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September 11, 2025 • 42 mins
Tony and Austin read and react to the advanced stats ahead of Bengals / Jags, assess the Reds playoff chances, check in with Mo Egger, and more on ESPN 1530!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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By the way, Austin, they do replay it on NFL
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I do, so they do replay. If you can't watch
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(00:44):
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Why are we promoting TV stations. You want to listen
to the Reds and you want to watch the game.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Elsewhere, there's fifteen I think you can listen to the game.
These fifteen thirty carry the Thursday NFL game. I'm pretty
sure it's either us or thirteen sixty. Admittedly I haven't
looked at the sports calendar, but unbelievable. I one time,
I know somebody wants who promoted a TV station that

(01:19):
a game was on on our airwaves and Seg Dennison
lost his mind. Really, so I'm trying to protect you
from the wrath of the seg Man oh Man. So
just so you know, Seg doesn't like it when you
tell people that games are on TV instead of on radio.
What do you think Seg would think about maybe reading

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and reacting to some things.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
That'd be a great I would love to get Seg
in to get these stats and see what he would say.
We might try to do this every week. It's called
read and react. I'm not reading something off paper now,
I'm going to read it. Okay, you're going to reac
to different This is from our friends at NFL pro
oh we got four insights. That's where we break into

(02:05):
tape down Jags at Bengals. Are you ready for this?
We asked John Sheeran about what stood out to him
about the Jags. He talked about their run game. Listen
to this tone Read and React number one Travis Etn
generated one hundred and forty three rushing yards and plus
sixty nine rushing yards over expected on sixteen carries against

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the Panthers in Week one, after finishing the twenty twenty
four season with a negative forty three rushing yards over expected.
In the game against Carolina in Week one, he averaged
five point eight yards after contact per carry in the game,
the third highest of any game in his career. Man react, well, one,

(02:52):
I am. I'm surprised in a sense because they went
into the season in Jacksonville. I don't think knowing what
they were going to get at the running back position.
It felt to me like Etn was gonna be a guy,
but they had a loaded running back room. They obviously

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traded a running back this week because they thought they
were going to utilize more. But what it tells me
the most is that Etn is getting into space, that
Liam Cohen is getting him into space, and that he's
making the first guy miss. And if there's one thing
we've talked about for a few years here with the
Cincinnati Bengals has been the ability to tackle in space,

(03:33):
especially the early part of the year, even though they
were good against the run. On Sunday against the Browns,
I do still think there were eight or nine miss
tackles that I saw. Lance tweeted out, if you are
one on one with Etn in space, you have got
to break down. You've either got to make a tackle
or you've got to slow him down enough that you
can get help to come. The pursuit will be key

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for the Cincinnati Bengals. But seeing Etn before, it was
kind of who I thought he was going to be
in the NFL and very very dangerous back in open space.
Number two, Okay. The Bengals offense recorded their lowest explosive
play rate two percent in a game during their Week
one victory against the Browns since twenty twenty along with

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their second lowest single game offensive yards per play two
point nine over that span. The only lower mark two
point six, also came in Week one against the Browns
in twenty twenty three. React Week one, This team starts

(04:39):
extremely slow. There were a litany of miscues that I
think on the offensive side of the ball. I think
the stats, how about this, Austin, I don't even think
the stats tell the true story of how bad the
offense was. Because we talked earlier about Chase Brown and
they cards he was able to create when in reality,

(05:02):
according to next Gen, he had minus forty three yards
before contact. He was hit Austin behind the line of
scrimmage on eighteen of his twenty one runs. Did you
know that's incredible? Eighteen of twenty one runs. He's having
to make someone miss behind the line of scrimmage. This

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offense was remarkably bad. They were bad in the run game.
They had no rhythm offensively, they were getting to the
line of scrimmage late and not getting in the right plays.
Joe Burrow got hit way too much. It was a
comedy of airs. So I'm not surprised at the low
explosive play rate. What I'm surprised with is that with that,

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combined with seven yards in the second half, this team still,
somehow Someway found a way to be one to No.
Number three. The Jaguars used motion on sixty eight point
three percent of their snap in Week one, an increase
from their second lowest motion rate last season of forty

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eight point three percent. Wow. Travis Hunter was set in
motion thirty five point nine percent of total snaps, recording
two receptions for sixteen yards and a first down. The
highest motion use of any Jags receiver since last season.
The Bengals allowed twenty three completions for two hundred and

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six yards on plays with motion in Week one, compared
to eight completions for eighty four yards one touchdown in
two interceptions against plays without motion. Wow react.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
I think motion's one of the biggest things for this
Bengals offense to unlock. And I think if you're putting
motion together for the Jacksonville Jaguars, you're running motion with
the idea of getting TRUV Lawrence as much information as
possible before the ball is snapped. You use formations, you
use motions, You dictate what the defense is doing, you

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get a man's zone indicator, and you move on from there.
I think it's brilliant, especially early in the season, because
defenses are going to show so many different looks that
as they show all these different looks, you still give
your quarterback the tools necessary to succeed. You also give
the receivers the tools necessary to receive. Now, running motions

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and shifts and formations also requires what austin getting to
the line of scrimmage in time to do all that.
That's a big part of it. But subsequently on the
other side of the ball. As we talked to John
Sharing about he was surprised at the lack of pre
snap motions and formation adjustments for the Cincinnati Bengals. I

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don't know why they choose not to do it, but
I commend the Jacksonville Jaguars for doing it because I
do think it helps a quarterback, especially early.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
In the season. Pre snap number four and our final one,
the Bengals generated zero pressures on fifteen dropbacks in the
first half against the Browns, the only game in which
they did not generate a pressure in the first half
in the last five seasons. However, the Bengals increased pressure

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in the second half, registering seventeen pressures, their most in
a second half during that same timeframe. Trevor Lawrence completed
fifteen passes for one hundred and thirty one yards, one touchdown,
and one interception from clean pockets against the Panthers in
Week one, including eight first downs. React. I react.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I view that as more of Al Golden trying to
get more of a hold on who in what he
has on the defensive side of the ball. I think
in the first half, for the most part, he was
trying to keep things pretty basic. Go out there, play fast,
play free, and get the job done. In the second half,
when the game got more tight, they needed to continue

(09:09):
to get stops. I think he dialed up a little
bit more exotics. I think he moved guys around. I
think he used formations. I think he used different players
in different areas to help generate more pressure from the
Cincinnati Bengals and get Joe Flacco off his mark way
too easy in the first half. But I think that
was just more base defense from Al Golden. I credit

(09:31):
that stat to what they did in the second half,
to what Al Golden made the adjustments to do, and
that was finding ways to get more pressure. I think
you're going to see more of that as the season
goes and as Al Golden gets more comfortable with the
group that he's coaching. I think we have to realize
that was his first true game action as a defensive
coordinator with Trey Hendrickson out there with the full complement

(09:53):
of weapons, and I think a little bit of that
takes getting used to. I think on the fly, he's
trying to utilize what can guys do best, where do
they struggle. Much like we talk about the scripted plays,
as a decoordinator, you've got to see how your guys
are going to react to what you're calling as well.
And I think Al Golden is going to be sorting
through that as the early part of the season goes,

(10:16):
and I think that's why you see a big disparagy,
disparagy from the first half to the second half.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
That does it for Reid and react. How about that?
One final note Bengals wise, at least the injury report yesterday,
we'll get an updated one later this afternoon had just
two Bengals on it. One was long snapper William Wagner.
He was a full participant, if you want to call
it that, in practice with a hamstring injury. The other

(10:46):
was right tackle Amarius Mimes. Mims popped up with an
ankle injury. He was limited in practice yesterday. The Bengals
are on the practice fields right now in preparation for
Jacksonville this coming Sunday, and we will get an update
on that later today. Probably won't be while we are
on the air, but maybe it will be. I don't know,

(11:09):
Ben Baby reporting that Amarius Mims is practicing after being limited.
Everyone on the fifty three player roster is in uniform today.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Can we go back to the third point you made,
how the motion percentage by the Jaguars was how much.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I think it was thirty five point nine percent. Well
that was for Travis Hunter. May I already exited the page,
but I can find it again. Really, yeah, find it because.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
The pre snap motion is extremely interesting to me for
giving a quarterback an opportunity, but it also requires, as
we talked about already piggybacking six getting to the zero
point three percent, that's almost seven out of ten snaps.
They're using it some sort of motion and as you said,
the Bengals were much better against the Browns when the

(12:06):
Browns did not utilize motion.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Correct. Correct.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
So if you're the Jaguars, you're coming into this game
thinking of utilizing any high motion rate, I would think.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Or they don't change at all. Right, it's already a
pretty high rate, right, it's already what they do. But
I'm sure there's a lot of study that goes into
how exactly did the Bengals defense react to a specific
motion and how can we leverage that against them?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
And it's not just motion for the quarterback as well,
because in that you mentioned Travis Hunter in particular how
much he was sent in motion for a receiver too.
They're looking at the same thing. Travis Hunter is trying
to learn two very very difficult positions in the NFL
at the same time. If he goes in motion, he
can get a man zone indicator that might adjust his release.

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It might adjust his route as opposed to what it
looks like against zone. So I like the idea of
using a lot of motion, especially when you're sending a
guy like Travis Hunter in motion as much as they
did in order to try to get him more comfortable
as well. All fascinating in different ways to read and react.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Let's take a break. I liked that segment. I do too.
We might do that every week. I do too. I
like this. I like read and react. I like this.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
When we come back, we haven't done it yet. So
let's react Austin to what the Cincinnati Reds were able
to do last night, where it has set them up
for going forward, and what else they can capitalize on.
We have some Terry Francone audio and phone calls as well.
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Speaker 5 (15:10):
All right though, let me hear you good wild oh world,
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Let's listen to the clouds. Get me a buddance, Brad jokes.

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We hope those other two divern't come back over.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
It's room pure totally. All thehing comes close to the show.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
We got hag riding.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Hello the stars over talk Yeah, shot.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Right?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
How are they doing it? How do they keep wedding?
They're two back. We're still in this thick. They are alive.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
We're still in it. You gotta play the A's next.
Let's play the Rangers, Giants, play the Dodgers. We got
the lowly A's.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Let's go. Let's go lowly as, who have one of
the best offenses in baseball. Lowly's interesting.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
We now return to National Geographic gone since the three sixties.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
Oh boy, run, there's no slouch when it comes to
climbing itself. With powerful leg muscles and sharp claws four
inches long, the tigers are surprisingly adept.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
In the trees.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Love that. It was like a jungle book vibe. That
was That was That wasn't good. But that's what our
show was yesterday. Hey guys, it's Jeff.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
Do you remember the old Liberty Mutual commercials with the
old guy fishing with the dollar bill on.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
The middle line.

Speaker 9 (17:14):
That's kind of how I feel right now with threads,
the little boys trying to reach that dollar bill.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
But that got it.

Speaker 9 (17:20):
He's never going to reach it. As we sit two
games out of the Wildcard now sixteen to go. Yep,
buckle up here we come.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
That was the famous you gotta be quicker than that.
You gotta be quicker than that. Yeah, almost got it.
That's that's true. That's kind of the old red legs.
Isn't it just another Jeff?

Speaker 10 (17:42):
And I'd like to respectfully ask Audie not to refer
to my Ohio University Bobcats as the Bobbies. Oh, I'm
sure your intention is.

Speaker 11 (17:53):
Not the disrespect such a generable institution of Ohio but
I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't take kindly to somebody
confusing your men of Columbus with a Kentucky truck stop.
Thank you for your consideration.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Is there a chuck shop in Kentucky named Bobby's? I
don't know. I guess that's what he's saying. Seems like
a nice place to go if there is interesting GP fifteen.

Speaker 12 (18:19):
Oh hey, listen, fellas.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
I know it's been a while since I'm provided and
talk back, so I figured i'd pop in.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Woke up this morning check the Red score.

Speaker 13 (18:29):
Suddenly they won two out of three in San Diego,
where Stevens typically go to die the left coast, and
I'm like, wait a minute.

Speaker 14 (18:36):
We're two games back.

Speaker 13 (18:37):
So this is your daily dose of hopium. As long
as the Reds are in it, I'll provide it.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Go Reds sweep this weekend.

Speaker 14 (18:46):
Make it interest.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Shout out to the mallwalking grandpa who woke up, probably
put on his walking shoes, maybe headed to Kenwood town sare.
Maybe he's up in Liberty. I don't know where he's
pat connected to his gene short, but he's checking it
on the walk. Whoa two back?

Speaker 15 (19:01):
Okay, are you Tony, soak it in, let yourself go.

Speaker 14 (19:18):
All right, I told you guys, the Reds are on
the way. Oh go Rids two day.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
The problem is the Reds don't hurt you people that
are all the way back in.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
As soon as I hear that and I go to
that place, the calm quickly turns to fomo.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm like, man, I missed the beach. Thank you, Ken.

Speaker 13 (19:38):
Today is a very unique day and the Bengals and
red schedules is the only day in the twenty twenty
five calendar where both teams have sixteen games remaining in
the regular season. Teams finish out the seasons strong, gods
go bangs, all right?

Speaker 2 (19:51):
From this from this point on, in a sixteen game slate,
who has a better record?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
The all right? The Bengals and Reds also have sixteen
games remaining on their schedules tomorrow.

Speaker 16 (20:07):
Yeah, this this Red season. It's had more ups and
downs in my second marriage, more ups and downs in
a roller coaster. The Chapman stats unreal Ty twenty third
was my birthday. That's the first hit he's given up
since then. Unreal have your birthday? Chase Brown only had
nine receiving yards. They gotta up that number, get get

(20:31):
them involved as much as possible.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
I agree. I think the ball early and often on
Sunday will be going to Jamar Chase and Chase Brown
in the air.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Start, bench cut. What's more likely outcome for Sunday's game
Bengals win thirty eight to thirty four, Bengals win twenty
one to seventeen, lose thirty to twenty eight, which is more.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Likely twenty one to seventeen still at this point of
the season. Okay, interesting, I'm going to start the Bengals
lose because I've said that all summer. I'm gonna bench
twenty one seventeen. I'm gonna cut thirty eight thirty four.
That's all right with you? Sure?

Speaker 17 (21:21):
So this question is probably for Tony only because Austin,
I bet my bottom dollar you've never seen.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Back to the Future.

Speaker 17 (21:26):
I've seen back Stake on your part, I'll go watch
that one all time classics seen it, Tony. Do you
remember that picture that Marty kept in his back pocket
with the people and he'd look at it and they're
fading away. Yeah, and then time was running out, and
then all of a sudden, the people were coming.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Back or getting back to the movie.

Speaker 14 (21:46):
Do you remember that.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's the bread this year? Yep. Don't give up yet, man,
don't give up ton, don't ever give up. Reds Back
to the future.

Speaker 7 (21:54):
So I'm just now getting to tune in, just wondering
if you guys will get it into the Reds any
credit that I know you've been basking on this past week.
It's played well. It just beat a team that has tripler. Hey,
you are two weeks or two series in roun. Yeah,
give them some credit.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Guess I did that. We do give them. We did that.
We do give them credit. We've given them credit. Also,
they're not in the playoffs right now. Right this season
is a failure. If they do not advance in the postseason,
it is a complete and utter failure. If they do

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not reach the postseason.

Speaker 12 (22:39):
Last time through the starting rotation, the Reds of pitch
thirty two innings, five runs, twenty nine strikeouts. That's good
for a one point four e er, six and a
half innings per start, one earned run per start, and
six strikeouts for a start. Let's see how the A's
handle Singer Green in Lodolo.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, I mean I like the I like the idea
of getting Green and Lodolo in this series. But as
we'll talk about a little bit more in the third hour,
this Oakley or this athletics team mashes, they mash pitching.

Speaker 18 (23:17):
Hey, Audie A, Tony Steve PNW Hey, uh four one
nine two anniversary on nine to one.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
One's right.

Speaker 18 (23:24):
I was in San Diego. I just got to mirror
more at fourteen squadron time of my life. I'm playing tennis,
like in a tournament, and I'm like, I get over
to the get over the car and listen, I made
it to the rig. Eric Shall gave up the hit.
Jerry Coleman, famous Padre announcer, Oh doctor heard the call.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
There you go. People forget for obvious reasons, that it
was on this date in nineteen eighty five that Pete
Rose broke the record. Yeah and uh yeah.

Speaker 19 (23:57):
Guys, I don't know how the health they keep hanging around,
but the Cincinnati Reds only two games back nearly mid September.
I don't understand it, but I'm here for it. Giants
still have to play the Dodgers this weekend. Met's got
one more with Philly and then they play the Rangers.
So these are tough competitive teams, and then the Reds

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of course play the Ace, who are well under five hundred.
So who knows what happens by the time Monday rolls
around and we hear from you guys again, Let's go Reds.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay. I'm in favor of the Reds going okay, let's
go Reds. Okay.

Speaker 11 (24:31):
Just the clarification, the Kentucky truck stop would be BUCkies.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think I see what you're saying. I see what
you're saying. So he wants to make sure you use Bobcats. Yeah,
but like people Ohio State fans and not the Bobby's
Ohio State fans and people around Ohio State don't call
the Buckeyes the BUCkies. Owe you fans and people in

(25:02):
and around ass and went to you, and he says,
Bobby Yeah, He says, Bobby's like, it's it's something that
came from them, it's not. You just can't win.

Speaker 20 (25:14):
Austin, Tony Ryan, Oh, it's good win for the red
last night. Step and definitely definitely don't underestimate the A's man, tough,
tough offensive team.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Go get some victories, man, see what we can do
at the end of the year. Maybe we could sneak
in who.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
They yep, and if they do, Austin and I can't
be there, I'll be going, Nope, no, you won't.

Speaker 21 (25:39):
People giving you a hard time, my guy, because they
go to two games out and I know, I know
they're probably not gonna make it.

Speaker 13 (25:47):
Man, we get it, we understand that. But can we
at least act like they have a chance until they're.

Speaker 14 (25:53):
Out of it.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
You're welcome to, man, just give us some mism like
we know they probably but guess what, right now, they
got a shot.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is the brilliant thing about this though, And I
said that to the beginning of the show. Our opinions
don't have to be your opinions. Yeah, I guess just
because Austen doesn't think they have a chance doesn't mean
that they don't have a chance.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
I thought we would want them to go to the playoffs.
I don't understand what's so hard about this. I've pretty
much been the same person ever since I've gotten a
chance to be on the air. I'm going to tell
you how I feel and what I think, and I'm
going to be honest with you. You don't have to
agree with that. How I choose to be a fan
is not how you choose to be a fan. Everybody

(26:36):
has their own way of being a fan, and I'm
not here to try to like make people upset or
you know, you know what in their corn flakes over
it' I am skeptical and optimistic about it, and I
think part of it you and I had a long
form conversation about this one day, is that we're kind
of like, I think I do this. I protect myself

(27:00):
because I don't want to get my hopes up and
get heart broken. So I think of all the different
ways that things can go wrong. And at the end
of the day, they have played one hundred and forty
six games, correct, that is a large sample size to
come up with your own thoughts of who the team is.
What is their longest winning streak of the season, six

(27:22):
maybe five six games? They've not shown an ability to
consistently win enough.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Can that change? Can they pull it together down the stretch?
I sure as hell hope so, because the city is
even more on fire if the REGs are in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I am comfortable with my assessment of the local ball club.
I hope that it is not true. And I even
posted on my Twitter last night I said, let's hope
that the run we've all been waiting for is coming,
but you know, one hundred and forty six games, hope.
I believe the man was referring to BUCkies. Yes, that's

(27:59):
correctinism for Mackay's, which is not a truck stop. By
the way, they do not even allow trucks there. Yeah,
figure die take that. This dude's like, oh for three
against me? Take that. Yes, brisket sandwich. That sounds pretty
good right now. You probably don't like brisket, do you? Noes?

Speaker 12 (28:18):
Gosh, for the final sixteen games, the Bengals will go
nine and seven, the Reds will go ten and six.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Wow, well you say, okay, let me let's go on
the record here. Thursday, September eleventh, Tony, If our guy
here just told you that the Bengals are gonna go
ten and seven. Are you gonna sign up for that? Well,
they only have sixteen games left. Well, they've already won one.
According to him, they're gonna go nine and seven the
rest of the way. Nope, which would equal out to

(28:47):
ten and seven. I don't believe it. So you're gonna
take your chances going elsewhere. I don't believe it.

Speaker 14 (28:53):
Okay, hard to be a good one tonight. You got
Jordan what is love?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (28:58):
And Jade and Jack Daniels.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh, head to head, let's go. I like that. And
it's a white out for the Packers to all their
winter warning uniforms at Historic Lambos. Winter coming, that's what
they're trying to say. Okay, I don't think it's gonna
be snow on the ground, although nobody would be surprised
if it was. Winter ain't coming here this weekend? Him
into that, brother, I wish it was all right. We're

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done football the Natty. Isn't it football in the Natti? Next?
Do you want me? I'm gonna give you the option.
Do you want Joe Burrow press conference? Or do you
want read and react? Now we're gonna go read and
react on the third. Let's do some Joe Burrow press
when we come back on football in the Natty. Next,
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Home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah it is Welcome back. You sounded like you just
took that in the naties. Ah ah, my goodness. Welcome back,
ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports station. Real quick, we're gonna
play some Joe Burrow audio here from yesterday. Did anyone
ask Joe about getting the plays in quicker? Yes, it's

(30:47):
the first question. Let's get to it by our guy, James.
Let's repeat, go James. Here is some of Joe Burrow
from yesterday.

Speaker 14 (30:56):
When you looked for the most what you did well,
you didn't do.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
H I don't think we know how many snaps trapped
you know, I got to press the right butt whoa, whoa?
What I was starting at midway through? Here's James's question,
is there anything you guys can pre snap?

Speaker 14 (31:11):
This week's so pre snap?

Speaker 21 (31:13):
Isn't you don't have those kind of communication issues or
frustrations going into Sunday?

Speaker 14 (31:26):
You know, I'm not sure we hadn't. We had many
communication issues on Sunday. We had can we call two timeouts?

Speaker 23 (31:38):
One we lined up in the wrong formation and I
can't remember what happened on the other one. But you know,
aside from that, I feel like our operation and communication
and it was pretty sound on Sunday.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
From Miles when he came up the middle on you.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
You take a lot of hits and games.

Speaker 14 (31:57):
Where's that one rank in terms.

Speaker 23 (31:59):
Of I didn't Necessarily, when you're out there, you don't
really feel much. Let's say that was my best throw
of the day. Everybody likes to show.

Speaker 14 (32:13):
That hit, but not necessarily where I put the ball
in that situation.

Speaker 19 (32:16):
I don't think we know how many snaps Travis Hunter
is gonna play on defense yet.

Speaker 14 (32:19):
I mean, just one week for him so far. But
did you watch him much in college? You know much
about his game and what have you noticed?

Speaker 13 (32:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (32:26):
I watched I watched a lot of Colorado games last year. Pick.

Speaker 23 (32:34):
I feel like the timing and somehow always lined up
for when we were off on Saturdays.

Speaker 14 (32:41):
But I got a lot of respect for.

Speaker 23 (32:44):
Number one, what he was able to do in college,
how many snaps he played, the elite level that he
would play at on both sides of the ball when
he was out there.

Speaker 14 (32:52):
You know, last week he didn't he didn't play much
on defense.

Speaker 23 (32:55):
So there's very limited tape on that on that end
for for me, So I don't have a ton to
say on that front, but I know what I watched
in college, and on the defensive side of the ball,
he's his ball skills are obviously great. That's why he's
playing offense too, and he just continuously made plays, it

(33:18):
seemed like in big spots.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Uh.

Speaker 23 (33:20):
So I got a lot of respect for for what
he did and how he did it, and I'm excited
to watch him in the league.

Speaker 14 (33:27):
In the league now, that salary not really you don't
see a ton You don't see a ton of guys
with his.

Speaker 23 (33:39):
Ball skill ability playing on the defensive side of the ball.
You know, Trayvon Diggs had the one season with all
those interceptions. But you know, like I said, I haven't
I haven't studied the tape of him on defense from college,
and he played what was it, three snaps on defense

(34:01):
last week, so I haven't seen a ton of that.

Speaker 14 (34:04):
What do you look for the most? What you did well,
you didn't do well?

Speaker 21 (34:09):
And following that up, curious whether or not you ever
worked and how to play and think I could have
forced it there and I didn't.

Speaker 14 (34:18):
And yeah, I think when you watch it first, you
you try.

Speaker 23 (34:25):
To find just try to figure out what happened on
the first time you watch it. You know, there's a
lot of stuff going on throughout the game, and you
remember the plays and what happened, but you know the
film tells a different story, and so you try to
figure out if what you remember happening is actually what

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happened on the tape.

Speaker 14 (34:50):
And then then you look at.

Speaker 23 (34:54):
How did what they did affect what we did? Did
we do the right thing? Depending on how the defense
it's played, And yeah, there's of course always some plays that.

Speaker 14 (35:04):
You'd like to have back, and.

Speaker 23 (35:09):
Certainly depending on the situation, there's sometimes one that you
could could have maybe been a little more aggressive with
the ball as opposed to what you did decide to
do with it. So there's always learning experiences from every drive,
every play, every game.

Speaker 14 (35:26):
Is there one of two things that you want to
do better this subject? You know, I think I'm.

Speaker 23 (35:41):
Gonna be a little more aggressive to maybe get out
of the pocket and make some plays, you know, just
like every game, you want to get out and see
how things are going.

Speaker 14 (35:51):
How's the defense playing in, how's their front playing, what
coverage is there begetting? You know, how how are we
attacking them so far? And how's it going? Do we
need to change and we need to keep attacking them.

Speaker 23 (36:05):
The way that they are, So I'm gonna be ready
to attack adapt for for whatever we see.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
What excites you the most about coming back home and
playing in front of the home crowd.

Speaker 14 (36:15):
Here is just.

Speaker 23 (36:16):
Another opportunity, you know, with our this is what we
do for a living, This is what we love to do.
Go out and try to put on a show for
the people in this city and in this organization, and
this is another opportunity to do it.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
We have.

Speaker 23 (36:31):
I think we have nine home games this year, so
we got nine opportunities to do it. This will be
the first one and I'm excited for it.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
You and Trevor have a relationship all over the years
or now.

Speaker 14 (36:41):
Just just just talking when we play each other, does that.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Win over that Jags your first pro win feel like
one hundred years ago?

Speaker 23 (36:49):
Yeah, one hundred years ago in yesterday. I certainly remember
a lot about that game, but like you said, a
long time ago.

Speaker 14 (37:00):
And they just stand out. I had, uh we had.

Speaker 23 (37:05):
A pressure from the backside and empty and somebody was
free and I pretend like I didn't see him, but
I did see him, and I made miss and wheeled
out and got about seven yarns.

Speaker 14 (37:16):
That's the one that I remember the first time. What
impressed you about what Jacksonville did this past week.

Speaker 23 (37:23):
You can see their energy and physicality on defense. I
think their front is very disruptive. It feels like I
say that every week. But you know, they have a lot,
they have a lot of guys that I respect on
on that front. And they came up with some big
time defensive plays. A safety drove a low cross on
a on a naked and popped it up in the air,

(37:44):
and guy made a diving interception, and they punched the
ball out and a I think they were up maybe
four to ten or fourteen, and and Carolina was driving.
They punched the ball out and got a funbel recovery.
Those are big time plays.

Speaker 14 (37:58):
So those are things that you'll have to be aware of.
But they put it on tape, so that's something that
we've discussed.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
All right.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
That is Joe Burrow speaking yesterday coming out of the
Browns game, looking ahead to the Jacksonville Jaguars game. I
don't know why, Austin, but one of the things that
you like people talk about, like nails on a chalkboard. Hm,
when I can hear people consistently typing away on a

(38:25):
keyboard while I'm hearing answers, that like mentally drives me insane.
Do you hear that at all when they were listening
to those I do. I don't know why, but because
I can type on a keyboard or listen to it.
But when he's giving answers, it like drives me nuts.
I think it was one of the unintended consequences, Yeah,
the speaker of the but can't have it. L There

(38:47):
was one during his one of his very first answer,
he was like tearing the label off of his water bottles.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Oh my gosh, you couldn't hear anything. Yes, anyway, So
that's what Joe Burrow had to say.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
We will wrap up our number two next with some
Reds updates on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 22 (39:06):
You've been listening to Football in the NATI on ESPN
fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
See three sixty continues on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Welcome back since e three sixty On ESPN fifteen thirty,
Cincinnati Sports Station, Austin. How about this? Yes, Postman Law
injury report deliver by our friends a Postman law. If
you're injured, Postman delivers call eight four four postman? Did
you see that what the Reds have done today?

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I did?

Speaker 2 (39:49):
The Reds have activated from the fifteen day injured list
right handed pitcher Chase Burns, right handed pitcher pitcher Graham Ashcraft.
They have optioned to triple a Lion Richardson and Yosfer Zulawaita.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Why you always Lion Richardson? How about that? So was
a huge bullpen?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
I do Ashcraft and Burns Back to the Cincinnati Reds
and the way Zach Maxwell has been pitching lately.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Obviously Santian, As Charlie noted on his account, it does
give the Reds a lot more flexibility in the bullpen,
which is big in a pennant race like this, Let's
go or a playoff chase, they should say we're here,
we're back by the way. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
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we do our weekly pick Them segment and you're like, man,
I could pick games. That's pretty easy. Well, we've got
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(41:38):
we can't win that, Austin. We're not allowed to win it,
or else I'd be there all the time. By the way,
because I've had people ask me this as well. Thursday
Night Football, that's Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime game is Thursday nights.
If you're wondering where to find the game tonight, you
want to watch Commanders, you want to watch the Packers,

(41:59):
and you're not gonna be in Green Bay for it.
Amazon Prime will be having the game. That's where your
coverage goes.

Speaker 9 (42:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
When we come back, maybe some point in hour three,
we'll spend a few minutes on the red so you'll
hear from Terry Francona audio. Let's get things started with
a little read and react, Read and React. We'll take
some of your phone calls as well. Five p one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifteen thirty. All of that is next right here on
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