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September 2, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right though, let me hear you good loud, oh world.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh too ah free.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Let's listen to some talk backs left, listen to the clouds,
get me a buddant, some crack jokes. We hope those
other two diver come back out the root foot totally all.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Dophing comes close.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Show, We got hack Rony, Hello of the stars over
talk back show rats wild.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Radswell, Reds of one two in a row after losing
five in a row, going back in the wild card,
get hot.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Let's get to our talk. Yeah from Edgewood, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Come on, Jeffrey, thank you Reds for entertaining us this
entire summer. But the cool is in the air. Come
on the fall, I believe. Yeah, it's time for some.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Are you ready for the football?

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Ye all, I've been ready since February. Bengels within it
all okay, Jeff thinks you okay?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Happy too?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Is everybody hope y'all had a fantastic Labor Day weekend?
And what a weekend it was. The Bengals made a move.
My Alabama Crimson Tide guy irass Buck guys stood on
badness against the Longhorns. I don't know what's popping more
Matt Patricia's defense against arch Manning or that nipple ring
popping out of Ryan.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Day's Paulo.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Did he say my Alabama Crimson? Alabama Crimson?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Goodness, I never knew.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
I know enough about Kevin to know he's got ties
to Lexington Man and to choose another sec school feels wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Man, he might want to choose another one. To whats
going on with Kevin?

Speaker 7 (02:11):
Happy Monday on a Tuesday, guys, toim from Ross observations,
Bearcats might want to go with a belly read option
out of the shotgun. The arch Manning thing, that hype
train way overrated, incredib Ohio State's offense not overrated. Noel
d Martue, good god man, you're the sixth Noel, You're

(02:34):
not the first. Marque. It was Marque Brenneman. And Belichick
looks like he's under the hypnotic spell of the scant gum.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh Marte, that's fantastic.

Speaker 8 (02:46):
Hello, Hello, I'm quite confused when I looked at the
schedule for uh, you see Clifton it's a home game,
but it turns out they played the game in Kansas City, Missouri.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Now that's confusing too, isn't it?

Speaker 8 (03:11):
Kansas City and Kansas anyway.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why can you explain why.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
I unfortunately cannot. It's because Cincinnati took the check.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Come on, money on, Tony.

Speaker 9 (03:23):
That's a really nice.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
It seems to me that at times the Bearcats value
money more than winning.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Take the money and run, Tony.

Speaker 9 (03:30):
That's a really nice picture of you and the Kelsey
brothers looking good. Here's your daily reminder that if the
Bengals lose Week one at Cleveland, everyone gets fired, starting
with Zach Taylor. Keep the offensive coordinator though, start bench
cut Bengals offensive line, Bengals defense, old guys at the gym,

(03:54):
in the locker room. But Nick and having a conversation,
what is that.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
I'm going to out the old guy. Yep, they're out.
I'm gonna bench the Bengals defense. I'm gonna start the
offensive line. I'll swap the defense in the old line.
But guys in the gym are cut. Also, he always
talks about how he likes the Bengals offensive coordinator, but
he doesn't know does Hello.

Speaker 10 (04:15):
This is former President Ronald Reagan with a Rank College
Football edition.

Speaker 11 (04:21):
Arch manning Alabama, Bill Belichick.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
I'm gonna go Belichick manning Bama I still believe in Belichick.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay, so I'll go.

Speaker 12 (04:36):
Bama Belichick Manning, it's the Lord on a Tuesday. All
these new free agents, thanks goodness here. So what do
you think the chances of us signing Gabrill Peppers are?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh? I hope not. Oh.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Let me tell you something about Jabil Pepers in Michigan.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Man sinks.

Speaker 13 (04:56):
I know he's of high value. Stinks. I know he's
a guy that leads us life right way. And I've
got two thoughts today. Am I alone and not liking
Pat McAfee? I mean, I'm Tony Pike size maybe a
little bigger.

Speaker 14 (05:07):
And why you have a douchey little kicker and his
douchey little sidekick with a Guyeliner acting like tough guys?
Is just and Tony Austin What we saw out of
Brendan soresb Is he really that bad? Or is it
the environment? First game? Jitters? What's going on.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
With this kid?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, that's what Week two is for. We get to
find out against Bowling Gruddy.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
It's gonna be tougher against BEG than it was against Nebraska.
I can promise you that.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
If that's the case, it's gonna be a long, long
college football year.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
I have I have moments with McAfee. It just depends
on what side of the bed I wake up on.
Sometimes I'm like, he's really entertaining and he's really funny, and.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
I works his tailoff. Man works for college game day.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
And then there's other times it's like, dude, just give
it a rest for a second.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Read the room.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I will not quite he works his tail off. He
does multiple different ventures he does.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Like I was surprised to see him at North Carolina
last year, and I thought, because that's a different venue,
he's not in front of a bunch of college kids,
he's not playing to a crowd. I thought he was
really good and even asked Dick Saban some good questions.
Uh So, Like in that moment, I was like, yes,
that can That's more of what I want out of Pat.
But I know other people choose to view him and

(06:22):
tune into him for a different reason.

Speaker 10 (06:25):
Yeah, you would think the Bengals cant handled four and
a half at Cleveland, but it's we always start slow.
Like you said, Cleveland gets psyched up to play us
good pass rush. We just need to escape with the
w Shout out to Lee Corso, lovely Corso, and with
the gambling perspective, I think bowling green plus twenty one

(06:49):
and a half sounds pretty good.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
You might want to put the mortgage on that killing
h Yeah, that's disgusting. Emilio Pagan should be immediately demoted.
He should be the first guy out of the bullpen.

Speaker 15 (07:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (07:04):
I could win by the Reds yesterday. Yeah, gone, cannot
touch the ballmore.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
I think I has saves against Council week teams with
three run leagues.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
He can't. He can't pitch the night.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
You might be wondering why did Austin randomly bring up
Amelia Pagan. It was because I had read that talkback
in my head. It was reacting to it something that
was just sticking in your crawl. I was like, man, okay,
prior to me actually playing the talkbacks, apologies.

Speaker 17 (07:38):
Is back, let's go.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Fantasy football is back.

Speaker 17 (07:45):
Everybody, good luck this year, and a friendly reminder. Nobody,
and I mean nobody gives a damn about your fantasy
football team. Good luck and hoot egg.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
I don't understand how that narrative is constantly pushed that
nobody cares about your fantasy football team, and yet people
still well bloviate about their fantasy football team. They live
on every ass hackens all the time. Now Ton, you
and I were in a fantasy league together for the
last several years.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah you bounced. Yeah? Why uh?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I found myself on Sundays not even enjoying the fantasy
aspect of it because I was playing in like four
leagues and then I was doing like a daily or
a weekly fantasy. Like I'm just gonna cut down. I'm
doing a family league. I'm gonna cut down on the
fantasy leagues this year and just try to enjoy the
games and more.

Speaker 18 (08:42):
I've been to seven Reds games this year. Okay, the
Reds are seven and oh my goodness, I was at
both games. Was that both games? But gone blew the
game in the ninth and they came back and won.
Starting to think I need to call off work to
started toning some Reds games. Maybe them make the playoffs. Well,
if you need any anyway, go Reds, Go Lanswers.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh Lancers real deep?

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
If you need any advice, just bring Maso in the ville.
He could talk to you about getting out of work.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah, no kidding, I gotta have a job. It was
on vacation last year. Working today, you're talking about the
Skyline Chili shuffle. I was already This is how my
mind works over the weekend, thinking about a tweet for
next opening day. Oh, like, and the Skyline Chili shuffer. Like,
I put that in the back. They need to make
that hard I put that in the folder for twenty

(09:32):
twenty six.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
They need to make that harder.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
Yeah, they do, especially when you see somebody miss one,
Especially when you've seen the NAPA Auto Parts cap shuffle
at Truest Park and your eyes go crossed after you're
finished watching it.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yes, that's what I want. Bella's Ryan Vyell Springs.

Speaker 19 (09:48):
Love seeing Noelvie Marte leader on this team, bring this
dub home, keep this season alive. Last night college football
last week.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
You know me, Buckeye fan was kind of a new
fresh start this year.

Speaker 19 (10:01):
Was excited to cheer on the Bearcats, kind of standing
shoulder to shoulder with us buck eyes ready to be
at the front of the sport pretty close.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
But didn't happen anyway.

Speaker 19 (10:10):
Ohio State gets dub at home against the number one
team in the country. All anybody wants to talk about
is how bad Archie is not.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Ryan v doubledp I.

Speaker 19 (10:19):
As an Ohio State fan, have not seen that aggressive
of a defensive game plan ever. And Matt Patricia, my guess,
would be probably a one year higher at Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
He'll be back in the league next year.

Speaker 19 (10:32):
But if we're not just doing four down linemen like
Larry Johnson has wanted to do for the last couple
of decades, and we're actually building game plans, play to
play to make it hell on the opposing offense, watch out, folks.
Buckeys are back. Also sunny styles, ar bel ree elite.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Wow. Yeah, Larry Johnson is not a popular cat in Columbus.
We're going to talk some college football here to kick
off the third hour.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
I'm still teased for that segment. I'm not sold on
Matt Patricia.

Speaker 20 (11:02):
Still repping my city out here, Tony. What up, body man?
The Red stole that game yesterday. Pretty impressive. Gotta win
the series, and you better hope the Mets lose day series.
If that happens, then we're talking Bengals, real talk. Go
up to Cleveland and smack them clowns.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Have no excuses.

Speaker 20 (11:19):
Four point Nah, It's more like seventeen were blowing that
team out, Tony.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I feel you, bro were blowing that team out.

Speaker 20 (11:25):
Everybody picking Baltimore and Pittsburgh over Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
They smoking at you know what, it's our season? Who
they here?

Speaker 19 (11:31):
You?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I hear you? Come on, Ronnie, ron.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Do you want to hear a crazy Red stat Please?
Always love statistics. Hold on, I guess see if I
can find it. I saved it earlier, but now here
it is. This is from Joel luckums a right, Joel.
The Reds win Sunday was their first win this season,
win trailing by multiple runs in the ninth inning or later.
They had been zero to forty nine prior to that win.

(11:58):
I believe that their last such came on August twenty ninth,
twenty twenty four, when the A's scored three in the
top of the ninth and the Reds scored three in
the bottom of the ninth. About that's almost a year
to the day.

Speaker 16 (12:12):
How about that good afternoon fellas tough loss for the
Bearcats on Thursday. I didn't leave a talk back on
Friday hours A little to hurt, but thankfully I got
to watch Arch Swordsby line up against Julian Sowarsby on Saturday,
she's running it back.

Speaker 21 (12:28):
Oh my, hey, Tony A Austin Steve down here in Parkland, Florida.
You know, Steve just listening sounds crazy at a Redding
football game. Sounds like you got some die hard fans
show up before the game. Get crazy. I think you
gotta call him the Dinga Lings.

Speaker 11 (12:46):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I like that. We go back again before I doubled up.
Oh man, that lead off triple. I swear.

Speaker 20 (12:54):
I mean they you want to call yourself a playoff team,
you have to get their runner across situation. Little hitting
is a problem for Rids. Just embarrassing. Like I said,
steal the series and then we'll take it from there.
Uh you see football, naw, dude, you ain't off the hook.
Coach Scott, whoever you want to call it, I can
get his name right. Even if you do beat Bowling
Green or whatever, we already know you can't do this

(13:14):
against the big dogs.

Speaker 9 (13:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
I see hot. I'm making sure stay hot. Coach scant Ronnie, ron.

Speaker 15 (13:20):
Hey, Audie, and Tony. This is Gina. I have two comments.
One Red's one Bengals. When they reversed that call last night,
I was like, Okay, we're done.

Speaker 11 (13:29):
We're gonna lose.

Speaker 19 (13:31):
That's our luck.

Speaker 15 (13:32):
And then when they came back and won that game,
I was like, maybe this could be the time that
kicks off UH and gets the playoffs. And then with
the Bengals, I watched the listener to the program this morning,
but you know what, AI picked the Bengals, and.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I think I liked us being the underdog.

Speaker 15 (13:49):
So who did.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Allen iverson on the show? The Truth?

Speaker 11 (13:52):
One of my least favorite things about answer and follow up.

Speaker 22 (13:55):
BES fans is the overreaction and us jumping the gun
on every time there's a free agent available or if
there's a cap casualty and the Bengals should sign him,
The Bengals should sign.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
This guy, that guy. I think it's very overdone.

Speaker 22 (14:10):
However, having said that, who would you rather have on
the Bengals?

Speaker 11 (14:14):
Justin Simmons or Jabriel Peppers?

Speaker 22 (14:17):
I don't think either is very realistic at this point,
But who would you pick given the choice?

Speaker 23 (14:24):
Yeah, I'm hearing what this last guy is saying about
that they should make the playoffs if Borrow plays also,
but would.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Anybody be surprised if they didn't? I wouldn't surprised they
didn't make the playoffs.

Speaker 23 (14:35):
I mean, we saw this same story last year and
they're pretty much running it back this year.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Why would we be surprised.

Speaker 23 (14:42):
There's a reason why a lot of people are out
on them because they they've invested so much money in
a quarterback, in two receivers. I mean, receivers is not
as important as what the Bengals are trying to act
like it is.

Speaker 24 (14:54):
Sure, Hi, Tony and A hope you had a great weekend. Man,
what a fast summer.

Speaker 9 (15:02):
You know what.

Speaker 24 (15:03):
I think the Reds are cooked. That's okay. I'm so
ready for the Bengals, so ready, been ready since they
finished their last game last year. So, Mardy Laurie, I
hope we have a great season. So looking forward to it.
All right, you guys who day, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
You're standing at an intersector. You're standing outside for that.

Speaker 22 (15:28):
Whether or not the Bengals do sign one of those safeties,
I do want to give them flowers because they got
the job done this offseason. Talked about Trey Forever and
Shamar Stewart. They're signed, picked up Fan Reisner, panel and
all those guys in the early window of free agency.
So I am happy with how things have gone. Bengals

(15:51):
front office has done nicely.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Okay, Austin to Ryan, I'm out of Milford.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
What Zach Burrow combination.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
That'd be a crazy quarterback owner if he'd be any good.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Great walk off of the Reds yesterday. It's cool to
have south Stewart up.

Speaker 16 (16:10):
Man.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
He brings some energy to that team one game at
a time.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Guys, come on, Reds. I just think that's the most
peaceful walk. Yeah, Joe did accidentally say Zach Burrow.

Speaker 22 (16:24):
What a weekend.

Speaker 12 (16:25):
The Reds are starting to show some life.

Speaker 22 (16:28):
Ke Brian Hayes is looking like a great trade and
looks like he could be a pretty good option for.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Us moving forward.

Speaker 11 (16:35):
Hunter Green owned yesterday that first inning.

Speaker 22 (16:39):
That double play was the biggest change in the minium
last could not least.

Speaker 11 (16:45):
What is your take on Vallis check and n.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
It's hard to watch, hard to watch, man, there are
so many takes. We're gonna do a college football segment
at the start of hour three. We're gonna get a
lot into that. We're done, all right, we gotta get
a break in. That was fantastic. Thank you so much
for the talkbacks. We'll finish up our number two when
we get back since he three to sixty Thanks to
Cincy Shirts, thanks for listening on the Home of the
Bengals ESPN fifteen to thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 26 (17:28):
Season openers have not been kind to the Bengals in
recent years. Cincinnati has lost the first game of the
season each of the last three years. Can they finally
start the season on the right foot well for the
second time in three years.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
The Bengals will open the season in.

Speaker 26 (17:42):
Cleveland, where the Bengals beat the Browns last October. In
that game, Cleveland quarterback Deshaun Watson suffered an injury, sending
the Browns into another search for a quarterback. Cleveland remade
its quarterback room this offseason, drafting two of them, including
Shadora Sanders, who will be behind center for the Browns
in the opener, And regardless of which quarterback they face,

(18:02):
Can the Bengals start the season by proving that their
defense will be dramatically better than last season, and can
they start the year with a win for the first
time since twenty twenty one. It will be the Bengals
and Browns to start the season in Cleveland on Sunday,
September seventh.

Speaker 25 (18:17):
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