August 14, 2025 • 10 mins
Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal joined us to discuss a few UC football issues and the newest member of the Bearcats basketball program.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, check in again with Tony Pike. We'll start to
look ahead to Monday Bengals and Commanders on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Tony's gonna join us in twenty five minutes. Brendaman and
Jones on baseball as well. On Thursdays, we're joined by
our friend Chad Brendel Bearcat Journal dot Com. You see
opens up the season two weeks from tonight in Kansas
City against Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi, Chad, Hey, ma, are you working Monday? Am I
working Monday? Like I'm I'm confused?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am, I am, I am not I am not
here on Monday. I have no idea what's happening to
replace me?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I am it's me. I just say it was me,
and then it was you, and then it was me.
Like I'm we're playing tag.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know, but I am not able to I'm
not able to be here on Monday for reasons that,
uh don't make a lot of sense for me to
get into.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I think it's me and Tony.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Very good, nice, All right, well you'll be the pregame show.
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Will Will I was.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Asked yesterday by a caller to this show a little
bit after five o'clock yesterday who saw the UCE Nebraska
point spread and asked, should I be concerned? I think
that number is about what it should be, six and
a half? How about you?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thanks fair? I mean, you know, I think the Cincinnati
team's going to be better. How much better, I'm I'm
not sure yet. I also have concerns that go beyond talent,
like we have seen. Here's the thing, though, the more
and more I dig into this as we get closer
and closer to the season, like the reality is, each
(01:37):
of the last two years, those teams should have won
more games, and they didn't. They didn't have you know,
top end level Big twelve roster yet, but there were
plenty of games that they were in and somehow found
a way to make the critical game changing mistake that
(02:02):
cost them victory. And until I see otherwise, that has
to be a concern. So with that said, I think
one score in Arrowhead, I mean there is going to
be DJ Hodge and eighty thousand other Cornhusker fans at
(02:23):
that game, like it is going to be the Nebraska
home game. So yeah, I don't have much of a
problem with six and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, I don't either. I want to talk about a
couple of things that I saw and heard at practice
on Monday. One would be this, and he sort of
made an allusion to it that made me think about
what I was talking about Jim talking about with with
Jim Kelly, and that's last year. You see, you know
the term now is the middle eight, right, the last
four minutes of the first half, first four minutes of
the second half last year was a disaster. You and
(02:52):
I have talked a lot this offseason about improved special teams,
different special teams, coach, different personnel, how they've emphasized it,
the plan with it. There's maybe the first thing that
I'm going to be looking for from a game management perspective,
from a special team's perspective, from an offensive perspective like
that cost them so dearly so many times, including in
games they let get away at the end. I want
(03:15):
to see that. And I think we're gonna get an
opportunity two weeks from tonight to see if they're better.
In the quote middle eight.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I was asked a question on the BDP podcast on
Monday mo that I think goes right to that point,
like if this Cincinnati Bearcats team was to have a
first team All American.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Who would it be. I think it's actually a fairly
easy answer for the person that would be most likely,
and that name is Max Fletcher h MaTx. Fletcher averaged
forty seven yards a punt two years ago in the
(03:59):
SEC second team All SEC. I think he is going
to come in as one of the top I'll be
fairly conservative, one of the top ten punters in America.
And if that's true. If that's true, I mean second
(04:19):
team SEC. I think if you're second team SEC at
your position, you're probably in the top ten of America
at your position. Right, that was such and I don't
think it was Mason Fletcher wasn't right last year, Like
I I with the four game transfer like red shirt rule,
(04:42):
I fully felt they should have let Max Fletcher punt
the last two games last year because Mason clearly wasn't
one hundred healthy. I think he is that much of
a game changer. The kicks are incredibly long, the kicks
are incredibly high, like that'll loan should mitigate some of
(05:02):
those problems they had in the last five games of
the season last year. And I think Steven Russnek has
a chance to be a really good place kicker. So
just on those two guys alone set Luke Pascal on
his different philosophy. The philosophy is aside of special teams,
those two guys should make them better right away. And
then I mean, I have seen special teams look and
(05:28):
Brian Mason, who's now a special teams coordinator for the Colts,
he is my measuring stick on what practice should look
like for special teams units. They look a lot more
like Brian Mason used to run them now than they
did in the last couple of years. I'll just leave
that there. That should put them in better position. I'm
(05:52):
not going to say it's going to win them games,
but last year we watched those phases lose them games.
You can't have that in a league that's gonna be
as close as the Big twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I had a chance to a ten practice I saw
you there. Monday was my first one. I was really
impressed by the overall team speed. I could be skeptical
when I hear things, I need to see them. I
saw it on Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think they look athletically and physically the most Big
twelve or power for whatever like that they have since
twenty twenty one, and even you can go back to
twenty twenty one, like they had it at the top
of the roster, but there wasn't a whole lot behind it.
There's actual, I think, quality depth. Like I think there's
(06:42):
six linebackers that all could make a case for like
starter quality player. I think there's five or six safeties
that fit that mold. I think there's four or five
wide receivers that fit that mold. You're starting to see
that depth develop, and a lot of that includes just
the physical nature, the stature and the speed of the players.
(07:07):
I think it's a lot better than it has been.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All Right, we're gonna talk more football next week and
then in two weeks from today, which will be game day.
Let me flip it to men's basketball. Who's Jordi Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Six foot six small forward slash shooting guard. Has played
a lot of international basketball in Spain. If you do
not like the three point shot, probably not gonna love
Jordi Rodriguez. He will like three on one fast break.
He will pull up and take the three like he
(07:43):
is gonna let him fly. In Spain last year, both
between the national team and his club team, he averaged
about five and a half three is a game and
shot over forty percent for a program that has lacked
forty level point shooters. I don't know if he can
I don't know if he can guard you, But putting
(08:05):
him on the rockster as well as he can shoot,
I'll take it. There's always room for guys to know
how to play offense for me, because there haven't been
enough guys that know how to play offense in this
basketball program.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I start asking you the same question mid August every year,
when's the schedule coming out?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I give you the same answer every year. Helif I
know MO.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
To at least ask I.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah. I mean, I think they're fairly close.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
One of the things is we still haven't gotten the
Big twelve stuff, so you know, whether you got the
non conference finished or not, can't release everything until the
Big twelve gets their stuff out. So I just think
U SEE doesn't rush to get that stuff announced like
some do, because they know it doesn't really matter until
the conference things come out, you release the whole thing.
(09:01):
That's gonna be probably September. But yeah, I wish I
had a better answer for you on that. I get
eye rolls every time I ask, so I kind of
just quit ask you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, I'll talk to you next week and I'll ask
you the same question. So come up with the come
up with a more creative answer.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, I'll see what I can do though, all right,
Can I make updates? Like can I Can we do
like Taylor Swift type like announcements like you know, we'll
start dropping Easter eggs. Maybe I'll get some Easter eggs here,
big on Easter eggs.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Here's my question, because I know you listened. Did you
listen to Taylor Swift with the Kelsey Brothers.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Uh, my daughter had it on this morning if she
was driving to school and I was nervously sitting in
the passenger seat. I've seen some clips on social media today,
so I feel like I've gotten a pretty good of
that interview.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Can I let my daughter listen to it?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Taylor does have a little bit of a potty mouth, Okay,
but as long as you're not offended by a few
curse words, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Good stuff. Chad, Thank you, Thanks Bob. We'll preview this
year Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
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Union Center Boulevard, it's an accident on the right shoulder.
(10:43):
Police are there on scene. Kemper Road. It's another accident.
This is at Hamilton Avenue. He's found State Route one
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with traffic.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
This report
Well, check in again with Tony Pike. We'll start to
look ahead to Monday Bengals and Commanders on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Tony's gonna join us in twenty five minutes. Brendaman and
Jones on baseball as well. On Thursdays, we're joined by
our friend Chad Brendel Bearcat Journal dot Com. You see
opens up the season two weeks from tonight in Kansas
City against Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi, Chad, Hey, ma, are you working Monday? Am I
working Monday? Like I'm I'm confused?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am, I am, I am not I am not
here on Monday. I have no idea what's happening to
replace me?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I am it's me. I just say it was me,
and then it was you, and then it was me.
Like I'm we're playing tag.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know, but I am not able to I'm
not able to be here on Monday for reasons that,
uh don't make a lot of sense for me to
get into.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I think it's me and Tony.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Very good, nice, All right, well you'll be the pregame show.
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Will Will I was.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Asked yesterday by a caller to this show a little
bit after five o'clock yesterday who saw the UCE Nebraska
point spread and asked, should I be concerned? I think
that number is about what it should be, six and
a half? How about you?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thanks fair? I mean, you know, I think the Cincinnati
team's going to be better. How much better, I'm I'm
not sure yet. I also have concerns that go beyond talent,
like we have seen. Here's the thing, though, the more
and more I dig into this as we get closer
and closer to the season, like the reality is, each
(01:37):
of the last two years, those teams should have won
more games, and they didn't. They didn't have you know,
top end level Big twelve roster yet, but there were
plenty of games that they were in and somehow found
a way to make the critical game changing mistake that
(02:02):
cost them victory. And until I see otherwise, that has
to be a concern. So with that said, I think
one score in Arrowhead, I mean there is going to
be DJ Hodge and eighty thousand other Cornhusker fans at
(02:23):
that game, like it is going to be the Nebraska
home game. So yeah, I don't have much of a
problem with six and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, I don't either. I want to talk about a
couple of things that I saw and heard at practice
on Monday. One would be this, and he sort of
made an allusion to it that made me think about
what I was talking about Jim talking about with with
Jim Kelly, and that's last year. You see, you know
the term now is the middle eight, right, the last
four minutes of the first half, first four minutes of
the second half last year was a disaster. You and
(02:52):
I have talked a lot this offseason about improved special teams,
different special teams, coach, different personnel, how they've emphasized it,
the plan with it. There's maybe the first thing that
I'm going to be looking for from a game management perspective,
from a special team's perspective, from an offensive perspective like
that cost them so dearly so many times, including in
games they let get away at the end. I want
(03:15):
to see that. And I think we're gonna get an
opportunity two weeks from tonight to see if they're better.
In the quote middle eight.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I was asked a question on the BDP podcast on
Monday mo that I think goes right to that point,
like if this Cincinnati Bearcats team was to have a
first team All American.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Who would it be. I think it's actually a fairly
easy answer for the person that would be most likely,
and that name is Max Fletcher h MaTx. Fletcher averaged
forty seven yards a punt two years ago in the
(03:59):
SEC second team All SEC. I think he is going
to come in as one of the top I'll be
fairly conservative, one of the top ten punters in America.
And if that's true. If that's true, I mean second
(04:19):
team SEC. I think if you're second team SEC at
your position, you're probably in the top ten of America
at your position. Right, that was such and I don't
think it was Mason Fletcher wasn't right last year, Like
I I with the four game transfer like red shirt rule,
(04:42):
I fully felt they should have let Max Fletcher punt
the last two games last year because Mason clearly wasn't
one hundred healthy. I think he is that much of
a game changer. The kicks are incredibly long, the kicks
are incredibly high, like that'll loan should mitigate some of
(05:02):
those problems they had in the last five games of
the season last year. And I think Steven Russnek has
a chance to be a really good place kicker. So
just on those two guys alone set Luke Pascal on
his different philosophy. The philosophy is aside of special teams,
those two guys should make them better right away. And
then I mean, I have seen special teams look and
(05:28):
Brian Mason, who's now a special teams coordinator for the Colts,
he is my measuring stick on what practice should look
like for special teams units. They look a lot more
like Brian Mason used to run them now than they
did in the last couple of years. I'll just leave
that there. That should put them in better position. I'm
(05:52):
not going to say it's going to win them games,
but last year we watched those phases lose them games.
You can't have that in a league that's gonna be
as close as the Big twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I had a chance to a ten practice I saw
you there. Monday was my first one. I was really
impressed by the overall team speed. I could be skeptical
when I hear things, I need to see them. I
saw it on Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think they look athletically and physically the most Big
twelve or power for whatever like that they have since
twenty twenty one, and even you can go back to
twenty twenty one, like they had it at the top
of the roster, but there wasn't a whole lot behind it.
There's actual, I think, quality depth. Like I think there's
(06:42):
six linebackers that all could make a case for like
starter quality player. I think there's five or six safeties
that fit that mold. I think there's four or five
wide receivers that fit that mold. You're starting to see
that depth develop, and a lot of that includes just
the physical nature, the stature and the speed of the players.
(07:07):
I think it's a lot better than it has been.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All Right, we're gonna talk more football next week and
then in two weeks from today, which will be game day.
Let me flip it to men's basketball. Who's Jordi Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Six foot six small forward slash shooting guard. Has played
a lot of international basketball in Spain. If you do
not like the three point shot, probably not gonna love
Jordi Rodriguez. He will like three on one fast break.
He will pull up and take the three like he
(07:43):
is gonna let him fly. In Spain last year, both
between the national team and his club team, he averaged
about five and a half three is a game and
shot over forty percent for a program that has lacked
forty level point shooters. I don't know if he can
I don't know if he can guard you, But putting
(08:05):
him on the rockster as well as he can shoot,
I'll take it. There's always room for guys to know
how to play offense for me, because there haven't been
enough guys that know how to play offense in this
basketball program.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I start asking you the same question mid August every year,
when's the schedule coming out?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I give you the same answer every year. Helif I
know MO.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
To at least ask I.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah. I mean, I think they're fairly close.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
One of the things is we still haven't gotten the
Big twelve stuff, so you know, whether you got the
non conference finished or not, can't release everything until the
Big twelve gets their stuff out. So I just think
U SEE doesn't rush to get that stuff announced like
some do, because they know it doesn't really matter until
the conference things come out, you release the whole thing.
(09:01):
That's gonna be probably September. But yeah, I wish I
had a better answer for you on that. I get
eye rolls every time I ask, so I kind of
just quit ask you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, I'll talk to you next week and I'll ask
you the same question. So come up with the come
up with a more creative answer.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, I'll see what I can do though, all right,
Can I make updates? Like can I Can we do
like Taylor Swift type like announcements like you know, we'll
start dropping Easter eggs. Maybe I'll get some Easter eggs here,
big on Easter eggs.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Here's my question, because I know you listened. Did you
listen to Taylor Swift with the Kelsey Brothers.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Uh, my daughter had it on this morning if she
was driving to school and I was nervously sitting in
the passenger seat. I've seen some clips on social media today,
so I feel like I've gotten a pretty good of
that interview.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Can I let my daughter listen to it?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Taylor does have a little bit of a potty mouth, Okay,
but as long as you're not offended by a few
curse words, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Good stuff. Chad, Thank you, Thanks Bob. We'll preview this
year Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Traffic from the uc Health Traffic Center. The uc Health
Backneck and Spine Center offers innovative treatments to improve quality
of life with convenient locations across Greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky.
Learn more at ucehealth dot com. Southbound seventy five after
Union Center Boulevard, it's an accident on the right shoulder.
(10:43):
Police are there on scene. Kemper Road. It's another accident.
This is at Hamilton Avenue. He's found State Route one
twenty two accident before Robinson Bailee Road. I'm at Ezelic
with traffic.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
This report
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