WEBVTT - Bengals Pre-Game Sports Talk with Ken Broo -- 12/21/25 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.720 Now the Secretary of Homeland Securities confirming that the US 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.320 Coast Guard seized another sanctioned oil tanker off of the 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.240 coast of Venezuela yesterday. ABC News Senior White House correspondent 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:12.920 Selena Wang has details. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.440 This is the second oil tanker in less than two 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.000 weeks that was seized off of the coast of Venezuela. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.439 As we've really seen this pressure campaign on Nicholas Maduro, 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.880 the president of Venezuela, escalating over these last few months 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:30.360 in the administration now going after the nation's oil exports 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.360 and that's the nation's economic lifeline. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.880 This comes after just a couple of days ago that 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.080 President Trump announced a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.640 going into and out of Venezuela. Now the latest traff again, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.800 weather together looks good here this morning. Drive times are normal, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.440 no accidents on the interstates here in the Cincinnati area. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.320 Huge go lat USPCASS. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.680 It will be a julliar afternoon tempter's top out in 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.480 the upper thirties, a few degrees below average. Back to 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.960 seasonal tomorrow though, will be in the low to mid forties. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.160 From a severe weather station. I'm nine first warning meteorologist 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.320 Cameron Harden on news Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.600 It's twenty seven at news Radio seven hundred WLW, and 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.000 the Bengals game day forecast for this afternoon. Look for 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.880 temperatures close to eighty at kickoff in Miami. Bengals Game 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.880 Day forecast is built by American Hometech. 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I am ken Brew, and yes, we have 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.760 arrived at this moment in time, this Sunday before Christmas. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.600 And oh, how we had home back in the day, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.440 back in the sweltering heat of summer camp. How we 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.239 hope that this would be one of those defining moments, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.920 one of those days when the Bengals would fly south 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.400 take on the Dolphins in a monumental showdown for both teams, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.880 each team clawing and fighting trying to get into the postseason. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.360 Sometimes what you expect is not what you get, and 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.760 it's not what we got today. We all know what 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.560 happened last week. The Bengals, for all intents and purposes, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:49.960 eliminated a few weeks ago, finally from a statistical standpoint, 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:55.080 eliminated last week. Meanwhile, against the Steelers, it was the 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.320 same song for the Miami Dolphins eliminated from the postseason. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.320 Miami just underperformed. They made up quarterback change and that 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.559 quarterback change is to a tag of Iloa is out 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.680 probably for good in Miami. For Cincinnati, the problem, as 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.360 we all know, was injury. Joe Burrow was out for 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.920 the majority of the season. This is a Joe Burrow 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.480 centric team. And although Joe Flacco came in here kind 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.080 of on a surprise trade and delivering some surprising moments 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.400 for the Bengals, it just wasn't the same. So the Bengals, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.800 like the Dolphins, are just faced with one thing now 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.600 and that's finishing out the season. And I guess from 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.880 an interest standpoint, because look, the bottom line in any 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.359 sport is winning a championship. There is only one team 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.080 in every single sport that goes home happy at the 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.040 end of the season. It's the team holding the trophy. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.800 But when you can't compete for that Trophy. Well, it 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.760 makes the sting a little bit well, just a little 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.240 bit worse. And so now with three weeks to go, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.400 what are the Bengals do Well? They certainly try to 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.520 win all three. That's the name of the game. They're 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.600 paid to win football games. The schedule, as you look 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.800 at it, seems a little forgiving. You have the Dolphins 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.199 today and then back home with the Cardinals who are 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.080 not very good next Sunday, and then of course finishing 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.679 out against the Browns. There are a lot of things 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.320 on the line for the individual players, not Joe Burrow, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.280 not t Higgins, not Jamar Chase, but the players that 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.720 are fighting for a spot, some kind of favorable review 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.720 at the end of this season to give them a 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:32.239 chance here or somewhere else to continue their career. Meanwhile, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.559 the Bengals need answers, a lot of answers, particularly on defense. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.160 Who exactly is going to help them pull this team 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.480 out of this quagmire that they're in. Where are they 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.320 going to find the right players either through free agency 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.360 or drafting. Drafting has not been all that great for 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.120 this team lately, and free agency is a game they 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.320 always play on the second and third and fourth day 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.120 of free agency. They're not always there. In fact, they're 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.400 rarely there on the first day of free agency. So 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.839 you have to have maybe a philosophical change that gets 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.360 you to a personnel change that gets you to December 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.560 of twenty twenty six, when you're in a much better 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.520 shape than what you are now. That is basically what 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.840 begins today. We'll tee up today's Bengals and Dolphins game. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.559 You'll hear from players and coaches, some writers around the league, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.800 some folks that follow football and have opinions like you 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.040 and me as to what needs to be done here 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:35.320 and what truthfully, realistically can be done here because it's 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.800 not like here in a lot of other NFL towns. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.760 We'll get to all of that in just a second. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.400 College football is in the playoff mode right now, and 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.480 we saw some interesting games yesterday, some that were blowout, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.439 some that had results that I think everybody thought would happen, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.000 but nevertheless, it was an interesting day in college football. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.440 People would say at the end of that selection process 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.520 a couple of weeks ago, James Madison University, what do 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.920 they doing there? Two lane? Are you kidding me? And 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.280 those opinions were born out yesterday because at Oregon James Madison, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.839 although it did put up a lot of offense, winds 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.400 up losing to Oregon fifty one to thirty four. Oregon 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:18.240 quarterback Dante Moore nineteen of twenty seven, four touchdowns, two interceptions, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:24.040 wide receiver Malik Benson five receptions one hundred and nineteen yards, 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.040 and he caught two of those touchdown passes. This game, though, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.120 was a very entertaining game. There was over one thousand 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.080 yards of total offense between the two teams. But it's 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.480 Oregon that's moving on to take on Texas Tech in 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:43.000 the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. Meanwhile, Old Mess 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.880 without its coach Lane Kiffen, he of course sailing off 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.320 to LSU at the end of the regular season forty 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:54.119 one to ten over two Lane Mississippi quarterback Trinid Dad Shambliss, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.679 who came from FCS, the next level down from FBS, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.880 the championship level that the University of Cincinnati and Ohio 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.240 State and every other team that's playing for a national 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.280 well for a quote unquote Division title Division one title. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:14.760 He came from FCS football and yet comes in Leeds, Georgia. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.640 I'm sorry, Lead's old Mess to a forty one to 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.679 ten win. Trinidad Chambliss twenty three of twenty nine two 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.440 hundred and eighty two yards, threw for a touchdown, ran 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.199 for a touchdown on a day when his team advances 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:35.160 and the team that he left wins yet another championship 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.160 at the FCS level. Here's Trinidad Chamberlass at the end 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.160 of that game yesterday. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:40.600 It's it's a surreal moment. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.559 If you would have said this before the season that 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.400 I'd be the starting quarterback and I'd get Ole Miss 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.120 their first playoff victory, I'd be like, you're crazy, But 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.680 it's amazing. I just got to give thanks to God 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.640 because you know, without him, I mean, none of this 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.400 is possible, and just also got it to give thanks 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.959 to Ole Miss and my team to be honest too, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.559 like we've we've been through a lot, a lot adversity 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.440 and glad that we got the win. And yeah, Farris 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.800 Day actually did win the national championship today, so they'd 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.600 beat Harding back to back years, So props to them. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.719 Yep, from Farris State to Old Miss to Round two 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.240 of the College Football Playoffs. They take on Georgia in 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:23.040 the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day. Meanwhile, down at 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.040 Texas A and M University, the wind was blowing. It 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.920 was a major factor in this game between Miami and 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.360 Texas A and M. It affected Miami's kicker a little 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.960 bit more than anybody else. Carter Davis lined up for 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.079 four field goals. He made one of them, a twenty 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.920 one yarder, but he made one that was very important 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.600 because Miami beat Texas A and M ten to three, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.080 and Miami had a terrific game from Mark Fletcher Junior 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.000 seventeen carries one hundred and seventy two yards. His head 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.520 coach Mario Christobal absolutely ecstatic at the end of the game. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:00.320 This is awesome. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.640 It's a next up right and validating what we came 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.280 here to do. So obviously we're excited by the time. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.200 We end up walking into the locker room, well start. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:08.880 Thinking about the next one. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.480 But again, number one or number two, I said, say 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.040 credit to them. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.520 Not a great football team over there. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.439 They're physical of this environment is second to none. But 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.080 the Miami Hurricanes are are just gonna started. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:21.240 Now. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.640 Well we'll see if they're getting started or if they 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.360 hit a roadblock. In game number two, they take on 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.040 Ohio State on New Year's Eve in the Cotton Bowl. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.560 So there yesterday at Oregon advancing to play Texas Tech 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.640 in the Orange Bowl, Ole Miss going on to play 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.640 Georgia and the Sugar Bowl, and Miami onto the Cotton 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.640 Bowl to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. Now Friday night, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.560 you at Alabama and Oklahoma. Alabama rallied to win this 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.640 game thirty four to twenty four. Quarterback Ty Simpson two 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:53.080 hundred and thirty two passing yards, two touchdown passes. Oklahoma 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.760 was up seventeen to nothing after the first nineteen minutes 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.440 in this game. And then it went to sleep, and 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.120 then it has really horrible look on special teams. They 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.480 had a punt blocked, they missed two field goals. Meanwhile, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.000 it was Alabama and head coach Kaylin de Boor cashing 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:09.760 in on all of that. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.280 Yeah, just our guys have, like you said, had been 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:12.560 in it. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.600 All year long, and and man. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.720 Just I'm proud of the fight. I know I'm gonna 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.880 get that every single time we step on the football field. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.000 We had to trade our own breaks a little bit. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.680 We knew it's gonna be a fist fight. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.360 We knew it was gonna be. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.160 A physical game. It would be hard moving the ball, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.800 but you just got to you just gotta keep playing. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.600 Meanwhile, over on the Oklahoma side of things, this game 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.760 in their stadium in Norman, Oklahoma, the fans were shocked, 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.040 the players seemed absolutely shocked, and after the game, they're 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:43.320 head coach Brent Vnnibles was fighting back the tears. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.560 You know, I had a seventeen point lead, had great momentum, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:52.000 and and just we lost the momentum and gave up 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.560 a seventy five yard drive and the third and six 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.520 that we lost leveraging coverage and we gave up a. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.640 Fourth and two on that drive. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.200 And you know, Alabama has got a really good football 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.880 team and really good staff, and they were able to 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.120 start to slowly but surely creep back into the game. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.360 And then then we had a couple of really ill 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.440 timed mistakes that they capitalized on. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.480 Yeah they did. And now for Oklahoma they go home. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.760 Alabama moves on to face Indiana in the Rose Bowl 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.520 on New Year's Day. College basketball last night, Xavier goes 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.360 on the road, takes on Georgetown and wins eighty to 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.680 seventy seven. Xavier goes to nine and four one and 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.000 one inside the Big East. Trey Carroll was huge in 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.000 this game to set an early tempo for Xavier twenty 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.600 two points, eight rebounds, four assists, and then off the bench, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.480 Roddy Anderson contributed fourteen points. But here's the key. Xavier 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.200 out rebounded Georgetown forty five thirty six. Look, Georgetown, going 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.800 back to the days of John Thompson, has always had 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.640 a reputation as a physical basketball team. If you don't 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:01.040 win the boards, you don't win against Georgetown, especially when 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.159 you play out in the nation's capital. It's exactly what 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.880 Xavier did. They beat them on the boards forty five 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.720 to thirty six. After the game, Richard Patino on the 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.000 thing that he wanted to look to deliver most of 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.760 his team, it was a three pronged thing. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:16.160 Yeah, that was it. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.000 I mean that's what I had a couple of offensive keys, 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.639 I had a couple of defensive keys, and then the 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.560 last thing I said was toughness. That's what matters. And 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.280 our guys did a great job. You know, we're going 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.040 to play a lot of teams that are bigger than us, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.960 but we scrapped and fought and won the rebounding battle. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.439 Yep and Xavier's next game New Year's Eve against Yukon. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.240 That was a very impressive win for them last night 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.280 out in Washington, DC. Also, Miami is now twelve and 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.960 oh Travis Steel has got it going on up in 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.960 Oxford eighty six seventy seven over ball state the icelander 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.119 Almore Atlassen off the bench eight for fourteen and twenty 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.600 six points. Monumental effort from him. But get this as 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.919 a team. This kind of highlights why Miami is all 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.760 to an incredible and historic start. They shot fifty percent 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.600 from the field, fifty four percent from three point range. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.639 They were thirteen of twenty four and twenty one of 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.200 twenty two from the free throw line. That mister grand 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.320 total of one free throw twelve and zero one And oh, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.880 now in the mac got some college basketball around here 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.160 today three o'clock here on seven hundred WYLWUC at seven 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.840 and four goes to Clemson. Actually they go to Greenville, 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.920 South Carolina to play Clemson. Clemson is nine and three. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.440 Pretty good basketball team seeing the two of their games 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.439 so far this year, Clemson will be a handful for 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.800 U see and then at NKU at noon, the College 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.560 of Charleston takes on the Norse. Chris mack head coach 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.160 at the College of Charleston, coming back to the area. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.600 His team is six and six NKU nine and four. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.280 So there's basketball, there's football from the college standpoint, and 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.280 standby will dive deep into the Bengals and Dolphins. Next, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.920 you're listening to the RNLK Carriers pregame show. It's presented 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.520 by your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers on ESPN 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.920 fifteen thirty and seven hundred WLW. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.520 That weird noise in your basement isn't the ghost of 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.639 Christmas past. It's your pipes begging for help. Don't be 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.600 a scrooge bug. 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Bengals at four 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:48.119 and ten go to Miami today where it will be 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:52.560 in the eighties at kickwoff, time, Dolphins are six and eight, 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.280 both teams eliminated, and the weather decidedly different than what 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:58.840 it was here last Sunday when they took on the Ravens. 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:02.560 Let's hope the outcome is a little bit different as well. 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.439 So the Bengals are out of it. Joe Burrow denied 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.680 yet again a chance to play in the postseason. Now, 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:10.679 as I said earlier, a lot of that has to 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:12.640 do with the fact that he missed all of those 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:16.679 games because of his toe injury and subsequent surgery. Something 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:20.199 that has plagued Burrow throughout his career is injury, season 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.960 ending injury. This one, he worked his butt off to 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:27.520 come back and finish the season, and as admirable as 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:30.520 that was, it was a season that was probably doomed 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.480 long before Burrow got back on the field. Nevertheless, Zach 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:38.800 Taylor this week, who revealed that he has two years well, 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:42.520 actually he didn't. The digging of Paul Dayner Junior at 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:46.359 the Athletic revealed that he had two years remaining on 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:49.919 his contract here with the Bengals. Zach Taylor says he 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:53.000 still believes and still thinks that the core is here 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:55.760 for this team to turn it around. In twenty six 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:56.840 and make a run. 0:24:56.920 --> 0:24:59.679 I got a ton of belief in our coaching staff, 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:03.160 our scouting department, our ownership that we are very much 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.919 in alignment with every decision we've ever made here, and 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:08.119 so again it when things haven't been good enough over 0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:10.200 of course this season, there's really no one to blame 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:12.360 other than me, truthfully, and so I know we all 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:14.720 play a piece of this, but I'm the guy to 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:16.080 get to sit there and talk to the team every 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.960 single week and present plans and make in game decisions, 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:22.680 and so frustrating that I haven't done anything job this year, 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:26.040 but a ton of confidence, and maybe it rings hollow 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:28.439 to everyone listening, but I know that we've been here 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:30.080 before and I've seen how we can get out the 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:31.560 other side. I'm very confident we're going to get the 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:33.280 nice Well. 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:36.720 See, it's one thing to say it, it's another thing 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.480 for it to happen, and it's another thing for the 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:42.520 people that he's provided with by Duke Tobin and ultimately 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:46.840 signed off on by the Brown family. It's ultimately all 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:48.840 of that that goes into whether or not this team 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:51.600 can turn it around or not. Let's face it, all 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:53.960 of their money is on the offensive side of the football. 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:57.240 On defense, they went draft picks and they went young, 0:25:57.400 --> 0:26:00.400 and in free agency they bottom fed and it didn't work. 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:03.400 So now they've got to come up with some sort 0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:06.000 of plan to retain those they need and yet go 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:08.560 out and try and harvest a free agent market and 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:13.280 draft better than what they've done here recently. But for 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.560 the players, it's it's finishing out a season, and a 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:19.880 lot of that is pride for the stars to prove 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.160 that they're worth the money they're being paid, and for 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:24.600 the other players that fill out a fifty three man roster, 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:27.640 it's to prove that if not here, but somewhere they belong. 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.640 Jamar Chase on all of that earlier this week, they're. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:36.240 Just trying to finish strong, finish out, will win, and 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:38.080 I just keep playing at the end of the day, 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:40.080 just make sure we finished strong. Can't go out there 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:43.560 and amvess in oursells the organization. We were putting ourselves 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:43.920 out there. 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:46.760 But here's here. Here is the quote I think that 0:26:46.840 --> 0:26:50.600 I carried this week when trying to figure out whether 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:53.200 or not this team is cashed in for this year 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.760 or is going out and trying, as Chase just said 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:02.359 to acquit themselves well, not necessarily not embarrass themselves, but 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:04.640 to show what time kind of talent they are. This 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:09.720 is Dalton Reisner, and I think this hopefully encapsulates what 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:13.760 this team is hopefully going to do over the course 0:27:13.840 --> 0:27:15.800 of the next three games. Dalton Reisner, I. 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:17.960 Mean, we all know that we're both out of playoff contention. 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:19.520 There's a lot to play for. I mean, I said 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.040 this last week. I don't speak for the team, but 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:23.560 I know this is the mindset of the team is 0:27:23.600 --> 0:27:25.400 we get to be Cincinnati Bengals. We get to wear 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:28.240 the stripes, we get to go represent ourselves, but even 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.760 more importantly, we get to go represent the Cincinnati Bengals 0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:33.480 on Sunday. So anytime I'm putting on the stripes, I 0:27:33.520 --> 0:27:35.000 don't care if playoffs are on the line or not. 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:36.959 I'm going out there. I have so much to play for. 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.080 This is this is a blessing, and if you take 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:40.760 it for granted, you you ain't gonna be in this 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.040 league for long. So there's a lot to play for. 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:46.040 On Sunday, I'm excited to go play the Miami Dolphins. 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:46.879 We're gonna be ready to go. 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:51.480 Meanwhile, in Miami, we're A source told ESPN yesterday that 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:55.879 prior to the twenty twenty draft, the Dolphins called the 0:27:55.920 --> 0:28:01.560 Bengals and offered them four first round draft picks if 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:04.040 the Bengals would have given them the number one overall 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:07.359 pick in the twenty twenty draft, obviously the draft that 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:12.560 brought Joe Burrow. Here, the Bengals said no and did 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:16.399 not entertain the conversation any further than that. But imagine that. 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:20.280 Imagine if the Bengals did not get Burrow, and imagine 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.160 if they had a settle for two at Tagaba Looe, 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.560 who had some nice seasons. I'm not putting the guy 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:30.120 down completely, but basically has regressed completely to a point 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:34.600 where's head coach Mike McDaniel had to bench him this 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:37.520 week in favor of a guy that hasn't taken a 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:41.520 snap in a meaningful NFL game. Here's McDaniel. 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:49.880 So the decision is complicated but simple. The simple pieces. 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.440 I think Quinn gives this team the best chance to win. 0:28:54.680 --> 0:28:58.240 You know, our focuses obviously to win the next three games, 0:28:58.240 --> 0:29:01.200 but in particular, like I tell the players, we are 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:03.680 focused on beating the Bengals. So that was the motivation. 0:29:06.200 --> 0:29:08.960 Zach will be backing them up and two will be 0:29:08.960 --> 0:29:09.560 the emergency. 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:14.920 Uh uh. That was a man that seemed very uncomfortable, 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:18.160 a guy that may be on his way out the 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:20.520 door in Miami as well. Well, we don't get to 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:25.160 it today. Quinn Yours, who has bounced around college football 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:29.040 Ohio State, Texas and was drafted late in the draft 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:34.080 last year. Quinn Ewers gets the call quarterback today. Open 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:37.600 a new cannon quarterbacks in Miami. When we come back, 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:40.520 Mike Renner from cbssports dot Com is going to join us. 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:42.920 He is their draft expert. I'm not We're going to 0:29:43.000 --> 0:29:45.440 look at it. I believe me. There'll be enough yapping 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:48.400 on this radio station between now and the draft about 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:52.280 the draft, but just in general what they should be 0:29:52.360 --> 0:29:56.560 looking for and how this season unraveled the way it did. 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.920 This is the RNL Carriers pregame Show. It's presented by 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:04.920 Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers on ESPN fifteen thirty 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:07.320 and seven hundred wl W. 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:14.000 News Traffic and Winning. This is a game. DAID news updates. 0:30:16.320 --> 0:30:19.920 Tensions arising between the US and Venezuela. This is the 0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:24.360 nine thirty report. I'm Sandy Collins breaking now. The US 0:30:24.400 --> 0:30:27.959 Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Nomes says the US Coastguard 0:30:28.320 --> 0:30:32.560 seized another sanctioned oil tanker off of Venezuela's coast, and 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.600 there's no de escalation of rising tensions there between the 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:39.600 Maduro regime and the Trump administration. ABC News Senior White 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:41.720 House correspondent Selina Wang has more. 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:44.480 It's the same type of unit used just ten days 0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:49.120 earlier when American forces repelled from helicopters onto another oil 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.400 tanker's debt to take control of the ship. 0:30:51.560 --> 0:30:53.520 No announcing the United. 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:56.160 States will continue to pursue the illicit movement of santion 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:59.640 oile that is used to fund narco terrorism in the region. 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:02.160 We will find you and we will stop you. 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:05.920 But unlike that first vessel, Saturday's tanker is not on 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:08.480 any sanctions list maintained by the US, the. 0:31:08.480 --> 0:31:11.560 European Union, the UK, or the UN. 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:14.640 According to Kepler, a data firm that tracks transportation in 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:15.920 logistics networks. 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:19.720 Secretary of State Mark or Rubio defends the administration's escalation, 0:31:19.840 --> 0:31:22.720 saying that it is clear that the current status quo 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:27.960 with Venezuela is intolerable for the United States. 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It's December twenty first, the winter solstice. 0:32:25.760 --> 0:32:29.240 That's when the northern hemisphere is tilted furthest from the 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:33.080 sun and is getting the least amount of sunlight all year. 0:32:34.240 --> 0:32:37.680 In Florida, talks beginning with Russia to end the war 0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:42.560 in Ukraine. They're underway. Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:45.560 met in Miami on Saturday with US on boy Steve 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:47.840 Witkoff and Trump's advisor Jared Kushner. 0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:48.600 His son in law. 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:53.800 Russian envoy Caill Dimitriev told reporters that the talks were 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:58.000 positive and talks will continue today. President Trump's envoys have 0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:01.400 been negotiating for weeks for that twenty point piece plan 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:05.320 in Ukraine. 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A seismic shift is coming. 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:50.520 It's time to get super sure. 0:35:56.480 --> 0:36:01.960 Gother's wrong with a little elo in the morning? Welcome 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:05.440 back RNL Carriers pregame show presented by your Cincinnati in 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:09.360 Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers. I am ken Brew. Great to 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:12.600 have you with us. Counting down to the Bengals and Dolphins. 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:16.600 Fore Zach Tednor was on the Miami Dolphins coaching staff 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:21.239 for four seasons, rising to interim offensive coordinator all the 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:24.640 way back in twenty fifteen before he headed out west 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:29.280 to join Sean McVay in the Los Angeles Los Angeles Rams. 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:35.000 There's a connection. Here's another connection in this game. Number 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:38.120 one overall pick in twenty twenty Joe Burrow and as 0:36:38.160 --> 0:36:41.360 I mentioned in the last half hour before the draft, 0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:45.440 story surfaced last night that before the draft, the Dolphins 0:36:45.520 --> 0:36:48.960 offered four first round draft picks to the Bengals, in 0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:52.320 exchange for that number one overall pick, and the Bengals 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:57.720 thankfully said no. And then after that, four picks later, 0:36:57.840 --> 0:37:01.239 the Dolphins took two at tag of my law. They 0:37:01.320 --> 0:37:05.799 passed on Justin Herbert, who went immediately after that, and 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:09.160 they also passed on Jordan Love who went late first round. 0:37:11.000 --> 0:37:15.279 And I'm sure that they're thinking about things like that, 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:20.000 or even passing on Jalen Hurts, who went later in 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:24.400 the draft round two, fifty third overall pick. But Tua 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:28.600 is benched today. Tua will not play unless injury dictates. 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:31.919 He is the third quarterback, the emergency quarterback for this game. 0:37:32.800 --> 0:37:34.799 You got benched, and he's not happy about it. 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:39.760 Say I'm disappointed. I think it's normal, it's normal human emotion. 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:45.759 But you know, outside of that, I got to do 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:48.839 my part. My role here right now is to help 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:51.640 whoever the quarterback is going to be for this team, 0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:54.680 to lead this team, help in whatever way I can, 0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:58.240 you know, to help the team win win this game. 0:37:58.280 --> 0:38:03.400 On Sunday. Yeah, we'll see Quinn yours not long in 0:38:03.440 --> 0:38:06.440 the tooth, and quite frankly, I would be surprised if 0:38:06.480 --> 0:38:10.040 Al Golden's defense doesn't simply bring it against him, confuse 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:12.360 him in the secondary. Bring it. It hasn't been a 0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:15.200 stellar year for Al Golden or his defense, but you 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:18.400 would think they throw everything they got at the kid. 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:21.919 Let's check out the delivery of last week's game, brought 0:38:21.920 --> 0:38:24.799 to you by RNL Carriers. Visit ORLC dot com. Make 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:29.399 RNL Carriers your global transportation provider. Look, it didn't score 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.600 a point all last week, so the delivery of the 0:38:31.600 --> 0:38:35.520 game is probably an infamous one. But nevertheless, let's make 0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:40.560 it a Lohi Gilman quarterback a quarterback, I'm sorry for 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:47.400 the for the Baltimore Ravens, a Lohi Gilman takes a 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:51.880 pitch and returns it eighty four yards on an interception return. 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:54.840 So classic play. If it didn't work, it would have 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:57.320 been one of the all time bonehead moves on defense. 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:01.719 But nevertheless, it worked, and off the pitch on an interception, 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:05.719 a Lohi Gilman eighty four yard interception return twenty four 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:10.839 to nothing, Ravens over the Bengals. At CBS Sports, Mike 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:13.680 Renner is their guru when it comes to the draft. 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:17.799 He's already working on twenty twenty six, and unfortunately, that's 0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:20.600 what the future holds for the Bengals, not just three 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:23.480 games to finish out the season, but also the twenty 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:28.000 twenty six draft. Mike Renner's Sundays are very busy. Nevertheless, 0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:30.880 the Guru is going to carve out some time for 0:39:30.960 --> 0:39:34.000 us here on seven hundred WLW today as we continue 0:39:34.000 --> 0:39:35.960 with the pregame show and Mike Renner, how are you 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:37.120 on this glorious Sunday. 0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:39.479 I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. Ken. 0:39:39.600 --> 0:39:41.719 I'm glad you're here because you do see all and 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.160 know all about the draft. Now, let me just ask 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:46.480 you this. If you look at the Bengals right now, 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.120 we'll get into your mock draft that just came out, 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:52.000 but as you look at the Bengals right now, and 0:39:52.080 --> 0:39:56.440 you had the ability to start rebuilding this team, particularly 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:59.080 on the defensive side of the ball, of all the 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:02.080 eleven positions on the defensive side of the ball, regardless 0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:04.360 of who's available when when you pick, we're just going 0:40:04.440 --> 0:40:07.279 to talk best case scenario. Where would you begin. 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:10.480 I think defensive tackle. 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:14.319 I think getting a real impact guy there to make 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:18.000 the linebackers look better, secondary look better, if you can 0:40:18.080 --> 0:40:22.480 rush the passer. You know ideally you want edge help too, 0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:25.919 but you've used first rounders there to the last three years, 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:28.440 so it'd be hard to say, let's go address that 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:32.360 again in the first round. But defensive tackles where it's like, okay, 0:40:32.640 --> 0:40:36.680 we if we we've invested sub draft appital, not a 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:40.080 whole lot, we have some vets, they're kind of aging out. 0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:41.400 I think that's. 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:46.480 Where one certified dude would really make this whole defense 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:49.240 look a lot better and probably where I look first 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:49.760 to address. 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:52.680 Yeah, they've tried, right, I mean Chris Jenkins, they tried 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:56.560 with him, McKinley Jackson, they brought bj hillback, but that 0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:00.239 has been a chronic problem for them. They also need 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:03.600 edge rusher who knows if Joseph Osaiah is coming back? 0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:07.440 And Trey Hendrickson I think confirmed at least in the 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:11.360 in the the Browns family's mind that you don't invest 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:14.560 in players heavily after they turn thirty. Whether that's right 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.160 or wrong, that theory for them I think has been 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:20.840 certified with what happened this year with the Trey Hendrickson. 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:25.879 But Ken, if you've got an I at edge that's 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:29.080 available when you pick, and right now you have them 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:33.879 picking top ten in this upcoming draft, what an edge guy, 0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:37.360 Trump an interior guy. Even if the edge guy is 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:41.400 a little bit of a reach, I. 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:41.880 Don't think so. 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:44.759 I think I still look at her. But out in 0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:48.319 this class specifically, there are going to be more edge gaps, 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:51.359 and in this class actually there's a lot of what 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:54.600 I call edge hybrids. There's a lot of guys who 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:57.720 are edge players in college, but they're like two hundred 0:41:57.719 --> 0:42:00.960 and seventy five two and eighty five pounds at In 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:03.560 the NFL, that's the defensive tackle nowadays, So there are 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.399 a lot of and they sometimes moonlight there, whether it's 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:09.720 Ruben Bain from Miami, whether it's Keldric Fall from Auburn. 0:42:09.800 --> 0:42:12.120 That those guys could be NFL dp's and I don't 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:15.160 think anyone bad and I given their body types, so. 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:17.600 That would be an interesting thought for them. 0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:20.040 Is a guy who could kind of do both, who 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:22.359 could really bridge that gap, and especially with the way 0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:25.880 defensive fronts are going in the NFL, you want flexibility 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:28.879 from those guys. Schmar Stewart kind of has a little 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:30.480 bit of that. I don't think bals Murphy does, but 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:34.759 like that's an addition that you could get all three 0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:36.759 of them on the field. Then at that point, all 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:38.000 three of those former first hundreds. 0:42:38.840 --> 0:42:42.080 You know, like anything in life, in football, you never 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:45.520 stopped paying for a mistake. And they paid for a 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:48.480 very long time to try and find an answer to 0:42:48.560 --> 0:42:51.560 Andrew Whitworth, whom they let go, and we saw what 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:55.640 happened after they let him go. Jesse Bates. They have 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:59.200 tried to figure out a way to replace Jesse Bates 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.239 when it would have been just more prudent to hang 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:04.200 on to Jesse Bates. Right now in you're a mock draft, 0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:06.200 and I know these things are fluid and we're still 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:08.560 months away from the draft, but you have the Bengals 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.560 picking ninth overall in round one, and you have Caleb Downs, 0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:15.040 the great safety from Ohio State. And I don't emphasize 0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:17.799 the words a great enough when we talk about this guy. 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:21.240 He is. He is the real deal. If Caleb Downs 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:24.640 falls to the Bengals and they are indeed picking ninth overall, 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:26.799 to me, that's a no brainer. Is it a no 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:27.520 brainer to you? 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:29.960 I think it's pretty much a no brainer. 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:33.799 The only way again I change that is if either 0:43:33.800 --> 0:43:36.160 address safety and free agency, or if you know a 0:43:36.320 --> 0:43:39.680 different need position falls to them and something that you 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:43.239 didn't expect. But to me, he's a top ten pick 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:46.479 sword in safety. Those don't come around every year. Probably 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:49.080 the last one was Kyle Hamilton, and he even did 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:51.719 go top ten, even though I can call him top 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:52.040 ten pick. 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:55.120 But like those guys, you know it when you see it. 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:58.240 And a lot of Bengals fans probably familiar with Ohio 0:43:58.280 --> 0:44:01.200 State as well. It's like he has transform that defense 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:05.840 he transferred from Alabama, his ability to just cover grounds, tackle, 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:09.480 be reliable. It's like all the things we lament this 0:44:09.640 --> 0:44:11.759 angle secondary for not being. 0:44:11.520 --> 0:44:13.919 Able to do. He is that guy. 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:17.799 Yeah, and again a difference maker, There's no question about it. 0:44:17.840 --> 0:44:19.440 As I look at your draft, you have the number 0:44:19.440 --> 0:44:22.839 one overall pick going to the Jets and that would 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:28.160 be Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza obviously is terrific. This pick is 0:44:28.239 --> 0:44:32.360 predicated on a trade with the Giants. The Giants have 0:44:32.480 --> 0:44:35.680 Jackson Dart so obviously they're not looking for a quarterback 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:38.400 in this particular draft. But if Mendoza does indeed go 0:44:38.440 --> 0:44:40.799 to New York and plays for the Jets, and this 0:44:40.880 --> 0:44:43.600 is I guess more I don't know anecdotal than it 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:45.960 is based in evidence, But that's a tough place to 0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:50.920 be a quarterback. Mendoza seems like a really young guy. 0:44:51.040 --> 0:44:53.160 I mean, he just seems like he comes off as young, 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.000 and he comes off as a little naive. I'm afraid 0:44:56.040 --> 0:44:59.040 the New York media, in addition to the fan base, 0:44:59.080 --> 0:45:01.279 and to eat this guy up if he's not not 0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:04.839 successful out of the shoot. Do you think Mendoza could 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:06.120 survive in that environment? 0:45:07.440 --> 0:45:11.640 Actually, you know, me being this draft analyst, just focusing 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:14.120 on you know, the skill set and the fit and 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:14.720 the offense. 0:45:14.960 --> 0:45:17.279 That's not something I had ever even like occurred to me. 0:45:17.800 --> 0:45:18.479 But you're right. 0:45:18.719 --> 0:45:20.880 I mean when you watch Mendoza talk and when you 0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:24.440 hear him speak about he's very it all comes off 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:28.000 as like nerdy, right, Like he has a very academic 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:31.040 way he looks at the game of football, and yeah, 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:33.520 it's gonna be it's going to a media market where 0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:35.920 any of all of those things that he says is 0:45:35.920 --> 0:45:39.160 going to be torn apart every which way by millions 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:40.480 of people after every game. 0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:43.560 So yeah, it's not the ideal fit. You know, Ideally 0:45:43.560 --> 0:45:43.879 one of. 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:45.759 Those guys you know kind of seton Herbert I think 0:45:45.760 --> 0:45:47.600 has like a similar sort of vibe. I see those 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:49.359 guys go to a small market and you don't really 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:51.719 hear from them, you don't get to hear the quotes 0:45:51.719 --> 0:45:53.680 from them, and it doesn't really matter, and then they 0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:56.000 can be successful. But yeah, I guess that is the 0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:58.920 thing that for him specifically, you might worry about in 0:45:58.960 --> 0:45:59.520 a bigger market. 0:45:59.760 --> 0:46:03.080 He's he's obviously wildly talented, but he comes off as 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:05.479 a high school junior. I mean when you just watch 0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:08.480 these these interviews, I worry about a little bit. You 0:46:08.480 --> 0:46:10.920 have Carnell Tait in your your mock draft going to 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:14.520 the Browns. Of course tit is is just absolutely terrific, 0:46:14.960 --> 0:46:17.200 paired up at Ohio State with Jeremiah Smith. But what 0:46:17.360 --> 0:46:19.759 in the in in the case of Tate that would 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:23.560 be an inordinate upgrade at wide receiver. Do you think 0:46:23.600 --> 0:46:27.000 he'd actually fall to uh to four overall or do 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:30.439 you think that somebody may and that that somebody may 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:33.400 be uh maybe the Titans, I mean they need a 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:36.760 receiver there, the Raiders need a quarterback. You have Dante 0:46:36.800 --> 0:46:39.080 Moore going there with a second overall pick. But do 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:41.520 you think the Browns would be tempted enough to take 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:42.880 Tate at four overall? 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:47.080 I do, and specifically for the Browns. He's just like 0:46:47.719 --> 0:46:51.839 what they're missing. They don't have one a guy who 0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:54.640 can really make contested catches consistently on the outside. I 0:46:54.800 --> 0:46:57.799 mean just last week that Jared Judy like gave the 0:46:57.840 --> 0:47:00.399 ball to the cornerback. He's kind of your post boy 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:03.680 for a lack of ball skills at the position, and 0:47:03.719 --> 0:47:04.880 he's had a lot of spled to a lot of 0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:08.520 incompletions this year. I think don't really have that vertical 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:12.120 threat either. I mean, Isaiah Bond's kind of been, but 0:47:12.640 --> 0:47:15.640 he's very small. He's kind of just a vertical threat. 0:47:15.680 --> 0:47:18.920 And to me, Carnal takes your number one sort of 0:47:19.160 --> 0:47:22.600 X wide receiver on the outside that can win those 0:47:22.680 --> 0:47:26.200 routes consistently. So for them specifically, it's not too high. 0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:28.120 I mean, just the fact that he's playing next year, 0:47:28.120 --> 0:47:30.800 my Smith, I think underrate him. Hembery will be the 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:32.640 second best wide receiver in the country. It's just that 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:33.799 his teammate is the best. 0:47:34.000 --> 0:47:35.920 Yeah, And as you point out in your analysis there, 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:38.000 he has it had a single drop all year. Mike 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:41.800 Renner the draft guru at cbssports dot com. Mike also 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:45.040 a terrific writer about other things in his own right. 0:47:45.280 --> 0:47:48.400 We have the Bengals Dolphins later this afternoon. Quinn Yours 0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:50.440 is going to quarterback the Dolphins. I'm not sure what 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:53.960 the motivation is there for Mike McDonald other than to 0:47:54.000 --> 0:47:55.839 get too of Tago by a little off the field 0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:58.080 and on the bench. But as you look at as 0:47:58.080 --> 0:48:00.640 you look at this game today, and people tend to 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:04.440 write off games that aren't important to a playoff chase. 0:48:04.480 --> 0:48:07.239 The playoffs run everything. But I think this is I 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:10.160 think these next three games are important to the Bengals 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:13.319 to try and get Shamar Stewart on the field, get 0:48:13.400 --> 0:48:16.640 some plays under his belt, and to just get Joe 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:18.960 Burrow right again. People say, what do you play at 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.919 Burrow for? Well, he's paid to play football, he's paid 0:48:21.920 --> 0:48:24.959 to win games. So I'm not writing off these last 0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:28.040 three games. But I have limited expectations. Of course. What 0:48:28.120 --> 0:48:30.520 about you and this team today against Miami. 0:48:31.680 --> 0:48:33.399 Yeah, I think the first thing you said there about 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.600 Shamar Stewart and truly just all these young guys defensively 0:48:36.880 --> 0:48:39.120 is what you care about right now, because you know 0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:44.080 they have been better from where they're at midseason, when 0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:47.360 they're on pace to break the record for most points 0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:48.080 aloud or whatever. 0:48:48.440 --> 0:48:50.239 But you want to see. 0:48:50.040 --> 0:48:53.160 Improvement from these young guys because that so we just 0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:55.640 kind of talked off the top about this defense. It's 0:48:55.719 --> 0:48:58.520 a lot of guys you've drafted highly in the last 0:48:58.520 --> 0:49:00.960 four years, a lot of rookie contra So that's why 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:04.520 it's hard to really pinpoint where do you attack, because well, 0:49:04.560 --> 0:49:07.400 you're kind of still hoping that this cornerback takes a 0:49:07.440 --> 0:49:09.640 step forward, your linebackers that are real his take a 0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:11.879 step forward, your first round edges take a step forward. 0:49:11.880 --> 0:49:14.120 So it's like, that's what you want to see those 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:16.640 guys take a step forward. These next three games actually 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:20.840 show you something because if not every position of the 0:49:20.880 --> 0:49:22.920 defense is truly a need at this point with the 0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:23.960 way they've looked this season. 0:49:24.160 --> 0:49:26.680 Boy, if that's not the truth. The truth is what 0:49:26.760 --> 0:49:29.520 you get when you want anything related to sports at 0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:32.040 cbssports dot com, and here is the purveyor of the 0:49:32.080 --> 0:49:35.200 truth on the NFL Draft. Mike Rennert's always great catching 0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:37.160 up with you. I know we'll talk down the road. 0:49:37.840 --> 0:49:40.759 Merry Christmas to you and your family and for your 0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:41.240 time today. 0:49:41.239 --> 0:49:44.080 We thank you, Mary. Christmas to you as well. Ken, 0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:44.640 thank you so much. 0:49:44.680 --> 0:49:48.399 That man you bet there he is and he's he's 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:53.240 must must destinate. He must read destination right now. Unfortunately, 0:49:53.640 --> 0:49:56.680 but that's where the Bengals find themselves. Yeah, go back 0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:58.600 to twenty twenty in that draft on the heels of 0:49:58.600 --> 0:50:02.360 a twenty nineteen season, not to resurrect bad memories, but 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:04.480 we all know what the Bengals were in twenty nineteen. 0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:08.359 They finished two and fourteen that year, got right down 0:50:08.360 --> 0:50:11.400 of the wire in that game against the Dolphins. I 0:50:11.400 --> 0:50:15.600 remember vividly as that game went to overtime and Andy 0:50:15.640 --> 0:50:18.680 Dalton is standing next to Zach Taylor, rookie head coach, 0:50:18.719 --> 0:50:21.279 and they were both kind of laughing, like, Man, if 0:50:21.719 --> 0:50:24.120 we messed this thing up and win this game in overtime, 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:29.160 we're gonna We're gonna miss out on Joe Burrow. But 0:50:29.280 --> 0:50:34.239 in that draft in twenty twenty, Bengals first Burrow Redskins 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:38.000 they were then known as the Redskins Redskins. Second, Chase 0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:43.480 Young Third, Detroit went with a cornerback Jeff Acota Andrew Thomas. 0:50:43.480 --> 0:50:45.480 A tackling on a good one from Georgia went to 0:50:45.520 --> 0:50:48.920 the Giants fourth overall that year and fifth overall to 0:50:48.960 --> 0:50:52.400 the Dolphins was to attack of Ilola you win that 0:50:52.520 --> 0:50:55.799 game in Miami and that draft is turned upside down, 0:50:56.520 --> 0:51:00.680 but it turned out differently and Burrow fight. The fact 0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:04.600 that he says cryptic things now remains with your Cincinnati Bengals. 0:51:04.760 --> 0:51:07.040 We're at nine fifty two on this game day morning 0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:10.239 and you're listening to the RNL Carriers pregame show. 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May you rest in peace, my friend. 0:55:30.320 --> 0:55:34.879 Nine six News Radio seven hundred WLWRNL carriers pregame show 0:55:34.880 --> 0:55:39.920 presented by your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealer. Let's Salute, 0:55:40.239 --> 0:55:43.200 Salute the Performer of the Week, brought to you by 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:46.800 Crown Royal, the official whiskey of the Bengals, bringing the 0:55:46.960 --> 0:55:52.719 spirit to every game this season. Performer of the Week, Well, 0:55:52.760 --> 0:55:55.080 it's an interesting thing. Let's let's go back and take 0:55:55.120 --> 0:55:59.200 a look. Let's look at receiving. And I want to 0:55:59.239 --> 0:56:02.160 highlight a guy that had what I thought was just 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:05.920 a stellar, stellar week, and that was Kyle Pitts side 0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:10.520 end Atlanta Falcons. Last week. His team beat the Bucks. 0:56:10.520 --> 0:56:14.040 It was a Thursday night game, twenty nine, twenty eight. 0:56:14.520 --> 0:56:17.920 In that game, Kyle Pitts Senior eleven receptions, won one 0:56:18.000 --> 0:56:24.160 hundred and sixty six yards and three touchdown receptions. Kyle 0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:27.120 Pitts sor he's the performer of the week. There's no 0:56:27.239 --> 0:56:29.400 question about that. In my mind, when it comes to 0:56:29.440 --> 0:56:34.800 catching the ball, mayhaps it will be Jamar Carter, Jamark Chase. 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:38.000 If indeed the Bengals can turn the flame up on 0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:40.640 the Dolphins defense today down in Miami, we'll see maybe 0:56:40.760 --> 0:56:43.879 so maybe, no, maybe next week. Time to look at 0:56:44.200 --> 0:56:46.960 who's hot in the NFL. And that's brought to you 0:56:47.000 --> 0:56:52.120 by plumb tight, fast response times and no service fees. Well, 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:55.120 I mean you have your passing leaders, your rushing leaders, 0:56:55.160 --> 0:57:00.840 your receiving leaders. How about Miles Garrettles Garrett made a 0:57:00.880 --> 0:57:05.120 boatload of money in the offseason, signed that contract, paying 0:57:05.160 --> 0:57:08.840 him thirty five thirty six million dollars a year. Miles 0:57:08.840 --> 0:57:12.719 Garrett is one sack away from the NFL record for 0:57:12.800 --> 0:57:17.160 most sacks in one season that has stood for twenty 0:57:17.280 --> 0:57:22.080 four seasons. Michael Strahan has twenty two and a half sacks. 0:57:22.880 --> 0:57:26.640 He achieved that in two thousand and one. Miles Garrett 0:57:27.040 --> 0:57:31.800 going into today's game at home against Buffalo, Miles Garrett 0:57:31.840 --> 0:57:35.800 with twenty one and a half sacks. That's who's hot 0:57:35.840 --> 0:57:40.400 in the NFL. You pair that with the Denver Broncos, 0:57:40.440 --> 0:57:45.120 who were just absolutely motoring right along, having won eleven 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:47.280 in a Row Denver at home today for a four 0:57:47.320 --> 0:57:51.400 o'clock start against Jacksonville, Denver giving three and a half 0:57:51.720 --> 0:57:57.360 on that day. Joe Burrow another week, another news conference, 0:57:58.640 --> 0:58:03.080 and you know the media in whenever they smell uncertainty 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:07.160 or something that's off, they'll hone in on. It doesn't 0:58:07.160 --> 0:58:09.800 matter whether it's Cincinnati, New York, Los Angelesia coll it 0:58:09.800 --> 0:58:14.440 doesn't matter. So Burrow, who was talking about not having 0:58:14.480 --> 0:58:18.600 fun and almost questioning his longevity in the NFL a 0:58:18.640 --> 0:58:23.439 week ago, this week, this past week, was asked, could 0:58:23.480 --> 0:58:27.480 you ever envision yourself playing for another team other than 0:58:27.560 --> 0:58:30.960 the Cincinnati Bengals. This was Joe's answer. 0:58:31.960 --> 0:58:36.920 Yeah, A lot of crazy things happen every year. Michael 0:58:36.920 --> 0:58:42.280 Parsons got traded right before, right before the season. I 0:58:42.280 --> 0:58:47.560 think this year that is a something I hadn't seen 0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:51.439 in a long time in the NFL. So crazy things 0:58:51.480 --> 0:58:51.960 gonna happen. 0:58:52.040 --> 0:58:56.080 It's an honest answer. It's an honest answer. Teams move 0:58:56.120 --> 0:58:58.320 on from players they feel are no longer a fit 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:03.840 ownership sometimes change just coaches, sometimes changes. Players sometimes aren't 0:59:03.880 --> 0:59:06.560 performing as well as they did early in their career. 0:59:07.480 --> 0:59:09.600 I don't think you have any worries about Joe Burrow 0:59:09.640 --> 0:59:13.720 going anywhere anytime soon. The Bengals simply will not. They're not. 0:59:14.040 --> 0:59:18.440 It's this is a Joe centric team and the analogies 0:59:18.440 --> 0:59:23.040 to Carson Palmer don't fit. No, that's that's not happening. 0:59:23.760 --> 0:59:27.000 He may be thinking about life and what life will 0:59:27.040 --> 0:59:30.040 be like down the road, But for the Bengals, no, 0:59:30.200 --> 0:59:33.520 they're thinking about what happens today in Miami. When we 0:59:33.600 --> 0:59:37.600 come back. Will be joined by Ian artist Matthew Berry. 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:39.960 Fantasy Live, a man that can make all of your 0:59:39.960 --> 0:59:44.640 fantasies come true as long as they're in football. 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Had to make HORNL Carriers 1:08:03.480 --> 1:08:08.360 your global transportation provider and no pre game sports talk. 1:08:10.240 --> 1:08:13.640 Well less than three minutes, three hours to kickoff, and 1:08:14.000 --> 1:08:17.280 we are counting down to the Bengals and the Miami Dolphins. 1:08:17.280 --> 1:08:21.080 Here on seven hundred WLWNESPN fifteen thirty all the play 1:08:21.120 --> 1:08:25.559 by play live from Miami with Dan Horde and Dave Lapham. 1:08:25.640 --> 1:08:32.080 NFL Last Night, Philadelphia twenty nine Washington eighteen. Philadelphia clinches 1:08:32.200 --> 1:08:37.720 the NFC East. Meanwhile, the Thriller last Night was in Chicago. 1:08:38.439 --> 1:08:42.400 Chicago roars back and wins an overtime twenty two to sixteen. 1:08:42.880 --> 1:08:45.680 Green Bay starting quarterback Jordan Love was knocked out with 1:08:45.760 --> 1:08:49.320 a concussion in the second quarter. It affected the way 1:08:49.360 --> 1:08:52.240 the rest of this game was played. Chicago tied the 1:08:52.240 --> 1:08:55.560 game with twenty four seconds to go, then in overtime, 1:08:55.680 --> 1:08:59.879 Green Bay gets the ball first possession and Molique Willis, 1:09:00.160 --> 1:09:02.880 filling in for Jordan Love, falls the snap on a 1:09:02.920 --> 1:09:07.240 fourth and one. Chicago gets the ball and Chicago turns 1:09:07.280 --> 1:09:10.559 around and Caleb Williams finds DJ Moore with a forty 1:09:10.600 --> 1:09:14.080 six yard touchdown pass in overtime in Chicago with a 1:09:14.120 --> 1:09:18.000 twenty two to sixteen win. Those were the Saturday games 1:09:18.160 --> 1:09:23.000 in the NFL. Let's check out today's Spotlight Player, brought 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:25.439 to you by Furniture Fair. Get the guaranteed low price 1:09:25.560 --> 1:09:30.559 or it's free at Furniture Fair. I got two and 1:09:30.720 --> 1:09:33.880 they probably have a lot to do with how each 1:09:33.920 --> 1:09:39.200 other will perform today. First spotlight Player Miles Murphy. Up 1:09:39.280 --> 1:09:42.920 until the latter half of this season, Miles Murphy was viewed, 1:09:42.960 --> 1:09:46.439 I think by most players, by most people, media, whatever. 1:09:46.840 --> 1:09:49.400 I think he was viewed by most people as a 1:09:49.439 --> 1:09:52.720 whiff that he hadn't contributed the way a first round 1:09:52.800 --> 1:09:56.080 draft pick should contribute, and because of that, there was 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:59.920 great questions about the Bengals going forward at the edge, 1:10:00.320 --> 1:10:04.240 Trey Hendrickson on a one year deal and Murphy underperforming. 1:10:05.000 --> 1:10:08.720 Murphy had two sacks in that game last week against Baltimore, 1:10:09.080 --> 1:10:12.799 acquitted himself very well with a lot of other quarterback hurries. 1:10:13.280 --> 1:10:16.439 He's in the spotlight today because not only can he 1:10:16.479 --> 1:10:20.799 bring the heat. Also, Quinn Ewers is starting from Miami today, 1:10:21.280 --> 1:10:26.360 not two otagoa loa, and yours making his first NFL start. 1:10:27.320 --> 1:10:29.840 We'll probably have, as Sam Weisch used to say about 1:10:29.920 --> 1:10:34.599 young players, eyeballs as big as saucer cups. As for yours, 1:10:34.920 --> 1:10:38.439 he's excited about today, as you will would almost expect 1:10:38.479 --> 1:10:38.920 he would be. 1:10:39.040 --> 1:10:39.200 Yeah. 1:10:39.240 --> 1:10:41.160 I mean, it's a dream come true for me. I've 1:10:41.160 --> 1:10:44.880 always wanted to have the opportunity to play in the 1:10:45.000 --> 1:10:48.240 NFL and for that to for that to be coming 1:10:48.320 --> 1:10:52.800 is just truly a blessing, and I'm thankful for the opportunity. 1:10:53.080 --> 1:10:53.639 I was happy. 1:10:54.560 --> 1:10:58.160 Well, we'll see how thankful he is if the Bengals 1:10:58.160 --> 1:11:01.320 can tee off on him. But those are our spotlight players. 1:11:01.360 --> 1:11:03.880 And we thank again Furniture Fair for being with us 1:11:03.960 --> 1:11:07.880 all these games of this season. All Right, we have 1:11:07.960 --> 1:11:10.120 a guy that joins us a lot, and I like 1:11:10.240 --> 1:11:12.200 Ian Hart. It's for a number of reasons. One he's 1:11:12.200 --> 1:11:14.320 a good guy too is Whenever I say Ian can 1:11:14.400 --> 1:11:16.760 you can you be on the show? He says, sure, absolutely, 1:11:16.880 --> 1:11:18.519 dial me up. And that's what we're going to do. 1:11:18.600 --> 1:11:22.040 He is with Matthew Berry Fantasy Live before that Pro 1:11:22.160 --> 1:11:26.200 Footballfocus dot Com and a guy that knows sports inside out, 1:11:26.240 --> 1:11:30.320 but particularly football and oftentimes, as we know in football, 1:11:30.479 --> 1:11:35.080 fantasy interjects itself into reality. So I wanted to get 1:11:35.160 --> 1:11:37.400 him on today to talk about why things went south 1:11:37.400 --> 1:11:41.000 with the Bengals this year and is the obvious answer 1:11:41.160 --> 1:11:44.040 a little too easy? So let's bring them out in 1:11:44.400 --> 1:11:46.679 Ian hartits how are you on this glorious Sunday? 1:11:47.240 --> 1:11:49.200 It is a great day to be great. Can always 1:11:49.200 --> 1:11:50.640 want to get to talk to you as well, so 1:11:50.720 --> 1:11:52.719 appreciate you having me on as always. 1:11:52.760 --> 1:11:54.320 And yeah, I would say a tough. 1:11:54.120 --> 1:11:56.519 One for the Bangles. Spent a couple of years my 1:11:56.600 --> 1:11:59.639 life living in since I'm in Columbus now, so maybe. 1:11:59.439 --> 1:12:00.000 Not the same. 1:12:00.439 --> 1:12:03.400 But I will say despite again just a down season. Okay, 1:12:03.520 --> 1:12:06.000 Joe Burrow, you still like Jamar Chase and as much 1:12:06.000 --> 1:12:08.120 as you've been hanging on to Acty last few years, 1:12:08.120 --> 1:12:10.240 that still is a pretty darn kick start routes as well? 1:12:10.320 --> 1:12:14.120 At when did it fall apart for this team? Is 1:12:14.160 --> 1:12:18.120 it too easy to say that it all ended when 1:12:18.200 --> 1:12:21.599 Joe Burrow got hurt in game number two of this season. 1:12:21.800 --> 1:12:24.559 Game one, they were lucky to be Cleveland. I mean, 1:12:24.600 --> 1:12:29.559 the Cleveland kicker missed several significant kicks and Jacksonville had 1:12:29.600 --> 1:12:33.360 their way with Cincinnati up until Burrow got hurt, and somehow, 1:12:33.520 --> 1:12:37.320 some way, you know, the Bengals came back and won 1:12:37.360 --> 1:12:39.799 that game. I'm just I'm wondering, is it too easy 1:12:39.840 --> 1:12:43.479 to say that this season got torpedoed when Burrow went 1:12:43.560 --> 1:12:45.960 down or is that the exact reason why it got 1:12:46.000 --> 1:12:48.759 torpedoed more or less? 1:12:49.000 --> 1:12:51.360 I think the time when you really had to stop 1:12:51.960 --> 1:12:54.920 dreaming about the possibility of Burrow making that return kind 1:12:54.920 --> 1:12:57.000 of leading them, you know, back into contention was just 1:12:57.160 --> 1:12:59.400 you know, losing those back to back and against jackson 1:12:59.439 --> 1:13:03.440 Baar offense, those coint thirty eight plus points on berthaccasion, 1:13:03.479 --> 1:13:05.200 that just made it really tough to come back from. 1:13:05.200 --> 1:13:07.840 But even with all that in mind, man like the 1:13:07.880 --> 1:13:10.719 playoff percentage were starting to look a little bit enticing, 1:13:10.840 --> 1:13:13.880 you know, around that ten minute mark in that Bill's game. 1:13:13.960 --> 1:13:16.000 But unfortunately, you know, a couple of great plays, a 1:13:16.000 --> 1:13:18.760 couple of fluxes by that Bill defense turns turn things 1:13:18.800 --> 1:13:21.519 around the hurry. So look, I when you have Burrow, 1:13:21.560 --> 1:13:23.599 you got Chase, I get it. Sixty minutes of football 1:13:23.600 --> 1:13:25.840 and then they can compete with anyone. But just they 1:13:26.040 --> 1:13:28.960 the margins are so thin, you know, regarding the air 1:13:29.040 --> 1:13:30.719 that they can make. When you just have the defense, 1:13:30.720 --> 1:13:32.519 it's going to be giving up thirty five plus to 1:13:32.640 --> 1:13:35.360 any offense you know what aren't out there. So you know, 1:13:35.760 --> 1:13:38.080 Trey Henderson being out for this, you know majority of 1:13:38.120 --> 1:13:40.360 the season hasn't helped matter as well. I just think again, 1:13:40.439 --> 1:13:43.000 you were you were asking Burrow and Chase and Piegans, 1:13:43.040 --> 1:13:45.360 we've been acting to basically have their superman caps on 1:13:45.439 --> 1:13:47.400 each and every week to have a chance. And you know, 1:13:47.400 --> 1:13:49.320 it's pretty hard to do when you're facing teams like 1:13:49.400 --> 1:13:51.800 the Bill like the Ravens, you know, even the Patriots. Now, 1:13:52.080 --> 1:13:53.479 just I think when you kind of go to a 1:13:53.520 --> 1:13:56.320 position group by position group really do hold far more days. 1:13:56.479 --> 1:13:59.280 Well, they were failing to address the needs on defense 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:03.559 in the last free agents period in March of twenty 1:14:03.600 --> 1:14:06.679 twenty five. I said, look, it's great, you have Burrow, 1:14:06.680 --> 1:14:08.720 it's great, you have Chase, Great, you have Higgins, you 1:14:08.800 --> 1:14:12.080 got Chase Brown. It's not fantasy football. You've got to 1:14:12.120 --> 1:14:15.000 block and you got to tackle in this game to win. 1:14:15.560 --> 1:14:19.120 And it's one thing to say that this offense can 1:14:19.160 --> 1:14:23.160 deliver thirty five, thirty eight points a week. It's another 1:14:23.200 --> 1:14:27.320 thing to have to deliver thirty eight points per week. 1:14:27.720 --> 1:14:30.120 Everybody said, oh, you're crazy, this team can stay with anybody. 1:14:30.160 --> 1:14:30.479 This is that. 1:14:30.600 --> 1:14:35.040 No, it isn't, because your offense isn't on every single week. Now, 1:14:35.080 --> 1:14:37.920 they did have some games where they delivered forty points 1:14:37.920 --> 1:14:40.800 a week and lost, But I do think that this 1:14:40.960 --> 1:14:44.520 was a giant miscalculation on their part on the defensive 1:14:44.560 --> 1:14:45.360 side of the football. 1:14:45.400 --> 1:14:47.639 Would you agree, yeah? 1:14:47.680 --> 1:14:49.760 And I mean you look at them last three years, 1:14:49.760 --> 1:14:52.679 ever since losing Jesse bas In my thirty first point sets. 1:14:52.760 --> 1:14:56.040 Now this year's thirty second just total yards allowed and you. 1:14:56.000 --> 1:14:57.400 Want to say, well, how can we not better? 1:14:57.560 --> 1:14:58.280 But well, what. 1:14:58.280 --> 1:15:00.639 Would make you think they were going to be better overall? Again, 1:15:00.680 --> 1:15:03.040 outside of Trey Henderson doing his thing, but when he's 1:15:03.280 --> 1:15:05.680 banks up, this is the sixth cheapest defense you know 1:15:05.720 --> 1:15:08.000 in the NFL and twenty twenty five and even looking 1:15:08.000 --> 1:15:10.600 at twenty twenty six dollars, it only gets worse. So 1:15:10.720 --> 1:15:12.679 we do see teams like the Rams and the Charges 1:15:12.720 --> 1:15:15.040 out in Massangeles They've done a great job hitting on 1:15:15.040 --> 1:15:16.600 a lot of their rookie picks, and they also have 1:15:16.760 --> 1:15:19.479 very cheap defenses, and they still managed to actually put 1:15:19.479 --> 1:15:22.080 forward you know, far better obviously, you know, minis on 1:15:22.080 --> 1:15:24.200 the field than what the Bangles have had. So I 1:15:24.240 --> 1:15:26.679 think at the group effort, obviously al Bowlden didn't exactly 1:15:26.720 --> 1:15:28.800 fix that defense, you know, schematically the way and that 1:15:28.960 --> 1:15:30.599 we were hoping. But at the end of the day, 1:15:30.640 --> 1:15:32.400 I do tend to lean towards the Timmis and Joe's, 1:15:32.439 --> 1:15:34.400 you know, making more of an unpacked many acts, and 1:15:34.439 --> 1:15:36.599 that was out there. So man, he just looks after 1:15:36.640 --> 1:15:39.320 these last teams after in particular, and almost every single 1:15:39.439 --> 1:15:41.639 top one hundred picks has been a whift. And again 1:15:41.760 --> 1:15:44.040 the injuries play a role, but Krischa mar Stewart not 1:15:44.080 --> 1:15:47.479 getting anything going on, Demetrius Night's PFF's third worst. You know, 1:15:47.600 --> 1:15:50.559 greater linebackers this year. Haven't seen much from Chris Jacksons 1:15:50.600 --> 1:15:53.000 and mckillley Jackson, and then even the offensive line. Then 1:15:53.040 --> 1:15:55.920 you know, then fair Child not exactly all pros out there. 1:15:56.680 --> 1:15:58.960 Pert Is, I haven't on the freaking team anymore, so 1:15:59.400 --> 1:16:02.000 one with after another, I think when you string together. 1:16:02.080 --> 1:16:04.200 You know, multiple draft clauses in a row. You're not 1:16:04.280 --> 1:16:06.840 getting any difference makers. I mean, these are sort of 1:16:06.880 --> 1:16:07.759 seasons I catch. 1:16:07.600 --> 1:16:07.840 Up to you. 1:16:08.360 --> 1:16:10.839 All right, I'm going to anoint you the general manager 1:16:10.920 --> 1:16:14.080 of the Bengals just for this moment. Ian Hardens is 1:16:14.160 --> 1:16:18.920 the general manager. He reports only to Mike Brown, and 1:16:19.080 --> 1:16:22.680 the Bengals are picking. Your team is picking somewhere in 1:16:22.840 --> 1:16:26.400 this draft. Probably early teens is where I would put them. 1:16:26.479 --> 1:16:28.799 We'll see how the next three weeks go. But early teens, 1:16:28.880 --> 1:16:32.240 maybe mid teens, that's where you're picking. Where are you 1:16:32.400 --> 1:16:36.639 looking for first in the draft to fix this team? 1:16:37.920 --> 1:16:39.439 If we have one of those drafts here where the 1:16:39.439 --> 1:16:42.040 Bengals have eight picks and they use every single one 1:16:42.120 --> 1:16:45.040 on defense, I have Portland warranted at this point because, 1:16:45.280 --> 1:16:48.320 again mentioned before, the offensive lineman maybe not playing great, 1:16:48.439 --> 1:16:50.200 but in the credit I mean, they've got the run 1:16:50.280 --> 1:16:53.280 game going obviously without even having that big devotion of 1:16:53.360 --> 1:16:56.360 resources to the running back room Joe Burrow on the season, 1:16:56.439 --> 1:16:59.280 we've actually seen the sixth rowest pressure rate overall in 1:16:59.280 --> 1:17:02.040 the NFL. So we're gonna let the offense rest as is. 1:17:02.120 --> 1:17:03.840 And I think again, if we are picking this Matt 1:17:03.880 --> 1:17:06.400 lower ten of fifteen range. The dream pick would be 1:17:06.479 --> 1:17:09.240 Ohio State Safety killed down Scorf Award a winner, and 1:17:09.400 --> 1:17:11.080 just I've seen a lot of you know, the Dame 1:17:11.120 --> 1:17:13.200 Burglars and drill class of the world. Actually getting to 1:17:13.320 --> 1:17:16.439 Troy Paula moodelcom because I'm sure AFC North Fence if 1:17:16.479 --> 1:17:18.840 he has the line you know, nightmares Oven Cincinnati. But 1:17:19.200 --> 1:17:20.760 still it would be great to get one of those 1:17:20.800 --> 1:17:24.000 guys on your squad. Just again, a rangey box safe 1:17:24.000 --> 1:17:25.679 and we can go these things and coverage as well, 1:17:25.800 --> 1:17:27.959 but just someone who can get I think helps solidify 1:17:28.000 --> 1:17:30.639 and just help kind of improve pretty much everyone working 1:17:30.720 --> 1:17:33.400 across that defense. The other potential guy who again could 1:17:33.400 --> 1:17:35.360 just kind of go sideline the sideline for you would 1:17:35.360 --> 1:17:38.120 be another buck Eye Sunny style, someone who actually was 1:17:38.200 --> 1:17:41.320 playing safety on his career, get out of Pickerington. And 1:17:41.479 --> 1:17:44.559 just again, when we talk about freak athletes, amongst freak 1:17:44.600 --> 1:17:46.280 athletes like study Pallas really is. 1:17:46.320 --> 1:17:46.680 One of them. 1:17:46.760 --> 1:17:48.599 So he's really, you know, started to come more into 1:17:48.680 --> 1:17:51.280 his own as a true linebackers with these last seasons. 1:17:51.280 --> 1:17:53.680 And again just getting some more speed out there, King, 1:17:53.680 --> 1:17:55.360 because I think that's one of the bigger issues When 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:57.840 you watch the defense play, there's just no one in 1:17:57.880 --> 1:17:59.880 the back end that's actually going sideline the side by 1:18:00.080 --> 1:18:03.000 making plays. So yes, everyone, I am a very bias 1:18:03.040 --> 1:18:05.200 Clubs Ohio native and so so we take that and 1:18:05.479 --> 1:18:05.840 was for us. 1:18:05.880 --> 1:18:08.559 But at the same time, we're talking about all Americans here, 1:18:08.600 --> 1:18:10.400 and you know guys who I think even a more 1:18:10.560 --> 1:18:12.760 neutral fan I would have bet or with your top 1:18:12.800 --> 1:18:15.080 fifty picks. So again, Caleb Downs would be the dream, 1:18:15.160 --> 1:18:17.080 and I think there is a chance for him to 1:18:17.160 --> 1:18:18.880 follow you guys as much as we're going to see 1:18:18.960 --> 1:18:21.920 Caleb literally ranked as a top five overall process in 1:18:22.000 --> 1:18:25.000 this draft, just kind of the positional value of safety 1:18:25.120 --> 1:18:26.600 that makes it so that he might not go in 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:27.160 the top ten. 1:18:27.280 --> 1:18:28.519 So fingers crossed the down. 1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:32.160 Does Ian hard It's general manager of the Bengals attempt 1:18:32.240 --> 1:18:35.599 to re sign Trey Hendrickson or has that boat sailed? 1:18:37.120 --> 1:18:38.840 I think the boat kilm And the thing is like 1:18:38.920 --> 1:18:41.160 when Henderson, even when he was leading the NFL, and 1:18:41.280 --> 1:18:44.320 that's not like I was still producing a great defense. Look, 1:18:44.360 --> 1:18:46.280 we've seen what happens when he's not out there. They 1:18:46.320 --> 1:18:48.880 go bad to literally the worst group in the league. 1:18:48.960 --> 1:18:51.080 So not trying to take anything away from Hendrickson, but 1:18:51.439 --> 1:18:53.000 in the day, you know, we just turned thirty one 1:18:53.080 --> 1:18:55.720 years old, obviously couldn't stay healthy this season. I just 1:18:55.800 --> 1:18:57.360 don't think, you know, signing up to give you know, 1:18:57.479 --> 1:18:59.639 a law and multi year extension to a guy who 1:19:00.000 --> 1:19:01.840 you know, for good reasons isn't very happy with your 1:19:01.840 --> 1:19:04.439 ownership in the first place. So I think at this point, 1:19:04.520 --> 1:19:06.080 whether you can try to get a trade or just 1:19:06.200 --> 1:19:07.640 let a walk and hope you get a dec of 1:19:07.720 --> 1:19:10.519 compict probably makes more sense. There Again, if you've learned 1:19:10.520 --> 1:19:12.840 anything this year, that we're now one player away from 1:19:12.960 --> 1:19:16.000 really scrucing up the defense anyway, So hopefully again try 1:19:16.040 --> 1:19:18.120 to use that you know, actually thirty forty million and 1:19:18.160 --> 1:19:20.200 cap space a multiple positions. 1:19:20.520 --> 1:19:23.000 As you look at the defense and as you look 1:19:23.040 --> 1:19:26.200 at free agency and knowing it is the Bengals and 1:19:26.320 --> 1:19:28.880 they are not spend thrift, I mean they are spend 1:19:28.960 --> 1:19:33.400 thrifts when it comes to anything that involves signing free agents. 1:19:34.400 --> 1:19:37.280 How aggressive would you be, not knowing, of course at 1:19:37.320 --> 1:19:39.960 this point of the year, who would be available at 1:19:39.960 --> 1:19:44.000 at what price, but how aggressive would you be? Would 1:19:44.040 --> 1:19:47.720 you would you go overboard? Would the number one guy 1:19:47.840 --> 1:19:51.080 that's out there on defense, be it the interier out an, 1:19:51.080 --> 1:19:53.880 a edge rusher, a linebacker, whatever it may be. How 1:19:54.000 --> 1:19:57.200 aggressive would you be to try and bring in immediate 1:19:57.280 --> 1:19:59.880 help because quite frankly, if we just talk about the draft, 1:20:00.520 --> 1:20:03.240 I don't know if they can fix that defense inside 1:20:03.280 --> 1:20:04.160 of one off season. 1:20:05.880 --> 1:20:07.879 Yeah, but at the same time, when you are employing 1:20:07.920 --> 1:20:10.519 Burrow and Chase and spending thirty forty million on each 1:20:10.600 --> 1:20:12.600 per year, like your window is now, even if it 1:20:13.080 --> 1:20:15.280 maybe doesn't look like it's ready to exactly pick up 1:20:15.320 --> 1:20:16.360 that slack, So I. 1:20:16.360 --> 1:20:17.360 Would be very aggressive. 1:20:17.479 --> 1:20:19.800 Look, we have seen turn arounds to four where we 1:20:19.880 --> 1:20:21.760 fad like we need the Bengals field from the thirty 1:20:21.800 --> 1:20:24.000 second ranked defense the first Okay, we can go to 1:20:24.120 --> 1:20:26.439 war with the eighteenth ranked team hopefully has the ball 1:20:26.560 --> 1:20:29.240 bounce our way a couple times in January and things 1:20:29.280 --> 1:20:31.479 will probably be good enough there. So I would be 1:20:31.600 --> 1:20:34.000 again just all in on this window and trying to 1:20:34.080 --> 1:20:36.080 make the most out of it. So whether that's going 1:20:36.160 --> 1:20:38.360 to be you know, really I don't looking at the 1:20:38.400 --> 1:20:40.280 free agents right now, and you're right, it is early. 1:20:40.360 --> 1:20:42.320 And Andrewson is probably going to be the guy headline 1:20:42.320 --> 1:20:45.160 in the class anyway, So I don't know about completely, 1:20:45.240 --> 1:20:47.120 you know, emptying the cliff on just one of these 1:20:47.240 --> 1:20:49.559 edge rushers, trying to get it all there, but again 1:20:49.640 --> 1:20:52.040 trying to bring him four or five potential difference makers. 1:20:52.120 --> 1:20:55.200 Maybe more so in that eight to twelve million annual 1:20:55.280 --> 1:20:57.560 salary range would make a little bit more sense to me. 1:20:57.760 --> 1:20:59.639 So I will say, you know, just when you look 1:20:59.720 --> 1:21:01.960 at free agency, a lot of time teams I think 1:21:02.000 --> 1:21:04.200 when they do mess up, it is trying to spend 1:21:04.320 --> 1:21:06.920 up on that wide receiver or on that quarterback who, 1:21:07.200 --> 1:21:09.280 let's say, if they were better, probably wouldn't behave the 1:21:09.320 --> 1:21:12.000 open park in the first place. We do see teams 1:21:12.080 --> 1:21:14.519 manage to have a bigger you know, overhaul and turnaround 1:21:14.560 --> 1:21:17.160 successfully in free agency when we are looking at the 1:21:17.240 --> 1:21:20.000 more line of scrimmage and defensive typosition. So I am 1:21:20.040 --> 1:21:22.840 optimistic again they could maybe go come horrific to just 1:21:22.920 --> 1:21:24.720 below average and here if their offense is going to 1:21:24.760 --> 1:21:25.840 be great, hopefully that's enough. 1:21:26.920 --> 1:21:30.000 Hopefully Ian Hard It's Matthew Berry Fantasy Live, our guest. 1:21:31.200 --> 1:21:35.080 They get quinn Ewers today in Miami, as the Dolphins 1:21:35.240 --> 1:21:37.639 apparently have moved on from to at tag of Iloa. 1:21:37.720 --> 1:21:40.400 It sounds like it's going to be a a pricey 1:21:40.479 --> 1:21:42.880 way to move on. But nevertheless he's done and here 1:21:42.960 --> 1:21:47.080 comes youwers who had success in college but not so 1:21:47.240 --> 1:21:50.000 much so far in the NFL. What are you expecting 1:21:50.240 --> 1:21:53.400 today in Miami? The line on this game is like, 1:21:53.880 --> 1:21:56.479 I think it's gone to Bengals minus four and a half. 1:21:57.120 --> 1:21:58.719 What are you expecting in this game today? 1:22:00.200 --> 1:22:00.960 Be a very ugly. 1:22:00.960 --> 1:22:03.760 Football game, But I'm hopefing that a bang will you 1:22:03.800 --> 1:22:06.479 see that will give us an offense the highlights the 1:22:06.600 --> 1:22:08.560 fend with yours and maybe he does turn around. This 1:22:08.720 --> 1:22:10.439 was a guy who I think coming out of high 1:22:10.479 --> 1:22:13.720 school was twenty four to seven sports like number one 1:22:13.800 --> 1:22:16.479 that waited the quarterback. Ever, so obviously you know anyone 1:22:16.520 --> 1:22:18.320 has lost in my textas over the years kind of 1:22:18.360 --> 1:22:21.120 knows is the radicness out there. So not expecting too 1:22:21.200 --> 1:22:23.360 much of yours. But then again, I mean watching two 1:22:23.400 --> 1:22:25.519 of the course of the past no year or two 1:22:25.880 --> 1:22:28.160 really has been striking just how much he's fallen off. 1:22:28.200 --> 1:22:30.880 I never got behind, you know, actually ranking two up 1:22:30.960 --> 1:22:33.519 there with the Justin Herberts and Joe Burrows. But twenty 1:22:33.560 --> 1:22:35.559 twenty two and twenty twenty three, I mean he still 1:22:35.720 --> 1:22:38.040 was playing like an above average quarterback by pretty much 1:22:38.040 --> 1:22:40.759 any metric you want to look at. So very disappointing 1:22:40.760 --> 1:22:42.439 to see it again. What's kind of happened with Tua? 1:22:42.760 --> 1:22:44.840 Maybe yours, you know, can go ahead and give us something. 1:22:44.880 --> 1:22:46.439 I'm to the point we're not going to see that 1:22:46.560 --> 1:22:49.960 Dak Wilson experienced him because as much as I'm look, 1:22:50.200 --> 1:22:52.320 Doc Wilson's the bus, he's a terrible quarterback. 1:22:52.320 --> 1:22:52.680 I did it. 1:22:52.760 --> 1:22:56.000 But see as that fun bad quarterback. Okay, he's kind 1:22:56.000 --> 1:22:58.120 of got that, you know, they were actual confidence. He's 1:22:58.160 --> 1:23:00.680 got the mobility to move around and at least make 1:23:00.720 --> 1:23:03.320 you laugh at you too. Another interception, So that's my 1:23:03.439 --> 1:23:06.439 one disappointment there. But overall, I'mtobner was a big place 1:23:06.520 --> 1:23:08.280 from Furrow Casey Bocha. 1:23:09.400 --> 1:23:13.800 Dan Marino in his present state I think might be 1:23:14.040 --> 1:23:18.720 a better option than Zach Wilson. But that's why they 1:23:18.800 --> 1:23:19.920 play the games, right. 1:23:21.160 --> 1:23:23.559 That would be something man. Ever, since you know, Philip 1:23:23.640 --> 1:23:25.639 Rivers came out for the Colts, I saw a couple 1:23:25.640 --> 1:23:29.120 of Jack liars man actually adding Maurice Jones Drew on 1:23:29.280 --> 1:23:31.679 Twitter and hey man, I could you come back and play? 1:23:31.840 --> 1:23:36.280 He said, oh heck, And they had that Uh, you 1:23:36.360 --> 1:23:39.320 know that commercials from going around with Marino and Smith 1:23:39.400 --> 1:23:42.200 and Jerry Rice going out there. Maybe it's a little 1:23:42.240 --> 1:23:43.040 more realistic than. 1:23:43.040 --> 1:23:43.320 We gave it. 1:23:43.760 --> 1:23:47.080 Yeah, maybe so maybe so. Ian Harte, you have a 1:23:47.479 --> 1:23:50.479 merry Christmas, and you know we'll be calling down the road. 1:23:50.600 --> 1:23:52.920 But for your time today, we appreciate it, my friend. 1:23:53.760 --> 1:23:54.360 Appreciate you. 1:23:55.320 --> 1:23:55.639 You bet. 1:23:56.200 --> 1:23:59.080 Can you imagine some of these former NFL players coming 1:23:59.120 --> 1:24:02.679 out of retirement, who would be the number one Bengal 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:06.960 you'd like to see coming out of retirement to the 1:24:07.080 --> 1:24:13.240 rescue for these final three games? How about Carlos Dunlap 1:24:14.400 --> 1:24:18.320 but Gino Atkins get a little heat on the quarterback 1:24:20.080 --> 1:24:24.760 probably like no, I'm dude, We're done. It's coming up 1:24:24.800 --> 1:24:26.960 on ten twenty five. 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On this Saturday before Christmas, Welcome back 1:27:59.000 --> 1:28:04.840 Arnel Carriers game show Little Baseball. Note here the winner 1:28:05.000 --> 1:28:12.040 of the sweepstakes for Japanese slugger Manataka Morikami. The winner 1:28:12.240 --> 1:28:15.680 is the Chicago White Sox in on an agreement with 1:28:15.880 --> 1:28:21.120 the Japanese slugger two years, thirty four million dollars, arguably 1:28:21.240 --> 1:28:25.120 the most fascinating player in free agency. A big slugger, 1:28:25.200 --> 1:28:27.400 strikes out a lot, his defenses and all that great. 1:28:27.439 --> 1:28:30.479 But nevertheless, two year contract which means he'll be a 1:28:30.520 --> 1:28:34.240 free agent again in twenty twenty seven, and maybe a 1:28:34.320 --> 1:28:37.439 couple of years in the in the majors will clear 1:28:37.560 --> 1:28:40.800 up some of those doubts about his inability to play 1:28:40.840 --> 1:28:43.759 the field and his propensity for strikeouts. But that was somebody, 1:28:43.880 --> 1:28:45.800 you know, I looked at it. I'm sure you did too. 1:28:45.880 --> 1:28:48.760 And you know what about him in the middle of 1:28:48.880 --> 1:28:52.600 the Reds batting order, it's third basement. I understand that 1:28:53.120 --> 1:28:56.240 Reds have a couple of candidates to play third base. 1:28:57.840 --> 1:29:01.080 That dude was the home run king in Japan. All right, 1:29:01.160 --> 1:29:03.960 straight ahead. It's a man that will help you win 1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:06.519 a lot of money today if you just listened to 1:29:06.800 --> 1:29:10.799 his thoughts on handicapping. It's our good buddy Lee Sterling 1:29:10.880 --> 1:29:14.920 from Paramount Sports. He's standing by with five guaranteed winners, 1:29:15.560 --> 1:29:20.080 well at least in his mind, five guaranteed winners. He'll 1:29:20.080 --> 1:29:24.160 get into that next on seven hundred, WWLW and ESPN 1:29:24.280 --> 1:29:25.320 fifteen thirty. 1:29:26.000 --> 1:29:31.040 News Traffic and Women. This is a Game Day news updates. 1:29:34.120 --> 1:29:35.759 Another oil tanker seized. 1:29:36.160 --> 1:29:39.479 This is the ten thirty report of Sandy Collins breaking 1:29:39.600 --> 1:29:43.320 now the Secretary of Homeland Securities confirming that the US 1:29:43.439 --> 1:29:46.920 Coast Guard seized another sanctioned oil tanker off of the 1:29:47.000 --> 1:29:50.800 coast of Venezuela yesterday. ABC News Senior White House correspondent 1:29:51.120 --> 1:29:52.519 Selena Wang has details. 1:29:53.040 --> 1:29:56.080 This is the second oil tanker in less than two 1:29:56.120 --> 1:29:58.440 weeks that was seized off of the coast of Venezuela. 1:29:58.720 --> 1:30:02.000 As we've really seen this pressure campaign on Nicholas Maduro, 1:30:02.080 --> 1:30:05.439 the president of Venezuela, escalating over these last few months. 1:30:05.479 --> 1:30:09.920 In the administration now going after the nation's oil exports 1:30:10.080 --> 1:30:12.760 and that's the nation's economic lifeline. 1:30:13.160 --> 1:30:15.479 This comes after just a couple of days ago that 1:30:15.520 --> 1:30:18.639 President Trump announced a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers 1:30:18.720 --> 1:30:22.280 going into and out of Venezuela. We have a serious 1:30:22.360 --> 1:30:26.559 accident near Oxford on SR. Seventy three, and that Trenton 1:30:26.720 --> 1:30:31.080 Oxford Road is closed in both directions just beyond Katie Lane. 1:30:31.439 --> 1:30:33.840 They're telling you to take an alternate route. You cannot 1:30:33.840 --> 1:30:37.599 get from Oxford over to seven mile on SR seventy three. 1:30:38.120 --> 1:30:40.160 If you see any thing that you need to lot 1:30:40.200 --> 1:30:42.280 us know about, call our newsroom four two to one 1:30:42.400 --> 1:30:44.680 News Huge go to Ladies Forecats. 1:30:45.240 --> 1:30:48.000 That will be a chilliear afternoon tempter's top out in 1:30:48.040 --> 1:30:50.800 the upper thirties, a few degrees below average. Back to 1:30:50.880 --> 1:30:52.080 seasonal tomorrow. 1:30:51.800 --> 1:30:53.439 Though, will be in the low to mid forties. 1:30:53.680 --> 1:30:56.440 From a severe weather station, I'm nine first Warning meteorologist 1:30:56.520 --> 1:30:59.480 Cameron Harden on news Radio seven hundred WLW. 1:31:00.120 --> 1:31:02.799 Chilly morning, little sunshine out there now thirty one degrees 1:31:02.840 --> 1:31:06.920 at news Radio seven HUNDREDLW. Bengals game day forecast for 1:31:07.000 --> 1:31:09.559 this afternoon. Look for temperatures close to eighty at kickoff 1:31:09.920 --> 1:31:13.799 in Miami. Bengals game day forecast is built by American Hometech. 1:31:14.000 --> 1:31:17.160 Your roof's best defense begins with American hometech dot com. 1:31:17.640 --> 1:31:20.400 A major winter storm is expected to hit the West 1:31:20.479 --> 1:31:23.840 Coast over the holidays. If your traveling, An atmospheric river 1:31:24.080 --> 1:31:27.200 is set to roll into southern California during Christmas Week, 1:31:27.280 --> 1:31:31.120 bringing in heavy rains, there, strong winds, and dangerous travel conditions. 1:31:31.200 --> 1:31:34.120 And National Weather Services that storm's going to peak Tuesday 1:31:34.680 --> 1:31:38.559 through Thursday. In Sharonville, they're taking their first formal step 1:31:38.840 --> 1:31:40.559 towards a major downtown overhaul. 1:31:40.680 --> 1:31:41.599 Here's Travis Laird. 1:31:41.840 --> 1:31:45.040 The Cincinnati Business Courier reports that the City of Sharonville 1:31:45.120 --> 1:31:47.719 has approved the first step in a seventy five million 1:31:47.800 --> 1:31:52.280 dollar redevelopment of its downtown loop. City council voted unanimously 1:31:52.439 --> 1:31:55.599 to enter a development agreement with l R Design Group 1:31:56.080 --> 1:31:59.439 and the Mayerson Company. 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Lee Stirling, 1:35:47.160 --> 1:35:51.240 Paramount Sports. It's got fought? Is there four or five today? 1:35:51.280 --> 1:35:55.559 I forgot He's got five, five games. He is convinced 1:35:55.600 --> 1:35:59.000 that will come home as winners for you. Here's what 1:35:59.120 --> 1:36:01.920 happened on this date in Cincinnati sports history. It's brought 1:36:01.920 --> 1:36:05.200 to you by Pedal Windows and Doors Making life brighter 1:36:05.320 --> 1:36:11.200 Pella now Hey. Later, on this date, December the twenty first, 1:36:12.360 --> 1:36:15.639 all the way back in nineteen hundred and seventy five, 1:36:17.800 --> 1:36:22.320 the Bengals were playing the San Diego Chargers. I'm sorry 1:36:22.439 --> 1:36:29.080 nineteen seventy three Bengals San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati runs 1:36:29.120 --> 1:36:33.759 away with a forty seven to seven win. Ken Anderson 1:36:33.880 --> 1:36:39.360 three touchdowns and a rushing touchdown, and Cincinnati ended the 1:36:39.400 --> 1:36:42.160 regular season eleven and three. They lost to Oakland the 1:36:42.200 --> 1:36:45.479 following week in the playoffs. Big offensive day for Ken 1:36:45.560 --> 1:36:50.800 Anderson in the Bengals offense on this date, December the 1:36:50.840 --> 1:36:55.640 twenty first, in nineteen seventy five, fifty years ago, the 1:36:55.760 --> 1:36:59.880 Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association took on the 1:37:00.080 --> 1:37:05.240 Quebec Nord Deeks at Riverfront Conlisseum and in a wild game, 1:37:05.360 --> 1:37:08.759 skated away with an eleven to seven win, eighteen total 1:37:08.800 --> 1:37:12.519 goals in the game. Brian Campbell. Brian Campbell, they called 1:37:12.600 --> 1:37:16.880 him Soupy. He War number seven. Brian Soupe Campbell two goals, 1:37:17.080 --> 1:37:21.000 three assists, and a not so robust crowd of five thousand, 1:37:21.080 --> 1:37:25.479 three hundred and ninety two soaked it all up and 1:37:25.720 --> 1:37:31.040 on this state. In nineteen hundred and sixty eight, the 1:37:31.120 --> 1:37:35.719 Cincinnati Royals went to San Diego to play the Rockets. Royals, 1:37:35.720 --> 1:37:37.920 of course, no longer in existence. They have moved on 1:37:38.080 --> 1:37:42.920 through a number of incarnations. They are now the Sacramento Kings. 1:37:43.320 --> 1:37:46.160 They took on the San Diego Rockets. Of course, the 1:37:46.240 --> 1:37:49.519 Rockets are no longer in San Diego. In any event, 1:37:49.680 --> 1:37:52.040 the Rockets come along and come away with a one 1:37:52.160 --> 1:37:56.240 hundred thirty two to one hundred and twenty four win 1:37:57.120 --> 1:38:03.439 Oscar forty eight minutes, thirty nine points. That is among 1:38:03.560 --> 1:38:06.800 the many things that happened on this date in Cincinnati 1:38:06.920 --> 1:38:11.400 sports history. All right, Lee Sterling, Paramount Sports. He's had 1:38:11.439 --> 1:38:13.040 a big year. He's had a big year with us. 1:38:14.040 --> 1:38:17.080 He is in Miami, that's where he's based. And Lee 1:38:17.240 --> 1:38:19.680 is going to the game today. If you're going to 1:38:19.720 --> 1:38:22.080 the game. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app and 1:38:22.160 --> 1:38:25.360 you're down in Miami, look for Lee Sterling. But he's 1:38:25.400 --> 1:38:28.559 standing by to join us right now as we handicap 1:38:28.720 --> 1:38:31.160 some hopefully winners in the NFL today. And Lee, how 1:38:31.200 --> 1:38:32.639 are you of this glorious game day? 1:38:33.520 --> 1:38:37.439 I am good and getting ready to head over there 1:38:37.560 --> 1:38:40.960 in just a few minutes to the to a little 1:38:40.960 --> 1:38:44.320 bit of tailgating, hopefully a lot of tailgating. I probably 1:38:44.520 --> 1:38:47.040 might be smarter just to stay in the tailgate section 1:38:47.640 --> 1:38:50.479 rather than going into the stadium, but I'll do a 1:38:50.520 --> 1:38:51.120 little bit of both. 1:38:51.280 --> 1:38:53.599 You realize you said last week on this radio station 1:38:53.760 --> 1:38:55.800 that anybody that was listening and they go down to 1:38:55.840 --> 1:38:58.160 the game, the first beer is on you. You remember 1:38:58.240 --> 1:39:00.320 that right there. I'm ready. 1:39:00.880 --> 1:39:01.400 I'm ready. 1:39:01.880 --> 1:39:05.040 We'll get to twenty lot twenty. We'll get to that 1:39:05.200 --> 1:39:07.599 Titanic matchup in a moment. I want to go inside 1:39:07.640 --> 1:39:10.200 the division. Steelers eight and six at Lions eight and six. 1:39:10.320 --> 1:39:14.080 Lions are giving seven. Pittsburgh controls its own destiny inside 1:39:14.120 --> 1:39:16.599 the division, but the Lions are currently on the outside. 1:39:16.640 --> 1:39:18.720 Look at it right now at the playoffs. This game 1:39:18.800 --> 1:39:22.479 event against Pittsburgh at Minnesota and that at Chicago to 1:39:22.560 --> 1:39:24.960 finish the season. This is a big game for both teams, 1:39:25.000 --> 1:39:26.839 but do you I think even more so for the Lions, 1:39:26.880 --> 1:39:27.160 don't you? 1:39:28.680 --> 1:39:30.519 It is, but I think they're going to make this 1:39:30.680 --> 1:39:33.639 is a great matchup for them. Why do I say 1:39:33.680 --> 1:39:37.439 that they're playing a Steelers team that you know, if 1:39:37.479 --> 1:39:40.519 you're looking for kudos beating the Dolphins and cold weather, 1:39:40.960 --> 1:39:43.080 they're not going to get it. They also always went 1:39:43.160 --> 1:39:48.040 on Monday, So anyone who is betting the Dolphins on Monday, 1:39:48.160 --> 1:39:52.439 maybe they should think about quitting the street. I mean 1:39:52.520 --> 1:39:56.120 they can run the football. Number five rushing offense, number 1:39:56.200 --> 1:39:59.479 three in passing offense. They got weapons all across the board. 1:39:59.520 --> 1:40:00.599 You didn't forget about. 1:40:00.600 --> 1:40:04.200 Think one of the best tight ends. So how is 1:40:04.240 --> 1:40:06.639 Pittsburgh going to stop him? It's gonna be touugh without TJ. 1:40:06.840 --> 1:40:07.120 Watt. 1:40:07.600 --> 1:40:11.840 The Steelers offense barely averages more first downs than the Jets. 1:40:11.960 --> 1:40:15.080 Believe it or not, only seventeen point one first downs 1:40:15.439 --> 1:40:20.000 per game, and the defense allows as many as Washington, 1:40:20.120 --> 1:40:23.240 Arizona in Dallas, near the bottom of the totem polt 1:40:23.439 --> 1:40:27.240 twenty one point nine first downs per game. Here, I 1:40:27.400 --> 1:40:29.960 know the Lions are playing to stay alive here. But 1:40:30.040 --> 1:40:31.600 I think they're going to get it done here. I 1:40:31.600 --> 1:40:34.840 don't think Pittsburgh's offense is built to trade scores here 1:40:35.120 --> 1:40:37.120 Detroit thirty four. 1:40:37.040 --> 1:40:40.760 To twenty three, thirty four to twenty three Lions. Well, 1:40:40.840 --> 1:40:43.080 if that happens, then new life for the Ravens, who 1:40:43.120 --> 1:40:46.000 are at home today giving three to the Patriots. But 1:40:46.160 --> 1:40:48.400 hang on a second, the Patriots, there's six and oh 1:40:48.479 --> 1:40:50.760 on the road this season, six and zero on the road, 1:40:51.160 --> 1:40:53.439 one game up on Buffalo with three to go, and 1:40:53.880 --> 1:40:56.439 so from that standpoint, it's a big game for the Patriots. 1:40:56.479 --> 1:40:57.280 How do you see this one? 1:40:58.479 --> 1:40:58.679 Yeah? 1:40:58.840 --> 1:40:59.840 And they were three and fourteen. 1:41:00.240 --> 1:41:02.720 Year to expect them to all of a sudden go 1:41:03.000 --> 1:41:05.479 from three and fourteen to running away with the division, 1:41:05.800 --> 1:41:09.200 I think it was asking too much. My wife came 1:41:09.280 --> 1:41:12.880 in and popped her head, and when Buffalo's trailing twenty 1:41:12.920 --> 1:41:14.920 one nothing, she goes, who do you have here, Buffalo? 1:41:14.960 --> 1:41:17.360 And she goes, well, not looking good. I said, not 1:41:17.520 --> 1:41:22.080 over yet, and sure enough came starming back. So it's 1:41:22.120 --> 1:41:24.519 baby steps. You know you're not going to, you know, 1:41:24.680 --> 1:41:27.400 all of a sudden be a champion. You've got to 1:41:27.439 --> 1:41:29.080 go through some adversity here. 1:41:29.320 --> 1:41:31.240 And the thing is that Baltimore. 1:41:31.240 --> 1:41:33.760 I don't think Baltimore is that good and they're not 1:41:33.760 --> 1:41:35.880 ain't close to where they were last year. Lamar Jackson 1:41:36.000 --> 1:41:38.960 is afraid to run, just two rushes last week, drop 1:41:39.080 --> 1:41:42.600 passes all over the field. All his receivers seems like 1:41:42.680 --> 1:41:45.040 don't want to hold onto the ball right now. Drake 1:41:45.160 --> 1:41:47.160 May I think is a better runner and the better 1:41:47.280 --> 1:41:50.120 passer than Lamar Jackson. And I think he has the 1:41:50.200 --> 1:41:54.200 most explosive player in Trevian Henderson. I don't know why 1:41:54.280 --> 1:41:58.120 he's only carrying the ball about sixty four percent of 1:41:58.200 --> 1:42:01.480 the time compared to the other backs. They put Stevenson 1:42:01.600 --> 1:42:04.400 in from three, four to five carry stops a game. Here, 1:42:04.840 --> 1:42:08.719 it's fifty six and fifty two yard touchdown burst last 1:42:08.800 --> 1:42:11.040 week here, I think the wrong TAM's favorite. Give me 1:42:11.120 --> 1:42:17.120 New England here, stupour. 1:42:14.840 --> 1:42:17.280 Twenty seven to twenty four. Don't worry about the points 1:42:17.400 --> 1:42:21.000 Patriots now. Look, any game can be the best game 1:42:21.040 --> 1:42:23.320 of the week. Look at Thursday Night. But I'm telling 1:42:23.360 --> 1:42:26.000 you this Jaguars Broncos game is shaping up. 1:42:25.920 --> 1:42:26.639 To be that way. 1:42:27.280 --> 1:42:29.800 Five in a row for the Jags, eleven straight for 1:42:30.520 --> 1:42:34.240 Denver Jags inside the red zone are money this season. 1:42:34.680 --> 1:42:37.000 Here are the Broncos at home giving three and a 1:42:37.080 --> 1:42:39.600 half to the Jaguars. This could be the game of 1:42:39.640 --> 1:42:42.240 the daily Yes, and. 1:42:43.800 --> 1:42:45.479 No one saw this coming here. 1:42:45.640 --> 1:42:47.920 So here's the situation with jack Ville. 1:42:47.920 --> 1:42:50.960 Are they improved, Absolutely, they won five straight and they 1:42:51.080 --> 1:42:53.639 covered five straight. But look who they played. They beat 1:42:53.680 --> 1:42:56.880 the Jets last week. Trevor Lawrence had six touchdown passes. 1:42:56.920 --> 1:42:59.639 He may not have six touchdown passes the rest. 1:42:59.479 --> 1:42:59.960 Of the season. 1:43:00.080 --> 1:43:02.400 And now they got to go all the way out West, 1:43:02.520 --> 1:43:05.120 played a mile high, got to face the number three 1:43:05.240 --> 1:43:08.280 run defense. That's going to be troublesome if they can't 1:43:08.360 --> 1:43:10.439 run the ball. I got to throw the ball. And Denver, 1:43:10.600 --> 1:43:12.160 as we know, has one of the top two or 1:43:12.200 --> 1:43:15.519 three pass rushes, and they got cornerbacks and safeties that 1:43:15.640 --> 1:43:18.680 can cover like no other. And then on top of that, 1:43:18.840 --> 1:43:21.559 bone Nicks all of a sudden, he's starting to put 1:43:21.560 --> 1:43:27.080 it together. I mean, Sean Payton gradually allowing that leash 1:43:27.160 --> 1:43:29.280 to grow here and he's not even running much. So 1:43:30.439 --> 1:43:32.400 I just think this is the game where Trevor Lawrence 1:43:32.439 --> 1:43:33.720 shows two or three interceptions. 1:43:33.920 --> 1:43:35.519 I like Denver big here thirty to. 1:43:35.560 --> 1:43:39.639 Thirteen thirty thirteen Broncos to blow them out. Don't worry 1:43:39.680 --> 1:43:43.600 about the three and a half. It's fading fast on Indianapolis. 1:43:43.640 --> 1:43:46.639 I mean, yeah, the Philip Rivers is a nice story. 1:43:46.840 --> 1:43:49.880 They're home today against the forty nine ers, and that 1:43:50.080 --> 1:43:54.000 NFC West is that conference is just brutal. I mean 1:43:54.040 --> 1:43:57.720 it's exceptional, but it's brutal. Colts are getting five and 1:43:57.760 --> 1:44:00.160 a half, but they've lost four in a row. Oh 1:44:00.479 --> 1:44:04.320 and again they're fading at this point. So here they 1:44:04.360 --> 1:44:06.040 are at home and a must win for them to 1:44:06.080 --> 1:44:08.840 stay alive in a playoff race against the forty nine ers, 1:44:09.040 --> 1:44:10.960 who are duking it out with three other two other 1:44:11.040 --> 1:44:12.200 teams in the NFC West. 1:44:12.240 --> 1:44:12.720 What do you think? 1:44:13.479 --> 1:44:15.760 Yeah, I think this is a great set up for 1:44:15.840 --> 1:44:20.000 San Francisco because they've seen what Indianapolis has to offer. 1:44:20.439 --> 1:44:23.720 David defensive coordinator Robert salav one of the best, I mean, 1:44:23.840 --> 1:44:26.200 so he's going to be able to figure out pretty 1:44:26.240 --> 1:44:29.519 easily how to defend Philip Rivers here. And I just 1:44:29.560 --> 1:44:32.960 don't think Indianapolis's defense can play as hard and as 1:44:33.040 --> 1:44:36.120 efficient as they did last week in Seattle. 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And Joe Burrow, 1:46:04.160 --> 1:46:06.080 I mean, it seems like every time he opens his 1:46:06.200 --> 1:46:09.120 mouth now he says something cryptically about himself. He did 1:46:09.160 --> 1:46:12.280 it again this week. The Bengals look horrible last weekly, 1:46:12.439 --> 1:46:15.160 as you well know, and here they are against the Dolphins. 1:46:15.520 --> 1:46:17.960 Dolphins were playing well until last week, then they hit 1:46:18.000 --> 1:46:21.680 the bricks in Pittsburgh. So, I mean, I don't know, 1:46:21.800 --> 1:46:23.920 how do you look at this with the Dolphins getting 1:46:23.960 --> 1:46:26.439 four at home and starting a guy at quarterback who's 1:46:26.479 --> 1:46:28.360 not started the game in his life in the NFL. 1:46:29.760 --> 1:46:32.360 Well, I did some in preseason. I think they might 1:46:32.520 --> 1:46:34.960 rally around him a little bit. The thing we do 1:46:35.160 --> 1:46:36.720 know is going to be playing not a very good 1:46:37.320 --> 1:46:40.439 Cincinnati defense, but I think Joe Burrow is going to 1:46:40.479 --> 1:46:42.600 be able to He rarely has two bad games in 1:46:42.640 --> 1:46:45.400 a row. So the weather looks to be perfect here 1:46:46.000 --> 1:46:49.000 fast track. The one thing is Miami does have a 1:46:49.120 --> 1:46:51.559 winning record straight up and against the spread at home, 1:46:52.120 --> 1:46:55.280 so we know they're able to do much much better 1:46:55.360 --> 1:46:55.720 at home. 1:46:56.240 --> 1:46:58.360 Fourth road game and six chances here. 1:46:58.760 --> 1:47:01.880 For Cincinnati, this scion's moved from two and a half 1:47:01.960 --> 1:47:04.320 to four and a half to five. I think Cincinnati 1:47:04.439 --> 1:47:07.400 wins the game here twenty eight, twenty six, but I'm 1:47:07.400 --> 1:47:09.599 going to take the four and a half points in Miami. 1:47:10.080 --> 1:47:12.120 Put two bad teams together, it'll. 1:47:11.880 --> 1:47:13.920 Probably come down to maybe one play at the end, 1:47:14.439 --> 1:47:16.800 either a made field goal, missed field goal, or a 1:47:16.880 --> 1:47:19.640 team inside the five yard line trying to put it in. 1:47:19.840 --> 1:47:23.599 So I think it's gonna be entertaining. You know, feats 1:47:23.640 --> 1:47:26.320 are cheap. If anyone's in the area, head on over 1:47:26.880 --> 1:47:31.880 Lot twenty just one place. Paramount sports dot com first 1:47:31.920 --> 1:47:32.439 beers on me. 1:47:32.800 --> 1:47:34.560 How do they find you? A lot twenty is a 1:47:34.600 --> 1:47:35.200 big a lot. 1:47:36.360 --> 1:47:40.920 Jess will I will be wearing an old school Miami 1:47:41.560 --> 1:47:45.760 Miami Aqua polo shirt, so look for the logo on 1:47:45.840 --> 1:47:48.439 my left chest. Don't wear anything new. 1:47:48.680 --> 1:47:51.520 Nothing new, nothing that new logo. 1:47:51.360 --> 1:47:54.080 Since Stephen Ross takeover, it doesn't exist in my book. 1:47:55.200 --> 1:47:57.840 Hey lady, Merry Christmas, Happy holidays. We'll talk thanks week, 1:47:57.880 --> 1:47:58.760 Stay well, my friend. 1:47:59.680 --> 1:48:02.080 Thanks, yeah, you two. 1:48:03.360 --> 1:48:06.719 Yeah, it's interesting. This game could be an absolute mess 1:48:07.400 --> 1:48:12.280 in terms of performance. Mikah Fitzpatrick, the safety, the aging 1:48:12.360 --> 1:48:14.280 safety for the Dolphins is out. They've got a bunch 1:48:14.320 --> 1:48:20.160 of players questionable. DJ Turner, best corner on the Bengals roster, yesterday, 1:48:20.240 --> 1:48:22.840 popped up on the injury report after a full week 1:48:22.880 --> 1:48:26.640 of practice. He's now questionable. They didn't say why. He's questionable, 1:48:26.720 --> 1:48:30.800 but questionable in NFL parlance, means uncertain if the player 1:48:30.800 --> 1:48:35.760 will play. You've got no offense. The tight end is out, 1:48:36.960 --> 1:48:40.479 You've got Charlie Jones, the return guy continues to be 1:48:40.640 --> 1:48:43.880 out with an ankle problem. And you have Joseph Osai out. 1:48:46.400 --> 1:48:49.000 So you have all of that and then some questionable 1:48:49.040 --> 1:48:52.720 guys on that Bengals roster and two teams that are 1:48:52.760 --> 1:48:55.320 out of it. Let's see who answers the bell strongly. 1:48:55.400 --> 1:48:58.120 The difference could be the quarterback. I mean, Quinn yours 1:48:58.240 --> 1:49:04.519 first NFL regular season dart, but he's at home. 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He 1:54:20.880 --> 1:54:25.840 actually has two two years left on his contract. And 1:54:26.080 --> 1:54:30.240 so when the media gathered to question Zach on this 1:54:30.360 --> 1:54:33.200 week's game, the contract was like the first thing that 1:54:33.360 --> 1:54:36.880 was brought up. You know, can you confirm that? Can 1:54:36.920 --> 1:54:38.600 you confirm that it's two more years? 1:54:38.640 --> 1:54:38.760 Here? 1:54:38.840 --> 1:54:40.800 We all thought it was one year until you know, 1:54:41.000 --> 1:54:44.360 Danner dug this piece of information up. Here's what Taylor said. 1:54:44.600 --> 1:54:46.520 I don't think it won't matters. I coach every day 1:54:46.600 --> 1:54:49.160 like it's my last. And I've been through years in 1:54:49.160 --> 1:54:52.520 twenty nineteen, twenty twenty that were literally you coach every 1:54:52.560 --> 1:54:55.000 game thinking it could be your last game. And I've 1:54:55.040 --> 1:54:57.520 seen how we responded after that. Twenty one twenty two 1:54:57.600 --> 1:55:01.160 compete for division titles and championships, and so this year 1:55:01.240 --> 1:55:04.160 is no different for me. It's going through adversity coaching 1:55:04.200 --> 1:55:06.480 every game in this profession like it could be your 1:55:06.560 --> 1:55:09.480 last one. I have a lot of confidence in our 1:55:09.520 --> 1:55:11.200 staff that we're going to get this turned around and 1:55:11.280 --> 1:55:13.480 we're going to finish the season really strong and put 1:55:13.480 --> 1:55:16.160 together a great plan to get back to those championships 1:55:16.160 --> 1:55:16.480 I mentioned. 1:55:16.520 --> 1:55:18.520 So very confident we can do all that well. I mean, 1:55:19.000 --> 1:55:21.440 why would he feel otherwise, right, I mean why would 1:55:21.480 --> 1:55:24.879 he feel otherwise. If he felt otherwise, he probably shouldn't 1:55:24.880 --> 1:55:27.480 be there in the first place. But the problems that 1:55:27.640 --> 1:55:30.120 this franchise has run deeper than the coach. 1:55:30.720 --> 1:55:31.320 I mean, yeah, you. 1:55:31.320 --> 1:55:36.840 Could run an idea past management ownership. Now, maybe Zach 1:55:36.880 --> 1:55:39.640 shouldn't call his plays, maybe he should just be a 1:55:39.720 --> 1:55:44.320 quote unquote head coach. I mean, I guess that's one 1:55:44.400 --> 1:55:48.000 thing you could look at, or yeah, maybe there's a 1:55:48.080 --> 1:55:50.080 time and a place and maybe this is the time 1:55:50.120 --> 1:55:52.160 and the place to move on from the de facto 1:55:52.360 --> 1:55:57.520 general manager Duke Tobin. But that's not happening. This is 1:55:57.600 --> 1:56:00.560 a run it back organization, as you just heard, and 1:56:01.520 --> 1:56:04.600 you know it's happened before they went to the super Bowl. 1:56:04.680 --> 1:56:06.920 They ran it back the next year. They came within 1:56:07.440 --> 1:56:10.240 a couple of bonehead plays, bad punt, hitting a guy 1:56:10.320 --> 1:56:12.840 out of bounds from going back to the super Bowl again. 1:56:13.000 --> 1:56:16.480 But even Burrow knows there's got to be changes in 1:56:16.600 --> 1:56:18.320 this off season or what's the point. 1:56:19.840 --> 1:56:22.600 I have a lot of confidence and and everybody that's 1:56:22.920 --> 1:56:25.480 putting together the plans for us weekend and week out, 1:56:26.080 --> 1:56:33.640 that's time to say that changes don't need to be made. 1:56:34.440 --> 1:56:38.960 Not saying personnel or people. I'm just saying, you know, 1:56:39.040 --> 1:56:41.880 what we've been doing hasn't worked the last couple of years, 1:56:41.960 --> 1:56:44.720 so you know, we have to think outside the box 1:56:44.760 --> 1:56:47.760 and get creative about where we go from here. 1:56:48.000 --> 1:56:50.520 Everybody's caught, they got confidence and everybody, by the way, 1:56:50.560 --> 1:56:53.400 there was not a woodpecker that was in the conference room. 1:56:53.520 --> 1:56:57.000 That was somebody on a laptop banging away. Don't know 1:56:57.040 --> 1:57:00.480 why we have to hear that, but nevertheless, Yeah, everybody's 1:57:00.520 --> 1:57:04.200 got confidence in everybody else. And Borrow got exactly what 1:57:04.320 --> 1:57:06.960 he wanted last offseason. He got Jamar, he got Tee 1:57:07.280 --> 1:57:10.040 signed the long term deals, he got Gasicki signed up, 1:57:10.960 --> 1:57:14.680 he got Hendrickson signed up. It didn't work for whatever reason, 1:57:14.800 --> 1:57:17.920 largely because he got hurt. And that's where they are 1:57:18.000 --> 1:57:22.280 today in Miami, eliminated. But it does not mean that 1:57:22.720 --> 1:57:25.360 there is not something to play for. And you're playing 1:57:25.520 --> 1:57:32.360 for besides pride, besides a paycheck. You're playing for another 1:57:32.480 --> 1:57:35.240 team to see what you may be able to do 1:57:35.400 --> 1:57:38.520 for them. Because the changes will involve personnel, if not 1:57:38.640 --> 1:57:41.840 front of office and coaching. So maybe the players, a 1:57:41.880 --> 1:57:43.560 lot of them that are here right now won't be 1:57:43.640 --> 1:57:45.600 here next year. Well, they're still looking for a job 1:57:45.680 --> 1:57:47.880 in football. So you damn well better not lit up 1:57:47.920 --> 1:57:51.400 in the final three games. I mean, here's the guy 1:57:51.480 --> 1:57:53.960 that I think has been right place, right time for 1:57:54.040 --> 1:57:58.280 this team all season long, Jordan Battle, starting safety. He 1:57:58.400 --> 1:58:00.240 knows what today means, no. 1:58:00.800 --> 1:58:03.160 Matter the circumstances. And obviously you know the playoffs there 1:58:03.320 --> 1:58:05.840 nine to no more. But anytime you get a win, 1:58:06.160 --> 1:58:08.000 that's that's good for your pride, you know, good for 1:58:08.080 --> 1:58:08.960 your for your manhood. 1:58:09.000 --> 1:58:09.120 You know. 1:58:09.240 --> 1:58:12.200 We you know, we're a group of guys you know 1:58:12.280 --> 1:58:15.680 who who hate losing, you know, and losing doesn't feel good, 1:58:15.760 --> 1:58:15.920 you know. 1:58:16.080 --> 1:58:18.400 But and you win, obviously you feel better going home. 1:58:18.760 --> 1:58:21.800 And that brings us to how every piece is important, 1:58:22.080 --> 1:58:25.640 brought to you by Donato's Pizza. Where every piece is important. 1:58:25.800 --> 1:58:29.640 Donado's the official pizza of the Bengals. It's a lot 1:58:29.720 --> 1:58:32.640 of pieces. I'm gonna start with the captains of this team. 1:58:33.480 --> 1:58:35.880 This is when you step up. This is when Burrow 1:58:36.000 --> 1:58:38.640 steps up. This is when you galvanize a locker room 1:58:38.680 --> 1:58:41.400 and say, look, this ain't going away. We thought it's 1:58:41.440 --> 1:58:45.080 going to go. But we still have ourselves, we still 1:58:45.160 --> 1:58:48.520 have our fans, and we still have our team to represent. 1:58:49.320 --> 1:58:52.360 Go out there and do it the right way. Play 1:58:52.480 --> 1:58:56.400 today like it matters. Play today like it matters whether 1:58:56.560 --> 1:58:58.840 or not you go to the playoffs, even if it 1:58:58.960 --> 1:59:03.400 does not. So the pieces are many. They're the captains. 1:59:03.920 --> 1:59:08.560 That's why they elect you captain. Standing by to join us. 1:59:08.640 --> 1:59:11.800 John Breach cbsports dot com more on today's game and 1:59:12.320 --> 1:59:15.440 the future of your Cincinnati Bengals. 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Yes, yes, yes, 2:06:01.000 --> 2:06:05.280 one o'clock kickoff down in Miami, Tua has been benched. 2:06:05.440 --> 2:06:06.440 Why was two a bench? 2:06:07.360 --> 2:06:07.560 Well? 2:06:07.600 --> 2:06:11.520 Their coach Mike McDaniel says, I didn't see the kind 2:06:11.560 --> 2:06:14.440 of play I need out of a quarterback. He really 2:06:14.520 --> 2:06:18.520 hasn't been the same. And you'll remember this when the 2:06:18.600 --> 2:06:20.560 Dolphins played here, I think it was a Thursday night 2:06:20.800 --> 2:06:25.040 and he was concussed on the field at pay Court Stadium. 2:06:25.800 --> 2:06:28.800 Followed that followed a previous concussion, and there was one 2:06:28.840 --> 2:06:31.000 more to follow that, and it just hasn't been right 2:06:31.080 --> 2:06:34.440 for him this year. He's thrown twenty touchdown passes but 2:06:34.720 --> 2:06:39.480 fifteen interceptions, and he doesn't seem to be reading rushes 2:06:39.560 --> 2:06:43.920 all that well. He's been sacked thirty times. Yours only 2:06:44.040 --> 2:06:47.200 has five completions and eight attempts in a fill in 2:06:47.320 --> 2:06:51.720 role this year. But there are other weapons that the 2:06:51.840 --> 2:06:55.800 Dolphins have, starting with Devon a Chain eleven hundred and 2:06:55.840 --> 2:06:58.880 eighty six yards so far this year, seven touchdowns. He 2:06:59.000 --> 2:07:01.120 doesn't put the ball on the ground. He's only fumbled 2:07:01.160 --> 2:07:05.040 once and when the quarterback Crows. He's got Jim and 2:07:05.120 --> 2:07:10.320 Wattle Watta with eight hundred receiving yards this year, six touchdowns, 2:07:10.440 --> 2:07:13.240 thirteen big plays, that's plays of twenty or more yards. 2:07:14.200 --> 2:07:18.480 Tyreek Hill is out. That was a major problem early 2:07:18.600 --> 2:07:22.000 on with the Dolphins this season, and now it sounds 2:07:22.080 --> 2:07:24.680 like they're trying to run them out of Miami. Tight 2:07:24.840 --> 2:07:28.520 end is serviceable. We've been around a while. He's not bad, 2:07:28.640 --> 2:07:33.040 Darren Waller, but it's not like this is a offensive juggernaut. 2:07:33.280 --> 2:07:36.920 That's one of the reasons why it appears that the 2:07:37.120 --> 2:07:40.280 coach is on the hot seat and the quarterback is out. 2:07:40.800 --> 2:07:43.720 So with all of those changes and with a new quarterback, 2:07:43.800 --> 2:07:46.160 at least for Zach Taylor, this is a tough team 2:07:46.240 --> 2:07:46.840 to prepare for. 2:07:47.360 --> 2:07:51.320 But it's a very difficult offense regardless of who the 2:07:51.600 --> 2:07:53.680 quarterback is. They put a lot of stressing in the 2:07:53.720 --> 2:07:55.520 run game. They do a great job getting guys open 2:07:55.800 --> 2:07:57.320 with a lot of speed in the past game that 2:07:57.360 --> 2:07:59.760 can finish on explosive plays, and so it's a very 2:08:00.040 --> 2:08:00.960 ranging group to go against. 2:08:01.680 --> 2:08:03.920 And on the Bengal side of things, it's been an 2:08:03.960 --> 2:08:06.560 interesting couple of weeks for Joe Burrow. Of course, last 2:08:06.600 --> 2:08:10.520 week was I would say, I don't know if anybody 2:08:10.560 --> 2:08:12.400 would disagree. If you do, feel free to this is 2:08:12.560 --> 2:08:15.960 the worst game he's played as a Cincinnati Bengal. That 2:08:16.160 --> 2:08:18.800 was on the heels of comments he made a week 2:08:18.840 --> 2:08:22.720 ago Wednesday about not having fun and how if he's 2:08:22.760 --> 2:08:25.720 not having fun, what am I doing? That led to 2:08:25.840 --> 2:08:29.120 an uproar, and then this week the topic was raised. 2:08:29.240 --> 2:08:32.080 You know, I mean, could you ever envision yourself like 2:08:32.200 --> 2:08:34.200 at some point not playing for the Bengals? And his 2:08:34.280 --> 2:08:37.240 answer was, well, crazy things happen in the NFL. Well, 2:08:37.240 --> 2:08:40.920 they do, but he's here, right here, right now. But 2:08:41.120 --> 2:08:43.320 something else just doesn't seem to be clicking with him 2:08:43.400 --> 2:08:46.200 right now. I don't know what that is, but to 2:08:46.280 --> 2:08:48.560 say those kinds of things would mean that he's doing 2:08:48.640 --> 2:08:52.960 a lot of thinking and not thinking about football is 2:08:53.920 --> 2:08:57.160 not a good thing at this time of the year. Nevertheless, 2:08:57.360 --> 2:09:00.440 I'm done reading minds. I stopped that along time time ago. 2:09:00.600 --> 2:09:02.920 I know one of the best minds in journalist is 2:09:02.920 --> 2:09:06.000 about to journalism is about to join us. John Breach 2:09:06.320 --> 2:09:08.800 is one of the top sports writers in this country 2:09:08.920 --> 2:09:12.920 and writes for cbssports dot Com. And it's a good 2:09:13.000 --> 2:09:14.680 day when we can get John on the ear to 2:09:14.760 --> 2:09:17.080 talk football, and that's exactly what he's going to do 2:09:17.240 --> 2:09:19.440 right now. And John Breach, how are you on this 2:09:19.520 --> 2:09:20.480 glorious Sunday. 2:09:21.480 --> 2:09:25.560 I am fantastic can Sunday before Christmas? Got to get 2:09:25.600 --> 2:09:28.120 some Christmas shopping done, but I always have time to 2:09:28.200 --> 2:09:28.560 talk to you. 2:09:28.920 --> 2:09:31.440 There will be no crowds at Kenwood Town Center, trust 2:09:31.520 --> 2:09:33.400 me on that one. You could go anytime you want 2:09:33.440 --> 2:09:37.879 between now and Christmas. Oh well, that's why God invented Amazon. 2:09:38.720 --> 2:09:39.040 All right. 2:09:39.080 --> 2:09:43.040 Look, so Joe Burrow last week he starts talking out 2:09:43.120 --> 2:09:45.560 loud about how it's not fun anymore, and this and 2:09:45.680 --> 2:09:49.120 that and now. Joe Burrow chooses his words carefully. I 2:09:49.160 --> 2:09:52.720 think he's a thoughtful person. And some thought that maybe 2:09:52.760 --> 2:09:56.000 he was delivering some sort of message with that, and 2:09:56.760 --> 2:09:58.920 I looked at it as a twenty nine year old guy, 2:09:59.200 --> 2:10:02.200 and I've been around twenty nine year olds just venting. 2:10:02.520 --> 2:10:04.280 I just say he was venting. I agree, you know, 2:10:04.440 --> 2:10:07.760 he's deep. He doesn't say things capriciously, but I just 2:10:07.800 --> 2:10:10.680 thought it was venting last week about how he's just 2:10:10.800 --> 2:10:12.640 you know, it just isn't fun. But all of a 2:10:12.680 --> 2:10:15.240 sudden it explodes into something like Oh my god, Joe 2:10:15.280 --> 2:10:17.600 Burrow may retire. He may be the next Andrew Love. 2:10:18.000 --> 2:10:20.000 What did you how did you view what he said 2:10:20.240 --> 2:10:23.800 last week before we get to what he said this week, Well, it. 2:10:23.840 --> 2:10:27.800 Certainly was interesting, just because he went to that press 2:10:27.840 --> 2:10:29.760 conference and he was kind of on a downer. You know, 2:10:29.920 --> 2:10:33.200 it was his birthday. Some people don't like their birthday. 2:10:33.360 --> 2:10:36.080 Some people just want the day to be over. And 2:10:36.280 --> 2:10:39.440 so just the way he carried himself, the words he used, 2:10:39.440 --> 2:10:42.919 because you never want to hear someone, especially a franchise quarterback, 2:10:43.000 --> 2:10:45.520 say hey, I don't know if I'm gonna I'm having 2:10:45.640 --> 2:10:49.000 fun here anymore. I'm having fun doing this because that's 2:10:49.360 --> 2:10:52.080 why you play the game. And that's that is kind 2:10:52.080 --> 2:10:54.520 of what Andrew Luck said toward the end of his career. 2:10:54.600 --> 2:10:59.320 So it wasn't completely crazy for people to make that comparison. 2:11:00.000 --> 2:11:04.640 Certainly understand why they did. But you know, Joe Burrow 2:11:04.880 --> 2:11:07.160 wants to win, and that's really what it feels like, 2:11:07.360 --> 2:11:09.400 is that that is what is weighing on him. The 2:11:09.480 --> 2:11:12.280 fact that he's been injured is weighing on him, and 2:11:12.360 --> 2:11:16.120 I think really the big issue is that he works 2:11:16.280 --> 2:11:19.400 so hard to get back so quickly we're talking about. 2:11:20.480 --> 2:11:22.680 The original thought was that he wouldn't be back until 2:11:22.720 --> 2:11:26.840 mid December. He made it back by Thanksgiving, and he 2:11:27.000 --> 2:11:29.880 goes through all that rehab, gets back and boom, within 2:11:29.960 --> 2:11:32.120 two games, the Bengals are out of the playoff race. 2:11:32.200 --> 2:11:32.920 They're eliminated. 2:11:33.040 --> 2:11:33.680 It's all over. 2:11:34.040 --> 2:11:36.360 And so I think that was wearing on him that 2:11:36.560 --> 2:11:38.680 he spent all that time to get back and now 2:11:39.200 --> 2:11:42.640 the rug's been pulled out from under you and you're 2:11:42.760 --> 2:11:45.640 essentially eliminated, which is what happened after that Bill's lost. 2:11:45.680 --> 2:11:47.600 They weren't fully eliminated, but it was pretty much all 2:11:47.640 --> 2:11:49.840 over at that point. And then Burrow had that press 2:11:49.880 --> 2:11:52.960 conference that following Wednesday, and you could just kind of 2:11:52.960 --> 2:11:53.720 see it on a space. 2:11:54.120 --> 2:11:56.760 But he didn't walk in to that news conference and 2:11:56.840 --> 2:11:59.080 sit down and saying I'm not having fun. He was 2:11:59.160 --> 2:12:05.360 asked a question, and my feeling is is that he probably, 2:12:05.520 --> 2:12:08.560 for all the reasons that you just outlined, was down. 2:12:08.960 --> 2:12:11.720 I mean, birthdays are different for different people. My gosh, 2:12:12.040 --> 2:12:14.360 will he turns fifty. But the fact of the matter 2:12:14.560 --> 2:12:16.720 is the fact of the matter is he didn't come 2:12:16.760 --> 2:12:19.240 in there with guns blazing. He was asked the question, 2:12:19.400 --> 2:12:21.280 and yeah, it's not fun. And I don't know, And 2:12:22.000 --> 2:12:25.440 you asked him that same question maybe next week and 2:12:25.560 --> 2:12:27.400 you'll get a different answer. I mean, it's just the 2:12:27.440 --> 2:12:29.400 way people are. I think it's human nature, don't you. 2:12:30.560 --> 2:12:33.720 Yeah, absolutely, And I think the unique thing about Joe 2:12:33.800 --> 2:12:36.200 Burrow that you really don't get a lot of in 2:12:36.320 --> 2:12:40.640 today's NFL is that when he answers a question, he's 2:12:40.840 --> 2:12:44.120 very honest. He's very open, and I don't think he 2:12:44.280 --> 2:12:48.240 worries about the consequences are what people might think of 2:12:48.360 --> 2:12:50.360 his words and the fact that we're parsing through all 2:12:50.400 --> 2:12:52.560 of them and breaking it down and trying to figure 2:12:52.600 --> 2:12:55.760 out what this means for his future. He just one 2:12:55.760 --> 2:12:58.240 of the few guys that is brutally honest as what's 2:12:58.280 --> 2:13:01.320 on his mind and asks what's gonna happen? 2:13:01.440 --> 2:13:02.880 Sometimes that you're gonna. 2:13:02.600 --> 2:13:05.720 Get answers like this where oh, no, Joe Burrow wants 2:13:05.760 --> 2:13:08.400 to leave Cincinnati or Joe Burrow is going to retire. 2:13:08.960 --> 2:13:11.840 Is that's just the nature of how he answers this question. 2:13:11.960 --> 2:13:14.280 So I certainly I like the fact that he is 2:13:14.440 --> 2:13:17.560 absolutely open and that he does say what is on 2:13:17.720 --> 2:13:19.880 his mind. Maybe that's not a great thing for fans 2:13:19.920 --> 2:13:20.440 who are going to. 2:13:20.480 --> 2:13:23.280 Panic every time Joe Burrow has a press conference. 2:13:23.120 --> 2:13:25.840 Conference from now on, Well, Keith on our contract through 2:13:25.880 --> 2:13:29.440 twenty twenty nine. I would be absolutely stunned if he 2:13:29.640 --> 2:13:31.520 was not playing through that entire contract. 2:13:32.720 --> 2:13:36.040 John, you grew up in a house where you fully 2:13:36.080 --> 2:13:38.480 well knew at a very young age, and Mike Brown 2:13:38.560 --> 2:13:40.960 doesn't do anything that Mike Brown doesn't want to do 2:13:41.120 --> 2:13:43.120 for the betterment of the team, And getting rid of 2:13:43.320 --> 2:13:46.520 or trading Joe Burrow isn't there, and making Joe Burrow 2:13:46.600 --> 2:13:49.560 happy is there. So I just to me, I just 2:13:49.680 --> 2:13:52.760 think that, you know, I just think he's down, like 2:13:53.040 --> 2:13:54.840 you know, the team is down, like the city is down. 2:13:54.880 --> 2:13:57.080 But now we get to what he said this past week, 2:13:57.600 --> 2:13:59.840 where he's going to going to play for a long time. 2:14:00.080 --> 2:14:02.640 But he's also thought about the possibility of leaving the 2:14:02.680 --> 2:14:06.000 Bengals at some point. Well, who wouldn't you have the 2:14:06.080 --> 2:14:09.760 ability now in the business, unlike when your dad played 2:14:09.800 --> 2:14:12.560 and even when Boomer was here, that you can go 2:14:12.920 --> 2:14:15.760 anywhere to any team and you can make a lot 2:14:15.840 --> 2:14:17.560 of money if you're a free agent. So yeah, the 2:14:17.600 --> 2:14:20.160 possibilities certainly would have had to have crossed his mind, 2:14:20.440 --> 2:14:23.320 you know, it crosses everybody's mind. Your business, my business. 2:14:23.360 --> 2:14:27.320 And again, I don't think it's anything that's calculated. I 2:14:27.360 --> 2:14:30.080 think if he wants to say these things saml Sam 2:14:30.160 --> 2:14:33.200 to Katie Blackburnard and Mike Brown, he probably already has. 2:14:33.280 --> 2:14:37.280 So I'm sure he's thought about the possibility of change 2:14:37.320 --> 2:14:39.240 in his life at some point. He'd be foolish not to. 2:14:39.400 --> 2:14:41.480 But I'm not sure that's that's a big deal, is it. 2:14:42.600 --> 2:14:44.000 Yeah, I'm not sure it is. 2:14:44.080 --> 2:14:47.520 And that was basically Joe Burrows asked, Hey, do you plan. 2:14:47.440 --> 2:14:49.880 On being the core you point on not being the 2:14:49.960 --> 2:14:52.480 quarterback in Cincinnatia at some point in your career, and 2:14:52.520 --> 2:14:54.520 he said, you think about a lot of things. 2:14:54.640 --> 2:14:54.800 Now. 2:14:55.000 --> 2:14:57.520 The interesting thing there is that he also gave that 2:14:57.600 --> 2:15:00.240 same exact answer when he was asked if you thought 2:15:00.240 --> 2:15:02.200 about retirement. You think about a lot of things. But 2:15:02.240 --> 2:15:05.240 we're not sitting here and talking about it maybe retiring. 2:15:05.840 --> 2:15:08.000 We're talking about him maybe leaving the Bengals, because that's 2:15:08.040 --> 2:15:09.160 just what Joe Burrow says. 2:15:09.240 --> 2:15:10.880 He does think about a lot of things. 2:15:10.920 --> 2:15:14.040 And like you just said, I am it is almost 2:15:14.080 --> 2:15:17.360 certain that he probably says the same thing to ownership. 2:15:17.480 --> 2:15:18.840 He just doesn't really have a filter. 2:15:18.960 --> 2:15:21.480 He thinks deeply about what he says, and then he 2:15:21.640 --> 2:15:21.960 says it. 2:15:22.080 --> 2:15:24.000 I think the important thing to remember about his most 2:15:24.040 --> 2:15:26.920 recent press conference is that he was talking about a 2:15:26.960 --> 2:15:28.440 lot of things. He was talking about the fact that 2:15:28.560 --> 2:15:31.160 he wants to play until forty. He wants to emulate 2:15:31.240 --> 2:15:35.160 guys like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, and of course, 2:15:35.400 --> 2:15:37.520 you know those are two of the best quarterbacks ever. 2:15:37.600 --> 2:15:40.240 He mentioned Drew Breese, he mentioned Aaron Rodgers. All those 2:15:40.280 --> 2:15:43.720 guys played for multiple teams in his career. So I 2:15:43.800 --> 2:15:46.560 think he was just kind of saying, hey, look, crazy 2:15:46.640 --> 2:15:49.040 things happen in the nfls. You don't know that you're 2:15:49.080 --> 2:15:52.000 going to be in the same place forever. Most guys aren't. 2:15:52.240 --> 2:15:54.280 He specifically mentioned Michael Parsons. 2:15:53.960 --> 2:15:56.240 Getting trade and how he was shocked by that trade, 2:15:56.640 --> 2:16:00.240 and so it is the NFL, and sometimes eventually you 2:16:00.360 --> 2:16:03.160 either wear you're welcome or the team find something shinier 2:16:03.240 --> 2:16:05.600 and brighter. Maybe that's eight years down the road, and 2:16:06.040 --> 2:16:08.280 that's just the nature of the league. So I don't 2:16:08.280 --> 2:16:10.920 think it's crazy for Burrow to think, hey, look, maybe 2:16:11.040 --> 2:16:15.000 I won't be here forever, but surely it's possible. 2:16:15.040 --> 2:16:17.120 He planned to be here for another ten years before 2:16:17.720 --> 2:16:18.320 maybe leaving. 2:16:18.440 --> 2:16:21.840 Yeah, again, these are questions that are asked. He didn't 2:16:21.880 --> 2:16:24.240 walk in and sit down and start spouting this stuff off. 2:16:24.320 --> 2:16:26.760 And it's a beauty. I think that a lot of 2:16:27.040 --> 2:16:29.600 the writers in this town should embrace. It's like when 2:16:29.600 --> 2:16:32.680 Boomer was here years ago, there was nobody more honest 2:16:33.000 --> 2:16:35.400 about his assessment of things than Boomer is Sias and 2:16:35.640 --> 2:16:38.119 this is kind of like what Boomer did thirty five 2:16:38.240 --> 2:16:41.760 years ago when he was here. But nevertheless, Joe Burrow 2:16:41.840 --> 2:16:44.160 is in much better shape right now than two at 2:16:44.200 --> 2:16:47.800 taga Iloa. This game today opened at Bengals minus two. 2:16:47.920 --> 2:16:51.400 It's now Bengals minus four and a half, largely because 2:16:51.480 --> 2:16:55.040 they've made the quarterback switch in Miami and Tua got benched. 2:16:55.120 --> 2:16:57.200 His coach was pretty blunt. He said, look, I'm doing 2:16:57.240 --> 2:16:59.600 this because we're not getting the production out of the 2:16:59.680 --> 2:17:02.640 quarter that we need. I'm not sure quinn Ewers is 2:17:02.720 --> 2:17:05.600 the answer, But what do you expect that happened? What 2:17:05.959 --> 2:17:08.400 do you expect that does to the Miami offense? 2:17:08.959 --> 2:17:13.280 Well, it's interesting that the Dolphins made this decision right now, 2:17:13.360 --> 2:17:17.520 because I think if you're benching to he obviously he's 2:17:17.560 --> 2:17:19.360 not in their long term plans now, so at some 2:17:19.480 --> 2:17:21.320 point you're going to probably get rid of him. But 2:17:21.360 --> 2:17:25.320 he has that huge, huge tap hit in twenty twenty six, 2:17:25.920 --> 2:17:29.040 and so it's just thinking about trading him, which maybe 2:17:29.120 --> 2:17:31.280 is your only realistic option, and you probably have to 2:17:31.320 --> 2:17:33.480 pay some of his salary for twenty twenty six to 2:17:33.520 --> 2:17:34.280 get that deal done. 2:17:34.720 --> 2:17:37.240 Then you would want him out on the field to 2:17:37.440 --> 2:17:38.320 kind of get his. 2:17:39.840 --> 2:17:42.120 Trade compensation make teams say oh, okay to it. 2:17:42.120 --> 2:17:44.320 Can still play. So we know he played in Pittsburgh two. 2:17:44.160 --> 2:17:46.680 A time of low it's horrible in cold weather. 2:17:47.160 --> 2:17:48.800 It was twenty degrees in Pittsburgh. 2:17:48.840 --> 2:17:50.840 But now you have two home games coming up in 2:17:51.000 --> 2:17:54.320 Miami against the Bengals obviously tonight or today, and then 2:17:54.360 --> 2:17:56.600 against the Buccaneers next week, and then they close against 2:17:56.600 --> 2:18:00.400 the Patriots, and so it's just weird because again, if 2:18:00.440 --> 2:18:03.040 you want to see your quarterback, maybe Tour could play 2:18:03.080 --> 2:18:03.840 well against the Bengals. 2:18:03.879 --> 2:18:05.640 We've seen what the Bengals defense has been this year. 2:18:06.520 --> 2:18:08.960 So the flip side of that is Quinn yours answer 2:18:09.000 --> 2:18:12.400 your question again is that if you're going to start 2:18:12.440 --> 2:18:13.599 a rookie quarterback. 2:18:13.280 --> 2:18:15.679 At this point in the season, I'm sure Mike McDaniels. 2:18:15.200 --> 2:18:18.200 Said, maybe this looks like a defense we could maybe 2:18:18.560 --> 2:18:20.760 have some success against. Because the whole thing if you're 2:18:20.760 --> 2:18:22.600 starting a rookie quarterback is that you want them to 2:18:22.640 --> 2:18:26.080 be comfortable. You want to make sure they're successful. Early 2:18:26.920 --> 2:18:30.680 screen passes, little short throws build their confidence up. And 2:18:30.920 --> 2:18:33.800 so I'm guessing that's what Mike McDaniel's thinking is that 2:18:34.280 --> 2:18:36.320 this is a defense I think our rookie can have 2:18:36.440 --> 2:18:37.400 some success against. 2:18:38.280 --> 2:18:41.000 The number the total on this game is fifty and 2:18:41.040 --> 2:18:44.520 a half, So I guess the smart guys are expecting 2:18:44.560 --> 2:18:46.600 a lot of points in this game today. What about you. 2:18:47.920 --> 2:18:51.360 Yeah, Look, I think that we talked about Joe Burrow already. 2:18:51.440 --> 2:18:53.680 If there is one thing that one other takeaway from 2:18:53.720 --> 2:18:57.200 that press conference on Wednesday is that Joe Burrow was 2:18:57.640 --> 2:19:01.880 very upset with his performance again the Ravens, and he 2:19:01.959 --> 2:19:04.160 said it's an outlier. This is not something that's going 2:19:04.240 --> 2:19:07.800 to happen again. So he seems pretty determined to go 2:19:08.080 --> 2:19:11.800 out and just throw for five hundred yards against the Dolphins. 2:19:11.879 --> 2:19:14.560 That's really what it felt like. So I will not 2:19:14.720 --> 2:19:18.440 be surprised if Burrow has a huge game, and so 2:19:18.760 --> 2:19:21.840 if you're the Bengals and you score thirty thirty five points, 2:19:22.720 --> 2:19:25.720 then it's can the Dolphins keep up in a shootout 2:19:25.760 --> 2:19:29.200 with the rookie quarterback? Probably not, but I do think 2:19:29.280 --> 2:19:32.640 most of that total is the Dolphins or the Bengals 2:19:32.680 --> 2:19:35.000 and Burrow probably getting to the thirty point mare. 2:19:35.320 --> 2:19:37.600 I agree whole heartedly. I think the Bengals win this game. 2:19:37.760 --> 2:19:39.880 I mean, obviously the playoffs are out of the picture, 2:19:40.000 --> 2:19:42.640 but for all the reasons you just outlined, I think 2:19:42.720 --> 2:19:45.320 Cincinnati wins this game, and I kind of think they 2:19:45.360 --> 2:19:48.160 went it going away. It's unfortunate, you know what happened 2:19:48.240 --> 2:19:50.920 last week. It's unfortunate the way the season went. But 2:19:51.520 --> 2:19:53.360 finishing strongly. A lot of people think, well, what are 2:19:53.400 --> 2:19:55.640 they playing for? Bench Burrow? Why are you playing Burrough? No, 2:19:56.640 --> 2:19:59.279 you're paid to play football. You want to finish strongly. 2:19:59.480 --> 2:20:02.080 There is something to be said for some kind of 2:20:02.160 --> 2:20:05.119 mojo going into the next season, particularly for the players 2:20:05.160 --> 2:20:07.080 that are going to be back. So yeah, I think 2:20:07.160 --> 2:20:10.560 this game takes on importance, as does next week's in 2:20:10.600 --> 2:20:12.120 the week and one with Cleveland at the end of 2:20:12.160 --> 2:20:14.320 the season. I think they all take on importance for 2:20:14.440 --> 2:20:16.440 things like that. You don't want to walk into a season. 2:20:16.520 --> 2:20:18.720 So at the end of a seasons some sad sack, 2:20:18.840 --> 2:20:21.680 trying to rebuild your entire roster. No, these are important games, 2:20:21.720 --> 2:20:22.039 aren't they. 2:20:22.959 --> 2:20:24.840 Yeah, you definitely want to win. 2:20:24.760 --> 2:20:28.680 Out and I think for Joe Burrow specifically, it's look. 2:20:28.560 --> 2:20:30.240 These guys train all years. 2:20:30.280 --> 2:20:32.920 You're keeping your body in shape for twelve months, and 2:20:33.040 --> 2:20:36.760 you only get seventeen games. You're only guaranteed seventeen games. 2:20:36.800 --> 2:20:39.440 So when you miss nine of those, like Joe Burrow, 2:20:39.520 --> 2:20:41.480 did you miss fifty percent of that? You put all 2:20:41.600 --> 2:20:44.760 that work in and so now that you are healthy 2:20:44.879 --> 2:20:46.680 and you are able to play, you're going to have 2:20:46.720 --> 2:20:49.480 to rip Joe Burrow off the field for him not 2:20:49.720 --> 2:20:53.320 to play, because that's what he mentioned that again, it's hey, look, 2:20:53.360 --> 2:20:55.760 I'm healthy, I want to play football. It's that simple, 2:20:55.800 --> 2:20:58.760 and I think that should be the feeling in the 2:20:58.800 --> 2:21:01.440 Bengals facility. I want your star quarterback out there, you 2:21:01.520 --> 2:21:03.360 want everyone out there, and yeah, you want to get 2:21:03.400 --> 2:21:06.160 a few rookies maybe some extra playing time down a 2:21:06.240 --> 2:21:08.440 stretch now that you are eliminated from the playoffs. But 2:21:08.480 --> 2:21:11.119 I do think that playing Burrow over these final three 2:21:11.200 --> 2:21:14.720 weeks and just playing guys like you are still in 2:21:14.760 --> 2:21:16.320 the playoff race does make a lot of. 2:21:16.360 --> 2:21:18.000 Sense, so I absolutely agree with you there Ken. 2:21:17.959 --> 2:21:21.000 All right, John, Well, Merry Christmas. I know it's going 2:21:21.040 --> 2:21:23.280 to be fun Christmas for you this year, and you 2:21:23.360 --> 2:21:24.960 and I will visit down the road. But for your 2:21:25.000 --> 2:21:26.400 time here today, thanks. 2:21:27.000 --> 2:21:27.640 Thanks for having me. 2:21:27.879 --> 2:21:31.480 You bet any time, any place, John Breech. By the way, 2:21:31.600 --> 2:21:34.800 pregame sports Talk brought to you in part by Encore Technologies. 2:21:34.879 --> 2:21:39.720 Visit Encore dot tech. As for today's Postman Law injury report, 2:21:39.800 --> 2:21:42.520 brought to you by Postman Law Injured Call eight four 2:21:42.560 --> 2:21:48.520 to four Postman Others promise Postman delivers well. Significant players 2:21:48.560 --> 2:21:51.200 out for the Bengals. Noah Fant tight end will not 2:21:51.360 --> 2:21:54.440 answer the bell today. Also out today Charlie Jones. He's 2:21:54.480 --> 2:21:56.880 been out the last several weeks with an ankle injury. 2:21:57.560 --> 2:22:02.440 Also out today is Joseph Osum, the terrific pass rushing 2:22:03.280 --> 2:22:06.880 defensive end not playing. 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Keep your eye on that one. Also, 2:27:09.680 --> 2:27:13.400 Tampa Bay at Carolina, both teams seven and seven, but 2:27:13.600 --> 2:27:17.640 Tampa Bay with the advantage at this point. This is 2:27:17.720 --> 2:27:21.920 for the fight for the NFC South Championship. Carolina is 2:27:22.120 --> 2:27:24.720 at home and is getting three two very big one 2:27:24.760 --> 2:27:28.480 o'clock games to keep your eye on. At four o'clock 2:27:28.560 --> 2:27:32.160 you have Jacksonville at Denver. Denver is giving three and 2:27:32.200 --> 2:27:35.480 a half Jacksonville is ten and four. They got a 2:27:35.520 --> 2:27:38.800 one game lead over Houston. Houston has a four to 2:27:38.840 --> 2:27:43.279 twenty five game today at home against Las Vegas. Houston 2:27:43.400 --> 2:27:46.280 is giving a lot, they're giving fourteen, but straight up 2:27:46.640 --> 2:27:49.760 and with implications, Houston is nine to five, and as 2:27:49.800 --> 2:27:54.080 I mentioned, one back of Jacksonville. In the AFC South, 2:27:54.360 --> 2:27:57.800 you have Pittsburgh Detroit as a four to twenty five game. 2:27:58.360 --> 2:28:02.879 Steelers lead the AFC North by a game. Detroit giving 2:28:03.040 --> 2:28:06.560 seven in this game is eight and six and right 2:28:06.680 --> 2:28:10.880 now is eight. In a seventeen playoff race in the 2:28:10.959 --> 2:28:14.400 National Football Conference. And then tonight Sunday Night Football, you 2:28:14.480 --> 2:28:18.160 got New England at Baltimore, Baltimore giving one one back 2:28:19.600 --> 2:28:22.760 of these Steelers in the AFC North. New England is 2:28:22.840 --> 2:28:24.720 one up on Buffalo in the East. 2:28:25.320 --> 2:28:25.840 That does it. 2:28:26.840 --> 2:28:31.440 Cincinnati at Miami Miami is getting four and home. All 2:28:31.520 --> 2:28:34.120 the play by play right here, but stand by. It 2:28:34.240 --> 2:28:37.480 is time for Countdown to Kickoff with Wayne box Miller 2:28:37.720 --> 2:28:48.119 on ESPN fifteen thirty and seven hundred. Wlw's Bengals Countdown 2:28:48.200 --> 2:28:50.520 to Kickoff on the Bengals Radio Network are. 2:28:50.480 --> 2:28:52.560 Already catches the shotgun snap. 2:28:52.640 --> 2:28:54.280 He's in trouble throws off his back. 2:28:54.840 --> 2:28:57.640 Higgins hags the Cats touchdown. 2:28:58.440 --> 2:29:02.039 The Bengals angles Countdown to Kickoff as buck you by 2:29:02.760 --> 2:29:06.040 pink or proud to be the official HR software provider 2:29:06.080 --> 2:29:07.240 of the Cincinnati Bengals. 2:29:10.400 --> 2:29:12.119 Well to experience the jungle. 2:29:11.959 --> 2:29:14.680 To deep drop he throws before gun hit got deep 2:29:14.760 --> 2:29:17.840 ball for Higgins, He capt his hets touchdown. 2:29:18.760 --> 2:29:25.760 Bengals Limited all home games Bengals reviewers, Well seats remain. 2:29:27.520 --> 2:29:30.359 This is the Bengals Countdown to Kickoff on the Bengals 2:29:30.480 --> 2:29:31.199 Radio Network. 2:29:32.240 --> 2:29:34.400 Good afternoon, and welcome to count Down to Kickoff on 2:29:34.480 --> 2:29:37.800 the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network for today's matchup between the 2:29:37.879 --> 2:29:41.520 Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins. I'm Wayne box Milliy to 2:29:41.600 --> 2:29:44.000 count Down to Kickoff host, And these are the games 2:29:44.040 --> 2:29:45.840 they show who plays for the love of the game 2:29:46.360 --> 2:29:50.080 and to solidify their spot on this team or in 2:29:50.160 --> 2:29:53.080 the NFL. The Bengals are trying to rebound from hard 2:29:53.160 --> 2:29:56.360 to explain shutout lost last week, and the Dolphins are 2:29:56.400 --> 2:29:59.560 coming off a beatdown courtesy of the Steelers. Now, much 2:29:59.560 --> 2:30:02.040 has been made of Jill Burrow of the Bengals lately, 2:30:02.480 --> 2:30:05.120 most of it hyperbole, but make no mistake about him 2:30:05.160 --> 2:30:08.760 on the field. He wants to play, compete, and win. 2:30:09.320 --> 2:30:11.000 Now the Bengals will be tested by a team that 2:30:11.080 --> 2:30:13.600 played a physical brand of football for US threats last week, 2:30:13.680 --> 2:30:16.440 but looking to do that for four quarters. Standing by 2:30:16.480 --> 2:30:18.760 with today's call of the game at hard Rock Stadium, 2:30:19.280 --> 2:30:21.920 my colleagues Dan Hood and Dave Lapham, Gentlemen, can we 2:30:22.040 --> 2:30:23.160 borrow ten degrees? 2:30:25.400 --> 2:30:28.279 I'll tell you what We've got plenty down here in Miami, 2:30:28.400 --> 2:30:30.640 and let's start with that lap Last week, the game 2:30:30.680 --> 2:30:33.920 time temperature in the loss to Baltimore was ten degrees. 2:30:34.000 --> 2:30:37.480 The wind show was minus one. It is currently seventy 2:30:37.640 --> 2:30:41.280 nine degrees here in Miami, Florida. That's an eighty degree swing. 2:30:41.720 --> 2:30:44.039 Based on how it feels on the body. It certainly 2:30:44.080 --> 2:30:47.120 feels good. But could that be a problem for the 2:30:47.120 --> 2:30:47.840 Bengals today. 2:30:48.440 --> 2:30:50.640 You know, it might be if they'd let it become one, Dan, 2:30:50.720 --> 2:30:53.920 you know, if they let it if they concern themselves 2:30:54.080 --> 2:30:57.240 too much with it mentally physically though, I can tell 2:30:57.280 --> 2:31:01.320 you that doctors and trainers us when I was playing 2:31:02.400 --> 2:31:05.080 for the Cincinnati Bengals, that your blood does stick it 2:31:05.800 --> 2:31:10.080 in cold weather, in the viscosity, whatever of it it 2:31:10.200 --> 2:31:13.800 does sticking up, and then you go from that cold 2:31:14.600 --> 2:31:18.800 game down here to warm and it starts to thin out. 2:31:19.480 --> 2:31:23.400 And that process there's no pain or anything involved. It's 2:31:23.480 --> 2:31:26.120 just an adjustment that you have to make. And you 2:31:26.240 --> 2:31:28.560 got to stay hydrated. That's the biggest thing in this 2:31:28.680 --> 2:31:32.560 football game. Guys have to have plenty of water. If 2:31:32.600 --> 2:31:35.520 you think you've had enough water, drink more. You haven't 2:31:35.560 --> 2:31:37.720 had enough. That was the advice that was given to 2:31:37.840 --> 2:31:40.199 us when we came down here and played after playing 2:31:40.240 --> 2:31:42.320 in fridgid temperatures up north. 2:31:42.680 --> 2:31:45.640 How about you dropping a viscosity on the Free Hot Show. 2:31:45.640 --> 2:31:50.120 I'm impressed. Excellent Syracuse University education. Let's talk about some 2:31:50.240 --> 2:31:52.480 roster moves for the Bengals today. We've got good news. 2:31:53.080 --> 2:31:55.720 Ninety minutes from kickoff. Number one T Higgins is going 2:31:55.800 --> 2:31:59.560 to play today. Tea, of course, had concussion several weeks ago, 2:32:00.040 --> 2:32:03.960 then more concussion symptoms the game after that. Did not 2:32:04.120 --> 2:32:07.160 play last week. He was a full participant in practice. 2:32:07.320 --> 2:32:09.960 On Friday, they sent him to Pittsburgh to see one 2:32:09.959 --> 2:32:13.800 of the world's foremost concussion specialists. He signed off, everything 2:32:13.840 --> 2:32:17.320 looks good for Tea, so Ta is back today. Additionally, 2:32:17.800 --> 2:32:21.800 Cincinnati's best performer on defense this year. Cornerback DJ Turner 2:32:22.360 --> 2:32:25.560 got sick yesterday, but we just watched him go through 2:32:25.600 --> 2:32:26.560 the pregame warmups. 2:32:26.560 --> 2:32:27.160 He is active. 2:32:27.240 --> 2:32:29.800 That looks like he has recovered in twenty four hours. 2:32:29.920 --> 2:32:30.240 It does. 2:32:30.600 --> 2:32:32.760 It might be like a twenty four hour above the 2:32:32.840 --> 2:32:36.400 twenty four hour flu virus, whatever it may be. You know, 2:32:36.600 --> 2:32:39.840 there's obviously some reverse paristalsis that. 2:32:39.959 --> 2:32:44.800 May have gone on in the hotel room. 2:32:45.560 --> 2:32:49.160 But yeah, he didn't probably participate much of pre game 2:32:49.240 --> 2:32:52.000 meal and it was it was a pretty good pregame 2:32:52.040 --> 2:32:54.640 meal that the hotels put out their nice friend. But 2:32:55.600 --> 2:32:57.920 I think he'll play. I think he'll play well. But again, 2:32:58.360 --> 2:33:03.080 he has to stay hydrated because you know the concussion 2:33:03.400 --> 2:33:06.240 factor as well. I mean, when your players are dealing 2:33:06.280 --> 2:33:09.080 with concussions, the biggest thing that you have to do 2:33:09.280 --> 2:33:12.440 is if in the heat, and you know, I mean 2:33:12.480 --> 2:33:14.920 I got being my I get my belt wrong a 2:33:15.040 --> 2:33:19.480 few times and practices and games, and when the heat 2:33:19.680 --> 2:33:22.120 starts to affect you as well, that's when you start 2:33:22.160 --> 2:33:24.440 to get a little bit dizzy. Your equilibrium starts to 2:33:24.440 --> 2:33:26.760 get messed up a little bit, and you have to 2:33:27.000 --> 2:33:29.840 make sure that you're drinking more water than you think 2:33:29.879 --> 2:33:30.200 you can. 2:33:31.120 --> 2:33:33.600 The Bengals will be facing a first time starter at 2:33:33.680 --> 2:33:36.400 quarterback for the Miami Dolphins to a Tongo vy Loa 2:33:36.480 --> 2:33:39.720 getting benched after allowsing performance on Monday night in Pittsburgh. 2:33:40.160 --> 2:33:44.080 Quinn Ewers, the last quarterback selected in this year's draft, 2:33:44.440 --> 2:33:48.760 a seventh rounder out of Texas, makes his NFL starting debut. 2:33:48.800 --> 2:33:50.720 He did play briefly in a game early this year 2:33:50.959 --> 2:33:53.560 against Cleveland, but he'll be making his first start today. 2:33:53.760 --> 2:33:57.600 Yeah, and you know he played major conference. You know, 2:33:58.120 --> 2:34:01.800 Texas plays big time college football look Horns. There's no 2:34:01.959 --> 2:34:07.320 question about that. The thing is, though your defensive coordinator 2:34:07.360 --> 2:34:10.080 Al Golden has no tape on the guy, and a 2:34:10.120 --> 2:34:12.920 lot of times that can be uncomfortable for coaches going 2:34:13.000 --> 2:34:17.040 into a game where at the professional level, maybe just 2:34:17.400 --> 2:34:20.320 some preseason reps, but those are totally different than regular 2:34:20.400 --> 2:34:23.040 season and I think that's going to be a factor. 2:34:23.640 --> 2:34:24.760 They don't know exactly