5/15/26: The AE Door & Window: Orange & Black Schedule Breakdown Show

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Speaker 4 (00:28):
Six big hours about to unfold were live from Dickman
Sports Barn and four right Lance McAllister Rocky Boyman. We
are glad to be back. It feels like we were
just here for the draft, and tonight we're here for
what has become a monstrosity in the NFL. And nobody
doesn't like the NFL rock. They have managed to create

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something so big that now shows come out of it.
Something as simple as the announcement of we already know
who they're gonna play. All they're tonight is the order
they're gonna play them and where they're gonna play them,
And it has created. It is so big now and
there are so many morsels of leaks and information coming out.

(01:12):
Chad Ocho Sinko is now part of the process where
he was releasing a schedule leak earlier in the day.
That's how big this thing has become. Only the NFL
could orchestrate something like this.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
And you told me ten years ago that the schedule
release would be a big time event and then to
your point, content would be derived from it.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
I would have bet against it.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
And it's funny because I had somebody ask me the
other day, like, why does the NFL come up with
a schedule? And I said, there's a lot of complex things,
but at the end of the day, they look at
the NFL. This is a giant TV show, right, This
is a giant TV program. And what TV show is
going to get the most amount of eyeballs. We live
in a world where there's so many things that garner

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our attention, Social media, Netflix, all these things. So you
gotta put primetime game out there, and I think the
NFL has done that. And if you gotta send some
games overseas, and you gotta maybe not give a team
a bye week after an overseas trip Bengals and in
last point on just how better the NFL has gotten

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a getting premier matchups. Dan Marino and John Elway were
like the two Big Titans back in the eighties nineties,
right to combine sixteen season the only times they face
each other.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh, this is a good stat how many three times? Really?

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Three times in sixteen seasons?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Fans?

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Given the gift that was Dan Marino versus John Elway,
the NFL does not do that anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
They give you primetime matches.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
It is the greatest reality TV show going. The NFL
doesn't bet any other sport. I say this every year
in this very first segment as someone who has been
a constant critic of Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball
releases its schedule by email on a Wednesday afternoon, and
that's the extent of Major League Baseball announcing the schedule

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for the following season. There's no shows built around it.
There's no use of MLB network to preview maybe a
game that's a series that starts in Japan, or historic
matchups in Fenway Park, stuff like that. It's an email
and the NFL has created this where people cling day
by day. This week, there have been drips and drabs

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of information come out into the crescendo of it all
tonight at eight o'clock now for purposes of programming. We
have six hours tonight, you and me for two, it's
Moe and Tony. Eight to ten, it's Chick and Austin
from ten to midnight. The schedule will come out just
after eight, so that means we're up here discussing things

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that aren't actually have not happened. So we're gonna talk
about the schedule, but we're also gonna talk about the team,
what they've done in the offseason, the work they've done
through the draft and free agency.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Then we'll circle background.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
So it's gonna be a little bit of schedule talk,
a little bit of team talk, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Of schedule talk.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
We're kind of the red carpet guys. And then we'll
hand things off to mow And and they will get
the information as it becomes available. Just after eight o'clock tonight,
we will address some of the rumors, because some of
the lakes are too.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Good to pass up with what the NFL quote is.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Going to do to the Bengals according to reports, we'll
get into that as well, But let's start with the
international game. And I laughed because this week Zach held
his meeting with the Bengals and the first question was
do you worry about the schedule or how much do
you worry or how much interest do you have in

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the schedule.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
And Zach's answer was none, There's nothing I can do
about it.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
When it comes out, it comes out, but it doesn't
affect anything I'm doing. But the follow up question was
what would you think about an international game?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
And you're gonna hear it here because when.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Zach answered the question, I said, he knows they've got
an international game, because it was the perfect answer for
a team that's going to get an international game. Listen
to what Zach said earlier this week about what would
you think of maybe an international game?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Here's Zach Taylor. What would be your reaction if you
did get an international game? It'd be great.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
You know, it's a great opportunity to promote the game internationally.
We have a tremendous team with a lot of high
end talent that I think, you know, to take the
center stage in the world would be exciting for everybody
to promote the Bengals brand internationally. I think it's awesome.
I think that that's something that would be fun to do.
So if they like to put us out there this year,
then I'm all for it and be blessed.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
That is an answer from somebody who already knew full
well and thought, all right, what can I give up.
I've got to give a good answer without a fully
revealing answer. But that's the perfect answer when you've been
told that you're going to Madrid.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
And he was also debriefed to you know what, spin
it positive? Better positive spin on it here and be
excited about I guess one thing is I mean, look,
the NFL is gonna play nine international games, right, so
that's eighteen teams, so at least they're I mean, they're
spreading it out over a bunch of teams. So I
think team's looking at first of all, to Zach Taylor's point,

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nothing to do about it, right, So you got to
just be a professional and go at it. But I
think there's a feeling that every schedule has, and some
more than others. Every schedule has some scheduling quirk that
you like and some that you don't, and it kind
of just evens out the end of the day. These
guys are pros and they're gonna they're gonna play when
they play.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
All right, let's do this, So we'll take our first
time out when we come back. I want to get
into nine international games. What it appears the NFL's master
plan is for international games, the pluses and minuses, the
travel I know you've got travel notes. Is that what
you you told me you had traveled notes and all that.
So we're gonna get into that as well. Uh, the
gang is all here tonight. This is big because Joe

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Walters here is what you know. It's funny. I should
have asked Joe this. I remember a couple of years ago,
Kenny Anderson was on the week of the schedule release
and I said to Kenny, is it Kenny when you played?
When did How did you find out the schedule? And
he kind of paused and he said, you know, he says,
I probably just read it in the newspaper the next day, which.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Is just perbreak of how the game once was and
what the NFL was. And now we're sitting up here
on a.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Stage with hundreds of thousands of people flowing into Dickman's
for the release coming up at eight o'clock. By the way,
this is a home game for the scheduling worked out
very well for me because my schedule is a week
one home game. Tonight six point three miles from my house.
This is I love the schedule. Like with all the

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Red Bull.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Vodkas you're drinking, you can just kind of stumble on home,
you know. Yeah, that's uh, that was that was a time,
long ago, long ago.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah. I've since grown and matured and broken down.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Right when we come back, let's talk international games and
Sunday morning kickoffs and what it means to the players,
and what it means to the fans, and the idea
of taking away home games and setting them internationally and
so much more.

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three shifts. Shift number one tonight I'm with Rocky, Shift
number two Moe and Tony, and then shift number three
wrapping it all up. He'll have his coffee and his computer.
It'll be Chick, Ludwig and Austin Ilmore. All right, give
me some numbers. You know, I like numbers. So much
of the schedule is, you know, knowing when you're gonna
play him, but also it's looking at wow, how much

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traveling is involved here? You toss in the international game.
Give me some numbers that jump out when you look
at it from that stable.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
Well, I mentioned travel because I don't know about you,
but if I'm on a flight that goes over two
hours and one time zone, I'm like disaster, like two days?

Speaker 8 (09:42):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (09:42):
But uh.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
In fact, the San Francisco forty nine Ers get this, okay,
thanks to two international games. Oh, they're going to travel.
Let's see here. I just like, yeah, thirty eight one
hundred and five miles okay, and that is that the
most in the league, ap most in the league.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
The Melbourne Again, they're Pacific time, right on.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
The West coast.

Speaker 6 (10:05):
The Melbourne game will.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
Be seventeen hours ahead of what their normal body schedule
would be.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Let's see here. The Niners also have they will cross
forty two times zones. Oh excuse me, fifty eight time zones. Totallyy.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
So now give me give me context. Do you have
the least traveled team? I do? I have a thirty
eight thousand plus for the forty nine ers. What's the
least amount of miles the.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Let's see here, the Carolina Panthers that will travel the
least at eight and forty.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Thousand hours.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Oh my, and also the Panthers is far west.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
They will never go further west than Minneapolis, and never
go further east in Philadelphia.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Holy cow.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
I mean that, you know, those may sound like a
whole bunch of numbers, but that matters as a former player.
Body Wise, the law longer a season goes on the
wear and tear getting on a plane, getting off a plane.
I mean, it's a lot easier than the average person flying,
but it's still that's that's an impact on your body.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
That's huge.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
I know that the Panthers players are absolutely ecstatic over
this because, Yeah, comparatively, it'll be the most miles that
NFL teams have ever traveled. The total miles six hundred
and twenty eight thousand and eight seventy three US twenty
five trips around the Earth.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
All right, question, there's nine games this year, that's that's
the record. There's Australia, Rio de Janeira, There's Madrid, London
three times, Paris, Munich, Mexico City. Are we reaching a
point where it's it's bording on oversaturation and losing the
appeal and the effectiveness of it if it isn't watering

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it down?

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Is it too much?

Speaker 4 (11:47):
I get the NFL wants its footprint everywhere around the world,
But are we And I think Roger Goodell has even
hinted at ultimately he wants an international game every week
in the future.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Is that Is this sustainable what they're trying to do?
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
I mean, you could argue that the fact that there's
including college football, there's basically football played on every day.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yes, Like is this are they giving us too much
of a good thing? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:13):
And now the NFL has it out they're going to
be even more Saturday games this year, So they're expanding
their week to the Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Saturday a couple
of weeks this year.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
And that's what made Monday at football so big, as
every other game was on Sunday back in the day,
except there was one game on Monday night. Or now
there's a game Thursday, or if not two games, now
multiple Saturday games, international games. Look, I just think the
NFL owners and Roger Goodell and all the people in
the NFL have looked at the map of America and said,
we physically cannot make any more money.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
We have maxed out the amount of money pot.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
So we the only recourse we have is to go
overseas and play here and play there and play there
to try to get more money.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
And yet the give and take to all that is,
while you're collecting the money around the world, back home,
you're forcing fans to wake up and watch a game
on a Sunday morning with a nine thirty kickoff. You're
forcing fans who are using taxpayer money to support the
building of stadiums, to lose a home game in this rotation.
There there's a whole lot in play that is it's

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great you're going around the world to collect money, but
in your very own backyard, you're basically saying to your fans,
into your players, we need to make more money, so
we need to use you guys, and you're gonna have
to lay Look, there's people clapp into this place when
when I say that, And that's that's the balance, because
if you're the commissioner, If you're the commissioner, you're thinking

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chi ching.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's the idea.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
You want to expand your footprint as the NFL. You
want to be everywhere. Yeah, what risk do you the
risk of alienating your fans that built the empire.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
But I think the NFL would say, yeah, I know
there's some people here and there pissed off, and then
I can and they'll still watch, and they're still watching.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
And they'll still have their fantasy football team, and they
just get up earlier and at their fantasy lineup at
nine o'clock instead of you know.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
By noon.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Well, and Roger Goodell's job is, yes, he has to
care about the fan, but he's also more beholden to
thirty two billionaire owners.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
And then they're saying, hey, this is a business.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Pumping the sam more money, raise the cap, keep going,
We'll spend more on players in the all right, more
to get to let's sell when we come back. Let's
get a little sense for just how appealing this Bengals
team might be to the national TV windows and around
the world, and what they offer and how many primetime
games they might ultimately get.

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Bengals football. All right, so let me start with a
simple question from a league from a network perspective. What
would make if the Bengals were six and eleven a
year ago? What makes the Bengals appealing? If we're in
a room and we're putting together the TV window and
primetime and international. What makes the Bengals an appeal draw

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in your mind? I think it's safe to say we
can start with Joe Burrow.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
Joe Burrow, I mean superstar. You know, he's on the
Netflix Quarterback showy Fair, this.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
On the Met met Gala? Yes, did you ever attend
the Met Gala when you were playing?

Speaker 5 (16:16):
I never?

Speaker 10 (16:16):
Never?

Speaker 6 (16:17):
Did I have a backless shirt?

Speaker 3 (16:19):
That was next question, I digress, do you play with legos?
It's a whole other story.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
And I think just as a subset of that, I
think people around the around the country see the Bengals
as a juggernaut offense. Yes, so superstars on offense, Tagains,
Jamar Chase, Joe Burrow. And I feel like, you know,
people remember they were not recently but kind of recently
in the super Bowl, so they were right up there.
And I do think the most, the majority of it

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is is Joe Burrow because people love and identify with quarterback.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
He's a crossover guy. He crosses over beyond just football.
People your average person has heard of in some way,
shape or for him. They've heard about Joe Burrow, They've
seen Joe Burrow. It's that there are certain players that
cross over, and Joe is one that crosses over into
the mainstream of everything else. And to the conversation we
had in the last segment, eyeballs people who know Joe

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and you know you mentioned all the weapons they have.
The reality is the Bengals play fun, entertaining football games.
They based on the way their defense is played. They've
been high scoring games because they score a lot and
they give up a lot. But it's a fun brand
of football that keeps people watching the game.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, I mean, look what's popular right now, flag football, right,
lots and lots of points, so yes, and throwing the
ball all over the place.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
People love to.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Watch that stuff.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
So yeah, they play an exciting brand of football with
a trigger man that is a great player. But to
your point, also crosses over and the other has other
interests which make people have interest in him.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
By the way, speaking of the quarterback the Netflix series,
how about them picking Joe Flacco one of the four
absolutely for great move And I'll maintain this when Joe
Flaco was traded here what I knew of Joe Flacco
came in twenty second sound bites I mean, I knew
he was the guy played in a Super Bowl. I
get all that stuff, but really it was not a Bengals,

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so I didn't follow him as closely.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
And it was a SoundBite here or there. I said.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
The more he talked here, the more intriguing he became
to me, because there was such a real.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
A genuineness to him that I didn't I didn't anticipate
the exactly he didn't give you a coach speak.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah answers, and they weren't like off the cuff answers,
but they were thoughtful.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
We were very deep thoughtful yes answers. Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
And he's going to be featured along with Jayden Daniels
and cam Ward and Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Baker Mayfield Yeah who.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Okay, So having said that about the appeal right now,
and we're working on a very small list of leaks.
We're not going to go into all the leaks because
we'll get the real information coming up at eight. But
right now, based on what we've seen, it looks like
three primetime game possibilities for the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
It would be and I guess we'll get into this now.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
The thing that has really jumped out is if this
is correct, the Bengals are not going to get a
bye the week after the Madrid game, which seems insane
and unfair to ask a team to travel to Madrid,
play a game, come home, and not only Rock have
to play the next week, but according to what has

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been leaked, they're going to play the Pittsburgh Steelers on
Sunday Night. At least it's at home, thanks NFL for
the favor, but a rivalry game coming off of that,
and then, according to the reports, the very next week,
another national game at the Washington Commanders on Monday Night football.
So you're gonna fly to Madrid, have every body clock

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and everything else thrown off, come back, have to play your.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Rival emotionally invested.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
In that game, and then turn around and jump on
a plane and fly the next week to DC. I
know it's not a long way, but it's a short
week and it's a Bundy Night football game.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
So here's what I think happened.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
I think the powers that be looked at that and said, yeah,
we'd like to give you a bye week. But I'm
sure that the matrix of how all this is figured
out is pretty tough. But they're saying, look, by all accounts,
the Bengals have like the third or fourth quote unquote
easiest schedule in the league.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
They traveled just the twenty fourth most amount of miles,
so there's a lot of teams.

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Traveling a lot more. The other rumor is the first
seven games are one PM games.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
YEP.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
So I think they're saying, you know, we gotta get
some player. Yeah, you know, something's got to break, And.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
I think that's just yeah, if you know what you
give and get, we gotta you know, for everything good,
there's something you're gonna have to deal with. I would
think if if those are the three, maybe if if
you were I've heard the argument they were like a
four game worthy team for national games. I would find
maybe a Jacksonville matchup a little bit intriguing because you've

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got the two big quarterbacks and Trevor Lawrence and Joe Burrow.
I would think the Houston Texans would be intriguing one
because the Texans have such a great defense and kind
of that storyline of the defense of the Texans against
the offense of the Bengals as a possibility. Those are
the only other ones, but three right now as national
games is feels doable and fair.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I just don't like the way they've been stacked.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
It's just I want and these big time games on
a short travel are coming in the back half of
the season. You're not breaking them up at all, when
at the beginning of the.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Season, by all the cost and of all things the
one of the leagues from Chado Joe Senko indicate that
we're now quoting Chad, but Chad is reporting that the
Bengals by is in week six.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
That sucks. Who wants to buy in week six? Not
only seventeen games season?

Speaker 4 (21:48):
I mean the sweet spot is obviously eight, nine, ten
range somewhere around there.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
But the traditionally always had like a bye weeks.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
I mean, I mean, the more I think about it,
the buy coming before Madrid and the grind after Madrid.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
I just what are you getting up? What are you
gonna do with the bye in week.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Six versus the going through the gauntlet of week nine, ten, eleven. Hell,
if you got it twelve, that's probably a little bit late.
But at the end of that three week you know, gauntlet,
at least you can catch your breath.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
And that's not even gonna be the case.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
And I would say they would could they maybe travel
over early, but they're not gonna do it that. I
think you're gonna let players go home over the bye
week and then you just figure out the next week.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
All Right, we come back.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Let's talk a little bit about this team that's gonna
get this schedule and the offseason work that's been done.
You're gonna hear what Duke Tobin said about the work
accomplished by the organization as we continue. It's the AE
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engineers to do this show. Dave Abbitt did the first hour. Yeah,
Dave Abbott was worn. It was a there are a
lot of preparations into this and he said, all right,
time out.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
And now Mike Mills is in and I think Mike's
in it for the next five. Are you here for
the next five? Oh?

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Man, he's here till midnight. If you get worn out,
Fran will take over. Frank could be the engineer, and
you can tell your reporter.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
You're like six miles down the street. Be able.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
They'll call you into that's.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
A run the show.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
No, that's not gonna happen. The eleven o'clock hour will
be engineered by Phyllis. Philis can just engineer and she
give us the signs, you know, break or wrap it up,
or she can handle us up.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Both of you.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Just stop talking, Just stop talking, all right. We're going
to get into As we turned into the seven o'clock hour.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
This team.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
We're talking about the schedule, the opponents are going to play,
How about the makeup and construction of this team. It's
been an aggressive offseason I think would be a word
to use. I want you to take a listen to
what Duke Tobin said when he was asked about what
they've accomplished through free agency and the draft.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Here's Duke really excited.

Speaker 11 (24:39):
And proud of the personnel guys upstairs and how they
attacked and how they stayed with it. We used every
resource we could, every different way to acquire guys that
we thought were right for us. You know, our plan
has always had as many good pieces as we can.
And you know, really the star of the show is
Katie and how she was able to fit it ou together.

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I mean, we're at the top of the league and
spending and we're making it work and she makes that work.
And it really was exceptional because we had opportunities come
to us that we weren't expecting financially, and she was
able to still make it work, which was sensational. We've
layered in a lot of costs this year next year,
and those things are factors as we go forward. But

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we'll manage them the best way that we can rock.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
I think I think any Bengal fan has to give
them credit for the way they went about executing this.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
They broke the mold in a lot of ways. In
the draft.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
They approach things a little bit differently. I said, I'd
love to see like a graphic that lays out the
typical Bengal draft pick either body type or measurables or
statistics production, and then lay an overlay of this year's draft.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
And I don't think they'd match up.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
I think they dare to be a little bit different
and think outside the box and some spaces. They were
aggressive with the trade for Dexter Lawrence. We're going to
talk about his impact come out up the seven o'clock hour.
But they knew they had to address the defense they have.
We're gonna address how they They still have some work
to do there. But had you told me at the
start of the offseason they get done what they've done

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to this point, I would have been I would have
been a little bit surprised they could actually do.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
What they have.

Speaker 10 (26:17):
Well.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
I like it because there's a clear plan. Yes, defensively,
and I think they said, you know what, what do teams?
What do offenses hate? Going again? So what do they
what bothers an offense? And I think it's a front
that can just flat get after you, that can take
away to run, but get after you, you know with
the pass rushers or clearly, I mean you bring in

(26:38):
Dexter Lawrence, boy and Mafia Jonathan Allen, you draft cash
Is Howe and Landon Johnson, you bring him you know
you still have bj Hill, Chris Janis, Miles Murphy Schmasher said, look,
we're just good. Rather than trying to be good at
all three levels, We're gonna just be dominant on the
defensive line. We couldn't find the linebacker that we really wanted, says,
so what We're just gonna load up on d line

(26:58):
and get after you. And to your other point too,
clearly the Bengals focused more on production versus potential. And
you're seeing that in college football. What Carcinnetti did that right,
didn't He didn't go after all the five stars.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
He went I went after guys and maybe played FCS football,
but they can play.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
I've seen him play.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
So you know again, Dexter Lawrence, you know, Cashus Howe
was very productive in college and Landon Johnson was very
productive in college.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
So a clear shift.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
But I love the concept of boy and the simple
fact that we'll get into the defensive line coming up
in the seven o'clock hour. If I go to the
back end, the fact they upgraded from Genos Stone to
Brian Cook. Had he done just yeah, there was absolutely
You would think a year ago this time we were
saying there's no way they can go into the season
with Genostone. They did, there was no way they were
going to be able to do it this year. And

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it just it's not just moving on from Genostone, it's
adding a real strong difference making safety who's reliable, dependable
and tackles.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
What a concept that had to happen.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
I think there would have been pitchforks and torches if
they rolled Geno Stone out there in week one and
watching like Ola tackles like the way he did.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
So a clear upgrade on the back end as well.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
All Right, seven o'clock hour, we'll get into Dexter Lawrence.
Even Zach said this week something about Dexter Lawrence has
shocked him.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
We'll get into that, and I know you want to
talk about what.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
It means for a team kind of to bring like
hockey lines over the boards onto the ice, one after
another and shifts what that does to wear down an
offense from a defensive line standpoint, that and more.

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Speaker 4 (29:19):
And away we go our number two of this six
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We roll till midnight tonight. I'm Lance Pacallister. He is
rocky boyman. This started at six. We will hand things
off at eight to mooe and Tony. They've got eight

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to ten. They will be right in the center, the epicenter,
the center of the storm, with the official release of
the schedule, and then Austin Illmore and Chick Ludwig, as
Chick would say, they'll be breaking it down like a
wrecking ball coming up. From ten to midnight tonight, we
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(30:01):
a night so big that the legendary. In fact, you
think he mind if I acknowledged him publicly over the
airwaves right now?

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I don't think you would mind.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Sitting
to the right of our broadcast setup is the greatest
Bengal quarterback of all time, mister Kenny Anderson, most accurate
passer in the history of organized football, and one of
my all time favorites, one of the very best, one

(30:32):
of the best human beings too. I wonder if he
I wonder if he knows I told the story. I
think it was a couple of years ago. I asked Kenny.
I said, hey, you know, all this schedule release stuff
is so big. How did you learn the schedule when
you played? And he said, I think I read it
in the paper the next morning.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Changed.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yes, absolutely, all right, we've got the ground a cover.
Let's get into We're gonna get a little bit more
into the schedule later in this hour, but let's set
up the team they've assembled to face this schedule. And
the biggest news of the off season was the Bengals
doing what the Bengals don't do. They went out of
the box, got aggressive, traded the tenth pick in the
draft to get Dexter Lawrence, a difference maker up front.

(31:11):
I was struck by something Zach Taylor said this week
about the early initial impact in what he saw from
Dexter Lawrence, who was here from day one and stuck around.
Listen to this, the first impression that Dexter made on
Bengals coach Zach Taylor.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
I was just shocked that he was here every day,
you know, right after we traded for him, that he
just chose to jump right in and not missing day initially.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
I think that just shows I hate to speak for.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
Him, but just the excitement he has to be here
with these guys in the locker room, had a chance
to meet with in one on one several times. Love
the personality because that's something you know, I don't know
until you really get to know the guy, but there's
certainly a level of excitement when you know the organization
takes a swing on a guy like that and gives
up the tent pick and the often goes get a
known commodity that really has uplifted this locker room, and

(32:04):
guys are excited to be around him, and he's gonna
make everybody around him better full sides of the ball, really,
you know. So it's been really fun just being around
him and seeing him work and how it goes by.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
His business rock.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
I love the fact it's one thing when an organization
takes a big swing and gets somebody a big name
like Dexter Lawrence, it's something beyond that when that player
comes in day one, is engaged, is ready to go,
doesn't fly inside the contract, fly out, meets with his team,
delivers a message to the team.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
There is something about.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
The juice of a new a second chance, a revival,
and I sense that from Dexter Lawrence it was miserable
at times with the Giants, and this is it's fresh
and it's energized, and I think it's going to be.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Huge for this team.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
I remember saying that the draft show that you could
sense there was you said the word juice the whole organization,
and it coincided writers the office. He's in program with
starting and you know Ted from Ted Carris, and I
mean everybody was just like because they know. But by
doing that, the indication to the players is our organization
is going for it, right, we are going for a

(33:13):
championship to do something like this.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
And then on top of it, yeah, the fact that
he Dexter Lawrence is here every day and.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
He's not training with some guru trainer down in Miami. No,
he's here in Cincinnati. He's training with those guys, developing
relationships with those guys. So, I mean, as Zach said,
it could not have worked out any better.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
We're now talking about a defensive line with the likes
of Dexter Lawrence, Bory Mafey, b J Hill, Miles Murphy,
Shamar Stewart, Jonathan Allen, cash Is how Chris Jenkins, TJ Slayton,
Landon Robinson as I say in stack all those names rock,
what does it mean for the importance of of rotation

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and and different packages and just what Al Golden might
be able to do with it.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Oh, yeah, you mentioned rotation.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Certainly you're bringing fresh bodies in, but I think it's
certainly means there's gonna be some different packages that they run. Okay, okay,
maybe we're division and linebackers. Maybe that's not the elite
unit out.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
There, but let's try some things.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
Coaching starts lance with how do I get my best
players on the field. Like, you don't want, you know,
a scenario where you know Miles Murphy and Shamar Stewart
are on this. No, let's figure out a way to
get all these guys on the field, get our best
players on the field, and then figure out the scheme.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
It's the same thing offensively. You don't say this is
a scheme we run, I'm gonna make our players fit it. No,
you say, what are my players good at? And I'm
going to design the scheme around them. It's the same
thing for the defense, I think.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
And the ability to with that much depth to rotate,
and the difference between asking somebody a big body guy
whether it's maybe going from sixty snaps to fifty or
sixty to forty five, whatever the number is. The ability
to keep guys fresh late into games and not be
worn down. And on the other side, if you're the

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offensive lineman to the offense, who's facing guys who don't
get tired, just relentless energy, that's got to be an
impact of a game.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
It's always an advantage for the defense because the offensively.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
You don't see your teams substituting they're offensively you just
can't do it. Those guys got to work together so much.
But yeah, keep bringing those fresh bodies. And then there's
as a coach, there's no excuse for not running to
the ball or not, you know, playing down the line
and sprinting to make a tackle, because we're saying, hey, dude,
but we got a whole stable of people here. We're

(35:32):
not going to play you to your point. Sixty seventy
plays a game. You're gonna get forty, but we better
get every ounce of effort you have in those forty.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
And I also like the fact competition's good and whether
it's Shamar Stewart or Miles Murphy, you're looking around saying
oh man, there's a there's a lot of competition here.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I've better step up my game. Yeah, I don't want
to be the weak link.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
Yeah, like you don't want to look around and say, gosh,
I'm the guy that's there's sir wanting to get on
the field.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
So yeah, certainly everybody wants to elevate their pay.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
And in simple as terms, and you could speak to this,
the impact the defensive line and what something like somebody
like Dexter Lawrence can have the ripple effect through the
rest of the defense.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Right.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Yeah, and again I've said Dexter Lawrence is a force
multiplier because it's not just a player you're getting, but
it's it's how he's going to affect the other players,
namely the linebackers and you know, picking up and carrying
some more double teams that they normally wouldn't see. That's
going to allow linebackers to scrape free and be able
to run around a little bit more.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
And in simple as terms, in terms of pressure they
should be able to get on the quarterback. Think of
what it does to a secondary and it's a league
of you know, Mississippi, if you have to cover somebody
for three or four mississippis. In this day and age,
good luck if your pass rush reduces that to two,
maybe two and a half, one and a half two mississippis.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
It changes the game.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Yeah, because you don't have to have a perennial Pro
Bowl corner or a perennial Pro Bowls safety, you know,
like because to make sure the salary cat you can't
have all stars everywhere.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
There's a little bit of a give and take.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
So yeah, you got a guy that now maybe our
guys don't have to cover as long as as other
teams have to.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
It's a great luxury.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
Now, it's great that we started up front because that's
the strength of his defense. The next level of the
defense is where the questions come in. And when we
come back, I've got questions for you. I want to
play to your specialty as a former linebacker. I want
to talk about the development of linebackers, and I will
ask you what it's like going from year one to
year two in terms of level of comfort and understanding

(37:34):
of things and taking the next step as a linebacker
in the NFL. He is rocky on Lance. Thanks for
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Speaker 3 (39:04):
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Speaker 4 (39:05):
He is very deep, very deep in analysis and breakdown.
We talked about the defensive line of this team, which
is certainly the strength of the defense. Now let's go
to the biggest question mark of this defense, and that's
the line backer spot. Two linebackers into their second year
now and Dimitrius Knight Junior and Barrett Carter.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Look at that.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I wrote down Barrett Cohen. Don't tell him that to
Barrett Carter. Not Barret Cohen of Moeller Mueller, but too
who who they need more from. They need a sizeable
jump in year two. And I think one of the
storylines of the offseason is they did not address linebacker
in free agency. They have not a dress linebacker in

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the draft. Duke Tobin was asked about that approach to
this point of not adding a linebacker.

Speaker 11 (39:51):
Here's what he said, Probably the best thing we did
for our linebacker room is what we did for the
d line room, and that's going to elevate those guys.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
I have real belief in the guys said we have.

Speaker 11 (40:00):
They have full seasons under their belt, they have really
good production for rookies, and they're going to grow in
our scheme and they're going to be really good players.
And I think we have depth behind them. Doesn't mean
we won't look. We're always looking. This is a twelve
month thing. This isn't just a two month thing. But
in this two months, the opportunity wasn't there to add
to that group. And we accept that because we have

(40:23):
guys that we believe in there. If there are people
that we think can add to the group, will add
to the group. We're not done roster building. There's an
entire offseason and there's training camp, then there's cutdowns, then
there's practice squads, then there is practice squad coaches, and
then there's trades, and then I mean you're never done
roster building, but I feel very good about our roster

(40:46):
as it sits right now.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
So Rock, I asked the question of our guy, James
Rapine Bengals Talk dot Com. I said, Duke and the
organization say publicly they feel very good about these linebacking
group with both Dimitrice Night Junior and Barrett Carter. I
asked him, I said, do you feel good? Should we
feel good about this linebacker group?

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Here's what he.

Speaker 12 (41:04):
Said, Heck now, no one should. Heck now, I I uh,
you know, I mean the worst the worst pick.

Speaker 13 (41:12):
Last years, which are banking on this year, right, The
biggest reached last year wasn't Tamar Stewart.

Speaker 12 (41:18):
It was taking the metrious Night when you did, and
it was it was because you had an addressed linebacker.

Speaker 13 (41:23):
Well enough in free agency and you knew you needed
one in the draft and there they were thin, and
so they they reached there, and they looked up and
they had a similar great on Barrett Carter. So they
doubled it, and so now they're really committed to it. Look,
I think they would in an ideal world have already
addressed linebacker in their mind, and that hasn't happened. If
you're going to address the defensive front instead of addressed linebacker.

(41:44):
I'm always on board with that because I think that
that matters more. But his linebacker is still in need.
It is and in an ideal world, and I think
that there's hopefully what they're working on now is they
do the cap gymnastics that they are probably doing this week,
find up getting another linebacker that's going to help in
that room because they certainly needed.

Speaker 12 (42:05):
I think Knight and Parter are both going to take
a step forward. There were two of the worst.

Speaker 13 (42:09):
Linebackers in the league last year, so how big is
that step forward?

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Going to be The last thing.

Speaker 12 (42:14):
We want to be doing after all these new phases on.

Speaker 13 (42:16):
Defense is talk about how the linebackers are letting the
defense down. So hopefully they can add one more veteran
here that when at.

Speaker 12 (42:23):
Least raise the floor of that room and give them
a little stability and experience.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
James repeat, always getting the last word in you were
a linebacker, tell me in your becker to a second
year linebacker.

Speaker 6 (42:40):
I always say this.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
I always felt that I got the best, you know,
as a player in the off season because during the
season it's all about game plan and this and that.
But in the offseason, you have time. You have time
to assess what you maybe didn't do well that previous year.
You have time to formulate a plan of what I
gotta do, What film do I need to watch, what drops,

(43:03):
what footwork, whatever it is that I need to work on,
and there's the time to do that.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
You're a rookie year. You know, you're you're playing.

Speaker 5 (43:09):
Your college season, You're going a melion into a combine training,
and then there's the draft and then you're you're you're
showing up and you're figuring out, Okay, where I got
I gotta have a place to live. I had all
this sort of stuff, not not as much time to
focus on becoming an NFL player. They'll now have time
to do that, to assess the things they got to
do to get to get better, and hopefully they do that.

(43:31):
I guess we could look at it that maybe as
a positive thing, and the Bengals didn't reach again and
just get somebody in linebacker. Okay, we're gonna wait and
in the meantime here, we're gonna get players maybe in
other areas that are high productive players here.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
And we'll figure out linebacker won't.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
We can't.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
It certainly does need to be addressed, but again, hopefully
the Bengals didn't.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Didn't.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
You know, they did a good thing by not reaching
and getting somebody that they ultimately couldn't really use.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Final note on the linebackers. Read into Pro Football Focus
numbers what you like, but of eighty eight qualified linebackers
last year, Dimitris Knight Junior wound up ranked eighty third,
Barrett Carter wound up ranked eighty fifth, and Orin Burke's
wound up ranked eighty eighth. So eighty three, eighty five

(44:20):
and eighty eight out of eighty eight total world linebacker.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Look, I'm on record.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Last year saying there's absolutely no way you can quote
unquote fix this defense in one one offseason, and I
don't think they. I think They've gotten a lot closer
than I thought.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
That I would agree with that. So absolutely, we live in.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
A salary cap world and there's all these things, and
sometimes you miss on a couple of guys this and that.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
It's not going to be perfect. You can't address everything.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
But I think given the situation with what it was
and how depleted that defense was all offseason, I think
they did about as best as you could ask something.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
All Right, when we continue, we inched closer to the
announcement at eight, So let's get into things to consider
potentially for this schedule.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
New coaching staffs.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
You're going against quarterback situations when the bye falls. I
want to ask you, as a former player, the most
appealing window new would you rather be? It used to
be Monday night football is Sunday night bigger than Monday night.
Now nobody likes Thursday night. I don't think we'll get
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Mean quickly before we get to our guest. The official

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schedule is out. What we said earlier holds true.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
The opening at.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Home against Tampa Bay Sunday, September thirteenth. The bye is
in week six. There is in addition to the Madrid game,
there is a Sunday nighter against Pittsburgh November the fifteenth,
a Monday nighter the next week at Washington, and the
New Year's Eve game at home against Baltimore. In the
first seven weeks of the season, there's a bye and

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two home games goes Tampa at Houston at Pittsburgh home
to Jacksonville at Miami. Then the bye will run through
the rest of the schedule and the.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
First seven games are one pm games.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
Absolutely, so what we said earlier holds true. Let's get
to much more important things. Our special guest on the stage.
The Bengal legend himself would be mister Kenny Anderson. It
is great to see you, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Well thanks coming down to my hangout right, I really
you know, but you've told us you have your own
spot over there. Oh yeah, if you.

Speaker 14 (47:07):
Looked at the left over there, be careful, that's the
uh that's our corner right the corner.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (47:13):
I gotta tell you what, Courtney and Katie are this
the two best bartenders you're ever gonna find.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
There you go, there, you go, way, there you go.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
All right, First things first, I want to get into
the Madrid trip and the big things going on there.
But I remember I asked you this a couple of
years ago, and I think I remember your answer. When
you were playing there certainly was not a schedule release show.
How did you learn of the schedule just when.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
You wake up and get the inquiry the next day?
You know, that was kind of how it went, you know,
And and you know, the NFL was so.

Speaker 14 (47:43):
Different, you know, back then you looked at the first
thing like do we have a Monday night game?

Speaker 3 (47:49):
That was one a big deal.

Speaker 14 (47:51):
And then you know, our first Monday night game in
Cincinnati was not till nineteen seventy five we played Buffalo Buffalo,
so that was I remember how what a big deal
it was for the town.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
I mean, you know, Dandy Don the Giffer.

Speaker 14 (48:04):
Howard came in, you know. But the thing is those
days there were no production meetings. I never met Howard
coast out, you know. And we never had a production
meeting the night before with the cruise. That didn't So no,
I Howard was never on the sideline before the game.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
So you know, now back then, Kenny, would you ever
have dreamed in a million years that they'd be playing
NFL games and in Madrid, in Melbourne, Australia and London
and all that.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
No, boy, am I glad I'm not playing? Not the
same thing? Wow, you know. I mean it was a
big deal to go to the West coast. That was
a long trip. And with Paul Brown, you know.

Speaker 14 (48:49):
We always stayed on Cincinnati time until you woke up
the next day, so we would go out.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
You know, we're playing in La or San Diego. Our
curfew was eight o'clock at night. Wow.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
Now they you know it's just five pm their time,
right right?

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Yeah? Wow?

Speaker 14 (49:04):
Yeah, so no, it's eight o'clock there time, I got
leven o'clock car time, gotcha got you know, at five
o'clock in the morning they have our breakfast if you
woke up early and all that stuff and then you
went on on their clock.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Amazing.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
So the Madrid game is week nine November the eighth,
nine thirty in the morning, kickoff our time. You are
involved with this, tell us your excitement and involvement with all.

Speaker 14 (49:25):
Well, uh, you know the first Bengal game in London,
Prominent Travel was put together a nice little package to
bring people over and my wife Christy and I hosted
it and it was so nice. I got a call
from herb down there and said, you've got what guys
want to do it again?

Speaker 3 (49:40):
So Christian and I.

Speaker 14 (49:41):
Are gonna host nice other trip over there. So if
you want to go to it, it's already been posted that.
You've got to Provident Travels website and you'll see what's
going on over there.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
And so Christian ever have a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
So when you go through that, they'll tell you where
all the Bengals events and parties and all that.

Speaker 14 (49:57):
I got transportation to and from everything and very so yeah, yeah,
it's it'll be a fun time.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
But we got some dinners together.

Speaker 14 (50:03):
And we got oh I figure, we got a day
trip to a town they said it's really great, and
another half day trip.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
So we got a lot of things while we're there. Excellent.

Speaker 14 (50:11):
You know.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
The cool thing is and we've talked about this before,
but Joe.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Walter over here for former Bengal there are so many
of you guys who who have stayed here who came
from other parts Anthony, of course, other parts of the country.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Max, who this is this is home and there there's
still that connection and there's a core of you, isn't there?
Oh yeah, a lot.

Speaker 14 (50:33):
I mean if you go to the NFL Alumni meetings,
to the NFL Players Association.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Meetings, the guys that are there, that are around and.

Speaker 14 (50:40):
You know, I just think it goes to show what
Cincinnati's like. You know, you come here and you figure
out this is a pretty good place to live. It's
a pretty good place to raise.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Your you know with what seeing the Bengals are going
to do is just rotating defensive line and keep causing
having what is that from your perspective?

Speaker 10 (51:00):
Need?

Speaker 14 (51:01):
Well, I mean, you know the court, what guy, do
I have to try the double team where are we
going to slide the line?

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Who do we have to account for?

Speaker 14 (51:09):
And if you're gonna double team one, that means the
other ones are singled up yep. And then all of
a sudden, now your pressure packages become more effective. So
I think it gives it, you know, al gold and
a lot of functionability and what he can do.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Man Man one more time.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
For those who want more information on the trip Bengals
and Falcons in Madrid, you and Christy and the whole gang,
how do they get information?

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Go to Provident Travel. You can find out all about it.
It is awesome seeing you thinks for the pleasures all
one And like I say, yeah, I'm down here a little.

Speaker 14 (51:40):
You can stop by for a beer on your way
to work through your show because I'm viousally down here
about two two thirty.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
And that's when when the old guys come down here,
show prep, show prep. Here. There you go. That'll make
the show go a lot. But there's no question about that.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Ken Anders and everybody are let's take a time out
of continue. We're heading down the stretch till eight and
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Speaker 5 (52:51):
I just want to give a shot to the Fort
Wright Police Department. Yes, Aaron, come over and say hello,
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Speaker 4 (53:01):
All right, So we have the schedule. Let's let's fill
in some of the blanks on this. Let's start with
the preseason games. Three preseason games, two home games Detroit
and Chicago August thirteen and twenty second, and then at
Philly August twenty eight, So the Lions the Bears both
at home at the Eagles. Then the regular season Week

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one Tampa Bay and Baker Mayfield a one o'clock kick
Tampa Bay minus Mike Evans for the first time in
many many.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
Years, Bankers will be on the new season of Quarterback.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
So I can't wait for that.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Week two, they're at Houston one o'clock again. The first
seven games of the season are one o'clock games. As
we said earlier, that Houston matchup on the road that
Texans team went twelve and five a year ago, won
their final nine, won a playoff game before losing to
the Patriots. Then at Pittsburgh in Week three to one

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o'clock game, home to Jacksonville on October the fourth, at Miami,
and then the bye bye in week six. That's the
earliest I could I'd love to see a list in
front of me that that sounds like the earliest buye
that I can recall in a long time, Or.

Speaker 6 (54:11):
Where are the chances of the Bengals are five and
oh by the bye week.

Speaker 4 (54:14):
Clearly five and oh at the bye week, no, let's go.
Let's not be Homer's rock. They'll be four and one.
How's fourign We then go.

Speaker 6 (54:21):
Four and one, and I think it's possible with us schedule.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
You got the Dolphins, you got.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
You know it's at Pittsburgh, but you got you know,
a new head not a new head coach, but a
new head coach.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Of the Steelers.

Speaker 6 (54:31):
There, Texans, they don't scare me.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
I'll say, swing game is Jacksonville.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
If you can take care of Jacksonville at home, I
think legitimately they'd be four and I think they they
the loss most likely would be at Houston.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
So I'll go four and one out of the shoot.
Is that fair? That's fair? That's fair? Yeah, all right,
I mean that's that's very fair.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
That puts them in the driver's seat.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
So the bye is week six, and out of the
bye you're at Baltimore for a one o'clock and then
home to Tennessee for a one o'clock, all of that
leading up to the trip to Madrid. So they would
win both of those clearly, and they'd be a six
to one going to Madrid.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
You're gonna can you watch out, You're gonna have them
going fifteen and two here, you got to win that
Titans game before you go to Madrid.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Yes, that's the super winnable and the key here.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
We talked about this earlier, and I'd love to see
numbers on the percentage of teams that after an international
game don't get a bye game, because the Bengals not
only don't are bye week, not only do they not
get the buy coming out of Madrid at least their home,
but they've got the Steelers on a Sunday night game
on NBC, followed by a Monday Night or at Washington,

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so home from Madrid, consecutive National TV games Sunday night
and Monday night, one home, one on the road, then
New Orleans at home at Cleveland Kansas City, and a
four to twenty five on Sunday, December thirteenth, a Fox
broadcast window December the twentieth at Carolina, and then the

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final three games fall on that either Saturday Sunday window
to be determined at Indy on December twenty sixth or
twenty seven, the Baltimore game on New Year's Eve home,
and then Cleveland at home on January ninth or tenth,
that Saturday or Sunday again, So you're you wind up
with your final two at home? Could first seven or

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one o'clock of your first one, two, three, four, five,
six games you get one at home? Is that what
we figured? Yes, one of your first six games are
home games. That's your ope. Note two two of your
sixth to Tampa in seven including the buy, So there
you go.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
I still think it's crazy that they not only fletch
the times of games with the date of the games.
It could be the December twenty sixth, the twenty six
or two days or the ninth to the tenth of January.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
That's that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Yeah, all right, Tom, I wish we had more time.
We don't, but certainly we do as a station because
we're just getting started. Four more hours to come. Moe
and Tony will stick their teeth into and give you
deep analysis on everything that is now official.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
No more leaks. The information is out. Thanks to Ashley
for taking care of us tonight.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
Thanks to everybody who hung out with us, stick around
more to get to thanks to Mike Mills as well,
and always good seeing Fran.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
And his lovely wife Phyllis feels like old times.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
The band is back together tonight and thanks to A
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Speaker 3 (58:09):
It is schedule Release Night twenty twenty six and we
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the Best Bengals coverage, Moegger and Tony Pike the middle
portion of our six hour Bengals NFL schedule release extravaganza.
Tony and I till ten Austin Elmore and Chick Ludwig
till midnight. We have the next four hours to break
down the schedule. Tony, I am stoked.

Speaker 15 (58:49):
I'm pumped up the the NFL schedule release. It is
the constant reminder that this is a three hundred and
sixty five day a year entity that the NFL is.

Speaker 6 (58:59):
I mean, think back just a few years ago, what
the schedule release was. They flashed the schedule, you react
to it the next day. That's it.

Speaker 15 (59:07):
Here we are tonight, six hours of coverage. It's not
enough because of what the NFL has become. It's awesome
the excitement that's built up and crazy when you think
about it, because you know the opponents, you know.

Speaker 6 (59:20):
If you're playing home or away. Yeah, now you know
when you know where.

Speaker 15 (59:25):
And I think there's a lot of different kind of
scenarios that fall into place that are very advantageous for
the Bengals this year.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
I'm old enough to remember, like getting the Kentucky Inquirer
here on this side of the river, the Kentucky Post,
and like one day there's the schedule. Yeah, there's who
the Bengals play this year, right, And now you're right,
it's maybe not on the same level of the draft
in terms of excitement, but it ain't that far away.
I love it. To me. It's like Christmas morning. It's
a night where nobody loses, and it's like that last

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mile post you have to hit before the season gets here.
It's that.

Speaker 15 (59:57):
It's also at the point now we don't have to
worry any schedule leaks, right, And I feel like this year,
more than any other year, it's been the case. I mean,
there has been more opened up to the schedule leading
up to tonight than I can remember.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
I hate it.

Speaker 15 (01:00:11):
Yes, we could talk about that at another point, but
it is it's it's it's taking over, and in our
line of work, it's it's kind of the last hurdle
that you get until training camp. Yeah in July, so
you got to soak up as much as possible. But
there are so many good storylines that fall into place
with this schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
All right, if you haven't heard it or gotten it yet.
I'll go through the twenty twenty six Bengals schedule here
in just a second, Tony and I will talk about
some of the things that stand out to us, and
then you know, we'll get to the season as a
whole and stuff that has happened throughout the course of
the last few months. But the twenty twenty six Bengals
schedule is as follows. The Bengals have three preseason games,

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two of them this year at home. They'll open up
the preseason slate on Thursday, August the thirteenth against the
Detroit Lions at pay Corps Stadium, and then play at
pay Corps again nine days later on Saturday, August the
twenty second, a night game against the Chicago Bears. Cincinnati
will have one road game in the preseason that'll be
on a Friday night, nationally televised game on CBS against

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the Eagles in Philadelphia. The regular season begins on Sunday,
September thirteenth, a one o'clock home game against the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. And get used to that theme. If you
like one o'clock games, you're basically gonna love the first
half of the Bengals schedule. Cincinnati opening at home against
Tampa Bay. Week two at Houston one o'clock game. Week

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three the first AFC North opponent, the Pittsburgh Steelers on
the road Sunday, September the twenty seventh. Week four a
game against the Jacksonville Jaguars and home, a team the
Bengals played Week two last year. Joe Burrow suffered his
toe injury in that game. Week five a road game
against the Dolphins. Week six a bye, the earliest bye

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week for the Bengals since twenty seventeen. Then they go
to Baltimore the first game against Lamar Jackson and Trey
Hendrickson again, another one o'clock Sunday game Sunday, October the
twenty fifth. Cincinnati will then come home to take on
the Tennessee Titans, a team with a new head coach,
one o'clock on Sunday, November first. Then the Madrid game
Bengals and Falcons in Madrid, Spain, that is Week nine, Sunday,

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November the eighth. That game will kick off at nine
thirty here in Greater Cincinnati. No bye before the Madrid game,
no bye after the Madrid game. Cincinnati will take on
the Pittsburgh Steelers after coming home on Sunday Night Football.
That game kicks off at eight twenty. Bengals and Steelers
played in primetime at home last year. Cincinnati won that

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game on Thursday night. This year, they play in Cincinnati
on Sunday Night, the first of back to back primetime
games because then Bengals had to land over Maryland to
take on the Washington Commanders on Monday Night Football that
is on Monday November the twenty third home game against
New Orleans to round out November on the twenty ninth,
Then the first of two games against the Browns, the

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first one in Cleveland Sunday, December sixth. After that the
Kansas City Chiefs in Cincinnati for the first time since
December of twenty twenty two. That game on December the thirteenth.
After that, a game against Tony Pike's Carolina Panthers yes
in Charlotte coming the Sunday before Christmas on the twentieth.
Then a game on either Saturday, December twenty sixth or Sunday,

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December the twenty seventh on the road against the Colts,
followed up by New Year's even Night Football. Bengals and
Ravens on a Thursday, this time in Cincinnati. That's Week seventeen.
Thursday Night Football eight fifteen kickoff on New Year's Eve,
and the Bengals finish up the regular season with the

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home game against the Cleveland Browns Week eighteen. That game
will take place either on Saturday, January the ninth or Sunday,
January the tenth. Your first impressions when the schedule came
out just a short while.

Speaker 15 (01:03:54):
Ago, I thought advantageous in a lot of ways. I
like the fact one of the things I was looking
forward to. When do you play teams with new coaches?
When do you play teams that have quarterbacks that had
struggled or new quarterbacks? You cross that box a couple
different times early in the schedule. I'm a little surprised
and a little worrisome about this the Week six by
because the back end of the season is always a

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grind when you go to the seventeen games slate, especially
when you're gonna go international. Yes, outside of that, we've
talked in recent years about tough stretches. We've talked about
how this team has been unprotected maybe at times with
quick turnarounds. I look at this schedule. I like a
lot of things. You play Baltimore coming out of a bye, Yes,
that's good. Before you go to Madrid. You get a

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favorable matchup with the Tennessee Titans. Before your biggest games
the Kansas City Chiefs. You play the Cleveland Browns. I
don't think they have many back to back to back
true test throughout the schedule. I think you could say
Week nine, ten, and eleven, And I think you could
say that the start of the season Tampa Bay at Houston.
Your offensive line better be ready to go against Houston

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Texans defense. But I think this schedule to me jumps
out as very manageable.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Yeah, you know, you talk about the Ravens game, and
I love having a buy before going to Baltimore. Also, yes,
you might wish the buye was a little bit later
in the season. Typically for the Bengals over the last
number of years, it's been week ten, week eleven, somewhere
in that range. But if you look at the end
of the year, let's say Week eighteen matters, that's when
I want to play on Thursday Night football because Week

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seventeen's against Baltimore. Yeah, then it's the mini bye, right,
So at that stage in the season, you'll have a
little extra time to prepare. Maybe that game's not going
to mean anything, but if it does, nice to have
a little bit of a mini buye. You talked about
teams with new coaches. Now weeks one and two, that's
not going to be the case. You're gonna get Todd
Bowles with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yep, Tomigo Ryans with

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the Houston Texans. But then six of the next seven
games are gonna be against teams with new head coaches,
including the Steelers twice. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:05:56):
Also you mentioned Tampa. I think of Vidavea. Yes, up front,
I think a Ruben Banks Jior. Certainly what the Houston
Texans are, you can argue that might be the best
defensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
In all of football.

Speaker 15 (01:06:07):
Will Anderson, you're gonna get tested early on with your
offensive line. But to your point, you want to play
these teams, especially a guy like Mike McCarthy who's gonna
get a feel for his team the later the season
goes on. I like the fact that you play Pittsburgh early.
I like the fact that you get it out of
the way on the road early. Yes, make them come
to your building late. I think the Jacksonville Jaguars are

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an interesting team this year because of the jump they
took with Liam Cohen in year one. What's that looked
like in year two? Trevor Lawrence? What step does he
taken that offense? Travis Hunter. There's a lot of talent,
but I look at those first four games that you mentioned.
I look at some good defensive fronts. Pitchburg still has
Cam Hayward and TJ.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Watt.

Speaker 15 (01:06:48):
Jacksonville's got some young talent on the defensive line. I
think those first four games for an offense that in
recent years has struggled out of the gate, you're gonna
have to be ready to go Week one offensively this year,
I do think.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
And the bye is early, and you know, on social
media there's been this wave of I don't know what
the right word is here, but this this wave of
support for one o'clock Sunday, and I do think there's
something and you can speak to this. I do think
there's something about establishing a rhythm. Yeah, the Bengals are
gonna play five consecutive games at one o'clock on Sunday. Now,

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one of them is in Houston, which is obviously going
to be a noon kickoff locally, but their first seven
games are at one o'clock on Sunday.

Speaker 15 (01:07:29):
Yeah, you know what you do, you know what you
need to do. No quick turnarounds for Thursday night football. Yeah,
no different week with a Sunday night or a Monday night,
you know. And I think that lends itself well for
training camp.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Yeah right, you know it.

Speaker 15 (01:07:40):
When you get the training camp, you know what you're
preparing for for this stretch run to start the year.
I think there is positives to that. To know who
you're gonna be or know when you're gonna be. You
don't have to adjust the schedule, you don't have to
worry about anything like that. So that helps a team
like the Cincinnati Bengals because they've got a lot of
different pieces coming together, especially on the defensive side.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Of the ball. Full twenty twenty six Bengals schedule is
up at seven hundred WLW dot com. We are here
till midnight tonight. When I say we are broadcast, yes,
you and I go till ten. Audie and the Chickster
takeover from ten to midnight. And there's a lot of
ground to cover as it relates to the schedule and
then we'll also sort of talk about like this, it

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doesn't entirely put a bow in the off season. There
are still players the Bengals can sign. There's still contract
extensions they can do. But for the most part, the
off season is coming gone. Yeah, and it's been a
significant one and a busy one for the Bengals, And
we'll talk about that as the evening unfolds. We're here
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Audi and the Chickster from ten to midnight tonight. The
schedule is out for the Cincinnati Bengals. Our guy Audie

(01:09:43):
brought this to our attention and we we're gonna dive
as deep as we can into the Bengals schedule. But
if you're wondering about the rest of the AFC North,
the Pittsburgh Steelers, who are I guess Aaron Rodgers is
still going to be their quarterback this year. The forty
two year old drama cream has been in Pittsburgh, but
but he hasn't been around his team. He's not signed

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with the Steelers yet.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
What is this?

Speaker 14 (01:10:08):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Like Aaron Rodgers a Hall of Fame. I am so
glad they can deal with that, and our biggest issue
is like, did Joe Burg going to show up after
going to the met The Steelers come out of their bye,
their bye is week nine. Here's their gauntlet at Cincinnati
at Philadelphia, home for Denver, home for Houston, at Jacksonville,

(01:10:32):
home for Baltimore, home for Carolina, at Tennessee and then
they finish up the season at Baltimore. Not good. I'm
glad you threw Carolina with some respect in there is
the playoff team last year won the division. It puts
an Arolinas roster sneaky good.

Speaker 15 (01:10:49):
Yeah, and it puts an emphasis like for for Pittsburgh
with a new coach, what you don't want to do
is be forced to win early. If you look at
that schedule out of the bye for Pittsburgh, they may
be playing better at that point, but you're playing your
best competition at that point. So that's a tough, tough
schedule breakdown for Pittsburgh when you look at early on

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what they have versus how difficult that schedule becomes late late.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
In the season for the Baltimore Ravens Bengals are I'm
sorry Baltimore and Pittsburgh. It's one of the NFL's great rivalries.
Those are high stakes, high consequence games. Baltimore and Pittsburgh
won't play each other until Week fifteen. Crazy, that game
will be in Pittsburgh. The Ravens will finish up the
season with four consecutive games against teams from the AFC

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North at Pittsburgh home for Cleveland at Cincinnati on New
Year's Eve night, and then they finish up the season
against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 6 (01:11:44):
Yeah, that's a tough gauntlet.

Speaker 15 (01:11:46):
And I think what's interesting about that game as well,
we don't know for what the Bengals are going to
be doing ahead of that that Thursday night football, but
a division opponent right before you got to come play
on the road again, division opponent, and just always adds
an extra layer. Baltimore also completely opposite of the Bengals.
They don't have a bye till Week thirteen, and then

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they come out of the by.

Speaker 6 (01:12:10):
With Tampa. And I think Tampa's interesting.

Speaker 15 (01:12:13):
And we'll talk about them being the opener for the Bengals.
That team last year collapsed down the stretch. YEP, they
had every opportunity to win their division. They collapse. But
Mecha Buca Baker Mayfield. We mentioned they're talent on the
defensive side of the ball in a wide open division
that they play in. I think Tampa is an interesting
NFC team as well. So that out of the bye again,

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you hope that it gets to the point. And we've
talked about this for years with the Bengals. I hope
Baltimore comes in for Thursday Night football and we're talking
about seeding. Yes, right, nice, we got to win this
game to be in position yourselves if you're the Bengals.
And I said an advantageous schedule, that that game is
icing on the cake, that that game could be for

(01:12:54):
a number one overall seed yep, or home field advantage.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
Not Oh, they got to win this one vision title,
but if they don't win the division, they're still a
playoff correct, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:13:03):
They got to get the work done before that.

Speaker 15 (01:13:05):
And then you want to talk about atmosphere, you want
to talk about the city to the excitement to I
cannot wait till that New Year's game the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
I will say this, what you want when you have
a new head coach and a rookie head coach in
Jesse Minner is a nice runway for early success and
I do think Baltimore has that on the road at
Indianapolis home for New Orleans and Tyler Shuck was one
of the more interesting stories toward the end of the
season last year. But needless, they say a game the
Ravens should be favored to win. They played Dallas in

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Brazil home for Tennessee, at Atlanta at Cleveland, then they
played the first of two against the Bengals in Baltimore.
There's not a playoff team from last year in that mix.

Speaker 15 (01:13:48):
They should be favored in every game leading up to Cincinnati.
Now a team and we'll talk about it as well.
The Falcons are interesting to me with Stefanski because you
can't argue talent Drake London. They've got young talent on
the defensive side of the ball as well. But I
think Atlanta is an interesting team to watch this year.

(01:14:08):
But you mentioned it, and I think for Baltimore they
still have an answer. We talk about linebacker a lot
in Cincinnati, who's going to be center for that great question?
They lose Tyler Linderbaum, and of any team in the
league that's welcoming in a new staff, I think that's
a difficult ask because for years we talked about what
did Baltimore do around Lamar? They built specifically an offensive

(01:14:29):
system around him. Now they've got to completely redo that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
That takes time.

Speaker 15 (01:14:34):
At some point, Derek Henry is going to take some
kind of step back, you would think. I still don't
think they have elite weapons around Lamar Jackson. He's a
year older, he's been a little banged up. I just
I said this to you out of the break. With
the new coaching and the schedules that we just highlighted
in the AFC North, the expectation in Cincinnati should be

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winning the AFC North.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
I think without question, yes, I mean that is a
Ravens that it is a new head coach. They've had
a lot of free agency departures. I think all the
questions you just outlined about their offense are very very fair.
And by the way, if it's going to be a
two team race, I do expect it to be Cincinnati
and Baltimore, which could make that.

Speaker 6 (01:15:13):
New Year's Eve and a defense that Joe Burrow has
had success.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
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Speaker 6 (01:16:06):
Is Austin still doing autographs to nine to ten?

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
Yeah, from nine to ten Human Aaron Bland and Arren
Bland as well. They will sign printed copies of the schedule. Yes,
So if you have a printed copy of the schedule,
they'll sign it for you.

Speaker 6 (01:16:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
He's right here in front of the States right here.
You will sign your schedule free of charge, Yes, free
of charge. He'll sign your schedule for it. He's going
to get us Sharpie, Yeah, Sharpie to sign it and
take picture and just kind of just put a bow
on on schedule release night. Competitively speaking, is there anything
else about the Bengals schedule that stands out?

Speaker 6 (01:16:41):
You know what's always interesting to me?

Speaker 15 (01:16:43):
Years ago when they played two years ago, jayde and
Daniels kind of came out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Yeah, that was his coming up art.

Speaker 6 (01:16:49):
That was one when like the schedule came out, you
were like, Washington win.

Speaker 15 (01:16:52):
Yeah, is there a game that we're overlooking on this
schedule that could surprise you? Like Miami feels like major rebuilt.
None of the first four games would shock me. I
think those are challenging games. I don't think the spread
will be yeah, a wide margin.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
No, I mean, Houston was terrific last year, right won
a playoff game.

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
I'm not as fearful of the Steelers as many will
will be, but all right, fine, it's still Pittsburgh.

Speaker 6 (01:17:21):
Ja I mean Michael Pittman, Yeah, coming in, it's gonna check.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Jacksonville Jaguars won their last eight regular season games. Last year,
they were an offensive machine. Trevor Lawrence made a leap
last season. That's gonna be a tough game. I feel
like they beat Miami. I think the Washington game is interesting.
You talk about storylines, right, it's it's Burrow versus Jane Daniel.
Also the first time Joe's been in that stadium, Yeah,
since he got injured during his rookie year. The one

(01:17:46):
for me, that's the X factor. I don't know what
the Kansas City Chiefs are gonna be.

Speaker 6 (01:17:50):
Yeah, that would have been a team I'd have liked
to see earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Yeah, Yeah, you're right, Patrick Mahomes coming off the injury.
So Kansas City's here first time since twenty twenty two.
Burrow and Mahomes their sixth all time meeting. Could be
Travis Kelsey's last game in Cincinnati. Yeah, maybe his wife
is going to be in attendance. I'm sure that's gonna
be a topic for some people. But the Chiefs two
years ago were not great, but they went fifteen to

(01:18:17):
two and they made a Super Bowl. I thought how
last season unfolded, quite frankly, was not that surprising. And
I'm not gonna say I saw him winning six games,
but I don't think based on just how they played,
how many times they just hung on by the skin
of their teeth in twenty twenty four, I don't think
it was shocking to see them regress in twenty twenty five.

(01:18:37):
I don't know what their team is. I'm with you.
I'd rather see them in September, which they did two
years ago. You could tell me that Week fourteen Bengals
Chiefs is gonna be a game that carries a lot
of weight. You could tell me Week fourteen Kansas City
comes here as almost an afterthought. Yep, which of the three?

Speaker 15 (01:18:56):
And I'm with you because Kansas City, like, okay, they
went and got Kenneth Walker. How much will that help
them in the margins with the running game? How much
will that take pressure off Patrick Mahomes. They're just not
a great elite defense though. Either they're good, but what
do they do that they excel at? I think they
have to answer a lot of questions.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
I'll tell you a game that like, we'll see the
New Orleans setly.

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
I was gonna give you three.

Speaker 15 (01:19:23):
I don't think Tennessee is there yet, no, but I
look at Atlanta with Stefanski.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
Who's going to be quarterback? They went out and got.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
Two as well, and the Madrid thing is a very such.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:19:32):
I look at New Orleans and I'll say it, I
don't think they're competitive in the North. Cleveland always plays
the Bengals well, bad matchup, bad matchup. I like what
Cleveland's done the last two drafts. If they can get
any semblance of quarterback play, they can give you some
fit Quinjohn Jenkins was a great running back last year
as a rookie. They addressed wide receiver multiple times in

(01:19:54):
the draft this year. If I'm looking at okay, who
can surprise me right now? I don't think it's Indy.
I think Carolina has respect based on what they did
last year. To me, it's New Orleans Atlanta and who
Cleveland is at quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
Indy doesn't do it for you. Now. Remember for like
two weeks last season they were the talk of the league.
Correct and then quickly and saw got Sauce Gardner. So
but that's Week sixteen. Yeah, it's gonna be a game
either the twenty sixth or twenty seventh road game and
the Bengals in.

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
The year to play in a dome on the road.

Speaker 15 (01:20:27):
Yeah, helps from a weather standpoint, absolutely, absolutely yeah. Tyler
Schuck quietly down the stretch last year was really good.
Cleveland is it Deshaun Watson?

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Is it Shador Sanders, Yes, It's gonna be Deshaun Watson,
right like.

Speaker 15 (01:20:42):
So maybe maybe they have something there, But I really
I I do even if the game wasn't in Madrid,
I still look at the Falcons as a team with
a ton of talent and a coach in Kevin Stefanski,
who I think is a very good coach in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:20:55):
I think that team can surprise as well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Also think like if you look at December playing at Cleveland,
is whether it could be a variable there And we'll
see what the Browns. Are you talking about them being
a bad matchup. If Kansas City's good, then you're gonna
have three road games sandwiched around a game against the
Kansas City Chiefs. Think we expect the Carolina Panthers to
at least be a tough opponent. We'll see if they
can win the NFC South again, and then a road

(01:21:18):
game against the Indianapolis Colts. This is a night where
a lot of folks hang on to the schedule release
because they want to make plans for a road trip. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:21:28):
Also one other thought, Yeah, with Kansas City, much like
Baltimore later in the season, I like because it means
so much more.

Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
Again, same conversation we had against Baltimore.

Speaker 15 (01:21:39):
Sure, what are you playing for? If you're the Bengals
against the Chiefs. Is there pressure because you are hovering
right around the wild card yep? Or are you talking
about house money of Okay, with a win, we could
plan ourselves here. With the loss, it's not gonna kill you,
but you know you're you're comfortable. I think that just
like the Baltimore No, I mean we do it every year.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
We talk about you gotta get off to a fast start,
gotta get out the irony of last year. As it
was miserable they started to and oh now Burrow got
hurt in the second game. But if you believe there's
gonna be a little acclamation period for Baltimore with a
rookie head coach, Pittsburgh with a new head coach in
Cleveland with a rookie head coach, put those teams behind
you early and build a little bit of a cushion.

(01:22:21):
You and I joke about this all the time. We
do it with the Bengals, we do it with the Reds.
It's always, well, boy, if they could just get back
to five hundred by this day, or if they could
just you know, jump into the top seven and be
a playoffs right.

Speaker 6 (01:22:32):
For that today, I was ready for that out of
three in Cleveland and you're right back there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:37):
So like, it would be great if they could have
a great September, great first four four or five weeks,
and then all right when somebody else in the division
kind of gets its feet underneath it, you're making them
play catch up.

Speaker 15 (01:22:49):
Yeah, I just we talk about it for years, not
only that, how about UC basketball in the NCAA tournament,
right man, Hey, they need to go on a run
because they're on the bubble, right, We always about it.
That made it be nice if they were just like
in as a four seed and they're playing for seeding. Yeah,
that's what I want for the Bengals at the end
of the day. Bengals, it's the same way like Kansas
City Baltimore. I want those games to matter, but not

(01:23:11):
be make or break if you lose them.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
Yeah. I if you remember the Tomorrow Hamlin game that
night before the unfortunate tomorrow Hamlin situation unfolded. You and
I were on the air before that game, and we
talked about, like, this is awesome because this feels like
a playoff game. Yes, and there's a lot of stakes,
a lot riding on this game. But if they lose,
there's not all a playoff team, right. That's how I

(01:23:34):
want that Baltimore game to be. I would love for
that to be a game where they can clinch the
division and either have nothing to play for in week eighteen,
or they go into Week eighteen maybe playing for a
one seed. That sort of thing that we're getting a
little ahead of ourselves, but that's the goal.

Speaker 15 (01:23:48):
Those are that kind of games you want to play
third thirty easiest schedule. Now we see win and wear
schedule plays out for him. We already talked about they
should win the AFC North. Why not talk about the
number one overall seed.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
Yeah. This is a night where a lot of folks
start to make plans for stuff like road trips and
obviously the Madrid game. We found out about that two
days ago. Bengals will play the Falcons week nine in Madrid.
Let's talk possible road trips coming up at the next hour,
I like it, and and that will sort of dive
into the nuts and bolts of what the Bengals have

(01:24:19):
accomplished this offseason and maybe some stuff that they haven't
done to the degree that we would like. I can
run you through things to do in the city of Carolina.
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If you're a Bengals fan, I love doing this show.
Oh yeah, this is It's awesome to be here at Dickmans.
It's fun to get a chance to be on the
air with you. Great to listen to Austin and Chickster
when we're done. Enjoyed listening to to Lance and Rocky
in my way over. But the thing that I love
just after this is when I go home tonight. Oh
and I look at the social media feeds of the

(01:25:47):
thirty two NFL teams. There is no more creative night
on social media than when the NFL teams release their
schedule release videos.

Speaker 15 (01:25:57):
Each year, when we've done this, I get home after
word done, and probably for an hour, I go through
all the teams that I watch, and every year my
wife's like.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
What are you doing?

Speaker 15 (01:26:07):
Like it's important, Like it's like, but you already know
the schedules, Like yeah, but it's how they do it,
Like you have to you have to appreciate how much
goes into it, yes, but at the same time, like
so many of them do.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
Such a good job.

Speaker 15 (01:26:20):
You want to talk about like Christmas and super For
a lot of the media social media accounts, this is there,
this is it, this is their super Bowl, this is
their Christmas. They take it so serious and it's like
every year we talk about like this show growing every year.

Speaker 6 (01:26:33):
Every year.

Speaker 15 (01:26:34):
I feel like it's who can outdo themselves from a
social media department.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
It's it's creative. And I haven't seen the video. I
know the La Chargers have already made their mic vrabel
reference and their.

Speaker 15 (01:26:45):
Love and it's always it's always too like you do
it a little bit back and forth when you know
the opponents, but like every time, like when this night happens,
then you get to go through and be like, all right,
here's my wins, here's my losses, and like put your
stamp on it, like this is who I think and
what I think the bankers are gonna be.

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
We're going to do that, but between now, we're gonna
do it before the end of the show. But yeah,
that's that's the night that you go when when when.

Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Yes can can other roster moves happen?

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
But the core.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
We know what they're who you're going to be, is
is in the building? Yeah, we know, we know what
they are, we know what they're going to be. And
I think for me, the only sort of residual storyline
between now and the start of the season. Are there
contract extensions done? DJ Turners off tax Hill?

Speaker 12 (01:27:35):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
What is the linebacker? Linebacker?

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
What is that?

Speaker 15 (01:27:40):
Well, they don't need one because they address the front four.
Oh gotcha, they have more depth and dominance there. Okay,
well they played a lot last year, So are there extensions?

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
And then along with that, I feel like there's a
good chance of this being a training camp where we
don't have a thing. The Trey Hendrickson non stop soap opera.
We were not going to appreciate it. It was great content.
Even as much as we all love Jamar and Chase,
you know the Jamar and Chase hold in a couple
of years ago, Joe Mixon a few years ago. Like,

(01:28:11):
it feels like they have a chance and we'll see,
but it feels like they have a chance to have
a pretty drama free training camp, which would be very welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:28:19):
I also appreciate from the NFL standpoint, they've taken care
of us this year more than ever. On Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Eve, yeah,
Black Friday, Christmas Day, Yeah, like not only putting games there,
Marquee games, Yeah, are being put on those holidays. I
appreciate that as someone that wants to sit back and
watch them.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
But so there's been this big debate on social media,
and I like, I see both ends of it, right
because I love a one o'clock Sunday NFL Red Zone
Day where there's like seven games, but it's also fun
to watch really good standalone games. Yeah, And the NFL
is creating more now with that is I fear we're
gonna get more flex scheduling.

Speaker 15 (01:28:53):
But can you imagine as well starting twenty twenty seven
by beating the Ravens Yeah on New Year's Eve?

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Incredible and like clinching the division or something. Yes, but
you've got Christmas Day games now, and the NFL now
owns that, like silver, the NBA all the international games.
Black Friday is terrific.

Speaker 6 (01:29:13):
New Year Thanksgiving e Thanksgiving e Giving.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Day, Yeah, and I the Bengals have lobbied to host
a game on Black Friday. Sign me up, yes, sign
me up, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:29:23):
Then you could get your shopping done early a big Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Yeah, I get out there and go shopping. Yeah. Yeah, uh.
I like those things. I just I wish I wish
we had more of those. But like, once the games
are set, they're set, and there's no flex scheduling. I
hate flex scheduling.

Speaker 15 (01:29:40):
Is there a chance we can make it? If it's
a neton kick in Houston, just jump on a plane
directly to Madrid?

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
Does that? Does that math math? I'll tell you what.

Speaker 6 (01:29:52):
Geographically, I don't know what that looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
During during the news, I will go to Expedia and.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
See what White Center eight hundred dollars last.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
For those who don't know, Tony and I will be
in Houston for the UC Houston football game November the eleventh,
and the next day the Bengals play in Madrid. Now
it's an early game.

Speaker 6 (01:30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
The last time the Bengals played an international game, it
was a night game in London.

Speaker 9 (01:30:15):
I will go on.

Speaker 6 (01:30:16):
Expedience see a primetime game.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
It was a primetime game in lunch.

Speaker 6 (01:30:19):
Do you classify Madrid as a primetime game?

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
It's stand alone, it's in that category.

Speaker 9 (01:30:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:25):
I think the term now is stand alone. It's not
necessarily primetime like it.

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
Do you count their schedule? How many primetime games do
you count?

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
Well, there's night games and their standalone games. So they
have three night games. They have four standalone games, but
like twelve thirty on Thanksgiving a stand alone it's not
a primetime but it feels like it. The Black Friday
Game is a day game. They played at three o'clock.
It's not at night, but it feels like a primetime game.
So yeah, I let's go a standalone Okay, the news

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Speaker 15 (01:32:25):
What this can be, what this season can turn into.
Everything about tonight is awesome And we were.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Talking about this off air. You know, the the NFL
has very much said to the Bengals, prove it with
this schedule.

Speaker 6 (01:32:39):
Yes, you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
We talked about the rhythm. The Bengals can get into
an early rhythm right one o'clock games every single week.
No West Coast game for a second consecutive year. Last
year the car this day went was Denver. Obviously they
could go across the globe to go to Madrid, but
no West Coast game. But those first seven with a
buy in between NonStop one o'clock games, everything in the
East or Central time zone. But the NFL is very

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much saying like, you don't deserve a primetime game. We're
not putting you on the schedule on Sunday night early
in the season, on Monday on Thursday. We're not putting
a team that hasn't made the postseason each of the
last three years in one of those slots. Will put
you on later. Yep, by the way, we'll put you
on later and we can fletch you out. And that's
happened before having a couple of years ago. NFL very

(01:33:23):
much telling the Bengals, let's see it and again.

Speaker 6 (01:33:26):
I said it before, I'll say it again.

Speaker 15 (01:33:28):
What this team's done defensively, who they have on the
offensive side of the ball, You knew the strength of
schedule for the Bengals thirty easiest schedule in all of football.
Now you see how this schedule plays out. Every other
AFC North team has a new coach. When you play
those teams mentioned the Baltimore Ravens. What they got to
finish with four straight AFC North games. What the Pittsburgh

(01:33:50):
Steelers have. The expectation that starts tonight and will carry
through is that the Bengals win the AFC North and
the Bengals should compete for the top spot in the
AFC and getting back to the super Bowl. That's what
this roster says, That's what the AFC Norse says, and
that's what the schedule solidifies tonight. The expectation should be

(01:34:10):
a AFC title and getting to the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
It's the earliest buye since twenty seventeen Week six. I
think a lot of folks, once they found out the
Bengals were gonna play in Madrid, wondered will there be
a bye the week before or the week after? Is
it a big deal that they will play a game
the week before they go to Madrid and the game
immediately at home against Pittsburgh when they come back from Spain.

Speaker 15 (01:34:34):
I think the biggest thing before it's a home game
and it's the Tennessee Titans. And that's not taking away
from Tennessee. That's a game they should be comfortably favored in.
I think that helps being a one o'clock game. And
then they get a little bit on the backside because
you're gonna play Sunday night football. It's a nine thought
yes at home. Those two things I think make it doable.

(01:34:57):
I think it's tough. And if you remember when the
international game started, you go international, you're on a buye
yah the next week, or you're playing back to back
overseas with nine international games, everyone can't have a buy now.

Speaker 6 (01:35:10):
So this is kind of the nature of the beast.

Speaker 15 (01:35:13):
When you're the NFL and you start peeling back, that
can of worms a little bit. With so many primetime
games and so many overseas games, you're not gonna get
that buy on the backside. But Pittsburgh has to do
the same thing. Cleveland's had to do this before. It's
not like the Bengals are standalone in that, but having
the both of those games that bookend Madrid at home
and one being a Sunday night football game.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
I think helps. I looked it up, so twenty one
teams have played the week after an international game without
a buy. Those teams are twelve and nine. I like that.
Now that includes last year, teams went one in three.
For what it's worth, all four teams failed to cover.
Teams are below five hundred against the spread, so they're
not covering on a consistent basis. But teams have figured

(01:35:58):
out how to win twelve twelve one, so it's not unprecedented.
It happened last year. You can go and play, and
I would like to think that we've had so many
years of international games and now twenty one teams that
have done the quick turnaround, that there's an established method
to get your team ready to play after they go overseas.

Speaker 15 (01:36:20):
Yeah, and again we've said this for years about Thursday
night football. This isn't about player safety. This is about
money for the NFL. You're asking a team to play
on Sunday, like the Bengals, while you're trying to recover,
get on a flight and go overseas, play a game,
prepare in a time change, schedule us all out of whack.

(01:36:42):
There are no more creatures of habit than NFL players.
And that's what I like about the early slave with
all the one o'clock games. Yeah, because you are a
creature of habit and then all of a sudden boom,
now you've got to play a game, fly back, rehab,
get ready for a divisional opponent coming in a primetime game.
That's hard to do, but that might be easier to

(01:37:03):
do than the Sunday Thursday turnarounds. I agree like the
yeah from from getting in on the front side of
it when I when I had a glass of water
in the NFL players hated it Sunday because regular schedule. Monday,
you come in and watch Tate, you get a little
work out in Tuesday, you're off, Wednesday, Thursday, workdays, Friday,

(01:37:24):
walk through, Saturday travel. Think about a Sunday game to
an away Thursday game. Now, Monday you gotta get to work. Yeah,
Tuesday you gotta get to work. Wednesday you travel, Thursday
you play. Yeah, where's your recovery?

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:37:41):
And and and today's world.

Speaker 15 (01:37:43):
The plane that they're gonna be taking to Madrid, they're
gonna have plenty of room to operate. As you think
of the advancements of the physical training side of things,
what they're gonna have at their disposal for recovery and
for rest and things like that. I think going overseas
and doing what they're gonna do is easy year than
the Sunday Thursday turnaround.

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
So when the Bengals good to Madrid, we were talking
about this before the news. You and I will be
in Houston for a UC game against the Cougars. Now right,
we don't know what time that game is going to
kick off, but we were wondering, like, if it's a
noon game, noon game, Eastern time, eleven o'clock local, could
we get to Madrid. And according to our friends at Wikipedia,

(01:38:22):
the answer is yes. Oh, so let's say that game
kicked off at at noon Eastern time. Yes, there is
a six to twenty five flight that has a layover,
a one hour layover in Chicago, that would have us
in Madrid at one twenty five on Sunday. The game
kicks off at three thirty oh for the low low

(01:38:42):
price of forty five hundred and twenty dollars round trip
per traveler, per traveler, per traveler, you have to throw in.

Speaker 15 (01:38:49):
You have to throw it a little bit more money
so that maybe on the way we could get ourselves
ready for the game. Yeah, but we landed what we
would land a couple hours before the game. We could
probably do a pre game hit. We could document our trail.
Could you imagine though, documenting our travel going to Houston,
you and I together on a twelve hour flight, getting

(01:39:12):
the Madrid for a Bengals game, and then coming back after.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
I think that's worth it. Well the Bearcats, well they
have won that game.

Speaker 15 (01:39:19):
Well that that's a different question, probably for a different show.
So it can be done, yes, I mean you know
we would need like the game time to fall into
place as well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Yeah, I mean it's not a new it's a primetime game.

Speaker 6 (01:39:35):
You know, we're else. You think Bearcats Cougars could be
prime time?

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
I don't know if it's going to be an eight
o'clock kick, you know, I think the smart money would
be on a nooner.

Speaker 12 (01:39:44):
I was.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
You know a lot of folks look at the schedule
release and they try to find you know, all right,
I want to go somewhere to see the Bengals play,
but parrot with something else, and I was holding out
hope that the Bengals game against the Texans would be
that same weekend and then you can do it. You
see in a be you could do the double dip.
As it stands, the Texans game is going to be
the Bengals first road game Week two. I do want

(01:40:06):
to talk about road visits. Road trips when we come
back is an easy one. Dickman's in Fort Right. The
City of Carolina, Carolina. It's the easiest. It's the best
road trip on the schedule this year. Segment argument that
can be made for that, We're gonna I'm gonna need
you to explain the City of Carolina things so people
don't think I'm the dope per saying what are you
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season at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday,

(01:41:12):
September thirteenth. A lot of folks used today to start
booking road trips. Yes, now you're partial to one over
the other.

Speaker 15 (01:41:20):
Absolutely, the beautiful city of Carolina, which I said today
on the radio. What I meant was Charlotte. I lived
in Charlotte. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories there.
You played in Charlotte. I played in Charlotte. Yeah, it's
not the city of Carolina. That's that's where the Panthers.
Is that a cool stadium? It really is, Yeah, Bank

(01:41:40):
of America. And I don't say it like from being
like I would recommend, especially this slate Atlanta I think
would have been cool. Now that's in Madrid, Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
I mean, Miami.

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
You're not gonna go wrong with South Beach. But that
is still.

Speaker 15 (01:41:57):
What October it's still gonna be Yeah, relatively hot. Sure,
Pittsburgh if you know, a lot of people have done that.
Houston has nothing to really ride home about. I feel
like from a road trip standpoint.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
The Astros are home that week, yeah, which is cool,
so you can see major league teams.

Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
But I honestly I drawl.

Speaker 15 (01:42:15):
And there are a lot of similarities between Carolina and
Ohio and Cincinnati and Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
You know, they're both the Queen City.

Speaker 15 (01:42:22):
They both call themselves, which was confusing when I first
got down there. But you know, the the Lake area
which is right around the stadium there downtown is really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
That's it.

Speaker 15 (01:42:33):
And it's six six and a half hours it would
take to get there. That would be as if you've
not been that to me is a cool spot to
go go see again.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
You know the schedules are now yet, but you could
get Charlotte Hornet's game. Yeah, you could get you know,
we're gonna drive a little Charlotte forty nine ers. Go
see West Miller Charlotte forty nine ers. You can Duke
Duke Carolina State, Winston Salem. Yeah, so I mean there's
you could you could pair that, yes with something else? Yeah,
US National Whitewater Center. I don't even know what that is.

(01:43:03):
You want to do some white water rafting on December
twentieth might be a little cold. Yeah, I'll say this now.
It would depend on when the game is. And I
think a lot of Bengals fans have seen the Bengals
in Indy. I think Downtown Indies. Now. If the game
is on the twenty six and you want to go
the night before and that's Christmas, I don't know what's
going to be open, but Indy is cool. The stadium.

(01:43:24):
I love Lucas Oil. But I think I'm with you,
and I'm I'm basing this on places I haven't been to.
I've been to Charlotte. I've not been to Bank of
America Stadium. Yeah, I wasn't. I didn't go on the
two Belt Bowl trips, stayed here and did basketball, so
I was deprived of those opportunities. So you didn't come
down front of my games. I wasn't invited. I was

(01:43:45):
waiting for you to stay in the league. I thought,
you know, year two, once he's like you're one, let
him get established in year.

Speaker 6 (01:43:51):
Two, like, oh, he'll have me out, and uh, That's
what I was waiting on.

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
Then Cam Newton got rafted and he didn't. I think
he was gonna leave me tickets, so I didn't go.
And by the way, that's a sneaky good game. I
think people forget like the Panthers last year, we should
have beaten the Rams. Yeah, in the wildcard round.

Speaker 6 (01:44:07):
There was a point last year Bryce Young got benched. Yeah,
you're kind of like, man, now they're in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
Dalton took over.

Speaker 15 (01:44:12):
Dalton took over, and then Bryce Young came back and
was a completely different guy. And now if you can
build upon that, they've got weapons around Bryce Young. Now,
their running game took a big step forward last year.
A lot of people like Tenorrow McMillan. Yeah, the wide
receiver from Arizona they got last year. Let's see, it's
a team. We've talked about that division a lot because

(01:44:33):
the Bengals played that division.

Speaker 6 (01:44:35):
Division seems like it's wide open as well.

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
Yeah, I think if you look at that Carolina roster,
there might not be a lot of areas where you're like, wowed.
I don't think there's a lot of areas where you're like,
there's no like Bengals lineback huge weakness, right, like huge deficiency.

Speaker 6 (01:44:48):
Yeah, I love that we can tie linebacker in multiple
times an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
So we're gonna do that. Because the offseason isn't over,
they could still conceivably go acquire a lot backer. Uh huh,
that is allowed. You're still allowed to make additions to
your team.

Speaker 15 (01:45:06):
Yeah, but they don't have any money. Is there any
way they could free up any money?

Speaker 3 (01:45:10):
You could do a restructure. Oh the quarterback. A lot
of teams don't do that though, Joe Flacco, Joe Joe Burrow. Oh,
Joe Flako is gonna be on Netflix quarterback? Yeah, that
come up? Why, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:45:22):
Like it's an interesting dynamic though, Like because you have Baker,
who I think is fascinating, Yes, cam Ward Young first
one overall pick, Jane Daniels because he kind of had
injuries and a little step back from the year.

Speaker 6 (01:45:34):
And then you've got like the grizzled vet who's a backup?

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
Who's the best backup that Joe Burrow has ever had?

Speaker 6 (01:45:41):
Yes, I mean, but like that dynamic I think will
be interesting to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
You know, I just like, what are they gonna show
him doing? Not playing?

Speaker 4 (01:45:50):
What I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:45:50):
Yeah, sitting at a restaurant by himself.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
You know, he doesn't he does I am more than
okay with Yeah, I might do that when I'm done
here at ten o'clock, even though there's people just hey,
I'm just gonna go at the barn. But I do
want to talk about what has happened this offseason because
there has been, certainly over the last couple of weeks,
this surge of optimism for what the Bengals have done.

(01:46:14):
And uh, I think that makes a night like tonight
even more fun and even more special. We'll do that,
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(01:46:59):
with you till ten o clock. But then the fun
really ratchets. Oh goodness, because we've got Austin Elmore and
we've got Chick Ludwig and they are going to take
you all the way until midnight.

Speaker 15 (01:47:11):
And uh and for the first time in the last
forty minutes, Yeah, Austin has a break in the line
that if.

Speaker 6 (01:47:17):
You have a schedule Bengals were later or not, he
will sign it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
Yeah, and one of the thirty two you can find
a red schedule. Yeah, it doesn't really matter. It can
be a master, napcit whatever. He will sign it right now.

Speaker 6 (01:47:29):
Yes, absolutely, but do it now because he's not gonna
do it once he starts.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
No, once ten o'clock gets here. He's all business correct.
In fact, you you're lucky if you're gonna be able
to like make eye contact, all gas, no breaks. That's
what he is. Very good.

Speaker 8 (01:47:43):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
The schedule is out. You can find it at seven
hundred WLW dot com. This team and I said this
before the news there was a surge of optimism. You know,
we were sitting here on draft night. The Bengals did
not have a pick, but you could feel it because
it was in the aftermath of the Dexter Lawrence acquisition,
and that coupled with I think what most believe was

(01:48:07):
a good draft class, along with the other acquisitions they
made in free agency, boy A Mafe, Brian Cook, Jonathan
Allen the type of player I wish they would have
had last year, and Kyle Dugger. It's an offense where
like the one thing we asked them to do this
offseason was Keith Dalton Reisner. They did that huge surge
of optimism. Have they done enough for us to consider

(01:48:31):
them legitimate championship, Super Bowl Championship contenders?

Speaker 6 (01:48:36):
I think so.

Speaker 15 (01:48:37):
I would be more comfortable if they did address linebacker
at some point, but there's still time between now in camp.
There's also when you get into camp, you know there's
camp battles or maybe you're what you're seeing at linebacker
isn't what you envisioned, and you could still go make
a signing, or you can get players that are keep
counting on that give us something to talk about in
training camp. No, like I look at the offseason so

(01:49:01):
hard because it's so broken down, Like you have, Okay,
this is the free agency period.

Speaker 6 (01:49:05):
This is the draft. You know the schedule, but now
we know when and where.

Speaker 15 (01:49:10):
Now, like for the first time, I feel like you
have a chance to kind of take everything in as
a whole. You mentioned there were layups this team had
to make, yes, and saying that they still made them. Yeah,
Dalton Reisner, they moved on from genostone. Those were layups, laps,
but they still had to do it. And then Jonathan Allen,
You're like, Okay, that feels like a good upgrade. Boy,

(01:49:31):
and Mafe I still contend. I think one of the
moves we're not talking about enough is what Brian Cook's
gonna bring to the back end of this defense.

Speaker 6 (01:49:40):
Super Bowl winner leader.

Speaker 15 (01:49:42):
Just a physical stackler, he tackles Dexter Lawrence. The additions
they made in the draft on the defensive line and
what they've done at corner and the depth that they've created. Yes,
there are still places you want to get better, but tonight,
really you get the to say, okay, as a whole.
Think of the show we did the day after the

(01:50:04):
season ended, and how many holes that team had and
how far away it felt like they were, and tonight,
based on all of that, we've talked about this team
being the favorite or should be the favorite in the
AFC North.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Yeah, I agree. I mean Baltimore has been since the
odds came out the odds on favorite win the AFC North,
and I can understand why. And I think part of
that is a reflection of the fact that nobody believes
the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to be very good. But
I think if it is a two team race, it's
going to be Cincinnati and Baltimore.

Speaker 6 (01:50:38):
Heads up, head up.

Speaker 15 (01:50:39):
Right now in the AFC, who would be a Would
there be any team that's a considerable favorite over five
and a half points against the Bengals, No, I think
they're that good.

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Well, like, let's start from last year. Let's start from
the top. This is no reflection of the Mike Vrabel situation.
I think. I think people expect the Patriots to take
a step back because they were great in close games,
they had historically easy schedule yep, and there's a part
of me that felt like they were badly exposed in
the Super Bowl. Are they probably still a playoff team?

Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:51:15):
But I think had to Bengals are favored start there.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
The AFC felt down last year, and I think part
of that when you look at it was how good
the Patriots were the Denver Broncos. I think the Bengals
will be favored. I think the Bengals at home would
be favored against them now. Denver worked them last year,
uh in a game in Denver, but like, how good
to the Buffalo new coach? How good the Buffalo Bills?
Kansas City is?

Speaker 6 (01:51:39):
We talked about their questions, you know, like Jacksonville made
a run last year.

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
Jacksonville and Tennis or Jacksonville and the Texans are both
really interesting now. I think Houston C. J. Stroud was
just bad, terrible in the playoffs. You know, a pick
up for a guy who a few years ago had
felt like this dude's on the verge of superstardom. That
ain't happened. I think they have all sorts of offensive issues,
but they're still very good defensively. I think the Jags

(01:52:05):
are good, yeah, by the home.

Speaker 15 (01:52:07):
I think the Bengals are favorite of so again, I
don't think anyone in the AFC right now you're like,
oh man, they're gonna run away with it. For the
love Baltimore is getting. I don't connect at all with
their schedule the loss of Linderbaum in the middle is devastating.
They still aren't elite with playmakers, and again, I know
we keep waiting on it. Derek Henry's gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
Can he do that?

Speaker 15 (01:52:36):
I still think the defense is a little ways away.
Like part of me, I answer that because of what they're.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
I think with the Bank defensive line that Joe Burrow
has played behind, it's a UNI that at the end
of the season last year was playing pretty well. They're
enjoying continuity and they did address They addressed depth with
Brian Parker and Connor Aloo on the offensive line, but

(01:53:09):
those guys aren't expected to be starters. This was the
first time going into a draft in quite a while
that you didn't list Bengals offensive line as one of
the most pressing needs. And so it's a unit that
I think is a chance to be really good. Marius
Mims looks like he's got a chance to be a star.
Let's get a year two leap from Dylan Fairchild. On
the flip side, I'm most worried about left tackle. There's

(01:53:31):
some agent center, and Orlando Brown last year at times
really struggled.

Speaker 15 (01:53:36):
But I think the agent center helps because of the talent,
they do have a guard. Uh huh, he's not going
to be on an island. I'm worried about left tackle
with one spot on the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
That would be my worry. Orlando Brown Junior.

Speaker 15 (01:53:50):
If he can play at a better level and there
is that continuity, then I think you're in a really
good place. And I think, like what we're not talking
about is bonuses that they can have. Yeah, what if
what if the draft does pan out and all of
a sudden they do have a legitimate wide receiver?

Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
Three? What if Eric All comes back? Boy, that's my
favorite one, right, Like, that's that's my favorite one.

Speaker 6 (01:54:11):
Not even talking about you want to talk about an addition?

Speaker 15 (01:54:13):
Yes, if Eric All returns to form with Mike GASICKI
all of a sudden, like, okay, now there's more weapons.
What does you want to talk about motivation? If I'm
Chase Brown, I'm gonna look what a chain just got yesterday?
Uh huh, Like, okay, this is a big year for me.
All of a sudden, It just like there's there's depth,
and there's talent, and there's weapons and the defense is up.

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
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And I'm quite jealous because things are starting to pick
up here.

Speaker 6 (01:56:16):
Yes, you could tell, like the Thursday night crowd is
in here.

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
We got a we got a bunch of ladies. I
thought the Reds had to go to Cleveland. Well, we gotta,
we gotta. We got a guy in full Red's uniform. Yeah,
I thought they were going to Cleveland tonight. Yeah. Arm,
he's got he's got his uh, he's full road jersey,
road pants, jacket, hat, turtleneck, MLB issue turtleneck. He's got
a batting glove on his left hand. I can assure

(01:56:41):
you that's not hiding a wedding ring. And they got
like a table full of ladies here are scoping them
out so that other bat goes in the back pocket. Yeah,
and then I wants to shoot hoops and well, shoot
your shot, pal. Uh, we got a few minutes before

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Audie and the Chickster takeover. Do you want to go
up and down the seeds? Absolutely? All right? Do you
want to do it the way Lance would?

Speaker 6 (01:57:08):
Whatever you want to do, We're we gotta count it down.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
Count it down, all right. Bengals will open up and
home against Tampa Bay. Here's a nugget for you. Okay.
Last time the Bengals opened up and home against the
Bucks was Anthony Munno's first game. Wow, how about that
forty six years ago? Take that with you. I fall
into the same trap every year we do this exercise.

Speaker 12 (01:57:30):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
I get to the end and I'm like, I should
have found more losses. Same? All right? Ready, Tampa Bay
Buccaneers Week one, three two one win. We didn't do
it in Unison. Yeah, we gotta be better. Baker Mayfield
has played very well in Cincinnati. I agree, sixteen touchdown
passes in the five games. But uh, if I feel
like Tampa Bay's window closed, yes, at the end of

(01:57:52):
last season, all right. Want to know. First road game
of the season on the road against the Texans three
to two to one loss. So the Texans have a
mess of an offensive line. This is a game where
that Bengals pass rush that we imagine the high end
up could really come of age. But that is a
great Texans do you want to talk about? Yeah, this

(01:58:13):
offensive line yet will and they are relentless on the
defensive side of the ball. All right, So we have
them one before the first AFC North game Week three
on the road against Pittsburgh three two one, when Aaron
Rodgers stinks. I don't think the Steelers are going to
be very good now. The Bengals beat him here, lost

(01:58:34):
to them there. Burrough played in neither game. They have
won the last three starts that Burrow has made in Pittsburgh,
all right. Two and one. Played Jacksonville at home Week
two last year. Burrow got hurt in that game. Cincinnati
won it. They got some help. Jacksonville was awesome toward
the end of the season last year on offense home
game at one o'clock three two one.

Speaker 15 (01:58:56):
When you didn't say that with a lot of conviction,
that was a tough one for me. Same because of
how they played down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
Same. Yeah, all right, So we have them three and one,
before going to Miami take on the Dolphins three two one.
When four and one at the bye, can you imagine that?
Sign me up. I'm excited. Four and one at the
buye before going to Baltimore yep, first of two against
the Ravens. We'll see Trey hendrickson old friend week seven

(01:59:26):
three two one loss loss. Yeah. One there last year
on Thanksgiving Night. Yep. I view those games as they're
likely to split, I think so, so go ahead and
assume they're gonna lose the road till.

Speaker 6 (01:59:44):
I made that based on how I think the rest
of the AFC nor is gonna go for him?

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
Yeah, uh, all right, so that has us at four
and two recording agreement on Tennessee come home and play
Tennessee three to two one wins, yeah, five and two. Yeah,
before going to Madrid for a game that we're gonna
pay forty five hundred bucks to go see in person. Yes,
three two one loss. Oh oh all right, there's there's

(02:00:11):
a weird dexter Lawrence gonna swallow Ejeon Robins. Maybe the
europe variable, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (02:00:19):
So what comes up after that?

Speaker 3 (02:00:21):
Yeah? Yeah, talented team. Yeah, I'll go with the Madrid loss.
I did a disagree at some point. Uh come back
home and play the Steelers on Sunday Night Football Week ten,
three two one win, six and three. Joe Burrow plays
against the Washington Commanders on the road for the first

(02:00:43):
time since he got hurt in that stadium in twenty
twenty on Monday Night Football Week eleven, three two one when.

Speaker 15 (02:00:52):
Okay, that's that's gonna be the that's the one in
every year there's one. You're like, all right, they should win,
but I think that's the one they lose.

Speaker 3 (02:00:59):
I don't think the Manners are as good as they
were two years ago, probably not as bad as they
were last year. I still haven't winning that game, all right,
sneaky tough game. I think we both agree. Week twelve
at home against the Saints three two one win. All right,
Bengals beat Tyler Shucking Company. I've got him an eight
and three before going to Cleveland. Bad matchup as always
yes Week Week thirteen, December and Cleveland weather could be

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a factor three two one woss.

Speaker 6 (02:01:28):
Okay, I get that though, because it's a bad.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
Matchup every year. I hear about Brown here. Bad matchup,
you know, so can they block Myles Garrett Deshaun Watson
gonna be healthy enough back by them? Masing Graham? All right?

Speaker 5 (02:01:44):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:01:44):
Week fourteen against the Chiefs, Casey and Cincinnati for the
first time since twenty twenty two. We got to hurry here.
Week fourteen, three two one.

Speaker 6 (02:01:51):
When Taylor Swift effect she's in town.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
People lose their minds the Taylor Swift hype if she
is still a regular atten d of Travis's games be
in credit, A right?

Speaker 10 (02:02:02):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:02:02):
Week fifteen at Carolina three two one loss. Wow, kind
of did that for you. I appreciate that nine and
five going to Indy. Week sixteen could be on Saturday
or Sunday three two one, when A right, I've got
him at ten and five coming home to play the
Ravens on New Year's Eve night, maybe the AFC North

(02:02:25):
title at Stake three two one. When Trey Hendrickson's getting
booed that night.

Speaker 15 (02:02:32):
Absolutely boot out of the stadium. He might not even play.
You might show up in golf.

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
In Week eighteen, Bengals get a mini bite before taking
on the Browns at home regular season finale three two one,
when thirteen and four, baby all right, twelve and five
thirteen and four, twelve close, twelve and five, four, twelve
and five wins.

Speaker 6 (02:02:53):
The thirteen four number one overall sixteen.

Speaker 3 (02:02:56):
And four might be the one. All right, this continues
after the news Austin Ellmore and chick Luod we will
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Speaker 6 (02:03:07):
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Speaker 8 (02:04:02):
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Speaker 5 (02:04:18):
Has officially been released and it continues to get bigger
and bigger every year.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
Chick, you've covered this game for a long time.

Speaker 5 (02:04:26):
Have you ever think back in the day that we
would be doing six hours of NFL's schedule release coverage
on a Thursday night at Dickman's.

Speaker 9 (02:04:35):
No Never and listening to Ken Anderson, Yeah, earlier tonight, Man,
I can identify with that.

Speaker 5 (02:04:41):
You.

Speaker 9 (02:04:42):
You know, it was just like released and you you
just covered where the team was going and you always
looked for hey do they have a Monday night game?

Speaker 4 (02:04:51):
Right?

Speaker 5 (02:04:52):
You know.

Speaker 9 (02:04:52):
It's just what I'm shocked by, Austin, is the fact
that the league, always hungry to make money, didn't have
a remote site for the schedule release. If they could
have done it at Times Square and it would have
brought thousands of people.

Speaker 5 (02:05:09):
Eventually, they're gonna start rotating the schedule release like they
do the Draft and the Super Bowl, and make it
an actual tent pole event. That's probably going to happen
at some point. But you know it's it's again.

Speaker 8 (02:05:21):
The NFL just finds ways to make things into a
big deal, even when there's a bunch of leaks that
happened over the course of the last couple of days.
It all comes back to this is a big deal
for fans to plan out their trips, to predict their records,
to start thinking about fantasy football, to start looking towards
training camp, because football is a twenty four to seven game,

(02:05:41):
and there's a lot of excitement about the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (02:05:43):
Now, you know, it really is aunt top.

Speaker 9 (02:05:45):
You know, I'm holding up my rear end pad that
I got and this was Rocky Boyman super Bowls right
over the Chicago Bears, and I just wanted to hold
this up because this is where the Bengals are gonna
be playing. They're gonna be playing in the super Bowl
this year. You know it's gonna be in LA.

Speaker 8 (02:06:04):
If you just move that l over l XI super Bowl,
what is it going to be sixty one this year
at back at Sofi Stadium. Yet's the first thing you
said to me when you got here tonight. The Bengals
are going back to the Super Bowl. Why are you
so convinced?

Speaker 9 (02:06:19):
Yeah, love this team. The weight it's made up, The
entire offense is coming back and just the leaps and
bounds that the defense has made. Yes, you can get
it turned around in one year. Protect your defense by
matriculating the ball down the field, Austin. If it can't

(02:06:44):
happen this year, when it's they're running out of years,
I think they are. They're locked and loaded with the
eyes on the prize this year.

Speaker 5 (02:06:54):
I think there's a lot of pressure on them based
on the fact that they haven't been to the postseason
the last three years. You finished the the AFC North
last year thanks to a Week eighteen loss to Shador
Sanders in the Cleveland Browns. And one of the beauties
of the NFL schedule is because you finished in last
place this year, you get a schedule full of teams
that finished in last place last year, and that helps

(02:07:15):
you try to get back to the postseason.

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
It happens every year in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (02:07:19):
A team who misses the postseason ends up in the
postseason the following year. A lot of people are picking
the Bengals as one of those teams that can do that,
especially when you look at the amount of change that's
happened in the AFC North and the fact that this
schedule in particular features home games against teams like the
Tennessee Titans, teams like the New Orleans Saints, road game

(02:07:39):
against the completely rebuilding Miami Dolphins, like, there's a lot
of opportunities, and now going into the schedule, and it's
been discussed at length, now a couple of home primetime
game against games against AFC North opponents, like, it's really
setting up nicely for the Bengals.

Speaker 9 (02:07:54):
Well, the first thing I well, the first thing I
did tonight here was watch the hype video Yes dot
com and I'm ready to run.

Speaker 3 (02:08:02):
Through a wall with snod bubbles.

Speaker 9 (02:08:05):
Yes, Yes, there's just a lot to like about it, Austin.
But my brain did go to that stretch there Madrid, Yes,
ten hours and twenty minutes in the air. Oh, and
then two straight primetime games.

Speaker 3 (02:08:24):
Oh, it's uh that stretch there, Yeah, critical, I think
that's the first thing.

Speaker 5 (02:08:29):
A lot of Bengals fans look at because we found
out a couple of days ago that the Bengals are
going to Madrid to play the Atlanta Falcons. It's a
home game for Atlanta, so it's a road game for
the Bengals. Most people, I think thought, Okay, well, they'll
play that game in Week nine, come back week ten
for a nice mid season bye week. But over the
last couple of years, the NFL stopped doing that.

Speaker 8 (02:08:48):
If you go and play overseas, you're not guaranteed a
bye week when you come back. This happened last year
the Cleveland Browns came back from playing overseas and immediately
played the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 3 (02:08:58):
It's gonna happen to Pittsburgh this year as well.

Speaker 8 (02:09:00):
Pittsburgh's going to Paris to play the New Orleans Saints
and coming back home and immediately playing the Cleveland Browns.
And for the Bengals, they're gonna go to Madrid and
come back home and immediately play the Pittsburgh Steelers on
a Sunday night and follow that up with a road
trip on a Monday night to.

Speaker 3 (02:09:16):
The Washington Commanders. I really number what I love the opener.

Speaker 9 (02:09:21):
I absolutely love the opener with Tampa Bay coming in
here with Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
He's had some.

Speaker 9 (02:09:28):
Success against the Bengals, no doubt. Twenty one consecutive passed
completions in what October of twenty twenty, Yeah, for the
Cleveland Brown, setting a franchise record, So.

Speaker 3 (02:09:42):
We owe him.

Speaker 9 (02:09:43):
Yeah, but I love that matchup and seven straight one
o'clock games. Yeah, what I want to ask you, Austin
has the aura of primetime games like worn off, I
think a coach wants to play every sun day at
one o'clock.

Speaker 8 (02:10:01):
Yeah, I'm sure they do, and I'm sure players probably
feel the same way. You don't have to worry about
late night traveling, getting home at two o'clock in the morning,
and dealing with tickets and all this other stuff that
comes with the national stage. And just another part of
that is all the media you deal with during the
week when there's a national TV game. It's all that's
much more scaled down when you play at one o'clock

(02:10:21):
in the first what seven games at one o'clock.

Speaker 3 (02:10:24):
I'm sure the Bengals have no problem with that.

Speaker 9 (02:10:26):
Yeah, And yeah, not only all the hassles, but then
the waiting from the game at night too.

Speaker 3 (02:10:33):
There's a lot of anxiety leading up to that.

Speaker 9 (02:10:36):
But I love the one o'clock starts because I can't
wait for Bengals post game sports off.

Speaker 3 (02:10:44):
The buye is early. Don't you wish.

Speaker 9 (02:10:46):
Every team from like seven, eight to nine those weeks
everybody get kind of a fair bye, you know bye.
But I'm reading the story on how the schedule is made.
It's fascinating. Yeah, it really is. Well, we'll get in
to sell.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
It that a little bit later.

Speaker 8 (02:11:02):
Let's get into some of that a little bit later
on when we come back. Let's look at those first
seven games, those one o'clock games that the Bengals are
going to be playing.

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Speaker 8 (02:11:43):
Orange and Black's schedule breakdown show on Austin Elmore alongside
Chick Ludwick. We are live at Dickman's in Fort Wright. Chick,
the Bengals schedule was released earlier tonight. We've known the
opponents for a while, we didn't know the order and
the time that these games were going to be played. Well,
then going to have a Week one opener against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We talked about that briefly in the

(02:12:05):
last segment. The Bengals have once again committed to it
being an open in orange game, which means they'll be
wearing their orange uniforms. Some believe those uniforms are cursed
because they lost in the All Orange to the New
England Patriots and then last year Week two against Jacksonville,
Joe Burrow tore his tow wearing those orange uniforms. But

(02:12:25):
hopefully they'll get through the Baker Mayfield curse fine in
the orange uniforms. And also, how about this, here's one
for you. Former Bengals offensive coordinator Ken Zampeasei is.

Speaker 5 (02:12:36):
On the staff with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's a
blast from the past, it really is.

Speaker 9 (02:12:40):
All yeah, I could see him running sprints across the
field prior to practice's quarterbacks coach Ken Zampeazi. So yeah,
I'm having nightmares already about the Houston Texas defense.

Speaker 3 (02:12:54):
Week number two at Houston one.

Speaker 9 (02:12:57):
Yes, I love the Buckeyes, we both do, but I
can't root for them when they're in a different uniform.
Course CJ Stroud and now Caden McDonald joins a defense
with Will Henderson, Danielle Hunter, and Sheldon Rankets. Remember him, Yeah, Oh,

(02:13:17):
a dog for the Bengals and an absolute stud for
the Texans last year and their postseason run.

Speaker 5 (02:13:24):
Houston might have the best all around defensive line in
the NFL. They definitely have the deepest defensive line in
the NFL and a really really bright defensive mind and
Demiko Ryans as their head coach. Can you believe it's
already been twenty five seasons? This is going to be
the twenty fifth season of the Houston Texans coming up
this year? And how about this, another former Bengals offensive
coordinator Bill Laser is on the staff with the Houston Texans.

(02:13:48):
I want to see how many of these names I
can pull out today.

Speaker 9 (02:13:50):
Shah, No kidding. Wow, So I think it's a great opener.

Speaker 3 (02:13:54):
It really is.

Speaker 9 (02:13:55):
Baker Mayfield number one overall draft pick, like Joe Burrow.
It's yeah, he planned the flag at Ohio Stadium, the
state of Ohio. Well, he was at Cleveland Brown and
that fell apart.

Speaker 5 (02:14:09):
So you got Week one home against Tampa, then you
go at Houston in Week two, and then you go
your first AFC North game Week three against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And the big question with Pittsburgh is Aaron Rodgers or
no Aaron Rodgers And what do they look like with
a new head coach for the first time in twenty years,
Mike McCarthy taking over.

Speaker 3 (02:14:28):
In Pittsburgh's that's such a wild card.

Speaker 9 (02:14:31):
Yeah, but as long as there's Cam Hayward. You know
what you think of the Steelers. You think of defense
and a physical running game. So they like to shorten
the game on you, and you're only going to can't.
You might not get ten possessions in the game, maybe
like seven or eight.

Speaker 3 (02:14:51):
You got to make the most of them against.

Speaker 5 (02:14:53):
The Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh has revamped their offense. They traded
for Michael Pittman from the Indianapolis Colts earlier this year.
They still have dk met Pat Fryermuth is a really
good tight end. I like Pittsburgh's offense, especially with an
offensive minded head coach like McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (02:15:07):
How about this.

Speaker 8 (02:15:07):
The last time the Bengals were in Pittsburgh Week three
was the twenty twenty one season, the season they went
to the Super Bowl, and.

Speaker 5 (02:15:15):
They beat Pittsburgh twenty four to ten in that game.
Very similar schedule. You'll hear some of the other comparisons
later on. Joe Burrow four and three against Pittsburgh in
his career. Three of those wins have come in Pittsburgh,
so he's comfortable at that stadium.

Speaker 9 (02:15:31):
Yeah, that's fantastic And oh my gosh, so much hinges.

Speaker 3 (02:15:35):
Yes, odd, Joe Burrow's health.

Speaker 8 (02:15:37):
Another team with a good defensive front is Pittsburgh. And
then they just keep coming because in Week four the
Bengals come back home to play the Jacksonville Jaguars, another
one PM game.

Speaker 5 (02:15:48):
I don't know if you know this or not, chick
Jacksonville won thirteen games last year. It's pretty amazing.

Speaker 8 (02:15:53):
They've got one of the brightest young minds in football
at Liam Cohen as their head coach. Travis Hunter coming
off an injury, is going to return. But they had
kind of a neutral offseason.

Speaker 5 (02:16:01):
They didn't really make a lot of waves, and I
think they're kind of running it back with the same
team that they had last year, with the exception of
Devin Lloyd, who they lost in free agency.

Speaker 9 (02:16:08):
There was so much pressure on Trevor Lawrence going into
last year. Yeah, the man, he came through and he's
quite a talent, and they've got they've got a fantastic
defense themselves.

Speaker 3 (02:16:20):
So some really good early season games here.

Speaker 8 (02:16:24):
Yeah, Parker Washington was a big part of their offense
last year as well. My thoughts through the first four
is that the Bengals offensive line is going to be
heavily tested. All those teams have good deep pass rushes
and complicated schemes that put a lot of pressure on
the interior, put a lot of pressure on the tackles,
and a lot of pressure on the quarterback and running back.

Speaker 3 (02:16:41):
To have those protections set accurately.

Speaker 9 (02:16:45):
You know, they go to Miami, then Week five, and
then then the bye. Okay, so they're comfortable going down
to what's the name of that Stadium.

Speaker 3 (02:16:55):
Now it's hard rock stadium.

Speaker 9 (02:16:57):
Rock Stadium about the tenth name of it.

Speaker 3 (02:16:59):
Yeah, but ud be Miami Gardens and Joe Robbie Robbie.

Speaker 9 (02:17:03):
Yeah, but Miami Gardens. It's like equi distant from Miami
and Fort Lauderdale.

Speaker 3 (02:17:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:17:08):
And the Bengals were just there in December and they
beat the snot out of the Miami Dolphins in that game.
Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and t Higgins look like themselves.
You want to talk about a team in a full rebuild,
Miami is Tua tongue bai looa is gone. They fired
their head coach, Mike McDaniel. They hired Jeff Hafley, who's
a first time NFL head coach. They just signed Devin
ah Chan, who's their best offensive player, to a long

(02:17:30):
term deal. But he's their best offensive player because Tyreek
Hill is gone and Jayalen Wattell got traded to the
Denver Broncos.

Speaker 8 (02:17:36):
Malik Willis, who was a backup last year in Green Bay,
is going to be their starting quarterback.

Speaker 3 (02:17:40):
That's a game.

Speaker 5 (02:17:41):
The Bengals are gonna be favored, maybe by double digits,
no doubt, and a huge.

Speaker 9 (02:17:45):
Wild card team as the miam Dolphins start to rebuild, you.

Speaker 3 (02:17:49):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 8 (02:17:50):
Then the Bengals go into the bye week, and we'll
keep talking about the schedule after that because the Baltimore
Ravens would be next up.

Speaker 3 (02:17:57):
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Speaker 8 (02:18:00):
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Speaker 3 (02:18:19):
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Speaker 8 (02:18:22):
Breakdown Show seven hundred wl W Austin Elmore alongside Chick
Ludwig and Chick talking about the Bengals schedule. One of
the big stories was will the Bengals go back to
Baltimore on a short week Four years in a row,
They've been in Baltimore on the road in primetime. Last
year they did it on Thanksgiving and they beat the

(02:18:42):
Baltimore Ravens. The last few times they didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
Get that lucky this year.

Speaker 5 (02:18:47):
We know in Week seven they're going to Baltimore for
a Sunday one o'clock game for the first time since
twenty twenty one. It feels like a miracle that the
Bengals aren't gonna be playing in primetime in Baltimore.

Speaker 9 (02:18:59):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (02:19:00):
And Joe Burrow, Yeah, he voiced his opinion on that
loud and clear.

Speaker 9 (02:19:06):
But yeah, you know, you think of the Ravens. You
obviously think of Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry. They're great tight ends. Man.
I'm looking forward to seeing, uh if he's playing Trey
Hendrickson for the Baltimore Ravens going up pick as Orlando Brown.

Speaker 5 (02:19:22):
Yeah, man, that's gonna be a lot of fun. Those
dudes have had some battles. And that's another team with
a new head coach in the AFC North Jesse Mentor,
who had been with Jim Harball out in Los Angeles
with the Chargers. Prior to that, he was with Jim
Harball as they were part of an elaborate cheating scheme
at the University of Michigan a few years ago when
they cheated for a national title. So I don't think

(02:19:44):
Jesse Mentor is really a high character guy, but he's
now the head coach of the Baltimore Rave. Doesn't it
feel like the Bengals and Ravens are a bigger rivalry
now than any of the other AFC North teams.

Speaker 9 (02:19:53):
You know what I still think Pittsburgh is, you know,
the Bengals Number one, right, it should be the Browns,
but the Browns have been daled for so long, and
the Battle of Ohio.

Speaker 3 (02:20:04):
Has just lost a lot of this sizzle. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:20:08):
I feel like just because of the the enormity of
the Bengals Ravens matchups in the last couple of years,
that's led to it being and maybe feeling more like
a rivalry. I mentioned twenty twenty one as the last
time that the Bengals played a day game in Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (02:20:23):
That was also in Week seven in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 5 (02:20:26):
So we've got two AFC North games, both on the
road Week three at Pittsburgh, Week seven at Baltimore, that
are identical to their slots from the twenty twenty one season,
which of course meant the Bengals went to the Super Bowl.
That was a day in Baltimore where it was kind
of like the Bengals exploded on the scene. Jamar Chase
had a long eighty yard touchdown. Cj Uzama had a
long touchdown. Samaj p Ryan had a long touchdown in

(02:20:50):
that game. So maybe the Bengals just recreate some of
that twenty twenty one Matchic Gosha.

Speaker 9 (02:20:55):
Austin, You're you're like a soothsayer.

Speaker 3 (02:20:58):
There's everything.

Speaker 9 (02:21:00):
It's coming back around here after so many years.

Speaker 3 (02:21:04):
I'm just looking for the parallels, you know, yes, no doubt.

Speaker 8 (02:21:06):
Then you go into Week eight and the Tennessee Titans
are pretty much new everything. They've got new uniforms, they
got new coaches, they've got a new stadium that's being built.

Speaker 3 (02:21:16):
I was just down in Nashville a couple of weeks ago.
That thing is ginormous. And they've got the.

Speaker 8 (02:21:20):
Number one overall pick cam Ward in his second year,
and they picked in Ohio state wide receiver Carnell.

Speaker 3 (02:21:25):
Tate in the top five.

Speaker 9 (02:21:27):
So it is so critical to win this game because
we know what's happening next. They're heading out, They're on
a ten hour flight to Spain to Europe, and yeah,
winning in Tennessee is just absolutely huge. The last time
the Bengals were down there. I didn't think it worked

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out so well.

Speaker 8 (02:21:48):
No, Well, thankfully this game's at home, which I think
the NFL does them a little bit of a favor
that they have a home game going into that flight
to Madrid. What do you make as a whole of
the international series that the there's nine of those games
now this year it's becoming bigger and bigger in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (02:22:04):
What do you think.

Speaker 9 (02:22:05):
All I can think of is I've got the CD
NFL films with the Voice of God John Facenda. Of course,
football in America is a special game, a unique game
played nowhere else on Earth.

Speaker 3 (02:22:20):
It is a rare game. Yeah, change those.

Speaker 9 (02:22:24):
Lyrics they're playing overseas.

Speaker 3 (02:22:26):
Yeah, they just.

Speaker 9 (02:22:28):
Want to keep expanding. When what's the end game the
NFL's is there? Is there an end of the rainbow?

Speaker 3 (02:22:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:22:40):
I mean it feels like they just keep printing money
by doing so. I'm sure the players and coaches hate it.

Speaker 8 (02:22:46):
The teams probably don't care that much, like the club
itself because I'm sure they make a ton of money
off of it. But like altogether, I have a problem
with it, especially when there's so many taxpayer funded stadiums
across the NFL people are paying for these days to
get built. These teams are then taking their games off
site and going to other countries. And I have no

(02:23:06):
problem with going to London or going to Ireland or
going to Paris or whatever. But nine games out of
the schedule, and eventually there's gonna be eighteen of these things.
They're gonna play one every week. I just don't know
if that's good for the future of the NFL.

Speaker 9 (02:23:17):
No, it's not good for the players and their health.
And you know, it is awesome to give European fans
a taste sure of what they're watching live in their
home stadium.

Speaker 4 (02:23:31):
I do like that.

Speaker 9 (02:23:33):
Once upon a time we did have NFL Europe and
a lot of good came from back with some players. Right,
But you're right, just the toll it takes on everyone,
especially the players. It's it's tough.

Speaker 8 (02:23:49):
So the Bengals will go to Madrid to play Atlanta.
That's a nine to thirty am our time kickoff.

Speaker 9 (02:23:55):
And luckily that's an Atlanta home game. Yes, yeah, so
they did not steel one of the Bengals games at
pay Corse stadiums.

Speaker 8 (02:24:03):
And it's a new head coach in Atlanta, but a
familiar coach Kevin stefanskis who spent the last seven years
with Cleveland and had no shortage of success against the
Cincinnati Bengals, oftentimes would beat the Bengals as the coach
of the Browns even when clevelandn't that good.

Speaker 9 (02:24:17):
Well, and I'm eager to see the impact that a
Matt Ryan is having on your Atlanta Falcons. There are
so many layers. There's the owner, there's a general manager,
there's a director of football operations in Matt.

Speaker 3 (02:24:31):
Right, there's about eight layers.

Speaker 9 (02:24:32):
Yeah, to get down to Stefanski.

Speaker 3 (02:24:35):
So not a lot of people stuck around in that organization.
They basically cleaned house.

Speaker 8 (02:24:40):
I think Jeff Albrick, the defensive coordinator, is like the
only guy who's left.

Speaker 5 (02:24:44):
They even changed uniforms too. That's another team with brand
new uniforms.

Speaker 8 (02:24:47):
So then we get to Week ten, the first primetime game,
true primetime game on the schedule. The Bengals do not
get a bye after coming back from Madrid. Instead, they
host the Pittsburgh Steelers on sun Night Football with your
buddy Chris Collinsworth on the call.

Speaker 9 (02:25:03):
Yes, if you're going to play a primetime game, hey,
you want it to be home yeah, then of major importance.
So why not the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
I mean, it's it's large and the numbers don't lie.

Speaker 8 (02:25:16):
Over the last several years, AFC North teams on the
road in primetime. In AFC North games, the road team
typically does not fare very well. It's been a difficult task,
a tall task. Pittsburgh has to go on the road
to Cleveland on a Thursday night in this season as
well early on in the year. I think Pittsburgh has
one of the most difficult schedules in the NFL this year,

(02:25:37):
and it's not easy coming to Cincinnati, which, by the way,
the Bengals in their video kind of hinted at this
might be the White Bengal whiteout game against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
and the Bengals are very very good in those games.
Just a year ago, Joe Flacco with the White Bengal
upset Pittsburgh on a Thursday night.

Speaker 9 (02:25:54):
And now Joe Flacco is starring in the third season
of The Quarterback.

Speaker 3 (02:25:59):
Yeah on that cannot wait? Yes for that one.

Speaker 8 (02:26:02):
Then you get to Week eleven the Washington Commanders. This
is a Monday night football game, a rematch of a
Monday night game from just a couple of years ago
when he saw the two LSU Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks
duel it out.

Speaker 5 (02:26:15):
There were no punts in that game. There was no
defense played in that game whatsoever. Washington edged out the
Bengals that night. This time, the Bengals go to that
dump FedEx Field or whatever it's called now in Landover, Maryland.

Speaker 9 (02:26:27):
Jade Daniels a star was born. Yes that night at
pay Course Stadium. He's getting hit and he throws a
dime to Terry McLaurin.

Speaker 3 (02:26:38):
Of course, it was just unbelievable. And the Bengals score
first in that game.

Speaker 9 (02:26:43):
Everybody was jacked, Yeah, and then everything went south in
a hurry out. Jade Daniels injury riddled season last year.
He's tried to come back strong this year. He's quite
a talent.

Speaker 8 (02:26:55):
Yeah, there's been a lot of changeover in that organization
as well. Dan Quinn did keep his job. They got
a new offensive coordinator. That roster has turned over. It
was pretty old last year. They're trying to get it younger.

Speaker 9 (02:27:06):
And that's like the seventeenth game, you know, that's the
wild card game, right, that's out of you know, not
part of the division, right.

Speaker 5 (02:27:16):
Yeah, it's not one of the two divisions that you're playing.
It's one of those like crossover.

Speaker 9 (02:27:21):
That's exactly right where every team gets won.

Speaker 8 (02:27:24):
And this is the Bengals one and it's the only
road primetime game the Bengals play. That's been an understandable
like point of emphasis for a lot of Bengals fans
upset about the fact that they've had to go on
the road in these primetime games.

Speaker 3 (02:27:36):
Well, Washington is one of them.

Speaker 8 (02:27:38):
But you've got Pittsburgh at home, You've got Baltimore at
home later on, like we've talked about, there's some others
that could get flexed in, but overall, like I look
at this schedule and I think, Okay, the early part
of the schedule, it's not easy, but it's doable. And
when you get to the bye week, you don't have
a ton of home games early, but that means you
have more home games late. That stretch that we just
talked about Week nine, ten, and eleven, when you're in Madrid, Pittsburgh, Washington,

(02:28:02):
all of those basically standalone games, that's the toughest stretch
of the season.

Speaker 3 (02:28:06):
And that's nothing compared to some of these other teams.

Speaker 9 (02:28:08):
Talking to Tony and Bow before we hit the airwaves
there say it like, Hey, Bengals, what the league has
tried to tell them with nothing the first seven, the
first seven to one o'clock games, Hey show us that
you are worthy of the primetime.

Speaker 3 (02:28:26):
No doubt about it. We'll take a break.

Speaker 8 (02:28:28):
We'll keep talking about this Bengals schedule, keep working our
way through it, from back to back primetime games, back
to some one o'clock games.

Speaker 3 (02:28:35):
We'll tell you about those.

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Kickman Sports Bar and Fort Wright continues Austin Hellmore alongside
Chick Ludwig. We're going through working our way through the
Bengals schedule. We're onto week number twelve, back to a
couple of one pm games. Let's start with the first
when the New Orleans Saints, kind of a weird team
NFC opponent doesn't always come to Cincinnati. We don't know

(02:29:23):
that much about him, other than they may have found
their quarterback in Tyler Shuck last year.

Speaker 9 (02:29:28):
That and uh gosh, the head coach Kellen Moore, Yeah,
came from Dallas, was it, as the coordinator there. And
they've got some good wide receivers.

Speaker 3 (02:29:36):
Yeah, just drafted another one in the first round.

Speaker 9 (02:29:38):
That's exactly right. So, uh, Jeff Hopson's calling it. The
Bengals secondary gets the call of this game.

Speaker 5 (02:29:45):
And then in week thirteen, maybe the team that I'm
most concerned about in the AFC North is not the
Baltimore Ravens. It's not the Pittsburgh Steelers, It's the Cleveland Browns.
The first meeting with the new look Cleveland Browns, led
by a first time head coach, Todd Munkin, comes in
Week thirteen in Cleveland at one pm.

Speaker 3 (02:30:06):
What do you make of the Browns? Chick oh.

Speaker 9 (02:30:11):
Shador Sanders was the forty first quarterback to take a
snap to start for the Cleveland Browns in a game
since they came back to sixpansion team.

Speaker 3 (02:30:25):
That's amazing.

Speaker 9 (02:30:25):
That graveyard is unbelievable. They've got to get that thing
straightened out, first of all. And but we know they
play defense, and that is a formidable, formidable defense.

Speaker 5 (02:30:37):
Defensive Rookie of the Year Carson Schwassinger is their linebacker.
Miles Garrett set the single season sack record against the
Bengals last year. They've got Mason Graham on the inside.
They've got a bunch of disruptive dudes. They still have
Denzel Ward like. This is a team full of young
impact players on their defense.

Speaker 3 (02:30:54):
Now here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (02:30:55):
I know some Browns fans might disagree with me, but
Jim Schwartz is in the defensive co ordinator anymore. They
dangled that head coaching job out in front of him
and then pulled it away and gave it to Todd Munkin.
I do think there will be an impact on that
defense without Jim Schwartz.

Speaker 3 (02:31:10):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (02:31:10):
I love Jim Schwartz. I wish he was at Cincinnati
in some capacity, some capacity.

Speaker 3 (02:31:17):
That'd be nice.

Speaker 9 (02:31:18):
He just did wonders for him and how he did
get that job is just beyond me. So he had
experience and the overhead.

Speaker 5 (02:31:28):
Coach of the Lions then The next game is a
game that a lot of people have circled.

Speaker 3 (02:31:33):
It's the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 8 (02:31:34):
It's another matchup between Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow. That's
a four to twenty five game at pay Corps Stadium.
I think I heard MO give this stat earlier this week.
Four of the five games that have been head to
head between Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow have been decided
on the last play of the game.

Speaker 5 (02:31:51):
Isn't that unbelievable? It really is, those two guys when
they play each other. This could be the last run
for Travis Kelce. You've got Brian Cook, now a Bengal,
playing his old team for the first time. It's rot
with storylines.

Speaker 9 (02:32:02):
That's right. Orlando Brown, shootire came to Cincinnati from Kansas City.
What kind of shape physically is Kansas City's quarterback Pat
Mahomes in.

Speaker 3 (02:32:15):
Yeah, with his achilles, you know they're hoping he's ready
to go early in the year, if.

Speaker 9 (02:32:20):
Not to start the season. Yeah, So there's a lot
of concern there with his health.

Speaker 3 (02:32:26):
It sounds like he's gonna be good to go.

Speaker 8 (02:32:28):
The Bengals then hit the road for back to back
games in week fifteen, they go to Carolina. Carolina was
in the playoffs last year. They were only eight and nine.
Basically everybody in the NFC South was eight and nine,
but Carolina nearly took down the La Rams in the
first round of the playoffs. Then Cincinnati comes back for
a game right after Christmas. It's either gonna be the
Saturday after Christmas or the Sunday after Christmas, and they

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go to Indianapolis to take on the Colts. The Colts
for the talk of the NFL for a period of
time last year. I think that's an advantage for Cincinnati
because it's the short travel and you get to play
indoors against a team where I have questions about their depths.

Speaker 9 (02:33:06):
I just have nightmares of playing inside at Indianapolis when
when I covered this club, it's uh, it is loud,
but they did they collapsed last year. Yeah, without uh,
you know, without Daniel Jones.

Speaker 5 (02:33:20):
Daniel Jones, you know, another guy coming off of an
achilles injury. And then maybe the game that most people
are excited about Week seventeen, New Year's Eve, Thursday night
in Cincinnati, it's the Baltimore Ravens. Trey Hendrickson, as you said,
earlier if he's playing makes his return to Cincinnati. It's
the second year in a row now that the Bengals

(02:33:40):
and Ravens will play a Thursday night game on in
on a holiday, and this time it's going to be
in Cincinnati.

Speaker 9 (02:33:46):
Yeah, what a party. It's going to be on New
Year's Eve? Are you kid me?

Speaker 5 (02:33:53):
And that's gonna rival I think the best as long
as that game means something, the best environment in the
history of that stage, it will be.

Speaker 9 (02:34:00):
It's it will end right around midnight. Yeah, it is
gonna be unbelievable. Yeah, that stadium is gonna be just electric.

Speaker 8 (02:34:09):
And if that game has playoff implications, how big would
it then be to have a mini buy going into
Week eighteen where they finish off the season with the
Cleveland Browns at pay Corpse Stadium.

Speaker 3 (02:34:20):
So that's it.

Speaker 8 (02:34:21):
That's weeks one through eighteen, seventeen games, a couple of primetimes,
five standalone games, a trip to Madrid, and high expectations
for this Bengals team Austin.

Speaker 9 (02:34:32):
This club needs to host the AFC Championship game. I'm
in not going on the road to Kansas City or
anywhere else. Yes, you want to host it and that's
what they're building toward. And you know right away, you know,
seventeen games, eighteen weeks, Hey, ten and seven, eleven and six.

Speaker 3 (02:34:56):
It's too it's too hard to win in the NFL. Absolutely,
we have a lot to get to. Still one hour
to go.

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Speaker 3 (02:35:47):
My name's Austin Omore alongside Chick Ludwig Chick.

Speaker 8 (02:35:50):
We have done five hours of NFL schedule release coverage.
We have less than one hour to go, and the
expectations for the Bank, maybe as.

Speaker 5 (02:36:00):
High as they've ever been. Everything just kind of keeps
going the Bengals way this year. They had a good
free agency, they had a good draft. I think they
got a pretty favorable schedule.

Speaker 8 (02:36:09):
Everything kind of feels like it's coming up Bengals right now,
to the point where when you walked in here tonight,
you pointed at a logo of the Super Bowl and said,
this is where the Bengals are going. Are you standing
on that as we are at eleven pm the night
of the NFL schedule.

Speaker 5 (02:36:25):
Release on May the fifteenth or fourteenth, or whatever the
heck it is. The Bengals are going to the Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (02:36:29):
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 9 (02:36:30):
I am standing on that, Austin Elmore, And I'm hoping
that my prediction comes true that we're going to experience
a Cincinnati sports renaissance. And of course I was thinking
that when the Reds were twelve, twenty and eleven.

Speaker 5 (02:36:46):
Gonna say things were pretty good last time we talked
about that, but yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:36:51):
The entire offense back and the changes that they made
on defense, the strides that they've made.

Speaker 3 (02:36:58):
Yeah, it's gonna come down to the health of this team.

Speaker 9 (02:37:02):
We can predict gosh, twelve and five, eleven, and six,
ten and seven, so much hinges on. Hey, the breaks,
the non breaks up the quarterback, it's just huge.

Speaker 3 (02:37:16):
We can keep it keeping Joe Burrow healthy. Yep.

Speaker 9 (02:37:21):
And if something would happen to him, Joe Flacco, thank goodness,
he's here.

Speaker 5 (02:37:26):
You do feel a little bit better about that now.
Joe Flacco is here. Speaking of which, Week one against
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You know who Baker Mayfield's backup
quarterback is, Jake Browning. How about that's why the NFL
works in mysterious ways. We can talk about how the
making of the roster and how the AFC North shapes
up coming up in just a little bit. But what
about tonight being the schedule release. You were telling me

(02:37:49):
you were reading up on how the NFL schedule is
created in some of the hoops that need to be
jumped through.

Speaker 9 (02:37:55):
Gosh, the story is creating the NFL schedule, and the
sub headline is it takes thousands of computers and a
team of NFL executives to create the NFL's two hundred
and seventy two game masterpiece. Oh my goodness, And it

(02:38:15):
starts with the schedule makers, and it's led by executive
vice president of Media Distribution Hans Schroeder, vice president of
Broadcasting Planning Michael North, and the vice president of Broadcast
Operations Annie.

Speaker 3 (02:38:32):
Is it Bo's BOSC. Why not?

Speaker 9 (02:38:34):
Why not? They have to consider the fans, the league's
broadcast partners, and so many other factors in building to schedule,
and they have to work around different events in the
different cities taking place near NFL stadiums. Gosh, maybe concerts,

(02:38:55):
maybe baseball games, all kinds of things. And each team
has to send the league, like in January, a series
of events that could impact their city and everything, and
so they work around that and then and the.

Speaker 8 (02:39:09):
Teams also send like their grievances, right, the things they're
frustrated about, like, oh, the Bengals bothered the hell out
of the NFL about four straight years going to Baltimore
in primetime and they're saying, listen, this cannot happen, over
and over and over and over again. So teams also say, hey,
we don't want to do this, we don't want to
go overseas, we don't want to do this, Like, for example,

(02:39:30):
I had read a story earlier this week that the
Packers were gonna be the team that they sent to
Paris to play the Saints, and the Saints were like, no, no, no, no, no,
we don't want the Green Bay Packers and their fans
that travel really well, yes to not come down to
New Orleans and number one have our home field advantage
of being in the Dome and also all the impact

(02:39:51):
financially that that brings that the Packers bring. So they
end up sending the Pittsburgh Steelers over there to play
the New Orleans Saints.

Speaker 3 (02:39:57):
All those little things get talked about.

Speaker 9 (02:39:59):
Yeah, and hey, there might not be a team with
a greater following than the Pittsburgh Steeler.

Speaker 3 (02:40:05):
Right, that is that is huge?

Speaker 9 (02:40:07):
But yeah, and then on top of it all the
constraints of the formula that the league uses to ensure
that once every what eight years, you're going to see
a certain team sume into your stadium. So there are
and it says thousands of computers. Wow, is that unbelievable.

(02:40:31):
It really is a massive undertaker.

Speaker 3 (02:40:33):
And there's all these different iterations of it.

Speaker 8 (02:40:35):
I saw an interview with Mike North, who you just
mentioned a moment ago last week, and he said, the
schedule really isn't signed off until we go up to
Roger Goodell's office at three forty five Park Avenue in
New York City and say here's the schedule, what do
you think? And he has to sign off on it.
The commissioner has the final say on what the schedule
looks like, and if he doesn't like it, he sends

(02:40:56):
him back down to the computer lab.

Speaker 9 (02:40:58):
Basically, yeah, and this story says it takes thousands of
cloud based computers to produce thousands of possible schedules, a
process that sets the stage for the schedule makers to
begin the arduous task of picking the best possible one.

Speaker 3 (02:41:15):
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:41:16):
And on top of that, like the difference in what
some teams have to travel compared to others. I don't
know if you heard Rocky talking about this earlier, but
the San Francisco forty nine Ers who play a game
in Australia for some reason, end up traveling like almost
forty thousand miles further than the Carolina Panthers do this season.
I think Carolina in total travels less than ten thousand miles,

(02:41:39):
and the Garden or the forty nine ers are north
of forty thousand miles.

Speaker 9 (02:41:44):
It's crazy, it really is It really is the toll
that it takes on players. And I wish the schedule
was an even number.

Speaker 3 (02:41:54):
Yeah, I really do. It's uh and I think we're
going We're going to get to that point at some point.

Speaker 9 (02:41:59):
I think, So, what do you make of three preseason games?
Not one of them is against the AFC.

Speaker 3 (02:42:06):
I was shocked.

Speaker 9 (02:42:07):
You know, it's Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia. The first two
at home, Yeah, the last one on the road. And
I'm thinking maybe the league thinks the Bengals are going
to the super Bowl and maybe playing one of those
three teams.

Speaker 5 (02:42:20):
You know, I'll be honest with you, Chick, I haven't
given one thought to the preseason schedule until you said that.

Speaker 9 (02:42:25):
Yeah, and and then I'm hearing rumblings that, you know,
Chicago comes in here for a preseason game, they might
have a joint practice. Those cringe.

Speaker 3 (02:42:37):
You don't like the joint practice. I really told why not?

Speaker 9 (02:42:40):
Temper's flair a possible injury.

Speaker 8 (02:42:44):
Of course, of course, but you remember a couple of
years ago Aaron Donald lost his marbles and was swinging
his helmet at the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (02:42:51):
They had a joint practice with the ram Yes.

Speaker 8 (02:42:53):
It's I'll tell you what's interesting about the Chicago Bears though,
Zach Taylor and Ben Johnson Ben Johnson, head coach of
the Bears, very close friends. They work together in Miami.
Also on that staff in Miami was Dan Campbell, who's
the head coach of the Detroit Lions. But Zach's brother,
Press Taylor is the offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears. Wow,

(02:43:13):
so I get the feeling there might be a joint
practice between those two teams.

Speaker 5 (02:43:17):
There is incest all over the NFL, the good old
boys Club.

Speaker 9 (02:43:25):
Oh my gosh, I mean Tampa.

Speaker 8 (02:43:27):
You think about it, and by the time you know,
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get here in week one, the
Bengals will have had a joint practice with Zach Taylor's brother,
Press Taylor. Ken Zampez is going to be back in
the building. Baker Mayfield, who unfortunately owns the state of
Ohio except for the city of Cleveland, although he probably
still owns half of that.

Speaker 3 (02:43:43):
To be completely honest, it's just gonna be.

Speaker 5 (02:43:46):
It's just it's I'm I'm reminded of that famous phrase,
chick my, what a tangled web we weave?

Speaker 9 (02:43:53):
Yes, that is that is the NFL. And you know
what when the show first hit the airwaves with the schedule,
and I saw that three game stretch on their what
only two home games?

Speaker 3 (02:44:06):
And you mentioned it?

Speaker 9 (02:44:07):
What after the first home game? Yeah, they don't play
another one.

Speaker 5 (02:44:13):
So from the fourteenth of September until Halloween, the Bengals
play one home game. Yes, that's kind of crazy in it.
It really thinks one home game in the month of October.

Speaker 3 (02:44:23):
Why doesn't the league like the Bengals. I don't know
if I'm I don't know if I'm going that far.

Speaker 5 (02:44:28):
Yeah, I mean, I guess maybe they were just thinking, well,
you know, the Reds are going to be in the postseason.
They'll be playing playoff games in October, so let's just
clear out the city for the Reds.

Speaker 3 (02:44:39):
What would be awesome, Austin that renaissance you were talking about.

Speaker 9 (02:44:42):
Yeah, and we saw a little bit of this when
the Bengals made the Super Bowl, winning the AFC title
in Kansas City. All of a sudden, the Bengal way,
it is not the worst way. What do you mean,
the copycat league?

Speaker 3 (02:45:01):
Huh?

Speaker 9 (02:45:01):
Okay, maybe the way Mike Brown and his administrative staff operates.

Speaker 3 (02:45:08):
Yeah, hey, we might not need twenty five.

Speaker 9 (02:45:12):
Scouts, you know, sure for the New York Football Giants
or or the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (02:45:18):
Well, I mean one of my favorite stats is the
team with the most scouts in the AFC North over
the last ten years has been the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 3 (02:45:25):
Yes, so sometimes fewer voices is a good thing.

Speaker 8 (02:45:28):
Not always, but yeah, I think the Bengals have a
very specific way of doing business. I think they've added
to the resources that you know they have, especially in
the scouting department. I think they've given Duke Tobin a
bigger staff. They've expanded that staff a little bit. They've
added data and analytics and that sort of like they've
they've literally developed their own apps in house. I don't

(02:45:49):
know if you read that from Jeff Hobson when it
comes to like the draft and everything.

Speaker 5 (02:45:53):
So they are taking steps forward. We just don't necessarily
see that every day.

Speaker 3 (02:45:56):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (02:45:57):
And the strides that they've made social media wise, it
is unbelievable. Yeah, compared to when Jeff Hopsond started on
Bengals dot com.

Speaker 5 (02:46:09):
Yeah, a long time ago. Yes, it's a much different game.
And tonight is the Super Bowl for the NFL social
media teams. With the release of the schedule. I can't
wait to go home tonight and crawl into bed and
watch the thirty one other videos that were posted releasing
the schedule, because I'm sure there's gonna be some Mike
Vrabel jokes out there.

Speaker 9 (02:46:25):
Oh gosh, no outs.

Speaker 3 (02:46:28):
All right, we'll take a break on that note.

Speaker 8 (02:46:30):
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Speaker 3 (02:46:59):
You had something you needed to get off your chest
about the gosh super Bowl, that's what they're I thought
you were. I thought you were gonna talk to me
about Dickman's when you walked in.

Speaker 9 (02:47:13):
Oh okay, the euphoria that you felt you're exactly right. Yes,
wanted to thank all the fans that came out to
Dickman's tonight. This place is incredible. When I got here,
I stayed out in the car for about a half
hour listening to Sure, listening to the end of Lance
and Rocky and then the beginning of Tony and Moe.
And as I walked in, gosh, there's live music outside

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on one side. The other side of the bar has
gosh sand volleyball that was going strong, and inside rocking
the NFL schedule.

Speaker 3 (02:47:45):
And then right in front of.

Speaker 9 (02:47:46):
Us and I just noticed this austin this.

Speaker 3 (02:47:50):
Mural.

Speaker 6 (02:47:51):
This mural.

Speaker 3 (02:47:51):
How long is this thing?

Speaker 9 (02:47:53):
And it looks to me like it's had a golf tournament.
And I could swear that that is Walter Hagen. People
are crowded around him. That's how they dressed back then.

Speaker 3 (02:48:04):
Walter Hagen, the guy who makes the golf shirts.

Speaker 9 (02:48:06):
Now right, well, all I know is famous quote. He
won eleven majors pretty good and is considered the father
of professional golf because he took it to another level
with endorsements, bigger money, the whole nine. He said, I
don't want to be a millionaire. I just want to
live like one man. Yes I am into that, but

(02:48:28):
he that mural is just awesome. So but cash Is
Howel needs to needs to sign. And we also need
to thank our main man, Adam weber Ae door and Window.
They sell the best and service the rest. He's a man,
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the city and seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 5 (02:48:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:48:54):
So our thanks to Adam, our thanks to Dickman's, thanks
to everybody who's made that possible, this whole thing possible.
We've got about half an hour to go, and you
just mentioned a name that kind of slipped through the
cracks over the last couple of weeks. The Bengals second
round pick, their first pick in the twenty six NFL Draft,
was the defensive end out of Texas A and M

(02:49:14):
Cashus Howe.

Speaker 3 (02:49:15):
He has not yet signed his deal.

Speaker 8 (02:49:18):
All of the other Bengals draft picks have signed, and
the big sticking point was whether or not he would
get a fully guaranteed contract. So last year in the
NFL Draft, the first forty picks all got their deals
fully guaranteed. Cash Is Howe this year is picked number
forty one, so of course he wants to be the guy. Well,
there was a deal signed earlier today or yesterday. I

(02:49:40):
believe the forty eighth pick of the draft got his
deal fully guaranteed. So that pretty much tells me, all right, Bengals,
this guy's gonna get his deal fully guaranteed.

Speaker 3 (02:49:49):
Let's just get this thing over with.

Speaker 9 (02:49:51):
Let's get him in.

Speaker 3 (02:49:52):
And he's been very social on social media. Uh huh.

Speaker 9 (02:49:56):
I'm calling up by Facebook page. He's got reels all
over feeling so welcomed. He's ready to go to work.
He's hanging with Takario Davis U and so they're hanging together.

Speaker 5 (02:50:07):
It seemed like awesome, dude, And I think it's cool
that those guys signed the participation waiver and we're a
part of rookie miniicamp this year. If you remember last year,
Shamar Stewart didn't do that. I think he was getting
some bad advice. These guys not so much.

Speaker 8 (02:50:20):
But either way, that's really the only thing left on
the offseason checklist, unless, of course, you want to talk
about linebacker, and.

Speaker 3 (02:50:26):
We can do that when we get back.

Speaker 9 (02:50:28):
Yes, Rocky Boyman is so correct. You've got to participate
in training camp. You just cannot miss time. You are
falling behind and you are going to get injured.

Speaker 8 (02:50:39):
After looking at Rocky Boyman again today, I'm not so
convinced he couldn't play linebackers.

Speaker 3 (02:50:44):
Still absolutely right, he looks phenopenal, he looks all right.
We'll take a break for the news.

Speaker 8 (02:50:48):
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Speaker 3 (02:51:08):
We are live at Dickman's Sports Barn and for Wright
from the.

Speaker 8 (02:51:11):
Glenny Glass Broadcast Area, celebrating one hundred and seventy five
years in business on seven hundred WLW Chickster. The schedule
is out. You've already said that the Bengals are going
to the Super Bowl. Do you want to do an
exercise here where we go through each game and pick
the winners and losers?

Speaker 9 (02:51:28):
Yes, okay, And I've got one side, the A for Audie,
the other the C for the Chickster. We're gonna go
WS and L's and uh. I think the fans would
like that. Okay, let's do and the folks listening other
either a car or truck.

Speaker 3 (02:51:43):
Radio, please buckle your seat belts if we're belts.

Speaker 9 (02:51:47):
I think fans want to know. Okay, we think what
our prediction will be.

Speaker 5 (02:51:51):
All right, Well, let's start it off week one against
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home at pay Course, NATI.

Speaker 9 (02:51:57):
If the Bengals don't win, it's Armagaddon.

Speaker 3 (02:52:02):
They gotta win.

Speaker 9 (02:52:04):
They absolutely have to win.

Speaker 3 (02:52:08):
Will they win? Yes? Okay, you got you got a
w there, Yes, I have a win.

Speaker 5 (02:52:12):
I think the Bengals defense is a little bit more
ready to go than we've seen in the past, and
they find a way to finally stop Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (02:52:20):
The Bengals are one of us.

Speaker 9 (02:52:21):
I agree.

Speaker 5 (02:52:22):
Then week two, they go to Houston to take on
the Houston Texans in a place that really has not
been a good welcoming place for the Bengals in recent years.

Speaker 9 (02:52:33):
The defense is scary to me of the Houston Tech
since there's a lot of pressure, especially after that playoff
loss on CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 3 (02:52:42):
Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 5 (02:52:44):
Stroud was terrible in their first playoff game against the
Steelers last year, but they won because their defense was
so good, Yes, but he was terrible in the next
playoff game as well.

Speaker 3 (02:52:53):
This is a big year for.

Speaker 9 (02:52:54):
Cg against the Patriots. Absolutely, and I've got I've got
Houston winning this game.

Speaker 3 (02:53:00):
I agree with you.

Speaker 5 (02:53:01):
Unfortunately, I believe it's gonna be the Texans home opener
as well, which is always going to be difficult. So
through two weeks, the Bengals are one and one. Week
three on the road at Pittsburgh. What do you got, Bengals?

Speaker 9 (02:53:12):
Too many questions with the Steelers, and even if Aaron
Rodgers comes back to me looks like a shell of himself.

Speaker 5 (02:53:19):
Early on in the season against a team with a
new head coach and Mike McCarthy might still be trying
to find their footing.

Speaker 3 (02:53:25):
I agree with you. The Bengals win that game, they're
two to one.

Speaker 5 (02:53:28):
They come back to Cincinnati to play the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Speaker 3 (02:53:33):
What do you got.

Speaker 9 (02:53:33):
It's a little scary to me, but I've got the
Bengals winning.

Speaker 8 (02:53:37):
Okay, Yes, I've got the Bengals losing this game. Okay,
they probably should have lost this game to Jacksonville last year,
but they got a little bit lucky. I'm gonna say
Jacksonville is one of the best teams in the NFL
this year. I said that last year I ended up
being correct. I'm gonna double down on that. I'm gonna
say Jacksonville wins this game. And through four weeks the
Bengals are two and two.

Speaker 9 (02:53:57):
Okay, I've got them winning.

Speaker 3 (02:53:59):
I've got them.

Speaker 9 (02:54:00):
Three and one at this point.

Speaker 3 (02:54:01):
Week five at the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 9 (02:54:04):
The Bengals are comfortable at hard Rock Stadium.

Speaker 3 (02:54:08):
Yeah, they just are.

Speaker 9 (02:54:09):
It's and Zach having coach down there, I think he's
comfortable too. I like the Bengals.

Speaker 5 (02:54:16):
I got the Bengals winning that one Miami in a
complete rebuild, that should be a comfortable win for this team.

Speaker 8 (02:54:22):
Through five weeks, I have the Bengals at three and two.
You have them at four and one. Week six is
the bye week. Week seven, they come out of the
bye week and they are at the Baltimore Ravens. First
time head coach Jesse Minter, what say you.

Speaker 9 (02:54:39):
The pause?

Speaker 3 (02:54:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (02:54:42):
I like the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (02:54:43):
Okay, yes, they.

Speaker 9 (02:54:46):
Had Chase Brown not fumbled the ball in Baltimore a
couple of years ago, David have won in Baltimore and
they would up losing that game when gosh, Lamar Jackson
went off after that. I just think the Bengals overall
have the better team.

Speaker 8 (02:55:04):
I'm gonna say this is a tough one, and I'm
gonna say the Baltimore Ravens win this one in Baltimore.
And I'm gonna say just because the Bengals coming out
of the by haven't been that great in the Zach
Taylor era, So I don't know if I trust him
to be ready to go for that Baltimore game. So
through six games, I have them at three and three.
You have them at five and one.

Speaker 3 (02:55:23):
Yes, Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:55:24):
Week eight, Tennessee Titans at home. I'll take the Bengals
to win this game. Again, a new head coach, almost
completely new roster, better team that.

Speaker 3 (02:55:33):
People think, but a home game that the Bengals win.

Speaker 9 (02:55:36):
I've got him winning also. So man, I'm looking really
over confident here. Or six and one, you've got him
at four and three, that's correct.

Speaker 8 (02:55:46):
Now we go to Week nine and we go abroad
to the Amikos in Madrid. That's a terrible accent. What
do you got the Bengals doing in Atlanta or in
Madrid against Atlanta?

Speaker 9 (02:56:00):
I don't like, yeah, I don't like them overseas. I
just have a bad feeling about the game. Yeah, Atlanta,
you know, new head coach, but they've got a ton
of talent. I just like Atlanta.

Speaker 5 (02:56:16):
Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase advocated for this game. They
wanted to go to Madrid last year when the Dolphins
were there and the Bengals were supposed to play the Dolphins.
I'm gonna say those two show up and they find
a way to beat Jesse Bates and the Atlanta Falcons.
By the way, first time the Bengals will be playing
Jesse baits since he left. I'll take the Bengals to
win that game. I got him at five and three.

(02:56:36):
You have them at six and two, six and two.
Week ten, no bye week after Madrid, back home against
the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football.

Speaker 9 (02:56:47):
It's an electric atmosphere at pay Corpse Stadium that night.
Momentum Bengals.

Speaker 3 (02:56:56):
I got the Bengals as well. I got this a blowout.

Speaker 5 (02:56:58):
I think the Bengals first prime time game of the
year they handed to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 8 (02:57:03):
I got the Cincinnati Bengals at six and three. Then
Week eleven, another primetime game, on the road Monday night
football against Washington.

Speaker 9 (02:57:12):
What do you got a big Harry L. I'm on
the escalator, Oh coming down, Yeah, yeah, Jayden Daniels is healthy,
and yeah, Washington I've got I've got the Commanders.

Speaker 3 (02:57:27):
She feels like a game that maybe the two weeks
prior could catch up to them.

Speaker 8 (02:57:31):
Sunday night game, the travel, and then you know, just
the in general being difficult to go on the road
on a Monday night.

Speaker 5 (02:57:38):
I have them losing that game as well. So through
ten games, I have them at six and four, you
have them at seven and three.

Speaker 3 (02:57:44):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:57:45):
Then Week twelve, the New Orleans Saints come to Cincinnati,
you have them doing what.

Speaker 3 (02:57:50):
I'm waiting for year to make a run, a waiting run.

Speaker 9 (02:57:55):
Here are we goods? Here at at forty seven? Eleven seven?

Speaker 3 (02:58:00):
Or yeah, yeah, we're good, We're good? All right? Great?

Speaker 9 (02:58:03):
Oh the Saints. Yeah, Bengals, yep, I'm right there with you.

Speaker 3 (02:58:06):
Bengals win in that one.

Speaker 5 (02:58:08):
Week fourteen, or excuse me, Week thirteen, the Cleveland Browns,
the Bengals in Cleveland against Todd Munkin.

Speaker 3 (02:58:14):
What do you got.

Speaker 9 (02:58:18):
The Browns?

Speaker 3 (02:58:20):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (02:58:20):
Yeah, chickster has the Browns well that run you were
looking for is starting on my bracket right now.

Speaker 3 (02:58:26):
On my schedule.

Speaker 5 (02:58:27):
The Bengals beat Cleveland to a pulp in Cleveland to
advance to eight and four. That sets up a Week
fourteen matchup with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
And I have the Bengals staying hot and winning that
game against Kansas City and letting.

Speaker 3 (02:58:41):
People know Joe Burrow and the Bengals are back and
they are.

Speaker 9 (02:58:44):
For real fantastic. I like the Bengals two. It's so
it's just a great matchup between two great quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (02:58:52):
So we're both at nine and four. Here we are. Okay,
Week fifteen at the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 9 (02:59:00):
Game scares me a little bit. Okay, scares me a
little bit, But I think the Bengals find a way.
They did not look great against Carolina the last time
they went down there. It took like a goal line stand,
It's true to get them charged up.

Speaker 8 (02:59:16):
Carolina might be sneakily the best improved team on this
roster or on this schedule this year. They spend a
lot of money on their defense. They're working to protect
Bryce Young. I have the Bengals losing this game in
a sleeping app afternoon in Charlotte. Week sixteen. Excuse me,
trying not to sneeze here. Week sixteen at the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 3 (02:59:37):
What do you got?

Speaker 9 (02:59:40):
I think they stumble again?

Speaker 3 (02:59:41):
Oh really? Do now? A couple of minutes ago you
had them going to the super Bowl.

Speaker 9 (02:59:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah to three four five. I got it
with five ls here after the Colts game.

Speaker 8 (02:59:52):
Okay, so we are both at ten and five after
Week sixteen. That sets up the game of the season
Week seventeen, New Year's Eve against the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 3 (03:00:03):
I'll be honest with you, chick. I don't think the
Ravens have a chance in this game.

Speaker 9 (03:00:06):
I agree, totally agree.

Speaker 8 (03:00:08):
I think the Bengals smoke him. I think Trey Hendrickson
does not record a sack. I think he starts asking
for a new contract extension leading up to this game.
Bengals win, and the year twenty twenty seven gets off
to a strong start. That puts him at eleven and
five going into Week eighteen against Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (03:00:27):
It's at home.

Speaker 9 (03:00:29):
I like the Bengals. There should be a lot on
the line here seating wise for the playoffs, and.

Speaker 8 (03:00:36):
That Thursday Night game against Baltimore prior to this is
a bit of a mini buy, which that could be
really really impactful for a division game not knowing when
your schedule is going to be played. We don't know
when this date is actually going to be finalized, and
if you're playing for seeding, that could give you a
bit of an advantage. I've got the Bengals beating Cleveland
in Week eighteen as well, because if Cleveland's good, that

(03:00:58):
could end up being another primetime game. If Cleveland's bad,
they might be in the Arch Manning sweep stakes at
that point. And who knows who's playing quarterback for him,
It might be Dylan Gabriel. So I believe we both
have the Bengals finishing twelve and five. Yes, is that
good enough to win the AFC North?

Speaker 3 (03:01:15):
I believe it is. But is it enough to host
what to get the number one seed, to get the
number one.

Speaker 9 (03:01:24):
Seed, and to possibly host the AFC title.

Speaker 3 (03:01:26):
It's a good question.

Speaker 8 (03:01:27):
With teams like Buffalo, with teams like Kansas City out there,
and hell even a team like Houston, a team like Jacksonville,
that may not necessarily be the case. We'll take our
last break of the show this is the Orange and
Black Schedule Breakdown Show on seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 5 (03:01:46):
Welcome back in the Origin Black Schedule Breakdown Show, seven
hundred wl W. Getting to be closing time here at
Dickman Sports Barn in Fort Wright. Appreciate all the help
and all the people.

Speaker 8 (03:01:59):
Lance Rocky got us started at six o'clock tonight, followed
up by Tony Pike and Moegger and now us the
closers on NFL schedule release day. And we wouldn't be
a Bengals show in this city, chick if we don't
talk about linebacker.

Speaker 3 (03:02:13):
We got to get it in before the show is over.

Speaker 9 (03:02:16):
Can we put Bengals fans minds at ease? They'll get one.
There's no rush.

Speaker 3 (03:02:25):
Why do you need one when you already have two?

Speaker 9 (03:02:27):
You're exactly right, Dexter Lawrence is going to turn Demetrius
Knight and Barrett Carter and Barrett Carter into outstanding second
year linebacker.

Speaker 5 (03:02:40):
Do you believe what you just said? Do you honestly
believe it? They will be very good. Okay, they will
be very good because of the defensive.

Speaker 9 (03:02:50):
Line that has improved tackle wise and edge wise.

Speaker 3 (03:02:55):
So with Miles Murphy and.

Speaker 9 (03:03:00):
Oh boy, Mafay yes, and Howel yes, and even Shamar Stewart.

Speaker 5 (03:03:08):
You know what I was about to say, I'm a
Shamar Stewart believer. Yes, he kind of gets a fresh start,
getting none of the off season nonsense, even got a
new number. Gave his ninety seven to Dexter Lawrence. Zach
Taylor said, towards the end of the year last year,
after he got healthy, he came on strong. He was
sitting in the front of the room in meetings. He
was eager to learn. I feel like Shamar Stewart still
has a bright future.

Speaker 9 (03:03:29):
Third and ten. He's inside with Dexter Lawrence, and I've
got Cassius howl and Boye Mafey, yes, getting after it.
It may be Miles Murphy.

Speaker 3 (03:03:41):
So if they don't, If they what do they do?

Speaker 12 (03:03:45):
Then?

Speaker 5 (03:03:46):
If it's you said they're going to get a linebacker, yeah,
what are they gonna Is it like Bobby Wagner?

Speaker 3 (03:03:51):
Is it Bobby Okara?

Speaker 12 (03:03:52):
Kay?

Speaker 4 (03:03:52):
Like?

Speaker 3 (03:03:52):
Who are they gonna get?

Speaker 9 (03:03:53):
It's some veteran that gets cut during training camp.

Speaker 3 (03:03:57):
Okay, And it's become the full back position on defense.
It's going away. Okay.

Speaker 9 (03:04:06):
The NFL is stopping the run, rushing the quarterback and
covering wide receivers, the linebacker position.

Speaker 3 (03:04:17):
Okay, it's important.

Speaker 9 (03:04:19):
Okay, yeah, the defensive lineman holding them up and then
you fill those gaps.

Speaker 8 (03:04:23):
All right, I believe you. That is the Chickster Chick
Ludwig quick recap on the Bengals. They have five standalone
games this year. Week nine against the Atlanta Falcons in Madrid,
a Sunday night home game against the Steelers, a Monday
night road game against the Commanders. They'll play the Kansas
City Chiefs at a four to twenty five game in
week fourteen, and Baltimore on New Year's Eve on a

(03:04:45):
Thursday night.

Speaker 5 (03:04:47):
The expectations are sky high for the Bengals. Chick, It's
been a pleasure.

Speaker 9 (03:04:51):
It's always an honor, pleasure and privilege being with you,
Audie Austin Elmore.

Speaker 8 (03:04:56):
Thanks to the great Mike Mills for helping us get
this show on the air, and our guy Drew wester
Heidie back at the studio as well. Thank you so
much for listening to the Origin Black schedule breakdown right
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