August 12, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Backs, press the microphone.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And tone, please keep it clean and don't be mean.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
And a sprinkle sprinkled drip drip. It's that time for talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
It's our favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Part of Sancy three sixties.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Austin Buddy played that talk back on your screen and
please try not too Saba Taja.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Dude, Yeah, you know what I mean, man, Snoop Dogg.
Last night out in that Ellie de la Cruz basketball
jersey on stage at gabt Tough is a two dollars stay.
So many people are like, like, man, that is a
sweet jersey. When do we can get that? Well, you
can get it at Sinci Shirts and you can help
get it at Sincy Churts if you win best talk
back of the Week because you get a Cincy Church
gift caught on Friday. There you go, Greg Sharonville.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Another gut punch loss when this team can only score
one run. I know Hayes is a great defensive player.
Tell you the facts are, he's a nine hole hitter
that can't hit, and he's no health to his team offensively.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He helped them defensively. So you're talking about Austin hazeser Key,
Brian Hayes key Brian, Okay, he had a hit last.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Call me sadistic, But I still listen to the Reds,
like when I'm in the car running the rounds and
I usually here hear the game about halfway through and
the Reds might be up like three to one, and
I go, well, they're going to lose that game. Why
can't this team hold a lead? Why explain it to
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me in baseball terms?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Because they can't score enough runs, enough runs, and the
Philadelphia Phillies are a World Series contender, you're not going
to shut them out?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean, what is it forty one times now
they've scored three or fewer.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So yeah, oh am, I going to get in trouble
on this talk back. You know how in baseball they
got a pitch clock. Well, during the Tony and Moe
training camp show, MO needs a talk clock. I listen
and it's ninety percent Mo just blabbing, and I want
(02:21):
to hear Tony and all his professional football knowledge.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Twelve attempts. Man, Well, you only have six more completions
than me and Mo.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
You're correct, extremely disappointed with Snoop Dogg yesterday. What we
were up in the for eleven session and you couldn't
hear anything.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
A lot of that. I also heard. I hate to
hear that too. I also heard he was an hour late.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now that is like, that's one thing if you're at
like a riverbend, because I've been to that before. When
you're doing it at a ballpark, you can't be late.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I was there for Vanilla Ice one time. Yeah, and
he I mean you really couldn't hear that much of
him either. And we were in like the middle section,
which I guess we were probably right where he was
at four to eleven. Actually, yeah, concert in a stadium
is not the best idea.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know that I'm I'm all on board, but
like I like concert venues for that reason.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I also think that the stage should be either right
in front of one of the dugouts or on home plate.
Yeah that makes sense. Don't you think that makes sense?
Because it's just it's out there, like behind second base.
It's so far away. Yeah, but I mean, what do
I know. I'm just I just talk on the radio.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I just can't be chooser.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I have breaking news. Austin hit the Sounder not with
the incredible preseason Week one performance, going fourteen for twenty
three one hundred and thirty eight yards and two touchdowns.
The Cleveland Browns have decided to retire the number twelve
Jersey Wow Sanders And also in other news, Trey Hendrickson
has been spotted at the Kenwood Country Club, currently sitting
(04:07):
at four over pars through six now looking good. He's
hoping to bounce back here when he makes the turn.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
All right, shout out, shout out to Trey.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Hendrickson as Tony Potter's his life at the dockery deck.
I ponder what the heck is that growth on Andrew
Ebbot's neck. Is it a boil or a pimple? Is
it a gord or a dimple? Maybe it's not that simple.
That growth has game, so perhaps we should give it
a name. Abbot's habit? Is it that won't quit or
the Cincinnati bump? Either way, that earth remains plump like
Austin's belly and maybe smelling a chuck full of jelly.
(04:38):
But better's be ready, because there's nobody better than our
crafty lefty man.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Okay, I don't know if I even if I even noticed.
It's the first I'm hearing of it. I mean, great's
a great rhyme. Maybe that's what gave him his powers.
It's a great.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Several posts and headlines have circulated regarding my absence from
talkbacks yesterday. Unfortunately, some of these re have omitted important contacts,
leading to false assumptions about my commitment and character. To
be clear, my absence from talkbacks yesterday was due to
me being but hurt because somebody on Facebook called me
woefully unfunny.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Any suggestion otherwise is simply untrue.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I take my job as.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
A professional talkbacker in my preparation for this show seriously.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I agree. I think you do fantastic. I let it
roll off the back man.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
Hey Fellas, it's Adam. In regards to Bengals training camp.
With all that you've seen so far, I'm wondering, what
are your two biggest players who have been a surprise
and your two biggest players who've been at disappointment?
Speaker 11 (05:42):
And do you agree that Dez should be QB two.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think there, I think he could put a little
pressure on I don't think he's QB two yet. Jake
Browning's done it in real games and shown his value.
I have been surprised pleasantly with Shamar Stewart and how quickly.
He has taken an and made an impact with this team.
I could say the same with Demetrius Night, but I
think from a surprise standpoint, I would add Dylan Fairchad
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and what he's been able to do. From a disappointment standpoint,
Miles Murphy is up there, Patrick and Cody Ford because
neither of them seem to want to win the job
is pretty disappointing.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I was I was going to say, I was going
to say Cody Ford and Miles Murphy is my disappointments
my surprise, I guess I would say Josh Newton has
been solid, I don't know that he's been really good,
and then yeah, I think that's kind of it really
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ToJ Brooks, although I don't know if that's much of
a surprise if you knew what he did in college.
Speaker 12 (06:53):
I'm curious what moves would you want the Bengals to
have made by now to improve then the events ton
of money into their offense. They drafted nothing but defensive players.
Are you wanting the Bengals to sign a bunch of
free agents now that you know thirty one other teams.
Speaker 11 (07:11):
Are passing on?
Speaker 13 (07:12):
Is no?
Speaker 12 (07:13):
They had a viable strategy to improve the defense.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, but they had a foot are your.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
Suggest what are you wanting them to do?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They had a full free agency period where you could
have got some of the top free agents. They had
a draft, you could have addressed it. They also still
have twenty nine million dollars in cap space. So yes,
did did did they pay T Higgins and Jamar Chase? Yes?
Did they make some I guess under the radar solid moves.
I think you can argue that as well. But it's
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not like they have no money. They have money available.
They could have spent that money earlier in the offseason.
And I still think they could spend that money they have.
What did they tie into to TJ. Slayton five million
dollars something like that? That money, yeah, next to nothing.
We plu there were the fact of what we were
(08:03):
talking about. There were moves that they could have made
right after the season. Here are the deficiencies. We went
to a full off season, but the full free agency,
full draft, trade down, whatever you want to do. And
they're still having these same conversations. So yes, I think
there was plenty of time and money available to do it.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I think the big answer to that question is that
not all thirty one other teams have the same needs
or deficiencies of the as the Bengals do, and because
they have not been adequately able to supplement the deficiencies
of the roster here, they are needing more production from
those spots. There's a couple of examples, So Sante Samuel
(08:40):
Junior as a cornerback, Zadarias Smith as an edge rusher,
Justin Simmons as a safety. They still have cap space
to be able to make moves like this, George Fant
as a potential tackle even though he's coming off of
an injury. Rasul Douglas, a former cornerback of the Buffalo
Bill Like, there are guys out there that, if nothing else,
(09:03):
can improve the bottom of your roster and that in
turn makes you a better football team. And you have
to be able to consider that. And you know, Justin
Blackman was a name that we talked about as a
potential safety. Well, the Colts scooped him up before training
camp started. They identified a deficiency. They said, this is
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a veteran player that we think can compete. Let's go
get him. That's the type of stuff we're talking about.
So you're not having Tyson Anderson and PJ. Jewles take
first team reps with your defense when neither one of
them you feel like are capable of doing so, and
you don't want to have to face Brian Thomas Junior
in week two and Justin Jefferson in week three.
Speaker 14 (09:44):
Yep, Tony, think about last season? How often did we
play a second third team quarterback, offensive line, defensive line
and still struggle last year to because it's preseason doesn't
mean anything.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Okay, we need better players. Yes, we agree they need
better players. They haven't got better players.
Speaker 15 (10:12):
I'll tell you the Bengals defense, you gotta squeeze that
Wrens hard. I wish they could have signed maybe a
middle of the road better in safety, but that probably
would have made too much sense. Kyle Swarvers from Middletown
need to see Korea and Bragman back in Houston like
(10:34):
the Swan's going back to Capistrano.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Salmon's salmon?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
How about that? How about that Bregman Homer Yeah launched?
Speaker 16 (10:47):
How about all the Since the three listeners do something nice,
I say, we started to fund me to send Strawberry
Chiefs back in vacation for a while. Maybe you can
take common talkbacks with him. Seriously, there's not very much
comment about you at all. I bet you like the
tick name.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Jack Strawberry cheeks man. That's mean he's a nice man
that is uncalled for. Yeah, Austin, how you guys doing today?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Where are you walking?
Speaker 13 (11:20):
And Matt McClain, they look terrible and lost at the
plate man. They're not helping this team a bit right now.
And I hope the Reds go get Sworeburn next year.
That might might give him the edge and get him
over the hump next year to get to the playoff
because it's not happening this year. Ye would dominate Jordan,
(11:42):
no doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
No, no, no, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Okay, so you did say that, though you said Jordan
might dominate Tyson in the ring.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
They got a better chance of signing freaking Babe Ruth
than Kyle schwarbur after this year. They got a better
chance of plugging me in the lineup than Kyle. Are
we at all worried about the the disappearance of any
of Ellie's power? It seems like, yeah, I mean, what's
he got no home runs in August? He had one
home run in all of July.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Again to clarify. The reason it has disappeared is because
the Reds don't want players hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You're right. They hired Chris Valaika for this reason. You're right.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
They don't want their players hitting home runs. They want
everybody to hit line drives in singles and get on base.
They are the most ass backwards operation when it comes
to roster building and their philosophy that I have ever seen.
Because they don't have power. What are they twenty first
in baseball? See their record when.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
They hit homers. It's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I mean, Barry Larkin said the quiet part out loud
when he said home runs kill rallies. That's the way
that this baseball ops department thinks. That's why Ellie's power
is gone is because they brought in a hitting coach
that is not trying to get guys to hit homers,
and they can't freaking score. They are a clueless bunch.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Hey, fellas, I had to weigh in.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
I'm one of my favorite topics boxing that Masa brought up.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Now.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
As much as I don't like Jordan's, he had a
cast of characters around him. Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr, You
name it. It was not an individual sport, so I
too would lead Mike Tyson. But with the preface before
Buster Douglas, he was basically a tomato can.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
After that, Wow, okay, Buster Douglas from I don't know Columbus.
Speaker 11 (13:42):
Oh hey, fellas, I had to weigh in when.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
Made please please no, I left. I would have left
in the rest of the game. That offense did not
produce anything for him. One run, give me a break.
I would have left him in.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Okay, Yes, it's not good. The off Bininnatti out here
is Sonny hots on it?
Speaker 17 (14:02):
What up? Tonny?
Speaker 12 (14:03):
What up?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Body?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Reds don't get swept?
Speaker 12 (14:05):
All right?
Speaker 17 (14:05):
Real talk? Bring Swarmer back. He wants to come home.
Why not give him a shot in Great America a
small part. I can see it already. Why is everybody
hating on our QB like this? I mean, the execs
know what it is unanimous. State Farm frog or State
Farm Dude won't be there forever. Joe is about to
be the man. And why is Baltimore and Pittsburgh hating
on us so much? Which one of them fans base
(14:27):
hate us the most. I don't like neither one of them.
They stink.
Speaker 18 (14:32):
If Gavin Lucks is playing outfield for Redding, Sydney or
Indian Hill High School last night with that throw, he's
out of the game instantaneously, probably doesn't play for a
couple more. I know at the beginning of the year
that Tito, possibly not so magnificent, said, oh, we're not
gonna embarrass anybody or anything. But the stuff just keeps
going on and on and on, and if you just
(14:53):
can't have any faith in this team that they're ever going.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
To do the right thing, I'm sorry to believe the
idea that there's a good old boys club with Tito
Frank that just you know what I mean, like his
guys or his.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Guys back again for a double DiPT.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
But I really don't want to blame everything on fran
Car because I you know, I don't think it's all
on him. Get it MO put it on Twitter the
other night. We're like, he has to press the perfect
buttons because there's no margin for error, and so because
of that, his mistakes are going to be magnified, and
he is going to make mistakes. But because of the
(15:27):
fact that his bosses have put together this ridiculous operation
of a team, it makes his job a lot harder.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Back again for a double dip. I believing that talk back.
Speaker 17 (15:38):
I'll walk back in, you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Know, me flexing my city.
Speaker 17 (15:41):
I'm always wearing something Cincinnati, and I run into a
guy who walks in, you know, he got all Nebraska.
He dressed in Nebraska cornhuskuld get Oh no. He was like,
are you from Cincinnati? I said, yeah, born Brandon Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
What's up? He's like, are you a Bearcat fit?
Speaker 12 (15:57):
Yes?
Speaker 17 (15:57):
I'm a Bearcat fan. We play you guys in arrow ahead.
Oh we guys going to beat you? I said, I
don't think so. Do we about to smoke you? Smoke
you come home?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
That sounded like a Nebraska fan.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Hello. Hello, this is Evan and even Dale Tony. What
channel is that huber Heights podcast on with Tanya Swift?
Sound it on back of nineteen. My nieces are big
(16:31):
fans of MS Swift, and I thought I could figure
out what the big deal is.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't have that information on hand, actually, but I'll
work to get that for you.
Speaker 19 (16:45):
Is there a chance that Snoop Dogg got all smoked
out in the green room and wound up showing up
at pay course? Stadium, looking around saying, damn, where is everybody.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
In the Since I inquired it day and Gordon Wittmeyer
had brought up going after Kyle Schwarber, so I guess
he believes in that, so I'll get Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Listen, Kyle Schwarber could march up to Nick Kral's office
today and say, I will play for this organization next
Lele Wheels falling from now until the end of my career,
and I will do it for free. And they would say, no,
thank you, we don't want guys that hit homers. Yeah,
it was our last one.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Are they going to move the walls back? You think
at all? At GBP? Maybe raised that would that.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Would cost money that raised into Nick Krawl's operating budget.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Maybe like a maybe like a chain fence.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
You wouldn't be able to get as many bibble heads
out and as many concerts. It is though, maybe they
could do some sort of a party deck it. It
is absolutely insane to me that August forty one at
bats Ellie has seven hits, one double, no triples, no home.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Runs number one. I do think he's tired coming off
a month where he had one home run. Yeah, that's unbelievable.
I'm sure he's tired. He's played every single day and
nobody would fault him for that. But also I fully
believe the way that they have and he's improved in
parts of his game. He made a great play last night.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Defensively, I think he's gotten a lot more consistent and offensively.
The walks are up, the strikeouts are down. That's all good.
But the power is gone.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Remember last year Jake Frayley, right power outage, the report
that to Duke energy, Rake Frayley, I have to call him.
Let's take a break, let's come back a quick injury
Backs, press the microphone.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And tone, please keep it clean and don't be mean.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
And a sprinkle sprinkled drip drip. It's that time for talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
It's our favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Part of Sancy three sixties.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Austin Buddy played that talk back on your screen and
please try not too Saba Taja.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Dude, Yeah, you know what I mean, man, Snoop Dogg.
Last night out in that Ellie de la Cruz basketball
jersey on stage at gabt Tough is a two dollars stay.
So many people are like, like, man, that is a
sweet jersey. When do we can get that? Well, you
can get it at Sinci Shirts and you can help
get it at Sincy Churts if you win best talk
back of the Week because you get a Cincy Church
gift caught on Friday. There you go, Greg Sharonville.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Another gut punch loss when this team can only score
one run. I know Hayes is a great defensive player.
Tell you the facts are, he's a nine hole hitter
that can't hit, and he's no health to his team offensively.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He helped them defensively. So you're talking about Austin hazeser Key,
Brian Hayes key Brian, Okay, he had a hit last.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Call me sadistic, But I still listen to the Reds,
like when I'm in the car running the rounds and
I usually here hear the game about halfway through and
the Reds might be up like three to one, and
I go, well, they're going to lose that game. Why
can't this team hold a lead? Why explain it to
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me in baseball terms?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Because they can't score enough runs, enough runs, and the
Philadelphia Phillies are a World Series contender, you're not going
to shut them out?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean, what is it forty one times now
they've scored three or fewer.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So yeah, oh am, I going to get in trouble
on this talk back. You know how in baseball they
got a pitch clock. Well, during the Tony and Moe
training camp show, MO needs a talk clock. I listen
and it's ninety percent Mo just blabbing, and I want
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to hear Tony and all his professional football knowledge.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Twelve attempts. Man, Well, you only have six more completions
than me and Mo.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
You're correct, extremely disappointed with Snoop Dogg yesterday. What we
were up in the for eleven session and you couldn't
hear anything.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
A lot of that. I also heard. I hate to
hear that too. I also heard he was an hour late.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now that is like, that's one thing if you're at
like a riverbend, because I've been to that before. When
you're doing it at a ballpark, you can't be late.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I was there for Vanilla Ice one time. Yeah, and
he I mean you really couldn't hear that much of
him either. And we were in like the middle section,
which I guess we were probably right where he was
at four to eleven. Actually, yeah, concert in a stadium
is not the best idea.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know that I'm I'm all on board, but
like I like concert venues for that reason.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I also think that the stage should be either right
in front of one of the dugouts or on home plate.
Yeah that makes sense. Don't you think that makes sense?
Because it's just it's out there, like behind second base.
It's so far away. Yeah, but I mean, what do
I know. I'm just I just talk on the radio.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I just can't be chooser.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I have breaking news. Austin hit the Sounder not with
the incredible preseason Week one performance, going fourteen for twenty
three one hundred and thirty eight yards and two touchdowns.
The Cleveland Browns have decided to retire the number twelve
Jersey Wow Sanders And also in other news, Trey Hendrickson
has been spotted at the Kenwood Country Club, currently sitting
(04:07):
at four over pars through six now looking good. He's
hoping to bounce back here when he makes the turn.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
All right, shout out, shout out to Trey.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Hendrickson as Tony Potter's his life at the dockery deck.
I ponder what the heck is that growth on Andrew
Ebbot's neck. Is it a boil or a pimple? Is
it a gord or a dimple? Maybe it's not that simple.
That growth has game, so perhaps we should give it
a name. Abbot's habit? Is it that won't quit or
the Cincinnati bump? Either way, that earth remains plump like
Austin's belly and maybe smelling a chuck full of jelly.
(04:38):
But better's be ready, because there's nobody better than our
crafty lefty man.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Okay, I don't know if I even if I even noticed.
It's the first I'm hearing of it. I mean, great's
a great rhyme. Maybe that's what gave him his powers.
It's a great.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Several posts and headlines have circulated regarding my absence from
talkbacks yesterday. Unfortunately, some of these re have omitted important contacts,
leading to false assumptions about my commitment and character. To
be clear, my absence from talkbacks yesterday was due to
me being but hurt because somebody on Facebook called me
woefully unfunny.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Any suggestion otherwise is simply untrue.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I take my job as.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
A professional talkbacker in my preparation for this show seriously.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I agree. I think you do fantastic. I let it
roll off the back man.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
Hey Fellas, it's Adam. In regards to Bengals training camp.
With all that you've seen so far, I'm wondering, what
are your two biggest players who have been a surprise
and your two biggest players who've been at disappointment?
Speaker 11 (05:42):
And do you agree that Dez should be QB two.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think there, I think he could put a little
pressure on I don't think he's QB two yet. Jake
Browning's done it in real games and shown his value.
I have been surprised pleasantly with Shamar Stewart and how quickly.
He has taken an and made an impact with this team.
I could say the same with Demetrius Night, but I
think from a surprise standpoint, I would add Dylan Fairchad
(06:07):
and what he's been able to do. From a disappointment standpoint,
Miles Murphy is up there, Patrick and Cody Ford because
neither of them seem to want to win the job
is pretty disappointing.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I was I was going to say, I was going
to say Cody Ford and Miles Murphy is my disappointments
my surprise, I guess I would say Josh Newton has
been solid, I don't know that he's been really good,
and then yeah, I think that's kind of it really
(06:46):
ToJ Brooks, although I don't know if that's much of
a surprise if you knew what he did in college.
Speaker 12 (06:53):
I'm curious what moves would you want the Bengals to
have made by now to improve then the events ton
of money into their offense. They drafted nothing but defensive players.
Are you wanting the Bengals to sign a bunch of
free agents now that you know thirty one other teams.
Speaker 11 (07:11):
Are passing on?
Speaker 13 (07:12):
Is no?
Speaker 12 (07:13):
They had a viable strategy to improve the defense.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, but they had a foot are your.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
Suggest what are you wanting them to do?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They had a full free agency period where you could
have got some of the top free agents. They had
a draft, you could have addressed it. They also still
have twenty nine million dollars in cap space. So yes,
did did did they pay T Higgins and Jamar Chase? Yes?
Did they make some I guess under the radar solid moves.
I think you can argue that as well. But it's
(07:41):
not like they have no money. They have money available.
They could have spent that money earlier in the offseason.
And I still think they could spend that money they have.
What did they tie into to TJ. Slayton five million
dollars something like that? That money, yeah, next to nothing.
We plu there were the fact of what we were
(08:03):
talking about. There were moves that they could have made
right after the season. Here are the deficiencies. We went
to a full off season, but the full free agency,
full draft, trade down, whatever you want to do. And
they're still having these same conversations. So yes, I think
there was plenty of time and money available to do it.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I think the big answer to that question is that
not all thirty one other teams have the same needs
or deficiencies of the as the Bengals do, and because
they have not been adequately able to supplement the deficiencies
of the roster here, they are needing more production from
those spots. There's a couple of examples, So Sante Samuel
(08:40):
Junior as a cornerback, Zadarias Smith as an edge rusher,
Justin Simmons as a safety. They still have cap space
to be able to make moves like this, George Fant
as a potential tackle even though he's coming off of
an injury. Rasul Douglas, a former cornerback of the Buffalo
Bill Like, there are guys out there that, if nothing else,
(09:03):
can improve the bottom of your roster and that in
turn makes you a better football team. And you have
to be able to consider that. And you know, Justin
Blackman was a name that we talked about as a
potential safety. Well, the Colts scooped him up before training
camp started. They identified a deficiency. They said, this is
(09:24):
a veteran player that we think can compete. Let's go
get him. That's the type of stuff we're talking about.
So you're not having Tyson Anderson and PJ. Jewles take
first team reps with your defense when neither one of
them you feel like are capable of doing so, and
you don't want to have to face Brian Thomas Junior
in week two and Justin Jefferson in week three.
Speaker 14 (09:44):
Yep, Tony, think about last season? How often did we
play a second third team quarterback, offensive line, defensive line
and still struggle last year to because it's preseason doesn't
mean anything.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Okay, we need better players. Yes, we agree they need
better players. They haven't got better players.
Speaker 15 (10:12):
I'll tell you the Bengals defense, you gotta squeeze that
Wrens hard. I wish they could have signed maybe a
middle of the road better in safety, but that probably
would have made too much sense. Kyle Swarvers from Middletown
need to see Korea and Bragman back in Houston like
(10:34):
the Swan's going back to Capistrano.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Salmon's salmon?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
How about that? How about that Bregman Homer Yeah launched?
Speaker 16 (10:47):
How about all the Since the three listeners do something nice,
I say, we started to fund me to send Strawberry
Chiefs back in vacation for a while. Maybe you can
take common talkbacks with him. Seriously, there's not very much
comment about you at all. I bet you like the
tick name.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Jack Strawberry cheeks man. That's mean he's a nice man
that is uncalled for. Yeah, Austin, how you guys doing today?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Where are you walking?
Speaker 13 (11:20):
And Matt McClain, they look terrible and lost at the
plate man. They're not helping this team a bit right now.
And I hope the Reds go get Sworeburn next year.
That might might give him the edge and get him
over the hump next year to get to the playoff
because it's not happening this year. Ye would dominate Jordan,
(11:42):
no doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
No, no, no, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Okay, so you did say that, though you said Jordan
might dominate Tyson in the ring.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
They got a better chance of signing freaking Babe Ruth
than Kyle schwarbur after this year. They got a better
chance of plugging me in the lineup than Kyle. Are
we at all worried about the the disappearance of any
of Ellie's power? It seems like, yeah, I mean, what's
he got no home runs in August? He had one
home run in all of July.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Again to clarify. The reason it has disappeared is because
the Reds don't want players hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You're right. They hired Chris Valaika for this reason. You're right.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
They don't want their players hitting home runs. They want
everybody to hit line drives in singles and get on base.
They are the most ass backwards operation when it comes
to roster building and their philosophy that I have ever seen.
Because they don't have power. What are they twenty first
in baseball? See their record when.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
They hit homers. It's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I mean, Barry Larkin said the quiet part out loud
when he said home runs kill rallies. That's the way
that this baseball ops department thinks. That's why Ellie's power
is gone is because they brought in a hitting coach
that is not trying to get guys to hit homers,
and they can't freaking score. They are a clueless bunch.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Hey, fellas, I had to weigh in.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
I'm one of my favorite topics boxing that Masa brought up.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Now.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
As much as I don't like Jordan's, he had a
cast of characters around him. Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr, You
name it. It was not an individual sport, so I
too would lead Mike Tyson. But with the preface before
Buster Douglas, he was basically a tomato can.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
After that, Wow, okay, Buster Douglas from I don't know Columbus.
Speaker 11 (13:42):
Oh hey, fellas, I had to weigh in when.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
Made please please no, I left. I would have left
in the rest of the game. That offense did not
produce anything for him. One run, give me a break.
I would have left him in.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Okay, Yes, it's not good. The off Bininnatti out here
is Sonny hots on it?
Speaker 17 (14:02):
What up? Tonny?
Speaker 12 (14:03):
What up?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Body?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Reds don't get swept?
Speaker 12 (14:05):
All right?
Speaker 17 (14:05):
Real talk? Bring Swarmer back. He wants to come home.
Why not give him a shot in Great America a
small part. I can see it already. Why is everybody
hating on our QB like this? I mean, the execs
know what it is unanimous. State Farm frog or State
Farm Dude won't be there forever. Joe is about to
be the man. And why is Baltimore and Pittsburgh hating
on us so much? Which one of them fans base
(14:27):
hate us the most. I don't like neither one of them.
They stink.
Speaker 18 (14:32):
If Gavin Lucks is playing outfield for Redding, Sydney or
Indian Hill High School last night with that throw, he's
out of the game instantaneously, probably doesn't play for a
couple more. I know at the beginning of the year
that Tito, possibly not so magnificent, said, oh, we're not
gonna embarrass anybody or anything. But the stuff just keeps
going on and on and on, and if you just
(14:53):
can't have any faith in this team that they're ever going.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
To do the right thing, I'm sorry to believe the
idea that there's a good old boys club with Tito
Frank that just you know what I mean, like his
guys or his.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Guys back again for a double DiPT.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
But I really don't want to blame everything on fran
Car because I you know, I don't think it's all
on him. Get it MO put it on Twitter the
other night. We're like, he has to press the perfect
buttons because there's no margin for error, and so because
of that, his mistakes are going to be magnified, and
he is going to make mistakes. But because of the
(15:27):
fact that his bosses have put together this ridiculous operation
of a team, it makes his job a lot harder.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Back again for a double dip. I believing that talk back.
Speaker 17 (15:38):
I'll walk back in, you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Know, me flexing my city.
Speaker 17 (15:41):
I'm always wearing something Cincinnati, and I run into a
guy who walks in, you know, he got all Nebraska.
He dressed in Nebraska cornhuskuld get Oh no. He was like,
are you from Cincinnati? I said, yeah, born Brandon Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
What's up? He's like, are you a Bearcat fit?
Speaker 12 (15:57):
Yes?
Speaker 17 (15:57):
I'm a Bearcat fan. We play you guys in arrow ahead.
Oh we guys going to beat you? I said, I
don't think so. Do we about to smoke you? Smoke
you come home?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
That sounded like a Nebraska fan.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Hello. Hello, this is Evan and even Dale Tony. What
channel is that huber Heights podcast on with Tanya Swift?
Sound it on back of nineteen. My nieces are big
(16:31):
fans of MS Swift, and I thought I could figure
out what the big deal is.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't have that information on hand, actually, but I'll
work to get that for you.
Speaker 19 (16:45):
Is there a chance that Snoop Dogg got all smoked
out in the green room and wound up showing up
at pay course? Stadium, looking around saying, damn, where is everybody.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
In the Since I inquired it day and Gordon Wittmeyer
had brought up going after Kyle Schwarber, so I guess
he believes in that, so I'll get Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Listen, Kyle Schwarber could march up to Nick Kral's office
today and say, I will play for this organization next
Lele Wheels falling from now until the end of my career,
and I will do it for free. And they would say, no,
thank you, we don't want guys that hit homers. Yeah,
it was our last one.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Are they going to move the walls back? You think
at all? At GBP? Maybe raised that would that.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Would cost money that raised into Nick Krawl's operating budget.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Maybe like a maybe like a chain fence.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
You wouldn't be able to get as many bibble heads
out and as many concerts. It is though, maybe they
could do some sort of a party deck it. It
is absolutely insane to me that August forty one at
bats Ellie has seven hits, one double, no triples, no home.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Runs number one. I do think he's tired coming off
a month where he had one home run. Yeah, that's unbelievable.
I'm sure he's tired. He's played every single day and
nobody would fault him for that. But also I fully
believe the way that they have and he's improved in
parts of his game. He made a great play last night.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Defensively, I think he's gotten a lot more consistent and offensively.
The walks are up, the strikeouts are down. That's all good.
But the power is gone.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Remember last year Jake Frayley, right power outage, the report
that to Duke energy, Rake Frayley, I have to call him.
Let's take a break, let's come back a quick injury
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