May 28, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dave Lapplock and you're listening to the Home
of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, six minutes afterfore minute late. This is ESPN
fifteen thirty on Moegor. Thank you for listening. Hopefully you're
having an awesome Wednesday afternoon. Brendaman and Jones on Baseball.
Later on in the hour, Solomon Willcott says with us,
and we love having Sally on the show. He is
with us courtesy of Zimmer biomet And I'm not saying
(00:26):
this just because he's here. I meant to mention this
yesterday and I didn't. So Bengals six person draft class.
The guy that I'm most excited about, in large part
because I watched him just run up and down against
UC and Lubbock last year's is Taj Brooks, six rounder
from Texas Tech. A terrific college career, all time leading rusher.
(00:48):
Solomon in addition to his many other duties as the
host of the Believe In Bengals podcast, and yesterday morning
I listened to his interview with Taj Brooks, and I'm
even more excited about him now than I was when
the Bengals drafted him. So that's a good way to
bring Sally and it's good to have you, sir. How
are you, mo?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm doing great and thanks for having me. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I appreciate you doing this. You and I talked you
were at the Super Bowl. We were starting to outline
what the Bengals offseason needed to look like. How many boxes,
in your opinion, have they checked?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Boy? They checked a lot of them, right. I do
think depth at the running back position was important. You
talked about Todds Brooks and he provides that another spark
to add with Chase Brown. But really our focus was
on the defense, needing to get another edge rusher opposite
of Trey Hendrickson. Many of us that anticipated Sam Hubbard
(01:41):
might be retiring, and it happened. So it really left
us concerned. They needed to fill the ranks up front
on that defensive line. In the interior portion, you needed
more depth at the guard position and more competitive play
there in front of Joe Burrow and man, they checked
all those boxes. They did something free agency. They did
both at a few positions right, defensive tacko and offensive guard.
(02:07):
I still think that the real key, the biggest acquisition
this offseason was the addition of Al Godin the defensive coordinator,
because if he can get productivity out to remember, these
high drafted defensive players that we've been waiting to blossom,
whether it's Cam Taylor Britt, whether it's DJ Turner, whether
(02:28):
it's Dax Heel or Jordan Battle, or whether it's Chris
Jenkins and McKinley Jackson. These guys are young and talented
players that now we're just kind of waiting for them
to blossom. Its it happens in twenty twenty five, we're
going to look back at those young players as really
the reason why I think a lot is writing on
(02:48):
their shoulder.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I do believe, and you can count me among those
who wouldn't have minded to see them add another dB.
At the same time, I think with each of those
individual players, including Geno Stone who comes back who did
not have a good first season in Cincinnati, and then
add to that all the guys the Bengals have invested
draft picks in, there's still a lot of upside there.
(03:09):
And so this is more of a statement than a question.
I am really interested to see if if Al Golden
can get some of that upside on the field this.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Year and That's why his addition is so key because
these players, a lot of resources have been spent, a
lot of draft picks has been used to acquire these players,
and for some of them, we've seen them perform, like
we've seen Cam taylor Bridge play and perform at a
high level. And now we're asking, oh Al Golden, can
(03:38):
you get the best out of them? Whether it's Geno Stone,
whether it's Jordan Battle, whether it's DJ Turner, and even
now Dax Hill moving inside hopingly hope to replace the
Mike Hilton, whether it's at the Nico or Die position.
We know these guys can play, we really do. Now
it's time for them to be consistently productive players where
(04:01):
their performance lead to winning football on the defensive side.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What did you make of the Shamar Stewart selection in
Round one?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Man? You know, initially I got to say the eyebrows
went up when I saw four, when I saw four
and a half facks next to his name. And you
know what I did before I even started to try
to criticize the pig or the player. What everyone should do.
You got and I have access to the tape. I
also have access to a database that gives me more
(04:31):
information and maybe what the average hand would get. And
I got to tell you everything that everything outside of
the sack total was very promising, even when I put
the tape on. The guy plays with a flat back.
He plays with energy and enthusiasm. He provides pressure from
a number of different positions that allow other people to
(04:54):
make plays. That's why the defensive front was so good
at Texas A and M. And I went and found
another player that's comparable to Shamar. Stewart had four and
a half sacked after three years coming out of LSU,
and that was Danil Hunter, who was drafted in a
third round, not the first round, but third round by
the Vikings. He's played most of his career for the
(05:15):
Vikings and for the Texans. He's going into his tenth year.
He has ninety nine and a half career sacks in
less than ten years of play. He's averaged ten sacks
a year over his career and he came out of
college with just four and a half sacks, the same
total as Shamar Stewart has after three years that Texas
and M. So let's not be deceived by a low
(05:37):
production and that vertical You got to go look at
other numbers, and he shows a big time in other areas.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The Great Solomon wilcotts with us courtesy of zimmer Bio
met I want to watch Shamar Stewart line up with
Trey Hendrickson. What is your read on the situation between
the NFL's reigning sack leader in the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I gotta tell you, I think I gotta believe that
are smart because everyone I talk to you, every scout.
But I don't even need to have those conversations to
know that Trey Henderson is a great player.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think the Bengals are wanting him to maybe be
something he's not, just to validate paying him right now
where he really should be paid. Production tells us everything,
and somebody can tell me, well, we're not paying for
past production, we pay for future production. Every everything in
a consumer driven society MO in terms of products, in
(06:35):
terms of consumer goods, in terms of human resourcing, is
based on your past production. That's like telling a guy
coming out of Harvard, we're not paying you for your
Harvard degree. We're paying you for what you're gonna do
for us. Well, the Harvard degree tells us he's gonna
be able to come through, am I right, Yes, it's
like you. The best predictor of future behavior is your
(06:56):
past behavior. You don't get data analytics, you don't don't
get any understanding of how to predict future unless you
use your past performance, unless you use some of the
things that have been validated in the past. So you
cannot sever that from the contract negotiation for Trey Henderson.
(07:18):
I'm sorry, We're gonna have to come up with a
better line or a better way of explaining that. But
to just say that on its faith, I think it
leaves the team falling way short of understanding where they
need to be to reach a rightfully due agreement with
Trey Henderson.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hope, so would like to see this get resolved before
training camp kids here because this team has dealt with
a lot of distractions over the course of the last
few summers. Solomon Wilcott's with us on behalf of zimmer Biomet.
You have been learning a lot about pickleball and joint
health with the folks at zimmer Biomet. Tell me more.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Hey, look, pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports
in the country. That's allowing us old guys to still
get out there and compete at something and maintain our
health well. Zimmer Bio Meta is hoping to get people
back into the game, getting them back out on the court,
giving them their vitality back in life. They're the leaders
in joint replacement surgery. Just recently, I had to have
(08:14):
a joint replaced, and I'm gonna tell you right now,
my vitality is back. I can play golf again. I
can play pickleball again. You should go to pickleballknee dot
com to find out more. If you're living with joint pain,
you don't have to. I wasn't sleeping well at night,
mo I was. I had a lot of pain. There
are things that I couldn't do where I literally have
(08:36):
lost use of a limb until I had the joint
replacement surgery. I really should have done it sooner. Roughly
half a billion people globally dealing with some kind of
arthritis some kind of joint pain. Less than five percent
do what I did. They go get something done about it.
Most people decide to live in pain. They don't sleep well,
they're grumpy and grouchy. I'm no longer grumpy and grousey
(08:59):
because I went and took care of it. And so
I want you to go to the website as well
again Pickleballknee dot com to find a doctor and find
solutions if you have any kind of joint health issue.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Pickleballknee dot com. I have a hard time believing you
would ever be grouchy. That's strains credibility, but everything else
makes sense. Pickleballknee dot com, zimmer BioMed Again, pickleballknee dot com.
We love having you.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Thank you as always, You're the best. Take care now.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The Great Solomon Wilcotts, also host of the Believe in
Bengals podcast. I highly recommend the interview with my guy
Taj Brooks. It's very good and again thanks to the
folks at zimmer BioMed. It is sixteen minutes after four o'clock.
We are barring something totally unforeseen. Guest free by the way,
(09:50):
Seth Walter ESPN FPI, which looks at the Bengals very favorably.
He is going to join us at four h five tomorrow.
No guests the rest of the way. Plenty of time
for you and I to engage in a friendly but
perhaps spirited discussion about sports and American life. Maybe not
(10:10):
that last part. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Cincinnati Sports
Station Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
From the UCE Health Traffic Center. At you See Health,
you'll find comprehensive care that's so personal it makes your
best tomorrow possible. That's found this care for better outcomes.
Expect more at you seehealth dot com. New accident in
over on Sutton Avenue that's at Waystside Avenue. Police are
there on scene. Must found two seventy five down to
(10:41):
one lane for repairs. In the Carrol Cropper Bridge's traffic.
There is slowback from the Petersburg exit with a four
minute delay on that. Ezelic with traffic
This is Dave Lapplock and you're listening to the Home
of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, six minutes afterfore minute late. This is ESPN
fifteen thirty on Moegor. Thank you for listening. Hopefully you're
having an awesome Wednesday afternoon. Brendaman and Jones on Baseball.
Later on in the hour, Solomon Willcott says with us,
and we love having Sally on the show. He is
with us courtesy of Zimmer biomet And I'm not saying
(00:26):
this just because he's here. I meant to mention this
yesterday and I didn't. So Bengals six person draft class.
The guy that I'm most excited about, in large part
because I watched him just run up and down against
UC and Lubbock last year's is Taj Brooks, six rounder
from Texas Tech. A terrific college career, all time leading rusher.
(00:48):
Solomon in addition to his many other duties as the
host of the Believe In Bengals podcast, and yesterday morning
I listened to his interview with Taj Brooks, and I'm
even more excited about him now than I was when
the Bengals drafted him. So that's a good way to
bring Sally and it's good to have you, sir. How
are you, mo?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm doing great and thanks for having me. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I appreciate you doing this. You and I talked you
were at the Super Bowl. We were starting to outline
what the Bengals offseason needed to look like. How many boxes,
in your opinion, have they checked?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Boy? They checked a lot of them, right. I do
think depth at the running back position was important. You
talked about Todds Brooks and he provides that another spark
to add with Chase Brown. But really our focus was
on the defense, needing to get another edge rusher opposite
of Trey Hendrickson. Many of us that anticipated Sam Hubbard
(01:41):
might be retiring, and it happened. So it really left
us concerned. They needed to fill the ranks up front
on that defensive line. In the interior portion, you needed
more depth at the guard position and more competitive play
there in front of Joe Burrow and man, they checked
all those boxes. They did something free agency. They did
both at a few positions right, defensive tacko and offensive guard.
(02:07):
I still think that the real key, the biggest acquisition
this offseason was the addition of Al Godin the defensive coordinator,
because if he can get productivity out to remember, these
high drafted defensive players that we've been waiting to blossom,
whether it's Cam Taylor Britt, whether it's DJ Turner, whether
(02:28):
it's Dax Heel or Jordan Battle, or whether it's Chris
Jenkins and McKinley Jackson. These guys are young and talented
players that now we're just kind of waiting for them
to blossom. Its it happens in twenty twenty five, we're
going to look back at those young players as really
the reason why I think a lot is writing on
(02:48):
their shoulder.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I do believe, and you can count me among those
who wouldn't have minded to see them add another dB.
At the same time, I think with each of those
individual players, including Geno Stone who comes back who did
not have a good first season in Cincinnati, and then
add to that all the guys the Bengals have invested
draft picks in, there's still a lot of upside there.
(03:09):
And so this is more of a statement than a question.
I am really interested to see if if Al Golden
can get some of that upside on the field this.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Year and That's why his addition is so key because
these players, a lot of resources have been spent, a
lot of draft picks has been used to acquire these players,
and for some of them, we've seen them perform, like
we've seen Cam taylor Bridge play and perform at a
high level. And now we're asking, oh Al Golden, can
(03:38):
you get the best out of them? Whether it's Geno Stone,
whether it's Jordan Battle, whether it's DJ Turner, and even
now Dax Hill moving inside hopingly hope to replace the
Mike Hilton, whether it's at the Nico or Die position.
We know these guys can play, we really do. Now
it's time for them to be consistently productive players where
(04:01):
their performance lead to winning football on the defensive side.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What did you make of the Shamar Stewart selection in
Round one?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Man? You know, initially I got to say the eyebrows
went up when I saw four, when I saw four
and a half facks next to his name. And you
know what I did before I even started to try
to criticize the pig or the player. What everyone should do.
You got and I have access to the tape. I
also have access to a database that gives me more
(04:31):
information and maybe what the average hand would get. And
I got to tell you everything that everything outside of
the sack total was very promising, even when I put
the tape on. The guy plays with a flat back.
He plays with energy and enthusiasm. He provides pressure from
a number of different positions that allow other people to
(04:54):
make plays. That's why the defensive front was so good
at Texas A and M. And I went and found
another player that's comparable to Shamar. Stewart had four and
a half sacked after three years coming out of LSU,
and that was Danil Hunter, who was drafted in a
third round, not the first round, but third round by
the Vikings. He's played most of his career for the
(05:15):
Vikings and for the Texans. He's going into his tenth year.
He has ninety nine and a half career sacks in
less than ten years of play. He's averaged ten sacks
a year over his career and he came out of
college with just four and a half sacks, the same
total as Shamar Stewart has after three years that Texas
and M. So let's not be deceived by a low
(05:37):
production and that vertical You got to go look at
other numbers, and he shows a big time in other areas.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The Great Solomon wilcotts with us courtesy of zimmer Bio
met I want to watch Shamar Stewart line up with
Trey Hendrickson. What is your read on the situation between
the NFL's reigning sack leader in the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I gotta tell you, I think I gotta believe that
are smart because everyone I talk to you, every scout.
But I don't even need to have those conversations to
know that Trey Henderson is a great player.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think the Bengals are wanting him to maybe be
something he's not, just to validate paying him right now
where he really should be paid. Production tells us everything,
and somebody can tell me, well, we're not paying for
past production, we pay for future production. Every everything in
a consumer driven society MO in terms of products, in
(06:35):
terms of consumer goods, in terms of human resourcing, is
based on your past production. That's like telling a guy
coming out of Harvard, we're not paying you for your
Harvard degree. We're paying you for what you're gonna do
for us. Well, the Harvard degree tells us he's gonna
be able to come through, am I right, Yes, it's
like you. The best predictor of future behavior is your
(06:56):
past behavior. You don't get data analytics, you don't don't
get any understanding of how to predict future unless you
use your past performance, unless you use some of the
things that have been validated in the past. So you
cannot sever that from the contract negotiation for Trey Henderson.
(07:18):
I'm sorry, We're gonna have to come up with a
better line or a better way of explaining that. But
to just say that on its faith, I think it
leaves the team falling way short of understanding where they
need to be to reach a rightfully due agreement with
Trey Henderson.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hope, so would like to see this get resolved before
training camp kids here because this team has dealt with
a lot of distractions over the course of the last
few summers. Solomon Wilcott's with us on behalf of zimmer Biomet.
You have been learning a lot about pickleball and joint
health with the folks at zimmer Biomet. Tell me more.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Hey, look, pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports
in the country. That's allowing us old guys to still
get out there and compete at something and maintain our
health well. Zimmer Bio Meta is hoping to get people
back into the game, getting them back out on the court,
giving them their vitality back in life. They're the leaders
in joint replacement surgery. Just recently, I had to have
(08:14):
a joint replaced, and I'm gonna tell you right now,
my vitality is back. I can play golf again. I
can play pickleball again. You should go to pickleballknee dot
com to find out more. If you're living with joint pain,
you don't have to. I wasn't sleeping well at night,
mo I was. I had a lot of pain. There
are things that I couldn't do where I literally have
(08:36):
lost use of a limb until I had the joint
replacement surgery. I really should have done it sooner. Roughly
half a billion people globally dealing with some kind of
arthritis some kind of joint pain. Less than five percent
do what I did. They go get something done about it.
Most people decide to live in pain. They don't sleep well,
they're grumpy and grouchy. I'm no longer grumpy and grousey
(08:59):
because I went and took care of it. And so
I want you to go to the website as well
again Pickleballknee dot com to find a doctor and find
solutions if you have any kind of joint health issue.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Pickleballknee dot com. I have a hard time believing you
would ever be grouchy. That's strains credibility, but everything else
makes sense. Pickleballknee dot com, zimmer BioMed Again, pickleballknee dot com.
We love having you.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Thank you as always, You're the best. Take care now.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The Great Solomon Wilcotts, also host of the Believe in
Bengals podcast. I highly recommend the interview with my guy
Taj Brooks. It's very good and again thanks to the
folks at zimmer BioMed. It is sixteen minutes after four o'clock.
We are barring something totally unforeseen. Guest free by the way,
(09:50):
Seth Walter ESPN FPI, which looks at the Bengals very favorably.
He is going to join us at four h five tomorrow.
No guests the rest of the way. Plenty of time
for you and I to engage in a friendly but
perhaps spirited discussion about sports and American life. Maybe not
(10:10):
that last part. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Cincinnati Sports
Station Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
From the UCE Health Traffic Center. At you See Health,
you'll find comprehensive care that's so personal it makes your
best tomorrow possible. That's found this care for better outcomes.
Expect more at you seehealth dot com. New accident in
over on Sutton Avenue that's at Waystside Avenue. Police are
there on scene. Must found two seventy five down to
(10:41):
one lane for repairs. In the Carrol Cropper Bridge's traffic.
There is slowback from the Petersburg exit with a four
minute delay on that. Ezelic with traffic
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