Speaker 1: Six nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chicklag wigon
Speaker 1: seven hundred wl W. This is Sports Talk, a one
Speaker 1: hour sprint to seven o'clock tonight leading into the University
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati football at Oklahoma State. And what a night
Speaker 1: we have here in the Natty, and what a week
Speaker 1: it's been. We have FC Cincinnati hosting CF Montreal as
Speaker 1: we speak on Fan Appreciation Night at TQL Stadium. The
Speaker 1: match can be heard on ESPN fifteen thirty. The Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Cyclones host the Wheeling Nailers with the puck dropping at
Speaker 1: seven thirty at the Heritage Bank Center.
Speaker 2: But I want to go back forty eight hours to.
Speaker 1: The Bengals thirty three to thirty one victory over the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, and we bring in our good friend Mike
Speaker 1: Petralia of CLNS Media clnssince he dot com and the
Speaker 1: host of the Jungle Roar podcast. Mike, Happy sweetest day
Speaker 1: of your significant other, Debbie, How are you tonight?
Speaker 2: That is very.
Speaker 3: Lovely of you, and Debbie no doubt appreciates this. I'm
Speaker 3: sure she's listening, so I'm sure she's cackling, laughing and smiling,
Speaker 3: So I appreciate that let me also add I've never
Speaker 3: been introduced by the Raspberries bumper music so outstanding seven
Speaker 3: early seventies choice.
Speaker 1: Thank you, absolutely fantastic. First off, how exciting was that
Speaker 1: game on Thursday night, Mike PETRELLI was? It was spectacular,
Speaker 1: It really was. It was well played.
Speaker 3: Yes, there were a few penalties called chick, but you
Speaker 3: expect that on a short week when execution is not
Speaker 3: always at peak level. I would say, I think that's
Speaker 3: fair to say. But in terms of the offensive execution,
Speaker 3: it was great to see a gun slinging shootout for
Speaker 3: the final three quarters of that game. I must tell
Speaker 3: you early on I had my doubts ten to nothing Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: and it felt like Pittsburgh was putting the Bengals in
Speaker 3: a meat grinder and kind of do the slow grind,
Speaker 3: slow boil of the Bengals when that game started. But
Speaker 3: when the Bengals got the two runs from Chase Brown
Speaker 3: of twenty seven and thirty seven yards and started to
Speaker 3: pry open that Pittsburgh defensive line, eyebrows were raised and like, well,
Speaker 3: we haven't seen this before.
Speaker 2: Really at all this year.
Speaker 3: And when that started to happen and the Bengals started
Speaker 3: to get the short passing game going, and then Flacco
Speaker 3: found Jamar and t before halftime for touchdowns. I started
Speaker 3: to think to myself, well, now I think they have
Speaker 3: an offensive rhythm. And you know, the second half was
Speaker 3: just back and forth. Neither team could really stop each
Speaker 3: other in the third quarter, and then for the Bengals
Speaker 3: to give up the lead and then come right down
Speaker 3: the field and win the game. And you saw hetty
Speaker 3: play from T Higgins. Kudos to Doug Rossveld, and I
Speaker 3: know Ted Kerris made mention in this to me after
Speaker 3: the game. They knew what they were doing situationally, and
Speaker 3: that's the reason they won the game.
Speaker 2: They were able to kill.
Speaker 3: Most of the remaining you know, minute and fifteen seconds,
Speaker 3: twenty seconds. When T Higgins made that sliding catch.
Speaker 2: I've never been so happy.
Speaker 1: Mike PETRELLI up to see Aaron Rodgers hook up with
Speaker 1: that tight end that kills the Bengals with two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes to go. I said, yeah, that hurts,
Speaker 1: but there's still plenty of time to go down and
Speaker 1: wipe out that wipe out that one one point lead.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I had the same kind of feeling, chick that
Speaker 3: Pat Fryarmouth kills the Bengals two more touchdowns, both in
Speaker 3: the second half on Thursday night. I think he's had
Speaker 3: something like two hundred and twenty five two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty yards against the Bengals in his last two seasons,
Speaker 3: and he's just been a Bengal killer. But when I
Speaker 3: looked up and saw whatever it was to eighteen to
Speaker 3: go in the game and thought to myself, well, Flacco
Speaker 3: has an offensive rhythm behind him. This Bengal offense is
Speaker 3: finally playing with a degree of confidence and they only
Speaker 3: need a field goal. And Evan McPherson has his mojo
Speaker 3: back this season. That's another thing that I think kind
Speaker 3: of got lost on Thursday night. Evan McPherson was four
Speaker 3: for four and he's back to the form that he
Speaker 3: was in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two. But
Speaker 3: as soon as I saw that there was not much
Speaker 3: time left after the sixty eight yard touchdown pass, I thought, well,
Speaker 3: the Bengals definitely have a chance if they play this right,
Speaker 3: to kill out the clock and kick the field goal.
Speaker 1: Mike Petralia with us following on Twitter at trags and
Speaker 1: loved your story on Clnssincy dot com Bengals beat for
Speaker 1: one night. Joe Flacco reignites the Bengals explosive offense. Now,
Speaker 1: Mike Petrellia, how can it continue for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 3: The offensive line needs to play the way they did.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not going to be perfect for the
Speaker 3: rest of the year, but they need to play with
Speaker 3: physicality that was missing in the first five games of
Speaker 3: the season. There's no doubt for six games of the season,
Speaker 3: and there's no doubt that's why they struggled offensively in
Speaker 3: those games. And I think the other thing that needs
Speaker 3: to happen is they have to be committed to running
Speaker 3: the football. If you can run the football effectively, doesn't
Speaker 3: mean you have to run it twenty five or thirty
Speaker 3: times a game. If you can run it effectively and
Speaker 3: with purpose fifteen to twenty maybe twenty two times a game.
Speaker 3: And give Joe Flacco the option of play action and
Speaker 3: he is maybe not Boomer a Sizin level, but he's
Speaker 3: pretty darn close in terms of his ability to sell
Speaker 3: play action pass. The Bengals are going to have a
Speaker 3: chance to really start to get their offense going, and
Speaker 3: you're going up against the Jets and the Bears. Look,
Speaker 3: every team has a good defensive front, but those two
Speaker 3: teams are inconsistent. And I think with those two teams
Speaker 3: coming into pay Corps, you have a chance here to
Speaker 3: really get Flaco some offensive rhythm, get the defense. Well,
Speaker 3: they need to certainly work on some things during this
Speaker 3: mini buy and going into next week against the Jets.
Speaker 3: But the thing that is going to get Flaco and
Speaker 3: the offense are allow it to continue what it did
Speaker 3: on Thursday night is the offensive line playing at the
Speaker 3: level it did Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Totally agree Mike Petrellium. I can't the nickname Joe Cool
Speaker 1: is already taken by Joe Burrow. So love the Joe
Speaker 1: calm that the offensive coaches have labeled on Joe Flacco. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say that these two teams, the Steelers and
Speaker 1: the Bengals, they turned pay Course Stadium into Geriatric Park.
Speaker 1: That was just an unbelievable performance really by both quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: How much confidence does this give Joe Flacco and the Bengals.
Speaker 4: It's a great point.
Speaker 3: And by the way, may I add that Joe Cool,
Speaker 3: what Joe Flacco was Joe Cool originally? Just to be fair,
Speaker 3: It's just so we're actually and historically accurate here, chick.
Speaker 3: But the thing that I think we need to take
Speaker 3: from the two performances on Thursday night is that Aaron
Speaker 3: Rodgers was going to do what he did within the
Speaker 3: confines of throwing to his tight ends. He went deep
Speaker 3: a couple of times, but he loved the short passing game.
Speaker 3: And I thought when we saw what Joe Flacco, yes,
Speaker 3: what Joe Flacco was able to do with Chase Brown
Speaker 3: and get the wide receivers open in space, you know,
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen yards down the field, the most important
Speaker 3: takeaway to me was if Flacco was not holding onto
Speaker 3: the ball. Joe Burrow is a gifted generational quarterback. He
Speaker 3: can read things before the snap that very few others
Speaker 3: that have ever played the game can do. And he
Speaker 3: can do it without a wristband. I mean, he has
Speaker 3: just a photographic memory, there's no question about it. But
Speaker 3: he likes to hold on to the football, and he
Speaker 3: likes to hold onto it so he can see plays
Speaker 3: develop and wait till the last second. Joe Flacco is
Speaker 3: not that quarterback. He likes to one, two, maybe a
Speaker 3: third progression, but he's going to get rid of the
Speaker 3: ball and if he doesn't like what he sees. You
Speaker 3: saw it a couple of times Thursday night, He's going
Speaker 3: to throw it into the ground out of harm's way
Speaker 3: and live to play another down. And I think that's
Speaker 3: the difference between the two. And everything went right for
Speaker 3: Flacco on Thursday night. And it's easy to say, well,
Speaker 3: why doesn't Joe Burrow get rid of the ball that fast? Well,
Speaker 3: it's not the way he plays the game. It's not
Speaker 3: the way he sees the game. So you know, before people,
Speaker 3: you know, jump the conclusions that you know, Joe Burrow
Speaker 3: needs to play the way Flaco plays. That's not realistic,
Speaker 3: and Zach Taylor doesn't want him doing that, but it is.
Speaker 3: It does show you that Flacco has the ability to
Speaker 3: adjust his game and get rid of the ball. Most importantly,
Speaker 3: Chick activate the two most talented players on their offense,
Speaker 3: and that is Jamar Chase and t Higgins. Get the
Speaker 3: ball to them as quickly as possible and let them
Speaker 3: make plays up the field.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what Joe Flacco is thinking now
Speaker 1: that he's in Cincinnati for just over gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: coming up on just two weeks here. But to have
Speaker 1: those two guys and others tight ends, you know at
Speaker 1: his disposal in his arsenal. Gosh, finding the fountain of youth, man,
Speaker 1: it's awesome.
Speaker 3: Well, well, you know what, I'll hope that fountain of
Speaker 3: youth youth is a couple of drops of Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: no pun intended. What other metaphor should I use?
Speaker 2: A couple of.
Speaker 3: Doses of Jamar Chase and T Higgins in that pond?
Speaker 3: Because if you have guys like that to throw the
Speaker 3: ball to which he did not have, uh in Cleveland, Uh,
Speaker 3: it's going to make you look that much better as
Speaker 3: a quarterback. And I think that's what Flacco and he
Speaker 3: acknowledged that after the game the other night. He has
Speaker 3: the ability to throw to two very very gifted receivers
Speaker 3: and put them in positions to make plays.
Speaker 1: The front office has often taken a lot of heat
Speaker 1: with draft picks with the free agents coming in, but
Speaker 1: it's it's you mentioned it giving them credit for really
Speaker 1: scanning the you know, the entire NFL, who can help
Speaker 1: us the most and man to pull off that trade
Speaker 1: with Cleveland Browns, fans have to be absolutely up in arms.
Speaker 1: But to credit the front office because like you mentioned
Speaker 1: in your story. Flacco has something you can't teach, and
Speaker 1: that is a canon.
Speaker 4: Arm, correct, And that is an arm that Joe I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: Zach Taylor was looking for to as he likes to say,
Speaker 4: and I've said this often, drive.
Speaker 2: The ball downfield.
Speaker 3: You want you not only want to get the ball
Speaker 3: to Jamar Chase, but you want to drive it vertically
Speaker 3: as much as possible, as much as the defense will
Speaker 3: allow you to do that.
Speaker 2: Drive the ball up the field.
Speaker 3: Uh so that uh Chase and t Higgins have momentum
Speaker 3: behind him when they catch the ball and have the
Speaker 3: ability to turn up field. Both of them have proven
Speaker 3: they can do that at the drop of a hat.
Speaker 3: And so that is tremendous. All you have to do
Speaker 3: to hear how upset Cleveland fans are is and personality
Speaker 3: sports radio personalities are in Cleveland has turned on the
Speaker 3: media up I seventy one and they are pretty outraged.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there is outraged as Mike Tomlin
Speaker 3: was last Monday when he said, what are you doing,
Speaker 3: Andrew Berry? But Andrew Berry has to do what he
Speaker 3: feels is in his best interest and in the best
Speaker 3: interest of the Browns franchise going forward. And to be
Speaker 3: fair to Andrew Berry, Andrew Berry does not have Jamar,
Speaker 3: Chase and t Haiggins on his roster, and nor does
Speaker 3: he really have Chase Brown, and he doesn't have a
Speaker 3: lot of speed weapons. The defense is terrific. The defense
Speaker 3: has lots of speed and playmakers, but the offense does not.
Speaker 3: And Jerry Judy is not what he should have been
Speaker 3: coming out of Alabama, and that's his best receiving option.
Speaker 3: And that's not going to make Joe Flacco turn into
Speaker 3: Tom Brady or Peyton Manning overnight.
Speaker 2: So Andrew Berry had to take a look.
Speaker 3: At what his roster was, pick up the best trading
Speaker 3: ship he could, and that was a fifth round pick,
Speaker 3: and move forward.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable to think that Joe Flacco has thrown five touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks, in five hundred passing yards in two games
Speaker 1: in his first two starts with the Bengals, and like
Speaker 1: you mentioned in your story, hasn't happened before.
Speaker 2: Ever.
Speaker 3: When I read that, and I did some of my
Speaker 3: own research on that, I couldn't believe it. I mean,
Speaker 3: I was blown away that no quarterback over the course
Speaker 3: of the long the litany of quarterbacks that have played
Speaker 3: in the history of the National Football League. You would
Speaker 3: have figured some hot shot would have been that hot
Speaker 3: coming out in his first two starts. Not accurate, and
Speaker 3: it's never happened. I just think that's pretty amazing and
Speaker 3: good again for Joe Flacco. And you know, I don't
Speaker 3: want people jumping off the bandwagon. If he has a
Speaker 3: bad quarter or a bad half kind of like he
Speaker 3: did in the first half against Green Bay. That can happen.
Speaker 3: But the important thing watching Joe Flacco is his ability
Speaker 3: not to put the ball in harm's way, and that
Speaker 3: was the fundamental problem with Jake Browning. He had six
Speaker 3: touchdown passes and he brought the team back in that
Speaker 3: critical win over Jacksonville, which could very much be proved
Speaker 3: to be a critical win towards the end of the
Speaker 3: season if the Bengals are in it. He threw six
Speaker 3: touchdown passes, but he also threw eight interceptions, and that's
Speaker 3: not a ratio that any competitive contending team can live
Speaker 3: with at their starting quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Mike Petrelli with us just for a couple more minutes,
Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right. The offensive line played its best
Speaker 1: game on Thursday night, got the running game going. The
Speaker 1: best friend for a quarterback and if that can continue,
Speaker 1: and if the defense can continue to improve and create turnovers,
Speaker 1: and that's how they've won.
Speaker 2: You know, on defense, with the turnovers in their three victories.
Speaker 3: Chick, they've got to be able to tackle better. They
Speaker 3: are one of the worst tackling teams in the National
Speaker 3: Football League. And combine that with they are one of
Speaker 3: the worst pass rush win rate teams in the NFL.
Speaker 3: In terms of defensively getting after the quarterback, that's disaster.
Speaker 3: And you saw what a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers that's
Speaker 3: going to do to you. He gave you two picks.
Speaker 3: One was a deflection. But again the Bengals made great plays.
Speaker 3: DJ Turner's interception was clutch. I mean, I was a
Speaker 3: remarkable play.
Speaker 2: On DK metcalf.
Speaker 3: But you've got to be able to bring ball carriers
Speaker 3: to the ground.
Speaker 2: They've done a poor job.
Speaker 3: At the last couple of weeks, and that, unfortunately is
Speaker 3: a reminder of what got the Bengals into TRUP. In
Speaker 3: a lot of great portions, great segments of last year
Speaker 3: as well, they just didn't tackle well. And we thought,
Speaker 3: and I think early on that the Bengals had addressed that.
Speaker 3: But last couple of games they have allowed I think
Speaker 3: over three hundred yards and mistackled, miss tackles, and I
Speaker 3: think they've had something like thirty four miss tackles in
Speaker 3: the last two games.
Speaker 2: That's got to be cleaned up one way or another
Speaker 2: by Al Golden, no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: And gosh, I wish we had more time to talk baseball,
Speaker 1: because that's how good you have to be to get
Speaker 1: to the World Series, you know, facing the lost like
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the great season that Milwaukee had,
Speaker 1: They're gone in four games.
Speaker 2: Just incredible. Mike.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but Shohei Otani's performance last
Speaker 3: night has to be I'm not going to say it's
Speaker 3: the greatest, but certainly has to be in the discussion
Speaker 3: of top five performances all time, right up there with
Speaker 3: Reggie Jackson in Game six of the seventy seven World Series.
Speaker 3: That's what came to my mind anyway. But Reggie Jackson
Speaker 3: was not the winning picture, and he was not you know,
Speaker 3: in terms of great picture. He wasn't Roger Clemens in
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 2: Was Reggie Jackson?
Speaker 3: Last night, watching that game was like watching Reggie Jackson
Speaker 3: and Roger Clemens in the same game as the same player.
Speaker 4: That's how great it was.
Speaker 1: That's right. He may not be the greatest of all time,
Speaker 1: but it's sure. Don't take long to call roll. Didn't
Speaker 1: that right? Yes, Mike, fantastic stuff. Really appreciate your time tonight,
Speaker 1: All right, Chick, have a good one, you two. Mike Petralia.
Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter at trags, cl NS Media,
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Speaker 2: Six forty one in the Queen City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW, this is sports talk. We're
Speaker 1: going till seven o'clock and then University of Cincinnati football
Speaker 1: takes over these airwaves and the twenty fourth ranked Bearcats
Speaker 1: are bringing their five game winning streak, their five and
Speaker 1: one record three and zero in the Big Twelve. They're
Speaker 1: in Stillwater, Oklahoma to face the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Kickoff
Speaker 1: is at eight o'clock tonight. And do we have the
Speaker 1: University of Cincinnati beat writer from the Cincinnati en Choir
Speaker 1: with us Scott Springer Scott, how are you tonight, chick.
Speaker 5: I'm in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I came down and saw my friend Moe, and he
Speaker 5: hooked me up with a nice little connection here, so
Speaker 5: a little bit better than my cell phone there. But
Speaker 5: I always like coming to the broadcast booth. It's something
Speaker 5: that I did for fourteen years with these guys. Guys,
Speaker 5: and honestly, I always love coming to see Jim Kelly,
Speaker 5: and was talking with Moe not long ago. It's just
Speaker 5: surreal that he's not here. I'm so used to talking
Speaker 5: to him before a game, seeing him, hanging out with
Speaker 5: him and all that. And I'm sure that the guys
Speaker 5: will talk about it during the broadcast, but Jim's really missed.
Speaker 5: It's a neat thing that you see is doing with
Speaker 5: their helmets today, the white helmets. They have the number
Speaker 5: seven on the back with the microphone logo. And I
Speaker 5: hope I don't have any say so, but I hope
Speaker 5: at some point in nipperd State you can seeing number
Speaker 5: seven with a microphone under the broadcast booth.
Speaker 1: That is so true. Man, missing Jim Kelly Junior, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And on the broadcast tonight, of course, the voice of
Speaker 1: the UC Bearcats Stan hoard with Tony Pike and with
Speaker 1: Moeger looking forward to the broadcast tonight and Scott I
Speaker 1: find myself doing some scoreboard watching here Arizona State with
Speaker 1: in the final minute here the third quarter leads number
Speaker 1: seven Texas Tech sixteen to seven at Arizona State.
Speaker 2: So Utah is at BYU tonight.
Speaker 1: The number twenty three ranked Utes at the number fifteen
Speaker 1: rank Cougars, So man, there could be a little shaken
Speaker 1: up at the top of the Big Twelve standings here.
Speaker 1: This game is really important tonight for the UC Bearcats.
Speaker 5: Well, it was important to begin with because this could
Speaker 5: be win number six, which makes you Bowl eligible. Now,
Speaker 5: that's not their goal, their long term goal. You walk
Speaker 5: into the Shafety Performance Center and every week they have
Speaker 5: three or four goals, but the last one is always
Speaker 5: get to Dallas, which technically Arlington, but Jerry's world, that's
Speaker 5: where the Big Twelve Championship game will be played, and
Speaker 5: that's December the sixth, on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: That's their ultimate goal.
Speaker 5: And if things like that happen, if Texas Tech gets
Speaker 5: knocked off, if you see takes care of business, if
Speaker 5: who knows what happens in the Holy War between Utah
Speaker 5: and BYU. That's probably where a game they should have
Speaker 5: been today, quite honestly. But that's a heck of a game.
Speaker 5: And I don't know. The Big twelve football is becoming
Speaker 5: as entertaining is VIC twelve basketball, and it's a neat league.
Speaker 5: It's I've told people to try to be patient because
Speaker 5: you were judging what happened here in the past from
Speaker 5: the AAC. This is a much more difficult league. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure you know. And you can look at what
Speaker 5: Luke Fickle's done in Wisconsin, and Luke Fickle had great
Speaker 5: players here and those were great times, but I'm not
Speaker 5: sure those teams would have done as well in the
Speaker 5: Big Twelve. Certainly, some of those guys were pros, and
Speaker 5: they've got great reputations.
Speaker 2: They've proved themselves.
Speaker 5: But I think this league is a lot better than
Speaker 5: people realize.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 1: Scott Springer with us from The Enquirer and Cincinnati dot
Speaker 1: Com of the opening lost in Nebraska twenty to seventeen,
Speaker 1: then Victory's over Bowling Green and Northwestern State, and then
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve Kansas, Ioways State and the Cyclones were
Speaker 1: ranked fourteenth at the time, and then UCF last week
Speaker 1: man a defensive struggle, twenty to eleven victory for the
Speaker 1: UC Bearcats. Now it's Oklahoma State team that's been down,
Speaker 1: that they've gotten rid of their coach, and man, this
Speaker 1: cannot be a trap game.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 1: Has to come out strong early and try to put
Speaker 1: these guys away, punch.
Speaker 5: Them in the mouth. Everybody has a plan until they
Speaker 5: get punched in the mouth, said Mike Tyson. He's a genius.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, there may be some gamesmanship at quarterback.
Speaker 5: Sam Jackson, the fifth who was a wide receiver but
Speaker 5: played last week, is slated to start, but they put
Speaker 5: out their list injury list, you know, an hour and
Speaker 5: a half before game, and they've got Zane Flores as
Speaker 5: game time decision. So he was a kid that was
Speaker 5: questionable early. He was the starter early in the season,
Speaker 5: so they could have two choices at quarterback. It might
Speaker 5: be a smoke sprain. It's hard to say, but that's
Speaker 5: something to look for tonight with if it's Zane Flora
Speaker 5: as a quarterback or Sam Jackson. Sam Jackson primarily ran,
Speaker 5: but he did throw. Okay, They've oddly had like eight
Speaker 5: different guys throw passes this year other quarterbacks. They got
Speaker 5: a dude playing quarterback for him that they pulled out
Speaker 5: a UCF that hadn't even played football for a year
Speaker 5: and he got into a game. But you know, it's homecoming.
Speaker 5: Weather's nice here. It's gonna cool down later on. But
Speaker 5: like you said, you mentioned the word trap, and this
Speaker 5: could be if you let them have momentum. The key
Speaker 5: is not letting them have momentum. Jump out to the
Speaker 5: quick start, get things done early, and you know, get
Speaker 5: the running game going, which they had a little problem
Speaker 5: last week against UCF. That was such an odd game.
Speaker 5: But you know, you held UCF to eleven points, which
Speaker 5: was the least amount of points they've had since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: And today they put forty five on West Virginia. So
Speaker 5: the defense played decent. You're going to need more defense
Speaker 5: tonight and hopefully a lot more offense. And you know,
Speaker 5: two years ago they're here against a really good team.
Speaker 5: It's ten to seven at halftime and then got out
Speaker 5: of control. Ollie Gordon's still running. Yeah, but dude, Carter
Speaker 5: Brown was the uc kicker, missed the twenty three yard
Speaker 5: field goal before or half, could have been ten to
Speaker 5: ten at halftime and then it winds up. I think
Speaker 5: it was forty five thirteen. So certainly that was a
Speaker 5: nightmare on you know, on Elm Street or whatever street
Speaker 5: we're on here around boon Picking Stadium. But it was Halloween,
Speaker 5: it was wet, it was nasty. It's around the same
Speaker 5: time of year here. But this is a game that
Speaker 5: U see really had to take care of business. And
Speaker 5: from a pal Jim Kelly, I.
Speaker 2: Hope they do.
Speaker 1: Whenever you bring in, you know, new players, especially the
Speaker 1: wide receivers that you see has this year, you know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some It's going to need time to
Speaker 1: get in sync with Brendan Soresby the quarterback. They seem
Speaker 1: to just be kidding better each week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you saw last week where they shut
Speaker 5: down Cyrus Allen, who kind of had been the go
Speaker 5: to We only got you know, one pass last week.
Speaker 5: But then Jeff Caldwell stepped up and made some plays
Speaker 5: there in the first half. And Caldwell's kind of a
Speaker 5: freak with his length and the jumping ability, and Caleb
Speaker 5: Goody can and burn guys. And you know the sad
Speaker 5: thing is you go back to that Nebraska game and
Speaker 5: had that pass been you know, if you led Caleb
Speaker 5: Goodie a little bit more on that, maybe that's a
Speaker 5: touchdown and there's six and zero. But you don't get
Speaker 5: to go back in those things. You have to go on.
Speaker 5: But you're right. I think the receiving has been a
Speaker 5: lot better. I think Joe Royer is a thread every
Speaker 5: time he gets the ball, and the poor guys stumbled
Speaker 5: and missed a touchdown last week, and he nearly had
Speaker 5: a long one also, but I think he was disappointed
Speaker 5: he didn't get into the end zone. So maybe this
Speaker 5: is when he does.
Speaker 1: Arizona State goes to the fourth quarter at home with
Speaker 1: a sixteen to seven lead over Texas Tech. This could
Speaker 1: be just monumental here and so gosh, scoreboard watching tonight,
Speaker 1: But what are some keys here tonight for UC to
Speaker 1: pull out this win over Oklahoma State?
Speaker 5: Scott just obviously get him early, and you know, take
Speaker 5: the crowd out of it. This is a crowd that
Speaker 5: they've had parades and stuff. Eskimo Jo's is near so
Speaker 5: that they might be well fortified. So take them out
Speaker 5: of the game, send them home, send them back Eskimo Joes.
Speaker 5: They have great cheese, right, so maybe they can get
Speaker 5: a halftime special or something like that. But yeah, you
Speaker 5: got to take the crowd out of the game and
Speaker 5: take care of business and and don't act like you
Speaker 5: know they're going to be jumping up and down if
Speaker 5: they do win and if you are Bowl eligible, but
Speaker 5: you know that's not the end goal. You want a
Speaker 5: better Bowl. You want eventually to be in the Big
Speaker 5: Twelve championship game. So you know, I'll give you Barry
Speaker 5: Sanders reference and s he's a former Oklahoma State player,
Speaker 5: But to act like you've been there. You know, I've
Speaker 5: always always envied the way Barry Sanders scored touchdowns handed the.
Speaker 2: Ref of the ball.
Speaker 5: But just act like you do this every day, don't
Speaker 5: don't get all worked up about it.
Speaker 1: Well, play with a victory tonight for the Bearcats, and
Speaker 1: just looking ahead at the schedule with Baylor coming in,
Speaker 1: anything's possible.
Speaker 5: They've lost today. Yes, yeah, Baylor lost to TCU forty
Speaker 5: two thirty six. Watch some of that game and those
Speaker 5: are two teams that you see has to play that.
Speaker 5: You know, the schedule ahead is not necessarily easy. You
Speaker 5: got Baylor next week, you wind up the season at TCU,
Speaker 5: you go to Utah, November first, and then you've got
Speaker 5: BYU in there also, so you might as well take
Speaker 5: care of business now and then give yourself confidence for
Speaker 5: those games coming up. But you know, they're undefeated at
Speaker 5: Nippert this year so far, so maybe they keep that
Speaker 5: going next week. The first things first, got to beat
Speaker 5: the Cowboys and Pistol Pete, that guy with the big
Speaker 5: head and he's kind of.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, seen him in a lot of college basketball games,
Speaker 1: in tournament games over in Indianapolis, no doubt. Well, Scott Man,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking time out here, and we'll
Speaker 1: be listening to the broadcast tonight with Dan Hoard and
Speaker 1: Tony Pike and Moeger, and we'll be reading you all
Speaker 1: your good tomes.
Speaker 5: Well hopefully, and the broadcast should be excellent. Has always.
Speaker 5: Mo's been up here in show prep for some time.
Speaker 1: Hey, appreciate it. Thank you so much, Scott Springer, appreciate
Speaker 1: you so yeah. All right, take care. It's UC and
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State is one in five overall, oh
Speaker 1: and three in the Big twelve. U se at five
Speaker 1: and one three and oh in the Big twelve, looking
Speaker 1: for their sixth straight victory.
Speaker 2: We're taking a break we'll.
Speaker 1: Come back and put a bow on this show before
Speaker 1: u SE takes on Oklahoma State. It's chick Ludwig seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW six point.
Speaker 2: Fifty six in the Queen City.
Speaker 1: Chick Ludwigs seven hundred WLW. The Ohio State University, the
Speaker 1: number one ranked Buckeye shut out Wisconsin today at Camp
Speaker 1: Randall Stadium in Madison, thirty four to nothing.
Speaker 2: And with last night's Louisville.
Speaker 1: Twenty four to twenty one upset victory at number two Miami,
Speaker 1: that opens the door for the Indiana who users to
Speaker 1: move up from number three to number two, with Indiana
Speaker 1: putting a thirty eight to thirteen Whoopin' today in Bloomington
Speaker 1: on the Michigan State Spartans.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 1: Two Big ten teams, Ohio State and Indiana one and two.
Speaker 1: Incredible And then Uce fans Man getting ready for tonight's
Speaker 1: game at Stillwater, Oklahoma against Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Arizona State holds a nineteen to seven lead at home
Speaker 1: over Texas Tech, and the Red Raiders are six and
Speaker 1: oh three and oh in the Big Twelve, So a
Speaker 1: lot of movement at the top of the Big twelve
Speaker 1: standings tonight with number twenty three, Utah at number fifteen BYU.
Speaker 1: So a lot of scoreboard watching going on in the
Speaker 1: Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Last night in Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodger
Speaker 1: swept past the Milwaukee Brewers, winning five to one, and
Speaker 1: it was a performance for the ages by sho hey
Speaker 1: O Tani at the plate three for three with three
Speaker 1: home runs and he gets the victory pitching six innings,
Speaker 1: two hits, no runs, three walks, ten strikeouts, absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And then the Seattle Mariners with a six to two
Speaker 1: victory over the Toronto Blue Jays for a three games
Speaker 1: to two lead for the Seattle Mariners and former Red
Speaker 1: au Haneo Suarez with two home runs. His second was
Speaker 1: a go ahead grand slam in the bottom of the
Speaker 1: eighth inning, powering the Seattle Mariners to a six to
Speaker 1: two victory over Toronto. And in the postgame news conference,
Speaker 1: au Hanio with his daughters with him, man a very
Speaker 1: emotion postgame with his daughters Nicole and Melanie, he said,
Speaker 1: having days like this for me is very special. Emotion
Speaker 1: is always high. The crowd keeps us in the fight.
Speaker 1: They expect something good for us. I've been waiting for
Speaker 1: games like this my whole career. Today I had it today.
Speaker 1: I had it in front of our crowd, in front
Speaker 1: of my family, my two daughters, my wife. The moment
Speaker 1: is very special right now. My emotion right now is
Speaker 1: very high. I feel so grateful that God gave me
Speaker 1: the ability to do something good for this city. Seattle
Speaker 1: really deserved this. It brought tears to the eyes of
Speaker 1: the media in the post game news conference.
Speaker 2: Incredible.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate all the loyal listeners out there, and
Speaker 1: next up is U see football with the Voice of
Speaker 1: the Bearcats, Dan Horde, Tony Pike, and your host of
Speaker 1: tonight's show, Moeger. It's all coming up on the Home
Speaker 1: of the Reds and the best Bengals coverage until next time.
Speaker 1: Chick Ludwig signing off on seven hundred WLW