9-12-24 - Mo with Carrington Harrison

Carrington Harrison is with 96.5 The Fan in Kansas City. He joined us to talk Bengals/Chiefs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Again Sunday at noon on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official
home of the Bengals. If you missed anything this week,
what were you doing? But since you missed it, we
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Mo Football Show. By the way, we had a guy yesterday,
Sean Sayed, who were now making a weekly part of

(00:22):
this show. He was that good sumer sports smart dude,
fun guy to talk to.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
He broke down the Bengals Pats tape. He was terrific.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Our segment with doctor Matthew Grunckermeier from Orthos, Cincy on
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podcast of this show a service of long neck sports Grill.
If you know me well, then you know that I
have three out of market sports talk radio hosts whose
work I love, and one of them you know who
they are. One of them is Carrington Harrison. He is

(00:54):
going to join us here in just a few minutes,
does a show on ninety six five The Fan in
Kansas City. We are as much as I love him,
he is about to go in the air. We are
in a slight holding pattern for getting Carrington on.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'll remind you of this.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Bengals and Chiefs on Sunday Live on ESPN fifteen thirty
Pregame starts at noon. You just heard that we are
gonna be posted up at Dickman's in Fort Right. Game
starts at four twenty five. If you haven't been to Dickman's,
you owe it to yourself. Awesome food, a tremendous beer selection.
I went to Dickman's late on Friday night. They had

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the Peacock game, packers Eagles, had some wings, had some
potato skins, had a nice cold Budweiser, and it was
a good Friday night. That'd be a great Sunday afternoon.
And join us at Dickman's in Fort Right. We have
Carrington Harrison, one of the best in the business. Ninety
six to five the fan in Kansas City. I appreciate
the time. Let me start with this. Look, we know Mahomes,

(01:54):
we know Kelsey, we know read so many familiar characters.
But then I'm watching the Thursday night opener and there's
xavior Worthy streaking down the sideline doing things that I'm
not sure anybody has done in that offense in quite
a while, scoring two touchdowns. You add him to that team, Carrington,
and it's almost not fair. O.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
First off, I'm happy to be on your show. Second
off is how can you be mad at Kansas City?
The team you need to be mad at is Buffalo.
Buffalo has been terrorized by the Kansas City Chiefs for
at least four years. You know what I would never
do if I'm the opposing team, I would never do
what Brettviach wants. I would never do something that makes
Patrick Mahomes happy. I firmly believe if you ask Mahomes

(02:35):
all right, outside of elite neighbors and Marvin Harrison, the
Chiefs never had a chance of getting those players. If
you asked him in that second tier of wide receiver,
which one would you pick? I think they would have
picked Savior Worthy and the Buffalo Bills traded him to
Kansas City. If anything, you need to draft Keon Coleman
where you were if you're Buffalo and you let the

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Chiefs figure it out on their own. But in no
ways am I to help you in trying to get
the one thing you needed last year. So a better
answer your question is the excitement I think from Chiefs
fans comes from the very simple fact of their offense
has pop again. It has as a last year, the
Chiefs were seventeenths in points scored. We're talking about Patrick Mahomes,

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Andy Reid, Travis mckelz. They were but low average offensively.
Now you've given them a legitimate speechter to now pair
with Rashi Rice, who looks like he's one of the
better yards after catch. I mean, Travis Kelce didn't even
play that well on Monday or last Thursday, and they
still scored twenty seven points. So I think the excitement
from Chiefs fans is this offense just has more clubs

(03:40):
in the bag than they had last year. This offense
is far more diverse, far more explosive than they were
the last time the Kansas City and Cincinnati played each other.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, I was gonna go there next because this is
more of a comment and a question, I guess. But
I think of the early part of the Mahomes run,
right when that offense was guys just streaking down the field,
beating teams deep, and then there was an evolution and
it looked a lot different in recent years, still with
obviously a lot of success and it feels like this
season it's it's kind of the best of both, which

(04:11):
for a defensive coordinator means you got to pick your poison.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, No, you absolutely have to kind of pick your
poison against this team. I mean, I think this is
the most well rounded Chiefs team that they've had, probably
since the year that they lost to Tampa Bay. I
actually think that's the best Chiefs team that they had.
I know, they didn't win the Super Bowl and three
other teams have had, but you got to think back
to that season. The Chiefs just completely ran through the
AFC and injuries derailed them and that's a big reason

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on why they didn't lose to Tampa Bay. Like you mentioned,
pick your poison. I mean Isaiah Pacheco can run four
one hundred yards. Patrick Mahomes can throw for three hundred yards.
The Chiefs can also hold you to seventeen points and
your quarterback those two interceptions at the game. Like, there
isn't a clear defined weakness for this Chiefs team, which
makes them so good and coming into this game, and
I'm sure Mo, we're going to talk about it is

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one team only has one injury. That's Hollywood Brown. Everybody
else was a full participant in practice leading up to
this game. That's not the case on the Cincinnati side.
So if you're gonna give the Chiefs extra rest against
the team we know that they don't like, and a
team we know they're gonna get up for, they're gonna
be largely healthy going into this game. This is a

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really tough spot for a Bengals team that I don't
want to say must win because we've seen them climb
themselves out of the hole. But we had this stat
on our show yesterday that since they expanded the playoffs,
there have been thirty three teams that have started the
year off zero to two. Only two of those teams
that made the postseason. Now, one of those teams is Cincinnati.
The other team is last year's Houston Texans. So obviously

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I'm not gonna say that, hey, Cincinnati needs to win
this so they can't make the postseason. But the odds suggests, Man,
if you keep digging yourself in these kind of situations,
in this kind of hole, eventually it comes back to
bite you, kind of like it did last year for Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I've been saying the same thing all week, and look,
there's there's a difference between starting oh and two when
you know, you know a little bit about more, a
little bit more about where your quarterback is physically, and
you're you're starting the season against you know worthy divisional
of foes. It's something entirely different when we have no
idea really what Joe Burrow is dealing with.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's his wrist, but how healthy is he is?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
This how he's going to play as long as he's
not feeling completely comfortable. And they lost to a really
bad Patriots team at home. And you're right, man, that
the more you do this, the more you play with fire.
At some point you're going to get burned. And I
think that's the fear here. Lose this one on Sunday. Yeah,
the next two games are very winnable. But Te Higgins
is hurt. I got a bunch of injuries on the
defensive line, and we don't know that much about Joe

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Burrow physically, or we don't know as much as we
would like, I should say, physically. So yeah, this OH
and two, if that indeed is where we are on
Sunday night, to me, is going to feel a lot
different than the oh and two over the last couple
of years.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, no one thinks that
the Patriots are going to be a good team this year,
and you can't lose to that team and only score
ten points at home, not when you spent the resources
that Cincinnati has had to have a great offense. I
want to ask you a question, because this is something
that we talked about on my show over the course
of the week. Is I like Joe Burrow a lot. Actually,

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like a lot of the Bengals players. I know I
live in Kansas City, but the Bengals are one of
my favorite teams in the league. You know. I like
the swagger, I like the energy. I like Joe Burrow's story.
I like Jamar Chase. There's a lot of things I
like about this team. It's been a while since we've
seen Joe Burrow be one of those top five quarterbacks
in the league. I saw it with Mahomes last year.
I've seen it with Lamar Jackson, I've seen it with

(07:32):
Josh Allen. The last fourteen months for Joe Burrow, it's
just been either he's been hurt or recovering from an injury.
I want to see Burrow be that guy again. I
want to see him, you know, play like CJ. Stroud,
make a throw like I saw last week with Anthony Richardson,
like that. Anthony Richardson's brow was a Hey, this guy

(07:54):
could be really good if everything kind of pans out.
It's been a while since Burrow has kind of given
us that feeling that he is. In that same conversation
with Josh Allen and Patrick.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Mahomes, Yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, if you go back to when he got hurt,
it felt like he was getting there. He obviously started
last season very slowly, had the CAF issue played on
evenly for the first four or five games, But there
was a stretch of time mid October early November right
before he got hurt. I mean his game against San
Francisco last year. He was awesome, I think twenty eight
of thirty two and just carved up a Super Bowl defense, right,

(08:28):
and then he gets hurt. But you're right, I mean,
over the last fourteen months and frankly over the course
of the last four years, for all of the acclaim
for everything he has done for this franchise, for all
the winning that they have enjoyed, certainly relative to before
Joe Burrow got here. It does feel like we have
spent way too much time talking about injuries, and that,
to me is what is going to define this season

(08:48):
for him. Are we going to walk away from year
five going god, you know what, three out of the
five years have been dominated by injury talk, or three
out of the five years have been dominated by us
talking about how good Joe is, how close he is
to Mahomes, his ability to win, raise his teammates, elevate
his teammates. This is a very critical year. But look,
we all love him here as you might expect. But
I think I think your observations are fair, and I

(09:11):
think anybody who looks at Joe maybe a little askew,
wanting to see more of him healthy is coming from
is coming from a very fair place. I want to
ask you about a guy that as training camp unfolded,
we almost assumed was going to end up back in Cincinnati,
samaj p Rne.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
And it wasn't that he.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Didn't come back to Cincinnati that bothered soo many people.
It was where he ended up. His role in the
opener was no non existent. What is the expectation for
Samaje in a loaded Kansas City offense.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
As the season unfolds, I think the expectation for him
is to be Jeric McKinnon for this team. Jeric McKinnon.
For a couple of years, he was kind of that
running back to running back number three, catch the ball
out of the backfield, kind of Swiss army knife guy.
Necessarily didn't get a lot of carries. I don't think
that samaj p is gonna get a lot of those carries,

(10:01):
but I do think he's gonna be involved in the
passing game. So to give you an example, in twenty
twenty two, Jerck McKinnon had two hundred and ninety one
yards rushing, so not a lot, but he did have
fifty six catches for five hundred and twelve yards and
nine touchdowns, and he had a monster second half that year.
I think that's what people think that's samajp Ryan is
gonna be. He's not gonna get the five to seven

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carries a game. He's not gonna be RB two to
spell Isaiah Pacheco. But I mean he did get two
targets in the game on Thursday. One of those I
actually think he scores. If Mahomes throws a little bit
better ball to him, so I'm actually excited to see
how his role develops in the passing game over the
next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Steph Carrington Harrison ninety six to five The Fan in
Kansas City. I know you have a show to do.
I'll let you go do it. Really do appreciate the time.
Bengals and Chiefs on Sunday Live on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Pre game coverage starts at noon. When we come back,
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