September 5, 2024 • 10 mins
Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal joined us to talk UC/Pitt, the return of the deep ball, the Bearcats' issues against the run, and the UC/Ohio State exhibition. We also laughed at Memphis basketball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Patriots. Coverage begins Sunday morning at nine on ESPN
fifteen thirty, the official home of the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Night eleven away from four o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty on Moleeger. We're broadcasting from Top Golf in Westchester,
the Anthony Munoz Foundation Top Golf Tailgate. Chad Brendel joins
us on Thursdays to talk UC sports. Obviously, the football
Bearcat's getting set to take on Pittsburgh on Saturday, a
noon kickoff at some UC basketball news yesterday with the
(00:31):
Bearcats getting set to play Ohio State in a charity
exhibition in October. Chads with Bearcat Journal dot com. Chad
owns Bearcat journal dot com and he owns his ex
handle at Chad Brendel, and he's with us. Now, how's
it going.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Good? I did want to say I always get a
lot of pushback from people when I say Danny Hurley
is the biggest Bengals fan I know. And if you
guys listen to his interview yesterday, you will understand why
he's a.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Lunatic like like real I think I talked about I
meant to mention this during the my chat with him yesterday,
which which, by the way, you essentially helped set up.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That was the big favor I teased on the air
last week, but Dan Horde told me once Rhode Island
was playing. Maybe it was when Danny was at Yukon
and playing against Cincinnati, and he said, you know, I
was at an NCAA tournament site where you see and
Rhode Island were in the same place. And I don't
(01:33):
know if he was there the day before the game
or whatever, but you know, they're in the arena, and
Rhode Island's in the arena, and Dan Hurley season and
approaches him and starts hitting him up with like the
most and it's March, so it's kind of like a
month before the draft, like nuanced draft questions. You could
ever imagine He's not some rando who has decided I
(01:55):
like the Bengals because they've recently been good. That guy
lives and dies with the team. I remember years ago,
before the Bengals got good, you were at a camp
and you called me and said, somebody wants to talk
to you, and it was Dan Hurley just wanting to
talk and complain about the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We would be at an event every year during the draft,
we'd be at an AAU tournament and he that's all like.
So when I first this is why I'm friends with
Danny Hurley. When Mick Cronin first introduced me to Danny,
He's like, Chad works in radio and Cincinnati, so he
not only you know, he covers us, he covers the
Bengals whatever, and Danny Hurd covers the Bengals, and that
(02:36):
has been the basis of our friendship ever since. Then.
Whenever he sees me, it's his chance to like, who's
gonna be the third string punter in camp? Like who's
the backup long snapper of something like. He is as
obsessed as anyone I've ever I've never met anyone more
obsessed with the Bengals. He's OCD like. Of course, he
(02:58):
treats the Bengals like he everything else in his life.
He is literally obsessed. My favorite was Andrea, his wife,
having to tell him close the windows. The neighbors can
hear you close the windows. It was so good I
was cracking up this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, well again, thank you for helping to facilitate. Let
me start with the good. I saw a deep ball
that was thrown with precision and touch and where a
quarterback didn't look like he was straining himself to get
a downfield, he completed it. It was a I think
it was you that tweeted out it was a sight
for sore eyes. Brendan Swarsby. Early in that game, he
(03:38):
passed his opening Bearcat test. Take what you want into
account as it relates to the opponent. He passed his
test with flying colors.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
His arm is outstanding, And I asked him in the
press conference. I've talked about it a lot on Bearcat Journal.
It for me, it's like a return to childhood, speaking
of like the the eighties Bengals. His play action is
so good and that was the ball to Henderson. Play
action did a great job, hide it in the bread basket,
popped up and just delivered a dime down the field
(04:10):
and had the play action where he kind of it
was a weird like they play action left and then
he or right and then he rolled out left to
the opposite side and found Joe Royer. He's he's really
good at a lot of that like old school kind
of quarterback stuff, like nerdy quarterback stuff that you don't
really see anymore in the shotgun, right, You don't have
(04:32):
to be as tricky. You just take the snap and
take three steps and throw it. But you know, he
had a really really good debut as a Bearcat.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The run defense was a concern coming in. It has
to be a larger concern coming out. And that obviously
takes into account the good news they got this week
with the Godfather coming back. Then I look at what
Pittsburgh did, take it again into account who they played.
I have a really bad feeling about this. Can you
talk me off the ledge?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Uh No, not really. I mean I need to see
it before I believe that the run defense is going
to hold up. I mean I have talked about that
from you know, leading up to camp like that, you know,
when we knew Dante was was going to be limited,
and then we knew Mike Coleman was out, and then
early in camp Jalen Hunt is out for the year.
(05:24):
I worry about it. You know. I think we saw
a lot of like they were trying to protect the
runs up the middle on Saturday with Dante out, and
that created you know, the ends kind of crashed in
Towsen was able to bounce it outside. I think they'll
have a little bit more containment on the edges this
time with Dante on the field. But some of that stuff,
(05:48):
you know, they're going to have to figure it out,
and I think they're going to need to do it
with excellent play from their linebackers, and I don't think
we got that on Saturday. I think the linebackers looked
like they were out of their gaps, or you know,
they overrun their gap by a couple of steps and
then next thing you know, the ball is bouncing outside
for seven eight yards untouched. They're going to have to
(06:09):
be a lot more disciplined. I thought Jared Bartlett was
very good, but we didn't see a lot from Jake Golday.
We didn't see a lot from Nate Dingle. They're Jack Dingle. Sorry,
Nate is dad, you know. So that part of it
is going to have to get cleared up. Maybe hopefully
with Dante back, you can move Kamari Burns outside and
(06:32):
have him be a little bit more of that kind
of run stopper defensive end on the edge. But it's
going to be a concern until it's not, I guess,
is the best way I can put it. They are
going to have to prove to me that they're going
to stop the run, because right now it is by
far my biggest concern defensively.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Do they have the personnel to play the three, three,
five given who they've lost up front?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Mo, here's my question for that. If they don't have
the personnel to play three down linemen, how in the
world are they going to play four? Yeah, if they
don't have the bodies to adequately put three linemen on
the line of scrimmage, I don't know what the benefit
is of adding an extra one. You know, if they
(07:16):
still had Jalen Hunt and you could put Dante Corleona
nose tackle and Jalen Hunt a defensive tackle and put
two ends on each side of them, sure, give the
four down linemen in front of try. I don't know
that they have the personnel to go to four at
this point in time, So I know it's something they
wanted to do a little bit, you know, mix in
(07:36):
a little bit more coming into this season, But I
just don't know that. You know, the map says that
they don't have enough to do three, then having enough
to do four would be even more of a stretch.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
All right, I got I got like a minute here,
I'll go guest choice, Do you want to talk about
UC playing Ohio State in a charity exhibition or do
you want to make fun of Memphis?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, well, I guess we'll go Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I guess do you see Ohio State thing? There's a
charitable component, which is awesome. Can can this be a
regular thing moving forward where we get a chance to
see them before the season begins and they're not playing
everything behind those hours and we could watch them watch
them play teams that matter.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So, without getting too into the weeds, there was a built,
you know, a thing in front of the NCAA committee
or whatever to for basketball to make the secret scrimmages
open and sell tickets and whatever. That was on the
table for this year. It got shelved. It didn't get
approved or denied. It just got kind of kicked down
(08:47):
the road. There was going to be an event that
had Dayton, Xavier, and U see Ohio State all on
the same day in the same location, and because that
got shelved, they had to kind of move it around,
and you get the way that it's being done now
via charity exhibition. But yes, I think if that goes
through then you will see regular or you know, regular
(09:09):
exhibition games open to the public against Division one opponents
coming in the not so distant future, and potentially just
an event with UC Dayton and Ohio State and Xavier
all in the same group, playing on the same day
at the same location. It would be an exhibition that's
not quite as good as the real thing, but I
(09:29):
would take it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, No, sign me up for that, all right?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Man? See Penny hardaway ha ha, That's.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All I needed. We could expand upon that next week.
Chad Brendel Bearcat journal dot com. Thank you so much.
Thanks bout follow Chad on Twitter at Chad Brendel. By
the way, Reds win today won nothing. Ret Louder outstanding
in his second big league debut, Ty France went deep
for Cincinnati's only run. Red sweep the Astros and have
won four straight games. Robert Jackson and Joe Waltzer with
(09:59):
me When to Come Back on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati
Sports Station
The Patriots. Coverage begins Sunday morning at nine on ESPN
fifteen thirty, the official home of the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Night eleven away from four o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty on Moleeger. We're broadcasting from Top Golf in Westchester,
the Anthony Munoz Foundation Top Golf Tailgate. Chad Brendel joins
us on Thursdays to talk UC sports. Obviously, the football
Bearcat's getting set to take on Pittsburgh on Saturday, a
noon kickoff at some UC basketball news yesterday with the
(00:31):
Bearcats getting set to play Ohio State in a charity
exhibition in October. Chads with Bearcat Journal dot com. Chad
owns Bearcat journal dot com and he owns his ex
handle at Chad Brendel, and he's with us. Now, how's
it going.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Good? I did want to say I always get a
lot of pushback from people when I say Danny Hurley
is the biggest Bengals fan I know. And if you
guys listen to his interview yesterday, you will understand why
he's a.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Lunatic like like real I think I talked about I
meant to mention this during the my chat with him yesterday,
which which, by the way, you essentially helped set up.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That was the big favor I teased on the air
last week, but Dan Horde told me once Rhode Island
was playing. Maybe it was when Danny was at Yukon
and playing against Cincinnati, and he said, you know, I
was at an NCAA tournament site where you see and
Rhode Island were in the same place. And I don't
(01:33):
know if he was there the day before the game
or whatever, but you know, they're in the arena, and
Rhode Island's in the arena, and Dan Hurley season and
approaches him and starts hitting him up with like the
most and it's March, so it's kind of like a
month before the draft, like nuanced draft questions. You could
ever imagine He's not some rando who has decided I
(01:55):
like the Bengals because they've recently been good. That guy
lives and dies with the team. I remember years ago,
before the Bengals got good, you were at a camp
and you called me and said, somebody wants to talk
to you, and it was Dan Hurley just wanting to
talk and complain about the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We would be at an event every year during the draft,
we'd be at an AAU tournament and he that's all like.
So when I first this is why I'm friends with
Danny Hurley. When Mick Cronin first introduced me to Danny,
He's like, Chad works in radio and Cincinnati, so he
not only you know, he covers us, he covers the
Bengals whatever, and Danny Hurd covers the Bengals, and that
(02:36):
has been the basis of our friendship ever since. Then.
Whenever he sees me, it's his chance to like, who's
gonna be the third string punter in camp? Like who's
the backup long snapper of something like. He is as
obsessed as anyone I've ever I've never met anyone more
obsessed with the Bengals. He's OCD like. Of course, he
(02:58):
treats the Bengals like he everything else in his life.
He is literally obsessed. My favorite was Andrea, his wife,
having to tell him close the windows. The neighbors can
hear you close the windows. It was so good I
was cracking up this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, well again, thank you for helping to facilitate. Let
me start with the good. I saw a deep ball
that was thrown with precision and touch and where a
quarterback didn't look like he was straining himself to get
a downfield, he completed it. It was a I think
it was you that tweeted out it was a sight
for sore eyes. Brendan Swarsby. Early in that game, he
(03:38):
passed his opening Bearcat test. Take what you want into
account as it relates to the opponent. He passed his
test with flying colors.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
His arm is outstanding, And I asked him in the
press conference. I've talked about it a lot on Bearcat Journal.
It for me, it's like a return to childhood, speaking
of like the the eighties Bengals. His play action is
so good and that was the ball to Henderson. Play
action did a great job, hide it in the bread basket,
popped up and just delivered a dime down the field
(04:10):
and had the play action where he kind of it
was a weird like they play action left and then
he or right and then he rolled out left to
the opposite side and found Joe Royer. He's he's really
good at a lot of that like old school kind
of quarterback stuff, like nerdy quarterback stuff that you don't
really see anymore in the shotgun, right, You don't have
(04:32):
to be as tricky. You just take the snap and
take three steps and throw it. But you know, he
had a really really good debut as a Bearcat.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The run defense was a concern coming in. It has
to be a larger concern coming out. And that obviously
takes into account the good news they got this week
with the Godfather coming back. Then I look at what
Pittsburgh did, take it again into account who they played.
I have a really bad feeling about this. Can you
talk me off the ledge?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Uh No, not really. I mean I need to see
it before I believe that the run defense is going
to hold up. I mean I have talked about that
from you know, leading up to camp like that, you know,
when we knew Dante was was going to be limited,
and then we knew Mike Coleman was out, and then
early in camp Jalen Hunt is out for the year.
(05:24):
I worry about it. You know. I think we saw
a lot of like they were trying to protect the
runs up the middle on Saturday with Dante out, and
that created you know, the ends kind of crashed in
Towsen was able to bounce it outside. I think they'll
have a little bit more containment on the edges this
time with Dante on the field. But some of that stuff,
(05:48):
you know, they're going to have to figure it out,
and I think they're going to need to do it
with excellent play from their linebackers, and I don't think
we got that on Saturday. I think the linebackers looked
like they were out of their gaps, or you know,
they overrun their gap by a couple of steps and
then next thing you know, the ball is bouncing outside
for seven eight yards untouched. They're going to have to
(06:09):
be a lot more disciplined. I thought Jared Bartlett was
very good, but we didn't see a lot from Jake Golday.
We didn't see a lot from Nate Dingle. They're Jack Dingle. Sorry,
Nate is dad, you know. So that part of it
is going to have to get cleared up. Maybe hopefully
with Dante back, you can move Kamari Burns outside and
(06:32):
have him be a little bit more of that kind
of run stopper defensive end on the edge. But it's
going to be a concern until it's not, I guess,
is the best way I can put it. They are
going to have to prove to me that they're going
to stop the run, because right now it is by
far my biggest concern defensively.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Do they have the personnel to play the three, three,
five given who they've lost up front?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Mo, here's my question for that. If they don't have
the personnel to play three down linemen, how in the
world are they going to play four? Yeah, if they
don't have the bodies to adequately put three linemen on
the line of scrimmage, I don't know what the benefit
is of adding an extra one. You know, if they
(07:16):
still had Jalen Hunt and you could put Dante Corleona
nose tackle and Jalen Hunt a defensive tackle and put
two ends on each side of them, sure, give the
four down linemen in front of try. I don't know
that they have the personnel to go to four at
this point in time, So I know it's something they
wanted to do a little bit, you know, mix in
(07:36):
a little bit more coming into this season, But I
just don't know that. You know, the map says that
they don't have enough to do three, then having enough
to do four would be even more of a stretch.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
All right, I got I got like a minute here,
I'll go guest choice, Do you want to talk about
UC playing Ohio State in a charity exhibition or do
you want to make fun of Memphis?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, well, I guess we'll go Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I guess do you see Ohio State thing? There's a
charitable component, which is awesome. Can can this be a
regular thing moving forward where we get a chance to
see them before the season begins and they're not playing
everything behind those hours and we could watch them watch
them play teams that matter.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So, without getting too into the weeds, there was a built,
you know, a thing in front of the NCAA committee
or whatever to for basketball to make the secret scrimmages
open and sell tickets and whatever. That was on the
table for this year. It got shelved. It didn't get
approved or denied. It just got kind of kicked down
(08:47):
the road. There was going to be an event that
had Dayton, Xavier, and U see Ohio State all on
the same day in the same location, and because that
got shelved, they had to kind of move it around,
and you get the way that it's being done now
via charity exhibition. But yes, I think if that goes
through then you will see regular or you know, regular
(09:09):
exhibition games open to the public against Division one opponents
coming in the not so distant future, and potentially just
an event with UC Dayton and Ohio State and Xavier
all in the same group, playing on the same day
at the same location. It would be an exhibition that's
not quite as good as the real thing, but I
(09:29):
would take it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, No, sign me up for that, all right?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Man? See Penny hardaway ha ha, That's.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All I needed. We could expand upon that next week.
Chad Brendel Bearcat journal dot com. Thank you so much.
Thanks bout follow Chad on Twitter at Chad Brendel. By
the way, Reds win today won nothing. Ret Louder outstanding
in his second big league debut, Ty France went deep
for Cincinnati's only run. Red sweep the Astros and have
won four straight games. Robert Jackson and Joe Waltzer with
(09:59):
me When to Come Back on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati
Sports Station
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