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Speaker 3: It's five minutes, five minutes after three o'clock. This is

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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty. Thank you for listening, Hope, having a

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Speaker 3: delightful Wednesday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: God we are here. Let's see really quick.

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco's not going to talk today, which is a

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Speaker 3: bummer because I'd love to hear from him. I guess instead,

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Speaker 3: he's going to talk on Friday, so we don't have

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Speaker 3: a three point fifteen Bengals quarterback press conference for you. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow's not going to talk today, and Jake Browning's

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Speaker 3: not going to talk today, and neither is Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 3: But I guess we're gonna hear from him on Friday,

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Speaker 3: and I know I can't wait. Yeah, you heard Zach

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Speaker 3: Taylor a little bit earlier. We'll spend a little bit

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Speaker 3: of time on that coming up here in just a bit.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm going to start the show though by

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Speaker 3: by talking about Tony Pike and uh and Taren. I'll

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Speaker 3: just tell you now we're probably going to hit the

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Speaker 3: brake a little bit late, and I know that's going

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Speaker 3: to make you mad at me. So you heard Austin

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Speaker 3: throughout the afternoon. And by the way, just an absolute

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Speaker 3: game and professional effort by Austin both yesterday and today,

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Speaker 3: because I know firsthand how not easy that is when

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Speaker 3: Austin handled yesterday and today like a total pro, which

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Speaker 3: you knew he would. Tony put on social media something

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Speaker 3: that we found out about yesterday, which is he's no

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Speaker 3: longer employed here, and boy, you think about it. Last

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Speaker 3: week Tony commemorated eight years as one of the hosts

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Speaker 3: of Sincy three sixty and to celebrate that, Asian, iHeart

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Speaker 3: let him go. So that's that's just boy. Congrats, buddy,

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Speaker 3: here's your walking papers. I cannot tell you how crushed

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Speaker 3: I've neglected to get back to most, but I am.

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Speaker 3: I'm crushed for what Tony's departure means for us. And

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Speaker 3: when I say for us, our show, Tony's show, the

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Speaker 3: staff here, he is beloved in this building. I'm crushed

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Speaker 3: for what it means for our audience, for you, because

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Speaker 3: this was a guy who was a success as an

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Speaker 3: I know what it's like when you're listening to somebody

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Speaker 3: One of the worst things that this industry does. This

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Speaker 3: I guess, but it's always so unfair to the audience.

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Speaker 3: Here's this host that you listen to every single day,

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Speaker 3: And when I say awesome, I mean in every professional

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Speaker 3: I've been an admirer of Tony since he was a

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Speaker 1: How are you okay?

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Speaker 3: Tomor right? No, my name's Mo.

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Speaker 3: No, the idea is for there to be two of us.

433
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 3: My expectation is there will be two of us. I

434
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 3: don't know that I'm allowed to say that. Who we

435
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,919
Speaker 3: think we're going to have on Monday. I'm not in

436
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 3: charge of such things. If I had my way, it

437
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 3: would be Tony Pike. But there will be someone there,

438
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 3: and we'll probably have to call the show whatever that

439
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 3: person's name is, and Mo Football Show. And I certainly

440
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 3: hope their name has two syllables so it continues to

441
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,239
Speaker 3: roll off the tongue easily. But the answer to your

442
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 3: question is I don't know, but I don't think that

443
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 3: show will be me by myself, nor should it be,

444
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 3: nor do I want it to be.

445
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 5: Okay? And I just you know, Tony he gave to

446
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 5: the Cincinnati three to sixty instant credibility. He achieved at

447
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 5: a high level in college, he played professional ball, and

448
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 5: he grew the show from one hour to three, brought

449
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 5: in more advertisers. And you know, it's just if you

450
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 5: have good people. I've had a mentor say that you

451
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 5: can't you can't afford to lose good people. No, it

452
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 5: costs you more money.

453
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 3: You use the word credibility, And I think number one,

454
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 3: when the decision was made to have a three hour

455
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 3: show before us, that brought a level of credibility to

456
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 3: this radio station that we not had. And then you

457
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 3: add to it his football expertise. And then you add

458
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 3: to that his ability to communicate and do it in

459
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 3: a relatable manner and have fun at the same time, Well,

460
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 3: there's even more credibility. But I think if anything, like

461
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 3: I knew Tony would be a good football analyst, what

462
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 3: you didn't know is, you know, can he do talk

463
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 3: show every day right now? If I can do it?

464
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 3: I think we've proven pretty much anybody can. But I

465
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 3: had been in the business for ten years before I

466
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 3: started doing this, and it was a broadcasting major. Tony

467
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 3: had no formal training, Tony, let's be honest with the

468
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 3: way things work, not a ton of formal guidance, and yet,

469
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: through trial and error, became I think, a terrific talk

470
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 3: show host every day, somebody who could carry three hours,

471
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 3: whether it be with somebody else like Austin or on

472
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 3: the days he had to do it by himself. And

473
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 3: for me, that's what I got a lot of joy

474
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 3: out of was watching him grow into that role. I

475
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 3: knew if I knew if I asked him to talk

476
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 3: about football for three hours with me, he'd be great.

477
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,719
Speaker 3: What we didn't know was could he do talk on

478
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: his own and basically have to teach himself. And he

479
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 3: did and he was awesome at it.

480
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 5: Just on a slight aside, you were one of the

481
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 5: panelists on Sports or Consequences, weren't you?

482
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 3: So No, one time, oh one time, at the very

483
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 3: end of Gary's career, I asked, I called that show

484
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 3: when I was in high school, and I wanted to

485
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 3: bring it full circle. So when Gary was about to

486
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 3: wrap it up. I asked him could I be on

487
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 3: one day and he said yes, and it was awesome,

488
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 3: But that was the only time I was ever on

489
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 3: that show.

490
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think the whole city is going to

491
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 5: miss Tony from doing what he's doing out now. Jim

492
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 5: Kelly's going to be stepping aside because he's been doing it,

493
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 5: what fifty three years between playing for the Bearcats and

494
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 5: coaching for the Bearcats and announcing for the Bearcats, and

495
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 5: but you know, fifty three years is a long time.

496
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 3: It's it's yeah, no, I mean it's a don thank you.

497
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: You know, the the Jim situation is.

498
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 3: Entirely different because he's dealing with a major health issue

499
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 3: and forget the football part of it, or forget the

500
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 3: radio part of it, Like we just want Jim to

501
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:16,479
Speaker 3: be okay.

502
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: But Tony made the transition.

503
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 3: It was just two weeks ago in Lawrence, Kansas where

504
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 3: he handled color duties and we're all hoping, you know,

505
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 3: temporarily and did great and it was just another example

506
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 3: of him being terrific of what he does. And again,

507
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 3: like I take no credit or get no credit for this,

508
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: but I remember asking him, like, do the Tony and

509
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 3: Mo Football Show. And you know, I didn't have to

510
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 3: sell anybody on it, but it was you know, Rocky

511
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 3: Boyman won a Super Bowl and Archrell Hawkins played like

512
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 3: nine years in the NFL. Tony's NFL career, as I

513
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 3: often reminded him, was not extensive, but it was like,

514
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 3: you know what, the dude knows how to break down

515
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 3: film and tell you what do you see? And he's

516
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 3: been in a training camp and he's been in those

517
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 3: offensive game planning meetings, and like he's played the most

518
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 3: difficult position in all the sports at an extraordinarily high level.

519
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 3: I think this will be okay. And you know this

520
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: was We didn't take the Tony and Mo Football Show

521
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 3: out until twenty nineteen, so this is twenty fifteen, and

522
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 3: I remember about three minutes into our first show together

523
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 3: going like, yeah, this is good. This will work, and

524
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 3: it doesn't if there's not chemistry. Right, Like, I've been

525
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 3: on the air with a lot of people. I've had

526
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 3: great producers. I've had when I started doing this, a

527
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,959
Speaker 3: regular daily on air partner. There's folks we do you know,

528
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 3: stuff with on a regular basis. And my number one

529
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 3: thing when it comes to getting people on this show

530
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 3: is do I have chemistry with them? You know, It's

531
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 3: why we've Paul Daner on every Tuesday. Because the football

532
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 3: information is great, but it's the chemistry. And I've not

533
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 3: had better on air chemistry with anybody than I've had

534
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 3: with Tony. And that's that's more important than the football knowledge.

535
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 3: Football knowledge. We knew we were getting that, and it

536
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 3: kills me that here, at least on a daily basis,

537
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 3: that's not going to be the case any longer. Mike,

538
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: go ahead, You're on ESDM fifteen thirty.

539
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 6: Thanks Mom. I'll tell you what boy. Tony sent me

540
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 6: a text about ten thirty last night in the hospital

541
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 6: after having a bitch of a procedure, a nasty, god

542
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 6: forsake and procedure, and that was not didn't even compare

543
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 6: to the text from Tony. I was legitimately shocked. And

544
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 6: my nurse said, mister, watch, what's wrong with you? I said,

545
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 6: your business? But yeah, I feel like I had a

546
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 6: piece of his show and your show over the years. Yeah,

547
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 6: I feel like I've done something to help cultivate the

548
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 6: shows in my own small way.

549
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think that either. I don't think that

550
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 3: either show has had a more loyal listener, more frequent listener,

551
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 3: and probably not a more frequent caller. And if I

552
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 3: don't want you to feel like those things go unappreciate it,

553
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 3: because they don't.

554
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 6: No, I understand that moment. You you show it in

555
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 6: how you treat me, which is great. But the thing is,

556
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 6: this is a stepping stone for Tony. He's going to

557
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 6: go onto something really, really better than he ever imagined.

558
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 6: I would think that's that's in my seventy three years.

559
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 6: This is the way things tend to work. You go,

560
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 6: oh my god, yes, it's a crap. I am pissed.

561
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 6: This is you know, I'm going to get into a

562
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 6: another vocation bubble. And for some reason, if you're a

563
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 6: good person, that always works out for the best. So

564
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 6: that's what's gonna happen for Tony. It was almost a

565
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 6: shock as shocking as the Tom Brennanan firing. Of course,

566
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 6: a totally different situation, but it was equally kind of shocking,

567
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 6: wasn't it.

568
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 3: Though, Well, yeah, I mean, you know, entirely different set

569
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: of circumstances that this and I you know, I said

570
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 3: this thirty minutes or so ago. Did this happened to

571
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 3: a lot of people in our company. This happened to

572
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 3: a lot of people around the country. This happened to

573
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 3: other folks here, uh, and folks here who are as

574
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 3: good at their jobs as Tony is it his. And

575
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 3: I've I've watched a lot of these and I've had

576
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 3: to explain on the air some of these and it's

577
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 3: never easy. And I never, I never really understand. I

578
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 3: never there will be folks who dive into the weeds

579
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 3: of this business, of this company, who you know, almost

580
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 3: celebrate the fact that these things happen. I I don't understand.

581
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: I simply, for the life of me, dude, don't understand

582
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 3: how you could take somebody who has Tony's upside, who

583
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: has done literally everything he's been asked to do, and

584
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 3: I don't understand how he's told to leave. And I

585
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: trust me, man, I'm a veteran of this business. I

586
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 3: just and maybe I do understand it, but I I

587
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 3: just I hate it so much. I hate it so much.

588
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 3: And like you get folks who come to work and

589
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 3: do this, and look, man, radio isn't what it was

590
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 3: thirty years ago. We all understand it. Like I, nobody's

591
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 3: naive to the challenges that this business face. Faces this

592
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 3: industry faces, and that's not just our company. And yet

593
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 3: when you have people who still decide to pursue it

594
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 3: and do it, and do it with a smile every day,

595
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: and do it with passion every day, and do it

596
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 3: with enthusiasm every day, and they're they're rewarded by being

597
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 3: told you can't do it anymore more. That leaves a

598
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 3: very bad taste in my mouth. And I know it

599
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 3: leaves a very bad taste in the mouths of my coworkers,

600
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: and I know it leaves an awful taste in the

601
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 3: mouths of our listeners. What I dislike most, and it

602
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 3: happens all the time, is you ask an audience listen

603
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,479
Speaker 3: to us every day, listen to Tony and Austin for

604
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: three hours, listen every day, invest your time, make it

605
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: a part of your daily routine, and then poof, it's

606
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 3: just one half of that show is gone. It's it's

607
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 3: so unfair to the audience. And so I don't know

608
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: if the people that I work for will love me

609
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,719
Speaker 3: saying that. And frankly, I gotta be honest with you.

610
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 3: I don't care. I detest that. That's always how It's

611
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: not always, but ninety nine percent of the time in

612
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 3: this business how it's handled, and it makes no sense

613
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 3: to me whatsoever.

614
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 6: Well on the human on the human levels, that's the

615
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 6: tough part. Can I get a let me get a

616
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 6: sports thing real quickly.

617
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: Oh please, thank you, Mike.

618
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get off. So

619
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 6: so I have my Dodgers impressed you. That's all I

620
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 6: want to know.

621
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 3: They have, you know, uh, game one, free nothing early

622
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, oh boy, uh now I I'm I'm

623
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 3: skeptical about the bullpen still and and for good reason.

624
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 4: Man.

625
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: You know you saw it in the Red Series. You

626
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 3: saw it, you saw it in Yeah, you saw it

627
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 3: in Game two against Philly. But that lineup just keeps coming.

628
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 7: Man.

629
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 3: To go to Philadelphia, especially after you fell behind free

630
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 3: nothing in game one, and to walk out of there

631
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 3: with back to back victories. Blake Snell was awesome in

632
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 3: game two. Uh, it's it's been It's been impressive. I

633
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:44,439
Speaker 3: will admit that.

634
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 6: Who was who was our mayor and Cincinnati years ago

635
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,479
Speaker 6: that threw that uh that first pitch that was such a.

636
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: Dud Mark Mark, Mark Mallory, Mark Mallory.

637
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 6: That was what Tommy Edmunds did last night for Freddy

638
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 6: here you, I bet you one thing. I know they

639
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 6: won the game, but I bet after the game Freddy said, hey, good,

640
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 6: come on, you gotta do better than that.

641
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 8: You.

642
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, gotta do better because you know, as soon as

643
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 6: Tommy Edmands let go of the ball, he thought, oh

644
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 6: my god, what what if I, like I could have

645
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 6: cost in the game. Anyway, I know you got to go.

646
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 6: Thanks bellot appreciation.

647
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 3: Okay, Mike, thanks very much. It's eleven away from four

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Speaker 3: Bengals game plan is on afterwords. We're done up to

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Speaker 1: Will keep you up today.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a gorgeous day in Detroit, the antithesis,

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Speaker 3: so to speak, of what they had yesterday. All four

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Speaker 3: league division series have games happening today, either games three

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Speaker 3: or four.

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Speaker 1: For uh, let's see.

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Speaker 3: We started the show by by talking about Tony Pike,

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Speaker 3: and for those of you who don't know, Tony put

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Speaker 3: on social media. Tony is no longer with the company,

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Speaker 3: and he's not the only one on R cluster, and

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Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time on that. The part

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Speaker 3: of about Tony that I didn't talk about U and

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Speaker 3: we discussed his on air work. What it's been like

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Speaker 3: to be his teammate, what it's been like to be

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Speaker 3: uh for me at least, to have him as a

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Speaker 3: friend in my life. What it's been like to watch

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Speaker 3: him grow professionally. It's also been fun to watch. I

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Speaker 3: am I think I'm nine years older than Tony, but

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00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 3: when he started working here, he was a single guy

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Speaker 3: and h you know, as as his friend kind of

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00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 3: at different places in our lives. What has been fun

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Speaker 3: to watch aside from you know, being his his co

695
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Speaker 3: worker and doing shows with him and Mondays at Twin

696
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 3: Peaks and all that. You know, Tony recently celebrated. We

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00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 3: joked about this over the weekend his wedding anniversary, his

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Speaker 3: sixth wedding anniversary. I don't know that I've ever met

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Speaker 3: anybody who has moved more quickly than Tony, because he

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Speaker 3: got married in October of twenty nineteen, and I think

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Speaker 3: within three and a half years, had three kids and

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Speaker 3: so to watch Tony as a dad and watch Tony

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Speaker 3: as a husband and have a very very, very very

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Speaker 3: I don't even want to say a role, but being

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Speaker 3: in their lives to the extent that I've been has

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Speaker 3: been also a lot of fun as well. And as

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Speaker 3: hurt as we were here to find out that Tony's

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Speaker 3: not with us, as hurt as I am for our audience,

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Speaker 3: and as much as it sucks for us here, you

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Speaker 3: know you're out of your mind if your first thought

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Speaker 3: isn't well, this is a guy with three kids, and

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Speaker 3: this is a guy with a young family and a

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Speaker 3: growing family and a great family. And so the radio

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Speaker 3: part of this is obviously important, and the friendship part

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Speaker 3: of this for me, I think Austin and everybody here

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Speaker 3: would tell you the same thing, very very important. But

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Speaker 3: but we're also talking about somebody who we we we

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Speaker 3: love as a father and as a husband and a

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Speaker 3: terrific family man. I don't really know many people who

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Speaker 3: are as loyal to their their their family and their

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Speaker 3: friends as as Tony is, and I uh in talking

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Speaker 3: about him for much of the first hour, I don't

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Speaker 3: know that I I don't know that I gave as

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Speaker 3: much time to that as I should have, because that

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Speaker 3: is it's frankly, far more important than anything you do

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Speaker 3: sitting in a radio studio or standing on a college

727
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Speaker 3: football sideline. So I needed to spend some time on that.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at the phone lines, and you know, folks

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Speaker 3: want to talk about Tony, which is great.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 3: The idea is to let the audience dictate where the

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Speaker 3: show goes. Five nine, fifteen thirty and and so far,

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Speaker 3: so far, and I've looked at social media, nobody has

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Speaker 3: said they let the wrong guy go, and let's be honest,

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Speaker 3: they probably did. And I'm talking about myself. Let's see here,

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Speaker 3: Mark in Florence, You're on ESPN fifteen thirty Market afternoon.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what's up? I was disappointed to hear the news

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Speaker 7: that they let Tony go. I mean, he was he

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Speaker 7: was the main reason, the only reason I called in

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Speaker 7: to the show before you and his came on every morning.

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Speaker 7: So I just but on the positive side, I've been

743
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Speaker 7: through this before in my life when I was in

744
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Speaker 7: the Navy and the new president came in and said, hey,

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Speaker 7: we don't need a big military, and he started slicing

746
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Speaker 7: and dicing, and my.

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Speaker 3: Career was over with.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and then I went to college after that. So

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Speaker 7: I'm saying that to say Tony Pike's media career is

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Speaker 7: not over.

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Speaker 1: Oh hell no.

752
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just this part of his is over with.

753
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 7: He'll land on his feet somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: He'll thrive somewhere else. He'll whatever he does next, he

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Speaker 1: will thrive.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. And this couldn't have happened at the worst time

757
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 7: because with the new quarterback coming in for the Bengals,

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Speaker 7: it would have been perfect to get his take on it. Oh,

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Speaker 7: So I'm hoping I can run into him somewhere and

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Speaker 7: get his take on that, because you know, I'm all

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Speaker 7: in on it because I and the reason I'm all

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Speaker 7: in on this new on the new quarterback coming in

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Speaker 7: is I know the fundamentals are gonna be done right.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, he's going he's.

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Speaker 7: Gonna check the ball down when he's supposed to, and

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Speaker 7: he's gonna go through his reads and hit the guy

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Speaker 7: that's open. I mean, when I watched them in that

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Speaker 7: Cleveland game, when the Bengals played Cleveland, he just took

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Speaker 7: what the defense gave you and they stayed and they

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Speaker 7: stayed on the field. So I think for the most

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Speaker 7: part the Bengals offensive stay on the field a little

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Speaker 7: longer and get the defensive rest.

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Speaker 11: I mean, I'm I think that part of happened.

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Speaker 3: So this might be.

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Speaker 7: Uh, this may be a good thing, you know. Uh,

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Speaker 7: Jake Browning wasn't doing the fundamental things right. And you know,

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Speaker 7: you know how life is. If you don't do the

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Speaker 7: fundamentals right, you.

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Speaker 1: Struggle, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I look, and I'm looking for somebody who first

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Speaker 3: and foremost, when Jamar Chase is open, knows I've got

782
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Speaker 3: to throw him the ball. And with Jake Browning over

783
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Speaker 3: these last three games, you know, there are the picks

784
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Speaker 3: and they're bad. But more than anything, I can't tell

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Speaker 3: you how many plays there were where it felt like

786
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Speaker 3: Jamar's open, or mikea Sicki's open, or someone's open and

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Speaker 3: Jake is not thrown it to him. Uh. And I

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Speaker 3: start there and then you know, roll through everything else

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Speaker 3: that he did poorly. At the very least, if if

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Speaker 3: you bring in Joe Flacco, you should feel like, for

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Speaker 3: the most part, if a guy's open, especially one of

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Speaker 3: your better receivers, if they're open, I should throw the

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Speaker 3: ball toward them.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. So I'm thinking I'm not saying it's gonna be

795
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Speaker 7: exactly like this. You remember when David Qungood was struggling

796
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Speaker 7: back in the nineties, that the Bengals couldn't move the

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Speaker 7: ball anywhere, and then when when when, when he got

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Speaker 7: hurt and then the backup to him got hurt.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Blake came in.

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Speaker 7: And the Bengals, the Bengals could move the ball. Well,

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Speaker 7: that was that was because Blake could read defenses faster

802
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Speaker 7: than those other guys. So I'm thinking Flaco's ability to

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Speaker 7: read defenses, he he may be able to get the

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Speaker 7: ball out quicker and the line may not have to

805
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Speaker 7: hold up as long as they have to hold up,

806
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Speaker 7: say with with with Browning, because Brownie was holding onto

807
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Speaker 7: the ball forever, waiting on a route to develop where

808
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 7: Flacco will probably get rid of it or check it down.

809
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 7: So we'll see what happens. But I think I think

810
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Speaker 7: we'll see a better run offense than what we've been seeing.

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Speaker 7: And I'll get off and listen to the rest of

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Speaker 7: the show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Mark, thank you, I appreciate I appreciate you calling in.

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Speaker 3: I agree. Look, my level of expectation isn't that the

815
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco is going to rewrite the record book as

816
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Speaker 3: the Bengals starting quarterback. I'm starting from a very very

817
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Speaker 3: very I'm starting for a place where the bar is

818
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 3: very very low. When Jamar Chase is open, well, you

819
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Speaker 3: understand you have to throw it to him. Now, within

820
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Speaker 3: that framework, Joe Flacker will probably throw picks. He's thrown

821
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Speaker 3: a bunch already this year. If the pushback, though, is

822
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 3: he's too immobile, and that's going to be a disaster

823
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Speaker 3: behind this offensive line. Okay, I think every quarterback is

824
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 3: going to be compromised by this offensive line. I'm willing

825
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Speaker 3: to sacrifice a little of what a more mobile quarterback

826
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Speaker 3: could give them for a guy that I know could

827
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Speaker 3: be a quick study, Like that's part of this man.

828
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 3: They're trying to compete in the game on Sunday. They're

829
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 3: trying to win the game on Sunday. So in order

830
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 3: to do that, Joe Flacco is going to have to

831
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 3: pick up a significant chunk of the Bengals offense. That's

832
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Speaker 3: not to say that nobody else could, but there is

833
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 3: a track record here of this quarterback showing up in

834
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Speaker 3: a place and having the offense down enough to keep

835
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Speaker 3: it functional in a very short amount of time. Maybe

836
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 3: not as short of a window as he is dealing

837
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 3: with here, but certainly short a couple of years ago

838
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 3: in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: All right, So can you be a quick study?

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Speaker 3: Yes, And if Jamar Chase is open, and I make

841
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 3: it more about him because for me at least, and

842
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 3: by the way, speaking of whom, Tony put a wonderful

843
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 3: series of plays or breakdowns on Twitter after the Denver game,

844
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 3: pointing out mistakes, pointing out guys that Jake Browning could

845
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 3: have thrown to. When I think of these last few games,

846
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: more than anything, I think of the amount of times

847
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 3: where it felt like Jamar Chase was open and Jake

848
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 3: Browning didn't even try to throw him the ball. I

849
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 3: can be dead wrong about this, but I believe that

850
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 3: number one, Joe Flacco can pick up the offense quickly,

851
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 3: and number two, if Jamar Chase is open, Joe Flacco

852
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 3: will look his way. All the other stuff I will

853
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 3: admit are problematic, the lack of mobility. You know the

854
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 3: fact that this year he's already been bench once his age, like, yes,

855
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 3: but he's a backup quarterback. Like I used the analogy yesterday.

856
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 3: And it's not to disparage donuts. He is the best

857
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 3: of the bad donuts you pick up off the tray

858
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 3: when you arrive to the meeting three and a half

859
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 3: hours late, and there's only a handful of options, Like,

860
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 3: you're not picking a good one up. If you're looking

861
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Speaker 3: for a starting quote back, a starting quarterback before week

862
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 3: six from another team or from the street, you're sifting

863
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Speaker 3: through a whole lot of less than good options. There

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Speaker 3: I don't know, watch any game that's on TV. Long

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Speaker 3: neck sports girl. You got Wilder, you got hebron you

901
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 3: got you got rich Wood. Joe Flacco is going to

902
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 3: be the quarterback. More of your phone calls in in

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00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 3: just a few minutes on the Flacco thing. You know

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00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 3: you folks who roll their eyes, Oh, really, this is

905
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 3: the best they could do. He's totally immobile? Or Bengals

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Speaker 3: are you know, the Bengals being Bengals. I'm not even

907
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 3: sure anybody's actually said that. Do you realize for the

908
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals to do what they did, how truly awful?

909
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 3: The quarterback play had to have been with Jake Browning.

910
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 3: The Bengals made an unprecedented deal for their franchise. It

911
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 3: was with the Evelynn Brown's. This franchise, which by the way,

912
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 3: values continuity and stability more than maybe any other, decided

913
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Speaker 3: in season to change quarterbacks and bringing a guy who

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Speaker 3: played against him week one.

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Speaker 1: Like that play. This is Jake Browning's fault.

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Speaker 3: Now, the the overall I guess situation the Bengals find

917
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 3: themselves in is their fault because they couldn't protect and

918
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 3: keep Joe Burrow upright, Like I understand that, but a

919
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 3: backup quarterback that they have invested a lot of time

920
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Speaker 3: and energy in that they have brought along, they have

921
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Speaker 3: groomed like it's the Bengals most patient franchise ever. And

922
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Speaker 3: they saw three games worth of Jake Browning playing quarterback

923
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Speaker 3: and said, we're gonna do something we've never done before,

924
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Speaker 3: and in trade for Joe Flacco to be the backup, like,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna take what is already a tough job, Like

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Speaker 3: Zach Taylor's job is already really hard because he's coaching

927
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Speaker 3: a team that doesn't have its meal ticket, and he's

928
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Speaker 3: working with a roster that has all sorts of flaws.

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Speaker 3: And we just added to the degree of difficulty. You've

930
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 3: got to teach a new quarterback the offense. Granted and

931
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: experienced QB. We've got to teach this quarterback the offense.

932
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Speaker 3: Have him go on the road against a good Green

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Speaker 3: Bay Packers team, try to win a football game, try

934
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Speaker 3: to get our season back on course. For them to

935
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Speaker 3: embrace this challenge, the quarterback play they were getting from

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00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 3: Jake Browning couldn't just be bad. It had to be

937
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 3: Historically awful remedial, like just well below NFL level caliber.

938
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 3: NFL caliber QB play easy for me to say. I'm

939
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 3: not sure there's a total appreciation there probably is here,

940
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 3: maybe not from outsiders. It just looks like Bengals need

941
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 3: a QB. They turned to Joe Flacco. Jake Browning was

942
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 3: being called by some after two weeks he came in

943
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Speaker 3: that Week two game against Jacksonville was being labeled by

944
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 3: some the best backup quarterback in the NFL. I think

945
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 3: ESPN they ranked all the backup qbs, which doesn't sound

946
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 3: like a very fun job. They ranked them second. Like

947
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 3: the consensus was, as backup qbs go, this guy's really good.

948
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Speaker 3: The Bengals didn't give him a month. Good for them,

949
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Speaker 3: by the way. He was so wretched that the most

950
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Speaker 3: patient franchise ever with a coaching staff that already has

951
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 3: a really tough job in front of it, they said,

952
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 3: to hell with that.

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Speaker 1: We'll make a trade with the Browns.

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Speaker 3: We'll make our head coach's life more difficult, and we'll

955
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 3: bag on using a guy that we have invested parts

956
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Speaker 3: of four seasons in. That's not something you do lightly,

957
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 3: that's not something you do haphazardly. That's something you do

958
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 3: if the quarterback play is so terrible and you feel

959
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 3: like the season is worth salvaging.

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Speaker 1: And by the way I think it is now.

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Speaker 3: Look, when Joe Burrow was healthy, I might not be

962
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Speaker 3: speaking for you or anybody else. When Joe Burrow was healthy,

963
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 3: I did not believe the Bengals were a super Bowl team.

964
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 3: I thought they were a playoff team. Thought they'd at

965
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 3: best make the postseason as a wildcard, and then we

966
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 3: would talk about how dangerous they are once they got there.

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00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,959
Speaker 3: So maybe you disagreed, But what the moment that Joe

968
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 3: Burrow got hurt, I certainly understood like that might be

969
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 3: their super Bowl chances. But I didn't look at the

970
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Speaker 3: Bengals through that lens because the roster I don't believe

971
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 3: is good enough and there was too many there were

972
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Speaker 3: too many things that you didn't trust coming into the

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00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 3: season to make you feel like, at least for me,

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Speaker 3: that the Bengals can win the title even with Joe

975
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Speaker 3: Burrow playing quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So ah, now it's Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 3: Do I feel like this team, with the possibility at

978
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 3: least that Joe comes back in mid December, can put

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Speaker 3: themselves in a position to use the last couple of

980
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 3: weeks to get in. Yeah, I do, and like I'm

981
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Speaker 3: the guy who thinks the roster is not very good,

982
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Speaker 3: but I also don't think the AFC is very good.

983
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 3: I also think the AFC North is very good. Browns

984
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 3: are a mess right now, Baltimore is a mess. Pittsburgh's better.

985
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 3: Give a lot of credit to Aaron Rodgers. Still not

986
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 3: buying them is like runaway favorites in the AFC North.

987
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 3: Despite what the standings currently look like, it's hard to

988
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 3: identify five really good teams in the AFC, much less

989
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 3: seven playoff squads. I don't Somebody said on the show

990
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 3: yesterday they were hoping the Bengals would tank. I don't know,

991
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 3: man like not now. I also think it's really hard

992
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 3: to do. I think thanking is one of the more

993
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 3: difficult things in sports because the players care too much,

994
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 3: coaches care too much. But I think with the schedule

995
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 3: easing up after these next couple of weeks, having an

996
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 3: experienced quarterback, having a pretty damn healthy team offensively and defensively,

997
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 3: top to bottom, yeah, I think there's something more salvaging here.

998
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 3: I don't know Joe Flacco will salvage this season. I'm

999
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,760
Speaker 3: not sure I trust this roster to salvage this season,

1000
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 3: but I think this is a good, necessary, step. But

1001
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 3: it's one created by the fact that the caliber of

1002
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 3: play they were getting from Jake Browning was huge. Rid Like,

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00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 3: we know what average or slightly below average quarterback play

1004
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 3: looks like. We haven't seen many just you know, blatantly

1005
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 3: terrible performances, much less three straight. So yeah, all in,

1006
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 3: all in on Joe Flacco at least making it interesting

1007
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 3: and more than anything, giving them a better chance to

1008
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 3: win the Jake Browning. I'm not all in on them

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00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 3: being a Super Bowl contender, because you may disagree. I

1010
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 3: didn't think they were one to begin with. Twenty seven

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Speaker 3: after four o'clock, your phone calls are coming up sports

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Speaker 3: confirmed today Joe Flacco is going to be the starting

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Speaker 3: quarterback for the Bengals on Sunday when they take on

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Speaker 3: the Packers at lambeau Field. Four to twenty five. Will

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Speaker 3: be your kickoff. You'll listen to her live. I hope

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Speaker 3: tonight on Bengals game plan that is going to be

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Speaker 3: from six to eight on ESPN fifteen thirty. By the way,

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00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 3: Jake Browning did talk with reporters. I'm looking at tweets

1037
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Speaker 3: from Jay Morrison of Bengals Talk dot Com, where Jay

1038
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 3: conveys that Jake Browning says, and you can understand why

1039
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 3: he is pissed, but if he wasn't pissed, he shouldn't

1040
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 3: be in the locker room. He says, he won't be

1041
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 3: walking around sulking, He'll be staying prepared. Uh, you want

1042
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 3: a Bengals injury report, I'm here for you. I give

1043
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 3: it to you.

1044
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: I give you the injury report.

1045
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 3: Lucas Lucas, Dylan Fairchild a no go at practice today.

1046
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 3: Lucas Patrick has been cleared to return to practice, which

1047
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 3: is a good thing.

1048
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: Uh, what else do we have? Shamar Stewart was limited.

1049
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 3: I have almost completely and totally lost my Bengals injury report.

1050
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 3: That's why I sound so unprepared.

1051
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 10: What else?

1052
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 3: Baseball playoffs Seattle is now up. Last I looked, they

1053
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,439
Speaker 3: just went to commercialize. I think it's three to nothing, Yes,

1054
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 3: three nothing. M's they headed the bottom of the fifth

1055
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 3: inning in Detroit. Tiger's coming to the play trying to

1056
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 3: avoid elimination. Tonight in the National League, Brewers and Cubs

1057
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 3: at Wrigley Field getting underway in about thirty minutes. Milwaukee

1058
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 3: leads that series two games to none. Toronto's at New

1059
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 3: York Yankees staved off elimination with a comeback last.

1060
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: Night, seven to eight.

1061
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 3: First pitch in the Bronx, Toronto obviously still up to one,

1062
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 3: Dodgers trying to close out the Phillies up two games

1063
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 3: to non game three tonight in Los Angeles. Well organized,

1064
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 3: well oiled piece of machinery right here, let's see, Larry.

1065
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 3: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Larry, thanks for hanging on.

1066
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 3: How are you.

1067
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Speaker 6: Disappointed?

1068
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 3: Likewise?

1069
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 12: Well, you know, I had quit listening to sports radio.

1070
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 12: I mean, I just I don't know, it just became

1071
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 12: kind of inane. Then I kind of tuned back in

1072
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 12: when Rocky for the Rocky and Most Show, because I'd

1073
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 12: coached Rocky and he's a great.

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Speaker 6: Guy, and.

1075
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 12: So so then Tony came in and I said, you know,

1076
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 12: this guy's a breath of fresh air. And then then

1077
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Speaker 12: I listened to he and Austin and I said, you know,

1078
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 12: these guys are fun. You know, I didn't feel like

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00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 12: I was sitting in a lecture hall listening to someone

1080
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 12: about sports. I felt like the guys that really just

1081
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 12: loved the games that they covered. They they studied hard

1082
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 12: because out of that love, not because it was a

1083
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 12: job that they had to prepare for. I listened to

1084
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 12: Tony do the color analysis of the of the game Saturday,

1085
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 12: and I said, this guy is so much better than

1086
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 12: this clown that I heard on television Sunday. Yeah, you know,

1087
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 12: it just it's just so unfair that they had to

1088
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Speaker 12: take him off the air. I'm not used talking.

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Speaker 5: On the radio.

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Speaker 12: I talked to a lot of people, but yeah, anyway,

1091
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Speaker 12: I just totally disappointed. I think that Tony did a

1092
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 12: heck of a lot better job at what he does

1093
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 12: than the person that fired him does what he does.

1094
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 12: Because he obviously made a huge mistake. I think he

1095
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 12: underestimated the audience. I think they're gonna be repercussion from

1096
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 12: it somehow, some way. I know that my interest in

1097
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 12: listening to anything iHeart has gone down the tube. In fact,

1098
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 12: I had a radio went dead on me. I didn't

1099
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 12: bother replacing it because I listened to iHeart. That's not

1100
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 12: gonna happen. What happened buying a radio and the act

1101
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 12: with iHeart. But I just want to express my frustration,

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01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 12: appreciation for Tony and Austin. Austin does a good job,

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Speaker 12: you know, and it'll be interesting to see what happens

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Speaker 12: with the former Tony and Most show, because it can't

1105
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 12: get any better than that was.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of you.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you that your feelings are invalid,

1108
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 3: and I'm also not speaking from the perspective of trying

1109
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 3: to be a company man. What I will tell you

1110
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 3: is in that time slot, as much as I will

1111
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 3: miss Tony, I believe if you have listened to that

1112
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 3: show for a few weeks, a couple of months, a

1113
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 3: few years, I think Austin deserves a shot. I think

1114
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 3: Austin deserves And when I say he deserves a shot,

1115
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 3: he's he's you know, I I think if and for

1116
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 3: what it's worth for those who don't know, Austin is

1117
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 3: is taking the next few days off pre planned trip

1118
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 3: to go watch the Bengals play. So if you don't

1119
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 3: hear him for the next couple of days, Austin is fine.

1120
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Speaker 3: That was That was a great well, without question, that

1121
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 3: is a great show with the two of them together,

1122
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 3: and the departure of one does not mean you have

1123
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 3: to give up on the other. Uh, you might want

1124
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 3: to give up on. You might want to give up

1125
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 3: on the other day parts of the radio station. You

1126
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 3: might think this show is garbage, and that's totally fine,

1127
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 3: But I would tell you that if you have invested

1128
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 3: time in Tony and Austin together, as disappointing as it is,

1129
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 3: that Tony's not there, I think the work that Austin

1130
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 3: does and the the responsibility that he'll assume being on

1131
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 3: in that slot deserves the audience as a whole to

1132
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 3: give him an opportunity, and I think most will give

1133
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 3: it to him. And so be angry and be upset

1134
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 3: and use our airwaves to ven if you want, and

1135
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 3: feel however you want to feel about who you know

1136
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 3: that the folks who made this decision. But I would

1137
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 3: hope that you would still give Austin the chance to

1138
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 3: be a big part of your day as a listener.

1139
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 12: Well, Austin, I think has done a tremendous job. He

1140
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 12: works at it really hard, and he he deserves a

1141
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 12: decent audience.

1142
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 1: He deserves more.

1143
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 12: Respect than I've heard him give him over there. Some

1144
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 12: of these people who have all have been pretty ridiculous.

1145
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 12: But yeah, Austin does.

1146
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: A great job.

1147
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 12: I will be listening to Austin. But as far as

1148
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 12: I'm concerned, ihearts did. I'll be listening on my transistor.

1149
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 1: Larry, I understand.

1150
01:03:57,120 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 3: And I appreciate you calling in and and and chiming

1151
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 3: in and listening today. Thanks, thanks very much. It it sucks,

1152
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 3: and you know it. I am a fan of this

1153
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 3: medium and have been since I was, you know, eight

1154
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 3: or nine years old. I you know, but God knows,

1155
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 3: I've I've bored you with this for for a number

1156
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 3: of years, over the course of a number of different occasions.

1157
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 3: But like I decided when I was nine years old,

1158
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 3: I wanted to work in radio. I know how to

1159
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 3: do it, didn't know what I wanted to do. But

1160
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 3: like I knew when I was a little kid, man

1161
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 3: like I just want I want to work at a

1162
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 3: radio station. My my love for this, I didn't want

1163
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 3: to say industry, for this, for doing this, for being

1164
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 3: a part of this goes back to when I was

1165
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,959
Speaker 3: a little kid. I literally never wanted to do anything else.

1166
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 3: And I'm a fan of it. Like I mentioned this

1167
01:04:55,280 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 3: on rare occasion, like I am a sports talk radio dork.

1168
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: I listen.

1169
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 3: I listened to eight to ten sports talk radio shows

1170
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 3: on a regular basis, and then a handful of others

1171
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 3: that I catch from time to time. On top of

1172
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 3: liking general talk, like I have a genuine love and

1173
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 3: passion and interest in this, and so it kills me

1174
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 3: as somebody who loves this when it's compromised, when good

1175
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 3: people like Tony or let go and others across the company.

1176
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 3: But I view this, I look at this through two

1177
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 3: different lenses. One is, Tony's my friend, he's my colleague.

1178
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 3: He's somebody I care about. He's somebody I admire, somebody

1179
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 3: I can't say enough good things about him. But I

1180
01:05:56,520 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 3: also say it as a listener. It sucks, and I

1181
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 3: don't have a better, more gentle way of putting it.

1182
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 3: It sucks so hard when you know, you listen to

1183
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 3: a show every single day, and maybe it's the entire show,

1184
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,920
Speaker 3: maybe it's live, maybe it's podcast, maybe it's hey, i'm

1185
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 3: in my car from you know, let's say, in their

1186
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 3: time slot twelve to twelve twenty every day, and it becomes,

1187
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 3: I think, more than any other medium part of your day.

1188
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 3: Like that's that's the beauty of I think, as hokey

1189
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 3: as it sounds, it's the cool part about radio, whether

1190
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 3: it's listening to this station or another one, or music

1191
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 3: whatever it is, Like that becomes part of like your routine,

1192
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 3: your day. I mean, I can tell you where I

1193
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 3: need to be in the morning based on when unsportsmen

1194
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 3: like take certain breaks, or based on when Tom brennanman

1195
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 3: takes certain breaks down the hall. It becomes a part

1196
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 3: of your day. And then someone just decides to take

1197
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 3: that part of your day away like it. There are

1198
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 3: not enough people in a decision making capacity in our

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Speaker 3: business who even consider that much less respected, like that's

1200
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 3: a disruption rights. What's fun about? I think radio more

1201
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 3: than anything else, God knows, there's awesome podcasters out there.

1202
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 3: Is it becomes a part of your day, like it's

1203
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 3: it's there, It's always on, and you turn on this

1204
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 3: show at this radio station at four forty four in

1205
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 3: the afternoon, you expect to hear me. There's obviously days

1206
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 3: I'm not here and suddenly that goes away. In regards

1207
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 3: to since he three sixty like it, it's it. I

1208
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 3: hate it. The best part about this is that like

1209
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 3: routine element, and the worst part about it is that

1210
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 3: folks in a decision making capacity and by the way,

1211
01:07:54,440 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 3: not in Cincinnati just take that away. Suddenly, no heads up,

1212
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 3: no chance to say goodbye, like I hate it. So

1213
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 3: the fallout from that is you hear folks like our

1214
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 3: guy Larry, who are pissed off because he loved listening

1215
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 3: to that show and suddenly a big part of it's gone.

1216
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I get that.

1217
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 3: I get that because I have felt that as a listener,

1218
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:33,719
Speaker 3: and beyond just the obvious, which is it's our guy,

1219
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 3: it's our friend, and you know, removing him just disrupts

1220
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 3: what we do, makes it less fun. It's it's hard

1221
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 3: for the audience, and I I empathize. I understand that.

1222
01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 3: It's quarter to five. This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

1223
01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 2: Station Cincinnati's ESPN on fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: Distreekware and the fact that you are not being pulled

1234
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 3: over right now. Dylan Fairchild and no go. Let's see

1235
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,759
Speaker 3: bj Hill full go today. Charlie Jones limited, Lucas Patrick

1236
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 3: cleared to return to practice, also limited, Drew Sample, no goo,

1237
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 3: Shamar Stewart limited. Bengals and Packers on Sunday four, twenty five.

1238
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 3: Bengals game plan is tonight at six on ESPN fifteen

1239
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 3: thirty three straight run scoring heads for the Tigers. They

1240
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 3: have tied the game me against Seattle in the bottom

1241
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 3: of the fifth inning three to three. Detroit still batting

1242
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 3: Mariners up in that series two games to one. This

1243
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 3: is thanks to our friend Mike Petrellia aka Trags. We

1244
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 3: talked about Jake Browning. Jake Browning did talk today, and

1245
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:17,280
Speaker 3: by the way, give him a measure of credit for it,

1246
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 3: because he has no obligation. I don't shove him out

1247
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,600
Speaker 3: there to do the weekly press conference like they do

1248
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 3: when he is the starter. But answered questions today about

1249
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 3: being benched. And here's Jake Browning doing that. Thanks to tracks.

1250
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:31,640
Speaker 10: No.

1251
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 13: I mean, I'm socially aware enough I think to handle

1252
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 13: it on my own. I think it sucks, but like

1253
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 13: I said, everyone's in the middle. Everyone's in the middle

1254
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 13: of the season. And you know, I think, welcome, welcome

1255
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 13: to pro football. If you don't play well, you're gonna

1256
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:47,679
Speaker 13: get replaced. And uh, you know that's what I'm going through.

1257
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 13: And you know, I think, just like the general theme

1258
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 13: for myself is you know, anybody that is going through

1259
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 13: some university, whether it's football or personal stuff, you know,

1260
01:10:57,880 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 13: if you go through it and deal with it the

1261
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 13: right way, there's no way you don't come out at

1262
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 13: the other end, you know, a better version of who

1263
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 13: you who you were. And so you know, for me,

1264
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 13: it's like, you know, trying to respond the right way.

1265
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 13: Obviously I'm pissed, and if I wasn't pissed, then I

1266
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 13: shouldn't be in this locker room. And it's important to me.

1267
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 13: And you know, I'm aware of the role I played

1268
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:19,719
Speaker 13: and in the offensive struggles over the last few weeks,

1269
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:22,520
Speaker 13: and you know, but I'm also not shouldering the entire.

1270
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: Situation.

1271
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 13: And uh, you know, I went through yesterday, watched my throws,

1272
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 13: tried to come up with some stuff that I want

1273
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 13: to work on and just doing that.

1274
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,759
Speaker 3: Look, he's playing behind in a mobile old quarterback who's

1275
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:40,760
Speaker 3: going to be playing behind a bad offensive line, and

1276
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 3: so they need Jake brown And to get better because

1277
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 3: he's a pretty damn good chance he's going to play

1278
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 3: at some point. But you would expect him to be upset.

1279
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 3: Took some degree of accountability, large degree of accountability, and

1280
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 3: made himself available. And there's a lot of folks in

1281
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 3: his shoes, perhaps maybe including myself. If I was in

1282
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 3: his shoes, who would have said, Yeah, I'm not gonna talk.

1283
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 3: Go talk to Joe Flacco, go talk to other folks.

1284
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go and hide. He did not do that

1285
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 3: good for him. The quarterback play was substandard. There's no

1286
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,719
Speaker 3: getting around this. Tarran made this point to me earlier.

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Speaker 3: You know, Zach Taylor. We can debate how much he's

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01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 3: on the hot seat, but like, there is a degree

1289
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 3: of scrutiny here that matters. Kevin Stefanski, with Joe Flacco

1290
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 3: two years ago, won the NFL's Coach of the Year award.

1291
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 3: Now that season, the Browns had great defense, but he

1292
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 3: won that award in part because of his work with

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01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, getting them up to speed, coaching them up,

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01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 3: getting them ready to have the offense function. Terren's team,

1295
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell, they bring in Josh Dobbs, they trade for

1296
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 3: him on Tuesday, he plays for them on Sunday. Kevin O'Connell,

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01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 3: who our friend Tony Pike things is the best coach

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01:12:56,880 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 3: in the NFL, got an extension with the Vikings. This

1299
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 3: passed off season, but that was I think when he

1300
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 3: kind of burst into the national consciousness, if you will.

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01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 3: Where they go get Josh Dobbs and Kevin O'Connell gets

1302
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 3: him ready to play Week one, gets him ready to

1303
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 3: play and function and have the offense work.

1304
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: They won the football game.

1305
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 3: And so this is an opportunity for Zach Taylor, which

1306
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 3: by the way, I think he did a good job

1307
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 3: getting Jake Browning ready two years ago. This is an

1308
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 3: opportunity for Zach Taylor to show off some coaching chops

1309
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 3: and do something that's been done before. We've used the

1310
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 3: example Baker Mayfield with the Rams a couple of years ago,

1311
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 3: where he got to town on a Tuesday, played on

1312
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 3: Thursday and they won the Heck, we've talked a lot

1313
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 3: this week about Kyle Shanahan and the forty nine ers.

1314
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 3: Last week on Thursday Night Football, a whole bunch of dudes,

1315
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:53,839
Speaker 3: hurt backup quarterback, pieced together a game plan that worked,

1316
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 3: and they beat the Rams on a short week, tough opponent,

1317
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 3: division opponent.

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01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: On the road.

1319
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 3: So well, all right, Like Zach, this to me is

1320
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 3: this is the coaching challenge that I think should ultimately

1321
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 3: dictate where the conversation goes more than anywhere else. Quick change,

1322
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 3: less than ideal set of circumstances, tough opponent on the road,

1323
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 3: three straight losses, a guy you just brought to Cincinnati. Now,

1324
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 3: it's not like the dudes never played before. Joe Flacco

1325
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:31,759
Speaker 3: has a ton of experience, but can he get him ready?

1326
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 3: Like this is? Terror made this point to me off air,

1327
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 3: and he's right, like this is this is where there's

1328
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of attention and a lot of

1329
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:42,640
Speaker 3: scrutiny and maybe ultimately where he can either win some

1330
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 3: people over or make people go you know what, This

1331
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 3: ain't it And a lot of folks are obviously already there,

1332
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 3: but these are This is one of those situations that

1333
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,559
Speaker 3: I think tests you as a coach. This is one

1334
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 3: of those situations, not unlike what Joe Flacco's coach two

1335
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 3: years ago had to encounter, and he got the team

1336
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 3: to the postseason, won the NFL's Coach of the Year award.

1337
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 3: So we'll see. I guess there's gonna be there's gonna

1338
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 3: be a lot of attention paid.

1339
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 1: We'll see if he's up to the task.

1340
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 3: So far this year, it is completely fair to say

1341
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 3: that Zach Taylor has not the disintegration of the run game,

1342
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 3: the inability to craft game plans around Jake Browning, the

1343
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,640
Speaker 3: inability to find anything that works for this offense. You

1344
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:36,639
Speaker 3: might argue a lot of it would have been undone

1345
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 3: anyway by the awful quarterback play. But this team has

1346
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:43,640
Speaker 3: not looked ultra prepared. They certainly didn't against Denver, and

1347
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:46,519
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like they're at all equipped to come

1348
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 3: up with solutions that make them slightly more competitive. All Right,

1349
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 3: we're changing quarterbacks. We're giving you somebody who's got experience.

1350
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 3: Get to work getting this guy up to speed, make

1351
01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:00,680
Speaker 3: the offense more or functional.

1352
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: When some folks over, We'll see if he can do that.

1353
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 3: It's coming up on five o'clock, five one three, seven,

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Speaker 3: four nine, fifteen thirty. This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: I will probably have one here very very soon, very

1362
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 3: very soon. I am. I am not going to repeat

1363
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:56,320
Speaker 3: the the twenty minute soliloquy that I launched into at

1364
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 3: the top of the show, but I'll sort of in

1365
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 3: camps lies things quickly here. It's been awesome to hear

1366
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 3: from a lot of you there. There are often times

1367
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 3: where a radio station will go through a personnel change.

1368
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 3: And if you don't know Tony, Tony Pike announced on

1369
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 3: his social media a little before noon today, which is

1370
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 3: obviously when he would have been on the air, that

1371
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 3: he has left the company. And he's not leaving the

1372
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 3: company as part of his own doing. And he's not

1373
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 3: the only one. And Tony did nothing wrong, and Tony

1374
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 3: did not underperform, and oftentimes you're you're kind of told

1375
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 3: don't really talk about it. I think that's ridiculous. And

1376
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 3: what I will say is, nobody has told me not

1377
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 3: to talk about Tony. Nobody has told me not to

1378
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 3: take phone calls about Tony. And when when you ask

1379
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:46,559
Speaker 3: an audience to be loyal and then you take away

1380
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 3: somebody they listened to on a regular basis, I think

1381
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 3: you owe it to them to give them a chance

1382
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 3: to kind of speak their mind. And so we've heard

1383
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 3: from a lot of folks today about Tony and we've

1384
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 3: worked in some sports talk to the best we can.

1385
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:04,840
Speaker 3: I certainly do appreciate everybody bearing with us. This has

1386
01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 3: not been an easy show to do. These haven't been

1387
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 3: two easy shows to do. Because we found out about

1388
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 3: this yesterday and I think Austin and I both felt

1389
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:19,960
Speaker 3: like that was Tony's announcement to make, so it went

1390
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 3: unmentioned by us yesterday. And thank god for Joe Flacco,

1391
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:29,600
Speaker 3: by the way, because I'm sitting there yesterday and my

1392
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:31,640
Speaker 3: energy is drained, and it's like, all right, I can

1393
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 3: make some jokes about Joe Flacco on Twitter, and then

1394
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:37,440
Speaker 3: we could do a show about Joe Flacco, but inside

1395
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 3: my heart's hurting for Tony. And so Tony is no

1396
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 3: longer with us. And we started the show by talking

1397
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 3: about his impact on the radio station and my friendship

1398
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 3: with him and how much I have valued him as

1399
01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:52,760
Speaker 3: a teammate and a colleague and how I value him

1400
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 3: more than anything else as a friend. And the good

1401
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 3: news is that part for me doesn't end and wherever

1402
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 3: Tony goes, and I don't know what that's going to

1403
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 3: look like. I don't know what he wants to do,

1404
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 3: but if he chooses to make a living in front

1405
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 3: of a microphone, he will be even better. And he's

1406
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 3: already damn good. So I don't know that anybody wants

1407
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 3: to hear the twenty minutes that I started the show with,

1408
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 3: but I just hope he. I hope Tony and I

1409
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 3: know he listened at the top because he did sent

1410
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 3: me a text. And I cannot imagine when you get,

1411
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 3: you know, thrown away by a radio station, that you

1412
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:33,600
Speaker 3: have that much of an appetite to listen to the

1413
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 3: radio station. So I'm sure he's not listening now, but

1414
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 3: I hope he feels the deep appreciation that everybody has

1415
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 3: for him, and I'm talking everybody here and everybody in

1416
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:52,719
Speaker 3: our audience, everybody in our orbit, folks in social media,

1417
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 3: folks in sports, and most importantly, frankly, you guys, the

1418
01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,720
Speaker 3: people who listen to this show and people who listen

1419
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 3: to this radio station and consume our content. I hope

1420
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 3: as hard as I'm sure finding out that he's being

1421
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 3: let go was that he could take soulis in the

1422
01:20:10,960 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 3: fact that a lot of folks have expressed their appreciation

1423
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 3: for him, their admiration for him, and like me, can't

1424
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 3: wait to find out where he surfaces next. And wherever

1425
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 3: that is, I know I'll be in the audience. So

1426
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 3: we have a few waiting patiently. We will play the

1427
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor audio. That'd be fun, be fun to hear

1428
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:35,599
Speaker 3: from Zach Taylor today. We do have Bengals game plan

1429
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 3: as soon as we're done at six o'clock tonight on

1430
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty one. More on just kind of what's

1431
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 3: going on here. I appreciate the patients that folks have shown,

1432
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 3: because I don't know that yesterday's show was very good,

1433
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,200
Speaker 3: and I don't know that today has been all that

1434
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 3: much better, because we're distracted by something that bothers us.

1435
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:57,599
Speaker 3: But I do think that our guy Austin today and

1436
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,879
Speaker 3: yesterday in a position that he has never been in before,

1437
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 3: was unequivocally awesome. And I said this to a caller

1438
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 3: last hour who basically said, they're kind of done, you know, listening,

1439
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 3: and that's you know, that's a choice that you make,

1440
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 3: and it's up to yours, and it's a choice that

1441
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 3: people who run radio stations have to live with when

1442
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 3: they move on from somebody who is a beloved personality

1443
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 3: in somebody the audience loves. But I sincerely hope that

1444
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 3: if you made since he three to sixty a part

1445
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 3: of your daily routine, that you give Austin a chance

1446
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 3: to take the show wherever he wants it to go,

1447
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 3: because I think he'll do great too, And I hope

1448
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 3: he's afforded the opportunity. I know he'll be afforded the

1449
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:45,719
Speaker 3: opportunity here. I hope he's afforded the opportunity by folks

1450
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 3: who listen to that show every single day with Tony

1451
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 3: and Austin. So there you go. Let's see the Bengals

1452
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:53,600
Speaker 3: news of the day. By the way, Joe Flacko, if

1453
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 3: you were wondering, is going to be the starting quarterback

1454
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 3: on Sunday. I don't think that comes to the surprise

1455
01:21:57,560 --> 01:22:00,400
Speaker 3: if anybody. Jake Browning did talk earlier today, played the

1456
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:03,799
Speaker 3: audio before the top of the hour and says, essentially,

1457
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 3: it sucks, but I'm gonna do my thing. He kind

1458
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 3: of gets it, like Jake Browning can't be that dumb.

1459
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 3: And I would not imagine he was shocked by the

1460
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 3: news that he's not going to be the starting QB.

1461
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:15,799
Speaker 3: He might have been stunned by who the starting quarterback

1462
01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 3: is going to be. But I think he is painfully

1463
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 3: familiar with how bad his play was, and I think

1464
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 3: what you wonder is how many more opportunities is he

1465
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:28,439
Speaker 3: going to get. I viewed this for him and for

1466
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 3: the team as if you have to turn to a

1467
01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 3: backup quarterback, you could do a hell of a lot

1468
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 3: worse than Jake Browning, Right. I don't think any of

1469
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 3: us feel that way anymore. But also, what an opportunity

1470
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:44,840
Speaker 3: for him to prove that he could take on the

1471
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:47,879
Speaker 3: load that comes with being a starting quarterback in the NFL,

1472
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 3: and he did not take advantage of the opportunity. You

1473
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 3: wonder how many more will come his way. We'll see

1474
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 3: all right, long winded. By the way, Richard Skinner's gonna

1475
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 3: join us in eight minutes, that'd be good. Let's see here,

1476
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 3: we have folks waiting patient and I appreciate everybody.

1477
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 10: Ian.

1478
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty.

1479
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,639
Speaker 6: How are you, hey, brother, I'm great.

1480
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 14: I'll just preface this by saying, like my comments are

1481
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 14: gonna be clean. I'm respectful, but you don't have to

1482
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 14: respond to some things that I say.

1483
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 6: That cut deep.

1484
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 7: I'll just say it.

1485
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 14: Listen, man, I listen to you every day. I listen

1486
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 14: to Austin Tony every day. It feels like part of

1487
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 14: my freaking family. Dude, you know your comedic hilarious.

1488
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 12: They have their thing.

1489
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 14: Personality awesome is like a very good radio voice, and

1490
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:51,680
Speaker 14: I sure darn hope we don't lose him too. Very talented,

1491
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 14: and it's kind of puzzling to me. I'm gonna just

1492
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 14: say this and then you're spot after. It's kind of

1493
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 14: similar to like, why would you pay Burrow and these

1494
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 14: receivers this money and not be preemptive and invest in

1495
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 14: line and that goes a bump in Covin. I'm sorry,

1496
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 14: but that's a freaking truth, and they need to face it.

1497
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 14: They need to face it with their scouting. All right,

1498
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 14: let's table that for a second and back to my

1499
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 14: ending of my emotional rant here.

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01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.

1501
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:28,240
Speaker 6: You know, he's a personality of.

1502
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 12: The people of the town.

1503
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 14: I hope I can freaking hear them again somewhere, But

1504
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 14: you just can't come by that often in the world

1505
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 14: of like intense competition with podcasts. And let me say

1506
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 14: that again, very intense competition.

1507
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:47,400
Speaker 11: Why in the heck would.

1508
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 14: You want to give away a personality that strong, that

1509
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 14: that many people have that strong of a connection with.

1510
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:54,879
Speaker 7: The big mistake?

1511
01:24:54,960 --> 01:25:00,160
Speaker 14: And I think that they must be very disconnected. I'm

1512
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 14: the loco and just more looking at numbers and like

1513
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 14: a national kind of a cunt because I don't it

1514
01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 14: doesn't make any sets, just kind of like some of

1515
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,080
Speaker 14: the moods of ownership.

1516
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 11: And I love you guys, I love the shows.

1517
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,599
Speaker 14: I'm gonna stop listening, but I'd love to hear what

1518
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 14: you have to say with what I think.

1519
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:23,480
Speaker 12: It's just quite puzzling.

1520
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 3: Did you really quick? Did know? I appreciate you? I

1521
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,240
Speaker 3: appreciate your thoughts. Did you just describe this show as comedic?

1522
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 6: Well, you're very funny. I think it could be a comedian.

1523
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 7: Man, I think talent.

1524
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 3: You know, things keep going the way they are all

1525
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 3: go to open mic night. Look, you said something that

1526
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 3: I think, as hokey as it sounds, I think has

1527
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 3: always mattered to me when it comes to formats like

1528
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:56,080
Speaker 3: this and shows like this. I know. I listen to

1529
01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 3: Lance McAllister every day when he was on in the

1530
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 3: afternoons on another radio station when I was in.

1531
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:04,240
Speaker 1: College, every day every day.

1532
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 3: And I don't say that to make Lance feel old,

1533
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 3: but he was on from ten o'clock until one o'clock

1534
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:13,360
Speaker 3: every single day. And this is at a radio station

1535
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 3: that doesn't exist anymore, every single day. And then he

1536
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:21,720
Speaker 3: came here and he was on in the afternoon and

1537
01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 3: was on in the afternoon until I got here. And

1538
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:28,479
Speaker 3: then they put Lance on at night every day from

1539
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 3: like nineteen ninety seven through two thousand and nine, and

1540
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 3: then you know, we were splitting the show and it

1541
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,680
Speaker 3: was a little bit different, but every single day, and

1542
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 3: I could tell you what it was like as a listener,

1543
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,679
Speaker 3: and I like got I am a talk radio listener,

1544
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:47,640
Speaker 3: sports talk radio listener, far more than I am a

1545
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 3: sports talk radio host. And on the days Lance wouldn't

1546
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 3: be there, you'd be disappointed, and it didn't matter who

1547
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 3: was there. And so I understand what it's like to

1548
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 3: have that routine this person Every day when I was

1549
01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:03,479
Speaker 3: going to school at UD and working at the radio station,

1550
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 3: I'd get in the car at a ten thirty and

1551
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 3: I'd drive an hour to go to school every day

1552
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 3: at UD and I would listen to it until the

1553
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 3: signal of that radio station faded for about forty five

1554
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:17,400
Speaker 3: minutes every single day, every single day. And so that

1555
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 3: was a part of my day, that was a part

1556
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:22,120
Speaker 3: of my daily routine, that was a part of everything

1557
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:26,200
Speaker 3: that I did. That show felt like an extension of me,

1558
01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:28,840
Speaker 3: felt like an extension of my life. That felt like

1559
01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 3: somebody who I had an intimate, forty five minute relationship

1560
01:27:32,400 --> 01:27:35,719
Speaker 3: with every day listening to his show, and sometimes even longer.

1561
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 3: And that's the idea behind doing this, right, The idea

1562
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 3: behind doing this is it's daily. It's not once a week,

1563
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:45,280
Speaker 3: it's not a couple of times a week, it's every day.

1564
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:47,920
Speaker 3: So we're supposed to be there and provide companionship. And

1565
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 3: whether it's a part of people's daily routines or whether

1566
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 3: it's feeling like making folks feel like you're a part

1567
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 3: of their family. That's the objective. And so when that's

1568
01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 3: taken away and suddenly the guy you listened to every

1569
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 3: day is not there, the reaction is visceral. And I think,

1570
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 3: unlike when they take away a newscaster, not that that's

1571
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:12,360
Speaker 3: not important, or they take away you know, a podcast,

1572
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:13,719
Speaker 3: isn't produced nearly as often.

1573
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes this medium unique.

1574
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 3: And I think that the people who decide to take

1575
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:22,120
Speaker 3: away people like Tony lose sight of that those decisions

1576
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 3: are not made by people that are in this building.

1577
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 3: They're not, but not in this building now at least,

1578
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 3: And so what happens is the people here have to

1579
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 3: deal with the fallout, right and we have to deal

1580
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:36,720
Speaker 3: with We have to be the ones to explain why

1581
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 3: Tony's not here, and we have to convince people, hey,

1582
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 3: we're still here. Listen to us. We'll still be a

1583
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 3: part of your family. And sometimes it falls on deaf ears.

1584
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 3: But what you expressed I understand, because that's what this

1585
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 3: is supposed to be. We want you to listen to

1586
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 3: us every day. We want you to make us a

1587
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:55,280
Speaker 3: part of your routine, whether it's for five minutes or

1588
01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 3: for six hours, and when that is taken away, it

1589
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 3: sucks and I wish I had a better way to

1590
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,680
Speaker 3: put it, but I don't. And so whatever pushback that

1591
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 3: comes from the audience, I understand. I get it. I

1592
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:10,120
Speaker 3: hope that doesn't result in people leaving the radio station

1593
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 3: in mass because that's not good for me. It's not

1594
01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:14,000
Speaker 3: good for my co workers, it's not good for tarn,

1595
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 3: it's not good for Austin, it's not good for the

1596
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 3: people that I work for here, who I care about

1597
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:21,679
Speaker 3: a lot. But I understand that man, and I understand

1598
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 3: being hurt and pissed and upset, because the idea, when

1599
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 3: this is done successfully, the person who's on the air

1600
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 3: feels like a part of your life, feels like your friend,

1601
01:29:30,600 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 3: feels like your companion, and feels like a part of

1602
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 3: your family. And the fact that you feel that way

1603
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 3: about Tony means he did his job successfully.

1604
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 14: I'll just say one more thing. I mean, it's I'm

1605
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 14: being goofy here, but like when crackle Brew tried to

1606
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:51,200
Speaker 14: change your name, it's like that's from the Snake you guys.

1607
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 14: Everybody was like, no, dude, you're completely wrong.

1608
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:56,960
Speaker 7: And I think I speak for.

1609
01:29:57,240 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 14: A lot of people and saying you got sound completely wrong.

1610
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 6: You're disconnected.

1611
01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:07,920
Speaker 14: You don't understand we are your power. In the world

1612
01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 14: of technology and advancement. Radio wants to be strong.

1613
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:14,720
Speaker 7: They need to have local.

1614
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:20,600
Speaker 14: Realization, like people that are connected that do understand, to

1615
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 14: be a mediator to not make this.

1616
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:24,679
Speaker 7: Mistake bad news.

1617
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:26,240
Speaker 14: Man, it's the wrong move.

1618
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:28,800
Speaker 7: I love your show. I always list in.

1619
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:30,759
Speaker 6: I love Austin. I'll keep listening.

1620
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 3: But geez yeah, Ian, I do, thank you and I

1621
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 3: appreciate you chiming in comedic. I don't know that this

1622
01:30:39,040 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 3: show has ever been referred to as as comedic. The

1623
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:44,280
Speaker 3: fact that anybody feels that way about Tony means he

1624
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:47,840
Speaker 3: did his job successfully and at the end of the day, man,

1625
01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:48,200
Speaker 3: like I.

1626
01:30:50,479 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 1: Love I love this medium.

1627
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 3: Don't always love the industry, don't always love the business,

1628
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 3: but when it's done right, the person in front of

1629
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:04,200
Speaker 3: the microphone, regardless of whether it's sports or talk or music,

1630
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 3: like they have done their job, if you feel like

1631
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 3: they're a part of your family, or they have done

1632
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 3: their job, if you feel like they're a part of

1633
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 3: your circle of friends.

1634
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 1: I mean like, that's that's how this is supposed to work.

1635
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 3: And the fact that anybody would feel that way about

1636
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:32,680
Speaker 3: Tony means he did his job successfully. Richard Skinner Next

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1648
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Speaker 3: Thank god, we've reached the point of the show where

1651
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Speaker 11: Hey mo, can you give me fifteen seconds here? I

1654
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:39,760
Speaker 11: just want to share everybody's sentiments about Tony Pike. It's

1655
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 11: wholly unfair. As someone who's been riffed in this business,

1656
01:32:44,360 --> 01:32:46,760
Speaker 11: it's a gut punch. But I'll tell you this, and

1657
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:49,920
Speaker 11: it'll happen for Tony. One door closes, a better door opens.

1658
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:51,679
Speaker 11: And he's a really talented guy. I know he's gonna

1659
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 11: land on his feet.

1660
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:55,080
Speaker 3: You you only won fifteen seconds.

1661
01:32:56,360 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 11: Well, I could do longer, but I thought i'd keep

1662
01:32:58,360 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 11: it condensed just for you.

1663
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 1: That's kind of you. I I second everything.

1664
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:03,560
Speaker 8: You know.

1665
01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 3: You could bring back the angry quarterbacks.

1666
01:33:06,439 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 6: We could.

1667
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:09,000
Speaker 11: I've actually thought about that. I don't think that's the

1668
01:33:09,040 --> 01:33:10,800
Speaker 11: recesses of my mind somewhere.

1669
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:13,719
Speaker 1: Very very good.

1670
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 3: How how taken aback were you when you found out

1671
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:20,799
Speaker 3: that the solution that quarterback is is gonna be Joe Flacco.

1672
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:25,800
Speaker 11: I wouldn't say stunned, but if you started tossing around names,

1673
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 11: he probably wasn't when you were tossing around. But you know,

1674
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 11: I know people are banging the drum for Russell Wilson,

1675
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:36,000
Speaker 11: and I mean, let's face it, there's been four teams,

1676
01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 11: three teams in a row that have given up on

1677
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 11: that guy. There's a reason for that, right, I.

1678
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 6: Mean, there just is.

1679
01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:43,599
Speaker 11: And then there's also the diva stuff that comes with it,

1680
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 11: and maybe it's unfair, and maybe I've not been in

1681
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 11: a locker room with Russell, so I've never had an

1682
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:51,720
Speaker 11: interaction with Russell, so maybe that's completely unfair. But it

1683
01:33:51,880 --> 01:33:53,960
Speaker 11: just wasn't gonna be the fit. And then you know,

1684
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:58,160
Speaker 11: Jamis is fun. I mean, he's fun, but he's Jake

1685
01:33:58,200 --> 01:34:01,840
Speaker 11: downing three interceptions, three touchdown fun. That's not much fun, right,

1686
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:04,920
Speaker 11: I mean, it's just not The cousin's thing was interesting.

1687
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,600
Speaker 11: Depends on how you would have done the contract machinations,

1688
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:09,559
Speaker 11: how much you would have been on the hook for,

1689
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:12,679
Speaker 11: because maybe it would have been worthwhile because you're gonna

1690
01:34:12,680 --> 01:34:14,600
Speaker 11: need a backup next season and maybe he could be

1691
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 11: that guy. But a ten million dollar backups a lot.

1692
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 11: I mean, so yeah, I mean where you fell here,

1693
01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 11: I'm okay with it. I mean, he didn't move my

1694
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:26,600
Speaker 11: needle a ton. If you use advanced metrics, you know,

1695
01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:28,800
Speaker 11: Jake Brown's the worst in the league, and I guess

1696
01:34:28,840 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 11: he's right above him. Next door in the league, it's

1697
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:35,040
Speaker 11: Shoe Flacco. But I do think this offense is interesting

1698
01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:37,519
Speaker 11: because he still has that big arm. They still have

1699
01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:39,920
Speaker 11: a lot of quick stuff where you know, make a

1700
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 11: quick read, get it out of your hands. And I

1701
01:34:41,479 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 11: think that's where Jake was really struggling. He just was

1702
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:46,240
Speaker 11: having a hard time with progressions and making quick reads

1703
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:48,559
Speaker 11: and making quick decisions. I don't think that'll be a

1704
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:51,560
Speaker 11: problem for Joe Flacco. I am a little stun You

1705
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:53,840
Speaker 11: signed the guys on a Tuesday, and he's going to

1706
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:55,799
Speaker 11: start a game on a Sunday. I really thought whoever

1707
01:34:55,800 --> 01:34:58,439
Speaker 11: they signed, it would almost be Jason. Get a couple

1708
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:00,479
Speaker 11: more starts, and maybe he works his way out of this,

1709
01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:02,760
Speaker 11: and you know, after that through that Thursday night game,

1710
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 11: because it's a quick week, then we'll go in a

1711
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:06,439
Speaker 11: different direction with the guy we brought in because we've

1712
01:35:06,439 --> 01:35:09,160
Speaker 11: gotten up to speed. This tells you how desperate they were, right,

1713
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 11: I mean, they'd had enough, they'd seen enough. They didn't

1714
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 11: think they could win with Jake any longer, and so

1715
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 11: you had to pull the trigger. Again. It doesn't move

1716
01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:19,959
Speaker 11: my needle much because again, I don't know what to expect.

1717
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 11: I know what I've seen, and what i've seen has

1718
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,240
Speaker 11: been eh. Yeah, I've seen from Jake has beenah. So

1719
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:27,719
Speaker 11: I get it, and I'm a big fan of Jakes.

1720
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:29,360
Speaker 11: It just didn't work, and I'm so.

1721
01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:30,000
Speaker 12: Stunned it didn't.

1722
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:32,479
Speaker 11: I'm I'm probably the most surprised person it didn't work,

1723
01:35:32,479 --> 01:35:34,160
Speaker 11: because what I saw in those seven games in twenty

1724
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 11: three was a capable quarterback. What I saw in these

1725
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:38,200
Speaker 11: three games this year was the guy we feared that

1726
01:35:38,240 --> 01:35:39,680
Speaker 11: would be in there in twenty twenty three when he

1727
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:40,400
Speaker 11: took his first nap.

1728
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 3: I'm stunned it didn't work because my expectations weren't huge, right.

1729
01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:47,799
Speaker 3: I looked for competence. I looked for just be capable,

1730
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:50,000
Speaker 3: make it function, and if it does, especially in those

1731
01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:53,400
Speaker 3: games against Denver and Minnesota, that could have been enough.

1732
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:55,920
Speaker 3: The fact that it cratered the way it did and

1733
01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:59,519
Speaker 3: did so quickly, Yeah, I mean, I think it's actually

1734
01:35:59,560 --> 01:36:00,799
Speaker 3: a pretty salk development.

1735
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:02,400
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1736
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:04,720
Speaker 11: I just never would have seen that coming. Could I

1737
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:06,880
Speaker 11: tell you he's gonna play Joe Burrow level football for

1738
01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:07,439
Speaker 11: three games?

1739
01:36:07,479 --> 01:36:07,559
Speaker 8: No?

1740
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:10,400
Speaker 11: But again, I saw a confident court. I saw a

1741
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:12,879
Speaker 11: guy go to a game in Jacksonville on a Monday

1742
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 11: night when Jacksonville at the time was really good and

1743
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:18,200
Speaker 11: they cratered that season, but they were really good. And

1744
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:20,040
Speaker 11: he goes thirty two and thirty seven and helps him

1745
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:21,479
Speaker 11: win the game in overtime, they kept him in the

1746
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 11: playoff race. I just listen, I asked. I asked Jake

1747
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:27,559
Speaker 11: that question in the press conference.

1748
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:28,960
Speaker 7: I asked that that question.

1749
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:30,720
Speaker 11: I asked Dan Pitcher when we have him in kind

1750
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 11: of a writer's only session, that question, and no one

1751
01:36:33,520 --> 01:36:35,040
Speaker 11: seems to be able to put their finger on what's

1752
01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:37,920
Speaker 11: different between Jake Browning now and Jake Browning. Then Jake

1753
01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:39,960
Speaker 11: gave me a decent enough answer where you know we

1754
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 11: had the run game going in the screen game. Okay,

1755
01:36:42,120 --> 01:36:44,760
Speaker 11: you probably did, because I think your strength is using

1756
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:47,479
Speaker 11: play action, getting under center. I mean, remember we talked

1757
01:36:47,479 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 11: about the elements of the offense with the play action

1758
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:53,599
Speaker 11: and the under center and the bootlegs. Well, what maybe

1759
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 11: you incorporate that with Joe Burrow. It looks so good,

1760
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:59,800
Speaker 11: well when you didn't run the football and you didn't

1761
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 11: put very well. And then Jake got in his own head.

1762
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 11: I mean, I think Sunday after Sunday night, him talking

1763
01:37:05,040 --> 01:37:07,280
Speaker 11: to the media Sunday night, it was almost like, yeah,

1764
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 11: this can't go forward. He's he's a mess at the moment.

1765
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 3: With Joe Flacco, I get somebody who's who's a quick

1766
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:17,519
Speaker 3: study He's done the quick study thing before with the Browns,

1767
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:20,719
Speaker 3: although admittedly not this quickly and at the very least

1768
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 3: like I've seen Jamar Chase get open and the ball

1769
01:37:22,920 --> 01:37:24,680
Speaker 3: will not come his way, and I feel like that

1770
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:27,320
Speaker 3: will get rectified even if there are mobility issues.

1771
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:31,840
Speaker 11: Yeah, No, I agree, the mobility issues are real. You

1772
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:34,280
Speaker 11: can you can mask some of that with a little

1773
01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:36,880
Speaker 11: bit more more max protection, Mike. Literally, you know, there's

1774
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:38,760
Speaker 11: two guys in the route at number five and number one,

1775
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:40,800
Speaker 11: maybe a third there's a checkdown guy. I mean you

1776
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 11: can do that.

1777
01:37:41,240 --> 01:37:41,600
Speaker 3: Teams do.

1778
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:43,439
Speaker 11: There's two man routes all the time in this league,

1779
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 11: and those are two pretty good guys to send out. Now,

1780
01:37:45,200 --> 01:37:47,280
Speaker 11: then you hear that both get doubled, and where do

1781
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:50,160
Speaker 11: you go with the football? All those things? You know

1782
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:53,599
Speaker 11: he's willing to throw the ball away. You know, I'm

1783
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:55,120
Speaker 11: gonna put a name here in a minute. I did

1784
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:57,559
Speaker 11: it yesterday when I did a TV segment. I got

1785
01:37:57,560 --> 01:38:01,440
Speaker 11: a statue quarterback. Peyton Manning was a literal statue quarterback.

1786
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,040
Speaker 11: Did okay. Now, he had better offensive lines, and he

1787
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:07,000
Speaker 11: had certainly the Marvin Harrison uh And and Reggie Wayne

1788
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:09,439
Speaker 11: and and Dallas Clark and those guys, and so he

1789
01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:11,280
Speaker 11: had weapons and a running game, so he had all

1790
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:13,559
Speaker 11: those things going on. But he was a statue and

1791
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 11: he did pretty good.

1792
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:18,759
Speaker 3: No, you're right, I mean I'm not. I'm less worried

1793
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 3: about that, and more, can he master the basics? And

1794
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 3: I think Joe Flacco can, and and the mastering the

1795
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:27,040
Speaker 3: basics in this offense still means there's a high end

1796
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:28,639
Speaker 3: that this unit collectively can hit.

1797
01:38:29,760 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1798
01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:31,960
Speaker 11: I think that's the part too. I like, I mean,

1799
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:33,000
Speaker 11: can you still throw it?

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01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:33,599
Speaker 12: He sure can?

1801
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 11: Okay, Now that's that's point one. He's a very smart guy.

1802
01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:39,360
Speaker 11: There's no question about that. I mean, I thought it

1803
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:42,160
Speaker 11: was really semi comedic that. I mean, they started going

1804
01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:44,240
Speaker 11: over this stuff as he was being driven from Cleveland

1805
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:47,519
Speaker 11: to yesterday. But I think it shows you that, hey,

1806
01:38:47,680 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 11: we got no time to waste. Man, we got to

1807
01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:51,840
Speaker 11: get do this thing. I hazact today. You know, do

1808
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:53,719
Speaker 11: you scale some stuff back? And said, yeah, you gotta

1809
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 11: be mindful of it. I mean, I don't think you're

1810
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 11: gonna throw a whole playbook into into the game plan

1811
01:38:58,400 --> 01:39:01,000
Speaker 11: now for for Joe Flacco. But I want to bet

1812
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:03,280
Speaker 11: you there's a chunk of the playbook that's probably more

1813
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:05,120
Speaker 11: than what we think that's going to be available to him.

1814
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:08,920
Speaker 11: And I will say this, it's made a trip and

1815
01:39:08,960 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 11: I'm taking a driving trip as you know, with some

1816
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 11: of our friends. Yeah, it's made a trip. That was

1817
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:14,920
Speaker 11: going to be oh gosh for going up here to

1818
01:39:14,920 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 11: watch this again, to at least it's going to be interesting,

1819
01:39:17,439 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 11: right one way or the others, to be interesting good

1820
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:19,840
Speaker 11: or interesting bad.

1821
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:22,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that car ride's going to be interesting. And frankly,

1822
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:24,360
Speaker 3: I think that's still the most interesting thing about this weekend.

1823
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:26,040
Speaker 6: It might be.

1824
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:27,080
Speaker 7: It just might be.

1825
01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:29,840
Speaker 1: Thanks as always, man, I appreciate it.

1826
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Speaker 11: Ye.

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Speaker 3: Take that's our guy, Richard Skinner Local twelve, Local twelve

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Speaker 3: you're gonna hear Zach and just a second said yes, Yes, Indeed.

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco is going to start on Sunday when the

1852
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Speaker 3: Bengals take on the Packers at lambeau Field. That game

1853
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1854
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1857
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 3: Schamar Stewart was limited today in practice. Dylan Fairchild a

1858
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 3: no go as the Bengals get set for Green Bay.

1859
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:31,840
Speaker 3: I would tell you so much more, but you ever

1860
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,200
Speaker 3: Google something and you punch it in and then it

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01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:39,120
Speaker 3: says this site can't be reached. So apparently Google or

1862
01:41:39,160 --> 01:41:46,639
Speaker 3: my computer not responsive. Baseball playoffs. There's two games happening

1863
01:41:46,720 --> 01:41:49,320
Speaker 3: right now. The Tigers have it erupted for eight so

1864
01:41:49,439 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 3: far unanswered runs, and they have overcome a three to

1865
01:41:52,439 --> 01:41:54,960
Speaker 3: nothing deficit. They take an eight to three lead into

1866
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 3: the eighth inning. Detroit is the home team. Mariners lead

1867
01:41:57,640 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 3: that series two games to one. Tiger's up eight three.

1868
01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:03,799
Speaker 3: They're in the bottom of the first inning at Wrigley Field.

1869
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:07,519
Speaker 3: The Brewers and Cubs are tied at one. Chicago, though,

1870
01:42:07,560 --> 01:42:10,160
Speaker 3: has the bases loaded with two outs. Later tonight, it's

1871
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:12,760
Speaker 3: the Yankees hosting the Blue Jays Toronto, still up in

1872
01:42:12,760 --> 01:42:15,719
Speaker 3: that series two games to one, and the Dodgers taking

1873
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 3: on the Phillies Game three National League Division Series LA

1874
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:23,360
Speaker 3: up to nothing in that one. Let's listen to Zach Taylor. Huh,

1875
01:42:23,479 --> 01:42:26,080
Speaker 3: the head coach of the Bengals. He announced that Joe

1876
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:28,160
Speaker 3: Flacco is going to start that game on Sunday. Here

1877
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:31,519
Speaker 3: is Zach explaining why he is comfortable with Joe Joe

1878
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 3: two point zero starting against Green Bay.

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01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:35,280
Speaker 7: You just know him.

1880
01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:37,720
Speaker 15: I mean I don't know him personally. I've only met

1881
01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:41,800
Speaker 15: him once before he came here. But no, his game

1882
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:45,880
Speaker 15: as well. I mean it's putting against some I don't

1883
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:47,600
Speaker 15: know how many times a lot of times, and so

1884
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:51,360
Speaker 15: very comfortable with his style concepts. He has been good

1885
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 15: at things that fit us that we do a lot

1886
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:56,240
Speaker 15: of the terminology. There's a bunch of carryover, more so

1887
01:42:56,280 --> 01:42:58,760
Speaker 15: than I would have anticipated. So I feel like you

1888
01:42:58,760 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 15: we can get him most being quickly worth.

1889
01:43:01,840 --> 01:43:04,800
Speaker 3: Uh, there's there's Zach Taylor on Joe Flacca. Now, now

1890
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:07,360
Speaker 3: here's Zach on Joe being in it. Says here, tear

1891
01:43:07,439 --> 01:43:09,639
Speaker 3: and cut these up. He put this in all caps.

1892
01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:14,280
Speaker 3: Being a great passer, he's.

1893
01:43:14,160 --> 01:43:14,759
Speaker 5: A great pastor.

1894
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:18,439
Speaker 15: He's a great passer. And again, we've got to expand

1895
01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:20,400
Speaker 15: all areas of our offense to be better, to be

1896
01:43:20,439 --> 01:43:22,320
Speaker 15: able to efficient run the football, protect all that.

1897
01:43:22,360 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 3: Kind of stuff.

1898
01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 15: But the number one trait you're looking for is a

1899
01:43:25,920 --> 01:43:28,160
Speaker 15: guy that can operate your system into the football. And

1900
01:43:29,240 --> 01:43:31,679
Speaker 15: Joe has always been a tremendous passer in this league

1901
01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:34,919
Speaker 15: and have seen it, and so now we've got treminous

1902
01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 15: weapons that he can he can play around, and so

1903
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:38,160
Speaker 15: I'm excited to watch him do it.

1904
01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 3: There you go, great passer. Maybe atow shout out Jake Browning.

1905
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 1: Look could be.

1906
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:47,759
Speaker 3: Could be Jake Browning the opposite of a great passer.

1907
01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:50,479
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I would use the word on the

1908
01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:53,679
Speaker 3: radio that would describe Jake Browning's passing ability right now,

1909
01:43:53,720 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 3: but there you go. Now here's Zach on how the

1910
01:43:56,200 --> 01:44:00,519
Speaker 3: Bengals ended up landing on Joe Flacco as the third

1911
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:01,960
Speaker 3: started quarterback they've used this year.

1912
01:44:03,120 --> 01:44:05,000
Speaker 15: I do just let me know yesterday that that's where

1913
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 15: it was at. So obviously he asked my opinion of Joe,

1914
01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 15: and I was excited that if we were able to

1915
01:44:10,080 --> 01:44:12,680
Speaker 15: make it happen, I'm all on board. That would excite me.

1916
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:15,400
Speaker 15: And so then he just came and said we had.

1917
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,599
Speaker 3: It done with it yesterday. Looked like, what time did

1918
01:44:17,600 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 3: he get here? What were you guys able to do

1919
01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 3: last night to get ahead.

1920
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:22,840
Speaker 15: Start, Well, we talked on the phone while he drove.

1921
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 15: We had somebody to drive him, he and his wife

1922
01:44:25,400 --> 01:44:28,080
Speaker 15: from Cleveland, and so we were able to send him

1923
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Speaker 15: the information to study, talked to him on the phone

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Speaker 15: as he drove down, gave him a break, let him

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Speaker 15: then come in facility, and we got a chance to

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Speaker 15: meet last night and at.

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Speaker 3: This morning, I'm wonder I'm interested in the driver, Like

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Speaker 3: who does that? Who's the person that has to drive

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Speaker 3: the car to Cleveland and drive it back? Do they

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Speaker 3: have to use their own personal vehicle? And did they

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Speaker 3: get mileage? Dude?

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Speaker 1: Mileage is awesome like the irs?

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Speaker 3: Now if the internet worked right now, Like mileage is

1934
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Speaker 3: like what close to sixty cents per so here to

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Speaker 3: Cleveland's what about two two and a quarter? What two

1936
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Speaker 3: hundred and thirty miles? If I can get the computer

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Speaker 3: to work here and get basic internet service in this studio,

1938
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Speaker 3: which in twenty twenty five you would assume would be

1939
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Speaker 3: a given. I will look up what that you think?

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Speaker 3: It's like an intern? Is that the sort of thing

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Speaker 3: that he would ask, like Dan Pitcher to do. I

1942
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Speaker 3: don't know who's the person in charge of driving to Cleveland?

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Speaker 1: You know because they don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they have access to a private jet

1945
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Speaker 3: flying to Cleveland. You know, once you go through security

1946
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Speaker 3: is going to take like four hours anyway. Uh, and

1947
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Speaker 3: then you know you can't talk to him on the phone.

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing I would make that true if I could

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Speaker 3: charge mileage. Mileage is awesome. If you ever work somewhere

1950
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Speaker 3: and they give you the option between gas is expensive,

1951
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Speaker 3: but they give you the option, they'll Reimburshue for the

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Speaker 3: gas or they'll Reimburshue for mileage. Always take mileage. Always. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Gregory in Westwood, thank you for hanging on. Gregory, you're on.

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Speaker 3: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Good afternoon. How are you.

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Speaker 8: I'm all right. I appreciate you taking a call. Wan

1956
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Speaker 8: And I heard that you said something earlier though, when

1957
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Speaker 8: you were talking about people being part of your daily life.

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Speaker 8: I used to listen to lands like that back in

1959
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Speaker 8: the day when you was spilling in.

1960
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Speaker 3: I was like, wheez, this guy, Yeah, so was I.

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Speaker 8: I'm switching this off right now my guy is not on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: That sucks, it does now.

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Speaker 8: But Tony, though, I feel like I've been there from

1965
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Speaker 8: the beginning with him, listening to him and it was

1966
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Speaker 8: only on there for an hour and it's like, man,

1967
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Speaker 8: that's just don't seem like long enough. Then they switched

1968
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Speaker 8: off to the ESPN y'all hoos, and it's just like, okay,

1969
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Speaker 8: I'm done with this till three o'clock. And I happened

1970
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Speaker 8: to be there that night that the Hostel takeover. Yeah,

1971
01:46:58,520 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 8: you talk about it an amazing too. I'm sorry my

1972
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,519
Speaker 8: bluetook kicked on to be a part of I was like, Oh,

1973
01:47:05,640 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 8: they're gonna really keep doing this. I was, I think,

1974
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:12,439
Speaker 8: get fired one hundred percent behind that one. But I

1975
01:47:12,479 --> 01:47:15,000
Speaker 8: thought that was pretty amazing though, And shout out to

1976
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Speaker 8: the Austin too for sticking out and going to you know,

1977
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:22,040
Speaker 8: staying in there with him, not turning his mouth, risking

1978
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Speaker 8: his own job.

1979
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Speaker 3: No questions.

1980
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Speaker 6: Pretty cool to see.

1981
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that well, and I think when that

1982
01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:33,400
Speaker 3: show got expanded to three hours, it was trying to

1983
01:47:33,400 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 3: think of the way that I could put this best.

1984
01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:38,479
Speaker 3: When that show was expanded to three hours, it was

1985
01:47:38,520 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 3: the first time since I started on the air where

1986
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:43,720
Speaker 3: I felt like I was legitimately on.

1987
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Speaker 10: Eighteen and me not because I get my last clicked

1988
01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:54,439
Speaker 10: thought and you got to go back to when he

1989
01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:57,240
Speaker 10: had a morning show, the Two Angry Guys Local.

1990
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Speaker 1: Two, right, yeah, and see them and.

1991
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Speaker 6: It would go all days, it's like, this is this

1992
01:48:04,400 --> 01:48:05,320
Speaker 6: is what you'd like to see.

1993
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Speaker 8: And then they just went back to Mike and Mike

1994
01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:10,200
Speaker 8: and they that's cool, but it didn't have the same

1995
01:48:10,360 --> 01:48:13,519
Speaker 8: feel to it, though I appreciate the time, No.

1996
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Speaker 3: Gregory, thank you. When that show debuted. You know, for

1997
01:48:19,560 --> 01:48:26,000
Speaker 3: from two thousand and nine up until the formation of

1998
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:29,439
Speaker 3: SINCY three sixty and twenty seventeen, this was the only

1999
01:48:29,560 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 3: local show on this radio station. With the exception of

2000
01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:35,679
Speaker 3: Bengals programming. Bengals Game Plan has been on since twenty

2001
01:48:35,720 --> 01:48:39,840
Speaker 3: eleven and you know, different one offs. This was the

2002
01:48:39,880 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 3: only local show. And fine, you know, the ESPN product

2003
01:48:44,760 --> 01:48:47,519
Speaker 3: has its pluses and has its things that maybe I

2004
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:50,880
Speaker 3: would do a little bit differently, But when you're the

2005
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 3: only local host on a show, it's a big responsibility.

2006
01:48:55,160 --> 01:48:56,680
Speaker 3: You also feel like you're on a little bit of

2007
01:48:56,720 --> 01:49:01,000
Speaker 3: an island. And so when they they long launched SINCY

2008
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:03,160
Speaker 3: three sixty, which at the time was a one hour show,

2009
01:49:03,320 --> 01:49:06,840
Speaker 3: was James Rapine and I was on it for a while.

2010
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:09,800
Speaker 1: That was great. Another hour of.

2011
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Speaker 3: Local programming, and then Tony took it over and quickly

2012
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Speaker 3: made it his own, and I think it became abundantly

2013
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:18,960
Speaker 3: clear that there was room for more, and there was

2014
01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:22,120
Speaker 3: an audience for more. Then the show expanded to two hours,

2015
01:49:22,160 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 3: and then the show became three hours, and I think

2016
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Speaker 3: that's been like three and a half years now, maybe

2017
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:30,479
Speaker 3: a little bit longer, and since then this has been awesome.

2018
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Speaker 3: The best part of my day, the single best part

2019
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:39,760
Speaker 3: of my day coming to work here every day is

2020
01:49:39,920 --> 01:49:44,080
Speaker 3: when I'm with those guys at two forty five, because

2021
01:49:44,360 --> 01:49:49,960
Speaker 3: for about ten minutes there, I get a I get

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Speaker 3: a taste of what I think really good radio sounds like,

2023
01:49:54,080 --> 01:49:57,640
Speaker 3: which is there are different shows, right, but they're not siloed,

2024
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Speaker 3: and there's a collaboration and there's a team, and there's

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Speaker 3: sharp differences between the two, and that, to me is

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Speaker 3: what it should sound like. And that's, for me, was

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Speaker 3: the best part of these last three and a half

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Speaker 3: years with those guys. It'll continue with Austin, at least

2029
01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 3: that's what I've I've been told and and it will

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Speaker 3: be fine, and it'll take some time for our audience

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Speaker 3: to adjust, and it's my sincere hope that everybody who

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01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:29,080
Speaker 3: loves Tony on that show sticks with Austin and sticks

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Speaker 3: with the radio station. But I can understand why somebody

2034
01:50:32,240 --> 01:50:33,920
Speaker 3: might have tuned in to hear Tony and they go,

2035
01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:36,280
Speaker 3: you took away my guys. So I'm leaving like I

2036
01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:41,759
Speaker 3: get that, that's how it works. But the last listen,

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01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:43,639
Speaker 3: I said this at the top of the show. Listening

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Speaker 3: to Tony grow into the role of a host on

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01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:53,240
Speaker 3: every single day and talking about football, which is his

2040
01:50:53,720 --> 01:50:56,720
Speaker 3: main area of expertise, but expanding it to baseball and

2041
01:50:56,800 --> 01:51:02,639
Speaker 3: basketball and talking about different issues in sports and creating

2042
01:51:02,800 --> 01:51:07,360
Speaker 3: an on air personality has been awesome to watch, and

2043
01:51:07,479 --> 01:51:09,479
Speaker 3: it's been awesome to be a very small part of.

2044
01:51:10,160 --> 01:51:15,320
Speaker 3: And I have an extraordinary amount of admiration for somebody

2045
01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:19,400
Speaker 3: who took on that challenge and did so with admittedly

2046
01:51:19,479 --> 01:51:23,160
Speaker 3: not a ton of guidance. And he made the radio

2047
01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:26,559
Speaker 3: station better. He made our group of radio stations better.

2048
01:51:27,120 --> 01:51:29,080
Speaker 3: I could tell you he is beloved in the office.

2049
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:33,400
Speaker 3: And by the way, we lost other people yesterday. To

2050
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:37,920
Speaker 3: to which extent they want their stories told, I couldn't

2051
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,559
Speaker 3: tell you, but I hold them in high regard as well.

2052
01:51:40,640 --> 01:51:43,960
Speaker 3: And what stinks about this and I said this at

2053
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:49,639
Speaker 3: the top of our show. Is in this day and age,

2054
01:51:49,640 --> 01:51:52,040
Speaker 3: you kind of understand where radio is like you do,

2055
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 3: I'm not naive to it. It's not what it was

2056
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:56,680
Speaker 3: in the eighties or nineties. It's not what it was

2057
01:51:56,720 --> 01:51:58,960
Speaker 3: when I got into it in ninety seven ninety eight. Like,

2058
01:51:59,040 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 3: it's not competitors. The business has changed, how people consume

2059
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:06,160
Speaker 3: it has changed. There's challenges, there's no getting around that.

2060
01:52:07,040 --> 01:52:10,000
Speaker 3: And there's challenges when you work for a corporation. I

2061
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 3: get that too, And yet you have folks who come

2062
01:52:13,160 --> 01:52:16,879
Speaker 3: in every day and they're willing to overlook those challenges,

2063
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:20,120
Speaker 3: work through them, be optimistic in the face of them,

2064
01:52:21,120 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 3: and still have passion for creating content, being a part

2065
01:52:24,960 --> 01:52:30,880
Speaker 3: of our team. And then they're unceremoniously dumped. It's exceptionally hard,

2066
01:52:31,800 --> 01:52:35,599
Speaker 3: exceptionally hard, and it's exceptionally hard if you work here.

2067
01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:39,559
Speaker 3: It's exceptionally hard if it impacts people you care about,

2068
01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:43,240
Speaker 3: and it's exceptionally hard if you listen to a show

2069
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 3: or a radio station every day. Like the crappiest thing

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01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:51,400
Speaker 3: we do in this business is ask people to listen

2071
01:52:52,280 --> 01:52:55,400
Speaker 3: every day, and then suddenly the person they're asked to

2072
01:52:55,479 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 3: listen to every day, be loyal to follow on social

2073
01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 3: media into their show if they can't hear it Live

2074
01:53:02,840 --> 01:53:05,960
Speaker 3: Oo Gone Away, Gone Gone Away. I hate it.

2075
01:53:06,200 --> 01:53:06,600
Speaker 1: I hate it.

2076
01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:09,640
Speaker 3: And so if if you love Tony, if you love

2077
01:53:09,720 --> 01:53:12,479
Speaker 3: that show, if you love our radio station number one,

2078
01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:16,160
Speaker 3: thank you number two. I understand any amount of anger, frustration,

2079
01:53:16,360 --> 01:53:20,639
Speaker 3: sadness to spare that you may feel. And I thought

2080
01:53:20,680 --> 01:53:25,320
Speaker 3: it was appropriate today to give folks an outlet to

2081
01:53:25,400 --> 01:53:29,519
Speaker 3: express those things. We're done, I mean to the best.

2082
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Speaker 5: I know.

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01:53:29,880 --> 01:53:33,040
Speaker 3: We're back tomorrow. Anything you might have missed go find

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01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:37,040
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. Podcasts are a service of Long

2085
01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:40,880
Speaker 3: Next Sports Grill. Bengals game plan is next Dan Hoard

2086
01:53:40,960 --> 01:53:45,519
Speaker 3: Dave Lapham tomorrow since he three sixty. Austin's not going

2087
01:53:45,600 --> 01:53:47,280
Speaker 3: to be here because he had planned on going to

2088
01:53:47,360 --> 01:53:50,360
Speaker 3: Green Bay for the Bengals game anyway, and God God

2089
01:53:50,479 --> 01:53:52,960
Speaker 3: knows that dude deserves some time off. Chad Brenda will

2090
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Speaker 3: be in. We return tomorrow at three oh five. Have

2091
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Speaker 3: an awesome night. Thank you for listening. This is ESPN

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Speaker 3: fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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