October 16, 2025 • 5 mins
Richard Skinner from Local 12 joined us to discuss the Cincinnati Bengals, their game against the Steelers, Joe Flacco, Logan Wilson, and his own dreams and aspirations for the human race.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Richard Skinner's with us because
it's Wednesday, Local twelve Local twelve dot com getting said
for tomorrow's Bengals Steelers still ty skinny?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey mo, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I have? I've really never been better? How about yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I think I'm the same.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's Trey Hendrickson gonna play?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't know, man, It was left very vague on Monday.
I kind of expect, honestly, the way he walked off,
and you know, you're ruled out at halftime of a game,
turn around play again on Thursday usually doesn't take place.
Initially it was his back today on the official report,
it was his hip, and so I'm gonna guess this
(00:41):
will be Let's see what he looks like in pregame.
You know, if you could get fifteen to twenty snaps
out of in situational, maybe it comes to that. So yeah,
I mean, the fact they didn't rule him out certainly
gives you a chance to put him in some level
of a role, but nowhere near. You know, he only
plays about seventy five percent of stasurdy. We probably not
even close.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
To that if you go at all, I'm not upset
that they're benching Logan Wilson in favor of Barrett Carter,
because you know what, this is a league where draft
picks have to give you something as soon as possible.
Logan Wilson might not have been playing poorly, but it's
not like he was rewriting history at the linebacker position.
And it feels like he is handling this well, I'm
(01:20):
okay with this? Should I be?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah? And I'll be honest with you. You know, our
friend Paul Danner Junior does a preseason podcast. That did
it at Tom's watch bar, and he asked us all
to you know, buy and sell a player, and I said,
you know, Sadley, I'm selling Logan Wilson. It wouldn't shock
me by week six if he's not a starter any longer.
And it came into fruition. You know. The weird prot WASMO,
I thought I was eating my words. Is the way
(01:44):
he played in Week one in Cleveland. I thought he
played really well. You know that was even after he
went off with you. They have a concussion protocol to
be evaluated for one and it's just I mean, I
blurted down in the Denver press box on one run
I don't know why he yelled it so loud, but
I did. It was blank blank logan take a better angle,
and it's just not wor It just wasn't working any longer.
And I do think to that point that they needed
(02:06):
a spark. They needed something different. Now, something different also
looks like you look like on the Josh Jacobs touchdown
run where Demetrius Knight goes to one sea gap and
compare Carter goes to the other sea gap and nobody's
in the middle of field. You can let that happen
once or twice because they're rookies, but you can't have
that happen much more. But I'm with you. It gives
you more athleticism, It just gives you something different, and
(02:27):
I think they need anything different at this point on
that side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I have spent his entire NFL career feeling nothing when
it came to Joe Flacco. Appreciate the longevity. Appreciate what
he's done. It's hard to play that long in the league.
He's kind of bounced around. On Friday. I became a
fan because I just saw somebody who appreciated the absurdity
of the situation that he's in and you know it
was gonna make the most of it. And as that
(02:50):
game went forward on Sunday, he did I'm team Joe Flacco,
Skinny no man.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
After the game, I wrote a column of you know
the comp and it's a quarterback now has given you
some legitimate reason for hope in turning things around now.
I also cited the defense needing to step forward too,
and that's a big step they have to take at
this point, and I'm not fully confident in that, but yeah,
you know what they did from the last drive of
the first half on was was him starting to feel
(03:18):
all right, let me just take this easy completion here
for eight yards and let me start to trust where
Jamar is going to be in t's one. It's one
thing to know what they are. He knows what they are,
he knows how good they are. But he had twelve
practice reps of Jamar Chase before that game. So even
though you believe in trust he's gonna be where I
need the ball to go, until you see it happen,
you really don't probably fully have that trust. And then
(03:39):
you see it happen and you go, huh. I mean,
he even made a point of one coming to the
sideline one point ton Jake Bronning. I mean, like these
guys snatch the ball. They don't just catch it, they
snatch it. And he said, you know, I made a
bad throat at Jamal on one thing, and he just
pucked it out of the air. And so I think
that's the thing. You saw that report take place, you know,
eight and Jamar had twelve or fifteen catches in the
second half. I don't think that's a coincience. I think
(04:01):
it's Joe Flacco realizing all right, here's what I got
to work with. And then when the coverage dictated goes
somewhere else. Oh, here's an eight yard checkdown to this
guy or a seven yard pass of this Titan. And
I think they found something there. They found some of
the things he does well. I'm sure they found some
things he didn't do so well. And now this week,
instead of having a game plan in before he even
showed up, you've got a game plan hopefully tailored more
(04:21):
toward him.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, there has been this like surge of optimism through
the fan base, and I don't want to temper it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't know how they're gonna run the ball I
don't know if the offensive line play we saw in
the second half is gonna hold up, but they at
least planted some seeds for success. And now you know,
the difference between three and four and two and five
seems absolutely massive.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, and that's just it. I mean to your point
that the seeds of hope are there, but you now
have to go pay that hope off with this win.
You know, we throw most win games around all the time.
This is a must win game, but this is it's
really few. It is for this reason. Mo. You're not
mathematically eliminated, you're not out of anything, but you came
off four losses, three of which were ugly, and the
(05:06):
last one where you got a glimmer of hope, and
you think, okay, come home and win these three games
at home, get the five and four to buy and
off we go. Well, you got to win to do that,
and so that's why I think this is a must
win game two and five. The math comes. It's hard, man.
You're now four games in the lost column behind. You know,
you're in a muddle group of the rest of the AFC.
And even at that point, if you lose, to go
(05:26):
to two and five, and it's five straight losses. I
think then you're just left with this is a bad
football team, and I don't think that. I don't think
there's any other conclusion you can make, So this to
me is a must win for all of those reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Awesome Stuff has always enjoyed the game tomorrow. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All right, thanks Mo,
This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Richard Skinner's with us because
it's Wednesday, Local twelve Local twelve dot com getting said
for tomorrow's Bengals Steelers still ty skinny?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey mo, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I have? I've really never been better? How about yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I think I'm the same.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's Trey Hendrickson gonna play?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't know, man, It was left very vague on Monday.
I kind of expect, honestly, the way he walked off,
and you know, you're ruled out at halftime of a game,
turn around play again on Thursday usually doesn't take place.
Initially it was his back today on the official report,
it was his hip, and so I'm gonna guess this
(00:41):
will be Let's see what he looks like in pregame.
You know, if you could get fifteen to twenty snaps
out of in situational, maybe it comes to that. So yeah,
I mean, the fact they didn't rule him out certainly
gives you a chance to put him in some level
of a role, but nowhere near. You know, he only
plays about seventy five percent of stasurdy. We probably not
even close.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
To that if you go at all, I'm not upset
that they're benching Logan Wilson in favor of Barrett Carter,
because you know what, this is a league where draft
picks have to give you something as soon as possible.
Logan Wilson might not have been playing poorly, but it's
not like he was rewriting history at the linebacker position.
And it feels like he is handling this well, I'm
(01:20):
okay with this? Should I be?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah? And I'll be honest with you. You know, our
friend Paul Danner Junior does a preseason podcast. That did
it at Tom's watch bar, and he asked us all
to you know, buy and sell a player, and I said,
you know, Sadley, I'm selling Logan Wilson. It wouldn't shock
me by week six if he's not a starter any longer.
And it came into fruition. You know. The weird prot WASMO,
I thought I was eating my words. Is the way
(01:44):
he played in Week one in Cleveland. I thought he
played really well. You know that was even after he
went off with you. They have a concussion protocol to
be evaluated for one and it's just I mean, I
blurted down in the Denver press box on one run
I don't know why he yelled it so loud, but
I did. It was blank blank logan take a better angle,
and it's just not wor It just wasn't working any longer.
And I do think to that point that they needed
(02:06):
a spark. They needed something different. Now, something different also
looks like you look like on the Josh Jacobs touchdown
run where Demetrius Knight goes to one sea gap and
compare Carter goes to the other sea gap and nobody's
in the middle of field. You can let that happen
once or twice because they're rookies, but you can't have
that happen much more. But I'm with you. It gives
you more athleticism, It just gives you something different, and
(02:27):
I think they need anything different at this point on
that side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I have spent his entire NFL career feeling nothing when
it came to Joe Flacco. Appreciate the longevity. Appreciate what
he's done. It's hard to play that long in the league.
He's kind of bounced around. On Friday. I became a
fan because I just saw somebody who appreciated the absurdity
of the situation that he's in and you know it
was gonna make the most of it. And as that
(02:50):
game went forward on Sunday, he did I'm team Joe Flacco,
Skinny no man.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
After the game, I wrote a column of you know
the comp and it's a quarterback now has given you
some legitimate reason for hope in turning things around now.
I also cited the defense needing to step forward too,
and that's a big step they have to take at
this point, and I'm not fully confident in that, but yeah,
you know what they did from the last drive of
the first half on was was him starting to feel
(03:18):
all right, let me just take this easy completion here
for eight yards and let me start to trust where
Jamar is going to be in t's one. It's one
thing to know what they are. He knows what they are,
he knows how good they are. But he had twelve
practice reps of Jamar Chase before that game. So even
though you believe in trust he's gonna be where I
need the ball to go, until you see it happen,
you really don't probably fully have that trust. And then
(03:39):
you see it happen and you go, huh. I mean,
he even made a point of one coming to the
sideline one point ton Jake Bronning. I mean, like these
guys snatch the ball. They don't just catch it, they
snatch it. And he said, you know, I made a
bad throat at Jamal on one thing, and he just
pucked it out of the air. And so I think
that's the thing. You saw that report take place, you know,
eight and Jamar had twelve or fifteen catches in the
second half. I don't think that's a coincience. I think
(04:01):
it's Joe Flacco realizing all right, here's what I got
to work with. And then when the coverage dictated goes
somewhere else. Oh, here's an eight yard checkdown to this
guy or a seven yard pass of this Titan. And
I think they found something there. They found some of
the things he does well. I'm sure they found some
things he didn't do so well. And now this week,
instead of having a game plan in before he even
showed up, you've got a game plan hopefully tailored more
(04:21):
toward him.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, there has been this like surge of optimism through
the fan base, and I don't want to temper it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't know how they're gonna run the ball I
don't know if the offensive line play we saw in
the second half is gonna hold up, but they at
least planted some seeds for success. And now you know,
the difference between three and four and two and five
seems absolutely massive.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, and that's just it. I mean to your point
that the seeds of hope are there, but you now
have to go pay that hope off with this win.
You know, we throw most win games around all the time.
This is a must win game, but this is it's
really few. It is for this reason. Mo. You're not
mathematically eliminated, you're not out of anything, but you came
off four losses, three of which were ugly, and the
(05:06):
last one where you got a glimmer of hope, and
you think, okay, come home and win these three games
at home, get the five and four to buy and
off we go. Well, you got to win to do that,
and so that's why I think this is a must
win game two and five. The math comes. It's hard, man.
You're now four games in the lost column behind. You know,
you're in a muddle group of the rest of the AFC.
And even at that point, if you lose, to go
(05:26):
to two and five, and it's five straight losses. I
think then you're just left with this is a bad
football team, and I don't think that. I don't think
there's any other conclusion you can make, So this to
me is a must win for all of those reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Awesome Stuff has always enjoyed the game tomorrow. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All right, thanks Mo,
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