August 21, 2025 • 11 mins
Chad Brendel joins us to look ahead to the UC football season and the impact of Jizzle James' departure on the Bearcats basketball program.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, eighteen after four. This is ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Moegger, Reynneman and Jones on baseball is like thirty minutes away.
Dan Laskins was some fantasy football help just ahead and
another chat with Tony Pike two.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I made that sound like Tony Pike was a sequel.
I should have said Tony Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Also latest Bengals training camp report. Chad Rendel joins us
every single Thursday to talk UC sports. Arricutt's football begins
the season a week from tonight against Nebraska in Kansas City.
Chat is with us, Now, how's it going good?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I just was making sure I didn't get banished. That's
all banished.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I was like, oh boy, uh yeah, no, it takes
a lot to get banned on this show. You have
not done enough. But you know you're You're welcome to try.
You're welcome to try.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well. The problem is, like I could actually do enough
to get banished, being that you give me the keys
the car more regularly than you should. But I like
being the unofficial kill in hosts, so I'll try not to.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Your official prediction for the season is seven and five.
I think that sounds about right. If they're better than that.
What has gone right that you don't necessarily expect.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They either one of two things. On defense, they find
a pass rush or the turnover numbers go up pretty significantly.
I mean, if you don't have either of those things,
no matter how good your pieces are on defense, it
becomes really hard to be a good defense, especially in
(01:48):
a league that's kind of offense first. You're in an
offense first league. You can't get to the quarterback and
you don't turn the other team over, like it doesn't
matter how good the pieces are, really, so one of
those two things has to happen. And then offensively, the
past game is what we think it can be. I
(02:12):
like the wide receivers. I like the group that they
have put together more than any group since probably what
Tyler Scott, Trey Tucker, Alec Pierce. I'm not saying these
guys are NFL guys like those guys, but it's been
a pretty bad wide receiver room for you know, three
years now. So I think those are the two things
(02:35):
that if they happen, we might maybe under sell them
at five.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I know you Art, yeah, you and I have talked
about his progress throughout Fall camp, Brennan Soresby just physically
looks different and by all accounts has had a terrific camp.
Dive into that for me, what have you seen from
him during practices this go around that we didn't see
enough of in games last year.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I think the one thing that really stands out for
mimo is is more of the route tree being opened.
We've seen more stuff over the middle down the field.
We've seen you know, more designed rollouts, more plays where
it looks like they have more confidence in who they
have running these routes to open up more than the
(03:22):
deep ball, the curl and you know, a tight end
down the scene like that. It didn't feel like there
was a lot of variety in the passing game last year,
and I think some of that was I don't know
if they necessarily trusted, you know, guys to get open
to really run like the type of route combos that
(03:43):
you feel like, Okay, we know we're gonna run this
play and we're gonna get this guy open. We're seeing
more of that from him. We're seeing, I think him
let the ball go with a little bit more confidence
and hopefully we're seeing him not I think what really
impacted him at the end of last year. Over those
(04:04):
last five games, he was a little the happy feet
in the pocket right like he was exiting and looking
to run a lot quicker than he did at the
beginning of the year. I think for him, he can run,
but I won him back there throwing the football, and
that feels like if he can stick in the pocket
(04:26):
another second or two and wait for a guy to
come open, I think that that is very good for
the future of Cincinnati's office.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I felt like he got gun shy, and we could
talk about their weapons or lack thereof last year, but
I felt like something happened right around that UCF game
the just for whatever reason, caused Brendan to get gun shy.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, it looked like, you know, one read check down,
get out of the pocket. Like it didn't. There wasn't
a lot of rhythm back there, remember in the beginning
of the year, and maybe this was it. Like he
took some hits hanging in there and delivered some good
throws under pressure, and we didn't see that a whole
lot at the end of the season. Not that I
want him taking hits, but I don't want him head
(05:11):
down looking for an escape route as quick as we saw.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Fair enough the offensive line, are they good enough and
are they going to be big enough a week from tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I think they're big enough. I mean, you saw him.
Joe Cotton is a giant human six six three twenty
and looks like you could have twenty more pounds to
him pretty easily. Like he is a big boy. Tarn
TiO is A is a another three hundred and twenty pounder.
Gavin Gerhart is big. So I think they're big enough
(05:47):
to handle Nebraska's defensive line. The question is the cohesiveness.
This is almost a brand new group. You've got your
your starting center back and a sometimes starter at right tackle.
The other three guys, are you know, going to be
playing together really for the first time. How quickly does
that come together? Because you feel like over the course
(06:11):
of the season the pieces are good and it'll get better.
How good is it against Nebraska? Especially? You know, do
you get the run game going early and kind of
put some pressure on that Nebraska front.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You were on the air filling in for me on
Tuesday when we found out that Gizzle James has been
removed from the men's basketball program. I hope this has
a happy resolution for Gizzle James the human being. From
a pure basketball perspective, Am I wrong for not necessarily
shrugging my shoulders but not necessarily feeling like that? From
(06:48):
an on court perspective, this departure will completely derail their season.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well you, fortunately for us, you do listen to a
lot of our content on bearcatjournal dot com. I'm not
sure why, but you do. You heard me say numerous
times last year I'm not in love with Gisel James
and the iteration that we saw a year ago. He
was incredibly inefficient. He didn't shoot the three well. He
(07:18):
takes a lot of the worst shot in basketball, which
is the fourteen to eighteen foot jump shot. When he's
got it going, it looks really good, but it's the
most inefficient shot in basketball for a reason. And a
guy that's that's shooting forty two percent from the floor
in twenty eight percent from three being the guy that's
(07:41):
your highest usage player typically a pretty bad sign for
your offense. You know, I think they went out and
they found some pieces that fit together better this offseason
that you know, hopefully would have taken some of that
that pressure, that load off of him, because I do
think some of It wasn't necessarily Giggle's fault. It just
(08:03):
became how are we going to score at Gigsel and
dayDay don't do that. But I went into the off season,
you know, pretty open and saying, I think you could
keep one of Gigsel or day Day. I didn't love
keeping both, and I understand why they did because of
the amount of turnover. You know, you want to bring
back two guards that have history in your system. But
(08:28):
I just I thought they're fairly similar, and Dade was
the one that elevated his three point shooting. So I
don't think it's going to be incredibly damaging, especially from
an offensive standpoint, where I think it's going to get
you a little bit more flow. And the biggest thing though,
as a point guard that had the ball in his
hands a lot, that never got to the pre throw line.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That was my biggest issue.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yes, free throw shooter doesn't get to the pre throw line, Like,
how do you fix that? So it sucks all of it.
I hope he can get his life back on track,
But strictly from a basketball standpoint, I don't think it's
(09:12):
you know, it looks on the surface pretty damaging, right
your leading scorer yeah, late, you know, the most minutes,
and now he is gone. But I think they can
navigate not having him fairly well.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, I felt like from a basketball perspective, I felt
like there was so much heat kind of aimed at
Dan Skillings last year, and at times understandably so, that
that Jizzle's play wasn't wasn't talked about enough relative to
what I thought he was going to be as a sophomore. Yeah,
I was really disappointed. And again from a human perspective,
(09:45):
I hope he's cool. I hope whatever has to get
figured out gets figured out. But I kept thinking about
the amount of times last year that everybody is talking
about Dan. I wondered, like, when's when's the Jizzle that
I thought was going to show up in year two
show up?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah? I completely agree, And unfortunately that was they expected
both of those guys to take a significant step forward,
and both of them took a step back. That's usually
grounds for moving on and trying something different.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well said, all right, man, thanks as always.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Appreciate Youamo. I hope you enjoyed load management summer.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I have enjoyed load management summer immensely. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We'll talk We'll talk next.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Week, all right, Thanks Mall, Thanks our guys.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Chad brendelbarcat Journal dot com. Sports headlines next to ESPN fifteen.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Thirty Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Health
Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Nearly sixty percent of Americans waiting on an organ transplant
are for multicultural communities. Give the Gift of life, become
an organ donor, or explore living donation at UCHealth dot com.
Slash transplant on northbound seventy one. It's an accident off
on the right shoulder approaching Norwood Lateral. Traffic in through
there moving slow between Dana and Ronald Reagan Highway and
(11:07):
another crash Queen City Avenue at Sunset Avenue. I'm at
ezelic with traffic.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
This report is sponsored by a Straight
All right, eighteen after four. This is ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Moegger, Reynneman and Jones on baseball is like thirty minutes away.
Dan Laskins was some fantasy football help just ahead and
another chat with Tony Pike two.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I made that sound like Tony Pike was a sequel.
I should have said Tony Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Also latest Bengals training camp report. Chad Rendel joins us
every single Thursday to talk UC sports. Arricutt's football begins
the season a week from tonight against Nebraska in Kansas City.
Chat is with us, Now, how's it going good?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I just was making sure I didn't get banished. That's
all banished.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I was like, oh boy, uh yeah, no, it takes
a lot to get banned on this show. You have
not done enough. But you know you're You're welcome to try.
You're welcome to try.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well. The problem is, like I could actually do enough
to get banished, being that you give me the keys
the car more regularly than you should. But I like
being the unofficial kill in hosts, so I'll try not to.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Your official prediction for the season is seven and five.
I think that sounds about right. If they're better than that.
What has gone right that you don't necessarily expect.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They either one of two things. On defense, they find
a pass rush or the turnover numbers go up pretty significantly.
I mean, if you don't have either of those things,
no matter how good your pieces are on defense, it
becomes really hard to be a good defense, especially in
(01:48):
a league that's kind of offense first. You're in an
offense first league. You can't get to the quarterback and
you don't turn the other team over, like it doesn't
matter how good the pieces are, really, so one of
those two things has to happen. And then offensively, the
past game is what we think it can be. I
(02:12):
like the wide receivers. I like the group that they
have put together more than any group since probably what
Tyler Scott, Trey Tucker, Alec Pierce. I'm not saying these
guys are NFL guys like those guys, but it's been
a pretty bad wide receiver room for you know, three
years now. So I think those are the two things
(02:35):
that if they happen, we might maybe under sell them
at five.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I know you Art, yeah, you and I have talked
about his progress throughout Fall camp, Brennan Soresby just physically
looks different and by all accounts has had a terrific camp.
Dive into that for me, what have you seen from
him during practices this go around that we didn't see
enough of in games last year.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I think the one thing that really stands out for
mimo is is more of the route tree being opened.
We've seen more stuff over the middle down the field.
We've seen you know, more designed rollouts, more plays where
it looks like they have more confidence in who they
have running these routes to open up more than the
(03:22):
deep ball, the curl and you know, a tight end
down the scene like that. It didn't feel like there
was a lot of variety in the passing game last year,
and I think some of that was I don't know
if they necessarily trusted, you know, guys to get open
to really run like the type of route combos that
(03:43):
you feel like, Okay, we know we're gonna run this
play and we're gonna get this guy open. We're seeing
more of that from him. We're seeing, I think him
let the ball go with a little bit more confidence
and hopefully we're seeing him not I think what really
impacted him at the end of last year. Over those
(04:04):
last five games, he was a little the happy feet
in the pocket right like he was exiting and looking
to run a lot quicker than he did at the
beginning of the year. I think for him, he can run,
but I won him back there throwing the football, and
that feels like if he can stick in the pocket
(04:26):
another second or two and wait for a guy to
come open, I think that that is very good for
the future of Cincinnati's office.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I felt like he got gun shy, and we could
talk about their weapons or lack thereof last year, but
I felt like something happened right around that UCF game
the just for whatever reason, caused Brendan to get gun shy.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, it looked like, you know, one read check down,
get out of the pocket. Like it didn't. There wasn't
a lot of rhythm back there, remember in the beginning
of the year, and maybe this was it. Like he
took some hits hanging in there and delivered some good
throws under pressure, and we didn't see that a whole
lot at the end of the season. Not that I
want him taking hits, but I don't want him head
(05:11):
down looking for an escape route as quick as we saw.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Fair enough the offensive line, are they good enough and
are they going to be big enough a week from tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I think they're big enough. I mean, you saw him.
Joe Cotton is a giant human six six three twenty
and looks like you could have twenty more pounds to
him pretty easily. Like he is a big boy. Tarn
TiO is A is a another three hundred and twenty pounder.
Gavin Gerhart is big. So I think they're big enough
(05:47):
to handle Nebraska's defensive line. The question is the cohesiveness.
This is almost a brand new group. You've got your
your starting center back and a sometimes starter at right tackle.
The other three guys, are you know, going to be
playing together really for the first time. How quickly does
that come together? Because you feel like over the course
(06:11):
of the season the pieces are good and it'll get better.
How good is it against Nebraska? Especially? You know, do
you get the run game going early and kind of
put some pressure on that Nebraska front.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You were on the air filling in for me on
Tuesday when we found out that Gizzle James has been
removed from the men's basketball program. I hope this has
a happy resolution for Gizzle James the human being. From
a pure basketball perspective, Am I wrong for not necessarily
shrugging my shoulders but not necessarily feeling like that? From
(06:48):
an on court perspective, this departure will completely derail their season.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well you, fortunately for us, you do listen to a
lot of our content on bearcatjournal dot com. I'm not
sure why, but you do. You heard me say numerous
times last year I'm not in love with Gisel James
and the iteration that we saw a year ago. He
was incredibly inefficient. He didn't shoot the three well. He
(07:18):
takes a lot of the worst shot in basketball, which
is the fourteen to eighteen foot jump shot. When he's
got it going, it looks really good, but it's the
most inefficient shot in basketball for a reason. And a
guy that's that's shooting forty two percent from the floor
in twenty eight percent from three being the guy that's
(07:41):
your highest usage player typically a pretty bad sign for
your offense. You know, I think they went out and
they found some pieces that fit together better this offseason
that you know, hopefully would have taken some of that
that pressure, that load off of him, because I do
think some of It wasn't necessarily Giggle's fault. It just
(08:03):
became how are we going to score at Gigsel and
dayDay don't do that. But I went into the off season,
you know, pretty open and saying, I think you could
keep one of Gigsel or day Day. I didn't love
keeping both, and I understand why they did because of
the amount of turnover. You know, you want to bring
back two guards that have history in your system. But
(08:28):
I just I thought they're fairly similar, and Dade was
the one that elevated his three point shooting. So I
don't think it's going to be incredibly damaging, especially from
an offensive standpoint, where I think it's going to get
you a little bit more flow. And the biggest thing though,
as a point guard that had the ball in his
hands a lot, that never got to the pre throw line.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That was my biggest issue.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yes, free throw shooter doesn't get to the pre throw line, Like,
how do you fix that? So it sucks all of it.
I hope he can get his life back on track,
But strictly from a basketball standpoint, I don't think it's
(09:12):
you know, it looks on the surface pretty damaging, right
your leading scorer yeah, late, you know, the most minutes,
and now he is gone. But I think they can
navigate not having him fairly well.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, I felt like from a basketball perspective, I felt
like there was so much heat kind of aimed at
Dan Skillings last year, and at times understandably so, that
that Jizzle's play wasn't wasn't talked about enough relative to
what I thought he was going to be as a sophomore. Yeah,
I was really disappointed. And again from a human perspective,
(09:45):
I hope he's cool. I hope whatever has to get
figured out gets figured out. But I kept thinking about
the amount of times last year that everybody is talking
about Dan. I wondered, like, when's when's the Jizzle that
I thought was going to show up in year two
show up?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah? I completely agree, And unfortunately that was they expected
both of those guys to take a significant step forward,
and both of them took a step back. That's usually
grounds for moving on and trying something different.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well said, all right, man, thanks as always.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Appreciate Youamo. I hope you enjoyed load management summer.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I have enjoyed load management summer immensely. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We'll talk We'll talk next.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Week, all right, Thanks Mall, Thanks our guys.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Chad brendelbarcat Journal dot com. Sports headlines next to ESPN fifteen.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Thirty Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Health
Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Nearly sixty percent of Americans waiting on an organ transplant
are for multicultural communities. Give the Gift of life, become
an organ donor, or explore living donation at UCHealth dot com.
Slash transplant on northbound seventy one. It's an accident off
on the right shoulder approaching Norwood Lateral. Traffic in through
there moving slow between Dana and Ronald Reagan Highway and
(11:07):
another crash Queen City Avenue at Sunset Avenue. I'm at
ezelic with traffic.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
This report is sponsored by a Straight
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