May 15, 2026 • 34 mins
The schedule release was uneventful, and that's good. And....an ex-felon says things about Joe Burrow.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaking of wins, I think the Bengals did win. Schedule
release I think so good afternoon on Mowegar. This is
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We have been out and about lots going on the
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Lots of good stuff on yesterday's show, you can go
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UC football general manager, John Cunningham, as well Katrina Meriweather.
If you missed any of that, go find it on
the iHeartRadio app. And today there's a lot of ground
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to cover. Let's start with last night schedule release show
at Dickman's was awesome thanks to those who came out
six hours of not just breaking down the schedule, but
talking about how the schedule presents advantages or disadvantages and
then looking at the season as a whole. And I
feel like, and I say this, and I'm sure there
have been exceptions, but usually when the schedule comes out,
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there's something that we don't like. Maybe it's a maybe
it's a tough stretch. Maybe the schedule makers have put
the Bengals at a specific disadvantage because of travel or
game times or short weeks, or they make the Bengals
go to Baltimore for another year on a Thursday night.
Maybe I'm in the minority, and you can tell me
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if I am, and you can tell me if you disagree.
When the schedule was released last night, I kind of
just shrugged my shoulders and said, cool, game on, let's go.
Not that there's not excitement, there should be, not that
there aren't, you know, certain things that I was looking for,
you know, selfishly, as a fan, I look for opportunities
to maybe go see the Bengals on the road, and
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then I think about our pregame shows we do from
the Holy Grail on Sundays before games, and you know,
you look at certain quirks in the schedule. But more
than anything, I think what you're looking for are areas
where maybe you can complain about something. And I'm not
saying you because I do the same thing. Is there
an area where the schedule makers put the Bengals at
a disadvantage? Quite frankly, I think the answer is no.
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I think the Bengals have a good runway to get
off to a good start now, not that there's not
tough games Week two against Houston. The Bengals are already
two and a half point dogs in that game. That
Texans defense is terrific. Now offensively, I'm not sure what
they are. They have good wideouts. I've become a non
believer in CJ. Stroud and a lot of people have.
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Don't know how good their offensive line is gonna be.
But that's a tough game, and they do have to
go to Pittsburgh week three, and that's just you assume
it's gonna be tough because it's the Steelers, although I'm
not sure how much this particular version of the Steelers
deserves that. And playing the Jaguars week four, I think
is one of the more fun games of the first
four weeks of the NFL season. Burrow Lawrence two teams
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have played each other week two last year. Burrow got
hurt in that game when the Jacksonville Jaguars kind of
gave that game away, and I thought they got some
help from a shaky flag. But the Jaguars at the
end of the season won eight consecutive games they scored
more than thirty and four of those games.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's a fun game. But I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I look at the first half of the schedule and
there's two things that stand out one is after the
first two weeks they play a lot of teams with
new head coaches. Six of the first nine games will
be against teams that have new head coaches. Now, you
would prefer to have one of those games in the
first two weeks, and I would have liked to have
seen maybe one more AFC North team early on because
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of all the coaching turnover in this division. But you
get that you also have a chance to get into
a little bit of a rhythm. And I know on
social media, with all the new standalone games that have
been announced, there's a lot of people pining for the
days of one o'clock on Sunday being a bigger deal,
although most weeks there's still gonna be like six, seven,
eight games at one o'clock on Sunday. Scott Hansen, the
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awesome host of the Red Zone Channel, tweeted that last
night and I'm looking at it going like one o'clock
Sunday is still gonna be very busy. But here's why
I like one o'clock on Sunday for this team early
in the season. Look at the first half of that schedule.
You will see a whole lot of one o'clock on Sunday.
You will see no primetime games. You will see no
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standalone games until they go to.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Madrid on November the eighth.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now I do understand this. They'll play the Jaguars on
October the fourth, and then they won't have a game
inside the venue originally known as Paul Brown Stadium until
after Halloween. But there is a whole lot of one
o'clock on Sunday in the first eight weeks. There's a bye,
and it is the earliest bye since twenty seventeen. But
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I do think for this team, it's a chance to
establish and get into a little bit of a rhythm
early on. It's a chance, like you know, if you're
playing an early season Thursday night game, maybe that impacts
how you train, maybe that impacts your training camp. They
don't have to worry about a standalone, weirdly timed game
until they go to Madrid.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now that's a big one. That's a big one because
it is extra travel.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's not like traveling to Denver or Vegas or Los
Angeles like it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's six time zones.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's another part of the world, and there is no
bye the week before, and there's no bye the week after,
and maybe you were looking for a rest either before
or after. Although I will point this out that there
have been twenty one NFL teams that have had an
international game and that have had to come back home
and play the following week without a bye, twenty one
of them, including four last year, and.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So it's becoming regular.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And with the number of international games there's nine of
them this year, you're not going to be able to
give everybody a bye. And if we get to a
point where every team is playing an international game, and
quite frankly, I hope we don't go there, but if
we do, you're not going to be able to give
everybody a bye. Here's the good news. Of those twenty
one teams, twelve of them won the following week, coming
right back to the United States to play a game.
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They won the week after the international game without a
b and so it can be done. But more than anything,
you get a lot of teams in the first half
of the season with new head coaches, and you can
establish a little bit of a rhythm here one o'clock
on Sunday. One o'clock on Sunday, they don't travel outside
the Eastern time zone, but for one game, and that's
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to the Central time zone against the Texans in Houston.
This is advantageous and this isn't about when I prefer
to watch games or you prefer to watch games. I
think it's easier for this team. And let's face it, man,
I think there's a lot of excitement here for the Bengals.
I feel excited. I'm sure you feel at least some
excitement for the team this year. But there has to
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be a little apprehension about this team nationally, given the
fact that they haven't made the postseason since twenty twenty two.
There are a non playoff team most years, right, non
playoff team each of the last three years. Non playoff
teams typically don't get a lot of standalone windows, and
so the NFL is saying we're gonna put you in
some standalone game. We're gonna put you in a huge
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one late in the season, but in the.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
First eight weeks, play at one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
On Sunday like most teams, and then we'll see if
you're good enough to stay in some of those standalone
time slots. When we get to the middle portion of
the season, it doesn't feel like there's anywhere where the
schedule really screws them. There's no set of circumstances where
they have to play three consecutive road games. They obviously
have the short week on a Thursday, like everybody else.
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I look at it this way, they play on New
Year's Eve night against the Baltimore Ravens, and then if
Week eighteen matters, if Week eighteen means they're playing for
a playoff spot or a division title, or for seeding,
if there's anything on the line, they'll get a mini by,
which is going to be badly needed in all likelihood
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for a team that gets its by so early in
the season. Week six again, earliest since twenty seventeen. The
standalone games we've talked about Madrid Pittsburgh on a Sunday
night could be a lot of fun. We'll see if
the Steelers are good enough for that game to not
get flexed out. Bengals beat the Steelers in prime time
last year the Washington game. The Washington games chuck filled
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with storylines, right Jane daniels coming out party his rookie
season came in Cincinnati in primetime in Week three. Obviously,
his sophomore season went sideways. Also, it's Joe Burrow going
back to the stadium where he got injured in twenty
twenty his rookie year. Then there's the Baltimore game. You
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may disagree five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty.
I think it is cool as hell that the Bengals
are gonna play on New Year's Eve night at home.
First of all, they're finally getting Baltimore on a Thursday.
Outside of Baltimore, They're getting that game in Cincinnati. I'm
not the world's biggest New Year's Eve guy, I will
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admit I think it's kind of amateur night.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's one of the few nights a year where I'd
rather stay in.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But a Bengals game that has a lot of weight,
that has potentially huge stakes, that could play a role
in determining the playoff picture, could play a role in
determining who wins the division. Trey hendrickson coming back, Are
you kidding me? On a Thursday in October? That's cool
as hell? On Thursday night, December thirty first to close
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out twenty twenty six, are you kidding me? That's a
chance for the Bengals to shine. It's a chance for
the Bengals to play and what's gonna feel like an
enormous game, and I think it's a chance for the
city to shine. Also, it's gonna be a lot of
fun downtown. Cannot wait to do the pregame show that day.
But more than anything, I feel like the schedule is
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not an obstacle. The schedule isn't gonna be the reason
why the Bengals win the division if they do. The
schedule isn't gonna be the reason why the Bengals make
the playoffs if they do. The schedule isn't gonna be
the reason why the Bengals get a high seed if
they do two. But the schedule doesn't appear to be
an obstacle. The individual games are right, everybody plays tough teams.
But the schedule itself, I don't know what there is
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to complain about. Wasn't really anticipating a bye before or
after the international game because it's hard to give every
team one, and teams have figured out ways to be
competitive and win games when they come home from Europe
the following week to play a game. Lots of one
o'clock games, early, chance to establish a rhythm, and the
caret being dangled of some immensely big primetime games in
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the second half of the season, in particular on New
Year's Eve. Oh and by the way, they'll play three
to the final five at home. They'll play the final
two at home. I don't know what there is to
not like now. You may have been rooting for a
game to be placed in a certain weekend. I was,
I'll be in Houston the weekend the Bengals are in Madrid.
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You see football plays at Houston. I was rooting for
the Texans game to be that weekend because I could
do both. Or was rooting for the weekend that U
see goes to West Virginia for the Bengals Steelers game
in Pittsburgh. To me that same weekend, because it's it's
easy to do both. But beyond that, competitively speaking, it
doesn't feel like the schedule is an obstacle. Your thoughts
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agree or disagree more than welcome. We're open today five
point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty eight six six
seven oh two three seven seven six, just two guests
later on one on the Preakness, the other on FC Cincinnati,
And amid all the stuff we were doing yesterday, we
didn't devote a ton of time to FC Cincinnati's loss
on Wednesday. I thought a rare moment where it made
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a lot of sense to second guest Pat Noonan, based
on taking his best defenders out when they're playing a
game against MESSI coming off a game where they gave
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Speaker 1 (13:04):
You're gonna hear an ex felon say some things about
Joe Burrow. Coming up in about fifteen minutes. Reds and
Guardians tonight. Cincinnati won big yesterday. I still wonder what
we're waiting for. I'll explain next on ESPN fifteen thirty
Cincinnati Sports.
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Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
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thanks so much for listening today and I appreciate you starting.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Your weekend with us.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
With US phone calls are coming up five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifteen thirty. By the way I did, I tweeted an
article out from Yahoo Sports from Ben Fox, and I
think I'm saying that correctly. He has not every sports
book has lines out for every game. Most of them
have lines out for week one games. But he has,
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as we say, canvassed a whole bunch of different books
and he has found lines for every twenty twenty six
NFL regular season game. Now, lines will move, Lines for
week one will move, Lines during the week move all
the time. But right now, the Bengals are favored to
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win fifteen of their seventeen games, and I believe the
largest spread was six and a half I think, and
I'm doing this off the top of my head, I
think that was for the Dolphins game, which is Week
five in Miami.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Again, lines will move.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You know, a lot of factors will go into influencing
what a betting line is.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But I think it speaks to the division. I think
it speaks to the.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
How Vegas feels about what the Bengals have done this offseason.
I think it speaks very much to the relative weakness
of the AFC. A lot of the teams on the
Bengal schedule. A lot of folks have pointed out the
Bengal strength of schedule if you're using last year's records,
which is a very imperfect way of doing it is
largely easy. But right now, and I tweeted at the link,
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if you want to read it, favor to win fifteen
of their seventeen games. I'm gonna stop short of saying
the Bengals are going to go fifteen and two, But
I think if you use that as a guide, it's
sort of I don't know, it feeds the optimism. They're
underdogs right now on the road Week two against Houston
and on the road in that first game against the
Ravens in Baltimore. Reds are in Cleveland tonight after a
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badly needed laugher in the series finale against the Washington Nationals,
and because they won the game, I guess it tempers
a lot of the criticisms that the Reds are getting
right now for using a lot of guys that it
just it feels like we keep waiting for like we
do this a lot with Matt McClain, we keep waiting
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for the old Matt mcla to show up, and you
know he Homered, But we keep waiting for the twenty
twenty three version of Matt McClain to show up. And
the longer you wait and the longer he doesn't show up,
the more silly it seems that you keep waiting for
the twenty twenty three version of Matt McLain to show up.
And I know it's it has sounded this year like
we've been picking on Matt. It's just it's a reflection
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of his lack of performance and same offensively, at least
for key Brian Hayes. And you know, we can apply
this to TJ Friedel. TJ Friedel's lack of offensive production
is a thing that goes back to just before the
All Star break last year. And so the longer the
lack of production goes, the less it's a slump or
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the less it's a slow start, and the more it
is kind of who you are, kind of what you are.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And I just I wonder how much longer, And I
know you're.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Working within the confines of what you have on the
forty man and what you have in the system, and
what you're going to be able to go get from
the outside, how long can you wait for some of
these guys, especially when in the infield at least you
have a guy in Edwin Arroyo, who hit his ninth
homer yesterday, who's having a marvelous season for Louisville, and
he has played, I think, in all of thirty eight
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Triple A games. Sal Stewart last year played in forty
Triple A games.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I just I wonder if there's a real compelling reason.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And Edwin Arroyo is primarily a short stop, and the
Reds have a short stop and a pretty good one
in Elie Dela Cruz. Edwin has worked in a little
bit at third base, He's worked in a little bit
at second base, and so maybe if you called him
up and played him, he'd have to play a position
where he's not as experienced. But I just, I know
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we can go overboard in criticizing the production of guys
who hit near the bottom of the order, But oh boy,
can you really have in your infield two guys who
this year have for the most part been offensive zeros.
I don't know how the answer is yes, and keep
Bryan Hayes this year has been an offensive zero. Matt
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McLain at times this year has had moments where he's
gotten really big hits, but for the most part, has
been an offensive zero. How much longer can you wait
for some of these guys who haven't produced all season,
or haven't produced since three years ago, or haven't produced
since the beginning of the season last year, or who
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have never produced? How long can you wait for those
guys to to start to give you something offensively? And
how long can you go without calling up a guy
who is making a lot of headlines for what he's
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isn't related to business. We have to spend some time
on that and more on the Bengals. Coming off of
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that series three games to two. And I would give you,
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He's up a stroke, thank you, over one shot lead
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Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's been a very sloppy segment by me.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Uh we have folks waiting on hole before that, we
have to give this guy a couple of attentions. So
this is Craig Carton. Tarn brought this to my attention yesterday.
Is this Craig Carton on w f A and New York.
Is that what I'm about to listen to here? Yeah,
Craig Carton, very talented sports talk radio guys. Done a
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stint on FS one and also did a stint in prison.
For what's that that's worth? Here's a Greig Carton rambling
aimlessly about Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Here you go play the audio.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Joe Burrow does not have the gravitas yet where he
should be demanding that the Cincinnati Bengals have an international game.
Joe Burrow is never ready to play. Joe Burrow is
always hurt. Joe Burrow misses the playoffs more than.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He makes the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Joe Burrow, when healthy, which is rare, and on the field,
which is rare, is a great quarterback. But at some
point don't we have to kind of relook at the
Joe Burrow career and say, flash in the band. For
all the key we give other quarterbacks, why don't we
give Joe barrony heat, Joe Bargets no smoke at all.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Okay, there's there's more of that, and I'm I'm already
getting annoyed. I try to consume a lot of content.
I try to read as much as I possibly can,
but I do not claim that I hear, see and
read everything, And so maybe there are things that sometimes
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escape my notice. Did Joe Burrow demand that the Bengals
play in Spain?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Did did Joe Burrow call Roger Goodell and say we
have to play an international game? I guess he's expressed
a desire to play in Spain or play in an
an international game?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Which cool? Did Joe again?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Man? Fill me out if if I'm missing something here, dude,
I'm I'll raise my hand and go man, that one
got past me.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It happens, happens a lot. Actually, it's hard to keep
track of everything.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But I don't recall Joe Burrow like making a demand
and that the Bengals play an international game.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Joe Burrow is hurt a lot. I don't know how
that's his fault.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
When he plays a full season, usually the Bengals are
pretty good. And when he plays a full season and
the Bengals are not pretty good. You would be hard
pressed to find anybody who pays attention to this team
who would say that the fact that the team isn't
very good is Joe Burrow's fault. So, okay, we gave
Craig Carton his cup of attention. I don't know what
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else we're supposed to do with that. Please Craig Carton
stat of jail. That's I mean, you know, Joe Burrow
could ask like, why isn't Craig Carton get more heat
for scamming people out of a lot of money and
going to prison?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But I don't want to make it personal.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, there is Joe, I feel dumber for playing
that audio, and you probably do too. But I feel
like we owed it to Craig to give him the
cup of attention that he was looking for here in Cincinnati,
and so he got it. When Joe Burrow plays poorly,
he gets, yes, he gets whatever heat a quarterback who
plays poorly has come in to him. He doesn't play
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poorly that often. Last year when he came back, he
wasn't awesome. By the way, I don't know about anybody else.
I can only speak for myself. Burrow and the Bengals
played that really cold game against the Ravens late in
the season where they lost twenty four to nothing and
they looked totally checked out. I don't know anybody who
watched that game, myself included, who didn't throw some shade
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at the quarterback for the lack of urgency, for how
uninterested they looked like. Burrow got criticism and deserved it.
So there you go. We gave Craig cart and his
cup of attention. Now we can all move on. Five one, three, seven,
fifteen thirty Tarren, do we still have the pizza dude on?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
All right, let's uh, let's hear from the pizza dude. Hi, uh,
pizza dude.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
I'm good, How are you?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh wonderful? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Oh yeah, I'll be quick. But let me preface this
by saying I don't find it funny either, and I
could be wrong, but I believe the joke of Cincinnati
being in Kentucky is because of the location of our airport.
When they fly in, they fly into Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh okay, so that's it.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I don't find it funny either, but the only thing
I can think of that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
So the guardians like to poke at the at Cincinnati
being a part of Kentucky because the airport is in Hebron.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yes, that's the only thing I can think of. There's
no other part of Cincinnati is in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, I guess so. I now I look at I
look at the humor in a whole different light. Now,
pizza dude, ye bye. I appreciate the phone call. Yes,
the airport is in Kentucky, and that's that's the Greater
Cincinnati International Airport Boom County. Hebron is a part of
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greater Cincinnati. I don't know off the top of my
head if there are other airports of major metropolitan cities
that are in a state that borders that state. But
if that's I mean, CVG has been around for decades.
Is it just now catching on in Cleveland that if
you fly into Cincinnati you actually the plain Lands in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Is that a okay? I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't know why this is funny to only the
Cleveland Guardians. I do know it's the Ohio Cup. Are
they trying to claim that the Ohio Cup can't be
the Reds because it's in.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't know, but and you know, but by all
means Cleveland, you do what you gotta do. I again,
I've been to Kentucky and I've been to Cleveland, and
I'm gonna go to Cleveland next Friday, and I'm looking
forward to it. I've had a good time when I've
gone to Cleveland. But if I had to pick between
the two, Kentucky's a bigger place than Cleveland. I'm picking
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the places in Kentucky I've been. Mike, go ahead, how
is the Jim Rome show yesterday? Mike's off all right? Well,
sorry about that sixteen from four o'clock yesterday. He sent
me an email and said he was going to listen
to Jim Rome instead of us. So I just I
wanted to see what I missed because I can't listen
to Jim Rome while I'm on the air. Five point three, seven,
four nine, fifteen thirty is our number and eight six
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six seven oh two three seven seven.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Six schedule is out.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Off season is mostly not entirely, but mostly in the books,
and the Bengals have no excuse that. Plus College Football
Playoff is going to expand to twenty four teams. It
looks like, which is an awful idea. And uh, we've
got more Reds Guardians as well. Quota to four ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
From the UC held from four. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Mo, Way.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And folks waiting on hold. I want to spend their
Friday afternoon talking to me. Uh, Jay, you're on ESPN
fifteen thirty. J good after go ahead, MO. How are
you wonderful yourself?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I'm great. I'm on I four traffic between Tampa and Orlando.
But I had to call because I saw the news
of Jared Calhoun getting a seven footer, and I thought
you'd be all excited about that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Deshaun Vaden Is that who you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yeah? Yeah, what have you got on him?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Deshaun Vaden comes from Mount Union, which is a D
three school. Now they officially list him as six eleven,
but I've heard people refer to him as a seven footer.
He's obviously very very tall. Played in twenty nine games
from Mount Union last year. Averaged five points, nearly five rebounds,
three and a half blocks. Now that's over just fifteen
and a half minutes a game. He was very effective,
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shooting the ball over sixty four percent. He had I
think I believe I read on Bearcat Journal he had
a game where he blocked eight shots in a season
or in a game. I'm sorry, eight shots in the
season would be wilful disappointment. So now he's a you know,
coming from a D three program, So I'm not sure
how much of a project he is, but he is tall.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What's your overall take on the on what he has
done so far? Mean being Calhoun, I think.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
All things consider given the fact that he started with
a completely bare cupboard, it's it's been okay.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I'm I'm still not entirely sure.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
They have like an all big twelve guy, right and
you're gonna need one of those. Hell uc had two
last year and still couldn't make the tournament. I think,
all things considered, it it feels like a pretty good
recruiting class.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
But they've bitten off a lot early.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And what I wonder more than anything, is like by
the time they coalesce, how many losses may they take?
Given the non con includes Louisville, Clemson, Dayton on the road,
the Xavier game and MTE and I haven't seen who's
in that mt either, and in Orlando plus Big twelve play,
I don't I don't know if by the time this
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thing actually comes together and the guy's coalesce, I don't
know how many losses they're going to take. But it
does feel like it does feel like the momentum has
been pretty good. I am looking forward to there being
an offseason where he doesn't have to fill thirteen spots
like he's had to try to do this offseason.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Right, right, And did you say that there is no
there haven't been any incoming.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Freshmen as of this moment. No, they've all been They've
all been transfers ran first.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Okay, that's what I wanted to hear. Appreciate the help.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Okay, Jay, thanks so much, Jason Florida. Yeah, I appreciate
the phone call.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Jay.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Have a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Jared Calhoun was on our show Wednesday and talked about
the significance and importance of high school recruiting and did
so kind of unprompted, and it was refreshing because you know,
for years that's what we focused on, and now it
kind of takes a back seat to us talking about
the transfer portal. If you miss that conversation, you can
go listen to it on the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
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that's like, I am really excited about Jared Calhoun, and
I am excited about watching watching him get these guys
all from different places and watching to see how he
can make them come together and coalesce and all that.
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But you need all big twelve guys, Like the idea
is to compete at the highest level of this conference.
And that may be a little bit of a tough
ask in year one, but you know last year, last year,
Boba Miller and Mustapha Chaum were all Big twelve caliber players.
And I don't know that they have one of those
right now, but I'll be better equipped to make that
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assessment maybe some point late summer. Five away from four
o'clock five point three, seven, four nine, fifteen thirty and
eight six six seven two three seven seven six will
get you in. By by the way, TJ. Friedel not
starting against to night. Will Benson is in center field,
and you know, I just TJ. Friedel has I think
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regressed a little bit defensively. The offense simply hasn't been there.
He's on the team to get on base. He doesn't
get on base, and you do wonder, you to have
wondered at least how many more opportunities. He's going to
get more on that a little bit later on, plus
Brendanman and Jones on baseball in the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
More expansion, expansion the college football playoff. I think the
college football playoffs number right now is pretty close to perfect.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I talk about this through the lens of competitiveness and
what's the best TV product and what makes fans feel
like they have access to the championship. The people in
charge of such things look at things through an entirely
different lens, and it's colored green. I have a simple
question when it comes to expansions of postseasons. More on
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that a little bit later on, and a few more
things on the Bengals schedule, plus more of your phone
calls on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station
Speaking of wins, I think the Bengals did win. Schedule
release I think so good afternoon on Mowegar. This is
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We have been out and about lots going on the
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Lots of good stuff on yesterday's show, you can go
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to talk with guys like Jared Calhoun and Scott Saderfield,
and we had on Daniellatomach, the volleyball coach, and the
UC football general manager, John Cunningham, as well Katrina Meriweather.
If you missed any of that, go find it on
the iHeartRadio app. And today there's a lot of ground
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to cover. Let's start with last night schedule release show
at Dickman's was awesome thanks to those who came out
six hours of not just breaking down the schedule, but
talking about how the schedule presents advantages or disadvantages and
then looking at the season as a whole. And I
feel like, and I say this, and I'm sure there
have been exceptions, but usually when the schedule comes out,
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there's something that we don't like. Maybe it's a maybe
it's a tough stretch. Maybe the schedule makers have put
the Bengals at a specific disadvantage because of travel or
game times or short weeks, or they make the Bengals
go to Baltimore for another year on a Thursday night.
Maybe I'm in the minority, and you can tell me
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if I am, and you can tell me if you disagree.
When the schedule was released last night, I kind of
just shrugged my shoulders and said, cool, game on, let's go.
Not that there's not excitement, there should be, not that
there aren't, you know, certain things that I was looking for,
you know, selfishly, as a fan, I look for opportunities
to maybe go see the Bengals on the road, and
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then I think about our pregame shows we do from
the Holy Grail on Sundays before games, and you know,
you look at certain quirks in the schedule. But more
than anything, I think what you're looking for are areas
where maybe you can complain about something. And I'm not
saying you because I do the same thing. Is there
an area where the schedule makers put the Bengals at
a disadvantage? Quite frankly, I think the answer is no.
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I think the Bengals have a good runway to get
off to a good start now, not that there's not
tough games Week two against Houston. The Bengals are already
two and a half point dogs in that game. That
Texans defense is terrific. Now offensively, I'm not sure what
they are. They have good wideouts. I've become a non
believer in CJ. Stroud and a lot of people have.
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Don't know how good their offensive line is gonna be.
But that's a tough game, and they do have to
go to Pittsburgh week three, and that's just you assume
it's gonna be tough because it's the Steelers, although I'm
not sure how much this particular version of the Steelers
deserves that. And playing the Jaguars week four, I think
is one of the more fun games of the first
four weeks of the NFL season. Burrow Lawrence two teams
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have played each other week two last year. Burrow got
hurt in that game when the Jacksonville Jaguars kind of
gave that game away, and I thought they got some
help from a shaky flag. But the Jaguars at the
end of the season won eight consecutive games they scored
more than thirty and four of those games.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's a fun game. But I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I look at the first half of the schedule and
there's two things that stand out one is after the
first two weeks they play a lot of teams with
new head coaches. Six of the first nine games will
be against teams that have new head coaches. Now, you
would prefer to have one of those games in the
first two weeks, and I would have liked to have
seen maybe one more AFC North team early on because
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of all the coaching turnover in this division. But you
get that you also have a chance to get into
a little bit of a rhythm. And I know on
social media, with all the new standalone games that have
been announced, there's a lot of people pining for the
days of one o'clock on Sunday being a bigger deal,
although most weeks there's still gonna be like six, seven,
eight games at one o'clock on Sunday. Scott Hansen, the
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awesome host of the Red Zone Channel, tweeted that last
night and I'm looking at it going like one o'clock
Sunday is still gonna be very busy. But here's why
I like one o'clock on Sunday for this team early
in the season. Look at the first half of that schedule.
You will see a whole lot of one o'clock on Sunday.
You will see no primetime games. You will see no
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standalone games until they go to.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Madrid on November the eighth.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now I do understand this. They'll play the Jaguars on
October the fourth, and then they won't have a game
inside the venue originally known as Paul Brown Stadium until
after Halloween. But there is a whole lot of one
o'clock on Sunday in the first eight weeks. There's a bye,
and it is the earliest bye since twenty seventeen. But
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I do think for this team, it's a chance to
establish and get into a little bit of a rhythm
early on. It's a chance, like you know, if you're
playing an early season Thursday night game, maybe that impacts
how you train, maybe that impacts your training camp. They
don't have to worry about a standalone, weirdly timed game
until they go to Madrid.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now that's a big one. That's a big one because
it is extra travel.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's not like traveling to Denver or Vegas or Los
Angeles like it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's six time zones.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's another part of the world, and there is no
bye the week before, and there's no bye the week after,
and maybe you were looking for a rest either before
or after. Although I will point this out that there
have been twenty one NFL teams that have had an
international game and that have had to come back home
and play the following week without a bye, twenty one
of them, including four last year, and.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So it's becoming regular.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And with the number of international games there's nine of
them this year, you're not going to be able to
give everybody a bye. And if we get to a
point where every team is playing an international game, and
quite frankly, I hope we don't go there, but if
we do, you're not going to be able to give
everybody a bye. Here's the good news. Of those twenty
one teams, twelve of them won the following week, coming
right back to the United States to play a game.
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They won the week after the international game without a
b and so it can be done. But more than anything,
you get a lot of teams in the first half
of the season with new head coaches, and you can
establish a little bit of a rhythm here one o'clock
on Sunday. One o'clock on Sunday, they don't travel outside
the Eastern time zone, but for one game, and that's
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to the Central time zone against the Texans in Houston.
This is advantageous and this isn't about when I prefer
to watch games or you prefer to watch games. I
think it's easier for this team. And let's face it, man,
I think there's a lot of excitement here for the Bengals.
I feel excited. I'm sure you feel at least some
excitement for the team this year. But there has to
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be a little apprehension about this team nationally, given the
fact that they haven't made the postseason since twenty twenty two.
There are a non playoff team most years, right, non
playoff team each of the last three years. Non playoff
teams typically don't get a lot of standalone windows, and
so the NFL is saying we're gonna put you in
some standalone game. We're gonna put you in a huge
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one late in the season, but in the.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
First eight weeks, play at one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
On Sunday like most teams, and then we'll see if
you're good enough to stay in some of those standalone
time slots. When we get to the middle portion of
the season, it doesn't feel like there's anywhere where the
schedule really screws them. There's no set of circumstances where
they have to play three consecutive road games. They obviously
have the short week on a Thursday, like everybody else.
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I look at it this way, they play on New
Year's Eve night against the Baltimore Ravens, and then if
Week eighteen matters, if Week eighteen means they're playing for
a playoff spot or a division title, or for seeding,
if there's anything on the line, they'll get a mini by,
which is going to be badly needed in all likelihood
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for a team that gets its by so early in
the season. Week six again, earliest since twenty seventeen. The
standalone games we've talked about Madrid Pittsburgh on a Sunday
night could be a lot of fun. We'll see if
the Steelers are good enough for that game to not
get flexed out. Bengals beat the Steelers in prime time
last year the Washington game. The Washington games chuck filled
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with storylines, right Jane daniels coming out party his rookie
season came in Cincinnati in primetime in Week three. Obviously,
his sophomore season went sideways. Also, it's Joe Burrow going
back to the stadium where he got injured in twenty
twenty his rookie year. Then there's the Baltimore game. You
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may disagree five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty.
I think it is cool as hell that the Bengals
are gonna play on New Year's Eve night at home.
First of all, they're finally getting Baltimore on a Thursday.
Outside of Baltimore, They're getting that game in Cincinnati. I'm
not the world's biggest New Year's Eve guy, I will
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admit I think it's kind of amateur night.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's one of the few nights a year where I'd
rather stay in.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But a Bengals game that has a lot of weight,
that has potentially huge stakes, that could play a role
in determining the playoff picture, could play a role in
determining who wins the division. Trey hendrickson coming back, Are
you kidding me? On a Thursday in October? That's cool
as hell? On Thursday night, December thirty first to close
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out twenty twenty six, are you kidding me? That's a
chance for the Bengals to shine. It's a chance for
the Bengals to play and what's gonna feel like an
enormous game, and I think it's a chance for the
city to shine. Also, it's gonna be a lot of
fun downtown. Cannot wait to do the pregame show that day.
But more than anything, I feel like the schedule is
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not an obstacle. The schedule isn't gonna be the reason
why the Bengals win the division if they do. The
schedule isn't gonna be the reason why the Bengals make
the playoffs if they do. The schedule isn't gonna be
the reason why the Bengals get a high seed if
they do two. But the schedule doesn't appear to be
an obstacle. The individual games are right, everybody plays tough teams.
But the schedule itself, I don't know what there is
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to complain about. Wasn't really anticipating a bye before or
after the international game because it's hard to give every
team one, and teams have figured out ways to be
competitive and win games when they come home from Europe
the following week to play a game. Lots of one
o'clock games, early, chance to establish a rhythm, and the
caret being dangled of some immensely big primetime games in
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the second half of the season, in particular on New
Year's Eve. Oh and by the way, they'll play three
to the final five at home. They'll play the final
two at home. I don't know what there is to
not like now. You may have been rooting for a
game to be placed in a certain weekend. I was,
I'll be in Houston the weekend the Bengals are in Madrid.
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You see football plays at Houston. I was rooting for
the Texans game to be that weekend because I could
do both. Or was rooting for the weekend that U
see goes to West Virginia for the Bengals Steelers game
in Pittsburgh. To me that same weekend, because it's it's
easy to do both. But beyond that, competitively speaking, it
doesn't feel like the schedule is an obstacle. Your thoughts
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agree or disagree more than welcome. We're open today five
point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty eight six six
seven oh two three seven seven six, just two guests
later on one on the Preakness, the other on FC Cincinnati,
And amid all the stuff we were doing yesterday, we
didn't devote a ton of time to FC Cincinnati's loss
on Wednesday. I thought a rare moment where it made
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a lot of sense to second guest Pat Noonan, based
on taking his best defenders out when they're playing a
game against MESSI coming off a game where they gave
away two points, blowing that to nothing lead to Charlotte
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You're gonna hear an ex felon say some things about
Joe Burrow. Coming up in about fifteen minutes. Reds and
Guardians tonight. Cincinnati won big yesterday. I still wonder what
we're waiting for. I'll explain next on ESPN fifteen thirty
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Speaker 2 (13:33):
Your weekend with us.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
With US phone calls are coming up five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifteen thirty. By the way I did, I tweeted an
article out from Yahoo Sports from Ben Fox, and I
think I'm saying that correctly. He has not every sports
book has lines out for every game. Most of them
have lines out for week one games. But he has,
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as we say, canvassed a whole bunch of different books
and he has found lines for every twenty twenty six
NFL regular season game. Now, lines will move, Lines for
week one will move, Lines during the week move all
the time. But right now, the Bengals are favored to
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win fifteen of their seventeen games, and I believe the
largest spread was six and a half I think, and
I'm doing this off the top of my head, I
think that was for the Dolphins game, which is Week
five in Miami.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Again, lines will move.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You know, a lot of factors will go into influencing
what a betting line is.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But I think it speaks to the division. I think
it speaks to the.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
How Vegas feels about what the Bengals have done this offseason.
I think it speaks very much to the relative weakness
of the AFC. A lot of the teams on the
Bengal schedule. A lot of folks have pointed out the
Bengal strength of schedule if you're using last year's records,
which is a very imperfect way of doing it is
largely easy. But right now, and I tweeted at the link,
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if you want to read it, favor to win fifteen
of their seventeen games. I'm gonna stop short of saying
the Bengals are going to go fifteen and two, But
I think if you use that as a guide, it's
sort of I don't know, it feeds the optimism. They're
underdogs right now on the road Week two against Houston
and on the road in that first game against the
Ravens in Baltimore. Reds are in Cleveland tonight after a
(15:36):
badly needed laugher in the series finale against the Washington Nationals,
and because they won the game, I guess it tempers
a lot of the criticisms that the Reds are getting
right now for using a lot of guys that it
just it feels like we keep waiting for like we
do this a lot with Matt McClain, we keep waiting
(15:59):
for the old Matt mcla to show up, and you
know he Homered, But we keep waiting for the twenty
twenty three version of Matt McClain to show up. And
the longer you wait and the longer he doesn't show up,
the more silly it seems that you keep waiting for
the twenty twenty three version of Matt McLain to show up.
And I know it's it has sounded this year like
we've been picking on Matt. It's just it's a reflection
(16:21):
of his lack of performance and same offensively, at least
for key Brian Hayes. And you know, we can apply
this to TJ Friedel. TJ Friedel's lack of offensive production
is a thing that goes back to just before the
All Star break last year. And so the longer the
lack of production goes, the less it's a slump or
(16:42):
the less it's a slow start, and the more it
is kind of who you are, kind of what you are.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And I just I wonder how much longer, And I
know you're.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Working within the confines of what you have on the
forty man and what you have in the system, and
what you're going to be able to go get from
the outside, how long can you wait for some of
these guys, especially when in the infield at least you
have a guy in Edwin Arroyo, who hit his ninth
homer yesterday, who's having a marvelous season for Louisville, and
he has played, I think, in all of thirty eight
(17:12):
Triple A games. Sal Stewart last year played in forty
Triple A games.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I just I wonder if there's a real compelling reason.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And Edwin Arroyo is primarily a short stop, and the
Reds have a short stop and a pretty good one
in Elie Dela Cruz. Edwin has worked in a little
bit at third base, He's worked in a little bit
at second base, and so maybe if you called him
up and played him, he'd have to play a position
where he's not as experienced. But I just, I know
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we can go overboard in criticizing the production of guys
who hit near the bottom of the order, But oh boy,
can you really have in your infield two guys who
this year have for the most part been offensive zeros.
I don't know how the answer is yes, and keep
Bryan Hayes this year has been an offensive zero. Matt
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McLain at times this year has had moments where he's
gotten really big hits, but for the most part, has
been an offensive zero. How much longer can you wait
for some of these guys who haven't produced all season,
or haven't produced since three years ago, or haven't produced
since the beginning of the season last year, or who
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have never produced? How long can you wait for those
guys to to start to give you something offensively? And
how long can you go without calling up a guy
who is making a lot of headlines for what he's
doing at TRIPAA twenty nine after three your phone calls
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basketball to seventy six, it feels like we're on the
verge of expanding the college football playoff to twenty four,
which is just a terrible idea for every reason that
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isn't related to business. We have to spend some time
on that and more on the Bengals. Coming off of
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lineup for it Tonight for Cincinnati, Will Benson's leading off
in center. Ellie is playing short and batting second. They're
getting them closer to the lead off spot, which is
where he maybe should be. Sal Stewart is playing first base.
JJ Bledean left hits fourth steer and right low as
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Dhing McClain plays second. Stevenson catches and key Brian Hayes
plays third base on bat's ninth. Florence Yaw is home
tonight for Evansville FC. Cincinnati hits the road tomorrow for
a game against San Diego Cincinnati Slingers on the road
against Arizona Tomorrow. Kentucky Barrels will host Beaumont Sunday. NBA
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Playoffs two games Tonight, a pair of Game sixes Cavaliers
and Pistons in Cleveland, Calves up three games to two,
and T Wolve's hosting the Spurs Game six of that series.
San Antonio is up three games to two in that one.
Hockey tonight Buffalo at Montreal, Canadians hosting Game six, leading
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that series three games to two. And I would give you,
I would give you who's leading the PGA Championship and
the LPGA event the Queens City Championship at Mcateewah.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
My computer is frozen gear for the PGA. I don't
know if I pronouncing that right. Oh yeah, Aldridge, put
to gear, put to Geeter. He's leading.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
He's up a stroke, thank you, over one shot lead
over Alex Smalley.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And what else I'd give you the I'd give you
the ladies, but oh there we go.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Jim Young Co has a one shot lead over Lottie
Woade and Charlie Hall at Mcatewah, which graciously hosted us yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's been a very sloppy segment by me.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Uh we have folks waiting on hole before that, we
have to give this guy a couple of attentions. So
this is Craig Carton. Tarn brought this to my attention yesterday.
Is this Craig Carton on w f A and New York.
Is that what I'm about to listen to here? Yeah,
Craig Carton, very talented sports talk radio guys. Done a
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stint on FS one and also did a stint in prison.
For what's that that's worth? Here's a Greig Carton rambling
aimlessly about Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Here you go play the audio.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Joe Burrow does not have the gravitas yet where he
should be demanding that the Cincinnati Bengals have an international game.
Joe Burrow is never ready to play. Joe Burrow is
always hurt. Joe Burrow misses the playoffs more than.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He makes the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Joe Burrow, when healthy, which is rare, and on the field,
which is rare, is a great quarterback. But at some
point don't we have to kind of relook at the
Joe Burrow career and say, flash in the band. For
all the key we give other quarterbacks, why don't we
give Joe barrony heat, Joe Bargets no smoke at all.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Okay, there's there's more of that, and I'm I'm already
getting annoyed. I try to consume a lot of content.
I try to read as much as I possibly can,
but I do not claim that I hear, see and
read everything, And so maybe there are things that sometimes
(23:23):
escape my notice. Did Joe Burrow demand that the Bengals
play in Spain?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Did did Joe Burrow call Roger Goodell and say we
have to play an international game? I guess he's expressed
a desire to play in Spain or play in an
an international game?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Which cool? Did Joe again?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Man? Fill me out if if I'm missing something here, dude,
I'm I'll raise my hand and go man, that one
got past me.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It happens, happens a lot. Actually, it's hard to keep
track of everything.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But I don't recall Joe Burrow like making a demand
and that the Bengals play an international game.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Joe Burrow is hurt a lot. I don't know how
that's his fault.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
When he plays a full season, usually the Bengals are
pretty good. And when he plays a full season and
the Bengals are not pretty good. You would be hard
pressed to find anybody who pays attention to this team
who would say that the fact that the team isn't
very good is Joe Burrow's fault. So, okay, we gave
Craig Carton his cup of attention. I don't know what
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else we're supposed to do with that. Please Craig Carton
stat of jail. That's I mean, you know, Joe Burrow
could ask like, why isn't Craig Carton get more heat
for scamming people out of a lot of money and
going to prison?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But I don't want to make it personal.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, there is Joe, I feel dumber for playing
that audio, and you probably do too. But I feel
like we owed it to Craig to give him the
cup of attention that he was looking for here in Cincinnati,
and so he got it. When Joe Burrow plays poorly,
he gets, yes, he gets whatever heat a quarterback who
plays poorly has come in to him. He doesn't play
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poorly that often. Last year when he came back, he
wasn't awesome. By the way, I don't know about anybody else.
I can only speak for myself. Burrow and the Bengals
played that really cold game against the Ravens late in
the season where they lost twenty four to nothing and
they looked totally checked out. I don't know anybody who
watched that game, myself included, who didn't throw some shade
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at the quarterback for the lack of urgency, for how
uninterested they looked like. Burrow got criticism and deserved it.
So there you go. We gave Craig cart and his
cup of attention. Now we can all move on. Five one, three, seven,
fifteen thirty Tarren, do we still have the pizza dude on?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
All right, let's uh, let's hear from the pizza dude. Hi, uh,
pizza dude.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
I'm good, How are you?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh wonderful? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Oh yeah, I'll be quick. But let me preface this
by saying I don't find it funny either, and I
could be wrong, but I believe the joke of Cincinnati
being in Kentucky is because of the location of our airport.
When they fly in, they fly into Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh okay, so that's it.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I don't find it funny either, but the only thing
I can think of that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
So the guardians like to poke at the at Cincinnati
being a part of Kentucky because the airport is in Hebron.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yes, that's the only thing I can think of. There's
no other part of Cincinnati is in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, I guess so. I now I look at I
look at the humor in a whole different light. Now,
pizza dude, ye bye. I appreciate the phone call. Yes,
the airport is in Kentucky, and that's that's the Greater
Cincinnati International Airport Boom County. Hebron is a part of
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greater Cincinnati. I don't know off the top of my
head if there are other airports of major metropolitan cities
that are in a state that borders that state. But
if that's I mean, CVG has been around for decades.
Is it just now catching on in Cleveland that if
you fly into Cincinnati you actually the plain Lands in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Is that a okay? I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't know why this is funny to only the
Cleveland Guardians. I do know it's the Ohio Cup. Are
they trying to claim that the Ohio Cup can't be
the Reds because it's in.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't know, but and you know, but by all
means Cleveland, you do what you gotta do. I again,
I've been to Kentucky and I've been to Cleveland, and
I'm gonna go to Cleveland next Friday, and I'm looking
forward to it. I've had a good time when I've
gone to Cleveland. But if I had to pick between
the two, Kentucky's a bigger place than Cleveland. I'm picking
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the places in Kentucky I've been. Mike, go ahead, how
is the Jim Rome show yesterday? Mike's off all right? Well,
sorry about that sixteen from four o'clock yesterday. He sent
me an email and said he was going to listen
to Jim Rome instead of us. So I just I
wanted to see what I missed because I can't listen
to Jim Rome while I'm on the air. Five point three, seven,
four nine, fifteen thirty is our number and eight six
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six seven oh two three seven seven.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Six schedule is out.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Off season is mostly not entirely, but mostly in the books,
and the Bengals have no excuse that. Plus College Football
Playoff is going to expand to twenty four teams. It
looks like, which is an awful idea. And uh, we've
got more Reds Guardians as well. Quota to four ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
From the UC held from four. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Mo, Way.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And folks waiting on hold. I want to spend their
Friday afternoon talking to me. Uh, Jay, you're on ESPN
fifteen thirty. J good after go ahead, MO. How are
you wonderful yourself?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I'm great. I'm on I four traffic between Tampa and Orlando.
But I had to call because I saw the news
of Jared Calhoun getting a seven footer, and I thought
you'd be all excited about that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Deshaun Vaden Is that who you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yeah? Yeah, what have you got on him?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Deshaun Vaden comes from Mount Union, which is a D
three school. Now they officially list him as six eleven,
but I've heard people refer to him as a seven footer.
He's obviously very very tall. Played in twenty nine games
from Mount Union last year. Averaged five points, nearly five rebounds,
three and a half blocks. Now that's over just fifteen
and a half minutes a game. He was very effective,
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shooting the ball over sixty four percent. He had I
think I believe I read on Bearcat Journal he had
a game where he blocked eight shots in a season
or in a game. I'm sorry, eight shots in the
season would be wilful disappointment. So now he's a you know,
coming from a D three program, So I'm not sure
how much of a project he is, but he is tall.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What's your overall take on the on what he has
done so far? Mean being Calhoun, I think.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
All things consider given the fact that he started with
a completely bare cupboard, it's it's been okay.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I'm I'm still not entirely sure.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
They have like an all big twelve guy, right and
you're gonna need one of those. Hell uc had two
last year and still couldn't make the tournament. I think,
all things considered, it it feels like a pretty good
recruiting class.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
But they've bitten off a lot early.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And what I wonder more than anything, is like by
the time they coalesce, how many losses may they take?
Given the non con includes Louisville, Clemson, Dayton on the road,
the Xavier game and MTE and I haven't seen who's
in that mt either, and in Orlando plus Big twelve play,
I don't I don't know if by the time this
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thing actually comes together and the guy's coalesce, I don't
know how many losses they're going to take. But it
does feel like it does feel like the momentum has
been pretty good. I am looking forward to there being
an offseason where he doesn't have to fill thirteen spots
like he's had to try to do this offseason.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Right, right, And did you say that there is no
there haven't been any incoming.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Freshmen as of this moment. No, they've all been They've
all been transfers ran first.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Okay, that's what I wanted to hear. Appreciate the help.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Okay, Jay, thanks so much, Jason Florida. Yeah, I appreciate
the phone call.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Jay.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Have a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Jared Calhoun was on our show Wednesday and talked about
the significance and importance of high school recruiting and did
so kind of unprompted, and it was refreshing because you know,
for years that's what we focused on, and now it
kind of takes a back seat to us talking about
the transfer portal. If you miss that conversation, you can
go listen to it on the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
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that's like, I am really excited about Jared Calhoun, and
I am excited about watching watching him get these guys
all from different places and watching to see how he
can make them come together and coalesce and all that.
(32:26):
But you need all big twelve guys, Like the idea
is to compete at the highest level of this conference.
And that may be a little bit of a tough
ask in year one, but you know last year, last year,
Boba Miller and Mustapha Chaum were all Big twelve caliber players.
And I don't know that they have one of those
right now, but I'll be better equipped to make that
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assessment maybe some point late summer. Five away from four
o'clock five point three, seven, four nine, fifteen thirty and
eight six six seven two three seven seven six will
get you in. By by the way, TJ. Friedel not
starting against to night. Will Benson is in center field,
and you know, I just TJ. Friedel has I think
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regressed a little bit defensively. The offense simply hasn't been there.
He's on the team to get on base. He doesn't
get on base, and you do wonder, you to have
wondered at least how many more opportunities. He's going to
get more on that a little bit later on, plus
Brendanman and Jones on baseball in the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
More expansion, expansion the college football playoff. I think the
college football playoffs number right now is pretty close to perfect.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I talk about this through the lens of competitiveness and
what's the best TV product and what makes fans feel
like they have access to the championship. The people in
charge of such things look at things through an entirely
different lens, and it's colored green. I have a simple
question when it comes to expansions of postseasons. More on
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that a little bit later on, and a few more
things on the Bengals schedule, plus more of your phone
calls on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station
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