November 6, 2025 • 6 mins
Richard Skinner from Local 12 joined us to talk about the Cincinnati Bengals. Amazing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sinnatti Bank. Richard Skinner joins us on Wednesdays Local twelve,
Local twelve dot com and host of these skinny podcasts,
where last week he ranked people on a list that
I submitted that included Milk Thompson, Justin Bateman, and Lenny Randall.
I enjoyed the rankings. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How's it going? Let me be the young team person
to make the joke that, yes, the Bengals are indeed
four and a half point underdog to buy this week.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, well done, very good. Yeah, there'll be a lot
of that on on Saturday and Sunday. I'm sure. Do
you have a major takeaway from what did and didn't
happen at the trade.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Deadline they were come about today? I mean it makes
you wonder, you know, just what are they doing? You know,
if this is our whole thing? We're not waving the
white flag on this season? Well, I mean, be realistic, man,
I mean this is this team is trending far more
towards being a team with a losing record that it
is to a playoff team. And oh, by the way,
if you if you're not waving the white flag by
(00:53):
not making trades, you know, trades trades out. Then wouldn't
you look to maybe get a player to trade in.
I mean it's not like you don't need safety help
or defensive line help or cornerback help or anything like that,
right mm.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hmmm, yeah, No, wouldn't want to address any of those positions.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I no, I I just don't understand what you're doing here.
You know, what's the point of hanging on to Trey
Henderson if you got even if you only got a
third as an offer, and you can say, well, that's
probably what you get as a Comppic. Yeah, but you're
almost gonna have to sign so many free agents yourself
this off season that compick's not even gonna materialize. So
what are you doing? And listen who answers for this?
(01:29):
You know we made I don't Paul talked about this yester. Now,
we made a formal request to talk to Duke Tobin
this week and he was not made available. So you
know who's the answer for this? They tried the head
coach up there to answer Forton. He can't answer these
questions because it's not his decisions to make.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I just feel like, and I say this if I'm
Duke Tobin. As a human being, I go, man, my
guy Zach is out there three times a week answering
questions for a thing that he for, things that he
largely isn't responsible for, and we're having a Chase Brown
and Jamar Chase answer questions about a defense that I built.
Just as a human being, I would go, you know,
(02:03):
what's screwed. It's the bye week. I'll take the heat,
I'll take the questions. I might not provide satisfactory answers
like that. To me, I would think so much more
highly of him if he said, screw it. I'm going
to show up on Wednesday during the bye ask away
about this roster. And there's none of that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No the other part too, just the simple answer of
you know, did you guys try to make some deals?
And I don't need to know specifics if it's just hey,
we tried. We just we couldn't find any It really
worked for us. We couldn't find players. That's great. I
have no promin that. But we don't even get that.
So then it comes to the point of you're a columnist,
that's your turn to take a shot, and you gave
them the fair opportunity to respond, and they chose not to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Uh, we've heard offensive players try to be diplomatic and
they're becoming less and less less and less diplomatic as
the weeks go by. How close to a breaking point
are we when it comes to the locker room dynamic.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I think it was a one off with Chase Brown.
I do, and I mean I think that. I know
people you know, got on Zach for saying something about
Chase Brown. I think he was right. I mean, let's
not forget early in that football game, on a crossing
route Chase Brown dropped the ball. Would have been a
first down, might have even been a touchdown, and instead
that's four points off the board. And so you know, listen,
if you're gonna play them on the other side of
the ball, you better dag on will be doing your
(03:16):
job to the full extent. I get the frustration. I do.
I honestly thought Jamar wasn was gonna snap about three
or four losses ago. I can try to remember what
ugly loss I was. Might be a Denver loss, Monday
night loss when the Alis scored three points and he didn't,
And I thought, okay, and I'll be I'll give him
credit he's you know, he's trying to give the answer. Now,
Hey man, I don't play defense, I play offense. Yeah,
(03:37):
that's a good point. And I think he's trying as
hard as he can to be a captain, to be
a leader, you know, the guy that gets tried up
there on Wednesdays and after games, and the quarterback Joe Flack.
I don't think you'll never hear him saying anything like that.
So I don't think it's there, but I can understand
if it is. I mean, you know, you score eighty
points in two games, you scored thirty eight in a
game and forty two in a game, you not only
(03:58):
should not lose bow if you should probably not lose either.
So I get whatever palpable frustration there is.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
How bad are the other safeties behind Jordan Battle and
Genostone bad?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And that's the problem. They don't trust them to play
either one of those guys, PJ. Jewels or Tyson Anderson.
There's just special teams guys. They're there in case of
a break glass, in case of emergency, and you could
argue maybe it's emergency level now, but yes, they just
don't trust those guys at all, you know, Dejon Anthony's
still stashed on on I R I believe or puff
(04:31):
one of those lists. They don't trust him either. So
that's the part for me is you went in and
we talked about this ad nausee. But if you went
into training camp knowing you didn't really trust any of
the safety behind the two starters, let alone be able
to trust the two starters, and you did nothing to
address that, just even forget purposes, nothing whatsoever, and you're
(04:51):
stuck with what you got right now. And if you
thought that it was gonna get better just because it's
a new year, well it hasn't gotten better just because
it's a new year. I don't know if it's and worse,
but after last year, I'm not so sure how much
worse it could have gotten that group.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What was it like to host a daily morning show
with Bob Trumpy?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It was interesting and so Tom Gamble and I did
that for about a year. Came to really like Bob Trumpey.
I really did. We had a lot of arguments on
the air. There was one instance where he wouldn't back
down from something I said. So as we went to break,
I took my head set off and I tried to
throw it at him and it was still plugged in,
and unfortunately it ricochet and hit Tom Gamble right in
(05:30):
the head, so he could be frustrating. He knew, I
think he knew that. I feel bad for this, that
Tom and I were there to pretty much push him out.
And I never wanted to be that way. I really didn't.
I mean, I felt so honored to host the show
with a guy I grew up, you know, listening to
literally every night of the week. And again once you know,
(05:51):
we moved moved in and and you know, Bob was
off the air. I saw him a few more times
after that. Couldn't have been any better man. And then
Lamp tells the story of him and his son. Uh,
I when I had hit me, that hit me pretty hard.
On me. I didn't know he was ailing, to be
honest with you know, maybe you did. I sure certainly
did not, So it it hit me hard, and and uh,
you know, back to your original question, it was it
(06:12):
was certainly an honor to do that with him. For
the time I got to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I used to listen to that show every day and
and it always it always sounded like two kids with
their exasperated uncle, and I thought it was immensely entertaining.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Boy boys, where are we wearing today?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I appreciate it. Man, thanks so much.
Sinnatti Bank. Richard Skinner joins us on Wednesdays Local twelve,
Local twelve dot com and host of these skinny podcasts,
where last week he ranked people on a list that
I submitted that included Milk Thompson, Justin Bateman, and Lenny Randall.
I enjoyed the rankings. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How's it going? Let me be the young team person
to make the joke that, yes, the Bengals are indeed
four and a half point underdog to buy this week.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, well done, very good. Yeah, there'll be a lot
of that on on Saturday and Sunday. I'm sure. Do
you have a major takeaway from what did and didn't
happen at the trade.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Deadline they were come about today? I mean it makes
you wonder, you know, just what are they doing? You know,
if this is our whole thing? We're not waving the
white flag on this season? Well, I mean, be realistic, man,
I mean this is this team is trending far more
towards being a team with a losing record that it
is to a playoff team. And oh, by the way,
if you if you're not waving the white flag by
(00:53):
not making trades, you know, trades trades out. Then wouldn't
you look to maybe get a player to trade in.
I mean it's not like you don't need safety help
or defensive line help or cornerback help or anything like that,
right mm.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hmmm, yeah, No, wouldn't want to address any of those positions.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I no, I I just don't understand what you're doing here.
You know, what's the point of hanging on to Trey
Henderson if you got even if you only got a
third as an offer, and you can say, well, that's
probably what you get as a Comppic. Yeah, but you're
almost gonna have to sign so many free agents yourself
this off season that compick's not even gonna materialize. So
what are you doing? And listen who answers for this?
(01:29):
You know we made I don't Paul talked about this yester. Now,
we made a formal request to talk to Duke Tobin
this week and he was not made available. So you
know who's the answer for this? They tried the head
coach up there to answer Forton. He can't answer these
questions because it's not his decisions to make.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I just feel like, and I say this if I'm
Duke Tobin. As a human being, I go, man, my
guy Zach is out there three times a week answering
questions for a thing that he for, things that he
largely isn't responsible for, and we're having a Chase Brown
and Jamar Chase answer questions about a defense that I built.
Just as a human being, I would go, you know,
(02:03):
what's screwed. It's the bye week. I'll take the heat,
I'll take the questions. I might not provide satisfactory answers
like that. To me, I would think so much more
highly of him if he said, screw it. I'm going
to show up on Wednesday during the bye ask away
about this roster. And there's none of that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No the other part too, just the simple answer of
you know, did you guys try to make some deals?
And I don't need to know specifics if it's just hey,
we tried. We just we couldn't find any It really
worked for us. We couldn't find players. That's great. I
have no promin that. But we don't even get that.
So then it comes to the point of you're a columnist,
that's your turn to take a shot, and you gave
them the fair opportunity to respond, and they chose not to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Uh, we've heard offensive players try to be diplomatic and
they're becoming less and less less and less diplomatic as
the weeks go by. How close to a breaking point
are we when it comes to the locker room dynamic.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I think it was a one off with Chase Brown.
I do, and I mean I think that. I know
people you know, got on Zach for saying something about
Chase Brown. I think he was right. I mean, let's
not forget early in that football game, on a crossing
route Chase Brown dropped the ball. Would have been a
first down, might have even been a touchdown, and instead
that's four points off the board. And so you know, listen,
if you're gonna play them on the other side of
the ball, you better dag on will be doing your
(03:16):
job to the full extent. I get the frustration. I do.
I honestly thought Jamar wasn was gonna snap about three
or four losses ago. I can try to remember what
ugly loss I was. Might be a Denver loss, Monday
night loss when the Alis scored three points and he didn't,
And I thought, okay, and I'll be I'll give him
credit he's you know, he's trying to give the answer. Now,
Hey man, I don't play defense, I play offense. Yeah,
(03:37):
that's a good point. And I think he's trying as
hard as he can to be a captain, to be
a leader, you know, the guy that gets tried up
there on Wednesdays and after games, and the quarterback Joe Flack.
I don't think you'll never hear him saying anything like that.
So I don't think it's there, but I can understand
if it is. I mean, you know, you score eighty
points in two games, you scored thirty eight in a
game and forty two in a game, you not only
(03:58):
should not lose bow if you should probably not lose either.
So I get whatever palpable frustration there is.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
How bad are the other safeties behind Jordan Battle and
Genostone bad?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And that's the problem. They don't trust them to play
either one of those guys, PJ. Jewels or Tyson Anderson.
There's just special teams guys. They're there in case of
a break glass, in case of emergency, and you could
argue maybe it's emergency level now, but yes, they just
don't trust those guys at all, you know, Dejon Anthony's
still stashed on on I R I believe or puff
(04:31):
one of those lists. They don't trust him either. So
that's the part for me is you went in and
we talked about this ad nausee. But if you went
into training camp knowing you didn't really trust any of
the safety behind the two starters, let alone be able
to trust the two starters, and you did nothing to
address that, just even forget purposes, nothing whatsoever, and you're
(04:51):
stuck with what you got right now. And if you
thought that it was gonna get better just because it's
a new year, well it hasn't gotten better just because
it's a new year. I don't know if it's and worse,
but after last year, I'm not so sure how much
worse it could have gotten that group.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What was it like to host a daily morning show
with Bob Trumpy?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It was interesting and so Tom Gamble and I did
that for about a year. Came to really like Bob Trumpey.
I really did. We had a lot of arguments on
the air. There was one instance where he wouldn't back
down from something I said. So as we went to break,
I took my head set off and I tried to
throw it at him and it was still plugged in,
and unfortunately it ricochet and hit Tom Gamble right in
(05:30):
the head, so he could be frustrating. He knew, I
think he knew that. I feel bad for this, that
Tom and I were there to pretty much push him out.
And I never wanted to be that way. I really didn't.
I mean, I felt so honored to host the show
with a guy I grew up, you know, listening to
literally every night of the week. And again once you know,
(05:51):
we moved moved in and and you know, Bob was
off the air. I saw him a few more times
after that. Couldn't have been any better man. And then
Lamp tells the story of him and his son. Uh,
I when I had hit me, that hit me pretty hard.
On me. I didn't know he was ailing, to be
honest with you know, maybe you did. I sure certainly
did not, So it it hit me hard, and and uh,
you know, back to your original question, it was it
(06:12):
was certainly an honor to do that with him. For
the time I got to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I used to listen to that show every day and
and it always it always sounded like two kids with
their exasperated uncle, and I thought it was immensely entertaining.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Boy boys, where are we wearing today?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I appreciate it. Man, thanks so much.
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