Cincy 360 Hour 1 -- 9/12/25

Tony and Austin talk TNF, check in with Mo from Rally House, take your calls and more on ESPN 1530!

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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Come on now you.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Come on, we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Welcome in, Happy Friday, Happy Friday Football Frenzy. Let's start
with that. It's cinty three to sixty Friday Football Frenzy.
You're listening on ESBN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station, or
via the iHeartRadio app. Leave us a talkback. We'll get

(01:20):
to the talkbacks at hour number two, and then we'll
give away a CINTI Shirts gift card.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I hope we hear this a lot at pay Court Stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
They ideally that would be good. Can the Jaguars be stopped?
Can they hold the Jags to under twenty? I sure
hope so what number defensively wins it? On Sunday? Do
we know?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I would we think twenty or less?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Okay, twenty or less. Now before the season, we would
have said thirty or less. Yeah, now we're at twenty
or less. I think that's because Jacksonville's good. Okay, the
Bengals offense did not look great and the defense performed well,
So you kind of shift the expectations a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Game two, let's see, if you're for real, can you
hold a team under twenty at home in the home opener?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
There it is.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
We'll talk about they did last year. They did under
twenty last year the home opener. We'll talk about this
one on Sunday. For much of our number one, let
me just go through what today consists of and let
you know now that if you want to call in today,
I would urge you to call in in our number
one or leave us a talkback. We've got Charlie Goldsmith

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at one o'clock. Of course, we've got your talkbacks.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
After that, we have Tom Galladro with FC Cincinnati hosting Nashville.
That's a big one for the Orange and Blue. At
two o'clock, we'll make our weekly Picks at two twenty
we are. We have Brenneman and Jones baseball. At the
end of the show, we've got a couple different football
in the natties. We'll get to we've got a call
of the night, and we've got a couple different check ins.
From what I understand, Austin with Moegger today. Who's at

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rally house? That's correct. Okay, that's a lot going on
on a Friday.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
He's like four hundred yards away from us at a
rally house across the street. Okay, and we're gonna talk
to him twice in our number one. We're gonna talk
to him twice in our number two, and I'm looking
forward to those conversations.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, So get your calls in now, because this is
a little bit of a frenzy today on this Friday.
Oh yeah, and we'll add in some football as well.
Speaking of football, how about Thursday night football? Last night?
Unfortunate news for the Washington Commanders. It is believed to
be feared that Austin Eckler tore his achilles last night. Now,

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if you remember, they just moved on from there. Running
back from last year, Brian Robinson Junior before the season started, correct,
So slim pickings right now for Washington at running back.
The injuries were not just on the Washington side though.
Josh Reid broke his collarbone last night, or Jayden Reid,
I'm sorry, broke his collar bone last night in the

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Packers win over the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
I know a guy who plays fantasy football and on
his team he has Austin Eckler and Jayden Reid. Oh boy,
that person's name is Austin Elmore. Oh boy, tough night
for me last night. Not a good night for you
last night. Thankfully, both of those guys were on my bench. Sure,

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and we're gonna have to put them on the injury service.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Not a good night for your fantasy team. A good
night for the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
All those fantasy owners now are going to be feeling
justified in Bill Krosky Merritt Oh to replace Austin Eckler.
So I'm sure he'll get a lot of that. He
got the ball like five times last night. It was
the five best plays on offense for Washington. Rington. Yeah,
because as I think you were about to get to
the Green Bay defense last night, they were all over
the place. Yes, so fast, so physical, so disruptive, held

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Jade and Daniels in the pocket, didn't allow more than
twenty five yards on the ground. Whole offense was out
of sync as it typically is on a Thursday night.
That was a very impressive performance by the green Bay Packers. Yeah,
Micah Parsons, and they're still limiting his snaps. He hit
the quarterback three times last night, got credited with a
half sack, two more tackles. He looks good, and I

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think because of him, so many others looked good. Rashan
Gary looked explosive last night. The secondary Austin looked like
it played with no fear last night. They did not
fear Washington at all because they know that the front
four are going to get home more often than not
and they won't have to cover as long. They held
Jaden Daniels to twenty four or forty two on the

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night twenty four or forty two. They sacked him four times.
He did throw two touchdown passes, one to Zach Ertz
and the other to Deebo Samuel. But outside of that
top to bottom man dominant from the green Bay Packers,
Josh Jacobs has scored a touchdown in ten straight games.
Tucker Kraft the tight end, six catches, one hundred and

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twenty four yards and a touchdown. Green Bay Austin, to me,
is so unique because they don't have the one star
studded wide receiver, but Jordan Love spreads the ball out
really well. I think he almost threw for two hundred
yards in the first half. A quieter second half, but
he finished nineteen to thirty one for two ninety two
and two touchdowns. We talked about this after their Week

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one victory. Green Bay looks the part as an absolute
NFC contender.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Keep in mind, I think a lot of people forget
this was a team that was fifth in total defense
a year ago, and they've added Michael Parsons to that.
I think they had almost forty five fifty sacks last
year without Parsons. They add that to it, and then
on top of that, they've got a good enough offense
to be really good. Tucker Kraft was all over the
place last night. Could be a breakout year for him. Yeah. Man,

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they look good.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Pretty impressive start to beat the Lions and the Commanders
at home. Their next two are road trips to Cleveland
in Dallas, and then they host the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, after a bye week, So the Bengals to get
the Packers coming out of a bye week at lambeau Field,
so be gonna be interesting.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Do you still, because it's so brief into the season,
you still make Philly the team to beat in the NFC?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah as of now. Yeah, it's too early.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
To also happening last night, Austin, I watched the first
inning last night of the Mets and the Phillies. The
game was on National TV, so I'm sitting there and
messing with the kiddos a little bit, and I flipped
the game on because I'm like, let's see, let's see
if these Mets struggles can continue. And before the Phillies

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even came to bat, it was for nothing Mets, and
so I turned it off. I'm like, well, there goes that.
And then I flipped it on later to see the
Phillies had come back and scored the next six and
beat the Mets six to four, which means, Austin, as
things go into the weekend, the Reds and the Giants

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are just one and a half games back in the
NL Wild Card one and a half, which is like,
we've said all along, this team is going to continue
to fight and give themselves a chance to get in.
We've never quit on this Reds team and their chances
to make the postseason. Why would we do that now?
Neither of us, no I have, neither of us. No, no, no,
We've been with this team.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
No no, no, no no. Don't put me in there.
You may not have ever given up. I gave up
on them.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
What a day.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
I'm not a fan. I don't I don't run from that.
I don't run from that.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
What a.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Opportunity this weekend. The Mets look in disarray, like they
look completely disinterested.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Now they have stretches of playing like that and acting
like that and looking like that over the course.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Of the It's incredible. Other news last night, Aaron Judge
hit two home runs, he tied Joe DiMaggio on the
Yankees all time list, and Mike Trout Austin ended his
career long home run trout or home run drought Trout drought,
there you go, and hit his three hundred and ninety

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ninth home run. It was a twenty eight game homerless
drout for Mike Trout.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Did they win, I don't know. They lost. That doesn't matter.
Then what else was going on in baseball? Mike Trout
really nothing nothing else in baseball. We'll obviously dive into
the college football slate more so when we make our
picks this uh, this afternoon, we'll look at the NFL
games of note and UH when we do talk to

(09:54):
Tom Galader, we got to get to FC Cincinnati and Nashville.
Nashville just two point behind FC Cincinnati. And as we've
talked about with Tom often Austin, things are so tight
in the Eastern Conference standings that you could go from
second to fourth if you don't take care of business
this weekend. So everyone is bunched up in the Eastern

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Conference standings. We'll spend some time with Tom Gleader this
afternoon and sift through all of that as well. Have
we missed anything, we have anything else that we have
to get to. I don't think so. I think that
pretty much covers it. We can go into the Friday
football frenzy.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Part of this dangles Jags. Yeah, I still don't see
a line on Northwestern State and Cincinnati, which I don't
think you're going to.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, there was a remember the Ohio State line didn't
come out until like Friday afternoon when they played Grambling.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
There was a point last week at halftime. I think
the live line was like minus eighty one and a
half in Minnesota Northwestern State, which means you could have
bet live on that game for Northwestern State to just
not lose by eighty two. That's that is incredible, And
it's like, what what can you gain now you just

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played Grambling with Ohio State? What what are you left
to gain in a game like that? Like, what what
did you look for for the Buckeyes last weekend that
maybe the Bearcats can look for this weekend.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Well, to be honest with you, I I didn't watch
any of the game, That's how interested I was in Grambling.
But I think if you're Ryan Day, you got a
bunch of dudes that are chomping at the bit to
play football and to get out in that environment at
Ohio Stadium and not be playing a top the number
one team in the country like they were against Texas,

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And I think it's just a more of a relaxed atmosphere.
Certain things that you want to put on tape or
certain things that you want to you know, get home
to drive home to your players about this is the
way we want to do stuff, and sometimes you know
you are able to do it incident inferior opponents, so
they know what it's supposed to look like. And I
don't know there's difference. You would know better than me.

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There's a difference between getting something done in the game
as opposed to getting something done in practice. And at
the end of the day, when the sixty minutes are up,
you have more points than them, and that's what matters.
I think it's gonna be interesting to follow along and
what team shows up for Scott Saderfield.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Do they lean on the run game? Do they try
to exploit things in the passing game? Ideally, in a
game like this, your starters are out of the game
at halftime and you're getting meaningful reps to the backups.
And that's a little different in today's day and age
because some of those backups are probably not going to
be here next year. But you use games like this

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in the past to develop guys for the future. I
don't know how much development goes because this is just
given guys opportunities to put more on tape that they
may use to go elsewhere. But regardless of that, I
still think when you have a chance to go play
an actual game, there's a lot you can still work on.
And for this Bearcat team that has yet to play
a complete game, that has struggled at times, especially on

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the offensive side of the ball, you gotta find some
sort of consistency Like I saw last week. I don't
remember who they played, but Florida State played a terrible team.
But Florida State had ten drives and ten touchdowns. Now,
I don't expect the Bearcats to hit at that efficiency,
but that's the type of stuff you're looking for in
a game like that. Just be absolutely elite. And for

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the Bearcats on defense, down take Corleon's not going to play.
He's been limited at times this year. From a snap standpoint,
they need to find depths on the defensive line because
the difference when Corleone is in versus when he's out
is very, very noticeable. Based on what other offenses are
trying to get done.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
You mentioned allowing guys to put stuff on tape to
go elsewhere. Should coaches be thinking about that at this
point in the season.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I don't think so, because you're you're just focused on
winning games and you're hoping that your culture is enough
to keep guys in the system and.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Also coaches tell players to leave all the time. Yeah,
so I think it's a two way street.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
And I will say, like the Scott Sanderfield's credit, they
have kept a lot of the core of this roster together,
which tells me that they're buying in. So maybe that's
really not the case at Cincinnati, but I do think
it is something that is in the back of your mind.
Now going forward, let's take our first break of the
Friday Football Frenzy. When we come back, do we do

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our first check in with Mo.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
We're gonna check in with Moe.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
We'll check in see what Moe's up to it for Mo,
We'll take some phone calls and uh, we'll dive into
the Bengals Jags next on the Home of the Bengals
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Speaker 1 (16:04):
Only for a win. To get one, they'll have to jolt.
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Speaker 3 (16:31):
Oh yeah, welcome back. It's the Friday Football Frenzy. And
as if this day is not crazy enough Austin, We've
got a couple check ins and we're going to do
with our guy Mo Wager, who I believe is posted
up right across the street from us at Rally House. Mo,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (16:47):
I'm at Rally House right here across the street. I literally,
are you waving right now? If you I'll step outside
and wave right now. If you want. Yeah, I'm right
here at Rally House on Montgomery Road. It is gorgeous
out and Rally House. To tell you what, there's a
few things happening here. You know. If the Bengals play
on Sunday, right, but they open an Orange, right, so

(17:09):
they won't let you win if you're not wearing orange.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (17:13):
No, that's not true at all. But they want you
to wear orange, which is why they're calling it. Open
an Orange. As soon as you walk into this Rally House, guys,
you are hit by this wall of orange Bengals gear,
T shirts, collared shirts, men's, women's, We have orange beats.
It's gonna be hot as hell. But if you want

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to sweat more, you can get an orange sweatshirt. They
have all that stuff. And by the way, you can
wear the orange all season long to show your Bengals pride.
There's no better place to get your Bengals gear than
Rally House. Maybe a new jersey, perhaps some sideline gear.
They have a Bengals gear for your dog if your
dog's a Bengals fans. They have the Rally House locations

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across Cincinnati. You can also shop online, but instead I'm
here till two, So break off some time for your
lunch break. Maybe bring me something to eat. We've got
Doobie Brothers tickets were given away. That show is tonight,
and start the big sports weekend here in town by
saying hi to me.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Here at Rally House in kenw Do they have any
of those Desmond Ridder orange jerseys you were looking for?

Speaker 8 (18:15):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (18:17):
You know I haven't walked to the back, but they
take the clearance.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
They do have an amazing collection of Bearcat gear that
there's a cotton bowl hat right there.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
If you want to get over lunch the dead, we
got Jordan gear, we got Nike, there's some leftover under armour.
I think there's actually some ucy Adidas gear left from
the the late two thousand. There's some bib overalls, you
name it, they've got it. So stocked up for the season.
Here at Rally House and come say hi to me.

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I'm here atill two o'clock. Get your orange Bengals gear
and bring and and by the way, later on, if
you guys want, I'll sing the Rally House jingle.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh please do, I'll sing the jingle and see if
you could walk through the store and maybe find some
of the more obscure items that maybe they have available.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
I'll see what I could do. That's a good idea.
We'll see if I could find something.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
All Right, see you guys, thanks more. He is waving.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Zach Taylor tone a couple of minutes ago, said that
Amarius Mims, who's been limited on the injury report both
days of practice this week, is good to go. He
was just a little sore with that ankle after Sunday's
game in Cleveland, so they kept him limited. But Zach
Taylor says, a Marius Mims officially good to go.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Score the Bengals against the Jags.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's what we need.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
A little football in the nattie. Yeah, are you gonna
now when when the Bengals? When you I'm assuming you're
not going to the game, but you are doing the
pregame show. I am down at the Holy Grail with
Moe and Ken. Now, I can tell you with one
billion Ken is not going to be wearing anything orange
or anything Bengals, but I would imagine Moe will be.

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Will you, even though you're not going to the game,
wear something orange Bengals at the pregame show someday.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Most of what I have Bengal related is black or white.
I know I have a since I know I have
a Sensy shirts like orange sweatshirt. Maybe I'll wear that
now they do on their website sincey Shirts has the
open and orange actual shirt which is a Bengal tiger

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and he's got an open sign. Oh get it, I
get it open and orange. That's very funny. So I
might go later today Peru's my local sensy shirts and
see what I can find. They also had They posted
it the other day Austin. It was like the It
was like a replica of the Cincinnati Old School sweat

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sweater that Ice would wear on the sidelines. Did you
see them post that?

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
I saw that.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
I might have to get that, okay, because I think
that is very very clean. So you want to answer
the question. If I have it, I'll wear it, okay,
much like the Field of Dreams. All right, if you
build it, they will come, I hear you. So, uh,
I'll see what Cinti Shirts can do to help me out.

Speaker 9 (21:19):
MO.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
We'll check in with MO.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
I'd like to.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
I want to know what Mo's gonna find. And I
have a question for mo about the rally house jingle
that I hear from a lot of Xavier fans. Uh oh,
because if you listen to the jingle, they don't say Xavier,
but they do sell Xavier, but they sell Xavier stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
I think it's just got to beither they didn't get permission,
Xavier didn't give them permission, or it is just kind
of a tough one to throw in.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Okay, we'll find that out and more with our guy
Moegger's We check in later this afternoon. As for the
rest of football in the Nattie Austin, what is your
biggest key on each side of the ball for Sunday's
game against the Jags.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
For the offense, it is stay ahead of the chains.
Do not allow Jacksonville to pin their ears back on
every single third down. The Bengals were behind the chains
a lot in Cleveland third and six or more third
and seven, or more third and eight and more, and subsequently,
on the defensive side of the ball, Cleveland was in
a lot of third and shorts, or what we like

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to call it tone third and manageable. For me, though,
it's still going to be the guy that I'm most
worried about which is Brian Thomas Junior. The Bengals cannot
allow him to beat them, and I'm sure he's going
to be a big part of the Jacksonville game plan.
Can you keep those receivers at bay? And if you do,
I like their odds because the run defense played pretty

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good and I would imagine if they can at least
be close to that, they'll have a chance to win.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
If they could be close to that and get into
those third and longs with Trevor Lawrence, maybe you can
force him to make a mistake or two offensively. For me,
you've got to find ways to get Jamar Chase and
t Higgins involved. Early talked earlier in the week about
you can also pass to set up the run. I
like the idea of Chase Brown being a huge piece

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of the game plan, but that can't come at the
expense of Jamar Chase and t Higgins not getting in
the game. You've got to find ways to get them in. Earlier.
I believe they said earlier in the week that Travis
Hunter is gonna play more on the defensive side of
the ball this week.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I haven't seen that, but he did in Week one.
I think he only played like six or seven snaps
in a couple of those run plays.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
And Joe made a good point when he spoke earlier
in the week of Travis Hunter. What makes him unique.
Normally DB's are dbs because they can't catch the ball
or they don't have the best ball skills. Travis Hunter does.
He has elite ball skills. That's why he plays receiver
as well. So you might not be able to get
us away with much around Travis Hunter. So I'm interested
to see how they attack him offensively. You know that

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Jacksonville is going to try to run the ball because
ETN had such success in running the ball last week.
But much like you said, if ETN runs for one
hundred and twenty yards but Brian Thomas Junior is not
a factor, I think I'm okay with that trade off
from the Bengals. You can't let the explosives happen, and
you're more in line to get hit with an explosive
if it's Travis Hunter or Brian Thomas than it is

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ETN out of the backfield. So if you're going to
give up some yards in the run game, so be it.
Limit the explosives. Don't let Trevor Lawrence get comfortable. Don't
especially let him get comfortable with one of the best
wide receivers in all of football. Let's take ourselves a
break when we come back, because we are so limited
in the last two hours. Let's take some phone calls.
Next on the Home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Welcome back Friday Football Frenzy. ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.
Thanks as well to our friends at Skyline Chile. Anytime
you're feeling good and hungry, it's Skyline time. We have
a full set of phone lines here Austin, a lot
of folks that want to talk on a Friday, so
we're gonna get to as many of these as we
can in this segment. So if you're able to to

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be brief. We'll get as many in as possible and
we'll move on from there. Let's just start with who's
been on hold the longest, which is Mike up and Hamilton.
What's up, Mike?

Speaker 10 (25:47):
Hey, Anny, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (25:48):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (25:50):
After watching that game last night, minute it must be
it must be nice to have a legit defense, that
is a that.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Is another level caliber of defense that Green Bay possesses
right now. And it does it. It makes them immediately
a contender because of what they can do on that
side of the ball. And you know, Micah Parsons made
reference to it at the end of the nine. He said,
look at the game between Buffalo and Baltimore where both
teams are in the forties. That's all fun, but as
the season's turns it gets colder, you've got to be

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able to defend. And they are building things in Green
Bay on the defensive side of the ball for sure.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
Well.

Speaker 10 (26:25):
And that and to go back to if Buffalo is
number one seed and you got to go into Buffalo,
they're not scoring forty, especially against that defense. I mean it,
as much as I hate to say, that looks like
a Super Bowl contender Week two, they do as much
as you can say week two. But no, So if
I called you right after the draft and all the taka,

(26:45):
Shamar Stewart didn't produce the contract, Trey Henderson's contract. Would
you believe me if I told you that after week
one that they were going to have the highest rated
pair of defensive ends in the league.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
No, No, I don't. There were so many questions around
Shamar Stewart and it felt like they needed a foreshore hit.
And to their credit, after the the circus of the
off the field stuff got sorted out. I think Shamar
Stewart's been the best player on the Bengals defense since
he showed up for training camp.

Speaker 10 (27:15):
And the one the one takeaway I had from the
game on Sunday leading into this week was the way
he absolutely demolished the left tackle, yes and threw him
to the ground. That was a big human that he
just dismissed very quickly.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Love everything we should?

Speaker 6 (27:31):
So do you have that?

Speaker 10 (27:32):
And then a week ago, six games out, if I'd
have called you and said they were going to make
the playoffs, which what are you?

Speaker 5 (27:38):
I know?

Speaker 10 (27:39):
I know Austin kind of jumped off the vandwagon at
one point, but a game and a half out after
they were six out there. I don't I don't know
what to make of this team. You watch the Mets
and you watch the Reds, and they're built completely different.
The Reds can't hit, but they can pitch. Yeah, play
play a little bit of defense. And the Mets can
hit and they can't pitch.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
So I I don't know.

Speaker 10 (28:01):
I man, this is a it's gonna be an interesting
what seventeen eighteen games left.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Let's buckle in, Mike. I appreciate it, man, thank you
for for what it's worth. I think that uh de
gram goes for Texas in that Mets series. San Francisco
Austin is gonna go up against Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto, Okay,
Clayton Kershaw, yeah, and Tyler Glass.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Now that's pretty good. That's not an easy series. That's
a good stretch for let's uh and then if I'm
not mistaken, they play against Arizona and then against the
Dodgers again, so they'll see at least one of those
guys again. Let's do it, maybe two.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
What's up, Johnny, guys, it's try football. Frady and some
guys talking about the Red let's stop this nonset folks.
I don't care if they get in the playoffs. If
they do, they're gonna lose that then you're gonna be
a upset again. Let's focus on football.

Speaker 10 (28:56):
And boy, am I ecided for Sunday?

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Can't be can't be any more excited? The home opener
against a good team in Jacksonville, coming in with a
chance for the first time under Joe Burrow to start
too And oh what more do you want?

Speaker 5 (29:08):
I can't wait. I'll be right next to you there, Tody,
A holy grail.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
You know I'll be there.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
And uh, the biggest thing that I want to say
is I think we're.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Gonna blow them out.

Speaker 10 (29:17):
I'm telling you right now like this, I'm telling you
right now.

Speaker 11 (29:20):
Well most people were all we've been through the charade, right,
We've been through it.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
We know that they have slow starts. We know when
we get our hopes up, they let us down.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
How about some confidence for one.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Okay, I like this, Johnny.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
We can wait for Jaguars.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Let's go your fireball.

Speaker 9 (29:35):
Shot, let's freaking go, let's go, let's go day.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
I'll see a Sunday.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Sunday.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah, let's go. He's ready to go. Now, that's Johnny
the juice, high energy. Yeah, what's John and Boston got
for us?

Speaker 4 (29:52):
Let's find out? I can't.

Speaker 11 (29:54):
I can't match that high energy. He's kind of like
Howard Dean after one of the primary elections. You know, Actually,
I'm really concerned guys, because Mole keeps doing his show
from a remote location, a bar, golf course, a rally house.
Do you guys have a restraining order or something like
you can't come into the studio?

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Is that what we're looking at?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
John? Not against us. I'd love to be outdoors too sometimes.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, it'd be great. Mos a popular guy. He's a
popular guy. We love Mo, I miss Mo during the
football seat.

Speaker 11 (30:28):
All right, well, I'm sure you guys were reconvene at
some point once the restraining order is off. The other
thing I wanted to touch on is just a bow
on Sunday's win. And I think I mentioned this to
Austin on Monday. Under Tom Brady, the normal Patriots were
eight and ten at Miami in his career. Tom Brady
actually had a losing record at Miami.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Eight and ten.

Speaker 11 (30:48):
They always cause problems for him. They had Jason Taylor,
who was Miles Garrett his day. Just the familiarity made
those games very top so hopefully the fans won't reach
too much until one point, win to win, no matter what.
The other thing, too, is now I keep hearing about
Dante CORDLIONI now with four vowels in my last name
and coming from Boston, and the offer I made for

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you guys to fly you out here for Italian food.
We'd have to extend that offer to I mean right here.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
The Godfather. Yes right, you can't leave the Godfather out.

Speaker 6 (31:21):
Absolutely, so we're gonna send that offer for to him.

Speaker 11 (31:23):
And one more thing too. I'm trying to reach out
to Jeff Hobson, who I know has a massive Boston access.
I know he's been in Cincinnati for twenty five years. Yes,
Hops Hobley, Hopsey Hobby. I actually worked with his father
or grandfather.

Speaker 10 (31:38):
I'm sure it was one or the other.

Speaker 11 (31:40):
It was Ron Hobson, who covered the Patriots in the sixties,
seventies and eighties from the TV Patriot Leder. I covered
the Patriots in the eighty three SPN and I'm pretty
sure he's got to be related to Ron Hobson. So
I'm gonna reach out to Jeff and try to connect
with him. And you know, Bostonians have to stick together, right.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
He does a great job.

Speaker 11 (31:58):
But I'm confident this weekend, guys, I say, thirty eight seventeen,
the offense gets some gear.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
I love it all right, Joe John, We appreciate you
great weekend, fellas. Yes, sir, you know if they score
thirty eight, that puts Burrow right back in line for
the MVP. They're in line for the Super Bowl, and
John's in line to bring us out for some Italian food.
All right, deal, let's go. Let's get through a couple
more here, Mike, what's.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Up, bunch up fellas. Hey, I'll tell you what I'm
I'm really worried about the efficiency and the durability of
our left tackle on offense. What's his name? I always forget?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Is Orlando Brown?

Speaker 6 (32:34):
Yeah? Uh, TFF doesn't have him rated very well at all.
And I don't know what that what Jacksonville brings off
the edge.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Do you?

Speaker 6 (32:47):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Burrow mentioned them up front and how they can be dangerous.
But every team in the NFL, if you get into
third and long situations, is going to be dangerous on
the outside.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Okay, But what do you. I mean, Brown's about his
average as it gets. There's nothing really special about the guy.
He might have been at one time, but not anymore.
I don't see it.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, Austin, we had this, Austin and I had this
conversation as well. I don't know if if there was
people being more comfortable than maybe what they should have been.
But what's your take on Orlando Brown? Austin.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
I'm worried about it because he's getting older, and he
had a run of injuries last year and he it
was kind of slowed down by that, and so I
think at times in the past he's been a bit
of a slow starter like the rest of the team
has been. He still has all the tools. I just
worry about his consistency and maybe slowing down a little

(33:41):
bit as he gets older.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:43):
Plus, he came from the chief so people automatically put
this stigma, Well, he's got to be really good. He
came from the Chiefs, and that's not necessarily.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
He was really good with the Chiefs, you know, so
there's no denying that.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah, five years ago, what yep? Right now, Green Bay
they would thank the Bengals, thank him and put him
to bed.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Early this season, Yes, they would be that. If that
game was Sunday, I would Green Bay would be comfortably favored.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
I think that is one impressive football team.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
They look complete, They look complete.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Oh complete. Now, I don't know about special teams because
I never really pay as much attention to that as
I should. But boy on both sides of the ball,
and Loved looking very composed. I think on the other side, right, yep,
Well you think of him overall Tony top ten?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh yeah? Orlofsky earlier in the preseason put him as
his MVP favorite. I don't know if he's my MVP pick,
but he's a top ten quarterback in the league, I
think for sure.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
And really, you've been critical of Jordan Love in the
past about him his inconsistency.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Now you got him in the top ten. I just
think he's grown. I think think he's matured. I think
the fact that they've never really had a true number
one weapon I thought early on in his career maybe
hurt him. But the way he's able to spread the
ball around, he looks in now it's just a two
game samples ize, it's only two games, he looks like
he's got complete understanding of the system. He's finding the

(35:18):
tight ends. They've got two good tight ends. They've got
a good running game. Josh Jacobs scored a touchdown now
in ten straight games. I just think they have good
balance on offense, and it's it's a way that I
think if he needs to, he can lift him, but
he also just needs to manage the games as well.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
And also back to the defense, I mean, you're flying
around like a frank college team, like an Ohio State
defense or something. I mean, they are just fast, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
They're fast, and they are playing with with extreme confidence
because they know their front can get to the quarterback quick,
which is allowing those dbs to sit on some routes
a little bit.

Speaker 6 (35:58):
I got you. I'll tell you what if you if
South Florida the Bulls knock Miami off this week, automatically
top ten team.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, I said earlier the week, it might be the
most impressive three game stretch to start a college season
that I can remember.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
Yeah, and you're coming out of nowhere. Really, they weren't
in the top twenty they I didn't see him anywhere
top twenty five even honorable.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Mention beat a top twenty five team to start the
year in boys. He beat a top ten team in
week two on the road of the Swamp, and now
go to Miami, who's number five in the country. If
they somehow win that, it's the most impressive three games
start to a season I can remember.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
And I can't tell you one guy on your football team. No,
not one guy, No, can you often?

Speaker 5 (36:44):
No.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
I can see their quarterback in my head, but I
don't know his name.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Quarterbacks a stud too.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
I know it's a it's a mind bender. Yeah, well
I thought you would know his name time. Okay, And
one more thing real quick. Like you said yesterday, I
don't care who's pitching for the resident I feel won.
It's Hunter of course or Ladolo. But like you said yesterday, Tony,
these guys mash and you gotta be careful against this team.
Don't lack a daisical nothing. And you know how you

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say the Reds play hard. But at this point of
the season, the teams in connect they're all playing hard hard.
Nobody's playing harder than anybody else.

Speaker 9 (37:19):
Not really, I'm with you, all right, thanks, Thanks, guys,
have a good weekend.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
I think we could fit one more in. Matt is
calling in from Evendale. What's up, Matt.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
Hey, Tony Uh, I got free questions, Riley House. The
reason they don't talk about Xavier is because Davier graduates
two thousand people a year. You see graduate eight thousand
people a year. It's just numbers. Okay, They're not gonna
and it's Xavier Universe or Xavier must have fears. It's
hard to rhyme with anything. And I'm a Xavier fan

(37:52):
as as my dad used to say. The Inquire sales papers,
and they can sell a lot.

Speaker 6 (37:57):
More to Bearcats fans than Xavier fans.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
That's true.

Speaker 9 (38:00):
Uh So that's my answer on that one. Travis Hunter
can Is there a way to go after him, either
based on college tape or or just based on kind
of fooling him? You know, he's new the NFL. We're
just gonna They're just gonna throw him out there and
expecting to cover one of the best receivers in the NFL. Yeah,
I think there's got to be a way to trick

(38:22):
him up a little bit for crying out loud. I
how do you attack an inexperienced NFL cornerback?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Double moves? That's how I would use him. I would
I would hit some quick hitters early because you know
he's gonna be amped up and he's gonna want to
make a play on the ball. And I would use
that to my advantage by by using some double moves.
As long as you can protect it, I think you
can get him to try to jump some routes early
and have some success on the back end. That's how
I would do it. Now, you do have to be

(38:49):
careful because I mentioned earlier he's got such great ball
skills that he can make up for because he can
make a play on a ball that not a lot
of corners can make because he's got the receiver mentality.
So you do have to be careful. But I think
you can take advantage of his aggressiveness.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
That's what I would think.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
Okay, And then the last thing I just saw on
the Padres game a Sinci hats bucket hat. How much
how much do you think, like, you know, the the
Cinci hats, you know, maybe you wear that, but anyway,
the uh, you know, like they're taking business basically away
from the major people in town. And I wonder how

(39:26):
long that's gonna last. That's just a curiosity question. But
you know, instead of a red hat, you see a
since he hat, and I've never seen the bucket hat yet,
so anyway, I thought that was interesting. Now it's like
a quasi major league product or you know, it's a
it's it's a recognizable brand, the sty hat.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
That's interesting.

Speaker 9 (39:47):
All right, That's all I got.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, Matt, thank you for the call. I appreciate it.
It's hard because I know what Ted Carrisson the Sincy
hat uh so much. Austin goes what is it, the
the village of uh who do their foundation the village
of Maurici, I believe is how it was pronounced. So
that like hard for me because it's going to such
a good cost, and I think that I think the
hat has a sharp design.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
And if I'm not mistaken, I I heard something with
Ted recently talking about how they're making like over a
million dollars a year for this charity based off of
these sales.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
And they do so much amazing with like other they
do other work with like other local companies as well. Yeah,
that they team up with stuff which I think has.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Really done a lot of good stuff with the bigger
brands in town, and it has an impact in Ted's
hometown in Indianapolis has an impact back here in Cincinnati. Yeah, yeah, agreat,
I believe we have a check in with me coming up.
That's correct, after the break, All.

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Station thanks to Skyline Chili for the second time today, Austin,
let's check in across the street with what our guy
Mowagger is doing. He's at Rally House and he's joining us.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Now, what's up, mo, fellas We're having a blast here
at Rally House. Now, I need to be very clear
because as you know, there's a couple of different rally
House locations here in the Kenwood Montgomery area. There's one
inside the Kentwood Town Center that is an awesome store.
We love that place. But we're not at that one.
We're at the one at eighty sixty three Montgomery Road.

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For those who know where the radio station is, we're
right across the street. And there's no better place to
get your game dy gear, especially because you know the
Bengals are opening an orange they're demanding you where. In fact,
the staff here says, don't paint your face orange. Really
if you buy an orange?

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah wow, I'm.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Looking at the staff right and they're ready to go.
Don't paint your face orange. It'll have to be orange
all weekend to where with your orange Bengals gear. There's
a great selection of gear here, Sideline gear. You know
you guys, ask me what about your De's Ridder jersey mode?
Did you know you can get a customized jersey here? No,
you to buy a Bengals jersey and then boom, put
Ridder number four on it and you're good to go.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
With one of those today.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
I am, and to sweeten the deal here, here's what
we have going on. I've got gift cards. I have
rally House gift cards. Now I've thrown the gauntlet out
there on my social media, but I will challenge anybody.
See this woman here saw my tweet. She wins a
gift card. Man, what's your name? Julie found the tweet.
He went to the gift cards following So congratulations.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
You're there to buy, Julie, what are you buying?

Speaker 5 (44:13):
Bengals gear?

Speaker 10 (44:16):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (44:17):
Now I have another gift card to give away. If
somebody wants to show up at rally House, I'll look.
You can do one of two things. You could sing
the rally House jingle for everybody here, or you could
or you can bring me lunch.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Oh wow, that seems illegal.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
Probably isn't totally kosher. Uh, But we'll work something out.
But I've got another route and it's it's but I'm
only here too, so you don't get here like four
or third. No, most busy. I'll be here at two o'clock.
By the way, there is a woman here who's like
buying all the orange stuff, so you may want to hurry.
I got something for like the entire family.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
I've been asked before in the rally House jingle which
is so catchy. They don't mention Xavier? Is it strictly
because Xavier is just hard to mix into a jingle?
Because I know they have Xavier gear at Rally House.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
They do, they do.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
They have a great selection of Xavier gear.

Speaker 11 (45:09):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
In fact, I would say it's the best collection of
Xavier gear of of any place in town.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
So let's let's see. So it's Red's Bengals FC since
the the Ohios date Bearcats in Kentucky. Now, Austin, I
don't want you to be mad. Would it be for
Cincinnati so bad to take out the Ohio state and
put in Xavior and go Reds Bengals FC since the
Xavier bear Cats.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Maybe it doesn't work, say Musketeers Bearkats in Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Reds Bengals FC. Since E's Xavier Musketeers Bearcats in Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah it worked. Y.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Now, if you're going to see you got to sing
the updated jingle to get the gift card.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Yes, I'll take either. I'll take either if you want
to sing the updated jingle with Savior or without either way,
But I've got a gift card with your name on
it and Uh, it's it's awesome. We're having so much fun.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
I look forward to catching on again, Mose and what
else you can find in a in a rally house.
We'll talk here soon.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Thanks Moger. It's nice to be on this side of
it and have to do check ins with MO.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Well, I'm always get to do You don't get to
do that now. You could be like Chad and try
to turn it into like a nine or fifteen minute
segment with Mo.

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