WEBVTT - Dan Carroll & Jason Williams -- 12/29/25 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.719 W l W three eight Damn Carol. 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.880 Jason Williams in for Eddie and the Rock and my 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.600 partner today is dressed up like an Eskimo when he 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:10.320 came in here. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:14.720 Jason Williams, how you doing. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:20.040 Brother, I'm good man. Fifty degrees different today than from 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:20.800 you yesterday. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.800 I'm out there, I'm on the golf course. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.280 I've I've got you know, just like a like a 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.840 regular golf shirt on seventy degrees. It was like a 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:35.440 spring day. And then today I get up snows flying around, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:37.720 cars frozen shut. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:38.480 It was funny. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.240 And I pulled in the parking garage at the Bank's 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.519 covering the Bengals game yesterday for the inquiry, Like, I 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.600 walked through the garage. Then I walk outside of the 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.840 garage and it was like literally like a little heat 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.760 wave hit me and I'm like it is there like 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.120 a fire around on a tailgate and I'm like no. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.960 It was like I was like, it's that warm and 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:58.920 it's fantastic. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:00:59.240 It was. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.440 That was That was a nice day yesterday. I did 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.440 walk out today. I got home. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.759 Last night from the Bengals game to fire on my column, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.559 Like I walk up and my kids are like I'm 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.960 hearing them talking and stuff that they got the windows. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:14.720 Yeah, I know. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.759 I had the windows open the house. I was watching 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.760 the Bengals game, and uh, I opened one window in 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.280 the front and one in the back. Had a little 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.200 nice breeze flowing through the house. It was it was lovely. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.800 It was lovely. It was very delightful. I mean, we 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:34.399 go from lovely to today's ugly. It's ugly, man, that's cold, windy, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.759 snow's blown around all the rest of question for you, Dan, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.960 go ahead real quick? Uh are you? How are you 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.120 with cold weather? And I know, I know this is 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:48.360 not a boring thing talking about the weather because I'm 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.400 I've become a wimp about it. I'm now in the 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.360 last few years, my parents moved down. They sold our 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.600 farm out in southeast Ohio where I grew up a 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.720 month before the Rona hit and twenty twenty and I'm like, 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.200 when y'all move And my mom's like, your dad can't 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.520 stand the cold weather? Now that's the guy who grew 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.760 up here Like all that. I'm like, tough guy, blue collar, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.160 works in a power playing for thirty three years and 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.400 I'm like, what, like, what you guys are? 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.000 I knew. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.240 I mean this is before like before they decided. Like 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.120 I was like, that's why you're moving there, And then 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.960 it started to hit me, I don't know, maybe a 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.240 couple of years ago, and I'm like, oh, now, like 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.560 that is a real thing people really do, Like that 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:39.040 is the number to one driver, like cause I'm like 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.120 a whimp about it now. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.920 Man, I uh, I always think to myself. And usually 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:50.080 happens late January February because that's when it's really nasty 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.080 around here. Yes, and I saw said I'll be walking 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.720 into a convenience store getting gas or something then out 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.040 there and I'm thinking, man, Arizona sounds like a really 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.040 good idea right now, you know, living there and not 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:02.840 have to put up with. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.680 This kind of crap. Well that's why I know, are 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.720 you right? And like you go out there? Speaking of Arizona, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.280 and yeah, I always try to, Like spring training, I 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.560 go out for a week for the Enquirer, and I 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.959 always try to go like early because I'm like the 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.200 sooner I can get out there, the better because I'm tired. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.080 You're just exhausted of this, and fortunately I get to 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.120 you know. It's one of the nice things about my job. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.080 But you get out there and it's like it's like 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.480 it's summertime here. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.880 There. Yeah, that's it blows me away. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.680 I'm like, but when when I was in the service, 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.000 I spent three years in Oakanowa, Japan, which is I 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.920 think if you look at it on a longitudinal line, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:52.280 it's about the same longitude as as Florida, maybe a 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.080 little bit north of there. And then I also lived 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.520 in California for a while and sold you a thousand oaks. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.960 I was out in the high desert out you know 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.560 where Victorville, California is. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.800 And it's not like Camp Pendleton area. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.880 Well, the the base I was that was called George 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.760 Air Force Base, but it was it was your Air Force. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:13.200 Yeah it was. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.440 It was terrible. They shut that thing down and no 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.960 longer exists really. But the thing is, being from Cincinnati, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.280 I started to miss the change of seasons because the 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.440 seasons really don't change, and especially in that part of California, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.120 even when it was even when it was you know, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.200 even when it was in the winter time, it was 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.960 still sunny and nice area. Yeah, but we're supposed to 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.919 be talking to our buddy Mike Patralia and Trags, is 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:40.560 we we got we got the. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.360 Bat signal lot for him right now, Yes, we do. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.760 So, Trags. If you're listening, call in man, Audi, we 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.200 did we reach? Austin Elmore is running the big board 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.200 in the seven hundred wl W command center. So, Austin Elmore, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:53.960 have you been able to get ahold of Trags? By 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:55.040 the chance I have not. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:57.120 Texted? 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.039 Well, you know, Audi. Since Austin is here, why don't 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.120 we just break down the Bengals game with Austin Ellmore. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.880 I didn't know Austin was gonna I didn't know it 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.720 was going to be here. Austin, are are you? 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.680 Would you? Would you care to do that with us 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:10.080 right now? 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:10.360 I am. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.200 I am willing and able Austin Ellmore joining us now 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.640 in Austin, you said something a little while ago. I 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.520 was listening to you on fifteen thirty when I was 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.800 driving in and you felt yesterday the same way I 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.400 did about this Bengals game that happened yesterday. And I'm 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.800 watching it and I'm thinking to myself, this just it. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.279 I mean, it looked like the pace of play was 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.800 maybe a half a step slow. It didn't seem like 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.159 the intensity was there. I mean, I know it's a 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.920 regular season game. The Bengals should be trying to win 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.719 every game they can, But it felt to me the 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.919 atmosphere felt like a preseason game. And I'm thinking, and 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.360 I heard you say that in fifteen thirty today and 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.359 I was like, Man, I'm glad I'm not alone in 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.320 this feeling. Austin felt the same way I did. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.440 Yeah, it was just kind of strange because I think 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.040 Arizona basically put a team out there of undrafted free 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.039 agents and sixth and seventh round picks and guys who 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.960 typically don't play, so it kind of was a preseason game. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.839 On their side of things, They've got so many guys hurt, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.960 so many guys injured, And meanwhile for the Bengals, they're 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.880 kind of the opposite, like they're getting healthier, they're having 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.720 this kind of resurgence offensively with all three of their gut, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.520 their big three healthy, and you just saw what it 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.719 was supposed to look like for the Bengals. And I 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.400 think the good part about it is, you know, in 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.880 a preseason game, you're like, all right, get a couple series, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.080 get out of there, and let's stay healthy. The Bengals 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.160 really just played up to their standard. They never at 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.560 any point dipped down to the level of the Arizona Cardinals. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.120 We've seen teams do that in the past. They never 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.080 did that. The Bengals just kind of kept their foot 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.200 on their gas and even to the point where they 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.960 started clowning them by putting Cody Ford at wide receiver. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.359 Like it was just it was a fun game. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.919 It was weird because you knew that Arizona really didn't 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.359 have a chance and couldn't hang with you, Like Jamar 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.159 Chase scored a touchdown on a guy who's been on 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.719 the practice squad for like twelve of the seventeen weeks 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.400 so far this season. So it's like it was just 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.400 a weird vibe at pay Course Stadium. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.040 I'm glad you brought that up too, because Audio I thought, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.840 I certainly I felt like the preseason thing last week 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.840 with the Dolphins who starting, you know, the seventh round 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.360 pick Quinn you were was making his first start it 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.200 and I think maybe even Trags mentioned that. But I 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.480 was thinking the same thing about last week's game. And 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.160 I'm not trying to take away from the Bengals, but 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.160 it's a great point you make about the Bengals too. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.160 It's like they're they're kind of they're hitting their stride now, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.320 certainly offensively, and you know, it's still hard to tell 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.120 defensively because these are, like you said, I mean, they're playing, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.560 you know, teams that are down to third string guys. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.600 But I was in the press box after the game yesterday. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.160 I was talking to one of the one of the 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.640 guys who works for the Bengals and does some communication 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.720 stuff for them, and he just said, you know, you 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.960 look at today, You're like, it just makes you feel like, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.560 you know, what one of those games. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.520 Where you're like, what might have been? Did? Do you 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:04.920 feel that? 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:05.440 I didn't. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.160 I didn't really think of it that way, But I 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.080 also look at things a little differently. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.000 Do you look at it that way? Audie? Yeah. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.520 I think the way that they played against the Dolphins 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.640 and the way that they played yesterday makes you think, Man, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.600 if they had gotten one stop against the Chicago Bears, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.720 if they had gotten one stop against the New York Jets, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.560 it would be an entirely different season, And especially when 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.920 you consider the rest of the AFC. Nobody's afraid of Baltimore, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.720 nobody's afraid of Pittsburgh. I don't think anybody's afraid of Buffalo. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.680 I'm not sure how real New England is. Kansas City's 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.440 not in the picture this year. The Chargers are full 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.079 of injuries, Like this would be a season where it's like, gosh, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.640 if they just had some semblance of a defense, they 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.360 would be right there in the conversation as a legitimate 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.520 AFC contender. And I think that's where a lot of 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.640 Bengals fans stand right now, where like you're thrilled that 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.839 you're seeing the best players play really well in their 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.400 dominating games, and like, at the end of the day, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.120 that's what it's all about. But it's tough to swallow 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.440 that it really doesn't mean anything, yeah, because of the 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.120 shortcomings of earlier this season, and whether or not it 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.120 doesn't matter who the opponent is, like, that's still the 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.240 standard of play that you expect them to play at, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.520 and you're wondering where was this at against the Chicago Bears, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:26.560 against the New York Jets and other points throughout the season, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.600 And it's just it's a tough pill to swallow. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.839 I don't think I would feel any differently today than 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.480 I do now had the Bengals lost that game yesterday, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.480 because of the meaningless aspect of all of it. But 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.079 let me I want to read to you something that 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.840 James Rapeen put out during the course of the game yesterday, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.240 and you're all going to know what play I'm talking 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.920 about when I read this. Jordan Battle stops playing football, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:53.440 Geno Stone continues to be the NFL's worst tackling safety, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.920 and Barrett Carter lets Michael Wilson run into the end zone. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.360 Unacceptable from all all three guys. And that is a 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.160 theme that has continued from day one of this team 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:12.839 until now, and it is it is. I guess it's 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.440 upsetting to me that this hasn't been addressed in the 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.800 course of the season. And what do we have to 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.959 go on that makes us think that this will be 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.480 addressed in the course of the off season. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.400 Yeah, I mean, I think there's been marginal, very minimal, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:31.080 slight intremental improvement to the tackling. Like it's not as 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.720 atrocious as it was in the first two but there's 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.439 just a little bit of it here and there where 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.480 it's like, oh, yeah, that guy actually made a tackle. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.520 It hasn't really been there at all for Geno Stone, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.160 not just this year, but at any point in his 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.199 Bengals career. He's one of the worst players who's ever 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.360 played for this franchise, and you know it's difficult to 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.240 see him do that again where you're basically just trying 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.440 to knock him out of bounce. The NFL man dudes 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.240 are fast and strong and they will put you on 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.880 your back, and that's what happened. And Geno Stone missed 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.080 on that Jordan Battle kind of gave up on the play. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.240 Barrett Carter had been shaken out of his shoes and 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.640 was nowhere to be found. And you're right, like those 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.960 little things that just it feels like there hasn't been 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.920 enough improvement. And we talked a lot about, you know, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.400 the Bengals ownership in front office putting a lot into 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.440 the final four games of the season and that determining 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.160 their path in the offseason, and whether or not that's true. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.040 I think it has to work both ways. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.280 When the offense plays really good or when a player 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.640 performs really well, okay, maybe that shapes your view of 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.520 them in the offseason. But when players don't perform well 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.600 or they don't go up to that standard, that should 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.600 also have an effect. Whether it's against the Arizona Cardinals, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.600 the Miami Dolphins, or against the Baltimore Ravens and you know, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.880 the Denver Broncos and teams like that that you play 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.600 earlier in the season. So I do hope that that's 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.480 a two way street over these final three games of 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:48.800 the year. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.560 You couldn't have said that any better, Oddie, because that 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.760 that I mean, your spot on there. I mean that 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.440 you just hope, you hope that even other blowing teams 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.960 out that the bigger picture from the front office is 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.560 viewed in this whole thing that plays. Like we just 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.440 talked about that that the defense needs fixed. We saw 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.520 last year was that year where you got you know, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.160 Joe Burrow playing like an MVP. You got Jamar Chase 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.000 playing you know, triple crown and playing the way he 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.560 always plays. Those guys are healthy. Obviously T was banged 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.280 up last year, but then this year, for the most 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.520 part of the concussions, you know, T was healthy and 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.880 Burrow was hurt. Last year was the model Like if 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.960 you couldn't have done that last year when those guys 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.040 were all humming along, yeah, and you still miss the playoffs, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.280 that to me was the wake up call. All right, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:40.520 now you got another one. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:41.000 This year. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.960 Fix the defense. And I know you're limited in doing 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.040 that because of so many resources over on the offensive side, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.000 but like my goodness, don't look at the window of 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.120 just these last three or four games. Look at the 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.640 big picture, please, front office, and fix the defense. 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.079 I would say this. I mean, they did make significant changes. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.080 Hubbard gone Bell gone, Hilton gone Hendrickson. They decided to 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.040 bring back and even though he didn't play very much 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.319 this year, but they made I mean, those were dudes 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.959 that played significant snaps for this defense last year and 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.720 they were all gone, and they replaced him with younger guys, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.679 and they put all their chips into the basket of 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.400 we're gonna get young players, We're gonna draft them, we're 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.040 gonna develop them, we're gonna scapegoat lu Ana Rumo. He's 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.280 going to be the reason that none of those guys 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.520 worked out previously. So I admire the plan on paper, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.320 go young and cheap and develop on defense, and a 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.120 lot of teams have been able to do that across 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.920 the league. Philadelphia is a great example of that, but 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.840 it just hasn't worked out. So I do it at 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.959 least acknowledge. Okay, they tried something different. They didn't just 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.600 keep running it back with the old guys. They put 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:52.160 this influx of youth in it. But there are times 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.560 that you're gonna see a young player make mistakes, and 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.720 they did and it costs them. And then when you 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.120 couple that with the Burrow injury, it it was lethal. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.720 All right, audit, you know we got to run. But 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.600 very quickly. Do the Browns think they're good now? Because 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.800 they beat Pittsburgh yesterday? The Browns have a super Bowl 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.599 caliber defense. You could put the Browns defense with the 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.560 Bengals offense. Yeah, let's go right there. They would win 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.040 the Super Bowl. The Browns are legit. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.480 Miles Garrett is going to go try to break that 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.080 record against Joe Burrow on Sunday. But I think they 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.200 would love nothing more than to come into Cincinnati and uh, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.240 your guy should or Sanders find a way to win. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.920 My guy, let's go Saners. This should be a little 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:30.600 better of a game. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.920 I think, Yeah, let's get one more win than worry 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.240 about the draft and all that other stuff after that. Austin, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.120 thank you very much. Time to get a little traffic 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.160 and weather together. On seven hundred. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.760 From the UC Health Traffic Center. From Non Invasive to 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.600 surgical treatments. 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The overnight low 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.760 twenty five Tuesday and Wednesday, and Wednesday is New Year's 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.760 e it'll be mostly cloudy and a high of thirty five. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.800 It is a brisk twenty five at seven hundred WLW. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.720 This report is Sponsoredvice super Sure. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.440 Do you own a small business? 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:08.720 Soon? 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:10.680 All right? 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.360 Back on the Big one, seven hundred w LW three 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.480 thirty nine. Dan Carrol Jason Williams in for Eddie and 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.560 the Rock. And I was sitting here looking at my 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.720 broadcast partner and do you need a minute? 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:21.800 What do you know? 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.440 Look? Look how tangled up those headsets? Are they tangled? 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.560 I mean that wire is it looks like a spider 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:28.840 web hanging off the side of the ear. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.880 Not just the shovels, the shoveled mess. Yeah, it's the 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.280 weather man. When I was a kid, we had we had. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.960 This was before cell phones, right, everybody had a landline, right, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.000 and so we had. We thought it was really cool. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:43.440 You know. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.600 My folks bought one of those those really long cords 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.840 you'll go between the phone on the wall and the handset, yep, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.480 So you could take it into the other room. You 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.800 could sit and watch TV and the cord stretches like that, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.760 or you get you could go in the other room 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.520 and I have a private conversation. Yeah, but after a 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.280 certain period of time that cord gets all twisted up 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.040 and and so I would always take it upon myself 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:05.320 to hold it up and let it spin. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:05.480 It on. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.560 God, I couldn't stand that thing being tangled up and twisted. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.000 And that's what your headset looks like, it does, the 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.480 wire coming off that head's. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.040 It's nice that you did that for your family, so 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.000 that you so that you could have nice private conversations. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:19.800 You could go in uh. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.879 Yeah, things bother me, like like you go in the 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.880 other room and hide around the corner. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.360 And hate Hey, sweetie, are we were getting together for. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.719 The movie to you know, like when people walk out 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.679 of room, they leave the light on. I can't stand that. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.240 My wife's the worst. I hate Oh my gosh. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.960 You know, my wife in the morning turns every light 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:39.840 in the house on. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:41.880 Why why? 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:43.840 And then she also the middle of the day. We 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.200 got all these lights, a lot of exactly I turn 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.040 them off all the time. You leave the room, turn 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.720 it off. And you know, now you have those led balls. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.920 They used barely any electricity at all, but still that's 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.680 what I said, Like, that's what you tell like, oh, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.800 these don't cost anything. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:06.360 Yeah, I mean my parents were kids. My parents had 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.240 parents that lived during the Great Depression, So so that 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.399 sort of way of thinking was you don't waste anything, right, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.480 and a lot of that was passed on to me. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.600 You know, it continued through them because that they was 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.640 ingrained into them that you don't waste anything, right, and 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.159 so a lot of that was passed on to me. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.000 And I think that, you know, the current generations out 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.560 there don't feel as strongly about that because we live 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:32.320 in a world of life. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:37.320 Don't waste food, don't waste electricity. Yep, all right, I'm 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.040 glad you got your heads. Don't waste water. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.000 One of the stories we talked about last week was 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.400 this young lady who was a Jets super fan. Yeah yeah, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.720 and her name is Ashley Costiano Gervasi, thirty three years old. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.359 She was discovered by the Jets at a tailgate to 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.280 uh To and and they recruited her to be part 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.719 of a contest where they would be able to kick 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.640 a field goal at the halftime. This was of yesterday's game, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.160 and so she went through there. There was a lengthy process, 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.240 and she went through the entire process all that there 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.480 were several eliminations along the way, and so it got 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.360 down to four fans who had an opportunity to kick 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.560 this field goal yesterday, yes and so on the eve 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.160