11/5/25 - The Mo Egger Radio Show - Mo Egger

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on as well, we got some red stuff to get to.
Very quietly. Nick Krawl said yesterday that the payroll is
not expected to increase for the Reds in twenty twenty six.

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I've got some thoughts on that the Bengals did not
trade Trey Hendrickson, and I don't think any of us
are surprised to hear that. Here's the question that I
have and maybe we never get an answer to it.
So it's been reported the Bengals asking price, it's pretty high,
and you can understand why. I like, he's a good asset, right,

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And so you were hearing they were asking for a
first round pick. It has been reported in a number
of different circles that they came off of that a
little bit and we're looking for a second round pick.
I guess what we don't know is how many teams
were interested and what was offered. I did not expect
the Bengals to give Trey Hendrickson away. I'm sure you

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didn't either. They gave away Logan Wilson, right, a player
who was not playing all that well before he got benched,
and then he got benched. Not a part of their present,
not a part of their future. Trey Hendrickson hasn't been benched.
He's been sidelined, he hasn't been benched. When he's healthy,
they want him out there. Trey is a better player.
Trey is a much better player than Logan Wilson is.

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They gave away Logan Wilson got something in return for him,
which is fine. They weren't gonna just give away Trey Hendrickson.
They weren't gonna liquidate him. This franchise, which has steadfastly
refused to move players at the deadline for my entire life,
wasn't suddenly just gonna say, hey, everything must go go
ahead and take Trey Hendrickson at the top of the list.

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We don't know is relative to what they asked for initially,
and then relative to what they asked for when they
came off what they asked for initially? What were they
offered legitimately? What were they offered if they were willing
to listen to a team that offered a two? Did

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they just say no to a three. How many offers
did they get and was there an ability to create
a bidding war that ultimately the Bengals themselves backed out of.
That's what we don't know. I would have been more
than okay, and I think if you're a Bengals fan,
you would have been too. Training Trey Hendrickson for the

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simple reason that it just it feels like they have
so much work to do. They feel so far away
from legitimately contending for a championship that keeping Trey or
flipping him for a draft capital. As great of a
player as Trey is and as much as maybe he
could still help this other wise awful defense, it feels

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like this team just needs as much draft capital as possible,
and there were only so many ways they were gonna
get at Trey was going to be won. Now he's not.
And so, as is often the case, when Trey Hendrickson,
you instantly kind of push things to what's next. What's
next is the offseason where Trey Hendrickson is set to
be a free agent and less and less the Bengals

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franchise tag him. Now, you can find a lot of
folks close to the team who will say that doesn't
seem likely, and you can find folks who have speculated
the fact that they didn't trade him at the deadline
would suggest that they're gonna go ahead and franchise tag him.
Neither outcome for my money would be that surprising, because
often times over the last two years, when it has

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felt like maybe it's the beginning of the end of
Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati, he ends up staying here. And
even this summer, remember was he was gonna hold out,
he was gonna dig in. That didn't last long once
he realized that he was going to get fined and
lose money if he didn't come to training camp. I

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think it is fair to look at it from this perspective.
If you don't tag Trey Hendrickson on next year's defense,
what else you got.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm not telling you that this is what I want
them to do. I want to start from scratch with
the defense, which means I want as much money freed
up to be able to go and get players on
defense who can do more than the one thing that
Trey Hendrickson is good at. Like I assuming it's going
to be Duke Tobin next year, which is an entirely
different discussion, like I want to I want to give

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him every possible resource available to go ahead and attack
the weaknesses on this team. And you have less of
a chance of doing that if you have a lot
of money tied into a guy who, by the end
of next season is going to be thirty two years old, who,
by the way, is already dealing with physical issues this year.
That said, if Trey Hendrickson is not a Bengal in

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twenty twenty six, and this is the conversation that not
trading him has created. If he's not a Bengal in
twenty twenty six, where else is the pass rush gonna
come from? The obvious answer are supposed to be Miles Murphy.
I think a lot of us have given up on
Miles Murphy. Maybe he makes us regret that, but a
lot of us have given up on Miles Murphy. The

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return so far from Shamar Stewart have not been great.
The other things they've tried to do to make the
pass rush better haven't worked. And so because they didn't
trade him, and because he's still under contract with the
Cincinnati Bengals, and because the franchise tag as silly and

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as unlikely as it might sound, is still an option.
We're still wondering the same thing we were wondering a
year ago when Trey had one year left on his DAR,
which he essentially has now because the franchise tag, which
is the Bengals it's their option to use your defense

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stunk last year and we all talked about it, right well,
how do you expect the defense to be any better
if the best player from it gets moved? A year later,
we're still wondering the same thing. You talk about, something
that is completely reflective of the failures of Duke Tobin
and Al Golden to put this defense in a better place.
We're literally wondering the same thing right now that we
were wondering a year ago. How does a bad defense

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get any better if you take away their one good player. Now,
that's not entirely fair to DJ Turner, who has had
a really good season and is a very rare bright
spot during what has been a really dark and dismal
time for this franchise. And so yes, he looks like
a dude. He looks like a guy that moving forward

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you want to be here. Is he in true number
one corner? Is he a shutdown guy. I don't know,
but he's certain he has played to a level that
you're excited about DJ Turner being here moving forward. I
think we all are. And it's not like you've got
to reinvest in the guy anytime soon. But remove him
from the equation what ELSEHA got? And so that to

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me is the big takeaway from not trading him yesterday.
And again I'm I don't know that I want a
franchise tag Trey Hendrickson. I'm as awesome of a player
as he has been. We've said it a lot, We've
said it often here. He is the greatest free agent
acquisition in the history of the franchise. Not even sure
it's really close. His best years have probably already happened,

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And I'm not that interested in investing in guys for
future years when their best years are probably already behind him.
That said, it is completely reasonable to ask the exact
same question about Trey Hendrickson and the Bengals we were
asking a year ago. Boy, this defense is bad. Boy,
there's no pass rush. How do these things get better

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if you take away the one good guy you have
at getting after the quarterback? One of the two good
defensive players to have. If you now fold DJ into
the conversation, that's all we do with Trey Hendrickson, right,
is just advance the conversation to the next place. Right.
They didn't give him the trade that he wanted prior
to the twenty twenty four season, so that meant that

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he was gonna play out this year, probably not be happy. Okay,
we'll do that. Then he's gonna request another trade, which
he did. Then there's gonna be a holdout, which there was.
Then if the team stinks at the trade deadline, maybe
they trade him. And now do they tag him? And
as unlikely as it might be that they do, so
you are still stuck wondering the exact same thing. This,

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to me is the biggest reflection of how bad they've
been defensively that we're literally asking the same thing about
the same player one year deeper into his career. By now,
you're supposed to either not have Trey Hendrickson on the
team because you were okay with how you've replaced him,

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or at the very least willing to say goodbye to
him at the end of the season because you know
you're good. You couldn't do it last year. Not entirely
sure he could do it this year, so almost unbelievably,
there's one of my questions. Our numbers are five win,
three seven four nine, fifteen thirty and eight sixty six

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seven zero two three, seven, seven six. Trey Hendrickson wasn't traded,
which means he's under contract to the team for the
rest of the season and means the Bengals still have
his franchise tag rights. By the way, not a whole
lot of other dudes on this team right now you're
looking to pay. I don't think I'm doing it because

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I like to take that chunk of change and pay
players whose primes are in front of them instead of
behind him. But it's at least on the table this offseason.
Do you franchise tag Trey Hendrickson? By now? The answer
is supposed to be no, because you believe in the
players you have to replace them, because you believe in
the de facto general manager and his plans to replace him.

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But you can't can't have faith in any of those things.
And so yeah, man, you cannot help. But wonder as
twenty twenty five draws inches to a close, if it
makes sense to use what you have at your disposal
to ensure that Trays a part of the team in
twenty twenty six, even if he never really has been

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in their plans for twenty twenty six. It's like time
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fifteen thirty. There's also I've been doing this for eighteen
years on this radio station, this show. I think the
last three weeks are the most we've ever talked about
Duke Tobin. I think we've talked more about Duke Tobin
right now these last three weeks than it have than
we have really since he took over in his current role.

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Many myself included already for a change. I think it
just it's not for our vengeance. It's not because somebody's
got to be punished. It it's not working. We got
to find something that will work. What I think is interesting, though,
is I'm not sure anybody is really considered what would
be next if they moved on from Duke. And so
we'll spend some time on that. When we come back,
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I will, I will be completely and totally transparent with you.
This would be a day. This would be a day,
or it would make sense to have. As Jim Row
might say, more of you and less of me, John,
if I can grab the correct mails, John in Boston,
you're on ESPN fifteen thirty, John, good afternoon. How are you.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
I'm okay, Mo.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
Just one suggestion. First of all, it sounds like you're
very congested, right, so I have.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
A little bit of a little bit of a cold.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Yes, okay, this is my suggestion.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
First of all, before you fix the Bengals, find a
tie restaurant in the area, Tommyum Soup and works wonders.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
Tie restaurant, Tommyum Soup. You'll be feeling a lot there.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I feel great. I'm a little I'm a little stuffed up,
but I'll be okay.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
No, you're a trooper anyway, I know that. First of
All Star as Trey Henderson. I would have moved him yesterday,
even for a third round pick. Obviously you have no
control over him at the end of season. Yes, you
can franchise tag him, but I think we gotta stop.

Speaker 7 (14:52):
With all the dramas.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
They gotta franchise tag the guy. He's gonna hold out,
Is he gonna come back? He's thirty one years old.
He's dealing with a him. He also, Okay, I'm not
trying to knock the guy. He's a sensational player, but
if you look at his numbers from the year ago,
most of his sacks came in about five or six
games against the worst teams they played, like the Raiders
or the Titans, against Baltimore, twice against Philadelphia. Against those

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types of teams, he didn't really do much when he
really needed him. So I would have moved on from him.
But I think the bigger issue, mom is the scouting staff.
So we go back to Shamar Stewart, who goes eighteenth
in the first round, and his only quarterback hit this
year and his only pressure came against his own teammates
Joe Burrow in training camp. That was the only time
he had quarterback this year, there was a player from

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Boston College. And I'm not being a home here, but
I had called you and also Boston Donovan Azaraka who
went forty four. Much better player, great character guy, and
you could see how much he's gotten better week after
week after week. But I don't think the Bengals knew
about him because I know people that cover Boston College.
Thirty one team showed up for progay at Boston College.
Guess which team didn't shill up.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, department isn't very big. I think those that relates
specifically to Shamar Stewart, I think there is I think philosophically,
they lean in on traits more than other teams do,
and they don't lean necessarily as much on the production.
They look at a physical specimen and go, Okay, we
can squeeze more out of that. And I think that

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would be the same regardless of whether or not they
had the world's biggest scouting department or one the size
that they do now. So I think there's two different issues.
There's one you should they care a little bit more
about a prospects actual production instead of you know, how
he looks on a scale or how he looks in
his underwear, what the measurables are at the combine or
a pro day? And number two, you can't turn over

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every stone, you know, not like done Ivan Asaraka was
at some no name school that nobody's ever heard of.
But it's hard to turn over every stone to find
hidden gems. If you can't send as many people to
as many places as possible, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah, you can only cover so many places. And when
you kind of look at the whole idea that with
the traits type of things, I know their coaches are
involved in scouting a lot. Do you think coaches are
more namored with people with traits because they figured they
can coach them up and make them into size.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Maybe yeah, maybe they're just I mean Shamar Stewart is
a classic example of leaning into the trades and not
so much the production. And it's not that he was
completely non disruptive at Texas A and M, but the
raw production wasn't there yet. You look at him and
you see a guy who has every tool you're looking for.

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And then not that you should discount that, not that
you should completely ignore that, but at the end of
the day, you turn on the tape you want to
see a dude who's making plays, and it feels like
the Bengals are a little bit more willing than some
other teams to overlook what they see on tape, which
with Shamar Stewart was a guy who didn't make as
many plays as let's say, a guy like Donovan Azeraku.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Absolutely, I mean he kind of looks like Miles Garrett
but plays more like Miles Murphy.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I might steal that, John, Thank you. I am oh.
I have blatantly stole many times in my life. Thank you.
I will absolutely lift that. Like the Trey Hendrickson thing,
John mentioned something that I think is not insignificant, Right,
Trey is a very good player, and like, you know,
the whole thing about how he gets his sacks and bunches. Yeah,

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I say this unscientifically. My guess is you have a
lot of really good pass rushers who get their sacks
and bunches because you know, it's like a hitter is
going to get more hits against a really crappy pitcher
than a dude who's great a defensive end is going
to get more sacks against teams that aren't great, you know,
at left tackle on in Trey's case than a team

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that's really good on the offensive liner, specifically at left tackle.
You know, he closed out the second Pittsburgh game last year,
which they absolutely had to have. He helped close out
playoff games in twenty twenty one in twenty twenty two.
Trey has been a marvelous player. But Paul Danner, junior

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our buddy, has called it trays of our lives. For
two years now, there has been this almost unending drama
with Trey that I don't know has been a total distraction,
but certainly hasn't been helpful. And yeah, to a degree,
you're willing to put up with it because the guy's
in his prime and he's productive. He is going to

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be thirty two years old by the end of next season.
He is already dealing with physical issues that have kept
him out of action. So there's two things there. Number One,
his best years have probably already happened. I don't even
think there's a probably about it. His best years were
so good they're almost impossible to replicate. That doesn't mean
he can't be a helpful player once he gets back

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on the field this year. But his best years have happened.
He's going to be thirty two, and if you franchise
tag him, you're just signing up for more. Whether it's
frustration over more, frustration over not getting a long term deal,
Trey not being happy about any number of things, like
I just I don't know, man. At the same time,

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you have nobody else who can get after the quarterback,
Like that's my point is this, I don't know if
I've been very clear and articulating it, which is not
new a year ago at this time, you can make
an argument that you cannot move on from Trey Hendrickson
because who else you got a year later, you could
say the same thing. That is, maybe aside from just

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the statistics that suggest this is one of the worst
two or three defenses in the history league, that, on
top of everything else, is the biggest indictment you can
make against what they've done defensively or what they haven't
done defensively, that you can make the same argument for
Trey Hendrickson that you could a year ago, Well, you
can't move on from him. Look how empty the cupboard's

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gonna be. Who else are you gonna have that can
get out of the quarterback? How did you rebuild a
bad defense. So if you take away the best dude
from it, Like those are all the same things we
said a year ago, we're still saying them about a
player who's a year older, about a player who's gone
through a couple of injuries at about a player who

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I don't want to say is chronically unhappy, but at
times has been not shy about expressing his displeasure. Twenty
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Garden Dark.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
No No.

Speaker 9 (23:48):
I was grew up in Cincinnati, so I got tune
in whenever I can.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Nice to have you.

Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, well it's a long time listener, first time caller,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
But yeah, no.

Speaker 11 (24:00):
So I was watching the game on Sunday, and I'm
just I'm curious why we took Jamar Stewart, right, big
strong athletic.

Speaker 10 (24:11):
What I saw was a guy that looked a lot
like if I tried to.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Play defensive ends in the NFL for a day. Like
it was, it was borderline.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Make a wish.

Speaker 9 (24:22):
I saw a guy that got pancake blocked, shoved to
the ground.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Couldn't get his feet set.

Speaker 9 (24:28):
Just abhorrent, absolutely abhorrent, and I just I am so
confused I mean get up and at least fight somebody
do something a sign of life.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I think that, to me is the most sobering part,
right like, relative to what we saw in training camp,
which you know, the whole Samar Stewart, you know, off
season experience was weird and gave us a lot to
talk about. But when he got on the field in
training camp practices, there was a level of nastiness, there
was an edge that I think a lot of us thought,

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at the very least he can bring that to the team. Well,
what you just described is the exact opposite, and unfortunately
what you just described is what I saw as well.

Speaker 9 (25:12):
Yeah, I'm also I'm uh, I'm really glad we traded
uh Dackxell for Geno Stone.

Speaker 7 (25:19):
You know, as far as like position like playing, Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
He's he's quite a bit better.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
You know.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
It's just to h to quote yesterday a comedy of errors.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, the Geno Stone signing is going to go down
as one of the worst. And I'll be honest with you,
I I was excited about that because I saw a
guy in Baltimore that the more they gave him, the
more he did. Well, we've seen none of that here.
We We have seen zero of that here. We bad angles,
bad tackling, terrible in coverage and and oftentimes, as has

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been the case in two of the less three games,
at precisely the worst time it's it's gone down and
it makes you wonder. You know, Al Golden has tried
different options. He's bench Cam Taylor Brent, He's obviously shortened
the leash for Logan Wilson, who's no longer here. Geno
Stone has gone unchallenged. So it comes back to what

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we talked about this offseason. What would plan B B
if Geno Stone continues to play the way he did
last year? Well, he continues to play the way he
did last year, and yet he's got the longest leash
of all time, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

Speaker 11 (26:33):
Yeah, I'm I'm spacing on the uh that special teams
ace that we have we have?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, yeah, we have Tyson Anderson special teams ACE.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (26:46):
Are his hands glued together? Can he play safety no
better than Geno Stone?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah? I mean, like that's the thing with Geno Stone.
You're just looking for the basics. Can you tackle a guy?
Can can?

Speaker 9 (26:56):
Can?

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Tyson Anderson? Be in a position to tackle a guy
and bring him of the ground. I don't need Kyle Hamilton. Yeah,
I understand. I might deal with some coverage deficiencies if it.
Put Tyson can he do the basics? Geno Stone cannot
do the basics, and frankly, right now, neither can Jordan Battle.

Speaker 12 (27:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (27:17):
With that eighty five speed, he's really not running anybody
down from behind.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, White, thanks man, good to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
You as well have a good one.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, you know, the it's a dead horse by now.
All off season long, All off season long, we kept
wondering what are they going to do with safety? Like Taran,
what would you say? From late March to the time

(27:47):
we get to the draft, how many draft people we
have on? Ten twelve somewhere between? Yeah, about ten to twelve, right,
like we get past like the first wave of free agency.
Tarren will tell you. I tell him like, hey, man,
here are the go to draft people. Let's get them
on and sometimes like a new one w'll emerge and
you know, like there's a demand for that content, so
we try to get as many as possible. There was

(28:08):
not one. There was not one that we didn't talk
to about safety day Day one or two, not one
that we didn't talk to about safety. There were other
positions we like, and I didn't ask about a lot
of wide receivers because that wasn't gonna be a position
they prioritized. The reason we did that is because it

(28:32):
made sense the Bengals need to address safety, which they
obviously didn't in the first couple of ways of free agency.
They left that position alone, and they're getting even worse
results than last year. That, to me, more than anything else,
is the most frustrating thing about the construction of the
roster and the job that Duke Tobin did with it
this offseason. More coming up in a bit. We got

(28:55):
some red stuff to get to in the four o'clock hour.
But first Rick Browing on Xavier and NKU basketball.

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Rick Buring joins US Musketine Report dot Com and the
color Analyst on NKU radio broadcast. We talk Xavier and
NKU basketball with Rick. The Musketeers open up the Richard

(30:02):
Patino Ero where they win over Marist On Monday. Darren
Horn's team knocked off UC Claremont in blowout fashion. The
Norse will take on Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Musketeers
are getting set to take on Lemoyne, which is a
private Jesuit college in Syracuse, New York. Rick is with us. Now, Hi, Rick, something, Well,

(30:25):
I'm just sitting here doing a sports talk radio show.
What was the biggest positive to come out of Xavier's
went on Monday?

Speaker 10 (30:33):
Well, that they won it, right, I mean that was
very much in question. Now, they did build up a
twenty point lead. Early in the second half, and it
looked like they might cruise after a rocky start to
the game.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
But then they went in a long, extended.

Speaker 10 (30:49):
Six plus minute drought, scored a basket that went through
another six plus minute drought on the offensive end, which
completely erased that twenty point lead that they had built up.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
And I think you know what you.

Speaker 10 (31:01):
Asked for the most positive part, and that was that
they found a way through all that adversity in those
cold spells to make the necessary plays at the end
of the game, make the free throws and win it.
But I think those droughts that we saw are probably
the biggest concern and something that we're going to be
talking a lot about this year.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, I think if you went into the season thinking,
you know what, this is going to be a rough
year for the Musketeers, I'm not sure that Monday did
anything to make anybody not think that way.

Speaker 13 (31:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 10 (31:31):
And it went about as expected based on the things
we've been talking about with this team in the preseason,
and that's they don't have a true go to leader
on the offensive end. Now, I think you saw a
few guys Malik Messina, Moore Trey Carroll, and then off
the bench a couple of guys and Alright and Yovan
Malikshevich step up. But that's also against Marist, and Maris

(31:53):
is a pretty good defensive unit over the last few years,
so I expect that'll continue again this season. But it's
a lower level than what you're going to face throughout
your non conference schedule and in the Big East play,
So they're definitely going to have to find some ways
to manufacture more points and not go through six plus
minutes where they don't score.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
I felt like they got to the ram and just
couldn't finish often.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
There was a lot of that.

Speaker 10 (32:18):
You know, that's part of it is guys being able
to finish better, maybe finished through physicality a little bit more.
But also I think part of it is just having
guys that are used to be in that role and
being go to scores. I think you got a lot
of guys that are maybe more of a role player,
a three or four type of option and a good

(32:38):
Big East team and they're being asked to be ones
or twos on this team.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, what can you tell me about Lemoyne.

Speaker 10 (32:45):
Well, it's a team that was the fourth worst defensive
team in the country last season. They're just in their
third year of Division One. They're still in their probationary period.
They're not eligible for the NBA Tournament. They're a Division
two school who made the jump, but they were not
very good defensively last year. So in the portal this year,
they went out and they tried to get a little

(33:05):
bit more athletic, and I think they did that based
on watching their opener a few nights ago against a
non Division one opponent. They scored a bunch of points
in that game. They won by a bunch of points
in that game. I think it's going to be a
It could be a rough start again for Xavier as
they find their footing, but it's not going to be
nearly as good of a defense as they faced in Maris.
I think they should be able to get a little

(33:27):
more confidence going on the offensive end.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Do you know what I can tell you about Lemoyne?

Speaker 5 (33:32):
What's that that the Dolphins?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, I didn't know that Tom Browning pitched there before
he transferred to a Tennessee Wesleyan.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
I did not know that a big Tom Browning guy.
I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, he played college baseball Leamoyne College in Syracuse, New York.
What do we learn about NKU against UC Claremont.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
Well, it's always you take it with a grain of
salt when you're talking about a non Division one opponent,
But no, I liked what I saw from an offensive perspective.
I had been thinking throughout the pre season that this
team looks like it has a few more options that
can score than a lot of Darren Horn's teams have
had over the last few years, and that looked to.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Be the case in this game.

Speaker 10 (34:10):
They had multiple guys I think three or four starters
had multiple three pointers in this game, including cal Robinson,
who made four of them and scored twenty two points.
And I think they had six guys overall make a
three pointer. So that's the thing that would excite me
the most as an NKU fan. They tied the school
record for most points in a game, and just the
number of guys that contributed on the offensive end was impressive.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Do you think that the UC Claremont Cougers will have
a good season.

Speaker 7 (34:37):
My guess is yeah.

Speaker 10 (34:38):
They usually do pretty well in their level that they
play at. They've got a couple of shooters from what
we saw in that exhibition, but they didn't have the
level of athleticism or size match up with the Norse.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
What's going to happen when the Norse plays Tennessee?

Speaker 10 (34:55):
Good question, I mean kind of one of the exciting
things from a mid major perspective about the new era
of the sport is I think everyone's on a little
bit of unstable, rocky footing when you start the year.
They've got new teams, they've got new pieces trying to
fit in. They don't feel like a well oiled machine
if you're facing them in the second, third, or fourth game,

(35:15):
you know, like NKU is in this case. So hopefully
you catch a team that's maybe off guard a little
bit and not quite ready, and you give yourself a
really good chance on the road to win one. But
hopefully also the Norse can keep the three point shooting going,
because that was pretty impressive on opening night. If they
can knock down some threes, you'll definitely have a better chance.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
NK you and Tennessee on Saturday at three o'clock. Rick
Brown color analysts. By the way, I did color because
Terry Nelson had a medical issue. I did color for
the UC game on Monday. Do you think that that
will at all impact your place in the area college
basketball radio analyst Power Rankings.

Speaker 10 (35:53):
Well, it won't affect my place because I'll stay last
where I've been, But I do think it might shuffle
me down a spot on me if I was like
third before, I'm probably fourth now.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
So thank you for that. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Well, I'm a little bit more concerned about Byron quite frankly,
I don't know. We'll see, We'll see how they shake
out at the end of the week. I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
I'll let Byron know you said that.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah, please do. That'd be great. Rick, Thank you as always,
and we'll talk next week.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Thank you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
That's our guy, Rick Boring Musketeer Report dot Com in
the color analyst. He's actually a good full time color analyst,
as you could tell on NKU Radio broadcast the Norse
on the road in Knoxville against Tennessee on Saturday. Meanwhile,
Xavier getting said to host Lemoyne tomorrow night, I do
like Richard Patino on Twitter at after the game on Monday,

(36:45):
was was giving out grades. He graded the performance of
the student section and then a grade for the offense
with a small synopsis of how the Musketeers played offensively,
and then a small synopsis of how they play defensively.
I hope that that should be mandatory for all college
excuse me, all college basketball coaches. Years ago, Nebraska had
a coach by the name of Tim Miles who didn't

(37:09):
really win a lot there, but at halftime of Nebraska
games he would send a tweet. He would and might
have done it after the game, but you see played
Nebraska twice when he was a coach, and he would
send a halftime tweet. So there should be some of
that as well. There you go, Rick Boring Musketeerreport dot com.
Nick Crawl says, the payroll is basically going to be
the same. We have to get to that next. If

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Speaker 12 (37:52):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
By the way, quick programming note, if you have spent
your entire day organizing your evening around listening to Bengals
game plan, there's no Bengals game plan tonight because it's
a bye week. Also, there's no Bengals pep rally. But
I will not be here because I'm off. So you'll

(38:13):
have Ken Brew hosting that show on Friday afternoon. Cha yeah,
you get Ken Brew KB. When's the last time you
were with Ken Brew? It's been years, So I would
get ready to get out all the bumper music from
the nineteen forties and fifties because Ken loves that type
of music. And I'm not sure you know what sort
of guess he's going to ask you to track down.

(38:34):
You know, he he likes he likes to interview musicians
and you know, let's be honest, not not necessarily like
contemporary musicians. So like, you know, he might ask you
to get somebody who once sang back up for Red Foley.
I don't know, but that that'd be Friday's show. Or
I think he's he's got somebody who played the piano

(38:56):
for for Vera Lynn. That's the sort of stuff he
likes to do. I'm not in charge of what happens
on this show when I'm not here. I can barely
keep things in line for myself. So yeah, you get
Ken Brew Action on Friday after I think that's a
short show as well, so you and Ken Brew forer.
I believe two and a half hours on Friday, that'll
be fun. I will be listening. I will be listening

(39:19):
on my Friday afternoon, my call in if you know
what I think Ken would like that if I called in.
The last time I called into a show I called in.
Riding back from the Bengals Colts playoff game at the
end of the twenty fourteen season, I called into Rocky Boyman,
and I don't think he liked it. It's the last time.

(39:43):
I also called the Kentucky basketball pregame show once as
Maurice from Burlington, and I told Oscar Colmes that I
met him at food Line in nineteen seventy nine. I
do think he found the humor in that been a
while since I've called in. We have some Reds news.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
The Reds, just a few moments ago announced that they
have declined the twenty twenty six club option for Scott Barlow,
they have declined the twenty twenty six mutual option for
Austin Hayes, and they have declined the twenty twenty six
club option for Brent Souter. All three of those guys
are free agents. All three of those guys had a
hand in the moderate success the Reds had last year.

(40:21):
I think all of us were okay with moving on
from all three. We will see the roster is down
to thirty two. Nick Krawl yesterday acknowledged that there's not
likely to be a major payroll bump from twenty twenty
five to twenty twenty six. I don't know that anybody
is necessarily surprised to hear that. I do think they
are going to have some money to spend, just because
there's not a ton of guaranteed cash, you know, devoted

(40:44):
to a lot of guys. But the overall message to
me was, and I know that on certain sports books,
they're the favorites to get Kyle Schwarber, and I think
it's going to be interesting to see what the market
is for him. Quite frankly, I'm not sure it's going
to be necessarily what he hopes for, because I think
there's a lot of uncertainty in the sport regarding the lockout,

(41:05):
what baseball's economics might look like post twenty twenty six.
I think some will view him as a guy whose
best years are behind him. We will see Many have said, well,
you know, hey, they can still Kyle Schwarber and keep
the payroll basically what it is, go bargain basement. I
think there's two things about this. Number One, if they're

(41:27):
acquiring an impactful bat, I think it's reasonable to think
that that is going to come via a trade involving
their surplus more than it's likely to come from free agency.
That's not to say they won't sign free agents. They
signed some last year, including a guy whose name I

(41:49):
just mentioned in Austin Hayes. But it feels like there's
a strong excuse me, a strong likelihood that they will
at least shop their starting pitchers. I would not trade
Hunter Green, but I don't think he's untouchable, and I

(42:10):
certainly can imagine the Reds would be willing to talk
with teams about him, and I think they would be
willing to talk with teams about pretty much anyone of
their pitchers, Abbot Louder, Lodolo Burns, any one of them.
I think that's where they're most likely to at least
try to get a bat from.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
I think it's fair to wonder if you want to
acquire one of those starting pitchers who are either in
or coming into their prime. You're doing that so you're
trying to win this year. If you're trying to win
this year, you're trading away an impactful bat But I
think more than anything, the success of the twenty twenty
six Reds is going to be more dependent upon dudes

(42:48):
who are on the twenty twenty five Reds. Then maybe
you would like, and maybe that I would like. I've
already read two pieces about how Matt McLain is raring
to go after a misserable season last year, and I
hope he is. I would imagine he is, But like
Matt McClain represented one of the great failures of the
twenty twenty five season. That's nothing against Matt. Matt's a

(43:10):
guy who plays hard and you know we like but
he was written down in black magic marker to be
the team's number two hitter this season and he was awful.
Folks got mad at me for saying that last year,
but don't get mad at me. Terry Francona told you
how bad he was because he slid him to the
ninth spot in the batty order. Red's two a whole

(43:33):
production in twenty twenty five was at one point late
in the season the worst than all of Major League Baseball.
So that has to get better, whether it's Matt McLain
serving in that role or somebody else. And there's there's
just a whole host of guys that I know. I'm
a believer in the adage hope is not a strategy,
but I do think a big part of their strategy

(43:54):
this offseason. Like it or not, I don't love it
is going to be. We simply are hoping for better
results from some of the same guys. They're gonna hope
that Elie Delacruz figures it out. I hope to God
that we are not spending any time next year talking
about which position he should play, But my guess is
we will because you saw no major defensive improvement. It

(44:15):
continues to be baffling to me that they let him
play every single day while acknowledging that he was dealing
with a minor injury. But this team was built around
him being great, and he wasn't great, And in the
second half of the season he wasn't even good. They
got screwed by his Christian and Carnassian strand turning into
a pumpkin this year. How many more opportunities is he

(44:35):
gonna get? Uh, you know, Noel a Marte gonna play
himself into like a legitimate outfielder. There was a lot
to like about Noel a Marte last year, Like there's
still Salve Stewart. Salth Stewart. I think we all really
are really excited about. But dudes played a month. Would
imagine his role is pretty prominent this season.

Speaker 7 (44:58):
And so.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
We can keep going and mention a lot of guys
who either didn't do as much as we would have
hoped for or didn't do anything. I'm sure many of
those guys are going anywhere. And I also think it's
completely fair to wonder if you're going to put an
offensive zero at third base, which for all of his
defensive excellence, that's what key Brian Hayes is. Okay, you

(45:22):
got to make up for the offense somewhere else Where's
it going to come from? And can it come from
the corner outfield positions With the same philosophies at those
spots the Reds employed last year, I don't think the
answer is yes. Are they really set in center field?
With TJ. Friel like, there are so many damn questions,

(45:42):
so many damn questions, and I feel like, with Nick
Krawl saying what he said, the best way to read
through those lines is the answers are going to have
to come from within, either by players just simply performing better,
maybe guys coming through the system, maybe guys benefiting from
more experience. And again that's not to say they're not
going to add from outside. There's room to add from outside.

(46:05):
They added from outside last year. They won the Brady
Singer trade. Austin Hayes for a while, really really helped
Gavin Lux had his moments. Jose Travino was a good acquisition.
There's but chances are it's going to be more of
those type of players, not that they're bad, but more
of those type of players, hopefully a few more depth pieces.

(46:27):
So there's not a revolving door of dudes like Blake
Dunn and Jacob hurdabies in the fourth and fifth outfield spots,
but a whole lot of guys that they bring back
simply hoping for better results from this coming season than
they got last year. And I don't know that that
strategy is going to work. If you're trying to be
who the Milwaukee Brewers were last season division champs. And

(46:50):
I don't know that that strategy is going to excite
a lot of folks, But to me, that's how I
read that. It's if we make an impactful move, it's
going to be trading from our strength, which you know
you could compromise your starting pitching depth if you do that,
And then you know, number two, just fine answers from
within and simply hope that some players play better. We'll see,

(47:13):
we'll see. I think it's a perilous approach, but I
saw that quote yesterday and I wasn't necessarily shocked. I
wasn't necessarily angry about it. It has felt all along
like if if the Reds are going to be substantially
better in twenty twenty six, which should be the goal,

(47:35):
if they're barely sneaking into the postseason next year, then
they're going to be behind the eight ball the way
they were when they played that series against the Dodgers.
The idea should be to have games one sixty through
one sixty two not count because you are in and
ideally in as a division winner. To go from what
they were to what they want to be is going
to require a lot, but chances are if they get

(47:58):
that much better, it's gonna be because dudes who they
had last year performed better. We'll see. Maybe I'm dead
wrong about it, But as as much as you can
go to the internet and find a book that tells
you the their odds on favorites to get Kyle Schwarber again,
maybe they do. And if they do, awesome. I wonder

(48:18):
if it was Kyle Schwarber from Middletown, Pennsylvania, if he
would be if the Reds would be listed as the favorite.
That just does not seem like the most likely outcome.
And I haven't found anybody who covers the team who
has said that they're going to spend the coming weeks
engaged in Schwarber watch. We'll see, We'll see. Maybe again

(48:38):
no big market materializes form, but chances are we get
to spring training, we're gonna be sifting through a whole
lot of dudes who were a part of the team
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He's even joining us on the buy I think last time,
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Speaker 5 (50:18):
Mike.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Go ahead, you're on ESPN fifteen thirty high. Mike, How
are you?

Speaker 3 (50:23):
I don't know, how the hell are you?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I have never been better in my life. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Well, it's a good for you.

Speaker 7 (50:30):
You're in the prime of your life.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Brother, enjoy it. Why you can.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
I will thank you.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
It'll sneak it'll sneak up on your hiki real quick.
The Reds are going to stampath Huh, Well, nobody knows.
They ain't getting Swarburg. That's other question. And the other
thing about Schwarber is everybody always thinks that guys always
want to go back to their hometown area. That's not
necessarily true.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Well I think it's true. It's true, true if the
money's right. But yeah, I think that's less of a
priority or athletes than people make it out to be.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Well, and sometimes people the hometown doesn't necessarily have tons
of great memories for me. And we don't know what his
personal life is. So I've run into men all my
life that had no interest in going back to their
hometown at all. They were really happy with what they
were doing, so I wouldn't count on that.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Well, I don't think anybody's counting. I do think it
will be interesting. And again we went through this with
Pete Alonzo last year, where there wasn't as big of
a market for him. Now, you know, Kyle Schwarber is
the rating National League home run leader, led the sport
and RBIs last year. It's not like he's thirty five
years old. But I could see teams looking at him
as a guy who as awesome as he has been,

(51:39):
and he has been the last four years he has
been unbelievable. I could see teams looking at him through
the lens of his best years are behind him, and
so maybe we're not gonna maybe we're not going to
offer him this sort of contract that maybe he thinks
he could get.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Yeah, Uh, do you ever listen to Patrick in the morning.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
To Dan Patrick in the morning.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Yes, correct, Well, he's got Kershaw on Tomorrow's for an interview.
But I'll tell you what, Well, he is such a
great interviewer, isn't he. He can relax a guy and
just make it a conversation versus an interview and he's
very adept at it.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yes, you know he learned those skills at the University
of Date, Mike.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Yeah, of course. He followed by ESPN for a long
long time and his relationship with Adam Sandler, which is
quite interesting. But did you hear what he did? You
hear him today?

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I did not?

Speaker 3 (52:41):
He was he did a great interview with Dave Roberts,
I mean absolutely great interview and he said, what do
you think about that play Paul has made? Going over
a top of TK off the wall? And he said,
all I can tell you is K told me Paul
has said look down and said are you okay? And
he said, do you have the damn ball?

Speaker 2 (53:05):
How much Dodgers World Championship merge? Have you bought?

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Six? Seven worth?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Really?

Speaker 12 (53:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Wow? Now what is that cover? Two items?

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Might not be around next year?

Speaker 2 (53:20):
What does that cover?

Speaker 7 (53:21):
Like?

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Two items?

Speaker 5 (53:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (53:24):
It was four items?

Speaker 12 (53:26):
OK?

Speaker 7 (53:27):
Gotcha?

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Yeah, that was pretty cool. KEYK is a real trooper
when it comes to October. You know, he ain't no
Reggie Jackson, but he really does have a way of
putting it to goats, and doesn't he Yoshi Yamamoto, since
you had been talking about baseball, Yoshi Yama Moto reminds
me a lot in demeanor, size, Uh, attitude to Pedro Martinez,

(53:54):
very very much like Pedro Martinez.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Not a connection I had made. But I won't, I
won't throw cold water on it. No.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
No, I've heard that from several people, and uh, it's
got a lot of dogging. But but their stature is
virtually the same. Roberts just said Yamamoto is the smartest
picture he's ever coached. Oh, he said cerebraly. He is
just beyond it. And so we keep continuing to do
Bengal micro analysis. Isn't isn't it getting? I mean no,

(54:25):
I swear it's getting to the point where I don't
even know if it's worth your breath. I know people want,
I know people want to hear about it, but I mean,
my god, what I mean it's it's not even mediocrey.
It's just until big changes are made, it's just beating
a dead, real dead animal, it seems to me, which

(54:46):
is kind of sick in a way.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Well, I'll say this. I think I think yes and no.
I think the variable that makes a difference is burrow.
You know, we've we've spent many, many, many many saying
a lot of the same things about the Cincinnati Bengals.
I think what makes it different now is the Burrow
variable makes it feel like they are wasting something as

(55:12):
opposed to simply not being good or being inept. And
that's frustrating. Like having a bet if Andy, you know,
Andy Dalton had his moments off is if Andy Dalton
was the quarterback of this team, or if they were
getting just a trash can quarterback play from their backup
and the defense was terrible, I don't think it would
ignite the ire that this has created. I think you're

(55:35):
also dealing with a unique set of circumstances with regards
to what they did from last year to this year.
They've had teams that weren't great, but I think often
over the last fifteen years there has been an outward
desire and effort to fix what's broken. Sometimes it hasn't worked.

(55:56):
What was frustrating about this offseason to me is what
every buddy is acknowledging now that they basically sat around
with the defense and did nothing, and then add to it,
drafted poorly again. And so yes, a lot of the
see a lot of the themes feel familiar and sound familiar, familiar,
but I think the actual sources of the frustration are

(56:18):
a little bit different this go round.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Okay, now we're stressing that the ineptitude of the defense,
which is warranted. But you know, this is why I'm wondering.
I need your opinion on this, especially in regards to
mister Flacco at forty one. The offensive line, I mean,
all I keep hearing about is Orlando Brown. They're pushing
him around. The other rookie over there ain't really setting

(56:44):
the records with PFF and the rest of them are average,
if not worse. So we're just totally still disregarding any
discussion about the is the offensive line? Isn't how Joe
Flacco doing this good other than just the raw ability
of get Jamar Chase.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Well, they're running the ball more effectively. He's been really
good at getting rid of the ball quickly. And the
offensive line I think has been okay ish while Joe
Flacco has been the quarterback. But look, you're right they
if you start to look ahead of next year, think
of everything they have to figure out. Start with work
harder or work better to better ensure that Joe Burrow

(57:24):
plays every single game. Obviously there's no guarantee that's gonna happen.
But they put him behind an offensive line that at
the beginning of the season, again we all thought might
be the best that he has played behind, but we
certainly didn't think it was going to be good. How
does that change? How do they fix every level of
the defense? There's no nuance to this defense. It stinks

(57:44):
across the board. They're bad at stopping the run, they're
bad at getting after the passer, they're bad at tackling,
they're bad in coverage that they don't do anything well.
You have a lot of areas to fix. And again,
like you could talk about, well, that means you start
from scratch, except you've got a QB who, when he's
at his best, is legitimately considered one of the best

(58:07):
in the sport. So how over the course of the
next couple of years, during this window where you're supposed
to be competing for championships because you have the problem
solved that quarterback, can you take what they are and
turn it into what it needs to be. And to me,
that's my greatest source of frustration. You weren't gonna win
a title every year while Joe Burrow is the quarterback.

(58:29):
There were probably gonna be some years that were deeply frustrating,
But you were supposed to basically be in contention every
single year while this guy was in his prime. It
feels like they're forever away. I'm not interested in sneaking
in and being the last seed a team in the
AFC and let's see what happens. I want to be
the one seed. I want to play nothing but playoff

(58:49):
home games. I want to spend years being among the
very best in the NFL. I want to be going
every year thinking they're legitimate title contenders. I didn't feel
that way this year. I'm not going to feel that
way next year. When's the next time I will feel
that way with this guy as quarterback because he ain't
going to be here forever.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Is this offense? I know you gotta go? Is this
offensive line better than the offensive line that was much
demanded criticized that went to the Super Bowl? Is this
line better?

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Oh? Yeah, yes, yes I think so, Mike, Thanks very
much for the phone. Yes, this offensive that's not a
very high bar to clear. That offensive line they had
in the Super Bowl is probably the worst offensive line
to ever play in a Super Bowl. There were a
lot of guys in that offensive line, I think two
who never played in another NFL game. This offensive line

(59:41):
has got its moments. Flacco has made it look good.
It's been better in the run game. Flacco being under center,
I think has a lot to do with that. Sure,
Like don't don't make, don't allow all the stuff they
have to fix on defense, make you think that you
know what they're good On the offense, they're not. Again,
this offense line got Joe Burrow hurt Game two. That

(01:00:03):
is a consistent theme, hits and injuries to the quarterback
playing behind a below average offensive line. Orlando Brown's not
getting any younger. Ted Carris is not getting any younger.

Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
Neither.

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Speaker 14 (01:01:53):
How's it going good to be here?

Speaker 15 (01:01:55):
I thought we were going to talk for this entire
whatever ten minutes about the Colin Chandler dunk.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Yes, you're excited about that, and you should be excited
about that.

Speaker 14 (01:02:03):
That was fun for any UK basketball fans out there.
That's a nice fun start to the season.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
They're pretty good last night. Play Louisville next Tuesday, which
is going to be interesting because it's so early in
the calendar. But the Wildcats are going to be good
this year. So are the Cardinals. It's exciting.

Speaker 15 (01:02:20):
No one has any insight into why that game is
so particularly early. It usually happens between Christmas and New Year's.
I am a house divided. Yeah, my husband is a
Cardinals grant. I'm a Cat's fan and a grad.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
So I don't understand. I don't know. I've asked every
UK or a Louisville fan I know, like, why are
they playing before they play the football game against each other?

Speaker 14 (01:02:40):
It's weirdly.

Speaker 15 (01:02:41):
It makes the game weirdly somewhat irrelevant, except for at
least in my house, it's very relevant.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Well, I don't want to say irrelevant, but I wish
it really early. It's too early, especially in this era
where you don't know, you know less about teams early
in the season now than you used to, and these
games are more fun when you know more about the teams.

Speaker 15 (01:03:00):
Yes, well, you know this is the annual time of
the year when as a UK fan you have to
learn all the new names of all the new players.
But I have literally been doing this since I was
in high school as a UK fan. Now with a
transfer portal and NIL, everyone.

Speaker 14 (01:03:16):
Has to do well.

Speaker 15 (01:03:17):
UK basketball, Welcome to the party everyone, Like you know
it's October, it's November. You have to learn the name
of your college basketball players because they don't stick around
for more than a hot minute.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
This is true. So a huge part of that component
is name, image and likeness. Ye and I want to
talk about this from a high school perspective because now
in the state of Ohio, and there are many other
who many others who are doing the exact same thing,
But now in the state of Ohio, athletes are apparently
going to be able to benefit from NIL. Yeah, that's

(01:03:48):
a thing.

Speaker 14 (01:03:49):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 15 (01:03:50):
In fact, Ohio was kind of one of the last holdouts,
one of only six states that was not well allowing
high school athletes to benefit from NIL.

Speaker 14 (01:04:00):
Actually, the mom of.

Speaker 15 (01:04:01):
A seventeen year old junior standout wide receiver already committed
to Ohio State, put a lawsuit in for him, and
the judge then issued a temporary restraining order against the
mandate that you could not benefit in this state of Ohio.

Speaker 14 (01:04:20):
So here's the deal. The NASH or the Ohio.

Speaker 15 (01:04:23):
High School Athletic Association was set to vote on this
next May anyway, so the writing was kind of already
on the wall that this was going to change, but
this temporary restraining order then kind of pushed that timeline
up a bit. So now they're actually voting later this month.
Everyone believes that this will actually pass. Now in twenty
twenty two, when it came before those who vote, everyone

(01:04:46):
was like, no, now I think it's like, okay, everyone's
already doing this.

Speaker 14 (01:04:49):
Now to varying degrees.

Speaker 15 (01:04:51):
So in this state of Texas, the way that NIL
works for high school students is you have to be
at least seventeen, you have to be at l least
a high school senior, and you cannot get any of
that money until you have enrolled in a college. Okay,
So each state is dealing with this somewhat differently.

Speaker 14 (01:05:12):
Right, there's not a national way.

Speaker 15 (01:05:15):
But one interesting thing that Ohio has done is they
are now partnering with a firm called Influential Athlete. A
lot of other states have used this, and this is
where they kind of come in.

Speaker 14 (01:05:26):
It's a firm that comes in and kind of.

Speaker 15 (01:05:28):
Educates high schools, athletic directors, coaches parents on NIL, how
it works, how to use it to your benefit, the
pitfalls to look out for.

Speaker 14 (01:05:37):
So, as someone who is a.

Speaker 15 (01:05:39):
Huge proponent of financial literacy, I'm glad that we're not
like dumping thousands of dollars in high school athletes.

Speaker 14 (01:05:46):
Pockets and then say like, good luck, figure this out
on your own. So I think that's a step in
the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
So here's my question. So high school athletes can get
NIL deals, but can other could like some whre's great
a drama or in the band, or there's something else
some other activity, can they get NIL?

Speaker 15 (01:06:04):
I mean, we're not there yet that I give that
I have seen, but I'm going to make.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Want everybody to get paid.

Speaker 14 (01:06:11):
I mean, I was one heck.

Speaker 15 (01:06:13):
Of a clarinet player in middle school and I can't
believe no one ever made an offer to me. But yeah, uh,
you know, I mean this is you know, these are
the dominoes that are starting to fall, and it's just
a whole new world, you know. I mean, it wasn't
that long ago that parents were putting Listen, we were
all put if your kid plays a sport at any
kind of somewhat competitive level, you're paying a ridiculous amount

(01:06:33):
of money, right and so for the longest time, it
was like your hope was that your kid might get
some college tuition pay for because you've more than paid
for that upfront. Lessons, training, conditioning, all the things. This
is a slight twist on that right now, now you're student,
your kid could be making money in high school. Now, listen,

(01:06:55):
we're not talking major dollar signs. I was looking today.
I think of those reporting there's a handful of kids
or less that are making over a million dollars in
high school. But listen, you know, my son is getting
a new job as a busser at Summit Hill's country club. Like,
he's not going to make that kind of money the
likely these athletes are. So you know, for parents who

(01:07:15):
have standout athletes, make sure you're having these conversations. You
and I've talked about this on the collegiate level. Like
one consideration is taxes. Yes, right, you're going to have
to pay money. You're to pay tax on this money
that you're making. And another thing and parents, this is
like how I think is the best way to look
at this money. Of you have a seventeen year old
and eighteen year old, how do you make the longest

(01:07:36):
term difference in their lives? You can actually open a
roth ira. And to your point, you can do this.
You know, it has doesn't have to be with nil money.
It's any earned money that someone has. Right, So if
your kid is mowing lawns or babysitting, you can open a.

Speaker 14 (01:07:52):
Custodial wroth ira for them.

Speaker 15 (01:07:55):
They can put up to seven thousand dollars a year
in it, up to the amount that they've actually made.
So that's a great way. They're paying taxes on it
now they're probably in a pretty low tax bracket, right,
and then that money is invested and it can grow
and talk about a difference by the time they get
to retirement.

Speaker 14 (01:08:10):
That's a great use of that money.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
See this is why I wish you know you were
in my life when I was in high school busing
tables at Beale street cafe, because I would get my
chil'll be retired by now, I would be Nobody was
telling me put that in a rawthire. All I would
do is give my money to someone who was over
the age of twenty one, and they weren't investing in
it for me, you know, you know what I mean? Yeah,
there was to be fair.

Speaker 15 (01:08:31):
Yes, I obviously live in a household where we talk
about these money situations quite often. It is normal dinner
table conversation. We have three now four when he starts working,
kids who are making you know, salaries, who have jobs,
and so we offered, hey, up to a certain amount,
if you put money into a roth Ira, we will
match you. Of the three children who have been working,

(01:08:54):
not a single one of them have taken us up
on that offer. It's like, what kind of introducing them
to the concept of the company match right?

Speaker 14 (01:09:01):
And I say, like, you're literally turning down free money.

Speaker 15 (01:09:03):
Well, our kids have all turned down free money from us,
not understanding hey, Chipotle or that new whatever probably will
not have the lasting impact of a roth Ira. So
we were even talking about it, trying to educate our
kids on it. You know, not the easiest thing for them.
To understand right now. But we're working on it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
You are working on it. There's one other thing I
want to talk about. You joined me a month or
so ago, and we were talking about especially with like
football season starting streaming, and you know, it's harder and
harder to be a sports fan if you love all sports.
Because of Peacock, Netflix, Amazon Prime, ESPN plus Paramount Hulu,
I have to as a UC basketball fan, I've already

(01:09:44):
started to think about all the stuff I'm gonna have
to subscribe to. So now, in this world, a lot
of folks have YouTube TV, right, and so YouTube TV
and ESPN are in a fight with each other. Where
YouTube TV has dropped ESPN, they've dropped ABC. And so
a common friend of ours last night text me because
he wanted to watch the Kentucky game. Could I get

(01:10:06):
your ESPN log in? Like, yeah, okay, Pally, yeah captain
YouTube TV over there. Yeah that big boy now, so
I so I hooked him up. This this just this
adds to it. It's and I'm not a YouTube TV subscriber,
but it is so frustrating. This though, this phenomenon not
necessarily no.

Speaker 14 (01:10:22):
Well, it's insane.

Speaker 15 (01:10:23):
First of all, that to watch even just even if
you're just an NFL fan, right, we've talked about this
Thursday night package is on a different thing Amazon, Yes.
And then what you're going to watch on the weekends.
And then oh, if you want to watch the games
on Christmas Eve or.

Speaker 14 (01:10:37):
Whatever, that's just Netflix yes.

Speaker 15 (01:10:38):
Like so it's insane the number of so you finally
feel like, okay, we've got the streaming system down right,
and then you have a breakdown between Google, Yeah, and
Walt Disney parent companies are both and now suddenly you
can't watch what you want.

Speaker 14 (01:10:52):
I've seen. Hey, it's impacting NBA games. Hey, it's impacting
college Monday night football. You know the interesting thing is.

Speaker 15 (01:10:57):
You know, okay, so what's the workaround? Okay, Well, you
can change your pay TV provider. You could go to
like a Hulu, or you could add direct to consumer
streaming account.

Speaker 14 (01:11:06):
Guess what Either of those things are going to cost
you more. You would be adding.

Speaker 15 (01:11:11):
More subscriptions to most of us have already way too many,
too many with it. Yes, yes, and doesn't seem like
there's an end in this insight Now, as someone who
has been on local TV for a long time, I
have been in many newsrooms where there was breakdowns between
whatever cable provider and the local network and all the things,
and you know, the people wanted to watch whatever it

(01:11:31):
was that they wanted to watch, and the newsroom lines
would be bringing off to hook. This is kind of
the twenty twenty five version of that. I mean, we'll
see if they come to an agreement anytime soon, but
in the meantime, I get it.

Speaker 14 (01:11:41):
It's frustrating and costly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Extraordinarily, and the viewer always loses, right, The viewer always
losesn't so like you might say, well, then, you know,
bounce to aulta fiber or Spectrum or just get the
ESPN app. It's there's no guarantee, especially if you bounce
to another provider, there's not to be some sort of
carriage dispute with them involving another network. It's just that,

(01:12:04):
to me is the one that's so frustrating, especially when
you it's these two mammoth behemens, right, Google and Disney.
There's enough money there, can't you just figure it out
so I could watch Monday night football and the Kentucky
game without having to borrow somebody's password.

Speaker 14 (01:12:19):
I'm sure you've seen that.

Speaker 15 (01:12:20):
Pat McAfee's comments about like KM and it's like he
gets paid from one of like one of these. He's
the ESPN guy, right and so, and he's like, listen, everyone,
let's put down your thwords. People love sports. Can we
let them watch sports?

Speaker 14 (01:12:32):
And I appreciate.

Speaker 15 (01:12:32):
Someone who has that kind of a platform speaking up
and saying this is absolutely ridiculous to line the pockets
of pockets that are already overflowing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
You know, you know, just FYI radio broadcast of games
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There you go.

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Speaker 15 (01:12:49):
You know, no fail, no miss. And by the way,
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Lance and Tony are great. Yeah, with no carriage disputes.
We just we give you the games and we don't
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Appreciate that segue better to best.

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and I do not know what it is. Dave, You're
on ESPN fifteen thirty Dave, good afternoon. How are you?

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
Hey, I'm good, Mo, how are you?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
I'm well? What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:19:40):
I wanted to tell you want to know why people
call a well, how can you not call after such
a compelling drink ware segment?

Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
And I have a revenue idea for you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:19:53):
Sure, don't just.

Speaker 16 (01:19:55):
Make this a one off. This should be a regular
update and you call it at most cup checked.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
And and we're we're we're talking about drinking receptacles.

Speaker 16 (01:20:10):
Correct, Well, it is a sports show, so I don't know,
but yeah, probably, yeah, but think of the sponsor opportunities.
Dixie Dixie Cups, Red Solo Cups, you do a whole
hockey segment, the Stanley Cups. I mean, a lot of
ways you can go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
And local, well, thank you very much. You know, there's
the Ohio Cup that the Reds and Guardians play for.
There's the Kelly Cup, which hopefully the Cyclones win this season.
I'm I'm having fun with the fact that for a while,
at various points, and I know nobody cares, but at
various points during our time here, if you wanted something

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to drink, and in particular, if you had a guest
in studio and you wanted to offer them some to drink,
you would have to tell them like, hey, and you're weighing,
can you pick up some cups? And now are cups dash?
We are fully stocked with cups, so much so that
I have actually used two during the show today. That

(01:21:13):
feels excessive and wasteful, but I cannot help myself. We're
other cups.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
I know who to look to.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Yeah, oh, blame me. It got to the point where
for a while, when we would get cups, like you
had to ration them. I would steal a sleeve and
put them in here and put them, hide them under
the table that we work from, and not for myself either.
Just so if you had somebody in studio and you're like, hey,
you're gonna be on the air with me, might want

(01:21:41):
to drink something, I had a cup for you, and
we have rectified that here. We now there might be
a try state cut good, try state cups shortage, which
is not easy for me to say a try state
cups shortage because we have hoarded all the cups here.
So now if you want to drink a water, if
you want a cup of coffee, we have a cup

(01:22:03):
for you. Let's talk to somebody else. Now, Dave, you're
on ESPN fifteen thirty high Dave.

Speaker 17 (01:22:16):
Heym, glad you have cups.

Speaker 16 (01:22:18):
I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
You know the basics of an office. I think you
need garbage cans, you obviously need need working men's and
women's restrooms, and I think you need cups. I think
if you have those three things you can have in office.

Speaker 17 (01:22:32):
Absolutely. I agree, one hundred percent. So I lived down
here in Florida, so I get all my information with
listening to you guys on iHeart and I listened to
you know, all the podcasts and all that stuff.

Speaker 18 (01:22:44):
So uh, you know, all the.

Speaker 17 (01:22:47):
Talk's been about, you know, we got Tobin's on the
hot seat, he's got to go, possibly his acts gotta go.
And we've been talking about this and I've been you know,
I'm fifty five. I've been a Bangle fan my whole life.
And we've been talking about the same stuff since nineteen
eighty eight, when one particular person took over the football team.

Speaker 7 (01:23:09):
And there's a.

Speaker 17 (01:23:10):
Common thread of this thing. Every year first since nineteen
eighty eight, it's the same thing. We go through a coach,
we go through defensive coordinators, we go through offensive coordinators,
and it's the same outcome year in year out. We've
been to one super Bowl since nineteen eighty eight. At

(01:23:30):
what point are we going to just say, look, the
guy that owns the team is just doesn't I mean,
I honestly don't think he cares whether they you know,
they win football games, I mean they He just sits
on his hands all the time. And yes, I'll give
you that he's paid Jamar and he paid Joe, and

(01:23:52):
he paid Tea and all that. But he didn't have
a choice other than to pay Jamar, because then you
wouldn't have sixty five thousand people down there watching football games.

Speaker 7 (01:24:02):
So I mean getting rid of getting rid of Tobin.

Speaker 17 (01:24:07):
I'm I'm I'm all on board with that. Fine, great,
getting rid of that. Okay, I'm all on board with that.
But at some point we got to put the put
the main part of this back on ownership.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
You're you're one hundred percent right, And by the way, frankly,
I think a lot of that goes back to before,
uh nineteen eighty eight. But but yeah, there's no getting
around that. I think for me though, you could acknowledge that.
But that's the part that's not going to change, right,
That's that's the part ownership is not going to change.

Speaker 7 (01:24:40):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
They they can evolve, and they can give larger roles
to to folks like Elizabeth Blackburn, and obviously Katie has
a huge role with this franchise. But I think the
the overall sort of philosophy that they use to run
the football team, the overarching ones are probably not going
to change all that much. And so I guess from
my perspective, it's like I could acknowledge that every single day,

(01:25:03):
and then after about the third day, it's like, all right,
what else? There are other things that can happen. There
are other things that the team can do, and so yeah,
we all acknowledge there are certain basic philosophical things that
the Bengals adhere to that probably get in the way
of this franchise having success. Once you acknowledge that, I

(01:25:26):
think it's fair to then go, Okay, within that framework
that Bengals ownership has set, how can they do better?
And we talk about, you know, embracing analytics at analytics people,
we talk about expanding the scouting department. Okay, do that
they've done that to a degree, not nearly to the
extent that they probably should. And then is there a
better way of doing things beyond Duke Tobin being in

(01:25:47):
charge of the roster?

Speaker 18 (01:25:51):
Well, I agree with that, But I mean the other
part of this is is, you know, we're and again
I'm not defending Duke Tobin in any way, sure, but
but you know, we said, and we hear, you.

Speaker 17 (01:26:03):
Know, well, he's in charge of building the roster and
all that kind of stuff, but ultimately, Mike Brown's pain
is writing the checks. So you know, it's like in
my business. You know, I'm a golf professional down here
in Florida. So if my owner tells me that he
wants us to bring in this particular shirt, and because

(01:26:24):
it's cheaper, I am not going I can't defy what
he wants because he's writing the checks. And it's the
same thing I mean. And it's the same way with
the Reds. I mean, Cassolini's writing the checks. Crawl's only
doing what he's told you know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
So again, I don't know. I don't know that if
you look at this team specifically, I would be willing
to bet that Mike Brown didn't sit Duke Tobin down
and go, hey, don't touch the defense this offseason. I'm
going to guess that the directive was, we've got to
be better on defense. Do what you gotta do. Hey,

(01:27:01):
we're gonna throw money at Tea and Jamar. We're already
paying Joe and so you're not gonna be able to
write a blank check to anybody on defense. My issue
is it's the results, but it's the lack of trying
for something different in an area of the team that
was deficient last year. I don't believe for a second
that Mike Brown or Katie Blackburn or Troy Blackburner or

(01:27:22):
anybody in the family said to him Hey, look, leave
those safeties alone. Don't add another safety. I believe if
Duke Tobin wanted to draft a safety, he was allowed
to draft a safety. If he wanted to go sign
a safety, might not have been the best guy available.
But if he wanted to sign a safety, I cannot
imagine Mike Brown would have said, no, you're not signing
a safety. I do think there's a level of leeway
that Duke Tobin has that he should be accountable for.

(01:27:44):
And so I look at the defense last year, nobody
was talking about Duke Tobin. It was all lou Anirumo, Right,
lou can't figure it out with these younger players. Okay,
we'll take that denominator away. Duke didn't do anything with
the roster. He added some players, nobody who's made a
major impact. He let two areas go totally unaddressed. That

(01:28:04):
specifically is on him, and I think that's the issue
that people have. Look, Duke Tobin's had free reign to
throw money at the defense before, and when he's done it,
he's had success. We've talked about it a lot this week.
In twenty twenty one, that defense that was so instrumental
in getting them to the Super Bowl. Duke Tobin could
just spend on it because they had a quarterback under
a rookie contract. They had no other good players to pay,

(01:28:27):
and so armed with the ability to just spend, they overpaid.
People said for DJ Reader, they overpaid. People said for
Trey Hendrickson, they gave a lot of money to Mike
Hilton and Von Bell and Judoba Woozie collectively. The way
they build the team moving forward has to change. They've
got to do it on defense, specifically using the draft,
using smart free agent signings. I believe Duke Tobin was

(01:28:48):
given free reign when it comes to all of those things,
and he has failed, and I think it's fair to
hold him accountable for that, acknowledging that if he worked
for a different franchise, maybe he would be armed with
more recent versus to do the same job.

Speaker 17 (01:29:04):
I know, I'm totally I totally am agreeing with the
way I mean, I agree with what you're saying. I
still go back to the fact that, you know, ownership
has a lot to do with the way, the way
of this organization. You're in and you're out, and we're
as fans, we're constantly pulling our hair out and Rady.

(01:29:25):
It just jump off a bridge. It's just it's maddening.
It's absolutely maddening.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Yes, no, there's no doubt about it, Dave, I appreciate
the phone call. Man, it is it is maddening. And look,
you certainly will not get me to look past the
role of ownership in any Bengals or Red's failure. But again,
like specifically with this team, I've hosted this show for
eighteen years now. Over the last three weeks, this is

(01:29:54):
the most we've ever talked about Duke Tobin ever, ever, ever,
in good times and bad ever. It's because of what
he didn't do to last year's defense and how it's
torpedoed their chances this season. I do not believe for

(01:30:16):
a second that if Duke Tobin wanted to add a
safety that Mike or Katie or Troy would have said no.
I don't believe that. I don't believe that if Duke
Tobin wanted to draft different players on defense than he did,
that Mike or Katie or Troy would have said no.

(01:30:38):
Like he's asked to draft defensive players that you want
to sign to a second contract, he has failed miserably.
So two things can be true. At the same time,
there is a there are things you there are there
are certain parameters you have to work within when you

(01:30:59):
work for the Since that he bengals, everybody acknowledges that,
but within those parameters you could still be held accountable
when you fail. When it comes to building the defense.
Duke Tobin has failed, the question becomes how many more
times do you let him fail before you go and

(01:31:20):
find somebody else?

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Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
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Speaker 7 (01:32:27):
How's it going? Let me be the YOUMP team person
to make the joke that, yes, the Bengals are indeed
four and a half point underdog to buy this week.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Yeah, well done, very good. Yeah, there'll be a lot
of that on on Saturday and Sunday. I'm sure. Do
you have a major takeaway from what did and didn't
happen at the trade.

Speaker 7 (01:32:42):
Deadline they were coming about today? I mean it makes
you wonder, you know, just what are they doing? You know,
if this is their whole thing? We're not waving the
white flag on this season? Well, I mean be realistic, man,
I mean this is this team is trending far more
towards being a team with a losing record that it
is to a playoff team. And oh, by the way,
if you if you're not waving the white flag by

(01:33:04):
not making trades, you know, trades trades out. Then wouldn't
you look to maybe get a player or two to
trade in. I mean, it's not like you don't need
safety help or defensive line help or cornerback help or
anything like that, right mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
Yeah, No, wouldn't want to address any of those positions.

Speaker 7 (01:33:18):
I no, I, I just don't understand what you're doing here.
You know, what's the point of hanging on to Trey
Henderson if you got even if you only got a
third as an offer, and you can say, well, that's
probably what you get as a Comppic. Yeah, but you're
almost gonna have to sign so many free agents yourself
this off season that Compi's not even gonna materialize. So
what are you doing? And listen who answers for this?

(01:33:39):
You know we made I don't Paul talked about this yester. Now,
we made a formal request to talk to Duke Tobin
this week and he was not made available. So you know,
who's the answer for this? They tried the head coach up.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
There to answer Forton.

Speaker 7 (01:33:50):
He can't answer these questions because it's not his decisions
to make.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
I just feel like, and I say this, if I'm
Duke Tobin. As a human being, I go, my guy,
Zach is out there three times a week answering questions
for a thing that he for, things that he largely
isn't responsible for, and we're having a Chase Brown and
Jamar Chase answer questions about a defense that I built.
Just as a human being, I would go, you know,

(01:34:13):
what's screwed. It's the bye week. I'll take the heat,
I'll take the questions. I might not provide satisfactory answers
like that. To me, I would think so much more
highly of him if he said, screw it, I'm going
to show up on Wednesday during the bye ask away
about this roster. And there's none of that.

Speaker 7 (01:34:31):
No, the other part too, just the simple answer of
you know, did you guys try to make some deals?
And I don't even to know specifics. If it's just hey,
we tried. We just we couldn't find any It really
worked for us. We couldn't find players. That's great, I
have no prominent but we don't even get that. So
then it comes to the point of you're a columnist,
that's your turn to take a shot, and you gave
them the fair opportunity to respond, and they.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Chose not to. Uh, we've heard offensive players try to
be diplomatic, and they're becoming less and less diplomatic as
the we go by. How close to a breaking point
are we when it comes to the locker room dynamic.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
Yeah, I think it was a one off with Chase Brown.
I do, and I mean I think that I know
people you know, got on Zach for saying something about
Chase Brown. I think he was right. I mean, let's
not forget early in that football game, on a crossing
route Chase Brown dropped the ball. Would have been a
first down, might have even been a touchdown, and instead
that's four points off the board. And so you know, listen,
if you're gonna play them on the other side of
the ball, you better dagg on well be doing your

(01:35:27):
job of the full extent. I get the frustration.

Speaker 15 (01:35:29):
I do.

Speaker 7 (01:35:30):
I honestly thought Jamar was gonna was gonna snap about
three or four losses ago. I can try to remember
what ugly loss I was. Might be a Denver lost
Monday night loss when the Elis scored three points and
he didn't, And I thought, okay, and I'll be. I'll
give him credit. He's you know, he's trying to get
the answer.

Speaker 8 (01:35:44):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:35:45):
Hey man, I don't play defense, I play offense. Yeah,
that's a good point. And I think he's trying as
hard as he can to be a captain, to be
a leader, you know, the guy that gets tried up
there on Wednesdays and after games, and the quarterback Joe Flack.
I don't think you'll ever hear him saying like that.
So I don't think it's there, but I can understand
if it is. I mean, you know, you score eighty
points in two games. You scored thirty eight in a

(01:36:07):
game and forty two in a game. You not only
should not lose both, you should probably not lose either.
So I get whatever palpable frustration there is.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
How bad are the other safeties behind Jordan Battle and
Ginostone bad?

Speaker 7 (01:36:21):
And that's the problem. They don't trust them to play
either one of those guys, PJ. Jewels or Tyson Anderson.
There's just special teams guys. They're there in case of
a break glass, in case of emergency, and you could
argue maybe emergency level now, but yes, they just don't
trust those guys at all. You know Dejon Anthony's still
stashed on IR I believe or puff one of those lists.

(01:36:42):
They don't trust him either. So that's the part for
me is you went in and we talked about this
ad nausee, but you went into training camp knowing you
didn't really trust any of the safety behind the two starters,
let alone be able to trust the two starters, and
you did nothing to address that, just even forget purposes,
nothing whatsoever. And you're stuck with what you got right now.

(01:37:03):
And if you thought that it was gonna get better
just because it's a new year, well it hasn't gotten
better just because it's a new year. I don't know
if it's gotten worse, But after last year, I'm not
so sure how much worse it could have gotten that group.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
What was it like to host a daily morning show
with Bob Trumpy?

Speaker 7 (01:37:18):
It was interesting and so Tom Gamble and I did
that for about a year. Came to really like Bob Trumpets,
I really did. We had a lot of arguments on
the air. There was one instance where he wouldn't back
down from something I said. So as we went to break,
I took my head set off and I tried to
throw it at him and it was still plugged in,
and unfortunately it ricochet and hit Tom Gamble right in

(01:37:40):
the head, so he could be frustrating. He knew, I
think he knew that. I feel bad for this, that
Tom and I were there to pretty much push him out.
And I never wanted to be that way. I really didn't.
I mean, I felt so honored to host the show
with a guy I grew up, you know, listening to
literally every night of the week. And again once you know,

(01:38:01):
we moved moved in and and you know, Bob was
off the air. I saw him a few more times
after day. Couldn't have been any better man. And then
Lamp tells the story of him and his son. I
when I had hit me, hit me pretty hard on me.
I didn't know he was ailing. To be honest with you,
maybe you did, I shure certainly did not. So it
it hit me hard, and and uh, you know, back
to your original question, it was it was certainly an

(01:38:23):
honor to do that with him. For the time I
got to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
I used to listen to that show every day and
and it always it always sounded like two kids with
their exasperated uncle. And I thought it was immensely entertaining.

Speaker 7 (01:38:34):
Boy boys, what we wearing today.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
I appreciate it. Man, thanks so much. That's our guy,
Richard Skinner from a Local twelve and Local twelve dot com.
Let's talk about Joe Flacco's shoulder and samaj p Ryan's ankle,
and Jade and Daniel's elbow. Plus we'll hear a college
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Urin officially week to week with a high ankle sprain.
Let's begin with that, what's exactly a high ankle sprain
and how does it differ from a typical ankle sprain.

Speaker 13 (01:40:52):
Absolutely good question and so high ankle sprains happen above
the ankle joint. It's a little higher up on your
leg to do with the connection between your tibia and
fibula the lower leg bones, as opposed to a typical
ankle sprain, which has to do with the ligaments connecting
your leg bones to the foot bumtons, and so a
lit'll higher up.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
So something like this. There's obviously different levels and severities
of high ankle sprains. What are they?

Speaker 13 (01:41:20):
Yeah, So severity of the high ankle sprains has to
do with the degree of instability that's caused by it.
So sprains are ultimate due to ultimately due to small
tears in your ligaments, and if those tears are bigger,
they tend to be more stable and more severe usually
cause greater amount of symptoms like pain with putting weight
on your leg.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
Is it a good sign that for Samage in particular,
that he was able to walk off the field under
his own power.

Speaker 13 (01:41:48):
Yes, absolutely, I would think that if he had a
higher grade sprain that it would be difficult for him
to put weight on it, and so certainly reassuring.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
Let's talk about Joe Flacco who played on Sunday and
played extraordinarily well, and Zach Taylor after the game said, look,
this was a guy who during the week couldn't lift
his arm, couldn't raise his hand like you would in
a classroom. He's dealing with a sprained ac joint. I
just want to know this. How could you go from
not being able to raise your arm to being able

(01:42:18):
to hang forty two points on another team in an
NFL game.

Speaker 13 (01:42:22):
I mean it's certainly impressive. Yeah, I think he had some.

Speaker 5 (01:42:27):
Good rehab and a milder injury.

Speaker 13 (01:42:30):
Ac joined is the connection of your clavicle or collarbone
to the scapular or your shoulder blade. When they talk
about a shoulder separation. That's the kind of injury. At
my guess is says was a less severe one, so
that they've been able to kind of rehab him, pat
him up, and get him feeling good enough to get
through because I mean, he had an amazing game last weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Yeah, they don't play this weekend, which I'm sure helps,
But is this the sort of thing where he's just
going to have to figure out a way to manage
the pain the rest of the season.

Speaker 13 (01:42:59):
More so, I mean, these injuries are common, so the
therapists and trainers are used to dealing with them and
getting them through the season. Usually for the lower grade
springs of the AC joint, it's about kind of getting
them through, and I mean, I think this is just
going to nag them a little bit for the next
month or two.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
All Right, Now, I want to ask about another quarterback,
Jade and Daniels of the Washington Commanders, who left a
lopsided game on Sunday night against Seattle had his arm
in a cast as he left the field. It's been
reported that he has a dislocated left elbow. It's his
non throwing arm. Dislocated elbow seems sort of self explanatory,
but take me into the particulars of the injury, of course.

Speaker 13 (01:43:38):
Yeah, I saw the video and it was a gruesome one.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:43:42):
Essentially, is where your forearmbones connect to your humorous your
upper armbone, and when that pops out of place, it's
like a hinge joint, and so it can pop out
and cost some associate injuries like ligament tears or fractures.
So that's what happened with him, Assuming you got to
put back and place on the field and they put
them in a cast and so he's at least working

(01:44:04):
in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
What does the treatment for this sort of injury look like.

Speaker 13 (01:44:08):
It really varies on the severity. I mean, based on
what the reports we've seen thus far, it sounds like
it was simply a dislocation. I think he's lucky in
that sense. Oftentimes he's are associated with fractures or breaks
in the bone, associated with big ligament injuries that need
a surgery. And so in his case, if he didn't
have a big fracture or something that he had to repair,

(01:44:30):
then it involves putting him in a cast for a
period of time, usually a week or two, then working
on getting the elbow moving again because it tends to
stiffen up quickly, so transitioning into a brace that allows
him to bend in straight, and really rehabbing the heck
out of that elbow for the next few months.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Is it made easier due to the fact that it's
not his throwing arm.

Speaker 13 (01:44:50):
Certainly, and so I mean, if it was this throwing arm,
I'd imagine he'd needed in tip top shape in order
to pass again, and so it'd probably be a career
end or sorry, a season ending injury for him. Because
it's his other elbow, he's not requiring as much from it,
and so I don't know. Certainly we can speculate a

(01:45:12):
little bit here, but hopefully it gets them to get
him back a little sooner than the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
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Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
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Speaker 8 (01:45:58):
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Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
This report is sponsored by All Soccer Saturday Night. By
the way, you just heard the forecast for the next
couple of days. Saturday looks pretty good. FC Cincinnati and
Columbus at six, kickoff at six, so temperature is going
to be fifty five according to our folks at Channel nine,
and no rain, so it should be a good night,
should be a great If you love soccer, man, this
weekend is awesome. You have all these deciding game threes

(01:46:53):
including obviously hell Is Reel Saturday six o'clock at TQL Stadium,
the match on MLS Season Pass on TV. Steve Cangelosi,
who has joined us many times in the past, has
the call and kind in us, kind enough to join
us this afternoon. Steve, it's going to have you. How
are you.

Speaker 17 (01:47:11):
Out there on Saturday night?

Speaker 12 (01:47:13):
And this is going to be a heck of an occasion,
I'll tell you it is all on the line, a
game of importance for so so many reasons. For FC
Cincinnati in particular, I think that it's a game they've
got to win.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
Moll for a lot of reasons, and I think that
the pressure is amplified because they won game won and
looked so good in doing so.

Speaker 12 (01:47:36):
They did, and the script certainly flipped. Now in all fairness,
in game two we see a Columbus team that played
the majority of the match from the thirty eight minute
on eleven v ten. But in all fairness, the crew
got the better of it before that with I think
a very good game plan. They were a more aggressive

(01:47:56):
team and now we'll see what adjustments come here from
Paton staff for the decisive Game three. This is something
that I think is largely on the shoulders of his
best player, of Ander, and I think if you're looking
for the tactical headline of the first two games, even

(01:48:17):
in the opening win, and it carried over certainly to
the Ford and Hing loss, I think Columbus has done
a very good job of minimizing the impact of one
of the best players in MLS, and it's on the
Blue and Orange to unleash their number one attacking talent
with the season on the line, I think that's going

(01:48:38):
to go a long way towards deciding which one of
these teams gets to a conference semi final.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
Yeah, you kind of went to where I was going
to go next. I'm waiting for Evander to, for lack
of a better way of putting it, show up on Saturday. Also,
I worry about this. You mentioned all the pressure on
FC Cincinnati, all the reasons why they need to win
this game. It's been rare during Pat Noan's time in
Cincinnati that I've that I've thought as team kind of
came unglued, kind of came unhinged. I thought that happened

(01:49:05):
on Sunday. I worry about giving up an early goal,
and then I know what that crowd is going to
sound like. I know what the weight of that pressure
is going to be like, and I worry about something
similar on Saturday evening.

Speaker 12 (01:49:17):
I think that the pressure comes in many ways, shapes
and forms, and you've mentioned one path that it can
certainly come if you find yourself chasing the game much
of the night before an anxious crowd. Yes, but we've
seen a pattern when these two teams meet where a
one goal lead and even.

Speaker 7 (01:49:36):
A two goal lead is not safe.

Speaker 12 (01:49:40):
And you know, discipline and you know, having that cool
as a cucumber attitude in the crunched moments of this
game will be significant. And I think which team is
ready to enact it's game plan better is the one
that will survive the night. I'm interested to see how

(01:50:03):
Pat lines up his team for this game.

Speaker 3 (01:50:07):
Look, Gid, he's a heck of a player.

Speaker 12 (01:50:09):
He's got a lot of technical ability. But if Abina
Wolbaedo is able to come back, and if he's got
starters minutes in him, you know, Buka side by side
with Wolbado, I think that gets well Buka into the
attack a lot more and I think that's something that's
a positive for Cincinnati. But I don't know physically where

(01:50:30):
Obita is at this point. Evander's got a lot of
this on his shoulders. As I said, one thing that
I think he has to forget about is the fact
that he's carried two yellow cards into this game on
Saturday night, and if he gets another one, he'd be
suspended for a conference semi final. You can't think that

(01:50:51):
far ahead because a lot of this is going to
define your season. I think this is a heck of
a coaching that they have with Pat with Kenny Arena,
with Dominic Kinnear, with Chris Albright leading the technical staff.
And I was talking to people about this earlier today,

(01:51:13):
and I do think that all things considered equal, this
is coaching staff MO that should be as secure as
any in the league. They're well respected, they did a
nice job putting the team together this year, and you'd
have a hard time doing better. The problem is, MO,

(01:51:35):
not all things are created equal on Saturday night, because
think about the consequences of a loss here. You'd be
looking at a loss, an elimination game on your home ground,
your season ending on your home ground for a third
straight year, not to mention the fact that you would
bow out at the expense of your opponent for the

(01:51:59):
second time in three years. So there's a lot going
on there, and I can't speak to how ownership, you know,
would deal with that, but there's a lot that goes
into winning or.

Speaker 7 (01:52:11):
Losing this game.

Speaker 12 (01:52:13):
And if they do survive it, MO, I think they're
going to be really brimming with confidence for as how
long they remain in these MLS Cup playoffs, which I
think can be a very long way.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
Yeah, I hope. So it's going to be tense, it's
also going to be a lot of fun. Saturday at
six o'clock, Steve have a great call. We appreciate the time, man,
thanks so much.

Speaker 7 (01:52:35):
We thank you and take care.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
I'll see you guys Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
Most definitely Steve Canzelosi MLS Season Pass Apple TV. He
has the call for Game three on Saturday night, FC
Cincinnati and Columbus six pm. Radio coverage can be heard
on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. We have UK football. I
believe it's UK football, right. We got something on ESPN
fifteen thirty. I'm I'm almost certain that it's a conceis

(01:53:02):
now because it's gonna bother me and this is the
last show of the week and I don't want to
be wrong. I'm one million percent positive that the soccer
game is on. Yeah, Kentucky plays Florida. Yes, I was right,
UK host Florida Krogerfield. There you go, all right, that
was a great way to end the week. Tomorrow I'm

(01:53:23):
off Chad Brendle will be here Friday with no Bengals
pep rally because of the by see you get ken Brew,
ken Brew talking to you and UH love ken and Uh.
I'll be listening from three to five thirty on Friday
and three to six tomorrow. Hopefully you will be too.
Don't forget Tony and Mo Football Show is going to
be at Twin Peaks in Westchester on Monday. We will

(01:53:45):
see it then hopefully have an awesome weekend, have a
great rest of the week. Thanks to Tarren Bland for producing.
Thanks to you for listening. This is ESPN fifteen thirty
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