon. Boys,

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02:13:44,320 --> 02:13:46,360
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'll be listening all right, man.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Thought is Tony Pike Moeggar Tony and Mo Football Show

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02:13:49,680 --> 02:13:53,760
Speaker 2: coming up next? Mac at it again tomorrow with uh

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Speaker 2: since E three to sixty or Tony Pikes since E

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Speaker 2: three to sixty or I don't know, they haven't really

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Speaker 2: told me the name yet. Either way, It's coming up

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Speaker 2: tomorrow noon to three Tony and Mo Football Show next.

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