Cincy 360 w/ Tony Pike & Austin Elmore -- 10/3/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
It is the Friday Football Frenzy. Welcome in Cinty three
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or the Cincinnati Bearcats now look to carry the city.
Carry the city tomorrow with a win over Iowa State
fourteenth ranked Iowa State. That's not why we're excited Austin.
How would you best describe today's set up for the show?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
An oasis?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Perched atop a beautiful neighborhood. I mean, I can get
used to this. I'm just don't get too used to it.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I can tell you that right now.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
It'd be the best three hours of my life. Here
at the at Foundry Park at three Oaks, Omerama, twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
This is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
There's an elevator in this house.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
There's an elevator.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
If that tells you, that tells you everything you need
to know.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
There's a golf simulator.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
There's a golf simulator. There's an elevation. I think Eminem
wrote a lyric about an elevator in his house. This
is the time, this is goodtime stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
We're perched on this rooftop right now, perched and the
only thought I'm having is how many homes could be
reached with a football right now? A lot of other
rooftops here in the vicinity. I'm wondering how many we
could reach. Plenty of space here for you to get
a running star. I not, we don't need a running star.
You're not gonna no, You're not gonna grow baseball. We're
not crow hopping into a cast.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
You throw one and then your elbows shot. So you're
gonna need a little bit of a running star.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Our good friends at Pella when we got here today,
gifted us a baseball bat.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
These are amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's got the Pella logo, it's got the whole Marama logo.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yellow Louisville slugger.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
And I knew right when I picked it up it
didn't feel like the thirty two ounce that I was
used to. This is a thirty four, which makes it
a little bit different. I don't know if I could
get around if Hunter Green was tipping his pitches, If
I could get this bat around on his fastballs, I
think I probably could. But I guarantee if Wade Miley
was throwing one in there, this back could be put
to good use.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Based off the way Nick Martinez performed, I could probably
get off get one.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Off of him Nick Martinez.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Nick martinezh the top option for the Reds.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, yes, the guy who they went to when Nick
Ldolo struggled through those fourteen pitches.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm told that if needed, Andrew Abbott could pitch today
for the Reds.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
If needed. Well, that's a good thing. They saved him.
I thought maybe that hadn't at Homarramaeda, Dad, you know
he might be. He's putting on a demonstration of Hey,
if you need me, this is what I can do.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
He does look like a guy who would build homes. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I bet he could get.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Chase Burns available. Can he get a bullpen in today?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
He threw thirteen pitches.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm still baffled. I am too that the Red season
came to an end after we spent the whole second
half of the season discussing, Man, if only the Reds
get in, they're so dangerous because of their starting pitching,
and then none of their starting pitching outside of Hunter Green,
who tipped his pitches yeah, was utilized in the biggest
series of the year in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Twenty seven combined pitches between Chase Burns, Andrew Abbott, Nicolodolo,
and Emilio Pagan, who oh pitched pretty good down the stretch,
even though I have historically not been a huge fan
of his. It's just twenty seven pitches from those guys.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Remarkable.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Out of one of those guys pitching the All Star Game.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
We built our whole season on get in and the
pitching gives you a chance against anybody.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
What do you think is the first domino to fall
for the Reds this offseason?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh boy, because we've already.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Seen like it was black Monday in Major League Baseball
the other day. We didn't get to it because we
were so excited about the Reds.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, but football Rocco ball.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Delien fired and Don Kelly is staying with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
He turned them around in the second half, like there's
been a lot of moves already. I think that's something
if we have time today to talk about what and
who are we sure of for this team going into
next year? Because I actually saw Willie Cunningham, of all people,
Oh I'm sorry to hear that, he tweeted about sports
and asked for the Cincinnati Reds, what players at their

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current position are locks for next year? Are you locked
into Matt McClain at second You shouldn't be. Are you
locked into Ellie at shortstop?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
You probably are?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Or are you thinking about Ellie in the outfield?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I don't think so. I think the whole idea of
Ellie going to the outfield was predicated on the idea
that Matt McClean would play short stop. Are you locked
into a third baseman? Yes, key, Brian Hayes be locked
into a first baseman. I don't think they are.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
I know Tyler Stevenson's a catcher. Yeah, I don't know
how you lock in to where the outfield will pan
out to. There are just a lot of questions and
there's also concerns with this Reds team, all which we'll
get to this afternoon. Charlie Goldsmith will join us at
one o'clock. We have to talk about Bengals the Lions

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on Sunday. We have to talk about it. I think
it would be good to talk a little bit about it.
We're gonna talk about the Bearcats and the Cyclones tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I know I'm going out on a limb here, but
I just get a really good feeling about the Bengals.
And I'm not saying they're gonna win.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Where we're feel when we are perched the top right now,
I feel like the foundation is very strong.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Maybe the oxygen that I'm not getting oxygen in my head.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
The foundation you're standing on right now would not hold.
I will though they could not possibly play worse, so
if my well, I thought that after Minnesota, if that
is that they will play better than they.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Have the last two weeks, Okay, I mean that's not crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right, So let's let's start with that. So if
you're thinking of this team finding success on Sunday, what
does that look like for you covering the spread? Uh?
Not getting beat by double digits? Correct? Okay, that's that's
week five, and that's where we're starting over.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
That's what I said on Tuesday after the game that
the expectations now shifted.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Six weeks ago we were talking about Super Bowl aspirations
for the back ten and a half point spread.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
How could it possibly be about winning without Joe Burrow?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Speaking of point spreads, there's a spread that's going up.
Bearcats now two and a half point favorites. Yeah, tomorrow noon.
Dante Corleone's trending half Yes, Corleon's trending in the right direction.
There is a litany I think I'm using that term correctly,
mail injury questions for Iowa State. Uh, Knippert Stadium sold out.

(07:01):
It's gonna be fantastic. Yeah. I cannot wait for the
atmosphere tomorrow and what that can mean for this team
going forward because I think they beat UCF. I think
they beat Oklahoma State. There's a big Hall of Fame
induction happening on the same time as the Baylor game homecoming.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
When is that October twenty fifth. How can people get tickets?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Go Bearcats? Dot counts last tickets. I'm told that those
tickets are free free ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Should we pack? Is it a fifth third Arena?

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Pack?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Fifth third Arena?

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Should we pack? Fifth third Arena?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Now, if you want to be part of the BBOs
VIP sixties, there's a VIP ceremony for one hundred dollars
undred American. Yep, that's not that bad. That's food and drinks.
Do we get to meet? You get to mingle with
all the Hall of famers? Oh? And then it is
just seating inside Fifth Third Arena for the event and
the tickets are free. I might just have to show up.
It should be fantastic. But there's a lot in front

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of the Cincinnati Bearcats. Major League Baseball last night. Wow,
some good stuff happening. One because the Cleveland Guardians are
longer in the playoffs. Yes, they were bounced by the
Detroit Tigers. The Cubs hang on in what might have
been the most poorly umpired game I can remember watching.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I cannot wait for ABS next year.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I've never seen a team. Did you see that? The
scenes when the Umps were leaving the field and I
couldn't tell if that was AI or not, but it
looked real.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
It looked real, And I don't blame them for being upset.
How bad that was. That was the worst umpired game
I've seen in a long long time. And for that
to happen in the postseason.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, and how about Cam Schlittler, karaast Night Schlittler, I said, slitter, slitter,
there's an l in there. Yeah, there's an Elphy end Yeah,
gas dude just throwing BB's. You want to talk about
a moment not being too big for somebody, Yeah, as
a rookie to go into Yankee Stadium in an elimination

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game against the Boston Red Sox and do what he did.
First pitcher in postseason history to go eight or more innings,
twelve or more, strikeout, zero walks, the list is him. Yeah,
and last night he was him.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
And he it was so cool to see him like
completely embrace the moment. Yeah, like he was soaking it
all in he was talking trash. He was saying f
Boston on the way off the field. He was tweeting
at people this morning saying not this year for the
Boston Red Sox. There was a point that mentality you
have to be a psycho. Yeah, you have to be.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I want that for my picture on a mound in
a big game. Absolutely. I don't want to shy away
from that. Yeah, there was a point last night, like
he was coming off the field in the sixth and
I think people were wondering do they rock with him?
Then he came out in the seventh and you see
like the back and forth with Aaron but on the
bench and he said, well he's doing strikes. Yeah, let's
keep him in. Goes out there and finishes the eighth inning.
What a performance in a big time moment.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
You're exactly right, though, Like that's what you want out
of your picture in the biggest moments. Like I always
think back to that game Chase Burns in the College
World Series. Yeah, uh, it might have been the Super
Regional against Southern Mississippi where he comes in and just
goes crazy and then coming off the field is having
an out of body experience.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I can't wait for more of that with Chase Burns
in the future. If when they make the postseason he's
allowed to pitch, that's.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Also a good question. And I don't wanted to pile
on to the Reds. Why not, But we didn't see
that from Hunter Green when he took the mound as
our ace. No, the moment felt too big. Yes, he
needed to gather himself. He's bouncing balls, he's missing the
strike zone. If there's one thing Cam did last night,
he attacked the zone. He said, here comes a fastball,

(10:37):
Do with it what you want. And Boston had no
answer for it all night. But it's that mentality of
here we come, here comes a fastball, do something with it.
He wasn't scared of one hitter in the Boston lineup,
and that's a good Boston lineup. Also, last night, I
witnessed Mac Jones on essentially austin one leg with out

(11:01):
Ricky Piersoll. No, he wasn't there. Brandon Ayuk gone, Juwan
Jennings hurt, missing their left guard Ben Bart, George Kittle hurt,
all those players on offense, backup quarterback against a team
that people in Los Angeles think can be a Super
Bowl contender in the Rams. Yeah, San Francisco won and

(11:21):
they were effective offensively. Yeah, how's that happened?

Speaker 3 (11:24):
It's a great question.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
It's a great quest.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I mean, they were just so prepared in every single
part of their game plan. Obviously, you still lean on
a guy like Fred Warner when you're hurt in that situation,
you still was Christian McCaffrey on your defense.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Was McCaffrey a focal point? Yeah, so the best player
you have available.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, and even if if you look at it from
the Rams perspective, like they're trying to take away Christian McCaffrey, right,
because that's all they have. And so Kendrick Bourne was
a big part of offense. He wasn't born again last night,
especially over the middle of the field repeatedly with those
deep dig routes over the over the middle of the
field against the Los Angeles Rams. But you know, Kyle

(12:04):
Shanahan does this all the time. His teams start really,
really good and then there are there's a moment in
the game where it starts to wane, it starts to
go the other direction, and Sean McVay smelled blood. They
get down to the one yard line, Kyrin Williams fumbles
and you know game's not over. They still have all
three timeouts. They get the ball back, they're right back
in position to do it again, and they go for

(12:26):
it fourth and one on a terrible run play the
way Matthew Stafford was dealing. Why do you take the
ball out of.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
His hands on the biggest play of the game, there's no.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
You still have pooka naka Yeah, with Adams pooka nakula.
Matthew Stafford, you you handed it off.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
One of the first times I ever looked and questioned
Sean McVay. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Absolutely. I did not love that from him at all.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah. FC Cincinnati. We don't get a chance to talk
to Tommy g today. He's traveling, but they got a
big one.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
His arms are gonna be tired.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
New York Red Bulls, whooba gonna be able to play
a little bit ahead of schedule? Are we right before
the postseason? Are we ignoring them too much?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
I don't know that we're ignoring them as much as
they just kind of fall, you know, with everything that's
going on, Like the Reds, normally they'd be dead.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
We're not talking about the rest.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
We'd be talking about them by now, but they they
obviously demanded some more of the headlines. But it's also
with f C Cincanni. It's different because they've clenched the
postseason a month ago and the postseason doesn't start for
another three weeks. So it's just kind of, you know,
figured out, get healthy. The supporter shield really is is not.
I don't think a possibility after the last weekend's result.

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So it's just play well, get some momentum going into
the postseason, figure out the seeding.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I am so looking forward to, uh everything for today.
We have Charlie Goldsmith, We've got We've got picks picks today.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I have not given any thought to picks, all right,
but last week I gave a lot of thought and
I performed poorly.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Sydney at Greenville Tonight, Sidney.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Varus Greenville homecoming for the Yellow Jacks. Chance for Sidney
to get their first win. This is our chance. If
it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen tonight. It's tonight, and
so I'm probably I'm just gonna tell you right now,
I'm gonna pick the Sidney Yellow Jackets, and I'm gonna
take the tailor yellowjackets, because from my understanding, you're having
a hard time coming up with a pregame speech, and

(14:20):
who knows what's gonna come out of your mouth talking to.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
The R I would say fire mostly, and you're gonna
see a team play inspire tonight.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I can't imagine that whatever you say is going to
help them win. So and then the other thing is
the good folks at Pella gave us these baseball bats.
And do you notice the color here?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
And they're blacka it's not a Steelers thing.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
That's the tailor yellow jackets in the Sydney yellow jackets
and windows.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
We're going all right off this balcony. Then, doesn't you.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Think they'd get mad at us if we tested out
some Pellow windows with these baseball bats.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Some moneys he looks happening right now.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
I have total faith in the windows.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, total faith pelling all and you could pay later. Yeah,
it's true.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
I might might be paying a lot if I take
these baseball beds.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
We are, we're just getting started. We've got a ton
to go between now and three o'clock here at home. Rama.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Also, I gotta say thank you to our guys Tarren
Bland for getting up early today to produce today's show. Yeah,
Bland normally in bed right now.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Big weekend for Taron Bland too. Smackdowns in town. He
Bland back at the studio, came in early Saren said
to smack down the night. Yeah. Now you know what
they're doing in the Big Twelve. They're partnering with WWE.
I saw this. So this is a thing that's happening
all throughout the year where the cities that are hosting
Big Twelve games the next day, they get smacked down

(15:46):
the night before. Uh huh, so SmackDown tonight, Bearcats tomorrow
are so are there? Angelo Dawkins will be in the
in the building.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I heard Ricky Chino interviewing Angelo Dawkins. They went to
high school together. People forget it. So Fairfield High School
has produced two elite names in the wrestling community, rick
Ricky Gino and Angelo Dawkins.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, Angelo got a sweet custom you see.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Uh, Jersey, is he gonna be like flipping the coin
or something tomorrow? Are they gonna There's gotta be some
sort of part.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Listen. If they don't just give away those honors to
flip a coin to anybody? Why not? All right? I
don't flipping one tonight. I'm flipping one tonight. And those
just aren't handed to anybody that has Angela Dawkins, aren't it. Yeah,
he's in the W something www or whatever they could
or whatever it is. That's that's what's happening.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Nobody knows what the hell is going on.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
We're gonna be right back. What are we gonna do
on the break here? I don't know. I'm gonna get
into something. Can I get in this elevator and get
a couple of swings in in the basement you might
get back from break.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I might just ride the elevator up and down during
the commercial breaks.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
How many times you can go tough?

Speaker 3 (16:52):
I didn't get to ride one today.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
I didn't. I didn't either. I didn't find out about
the elevator. So I got up here. Yeah, beautifully crafted.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
I was walking up the steps and I was thinking,
I'm not gonna be able to go downstairs and come
back up these.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Do you know what I've noticed about the steps? They're stirty? Yeah,
they are very star You could tell you you're walking
on a sturdy step.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Up here on the rooftop. My favorite color green, this
like dark green.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's beautiful. Yeah, I get that. I think these are
heaters built in up here. This is awesome. It doesn't beat.
You can't beat there.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
You have to carry me out of here.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm not leaving going right over there? Do I have squatters?

Speaker 6 (17:25):
Right?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
So I'm not leaving. This is ours now. This is
the daily spot for since e three to sixty, now
and in the future. Yeah, the Friday Football Friends on
ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
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Speaker 7 (17:44):
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Speaker 2 (18:02):
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Speaker 3 (18:10):
I got something that's bothering me now. You know we
got striped the Jungle this weekend. Yeah, that's an exciting thing. Yeah,
that's fun for the fans, right, you know it's supposed
to look cool on TV and it's listening. There's gonna
be a lot of Lions fans, right, It's gonna be
a lot of Honolulu Blue.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
But have you seen this movement by people that are
trying to get people to not do stripe the jungle. Oh,
but to bag the jungle. Oh no, not not the
paper bags. Listen, we have not fallen that far.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Not the paper bags. Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
That is disrespectful, I think to the guys that are
on the team.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, this team is not.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
As nearly as atrocious as maybe when the brown paper
bags were understandable many years ago. We have not fallen
that far. To do that, I think is reach. It's
early in the season for that, way too early to
be doing that now. If this team is like major overreact,
If this team's two and fourteen.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Maybe things are, it would be a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Maybe things are different, But it's not that embarrassing to
be a Bengals fan. Not right now. It's way too
Why can't we just have something nice?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know you people trying to bag the Jungle.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Not the only stadium, not the only stadium that's striping
the stands this weekend. I saw that Bearcats are doing
it as well. Right, I think it's gonna look good.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
It'd be a good weekends Cincy.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I think network's gonna be looking good. Yeah, you got
an extra ticket for that game. I don't know. All right, well,
I see if I can work it into my new
my deals. Thanks, man, I just gotta get paid with
maybe tickets soundstead of something. I think you should get
paid just in general for the work that you That
would be a heck of a thing.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
I think if we paid people for jobs that.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
They do, that would be a good thing. What a concept.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, the way I see it is if you do
a job, you should get paid for it.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
That is I thought this country's built on Yeah, supposed
to be. That's what I thought. Yeah, we are here
at a home around.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
This place is so cool.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Thanks to our friends at Pella Windows and Doors. We're
at the Heritage Home.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
I got people text me saying send me a pick.
I said, come out. Yeah, we're here.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, the Heritage Building Group and associates. We're gonna talk
to Ethan at the end of the show today as well.
Another bear Cat Yeah, former bearcat. Yeah knows what he's talking.
He knows how to handle a baseball bat too. Yeah,
so I don't he.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Would strike your ass out, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, what I thought was what is unique was he
was handed a bat, but they put his in a case. Yeah,
which I'm worried. Baby. They don't want him just having
the bat. They have to keep the case locked around him. Yeah.
So they didn't give him a key. If you noticed,
he can't get out. Yeah. Yeah, so I am. I'm
excited to talk to Ethan today.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I have some people that are touring now. I wonder
what they're thinking. Who are these people?

Speaker 2 (20:54):
They're coming up these stairs, like what is going on?
Does this like do we come with the home? That's
what they're wondering. And if the price is right, The
answer is yes. We'll be here every Friday if you like. Yeah,
access on weekends to the golf simulator in the basement.
It is Uh, it's gonna be fantastic. We'll talk more

(21:16):
about what's going on here uh this afternoon. But if
you do make it out to uh to Home a Rama,
you got to stop by the pellabooth because if you
stop by the pellabooth, you can register to win Bengals
tickets for this Sunday against the Lions. So you got
Bengals Lions tickets. No, we're only eligible to win this

(21:38):
home Yes, all right, that was telling me earlier. Whatever
he says goes uh today. So let's say that we
won the home. Yeah, would you let me live in it? Absolutely?
Would we be roommates? No, right where we're stationing right now? Yeah,

(21:58):
this would be your floor. Yeah, that'd be kind of cool. Yeah.
I think there's a wet bar back there. Yeah, there's
a bathroom back and maybe sit the kids for you. Perfect. Yeah,
these walls are high enough you just let them run
around up here. You don't have to worry about anything.
We could baby proof this baby in a heartbeat. Yeah,
we're good. How do the Bengals keep this close on Sunday?

Speaker 3 (22:20):
If you score more points in the Lions, you'll be fine.
Good start, I think pick up a couple first downs,
like it's it's the bar is that low?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
We're going to the basic drive. I love this.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
The last two weeks, the opening drive has been okay. Minnesota,
they didn't play good. Yeah, but I think back to
like Jacksonville was okay, Cleveland it was okay, Denver. It
was even an okay drive kind of got derailed at
the end. Can you do that for more than one drive?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Please? If you do it again and you get inside
the fifteen fourth and short, you gotta go for it. Yeah, absolutely,
especially because of the opponent. Correct, The opponent is the
biggest thing. I think there's a tone that can be
set going for a fourth down early, not just for offense,
but hey, if we don't get this, we trust our defense.
Jamar Chase used the term this week fire and anger

(23:10):
from this team. Jamar Chase wants more fire and anger.
It got me thinking, that's really not Zach Taylor. No,
it's not. He's not a fiery guy. He's not the
angry I'm gonna yell guy. Do they have that guy
on this on this team?

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I don't know if they do. Do they have on
the coaching that guy thought it was? I thought it
was Ted Carris, but I don't know if he is.
And it's also hard if you're.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Ted to be that guy when your production's lacking correct,
come on, guys, wake up and they're looking at you saying, well,
you you do something?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It to me, it basically has to be Jamar Chase.
Who else could it be?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Right?

Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's not really Tease, it's personality. Although he reminds me
a lot of an Aj Green in the sense of
when he doesn't speak often, but when he does it
should carry a Logan Wilson, Yeah, I would you would
think he's the longest tenured player not named Drew Sample.
I don't think Drew Sample is that guy, like the
longest tenured Bengal.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't feel like his his new decordinator, Al Golden
is a raw rock guy.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Frank Pollack was that he's gone. Mark Goffner was that
he's gone.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
So the guys that you've had to do that aren't there, right,
you don't really have it in your OH and D coordinator,
And that's lacking on the roster. And I think it's
important that Jamar Chase said this week we need more
fire and anger. We need to play with that, yeah,
because I think that's been lacking.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
And maybe two is like there's this buttoned up kind
of persona around the entire team, and Jamar going up
to Zach on national television the other night and kind
of hashing it out. Maybe that opens the door for
people to say, Okay, I can't be afraid to be myself.
I can't be afraid to get on one another, like,
clearly this isn't good enough. And Ted Carriss said this
week that there have been some difficult conversations had the meeting,

(25:00):
which that's good. I think it starts with that, but also,
can you get each other fired up on the sideline.
I don't know how much that, you know affects everybody's different.
If I was on the sideline, if I wasn't playing
well and you came up to me and you just
ripped me a new one, that would not help me
become a better football player, right, some guys it would.
It's about understanding the personalities of what people. You've told

(25:22):
stories before about.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Brian Kelly, people were very critical. I responded to that
though I would rather him jump down my throat and
get on me then just kind of hey, get back
to the sideline other people, But you have to know
the team to figure out how you do that. And
I wonder if they have that, and if they do,

(25:44):
how if they don't, how do they get that because
that just doesn't happen all right. Sorry, I don't have
a dump, but medical.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I especially think it's it's interesting when you look at
Dan Campbell right across the way, Yeah, and he has
almost made it to where like you don't have a
choice but to respond to that in Detroit, and you know,
it's the other part of like kind of circling back
to the idea of being aggressive and going for it,
and you know Dan's gonna do that the entire time.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
And I think what's what's interesting about this matchup among
the teams that the Bengals have played, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Minnesota,
and Denver. Which of those teams has the best defense?
Cleveland probably, and then Denver, yeah, and then Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Minnesota makes it tough because of Flora, sure, and then Jacksonville. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Does Detroit have a better defense than any of those
four teams.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I think they present more problems than Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Okay, I don't know if I would agree with that.
I think Hutchinson is a huge problem. He is, but
I think Branch in the secondary.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
But I think they've been again you factor in a
new decordinator that it takes a little bit of time
with that. I thought early in the season they were
a disa but watching them and what they did against
and I know it's against the Browns, so it's hard
to take it just felt like a confident group. Ravens
put up thirty on them, but Ravens with Lamar Jackson

(27:11):
were scoring a lot of points. It's it's also hard
to be a top defense when the offense is so
electric like they are, because you're out there a lot.
You know, you score fifty two in a game against
the Bears, you give up twenty one. It's hard because
your offense is scoring, the opponent is out there a lot.
I think they're getting better. I don't think they're better

(27:32):
than Minnesota. I don't think they're better than Cleveland. I
don't think they're better than Denver defensively. But I do
think you should be able to move the ball exactly.
That's my point.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
And if we go back to the very beginning of
this conversation, the bare minimum, how can you be a
little bit better move the football, sustain some drives, score points.
They should be able to do that. They should, at
the bare minimum, be able to run the football more effectively.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
They didn't.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
It wasn't terrible against Denver. Yeah, now they got behind
and they had to throw it the whole time. Can
you do can you play with the lead at any point?
The Bengals have had eighteen snaps with the lead, eighteen
offensive snaps this season with the lead.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
They've had more snaps though than that group of pitchers
we talked about earlier got the pitch for the red
that's true, so we tried to find glass half full here.
It's true. We are as we're just getting started at
the Pella Shout out to Pella. We're at home.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
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Speaker 2 (28:26):
Everybody's ever seen anything like twenty twenty five Homarama. We'll
tell you more about that when we get back. And
we talked a lot about offense. Yeah, let's assess this
defense as well. Okay, we'll do that next on the
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Speaker 8 (29:05):
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Speaker 9 (29:11):
Sox kick out.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
What a catch? You know? That catch Austin happened when
McMahon was in sort of late in the game as
a defender. Yes, so last night Aaron Boone went offense early,
defense late. Yes, novel concept Brian McMahon, who, by the way,
is commonly a finalist for the Gold Globe Award.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Huh, very similar to one key Brian Hayes.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
So he goes in late in the game. You're telling
me that's right, Well that's shocking.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
And then made a great defensive play.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
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(30:48):
he said, come on back. Patrick's here. He's knocked a
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it's a it's a big family family event here. Uh,
this is the weekend to visit Home Arama. This home
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it's fully custom. You got outdoor living. There's an elevator

(31:11):
in this. It's amazing. You could have your kids in
the basement. You could be up here and you wouldn't
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Not that I recommend that, not that I recommend them.
I don't know. Or I could be down there. I
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Speaker 3 (31:31):
It's unbelievable, just working on your game.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
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Speaker 3 (32:05):
I was looking at tickets this morning. They are dropping
a little bit. Yeah they are not, you know, two
hundred and fifty dollars for standing like it earlier this week.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, so good. Maybe that's a good sign, I guess.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
And if you're a Bengals fan and you're thinking about going,
you know, maybe it's a little bit more affordable.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Now. What I want to know is and rightfully, so,
the defense has not been great for the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah, they're not very good.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
The offense has been so bad, and there's been so
many talking points around Zach Taylor that I think we
pile on to the offense, and at times we might
give a little bit of a free pass to the defense.
Assessed to me in your opinion. Four games in the
twenty twenty five Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Defense slightly better than last year, still not very good. Okay,
I mean that that pretty much sums it up right,
Like you haven't gotten a step forward from Cam Taylor Britt,
you haven't gotten a step forward from Josh Newton or
DJ Turner. Logan Wilson has shown signs of old Logan Wilson,
but also signs of old Logan Wilson, which is not great.

(33:11):
I like what I've seen from Demetrius Night. He plays
one thousand miles an hour. He goes sideline to sideline.
He's gonna make some mistakes as a rookie. That happens.
Geno Stone hasn't done much. Jordan Battle hasn't done much.
He's been in the right spot at the right time
and gotten some some turnovers. They're okay, they're fine. They

(33:31):
would probably be better if they weren't on the field
so much. But I don't look at him and say, gosh,
this this group is, you know, hand heads and shoulders
better than they were a year ago.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
What's their identity? They don't have one correct that I
think is the biggest problem.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
And I don't know that we're gonna see that right
away under ol goal.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Because here's here's the issue that I see with the defense.
Training camp and off season, it was just be a
middle of the pack defense. So a lot of training
camp we talked about alcohol and it feels like what
they can do is give up yards and then ben
but don't break in the red zone. Sure, now your
offense isn't nearly as explosive. You need your defense to

(34:11):
be better, right, how do you do that? It's the
same dilemma we just talked about with the Bengals offense
all week. This defense isn't isn't built that way like people,
Well you gotta be. They're not a blitzing defense. Al
Goldin's not a blitzing coordinator. You don't want to put
your guys on islands on the backside because probably you
don't trust them, because I mean, look, it came to
the brit played five snaps last week. They to me,

(34:32):
are a defense without an identity. They take poor angles,
they're poor tackling, and the worst of all, they're.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Soft, much like we talk about Zach Taylor needs to adjust,
so too does Al Gold. Yes, he has to change
his philosophy now because of the shortcomings of the Bengals offense.
That's part of the whole complimentary football thing. And so
Al has noted this. He said this, He's like, I
have to change some stuff. I have to get us
off the field on the I have to be more aggressive.

(35:01):
I have to put our guys in positions for more
takeaways to help set up our offense and help them
out a little bit. There's a give and take with
all of that, obviously, but I mean it's on the
entire coaching staff right now to adjust.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Can they adjust?

Speaker 3 (35:20):
I don't know, that's the question. I don't know if
they have the talent to do that.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Because the issue we're saying is offense needs to adjust,
defense needs to adjust. Do they have the personnel to adjust?
Because so much about how this team was built was
what we just talked about then. But don't break and
build around Joe Burrow and protect him. You're not built
to be a dominant attacking offensive line that fires up
the ball and run blocking. They're soft up front offensively,

(35:45):
They're soft up front defensively, there is a list of
players that we're still waiting on returns on that were
drafted or brought into this team that doesn't really feel
like are fitting. It's a comedy of airs right now,
and the issue becomes there's one of two things that
can happen. You either buy into the new concept and
you show signs of getting better, or you see a

(36:06):
lot more of what we've seen the last two weeks,
and that I think would spell disaster for this team
and this staff going forward.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
How if how would you if you're the Detroit Lions,
how would you attack the Bengals defense however you want?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
I mean, what are you?

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Who are you going after Cam Taylor Britt every time
he's on the Absolutely it starts with the run game
with the t.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
But there their backs and it's a it's a much again.
Jami or Gibbs and David Montgomery are the best at
what they do. There was something you see did last
week that I loved that they put Tywee Walker as
their starter and prior as their backup. Walker is like
the bruiser. Walker is the guy that can run around you.

(36:49):
If I'm Detroit, I'm running the ball early and I'm
gonna I'm gonna get this, I'm gonna soften you up.
And then eventually you're gonna have to say, well, we
can't let Gibbs and Montgomery continue to us. We've got
to come up a little bit. And then you take
your shot to Jamison Williams. And while you're doing all
of that, you utilize Sam Laporta, and you surely utilize
a'man Ross Saint Brown, who's so dynamic in the run game.

(37:11):
They use them to hand the ball off to them,
they use them in play action. They more than any
team I've watched Austin. It feels like everything they do
works off of each other. Every running every running play
works off a passing play. Every passing play works to
set up a running play. They take their shots when necessary.
Everything feels like it's done with a purpose, whereas I

(37:32):
feel like with the Bengals, it's let's try this play
and hope it works.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
You mentioned not great tacklers, not great at angles. To me,
that's get the ball out in space to your playmaker. Yep,
quick screens. I'm in Ross Saint Brown, Jamier Gibbs stretch
the run game in that way. Jamison Williams obviously takes
the top off the defense. But you know, you can
run the football and be effective that way. But also
if you're wearing the Bengals out going sideline to sideline

(37:58):
with a bunch of these quick passes and you're not
making tackles they're making, they're not taking the correct angles,
I think that's another way to beat them as well.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Courtland Sutton is a good receiver in the NFL. He's
not known at his ability to make a lot of
people miss. Right. He made everyone miss last week.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
He looked like Dante Hall on Monday Night Football.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Denver could have ran just a simple bubbles all week
last week and got fifteen yards. Yea, At some point
you got to make a beach over the top.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
There's also a difference between Sean Payton and Dan Campbell. Yeah,
Sean Payton for whatever reason stopped running the ball. Yeah,
Dan Campbell and Campbell will not.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
No, he will keep running if he can run the
ball fifty times. Yeah, that's a statement he can make
and he's gonna make it. Yeah. Absolutely. Let's take a break.
Let's finish up hour number one of the Friday Football Frenzy.
Here from Home, Rama twenty twenty five, thanks to our
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Sports Station. Were at Home Rama or at the Heritage
the Brownstone Building Group. You scared people away? No, these
people need to understand that are checking this place out
right now, that this is a package deal, that we
could be included with the deal. Yeah. Absolutely, Now, really,
we would love to do the show from here every Friday,
even when you move in. Be fantastic. Yeah, well well yeah,

(39:22):
we'll get to that as well. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
During the break, Tony said, a lot of beers, a
lot of cigars could be Oh.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I think a place like this would be more of
an old fashioned Oh okay, this is a bourbon rooftop.
This is a bourbon rooftop. We are we're excited to
be here. If you're if you're kind of on the
fence and wondering, you know, when when should I head out?
When should I make it? This is the weekend to
do it. Yeah, this is the weekend you want to
come visit Home Arama weather's beautiful. The weather's beautiful. And

(39:48):
when you do, you want to come check out the uh,
the Heritage Building Group, this brownstone that we're in.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
I can't help but think of the fun times you
could have with your neighbors.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah on the rooftops. Yeah. If you like him, if
you like not, you just pull this down right here,
and you are at to say that you would never
see him. Pretty amaze. This is living, This is good living.
Charlie Goldsmith's doing some good living. Yes he is. Charlie's
gonna join us when we get back. It's our number two.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
And I wonder if Charlie's jet lagged from Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
We got a lot to talk to Charlie about. I
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Speaker 2 (41:13):
All right, our number two Friday football Frenzy is here
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Not bad spot.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
I'm just admiring the view you are. Yeah, standing now,
I am standing up. I'm looking out above the glorious
vista of Oakley, which I used to live right over here.
I could see right over I see where I used
to live.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Lovely area. Yeah. Could you see this come? Is it? Huh?
You saw this coming up when it was being Oh
yeah yeah yeah. I think the little as you know
you'd be here.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Big part of the growth of Oakley was because of
my presence for it. I get eleven months, I get
it be where I had to move again.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
We thank the fellows at Pillow Windows and Doors for
having us out today. It's been awesome. The Heritage Building
Group we're in the Brownstone right now. Yes, I can't
speak highly enough of this place. And the golf simulator
in the basement, Yeah, fully customizable. They got an elevator
in this place, Yes they do. That's how you know
you've made it. Yeah, elevator in the home.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
I know a guy who has an elevator.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
It surprised me. Guest starting right now has an elevator
in his home. Yeah. He joins us each and every
Friday at one o'clock. Our good friend, Charlie Goldsmith.

Speaker 9 (42:19):
Hey, Charlie, doesn't everyone who lives in an apartment have
an elevator in their home?

Speaker 2 (42:26):
I was getting that right there, Charlie.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Are you still jet lagged from California?

Speaker 9 (42:32):
I'm not gonna lie to the Austin, but I am.
This is this is a piece of wind, and this
is an energy drink right here. Getting a chance to
talk to.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
You, guys, Charlie at this point the day. Have you
been able to get through the whole Taylor Swift album?
Have you just gotten through a couple songs? How do
you feel about the new album? Great question.

Speaker 9 (42:50):
I'm gonna listen to it when I got home from
Bengals practice today, which is I'm wrapping up right now.
That's my daily schedule.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
All right, that's fair. Let's start with where you just
came back from Bengals training or Bengals practice, not training camp, Charlie.
What is just the feel around this team? It's very
hard to go out and get beat the way they
did the last two weeks. That can often carry over
into the locker room and the culture. Have you seen

(43:18):
any of that from witnessing what you've seen in practice?

Speaker 9 (43:22):
They just got to be aggressive this week. I think
that's the mindset. You know. There have been literal examples
where they've dropped the ball, figurative examples with kind of
the penalties and stuff that we saw last week, some
self inflicted mistakes. They just have to go out and
play their best. But are they capable of doing that?
I think that's kind of what this week represents.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Offensively. How can they unlock Jake Browning? It's one thing
to say, well, you got to run the ball. This
team just hasn't been able to do that consistently enough.
What are some other ways they can help get Jake
Browning a little more comfortable?

Speaker 9 (43:55):
Well, throw the ball and that's kind of the million
dollar question this week. One are the ways to kind
of take advantage of the weapons of the offense without
having Browning be in a position where he has to
throw a lot more fifty to fifty balls or he
has to throw the ball in harm's way. This is
going to be a big game plan week from that perspective.
These are some susceptible Detroit corners and it's a pass

(44:16):
it kind of it's a back seven that you can
capitalize on because if you look at kind of the
style of linebackers and safety day or one safety the
other safety is a superstar. But you look at some
opportunities to throw the ball against this Detroit team and
see what happens.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Charlie, we were talking earlier about, you know, when when
stuff hits the fan, how do you react and how
do leaders emerge? And a lot of the guys that
have been leaders for this team in years past aren't
here anymore. Jamar Chase has talked about being more of
a leader and being more vocal. Who are some guys
that you think could emerge during these difficult times for

(44:56):
the Bengals as a leader and that can help that
locker room get through this.

Speaker 9 (45:02):
Let me start here like they have to do it.
Like I'll rattle off some names and that's a question
that's really been on my mind. But they have to first,
you know, go do it with their play and second,
go do it with's kind of what's going on behind
the scenes and closed doors and meetings this week specifically,
But I do see some potential, you know, Chase Brown,
Andre Josebash through sample obviously, Orlando and Ted. Looking at

(45:24):
the defensive side of the ball, DJ Hill is a
big part of that, an opportunity for even like a
demetrious Night to continue to step up next to Logan
Wolves and Dax Hill and Jordan Battle. I would say
those are some big names right there when you look
at who are they leaning on From that perspective, I'll
throw in Josh Newton as well, but it's a big
week for that. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Defensively, Charlie, what's the identity of this defense? Because it's
hard when you go through the offseason. We talked a
lot about can they be middle of the pack, you know,
can they bend but don't break and give up some
yards but limit teams. Now the offense isn't performing at
the higher level so now I feel like people are
now expecting more out of the defense. Can they get

(46:06):
more out of the defense? In your opinion, they got
to go.

Speaker 11 (46:10):
Take the ball.

Speaker 9 (46:11):
You know, turnovers should be the scene. You know, splash plays,
those are the exact types of things they need more
of to have the type of performances that like, for example,
Minnesota was able to have against them. So what can
they do to be more situationally aggressive without you know,
leaving yourself vulnerable to kind of some of the self

(46:31):
inflicted explosives that you've seen pop up as well? So
what can they do to be aggressive without kind of
sacrificing things? Is going to be a big question.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Who are they at this point on defense? They at
times they are missing tackles, they're taking poor angles. Al
Golden is just not a guy that's gonna blitz a lot.
What do you feel is the identity of this defense
right now four games in?

Speaker 9 (46:58):
Well, that's the thing, man, we don't even know who's
this team's best players are yet. So that's the trend
that's going to have to continue to develop. You know,
Dakhil's had his moments, Jordan Battle's had his moments, Demetrius
Knight's at his If they're all good players, well, then
the identity of this defense can be some versatile, kind
of wiry rangy players who have the ability to go

(47:21):
find the ball. While that sounds great on paper, they
actually have to go do it and become those players
and take those next steps and continue to bring others
along with them. So the identity is I don't know,
there's hope in some of those guys progressing, but again
it's stretches like these where that has to transpire.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Do you think there's anything to the idea that everybody
expects them to get their doors blown off against the
Detroit Tigers or the Detroit Lions this weekend? And and
how you know that can kind of be used to
their advantage. Do you think that's something that's talked about
at all?

Speaker 9 (47:53):
Or no, Maybe I'll get brought up in kind of
one of those huddle excuse me tunnel speeches before they
take the field on Sunday. But I think this week
the emphasis is, man, how do we stop the run
more soundly? How do we get our protection rules straight?
Finally up front, how do we find opportunities to be
efficient in the passing game? Like I think coming off

(48:15):
the losses, those are the ideas that they're obsessing over
because those are the things that will translate, you know,
more on the field than those type than some other
type of intangible stuff. So that's where my focus is too.
What can this team do on the field. And I
think they've got so much on their place, but that's
what they've got to be focusing on.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
I know it's hard because a lot of it is
what you're expecting a coach to say. But this week
Charlie Zach Taylor went out of his way and said
that he's got the utmost confidence in Jake Browning and
believes that Jake Browning can turn this thing around for
the team. Do you genuinely believe that or do you
feel like this team should be looking at other options.

Speaker 9 (48:55):
I have a hard time, and I'm just not a
Russ Wilson Jameis Winston guy like I just don't think
a ton of them as players now. They're probably better
than Jake brun with what he's been, but the opportunity
to run your entire offense with Browning, I just don't
see a better option right now. So you have to
be realistic about it. From that perspective, Yes, the Bengals

(49:19):
should be looking at any opportunity, including a quarterback. But
it's funny like, all right, if they lose to the Lions, well,
then are you gonna be able to find a quarterback
by Tuesday? Who's going to be ready to play on
Sunday against the Packers? Like does that do much for you?
Or just going with what you have? And then it's
a short week in Pittsford, Like I'm at least of
the mindset like just let's get to the short week,

(49:41):
or let's get past the short week, let's get to
the mini by maybe you're two and six then and
it's all over anyway, Maybe it's you found a way
to sneak one out and then it's time to take
a closer look at whether or not Browning has it.
But a change isn't happening now. I don't think a
change would really do much for the for the Packers
game either, So I look at it with a bit

(50:02):
more patient because there's no obvious answer to that.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
If we switch gears for a moment. Charlie, you were
in LA for the series against the Dodgers. What was
your biggest takeaway watching the Red season unfortunately come to
an end.

Speaker 9 (50:17):
Well, the winnable series. That's what I keep going back to.
I think why they lost the series. Why they lost
the series, frankly starts with Hunter Green on Tuesday, a
performance that didn't feel like a guy pitching at his
hometown stadium against one of the most outed lot of
we've seen in a while, just didn't rise to the

(50:37):
moment in that way and instead just kind of flowed
through the start and left them pitches over the plate.
And then you look at the situational hitting, the lack
of pop in the lineup, You look at some decision
making from Terry Francona, all those supplemental reasons that certainly
showed up over the course of the series. But while
the postgame scene was pretty completely optimistic, you know, learn

(50:58):
from this, use this taken step in twenty twenty six.
I look at this as a series that was right
there for the taking, which would have been the highlight
of the last thirty years of Red baseball.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Obviously, you don't get to see much of Nickolodolo because
of how they had to use him. In Game one
sixty two, Andrew Abbott never takes the mound Chase Burns
and mop up time. Emelio Pagan never takes the mound.
What did you make of how they utilized the pitching
rotation and the pitching decisions in this series?

Speaker 9 (51:30):
Kind of the the trend I keep going back to
was how they needed all one sixty two and as
a result, they were kind of not out of pitching,
but they used all they had, Like even on Sunday
and Milwaukee. You know, everyone was saying, like, well, why
they leave Brady Singer in as long as they did.
They didn't have a ton of options on Sunday, let alone.

(51:50):
You know, two days later, Nick Lodolo is something I
still don't have an answer to why he didn't go
back out for an extra inning. But because Burns pitched
on Sunday, he wasn't available on Tuesday, and because he
wasn't available on Tuesday, and then it was a short
start from Green. Well, now you need to burn basically
your your back end long relief options and Barlow and

(52:12):
Suitor and still up pitches for the fourth time in
five days. So presumably none of those three guys are
available on Wednesday, and then on Wednesday, if then it's
you know, you want to pull a tel even shorter.
Where are you pulling four? Where are you getting those
extra innings from? Because Martinez had pitched so much recently,
he couldn't have gone out and thrown three or four,

(52:34):
like you just didn't have the options because you had
to go so all in down the wire just to
get there. And so then they just had to leave
their starters in and you know Latel didn't pitch well enough.
Green obviously was poor. And that's where it comes back
to bite you.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
How do you feel like Terry Francona handled the stretch
run the last two weeks and the postseason and overall,
what do you feel like you've learned learned about Francona
and how he's going to manage this team in the future.

Speaker 9 (53:05):
That's the billion dollar question. I disagreed with the few
of his decisions. You know, I would have pinched hit
Sal for Kabrian Hayes in Game one so that Hayes
wouldn't have been up the plate. I would have I
would have just started Nick Lodola as an opener, just
so it was a controlled situation in a high leverage
spot against the superstar top lefties. But I get why

(53:29):
they didn't, and you could have put Lodola in for
Lttel the second time through, but I mentioned some of
their pitching limccations. But still when the game was getting
away from Lattel, now that was the pocket of writing.
So you couldn't have put in Lodolo, but I would
have had a quicker hook with Martinez in the fourth

(53:49):
that would have been as the game was getting away
from them. Looking at Francona's impact, it was a more mature, confidence,
stronger culture, and I give him a lot of credit
for that. I think you saw, while there weren't player development,
you know, successes across the roster in the way that

(54:09):
Nolovie Marte popped, I think you saw a lot of
these guys mature as knowing how to play the game,
especially when you look at just how bad they were
at that in the first half of the season. I
think they kind of know what they're supposed to do
in these stop now. I also think, I mean, just
I really believe this, like Francona being as completely unphased

(54:32):
as he was by the stress of the playoffs helped,
And you might roll your eyes to that, but I
really believe that, like he didn't change at all, and
that's an impressive quality that a lot of other managers
don't have. So there were positives, there were negatives. There
were decisions that I mentioned, there were decisions you know,
looking at the broad stroke of the season, like because

(54:53):
they've had a better vision for Ellie and how to
maximize the type of player he is in this system.
Like there's stuff like that that you look at as well,
that you know falls on both positive and negative. Soct
for Francona. But I do think the season was a
success as they made the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Do you think that mindset you talked about, that optimistic
mindset in the clubhouse afterwards, do you think that's a
good thing.

Speaker 9 (55:19):
I think everyone's got to come up with their own
opinion on that. I'm not gonna go in and say,
you know, like Reds player X should have been more mad.
I have a hard time, you know, just being someone
who covers the team and who's around them every day,
like levying that type of criticism on the players and
on the team. What I can do is report that
with the exception of South Stewart and then a more

(55:39):
even killed Freedom. But Stuart was I mean, Stuart looked
like he had just lost the Super Bowl, Freedom more
even keeled. The rest was more appreciative. We're gonna learn
from this, We're gonna grow. This is the next step.
How I'll answer that question is just by reporting that
that is what the conversation was post game. Man, Let's

(56:00):
do it again.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Next year, Charlie. I know it's very early in the
offseason and we'll have a lot of time to discuss this.
How many, in your opinion, positions could be up for grabs?
It just feels like there's a lot of unknowns around
this team as the season comes to an end, and
you haven't put a ton of thought into it yet.
But how many positions could we be looking at that

(56:22):
that are literally up for grabs going into next year.

Speaker 9 (56:26):
That's the big thing and everyone everyone's gonna want them
to go sign Peter Lonzo or Kyles Warber. First, that's
not realistic. Second, this team has a lot of work
to do. Just get a team on the field for
next season. To answer your first question, first, all right,
I would expect to Brian Hey's the third Elliott's short.
That'll be a conversation. What I know is they'll they'll

(56:46):
it'll be a topic But then if you put McClain
at short, how the heck are you supposed to find
a second baseman as they value defense and I like
Gavin Luck, but his second best second base defense isn't
isn't at that level, so I still have it's shortened
that at first, or excuse me, Matt at second. First,
you like to have ten starters anyway, So some cause

(57:07):
of injuries, some combination of style. Spencer, you know, lux
is a DH, but those three kind of sharing a spot,
maybe that would be then Luxe and left because left
field would be open Friedel and center martain Wright. At
some point, here's the name we need to know now,
Hector Rodriguez, a prospect will be making his way into
that left field conversation. Of course, that's the spot they

(57:29):
should add an address more aggressively anyway, and we'll talk
about that all off season. But then the team only
has three relievers right now for next season. One of
them is Connor Phillips, who only you know, we love
but only spent the last month of the season in
the big leagues because how many for agents they have.
And then their rotation while they have Brady Singer, the

(57:50):
rest of us incredibly young. So do they need to
bring back like a Zach Let's hell back just to
have some more innings you know you can count on
like they're going to need like four plus for leavers.
I'd like that another veteran starter. I'd like that a
left fielder fill out your bench. We're now on Tyler
Stevenson extension watch because he's in a contract year like

(58:11):
and all these you know, these young core guys, they're
all arbitration eligible right now, so now they're all more extensive.
So for a team with significant payroll constraints that just
call how it is, you know, coming down from ownerships,
there's a lot they need to do before they can
even look at all, Right, who's the big fish? We
want to go get this off.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
Just to clarify, you said, Ellie at shortstop being a topic,
do you mean a topic for us to discuss all
offseason or a topic that the Reds internally are going
to be discussing.

Speaker 9 (58:42):
We'll discuss it, but then again, the discussion then has
to lead what is your plan to go get a
second basement like you remember how or a short stuff
like you remember how it was all the years where
the Reds would bring in like Jose Iglesias and Freddie
Galvis and you know, all those types of guys like
that's what it is, that's where you're living.

Speaker 12 (59:00):
Thing.

Speaker 9 (59:00):
It would be then a second base unless you're gonna
swing some super aggressive prospect trade. I'll add this to you,
Like Edwin Arroyo, they'll add him to the forty man roster.
But he's got stuff to work on. He's just as
unproven and unpolished, not unpolished. But it's not a oh
just put ed when a short stop, that's not a plan,
that's a hope. Maybe he fills in and takes something

(59:24):
like an opportunity like that, but that just can't be
the plan. So there's a lot of stew here. It's
not as easy as just move alley the center.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Charlie Goldsmith, you're absolutely fantastic man, huge one for the
Bearcats tomorrow. How do you like the chances against Iowa
State and a big, big opportunity for UC and in
Scott's Saderfield tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (59:48):
Well, let me just answer your question Austin directly. Yes,
I think they'll have, you know, behind closed doors of
that conversation. We'll see what transpires of it. But it's
it's something worth to discussing. But it's by far not
like there might just be a better reason to keep
Ellie it short as the Bearcats. I'll be there tomorrow.
I'll be there tomorrow. Kim Brendan swar is the take

(01:00:11):
advantage of something he hasn't a full he hasn't had
in a full calendar year, and that's momentum and confidence
in a bit of a hot streak throwing the ball.
We'll be facing a pretty good defense. So also, can
these receivers continue to develop and become something the Bearcats
need to lean on even more strongly. Huge win, but
they got to kind of ride that now and continue to,

(01:00:32):
you know, take that development in the program.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
Are you in a red section or a black section tomorrow, Charlie?

Speaker 9 (01:00:38):
You'd think I know that, but I don't yet. I'll
figure that out tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
He's got time. He's got time, Charlie. Always appreciate your time.
What's the easiest way for folks to follow along with
everything you got going on it?

Speaker 9 (01:00:49):
Look up Charlie shockbord on substack. That's the best way
you can find it to my social media. Talk to
you haus next week than.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Charlie Man the best. This is the Friday Football Friends.
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All right, welcome back. It is the Friday Football Frenzy,
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Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
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Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Going forward of us is living in one of these houses.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
The Heritage Building Group and the Brownstone that we're currently
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Kitchens remarkable. We got to check out the golf simulator.
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That's that's ideal. I thrown room, own bathrooms.

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It's unbelievable everything about this place, and we're thankful to
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Speaker 14 (01:02:39):
Happy Friday boys. Just a quick shout out to Mike
from LA. I know you mean well and you say
one thing sometimes and you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Don't mean the other.

Speaker 14 (01:02:49):
But you know that comment with the mcvaby and way
smarter than Zach Taylor, we can't argue that, but goly, jeez,
holy mole, Shanahan just handled your boy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Dude. What's a bunch of backups? That was the first
time I ever think I've watched McVeigh and thought, man,
he got out coached.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Well, I would say that that's kind of common when
he takes on college Shanahan. Shanahan has just has his number.
Remarkable I'm Tom Gamble, Tom Tom Gamble, the one and
only Tom Gambell.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Pay there, lady, give me your prize. Make way for
the two angry guys. I'm Tom Gamble.

Speaker 15 (01:03:33):
Keith takes tinner and cheat and Kelsey looking good looking Tinner.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
He do what she's doing too, Will Benson. Hey, everybody,
let's take up fence and I'm Tom Gamble, Tom Tom Gamble.
I'm the Constitution, I'm the Free Amble. I'm Tom Gamble.
I'm Tom Gamble, the one and only Tom Gamble. Man.
I hope Tom's listening to that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Yeah, Tom, he probably just had a stroke hitting that
in the car.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
You're welcome Tom.

Speaker 16 (01:04:02):
Happy Friday, everybody. Wow, Root Top broadcast today sounds like
so much fun for you guys and eight years on
the air. So cool and like I said, you guys
are very good for my mental health.

Speaker 17 (01:04:12):
Hey, did you all see that Bama Georgia game last Sunday?
That big old boy they are proctor catching that pass
and going down to the sidelines. Boy, Hey, I hate
to be able to fit the back and trying to
tackle something like that. I guess that'd definitely be a
business decision.

Speaker 16 (01:04:26):
Anyways, have a great weekend, everybody and who they are.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
You know, I thought for a moment that this was
like our gifts for eight years of since he three sixty,
that they would just give us the house. Hey, you're
gonna be in a home.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
We gotta do like eighty years. Do you get the house?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
You no longer have to broadcast from the Kenwood studio.
You broadcast from this home every day and always hoping
people can come whatever they want. You're basically begging at
this point.

Speaker 18 (01:04:51):
Yep, Ronnie ron in DC repping the Natty Well. I
believe many Bengal fans have come down with in ston amnesia.
The offensive struggles did not begin when Joe went down
with his injury. No, the offense under Burrow was just
as dreadful versus Cleveland and Jacksonville. We should have lost

(01:05:12):
both of those games were it not for our defense
bailing us out. You see the problem with our offense
this year goes much deeper than just Joe's injury.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Okay, thank you. It was Ronald Reagan man watching that
game last night.

Speaker 15 (01:05:32):
I had a couple of thoughts, but the main one
was Zach Taylor, his staff and this roster are absolutely terrible.
The forty nine ers were eight and a half point underdogs,
went on the road, missing their starting quarterback, missing their
top three receivers, missing they're all pro tight end, missing
their all pro defensive end, and won the game. And

(01:05:52):
then you have the Bengals over here who lose just
for quarterback and they look like the Mustangs from Gridiron game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
We didn't lose just our quarterback. We lost one of,
if not the best quarterback in the league. But yes,
I see the point. I'm losing my mind.

Speaker 19 (01:06:10):
Hey, Tody and Austin Kin from Keenland here, that's right,
it's opening to a Keenland and it's a beautiful day. Hey,
yesterday Gift made a comment about me and Kentucky football. Well,
when it comes to Kentucky football, I am filled with apathy.
I did not renew my season tickets for the first

(01:06:30):
time in twenty years. I couldn't name a player other
than the quarterback. So anyway, two day.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
They say apathy is the opposite of love. I gotta
start bench cut. If we were to rename.

Speaker 20 (01:06:50):
The Friday Football Frenzy, what would it be The Friday
Football Fearful Show, the Friday Football Failure Show, or the
Friday football frustration show.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Maybe frustration. I get that. I don't. I mean the Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
The vibes are supposed to be good on Friday's supposed
to be positive.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Vibes are here, vibes here are good.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
I don't think we Yeah, I don't think we're any
of those things on Fridays.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
It's just a little after twelve.

Speaker 8 (01:07:24):
So I don't know if you'll cover this or not,
but the game last night was full of backups for
the forty nine Ers, including the quarterback, offensive.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Line, no wide receivers.

Speaker 8 (01:07:33):
Defensive line. I guess this is what happens when you
have a good coaching, good scheme. I'm pretty jealous.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Thank you, that's DJ.

Speaker 21 (01:07:49):
Hey, I'm glad you guys brought up the last night's
forty nine Ers Rams game. Kyle Shanahan the epitome of
a coach that takes what he has, has a scheme,
has a plan, and makes it happen. That is, he
is obviously the top of the list.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
In terms of great coaches. Zach is the absolute bottom.

Speaker 21 (01:08:07):
You see the exact oppostion you know what in McVeigh
is right there too. Because the Rams had a chance
to win. We are so missing that it's not even funny.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Okay, that is a hot button topic for a lot
of folks today.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Gave got people mad.

Speaker 15 (01:08:24):
Okay, so I saw a pretty crazy stat. But the
Bengals are the first team since the nineteen seventy merger
to get beat by twenty five or more points, have
under two hundred total yards, have under sixty rushing yards,
get out rushed by one hundred or more yards, and
give up three or more sacks in back to back games.
That is insane. Though, as far as what Cincinnati team

(01:08:46):
was closest to a championship, it's FC Cincinnati, and I'm
not sure that it's really even debatable.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Okay, covered debt stat in depth earlier this week.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
I don't like that guy.

Speaker 22 (01:09:01):
He's yeah, go Bearcats. I think they should beat the
Psyclones tomorrow. I mean cyclones. They happen in Pacific Ocean.
How close as I would to the Pacific Ocean. I
was gonna say a couple of days ago, if you
get to Yamaha quasi moto early on, you can rattle them.
But it just didn't work out for the Reds.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
No, but Pella.

Speaker 22 (01:09:24):
Now blah blah blah later.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Did you hear seg try to say Yamamoto's name on
the news yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Now, couldn't have been good, hilarious, couldn't have been good,
Tony Audi, So I have tasted.

Speaker 23 (01:09:46):
It is sweet. The bear Cat's got some glass eaters
all the time. Gavin Gerhart bringing swersby Sire sailing before
getting off the white was skinned off the gray, swagless Scott.
It's now Scott Swaggerfield.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
He said, Scott Swaggerfield, swagless. Scott got his swagger back
when he turned that hat around the other night. I
like that a lot.

Speaker 24 (01:10:18):
Hey, Austin, Hey, Tony Paul from Cleves here, Yes, that
same Cleaves that the Taylor High School is from. Uh,
it's gonna be a very interesting game. It should be
a lot more interesting than the forty three to fourteen
drubbing that Running took last year. But you know who's counting.

(01:10:39):
I actually enjoy watching this. I actually have a freshman
on this team too, So goe Taylor.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Sorry Tony, all right, I like that Paul from Cleves
Winner of the day right now, what's.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Up, guys?

Speaker 12 (01:10:52):
Nick Cahun in Kentucky? This kicking game is getting outrageous?
How far these guys are kicking. I mean, it wasn't
made to be like that. I think they need to
go back and change the rules of where the line
of scrimage is. If it's between the O and the nineteen,
you take a field goal, you get three point, because
between the twenty and thirty nine you get two points.
If its outside the thirty nine to the forty beyond,
you get one point. I mean, these guys are kicking.

(01:11:14):
I mean you should reward teams for getting closer to
the goal line, not running a play and getting to
the fifty and booting it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Now, I saw somebody say one of the ways to
make kicking harder in the NFL now is to add
another crossbar at the top of the field goal post,
so it's a box that you have to kick it into.
Out your thoughts out, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Don't penalize people because they're so good. Don't penalize these
kickers because they're getting better. Don't move the goal post. Literally,
I figured out extra point back. That's it. They're hating
on specialists, man, specialists are people too good?

Speaker 25 (01:11:51):
Point Austin turned TJ east Side after watching Schlitler sit
down the socks. I watched Matt James through a quick
passes five to seven yard in swing rounds, dump down
to the running.

Speaker 26 (01:12:03):
Backs and effectively move the ball. Real novel concepts that
led to a win. The Broncos were bringing the house.
Zach and Jake were still trying to complete routes ten
fifteen yards down the field with no hot reads. The
only spread the Bengals touch on Sunday are the soft,
tasy spreads of win Shulers, win shulers. I spread that
shittler on everything.

Speaker 25 (01:12:25):
Oh well done, Austin turned TJ east Side.

Speaker 26 (01:12:35):
He God, there's a ride in the LBA blosh anyway.

Speaker 16 (01:12:39):
Fire and anger, Fire and anger.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
I think the Bengals have a plenty. Mike Brown, he
is fire.

Speaker 26 (01:12:46):
The man is ninety years old and he walks around
the track every day.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
That is fire.

Speaker 21 (01:12:52):
Kady Blackburn, do you see any hope inside her cold
hearted soul?

Speaker 11 (01:12:58):
She is the definition of an angry woman.

Speaker 21 (01:13:00):
Can you imagine having to come home every night to
that beauty?

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Too far? Brad Man, I'm looking forward to the UC
game this weekend. It's gonna be a big win.

Speaker 15 (01:13:17):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Not looking forward to stripe the stadium thing.

Speaker 24 (01:13:21):
It's so goofy I mean, what the players gonna get
super excited that we're all wearing different.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Colors and they're gonna play harder for us.

Speaker 25 (01:13:28):
I don't understand how you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:29):
Pass that cost over to the fans.

Speaker 27 (01:13:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
I just want to wear my favorite shirt and go
to the game.

Speaker 11 (01:13:36):
But I am.

Speaker 28 (01:13:36):
I'm excited for the game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
That I think there's a lot of people excited for
the game.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
Why do you Why is it that big of a
deal tomorrow to if you wear red or if you
wear black to stripe the stance? Yeah, like, why is
he so upset about?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
I don't know. That shouldn't be a thing. It looks I'd.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Imagine if you're a Bearcat fan that it goes to games,
you probably have something that's black. You probably have something
that's red, and then you can want to wear one
of those to what you're supposed to wear it, wear
it to make it look cool, and you know, maybe
it's something meant to promote community, you know, and then
you show pictures of it and maybe you help get
a recruit.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Maybe they could sell nil shirts, Oh raise money, red
and black.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Yeah, I like that. I don't know, I like.

Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
That A couple quick thoughts on the Bengals. I don't
know how it's possible for them to keep getting the
offensive line wrong. I truly don't understand it. Because they
try to make moves in the offseason. They might not
be the best moves, but they're switching it up. And
when you swap garbage out for garbage, you're gonna get

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the same result. But they've tried some different formations. They
just can't figure it out. In the run game. They
can't block for Joe, they can't block for Jake. I
don't understand it. It's malpractice year after year.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Malpractice, I think is a good term for you know,
Ohio State developed an app that does a bunch of
content for the athletes and then all the ad revenue
that comes from the app goes to nil. That's smart.
That's pretty smart, isn't it. That's smart?

Speaker 27 (01:15:09):
Johnny, Honnie, one of it's ice. Congratulations eight years of
sixty six day. You guys make my day. I appreciate
you guys letting us do these talkbacks, your funny outlooks,
your positive influences all the time. You guys freaking rock

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remember one day and one day. Holy that's good.

Speaker 6 (01:15:35):
Night far.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
I mean, Ice is pretty fired up right, Yep, thank
you Ice.

Speaker 29 (01:15:43):
Yep, Hey, guys, mark us from the groove, bring on
them Bulldogs. As a matter of fact, Bengals win thirty
four twenty four and the Cats win thirty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
LUs, God go big Blue.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Who would you rather have as your head coach? Mark
Stoops or Zach Taylor?

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Oh my gosh, is this the best question I've ever asked?

Speaker 22 (01:16:17):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Might be. I don't trust either of them as a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
Mark Stups doesn't like Moegar in today's Moegar's birthday. Happy birthday?
All right, so I goes out, yep, thank you.

Speaker 30 (01:16:29):
Well, that's still rapping the natty out here in Sonny
hot and z on it?

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
What up? Tony? What up? Body? Yo? Bengals.

Speaker 30 (01:16:34):
Hey, I don't know what to say. Just don't get
your brakes beat off you by fifty but I could
smell it coming anyway, Tony, tell you brother, yo, real talk.
You sounded solk villing the radio. I'm hoping to hear
more of that. And Yo, the Bearcats I'm watching tomorrow. Now,
you got my attention. But your coach sat that seat
still hot, but I turn it down by degree, prove

(01:16:54):
me wrong tomorrow. I want to see this defense and
offense performed to his ability.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
All right, there we going. That's a good set of
talk about our guy, Ronnie ron We We got to
take a break. It's the Friday football frenzy here at
Home Orama twenty twenty five. Yes, if you're sitting back
and you're listening, like, I'll just get there next week
or around town. The weekend to be here is is
this weekend. So get out today, Tomorrow, Sunday. If you

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have to do it next week, so be it. But
you want to be here this weekend. And if you
come around today, go to the Pillow Windows and Doors
booth and you can register for two tickets to Sunday's
Bengals Lions game. Can't wait. There's a couple of guys
earlier today that we're talking about tickets they bought to
the Bengals Bills game. Oh, how would you feel if

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that was you?

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Well, that's kind of how I feel, because you're going
to Green Bay. That's right Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Oh gosh, I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
I've been telling myself it's because I love football itself
more than I love the.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
BA yeah, I mean Green Bay Tree. May you get
to see lambeau Field Buffalo. Can you imagine like getting
together with a group of buddies, Like, hey, let's get
an airbnb, right, let's head out to Buffalo in December,
let's buy tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
You're thinking that that's gonna be AFC playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Potentially the number one seed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Yeah, Burrow versus Allen again?

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Will it be Allen versus Browning? Will that game be
like Allen vers or Brown or Josh Allen versus Jamis Winze.
What if it's Mitchell Trubisky against Mike White, you know,
then then it becomes the trip of a life.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
You know, Mike White was battling Mitchell Trubisky for the
backup job to Josh Allen in training camp.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Of course, Mike White revenge game. That's why we're That's
why he's here. Yeah, get us to that game. Yeah,
meaningful football in December.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Tell us all of Buffalo's secrets.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Welcome back Friday, Football Frenzy Friday VI here today. Yeah,
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Shout out to Terren Bland back in the studio. Shout
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If you're into houses and all of that fancies. What
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Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
It just looks to be a true brownstone appearance.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Yeah, like New York. Think of New York.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
New York is browny Brownstone a place?

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see you're learning.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
I'm not the only one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
You're learning a lot right now. Now. I'm learning. Yeah.
We're gonna talk in uh just under an hour. Now
We're going to talk to Ethan from a Heritage Building
Group and talk about the home that we're in right
now has been doing a great job. He's hands on, Yeah,
showing people floors. Yeah, we're learning a lot of breaks. Yeah,
learned a lot. I'm gonna learn a lot from from
Ethan we obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
I remember in sixty years to buy a house at
Pellow Windows and Doors.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
The Hartford Green windows are used in this place as well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
Hartford Green. Yeah, you can named after Connecticut. Uh No,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
It's a great question, U, but you I'm starting to
ask question you customize when you can customize the color
of the windows now as well?

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
I love it. I love this color green.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
And if you come out today go to the Pellow
Windows and Doors booth and you can register for two
tickets to the Lions Bengals game on on Sunday. And
if you're waiting, like this weekend, should I get here?
Should I wait? Come this week? This is the weekend
to be here. Don't put it off any longer. Come
on out to hole. Marama, Derek Carr, Jameis Winston. We're

(01:21:11):
not doing it. Anthony Richardson, Joe Flacco, Russell Wilson, you
gotta pick one.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
I would pick Joe Flacco.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
With this offensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
That that answers the question for you, they're terrible. What
about Anthony, He's awful, he can run, He's not that
much better than you right now? Well, and I'm and
I mean that would the utmost rechar I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Yeah, Anthony Richardson what he can do right now? Nothing
by this house. Yeah he could. So if I'm in
that category, I'm in good spot. No Bearcats Cyclones.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
How many defensive starters are out for Iowa State?

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Uh? I think there was six? Questionable, that's crazy. I
know they're gonna be without there's two starting corners, you
see able to get something going with their not just
like there's been times where sores be's been great, There's
been times where the running game has been great. Very
few times has it come together like it did at
Kansas where both were great. It just felt to me

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like the best game we've seen Scott Saderfield call offensively.
If you watch Austin that fourth quarter drive to win
the game, they get down in the red zone, no
one expecting it. They run a draw because what's the
defense doing dropping into coverage, spreading out getting to their receivers.

(01:22:37):
They ran a drawl. Tyreee Walker was able to get
down inside the three yard line. That type of play call, Like,
that's how I know you're in a good rhythm. Yeah,
because no one's thinking of it, and then you do it.
It's like, holy cow, that just opened up for fifteen
eighteen yards. It just felt like Scott Saderfield was in
a really good rhythm. It felt like the offense was
in a really good rhythm.

Speaker 3 (01:22:56):
Tywee Walker secret weapon moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
It was great beasts, great to watch. Think about like
being a member of the secondary and here comes the
run and you got to fill and it's Tyee Walker
who doesn't want to run around you, he wants to
run through you. And then two series later you run
up and you're thinking of that, and then it's Evan
Pryor and he makes one move and then goes around right.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Say, you know, I think one that we forget about
when it comes to last week's game is they did
all that without Joe Royer.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
Yeah, which that to further.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Your point, you know, maybe that opened up the eyes
of Scott Sadderfield a little bit more open, you know,
just decided he would change the playbook up or go
to different parts of the playbook. But to do all
that without Royer and is Royer back this week?

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Royer's back, so reports right now Corleone they feel good
about him being able to play tomorrow, which completely changes
their defense against a team in Iowa State who's gonna
try to be physical upfront with you on both sides
of the ball. It's gonna be uh phenomenal. We're gonna
pick that game at the start of our number three,
but we got to first get to the end of
our number two. It's true. We'll do that when we
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Welcome back Friday Football, Frendy ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.
In just a minute here and we'll get to the
top of our number three. Did you want to read
Austin the quote from Cam Taylor Britt I can upon
being benched.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Camp Taylor Britt in response to being benched by the Broncos.
Quote that's why you ain't going to see it anymore.
I'm dead ass serious. I'm not playing. Everybody keeps talking
about this bleep. I'm for real. That peed me off
something I had no control over, and had control over

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it my whole life. That's one thing I let slip.
And this is the game I love that I've been
playing for so long. It can't fly with me. I
just gotta go ball and be myself.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Okay. End quote. Okay, Cam Taylor Britt, all right, go
do you that camp? Everybody keeps talking about this bleep?
On for real? Do you camp? I would like Camp
Taylor Britt to play better. That'd be nice. He's talking better.
Hopefully he plays better. Good. We gotta make some picks.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Sometimes you gotta get embarrassed.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
We gotta make picks, you know. Backwards to go forward.
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I'm rooting for David Bell's Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Let's go our number three. It's time, you know, we
get right into it. Friday Pickham, Friday Pickham. I'm excited
about that. I'm excited about every bump opportunity we have,
the pix and games. Let's get right into it, Austin.
Let's start at the high school level to think this
is a top ten game according to Max Preps in
the country. Oh, the United States of America. And I'm
not talking about ready, we'll get to that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
And we've got fifty of them things and Puerto Rico.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
I'm talking about. Through these doors walk the men of Moler. Yeah,
travel into the pit all Tiora, Yeah, Purple Friday elder
elder elder, Uh huh. Doug Ramsey's got the squad six
and oh right, they're undefeated. Molar has one blemish. You've
picked against Elder now back to back weeks. We can
do it a third time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Yes, I will, No, I will not. Absolutely, Wow, I'm
going Friday. I have been led astray about Elder multiple
times the last couple of weeks. They're they're at the pit,
and you can't pick against him at the pit as
far as is if you filled this out correctly, and
it says at Elder, is that Elder? Is it true?
Actually at Elder? Yeah, Purple Dag on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Don't matter where they play this game at. And I
like Elder, I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm an
Elder supporter. I've picked him every chance I could. I
just can't pick them tonight. I can't pick him against
this Molar Crusader team. I think they got too much firepower.
Give me the mena Molar going into the pit and
getting the win against Elder tonight, you're disgusting. How about

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Louisville Trinity they're gonna travel up to play sat X. Yeah,
sat next a couple bad weeks now lost to Molar,
lost to Elder. Sat X is trying to right the
ship against a good Trinity team that had Molar on
the Ropes. I like Sainte and Steve Speck to get
right tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
If Trinity is gonna beat X at Saint X, they're
gonna need to be the Holy Trinity, and that ain't
gonna happen. Give me the bombers.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Okay, what about Hamilton? Can Hamilton do anything? Sure? Can
they do anything to surprise Princeton to night.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
I am picking Hamilton because there was a sign at
the Presbyterian Church in downtown Hamilton that said good luck reds.
Lord helped the Bengals, and that brought a lot of
joy to me. So I'll take Hamblton.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
I don't know if the Lord could help Hamilton tonight.
If you listened to all to Tom Gamble, who joined
the show yesterday, he told you that Princeton is one
of the most impressive teams out there. They two had
Muler on the ropes earlier in the year. They dog
walked Lakota West. This year. Give me the vikings from Princeton.
This is one of those games, Austin, you throw the
records out the window. They sat. Yeah, the Bluebirds and

(01:28:51):
the Colonels, cub cath Hilands, Northern Kentucky's gonna be electric tonight, right,
who do you like? Well?

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
I have a hard and fast rule on this show,
and even though I love Joe Daneman and that's my guy,
I will never, ever, ever, ever ever pick cuve caaf
to win anything on this show. I got Highlands.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Cash Harney is all you need to know about to
that person that's our quarterback. Okay, Cash Harney, cuve Cat
gets it done on the road. Give me the Colonels.
I think you're just sucking up to our friend Nicole
who's sitting next year, who's a cufcat thought I got
it from the coal all right, Cash, hardy baby, h Sidney, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
A good you know they're bringing in Io to Ohio?
Is that gonna happen to Kentucky?

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
My big Cash? That might be real quick question for you, answer, Sidney.
Yellowjackets record thus far as what oh and something? Oh
and six? Greenville's two and four. Yeah, I've looked at
the rest of Sydney's schedule. Yep, this feels like the
one you might want to get. I'm gonna take Greenville. Yeah,
because they've been waiting for this game. They've been waiting

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for Sidney to be down and now they're gonna kick
it while they're down. Sure, Greenville all over the Yellow Jackets.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
You know, I was supposed to be this game tonight, homecoming,
but you're coming to Red Jackets.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
But I was told, I was asked.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
I was basically told, hey, you gotta do sports talk
tonight from six to nine.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
I was asked to do that, and I said, I'm
getting on into Redding game.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
Yeah, so I gotta do. I gotta speak to the
American people. Well, Sydney, whoops, Greenville's but in Greenville, or
it's in Sydney, because again, you've screwed this up. I
just said, verse, Yeah, Sydney, it's homecoming for the Yellow Jackets. Oh,
they get there first and only.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
So this is that Sydney. Yes, that changes nothing. Give
me Greenville the tailor Yellow Jackets, you're a bad guy.
They head into the Veterans Memorial Stadium tonight, one of
only two remaining fields locally that is all natural grass. Yeah.
Now it's been dry here lately, but I've got word
that reading has watered that grass to slow down Tailor

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a little bit. Tonight. The Blue Devils won last week.
The week before, they took Madeira to the to the
ropes to the brink. There's a little retribution here. Taylor
dominated reading last year. That doesn't happen with the Skyline,
Chili Crossdown, Showdown, and me in attendance tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
Give me the blue des It's true that you're coming
into the stadium on a helicopter.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
I tried that. Oh could not get that approved.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
So you couldn't get that approved. No, don't know what
you're gonna say to the team game. The water in
the grass is apparently high and dry, grass.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Is green, sky is blue. We got a lot of
work to do.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Gimme Taylor comfortably in a back to back years and
a route over reading sickening, especially if you don't even
know what you're gonna say to this.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Let's go to the college slate, Love and honor Miami
of Ohio at Northern Illinois. Northern Illinois getting as a
home dog four and a half points.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
What say you, Miami on the road covers four and
a half.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Yeah, Miami used linden Wood as a get right game
last week. I think Miami's ready. It is Mac season.
We know about Chuck Martin. When Max season rolls around,
they start playing good foot.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
Back season was last night in Los Angeles'.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Right, Mac Jones gone Virginia coming off a huge upset
and one of the best field stormings I've ever witnessed. Yeah,
they beat Florida State. Now they go to Louisville and
even though they're ranked, they're getting six and a half
too much? Or are we overreacting to the wind.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
You know who's ranked here, Virginia, Okay, And you're saying Louisville.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Is favored by Savorit by six and a half? Why
is that the case? Why is a.

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Ranked team greg question and a half point underdogs on
the road.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Every time I've wondered that, I think in my good
buddy Dan Horde. Yes, and when you wonder something like that,
normally Vegas knows more than we do.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Louisville first, Cardinals, Forever give me the cards.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
I got the cards as well, for every reason I
just gave. Vegas knows something that I don't. Everything about me,
says Virginia. This spread is ridiculous. Someone knows more than
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
Shout out to Abingdon Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
Kentucky at Georgia. Yes, not a good week for Kentucky
last week. No, not a good week. For Georgia last week.
Georgia plays angry, they play inspired, and they easily cover
twenty and a half against Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
I don't think it's easy for him. I think Kentucky
covers twenty and a half. They don't win the game. Obviously,
Georgia wins it, but it's ugly in Athens.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
PJ row the boat ashore with Tallee Lujah, what you're
gonna do? That's what PJ. Fleck does. They row the
boat at Fleck, they roll the boat at Minnesota. Will
they row it in the tune of covering twenty three
and a half?

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
No, Wow, night home big ten game. Ohio State comfortably
Julian saying, get right game. I think their corners a
little bit banged up as well at Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Yeah. If Ohio State doesn't cover this number, they're dead.
Demand I'll never pick him again. Give me Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
I think that's fair, honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Wisconton at Michigan seventeen and a half. Wisconsin is awful. Yeah,
they are ready to run Luke Fickel out of town. Yeah,
at any moment does Michigan help that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
Yeah, this is Luke Fickel's last game. As head coach
of the Wisconsin Badgers.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
Wow, it is gonna be so bad at the Big
House that Fickle might have to walk back to Matson. Now,
who's coaching this game for Michigan? I don't know. They
got their regular coach backers and still the other do
they get they pick and choose? Yeah, I don't know.
I know they got bryce under list.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
And when they're cheating, which they are, and you already
don't have a good team, which Fickle doesn't, you're just
getting ugly.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
All right, I'll take Michigan then as well. Number nine
Texas against Florida. These are two teams predicted to do
a lot early in the season. Florida has been terrible,
but their schedule hasn't helped. They got a lathe or
they're getting five and a half? Is this finally the
game where arch Manning looks like what we expected arch
Maning to say?

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
Yes it is, and the Heisman hype as we get
into a new month of October starts all over again
with arch Manning.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
I think it's Texas, but I think it's more because
of their defense. Florida's just beaten down man. Their schedule
is brutal, As soon as this goes sideways, I think
they roll over a little bit. Give me Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
That breaks the string of four straight home teams that
you had picked.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Good pick, I'm gonna pick another one here. Vandy upset
Alabama last year. They celebrated it all off season, and
then Diego Pavia said they're gonna go into Alabama. That's
why he's coming back, because they're gonna go win and
they're gonna compete in the segame. I heard will Compton
say this earlier, and I don't know if I would
be listening to him. Alabama is gonna drag Vanderbilt out

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to the deep water and they're gonna leave them there.
They're gonna wear them down in the deep water. Gimme
Alabama big in this one. Uh roll tied.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
Willie always says, I don't give a blank about nothing
but the tide, and I'll tell you what. They get right,
and they get their lick back over Vandy.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
Miami third in the country. Are you buying the kool
aid for Miami? Or does Florida State bounce back after
a disappointing loss on the road at Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Now this is tough that they're not in Miami where
Mike Irvin is spending that thing and just going He's
doing something then, but for that reason, uh, you know,
Florida State, the way they treated my guy, Kirk Curve Street,
I'm picking a gift them give me Miami in a
route over Florida State.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
I'm just viewing that seminal on the horse running out
with the spear, Dot's midfield with it. That place goes nuts.
Things feel like they're back to normal at Florida State
in Tallahassee. Give me Florida State to win. Iowa State, Cincinnati, Yes,
what do you say?

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Bump, bump, bump, I'm drinking the kool aid. I'm sipping
the kool aid of whatever. I'm drinking it. I'm sipping it.
I'm chugging it, whatever it is. Scott Sadderfield, the way
he performed without Joe Royer, with all the injuries of
Iowa State, with Dante Corleone coming back, Brendan Soresby with
the Sincy three to sixty mojo.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Give me the.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Bearcats in a stripe, striped, the striped, the nip and
striped the nip. Give me the Bearcats.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
You know what I'm gonna do, with this one, I'm
gonna cover two and a half. I'm gonna make this
our Win Shulers Cheesy spread of the way. Whoa, because
there's just something about this game when I heard it
that said that that sounds a little off to me. Okay,
a little cheesy. Yeah, I think we're all surprised by it.
So thanks to our friends at Win Schulers. When it
comes to throwing a winning football party, the bold flavor
of win Schuler's classic Chief spreads isn't one thing. It's everything, Austin,

(01:37:19):
and this game for the Bearcats tomorrow is everything. The
idea is Dante Corleona's back, Joe Royer is back, this
offense is operated in a high level, and it's a
sold out Nippert Stadium. It ain't nippet noon, or it
ain't nipt Knight. It's nipping noon. I wish it was
nipt Knight, but it's nipp and noon.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
It's nipp noon.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
Give me the Bearcats tomorrow to beat Iowa State and
announce themselves as contenders in the Big twelfth title race.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
I'm shocked to hear you say that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
NFL. Let's get to our NFL slate Viking's at Brown's.
Not at Browns. They're in Dublin. Is that where they're at. No,
they're in London. They're in London. Yeah. So Minnesota went
from Dublin to London.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
And then Cleveland said, Brian Flores, defense, watch this, here
comes Dylan Gabriel.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
They don't know how to finn left handed quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
They don't know what they're doing against a lefty. Does
a Minnesota cover three and a half? They do not.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
Wow, I have Cleveland to win this football Wow. I
believe in the Browns this weekend. The big reason for
this is the Minnesota offensive line is completely destroyed and
Carson Wentz is still their quarterback. And I believe that
Cleveland right now is a better football team. And with

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the youthful exuberance and the joy that exudes from Dylan Gabriel, who,
by the way, his parents can't make it because his
dad doesn't have a passport, doesn't have the pressure of
mom and dad watching. And finally, for this reason, when
I first started working at this radio station some seven
years ago, I was doing overnights with a guy by

(01:38:48):
the name of Rob Carpenter with the newsman overnights shu
two bs in Rob, shout up the Rob. He's a
die hard Cleveland Browns fan. He has a basement that
is dedicated to the Cleveland Browns. It has its own
Twitter account.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
Rob is in London for the game. He's left the
States to go watch his Browns. And I love Rob
so much that it overcomes my hatred of Cleveland. I'll
take the Browns.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Dylan Gabriel gets drug into the deep waters. Thank you,
good Tar. Dylan Gabriel gets drug out of those same waters.
Where Alabama takes Vanderbilt. Vikings win the game. Yeah, they
might pitch a shutout. Uh, Texans Ravens.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
No Lamar, I forgot Taron was a Vikings fit.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
What do you think? No Lamar? Yeah, no, pre j
strouts that he feels old.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
No Lamar, no problem. I'm with the fact that the
Texans are favored in This is disrespectful to Jim or
John Harball's Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Yeah. This is the first time all year Ravens defense
will actually look good. Broncos at Eagles, Yeah, this is
the Eagles for me, easily.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
The Eagles are the cream of the crowd.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
The press has a long way to go, Philly.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
I think this is one of the tougher games to
pick on the weekend. The Tampa Bay Bucks at the
Seattle Seahawks. Yeah, I love Seattle's defense. Bucks are still
a little bit banged up. They're just something about Baker
mayfield man that I can't go against. Give me the
Bucks on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
That place is gonna be buzzing Mariners beginning the ald
in Seattle. Wow, Tampa's still got some injuries. Mike Evan's
not gonna be a part of it. I think their
luck runs out against a good defense. I'll take Seattle
to cover three and a half at home.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
I thought the hardest game to pick of the weekend
for me this next one, Commander's at Chargers. I thought
I knew who the Chargers were, and then last week
happened against the Giants. Commanders underachieving so far but expected
to get Jaydon Daniels back.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Yeah, I think this is a close game. If it
was three and a half, I probably would take the
Commanders to cover it. But because it's two and a half,
I can see the Chargers winning this game by a
field goal.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
I honestly hadn't picked this game yet. And in my mind,
I was just gonna go opposite of whatever you did. Okay,
for that reason, I'll take the Commanders fair enough, Chiefs Jaguars. Yes,
I was ready to drive the stake into the Chiefs
last week. Sure, and then on all sides of the
they actually look like a competent football team. Jaguars. Nice
three and one start, one blemish here in Cincinnati fort

(01:41:06):
place to play. Do the Chiefs go on the road
and win a three and a half point favorites.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
There was a guy on this radio station at the
very beginning of the year who was very high on
the Jacksonville Jaguars and sold you a lot of good
things about Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
And here they are at.

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
Three and one Monday night football in Duevall, Douvall. Jacksonville
beats Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Wow, Kansas City routes in this one. This is an
easy Kansas City with you out to the deep water
after this. Kansas City found themselves offensively last week, which
is easy to do against Baltimore at this point. But
I like what they're doing on defense as well. I've
seen Trevor Lawrence throw the ball around. He's gonna do
it again. Chiefs get some turnovers. Chiefs win the game.

(01:41:49):
Lions at Bengals. Yeah, Bengals. I'm being honest with you,
what I'd of comfortably taken this one to about seventeen
and a half. You're picking the Lions plus ten and
a half seems like a gift like work. We're starting
to get a little bit into the holiday season. Consider
that an easy early Christmas gift. That spread is only

(01:42:11):
ten and a half. I think the Lions win this
game easily over the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
I think, you know, we talked about that quote from
Cam Taylor brit I think there's fifty three Camp Taylor
Brits on that Bengals roster right now that are feeling
disrespected and down in the dumps and angry about the
way that they've embarrassed on national television the last couple
of weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
I'm embarrassed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
And finally the worm will turn. The worm turns, you know,
Dave Lapham once said that eventually the worm will turn.
But right now, that worm's very deep. It's pretty deep
worm right now.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
Who's taking them out?

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
It turns this weekend and the Bengals cover ten and
a half.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
Who's lifted up that rock? To help the worm turn.
I can't say Cam Taylor Brett.

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Gary Owen, ruler of the Jungle.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
I love Gary.

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
We need to get him on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
I love Gary Man. That is that one.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
He'd probably curse more than John Mott.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
That's our Pickham segment. We'll take a break. We'll come
back plenty more to go here the Friday Football Frenzy.
We'll tell you more about where we're at and while
we're here next on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 10 (01:43:18):
Now your chance to Cincy three sixty is back on
ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
Welcome back Friday Football Frenzy. Here at the twenty twenty
five edition Austin of Holme Arama. Thanks to our friends
at Pellam Windows and Doors here in Cincinnati and the
folks Inhritage Building Group, we are in the Brownstone model
that they have a true Brownstone appearance. Yes, when we
come back, we're gonna talk to Ethan, We're gonna talk

(01:43:52):
to John. We're gonna tell you more about where we're
at and why we're here. We're gonna talk about this
custom custom home that we are broadcasting from today. The
golf simulator in the basement, mixed with an unbelievable kitchen,
more bedrooms than you can imagine, wet bar. Upstairs, they've
got this like outdoor living space that you can essentially

(01:44:15):
turn into another indoor living space upstairs. It's pretty amazing.
It's unbelievable. Really is cool. And our good friends of Pella,
Jim and Fred and Matt and Nathan Craig, Jason, they
all do such great work. They're unbelievable to work with.
They took care of us today. Yes, they did. With
these baseball bats so cool that I haven't I need
to post the picture. I haven't gotten a picture. I've

(01:44:37):
done my best not to swing this baseball bat as
much as I'd like during the broadcast, But over the
next twenty six minutes, I can't promise anything.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
You might have to take it down to the golf simulator.
I might see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
I have to take this to the batting cage. Yeah.
Ethan will join us next, John will join us. Next.
We'll tell you why we're here and all the amazing
stuff you can find at home Rama this weekend when
you come out. It's next on the Friday. Football friends
of ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 3 (01:45:09):
My name is tovep Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
Welcome back Friday Football Frenzy, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports
station Sports. That's what we do here. I know, I know,
but I wanted to today. It's more than today. It's
a little bit different. Yes, today we are. We're here
at the twenty twenty five Home Rama. Thanks Pillow Windows
and Doors for having us out. We are in the Brownstone,

(01:45:34):
the Brownstone from the Heritage Building Group I want to
talk to. Let's start with Ethan, who is a not
only phenomenal builder with what you guys have done here,
but you're also a bearcat, yes sir, and that carries
more weight than anything in this broadcast. Tell me about
this weekend, tell me about how exciting this is and

(01:45:55):
what else is going on.

Speaker 31 (01:45:56):
This is such a big deal for the city of
Cincinnati and the Home Building this ssociation as a whole.
And actually I'm sitting across from John Collen, who is
actually a past Homarama chair as well. So not only
getting to building this, you actually get to be a
part with Karen Pfeiffer and running this whole show. And
it is so amazing to see all these different builders
come together and we're three to five feet apart from

(01:46:19):
each other building same style homes, very vertical, but yet
every one of these homes is so different. This is
such an awesome opportunity for the city of Cincinnati to
see the different features and all the different creativeness that
all these builders can come together and do at the
same time.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
And I feel like there's such a vast array of
what people can do when they come here, whether it's
you know, we've seen people come through that are looking
for ideas for their own home, or maybe they're looking
in the market for a home itself. It's such a
remarkable opportunity to walk through so many of these and
not just that, but experience so much about what makes
us cool.

Speaker 11 (01:46:55):
Oh my god, and you hit it on the head.

Speaker 31 (01:46:57):
Everybody thinks that this is about selling these homes, and
don't get me wrong, I'd love to sell my house
right now.

Speaker 11 (01:47:01):
It's listed for one, six, four nine if anybody needs
to know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
If it doesn't sell, we could just keep doing the
show here.

Speaker 11 (01:47:06):
We'll work out a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Okay, perfect, perfect.

Speaker 31 (01:47:09):
But you know the other thing that's so awesome for
our vendors and subcontractors. Like again, thank you to Pella
and everything that they've done, not only for us as
Heritage Building Group, but for the HbA.

Speaker 11 (01:47:18):
As a whole.

Speaker 31 (01:47:20):
But I can't tell you how many conversations I've had
with oh my god, your kitchen island, your your countertop,
Oh my gosh, we love the wallpaper or the hard
for green Pellow.

Speaker 11 (01:47:28):
Windows, anything like that.

Speaker 31 (01:47:31):
And that's what's so unique is about ninety five percent
of the people that come here they get to take
one piece of one or three or five of the
homes and they can go bring that back to their
own home.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
I would imagine it. It's a big deal because you
won't be at Nippert Stadium tomorrow, so instead of being
at Nippert, you'll be here at home rama, which tells
me that this is a big deal for people to
get out here this weekend and come through.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
Oh.

Speaker 31 (01:47:56):
Absolutely, this is for us and our family business. My
dad's had the opportunity to work in different homeramas for
other builders, but for us, this is our kind of
coming out party, as you will.

Speaker 11 (01:48:07):
Don't get me.

Speaker 31 (01:48:07):
Wrong, we all like to talk and we all give
each other crap. The builders are very competitive, but It's
also such a cohesive group because I've learned so much
from the people that I've worked with on the board
of the HbA.

Speaker 11 (01:48:20):
But for this, you can finally.

Speaker 31 (01:48:23):
Put a little down on what you've been talking about
for years, and now it's on display for the rest
of the city, the country, whoever it is to check
it out.

Speaker 2 (01:48:31):
How cool is the family aspect of it? To do
this with your dad. I know your brother's around here somewhere.
Hopefully he's not around anything that can break.

Speaker 11 (01:48:38):
We're trying to keep him out of the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
I know you got to be careful. I've already seen
him drop multiple things today. But just the opportunity to
do this with your family as well has got to
be cool.

Speaker 11 (01:48:46):
Oh, it's such an awesome experience.

Speaker 31 (01:48:48):
And there's a lot of building companies that are first, second, third, fourth,
fifth generation builders.

Speaker 11 (01:48:53):
But I got to tell you.

Speaker 31 (01:48:55):
Getting to work with my father, my boss, my business partner,
and one of my best friends every single day, I mean,
it is so fun. I mean, I'm not kidding you.
One of our favorite stories that we tell people is
we can be at each other's throats, screaming and yelling,
and he walks one way, I walk the other way.
My brother hangs up on us, and then within three

(01:49:15):
minutes we're all texting each other where we're going to lunch.

Speaker 11 (01:49:18):
Yeah, and being able to turn.

Speaker 31 (01:49:20):
And flip that script to where it's business and then
its family. It's such an amazing and unique opportunity that
we have and I literally chaerish every bit of it.
And everybody keeps asking me when my dad's gonna retire,
and I mean this salt of the earth, but I
promise you his funeral is gonna be in a footer somewhere.
We're gonna wheel him up to one of the last

(01:49:42):
houses he ever builds. We're gonna kick him in the
footer and he'll be the happiest guy on two.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
He he looks like he runs these stairs every morning.

Speaker 31 (01:49:49):
You uhould have seen it before we had steps and
he was climbing all the framing up and down twenty
five times.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
I get it. John Collins with us as well from
Somerset Custom Homes, John Home Marama for you tell us
what that means and the experience.

Speaker 32 (01:50:04):
Been involved with Toalmarama for a lot of years. I
think this makes our ninth year as a company over
the last thirty some years. It's innovation, it's inspiration. It's
all of the new technologies, all of the things that
we're really trying to get into the regular or the
mass market as were, and bring that home to America.

(01:50:25):
These things happen all over the country. I think Cincinnati
has put a pretty hefty stamp on it as far
as this is the way we should do it as
home show providers, and that kind of expands over to
different markets. I really think that inspiration is the best
word that I can give you for what we want
customers that are company these shows to be able to

(01:50:46):
take home what is for.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
You from start to finish, everything that that is home Orama.
What's your favorite part the sale?

Speaker 32 (01:50:55):
Just like everybody else that builds in these shows, what's
your second favorite, second favorite? It's probably seeing some of
the finishes go in when you've taken everything from a
rough stage. I mean it started out on a piece
of paper. You're building your way up, especially on these
houses that are very vertical. You get up to the
top floor, you see a little bit of the structure,
you get through the mechanicals and drywall, and then you

(01:51:17):
get to the point where you're putting some paint on
the walls, or putting some trim in or some appliances
and those kind of things, and those are really the
decoration of the house. And it's then you can really
fully see the vision start to come alive.

Speaker 2 (01:51:29):
Start to finish once you're breaking ground to where we
are now, how long is something like that taking.

Speaker 32 (01:51:35):
I could make a comment about some other builders, but
I I'll just go with this for our company, we
had a little bit of a delay of the city
Cincinnati was working hard to make sure that we earned
our parts.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
But we had five months from the day we broke around. Wow,
the day that we I was thinking, like years.

Speaker 11 (01:51:54):
He was the fastest builder, but the second finished.

Speaker 32 (01:51:57):
Okay, Ethan's got me in that regard weeks that start.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
How does that the initial process go? You guys obviously
very competitive with each other. But those initial meetings to
sit down and once the location and everything is determined,
what do those meetings look like? What are you guys discussing.

Speaker 32 (01:52:15):
Anything and everything? I mean, it starts early on, as
in a couple of years before any of the builders
ever arrived. That the developers are starting, their teams are
picking the ground. Everywhere you find just the right site.
You find an infield spot like this. This used to
be warehouse space and it's been turned into this great subdivision.
You've got pocket parks all over the place here. It

(01:52:37):
is really, I guess, running from the developers to the
builders deciding that they want to get involved. A couple
of us were marketing houses. I believe the majority of
us were. Yeah, And we as builders have to go
through our whole process. We have to come up with
the plan that's going to fit a lot. We have
to come up with a design that we think that
the customers are going to want to buy, and then

(01:52:58):
we have to fill it with all of the things
or the new technologies or the new trends or any
and all of those things that are not only going
to bring customers out to the show just to see
the things, but also ideally to sell it really quickly.

Speaker 31 (01:53:10):
On the HbA is such an important part in that,
because you already saw it. John and I giving each
other a little bit of smack back and forth. But
as much as we all are competitors, we are all
here for the same goal and we're all looking for
the best opportunity.

Speaker 11 (01:53:26):
And that's what's so awesome.

Speaker 31 (01:53:28):
About trying to find and determine which infill or site
development is going to be the next home Rama and
it's all the builders that get together that ultimately make
that decision for you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
Outside of selling this bad boy that we're sitting in
right now, what's your second favorite part of home Rama.

Speaker 31 (01:53:44):
Outside of selling it and maybe having fun a little
bit at preview party night, I think just being able
to talk to everybody, so, you know, getting to see
the different customers' reactions when they first walk in your
door or when you're sitting up here and they first
come up to your rooftop. I think that's what's so
cool for me is because you know, the blood, sweat

(01:54:05):
and tears that goes through all of this, and you
fight like heck to you know, get to that finished product,
and then you get to see the reactions. And don't
get me wrong, you get some people that walk in
there and go really like, this is.

Speaker 11 (01:54:17):
What you guys decided.

Speaker 31 (01:54:18):
But then on the flip side too, which you want that,
you want to see the constructive criticism, but then getting
to see that, you know that wow, like when people
first walk in, That's what doesn't for me is getting
to see that instant reaction from other people that could
or may not even want to buy the house.

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
I would be remiss not to ask you, even though
you're not going to be at Nippert tomorrow, what do
you feel with the bearcatch right now?

Speaker 11 (01:54:43):
Cats by ninety that we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
Same thing the last time.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
You're wrong?

Speaker 31 (01:54:48):
I know, consistent, I try to be, but you know,
I think this is a big, big opportunity for coach
Saderfield and his staff, and I think this is a
big opportunity for you see football to kind of bring
this city thank you. And I talked about this a
little bit earlier. This city thrives for a successful sports team,
and Cincinnati's right there. I mean, we saw it with

(01:55:09):
Fickles run and the way the city got behind this
Bearcat football team.

Speaker 11 (01:55:13):
So I really really hope.

Speaker 31 (01:55:15):
That Vegas is correct and that the Bearcats really come
out and do what they're supposed to do. And I
think that's the biggest thing that we're looking for, is
to see the Bearcats weekend week out start producing just
what everybody expects.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Does feel like Bishall's got some good things happening with
the baseball program as well. Yes he does, Yes, Yes,
they all right now.

Speaker 31 (01:55:37):
Yes they are, and he's gotten some good opportunities within
the portal. I think maybe some extra donors, or maybe
starting to step up, getting to see the Bearcats, you know,
starting to make that run towards the end of the
season to the College World Series. So I think there's
a lot of good things happening down at the University
of Cincinnati right now, and I think that comes from leadership,
and that comes from getting into the Big twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
You ever think about what your nil asking price would.

Speaker 31 (01:55:59):
Have been, because I would have never been able to
make it to D one during the anile period.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
Say you, what if nil was a thing? I would
buy this place today.

Speaker 11 (01:56:06):
Well, so I keep talking to my cousin.

Speaker 31 (01:56:08):
I keep joking with him about what happens when his
son goes to the other side of the country. And
I'm like, man, if he's as good as everybody thinks
he's gonna be, he's gonna be buying you the conduct.

Speaker 2 (01:56:16):
That's right. That's tough, man.

Speaker 9 (01:56:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
We cannot thank you guys enough for having us out.
This has been awesome everything involved with Homrama. John Ethan,
thank you guys so much, and we appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (01:56:27):
Yeah, Thank you guys, Thank you Pella.

Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, guys are great. It's a Friday football frenzy. Indeed,
quick hits to finish things off. Next ESPN fifteen thirty
Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 10 (01:56:36):
In fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, It's time for Sincy
three sixty quick hits on ESPN fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
Thirty Friday Football Frenzy once again. Thanks to Pellow Windows
and Doors for having us out here today at Home
RAMA twenty twenty five. We only got a couple minutes left.
I gotta get to the batting cages. You can't get
sold off with this thing. You holding that thing up.
Starting to feel lighter and lighter. There was a time

(01:57:04):
in my life where thirty four probably didn't feel this heavy.
This is This feels like a big piece of lumber.
Shout out to Paul Frischner for stopping by till my guy, Paul.
Paul stopped by. Paul.

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
It's a home game for Paul. I think he lives
next door in one of these houses.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
Next time, I thought, I just saw him sign the
paper pretty sure. Yeah, and I think he's I thought
he was looking for his guest house.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
He came here to just buy a house and was like, oh,
Tony and Austin, those guys worked out pretty well. Yeah,
uh so, Paul obviously is starting. But we do have
our injury report officially for the Bengals. Okay, are you
ready for this? Throw it at me, Samar Stewart ankle out. Okay,
that's gone longer than I hoped it would. Have no offense,

(01:57:44):
concussion cleared.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
He's gonna play second in targets, isn't he? And then
Charlie Joyner is questionable. Charlie Jones.

Speaker 2 (01:57:53):
Charlie Joiner.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Charlie Jones is questionable with an achilles injur just official by.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
One of my favorite questions I've ever heard, ask to
the press conference, tell me more about Charlie joynts.

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
And he said it several times to the point where
Zach was like, what, Charlie, that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
It happens.

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
It's just a brain block. We've all been there. Lucas
Patrick not back yet, No, at least another week for Lucas.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
When Lucas Patrick gets back, this team will start.

Speaker 3 (01:58:17):
Running the ball. Yes, that's what I said.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
When they When Lucas Patrick gets back, then the Bengals
begin their run to the playoffs. Thoughts. Sure, Okay, that's
really that's all I'm looking for. Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
By the way, if you're going to the game tomorrow
the Bengals and Hamilton County and the idea.

Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
Comes to say the Bengals game, you're talking about the
bear Cats game, both red and black orange. Play the
Bengals game. Figure out what you gotta wear.

Speaker 3 (01:58:44):
There have been significant changes. This affects you, by the way,
tomorrow Sunday, significant changes to the Bengals parking and the
direction of traffic before and after the game. Uh, it's
too much to read on the internet, but you can
go to Bengals dot com that tease slash parking, or
you can go to the seven hundred WLW Twitter page.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
They've got all the information.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
So basically, if you're west of like the Central Garage there,
then everything I have no clue shuffles west. They change
a bunch of the parking. Okay, well, here's the thing
I'm telling everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
If you're sitting home right now and you're like, I
might go out to Home Orama, I might not. Let
me tell you this. Maybe you want tickets to the
game on Sunday, But you don't want to spend the money.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
It would make a lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Come to Home Rama, go to the Pella booth ye
and you can register to win two tickets to Sunday's game,
Lions v. Bengals. Bad day to be a Lion man.
You're gonna stick with it. You're gonna stick with the Bengals.
The Bengals shocked the world and they cover the number.

Speaker 3 (01:59:43):
Yes, shocked by covering which.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
Right, let's be honest right now, that to me would
be a shock.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
That would be a morale, Like that would be a
moral victory.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
Because if they if they do that, that means they
were in the game late, and that means they are
improving on what we've seen over the last two weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
Are we happy with a moral victory on Sunday?

Speaker 2 (01:59:59):
I'm happy with that thing other than a bloodbath. Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
So that that's we talked about earlier this week, Like
it felt like Monday to me felt like the end
of something. It was the end of the high expectations. Okay,
because no Borough blah blah blah like whatever, all this stuff.
The expectations of they're gonna win every time they take
the field is gone.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
Yeah, it's it's over. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:00:19):
So now, as sad as it might be, as long
as you don't get embarrassed again, you feel all right.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
And also, Lamar Jackson's hurt. You still have two games
against Pittsburgh, one of them on Thursday night here in Cleveland.
They're gonna be starting Shore Sanders in week eighteen is
four degrees.

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
So, like Dancy North is not okay, now, okay, slow down,
you're still too into that. Next week you're in second place.
We're not winning the North yet, No, we're not. But
I'm telling you it's not crazy. Like the season isn't over.
Let me tell you what's not crazy?

Speaker 3 (02:00:51):
Can they get can they build on something starting Sunday
and moving forward?

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
Let me tell you what's not crazy. What's not crazy?
An opportunity to put yourself in the dead thick of
a Big twelve championship race tomorrow at Nippert Stadium that
legitimately can happen. You're fired up. Iowa State, good team,
they come to your building. You don't play Texas Tech,
who I think right now is the best Big twelve team.
You miss them BYU. You're building TCU, You're building. You

(02:01:20):
got a road trip late in the year, you got
to go to Utah. But again, if you're playing well
at that point, I think you buy yourself into a
lot of things. I think you give yourself a really
good opportunity because now people are believing. Now, they're tuning in.
Now they want to talk about the Bearcats. Everyone I've
seen this week Bearcats, Bearcats, Nippert Stadium. You've now got

(02:01:41):
the attention back because of what you did against Kansas.
Can you capitalize on that? Because if you lay an
egg tomorrow, what do we do? Well? Maybe Kansas isn't
that good, maybe they're not who we thought they are.
You got a chance to change the narrative and to
capitalize on the city of Cincinnati looking for something to
believe in right now because of the state of the
other sports outside of FC Cincinnati. Who plays at New

(02:02:03):
York Red Bulls on Sunday. Shout out to Tom Glad.

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
Shout out to Miles Robinson getting called up for the
October International Window, which I know you're a fan of
October soccer, the International Window.

Speaker 2 (02:02:13):
I know you're big October baseball, October soccer.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
If you want to play December soccer in Major League
Sucker you got anything that means you're in the conference
title in MLS cut.

Speaker 2 (02:02:22):
You got the clock and everything. I don't know how
much time we have. We have one minute remaining. Oh well,
I heard the music. I thought we were done.

Speaker 3 (02:02:28):
We can be done if you want to be done.

Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
Can we take a chance to thank Pellow Windows and
Doors one more time?

Speaker 5 (02:02:33):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
Pella now pay later. Yep. Thanks to home Orama. Yes,
thanks every when it came out. Thanks for hosting us
here today. Thanks to Mike Mills. Thanks to Mike Mills
for producing Heritage Building Group and this beautiful Brownstone. Thanks
to Terren Blaine and I genuinely hope they sell. But
if they don't sell it, I look forward to being
back here again next week for our next show. Thanks
for the Friday Football Frenzy. Again for Terarren Bland producing.

(02:02:56):
Thanks Arn and Joyce SmackDown tonight. Terren's not happy with me.
I'm gonn joined us Knockdown that ready puts on Taylor
tonight as well. Here we go. Have a great Friday,
have a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
The Battle for the Little Brown jug in Sydney Tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:03:08):
ESPN fifteen thirty Friday Football Frenzy. Thanks for tuning in.
On ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

Speaker 28 (02:03:14):
Station United Dairy Farmers Presents Freneman and Jones on Baseball
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Speaker 2 (02:03:31):
Part by Encore Technologies.

Speaker 28 (02:03:34):
On Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen.

Speaker 5 (02:03:36):
Thirty Tracy, our season's over, as the Red Season is.
It's hard to believe that we joke last yesterday or
yesterday about how many years it's been. Twenty five years,
which is incredible. Our show has been going on NonStop
through all the thick and thin of the Red seasons,
and here we are capping off the twenty fifth year.

(02:03:57):
It's really been amazing.

Speaker 4 (02:03:59):
Bow I think it's been outstanding Marty, to work with
you and the insight that you have as far as baseball.
I didn't know you knew so much about baseball because
you never played the game, and yet you're no idea.
Do you know what I find interesting?

Speaker 5 (02:04:17):
I know I didn't play the game, and if I
needed to be reminded of it, you have reminded me
of it about I don't know four dozen times every
year over.

Speaker 4 (02:04:25):
The last twenty five years. Well, I just want to
say you did a great job this year.

Speaker 5 (02:04:33):
I really appreciate the vote accomplidence that you have no
idea how much that means to me. I mean, I'm
smiling from ear to ear. It means nothing, really have
more to say. For the final time, in twenty twenty five,
in just a moment, he dates

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