12/10/25: Mo Egger with Richard Skinner

Richard Skinner from Local 12 joined us to discuss the Bengals and their chances of defying the odds and launching a dynasty by winning their next eight games. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Richard Skinner joins us on Wednesdays from Local twelve and
Local twelve dot com to talk about the Bengals, and
he's here now. Hi, Skinny, mo I'm in the land
of the Scott Eagles tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I mean your character you play the scott tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Taylor Mel very good. How are the Eagles doing this year?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
They are two and zero and we'll see what they
do with us tonight. We're want to know.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
So wow, very good.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
So a very early season battle of Titans in northern Kentucky.
This is going to be if you if you walk
down that hallway and you look at the class of
ninety five, you could see what I look like with
a like a spike flat top.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I already did that, mo. I did take a game.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Very good, very good.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I frankly think that game tonight might be a little
bit more interesting than Bengals and Ravens on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh, I don't know. I mean you got the Ravens
fighting for their lives, the Bengals fighting for their last breath,
if you will, their last gas. No, I think it is.
We'll say this. I have a feeling because of the
weather and where things are going you'll have a lot
of empty seats.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, probably probably have a lot of a lot of
empty seats.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Uh, where do we go from here with this defense?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Because you know, on on Sunday, all right, Burrow throws
the pick six, then there's another pick. Fine, right, but
they're still in the game, and multiple times in the
fourth quarter with a ten point lead, down by three,
down by five, chances to get off the field, chances
to salt the game away, chances to give Joe Burrow
a shot, yet again they failed. Did that undo the
positive gains of the previous couple of weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I think so. I mean, I think you're gonna have
to show something over the final four weeks to give
you some hope of what are your core pieces for
next year? I mean, do you totally have to remake
the linebacker room again, that's a big ask. I mean,
after you decided you were going to roll a dice
of two rookie linebackers and start this thing all over,
you know, safety position kind of the same way up
front on the edges, you know, with Tree Hendrickson probably

(01:56):
gone and just Ab said possibly gone and Shamar Stewart unproved,
and I mean there's a lot of holes. And that
was the disappointing part about Sunday. You know, at twenty
eight eighteen, I thought that was a more pivotal series.
The one after that that the Borough picks in Borough
fixty six was just a fluky great play by a dude.
I mean, I mean, if you watch that over and

(02:17):
over and over again, samar Chase is wide open. If
that ball gets over his head, he's one on one
with a corner down the sideline for at least fifteen
yards if not maybe bowling them over side stepping him
going in for a touchdown. And instead it goes the
other way. I mean, you gave up a touchdown drive
and a minute one seconds up ten that that can't happen.
You know, if they use four minutes, which is a

(02:39):
fairly quick drive in the NFL, then then you're into
four minute offense where you're just trying to grind out
some first downs and use their timeouts and get yourself
down to maybe a clinching score, or at least to
the point where when you whenever you get the football up,
there's little time left and they have no timeouts remaining.
Instead of minute one second stood back within three and

(02:59):
that's the thing that was really frustrating is I thought
that drive more than anything else.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
If I would have said to you back in August
that DJ Turner would have a legitimate case to be
a pro bowler, you would have.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Said what I have said, You're crazy, man. I would
have thought he might get his starting job back at
some point. But that's the story. Actually, I'm trying to
bank for probably next week. We got a bunch of
quotes from Al Golden earlier this week. You know, Zach
talked about it a little bit today. I didn't get
a chance to talk to DJ today, and I'd like
to talk to him about it. But and usually you

(03:30):
know how this works, Like you're a Pro Bowl caliber
player and then it's probably one more year where you're
just not quite on the radar. But now you are
on the radar, so people are thinking of you in
those terms. So I don't think DJ makes it. I
think he deserves it. I think he's not just been good, man,
he's been great. Now he's taking the best receiver on
the other team and usually locking that player up. I

(03:51):
go back to the Roman doonesdays. Probably not the best
receiver the Bears had, but he gave up nothing to
roam with Doonsday. It's been week to week to week
where you know, it was a couple of games ago
where somebody made a catch on DJ and it ended
up being a passing OFFENSI passion in her career, some
of mine like, yeah, there's nobody cleats passes on DJ Turner.
That had to be a penalty. And so I think
that's where we're at with this guy. You just expect

(04:13):
him to shut down the best receiver on the other team,
and that's a luxury. I mean, it's wanting to have
a guy who's your number one corner. It's another to
have a shutdown corner, and then you can't get the
rest of the defense right despite having that guy. That's
a big problem.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
So this is year three for DJ Turner and so
it feels like it's taken a while for the light
bulb to come on, but the light is on very bright.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Can I cling to something similar for Miles Murphy?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Not quite to that standard. I think Miles has at
least played himself into a capable rotational end on a
perfect team. On this team, he has to start. I
do think he has benefited though mo from getting consistent reps.
I think that's helped him a lot to where he's
not looking over his shoulder on playing two snaps coming
off the field. I'm playing a snap coming off the field.

(05:00):
That it's more Hey, when I'm tired, I can come
off the field. And I think that has helped him,
and I do think he's played better. But he also
does some crazy things like he was a fourth down
play where he decides to rush inside and gets pinned
inside and there's nobody contain on the outside of Josh
Allen's able to roll out clean. That can't happen. I
just can't. They can't do that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Somebody, you gotta knucking futs after the game, get postgame beers.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
That how that works.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I gotta be honest with Now. We're usually a dickman's group,
but knucking futs is really good. It's one of my favorites.
Went off this way back the last time I was
out hers for a coaches meeting, and then another coach
from another school went to knucking futs and had some
wings and some beverages and just can't go wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
They got they got well priced large beers. There are
knucking futs right there on on Taylor Mill Road.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
But that's okay. I gave him a plug day.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Can you endorse it?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I appreciate you endorsing it because I do really like that.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Place, as do I.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
All Right, Well, got best of luck tonight and we'll
talk next week.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Take care, says our guy.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Richard Skinner from Local twelve and Local twelve dot com
will go to Baltimore next