R+L Carriers Sports Talk with Mo Egger -- 10/24/25

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You're not gonna be able to handle Lance McAllister because
he's not here. His weekend off to a great start,
at least I think it is long weekend for him. Hi,
my name is Moen. My show's on ESPN fifteen thirty
from three to six weekday afternoons. Get the chance to
fill in for Lance tonight. Hope your weekend is off

(01:08):
to a great start. This is RNL Carryer Sports Talk
presented by Kelsey Chevrolet on seven hundred WLW with you
till nine Sterling at nine o'clock. Let's do some sports headlines, right.
So Bengals played the Jets on Sunday at one o'clock.
Trey Hendrickson officially listed as questionable in today's injury report.
We'll see if he is good to go for Sunday.

(01:29):
There seems to be a real sense of optimism that
he'll be on the field. We'll see how many snaps
we'll see if he starts, but questionable would suggest there's
a good chance he does play on Sunday. Bengals and
Jets on seven hundred WLW pregame coverage on Sunday morning
from the Holy Grail with Ken Brew with Tony Pike
and Me starting at nine am. As for the Jets,

(01:51):
no Sauce Gardner, no Garrett Wilson from New York, and
the head coach there Aaron Glenn, who is zero to seven,
still will not reveal who his team starting quarterback is
going to be. The entire football world is waiting with anticipation.
Is it gonna be Tyrod Taylor, Is it gonna be
justin Fields? And ultimately will it matter? By the way,

(02:11):
of course, Sunday's game not just an opportunity for the
Bengals to get back to five hundred, but on Sunday
it's a ring of Honor game, which means that Dave
Lapham and Lamar Parrish will be honored and inducted into
the Bengals Ring of Honor. Too well deserved honors to
overdue honors. Meanwhile, tomorrow, it's the twenty first rate of

(02:31):
UC Bearcats hosting Baylor at Nippert Stadium. That is a
four o'clock homecoming kickoff. The game live on seven hundred WYLW.
I have the pregame show at three o'clock. Cincinnati comes
in with six consecutive victories, taking on a Baylor team
that is four and three. Ten night at the University
of Cincinnati. My guy, my colleague and friend, Tony Pike,

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is being inducted into the James P. Kelly Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to him, along with Tom Marvaso and Mike Mickens,
both instrumental parts of this football program. Merrity Glenn, longtime
soccer head coach at UC. Jessica Nevitt, a volleyball player
at the University of Cincinnati and a KB sharp women's
basketball player, also being inducted this evening. Meanwhile, college football tomorrow,

(03:15):
the Miami Radhawks have won four straight games. They take
on Western Michigan. Kentucky battles seventeenth rae to Tennessee at
its second rated Indiana taking on UCLA a full slate
in the tri State of high school football games. As
we inch closer to the playoffs, you can get a
full rundown of all of tonight's action on high school
football tonight on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Meanwhile, in Toronto,

(03:39):
it's a game one of the World Series the LA
Dodgers the Toronto Blue Jays. Blake Snell throws for Los Angeles.
Trey Yasavage will throw for Toronto Games one and two
tonight and tomorrow games three, four and five. In LA Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday of next week. College basketball, the UC Bearcats
on the road for an exhibition game tonight against Arkansas.

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That game will tip off at eight o'clock. And the
Kentucky Wildcats are playing an exhibition game against Purdue tonight.
And if my computer were working, I would give you
the score of that game, but it's not, so there
you go. I'm just being completely and totally honest. Ten

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to eight Kentucky five minutes into the game, So there
you go. Game doesn't count, So who cares? FC Cincinnati
is getting set for Round one of the MLS Cup
Playoffs Monday night. It's Tilt at the Soccer Stadium on
the West end of Cincinnati, the Orange and Blue hosting
the Columbus Crew. Monday Night's game could be heard live
on ESPN fifteen thirty. Also tonight, the Cincinnati Cyclones are

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in action, taking on Fort Wayne. I believe it's Peanuts
Night at the Arena downtown and the Columbus Blue Jackets
skate against Washington. There you go, we are loaded today.
Coming up at about twenty minutes, we're gonna chat with Robert Weintraub,
who writes a great Bengals column every single week for
Cincinnati Magazine. You'll hear a conversation with Danny Canell on

(05:07):
college football. We'll look at the FC Cincinnati Columbus Crew
series with one of the guys who's going to be
calling in for Apple TV. We'll get a Joe Burrow
update of sorts from Ortho Cincy. Coming up a little
bit later on, I'll tell you why you should root
for the La Dodgers in the World Series. But first,
Logan Wilson wants a trade. I want a snow cone
machine for our studio. Chances are neither one of us

(05:29):
are going to get what we want. But it's okay
that Logan Wilson has requested a trade. It's okay that
Logan Wilson's playing time has been diminished. We'll get to
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Kelsey Chevrolet. On seven hundred WLW. Moeger for Lance McAllister,
who is going to be back on Monday Night with
Bengals Line, Bengals and Jets on Sunday one o'clock. So
stoked think about this. So we do the pregame show
pregame Sports Talk on Sundays from the Holy Grail before

(07:59):
Bengals home game. If it's like a four o'clock game,
or you know, we had the Thursday night game last week,
so I was on with Lance and Rocky Boyman. That
was a lot of fun. Then the home game before
that was like a four to twenty five game. And
so when that's the case, Ken Brew does his show
in the morning from nine to noon, and then Tony
Pike and I take over from noon to three. When

(08:20):
it's a one o'clock game, you get Ken, Me and Tony.
It's a blast. I have fun no matter what. But
it's a blast on Sunday Mornings with Ken, Tony and
Mo the Bengals. I just spoke myself in the third person.
Bengals haven't had a one o'clock home game since Week two.
So think of everything that has changed with the Cincinnati
Bengals and to a degree our radio station, but mainly

(08:44):
everything that has happened to the Cincinnati Bengals since the
last Sunday morning that Ken Brew, Tony Pike and I
had a chance to sit down and do a show
when we were getting ready for the Bengals Jags game,
which was Week two. We're at the Holy Grail. We
were talking about Joe Burrow playing against Jack and the
opportunity to get off to a two and zero start,
which was certainly going to set the stage for a

(09:05):
great season. We know what has happened since Joe Flacco
is going to play his third game for Cincinnati against
god knows who a quarterback for the New York Jets.
Big story this week, and really I think the big
story last week that didn't involve Joe Flacco was what
the Bengals are doing on defense, reducing the playing time
for Logan Wilson and giving Barrett Carter, who they drafted

(09:29):
out of Clemson this year, a chance to play every
single snap. We all like Logan Wilson. Logan Wilson has
requested a trade. My guess is Logan Wilson doesn't get traded,
and I am also when Zach Taylor talked about this
a little bit this week. You can request a trade
like there's a lot of things you can request from
your boss. You're still expected to show up, be professional,

(09:51):
be a good teammate, get your work done, do what
you need to do. And my expectation, I think our
expectation for Logan Wilson is the same as the teams.
He's certainly not happy with not playing as much. You
cannot blame him. You can't blame him for requesting a trade.
There's a lot of things I can request. I've requested
a snow cone machine in our studio for the last

(10:12):
seven years.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I can request it.

Speaker 8 (10:14):
Doesn't mean I'm gonna get it, And so Logan Wilson
can request a trade. I think what we've come to
expect from Logan is that on Sunday he's not going
to be thinking about the trade request when he is
on the field. And by the way, he was on
the field for forty six percent of the defensive snaps
in the Pittsburgh game. When he is on the field,
when he is getting ready to play on Sunday, that

(10:36):
his job has his full and undivided attention, that's what
we all expect. I don't think there should be any
problem with this. The NFL is a league that's really
all about two things. It's all about superstars and cheap labor.
Bengals have superstars. Joe Burrow may hurt him. Jamar Chase
reigning AFC Offensive Player of the Week, just spectacular against

(11:01):
Pittsburgh eight days ago, Te Higgins, Trey Hendrickson. Those are stars,
and you're seeing more and more stars are getting more
and more guaranteed money. Right, you've seen that. What has
become a common part of the way we talk about
this league is the verbiage highest paid non quarterback in
the NFL, which Jamar Chase was for about five minutes.

(11:25):
So you have all this money going to stars, which
puts a premium on cheap labor, the cheap labor in
the NFL or draft picks, and the middle class player
is to a degree kind of getting squeezed out. So
all right, you're paying your stars, and then you need
your cheap labor to produce, need your cheap labor to help,
You need those guys to help Earlier than ever. We

(11:47):
talked about this draft class this year for the Bengals
making an immediate impact, making an instant impact, Right, that
wasn't just Shamar Stewart. Shamar Stewart has yet to make
much of an impact. Injuries are a major reason why.
Hopefully he's on the field on Sunday better than he
did against Pittsburgh when you could barely notice him. We
talked about this draft class needing to make an immediate impact.

(12:07):
The greater likelihood of that happening occurs when all the
draft picks play. Now. You obviously don't want to run
guys out there just to run them out there. You
want to make them earn their playing time. You want
to make them, you know, have a chance to actually
succeed when he put them out there. But like, I
don't know, I've watched the Bengals defense with Logan Wilson,
and we all like Logan Wilson. Right. He was a

(12:28):
big part of the twenty twenty one team. He's been
a big part of whatever success the Bengals have had
since they drafted him out of Wyoming. But the Bengals
defense is stunk for a while. Logan Wilson's been on
that defense for a while. Logan Wilson might not necessarily
be a bad player, but he certainly hasn't played to
the level that is helping this defense pull itself out

(12:49):
of what has been a multi year funk. So you
can't blame a defensive coordinator for looking for solutions. They
believe Barrett Carter is a solution. They drafted him to
be a solution. They looked at this draft class and
understandably so is one where they need to get an
immediate impact. So then what's the problem with playing Barrett Carter. Now,
we talked about this on that show at the Grail

(13:10):
last week with Rocky Boyman and Lance, and we had
a good discussion about, well, you're playing against Aaron Rodgers
with two rookie linebackers. Unfortunately, in a league that's all
about cheap labor, and when you're a team that sits
out free agency the way the Bengals did this offseason,
it puts a heavier emphasis on draft picks. And when
you emphasize draft picks, you are willing to deal with

(13:31):
whatever mistakes they make. I think it's totally within reason
to say to Barrett Carter, gain experience, make the mistakes,
make the corrections, and by the second half of the
season then we'll come to payoff. And like maybe Al
Golden looks at it this way, maybe Zach Taylor does too.
I don't know about you, but I'm kind of willing

(13:51):
to put up with whatever growing pains there are in
the context of a defense that needs more than just
a different linebacker in order to be completely fixed. I'm
kind of okay with putting up with the growing pains
that come from gaining experience, the growing pains that come
with giving a guy who just got drafted a chance

(14:12):
to play every single snap. If I believe there's going
to be a payoff a little bit later on, and
so I think this is the hope, And this may
not be what happens, but I think this is the hope.
You take Barrett Carter and Demetrius Night, and obviously the
Bengals are playing other rookies as well. Jalen Rivers got
a chance to start against Pittsburgh and played okay, And
you know, Dylan Fairchild obviously started the first game of

(14:32):
the season. If playing these guys in October means that
by the time we get to December, or maybe by
the time that Joe Flacco turns into a pumpkin, or
maybe by the time that Joe Burrow comes back, this
defense can perform better and actually win games for them,

(14:54):
I'm willing to put up with those short term mistakes
now in real time.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's frustrating.

Speaker 8 (14:59):
In real time, watching Barrett Carter maybe not be in
the right spot, frustrating, Watching Demetrius Knight misatackle frustrating.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
But you drafted those guys.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
You drafted those guys to play those guys, and you
drafted those guys to play those guys asap understanding there
were gonna be rookie mistakes. The inability to build a
better defense around those guys, to me, doesn't mean you
still don't give those guys a chance, especially if in
Barrett Carter's case, he's replacing a guy who wasn't making
a ton of plays. So this, to me becomes the story.

(15:27):
I don't know about you. They're playing younger dudes, they're
playing two rookie linebackers, and again, Logan Wilson still plays
a lot, But they're going sink or swim with Demetrius
Knight and Barrett Carter right now. And you understand that
there's a downside that comes with that. Does the upside
come later on this season? And when the upside does

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come later on this season, is that going to be
enough to help make a difference We'll see six point
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Rinse and repeat.

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Nippert Stadium, sold out Nippert Stadium at four o'clock. I'm Moweger.
My show is normally on ESPN fifteen thirty from three
to six in the afternoon. Lances aug tonight. He's back
on Monday for Bengals Line. Robert Wintrop is one of
my regular guests. He joins me usually every Thursday, but
I took Thursday off, but I'm working tonight and I thought,
you know what, I'm still gonna get Robert on the show.

(22:47):
He writes a weekly Bengals column for Cincinnati Magazine dot com.
He also writes for FTN Fantasy. He contributes to their
preseason almanac and writes about the Bengals every single year.
And he's absolutely awesome. It's awesome to have you on
a different day in different radio station. Let's start with this.
It's it's twenty twenty five, and who knows who the
Jets are going to play a quarterback, But we are

(23:07):
dealing with the possibility that on Sunday we are going
to watch a football game in twenty twenty five involving
Joe Flacco and Tyrod Taylor.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (23:16):
Man, even appearing on a Friday might not be able
to make up for that.

Speaker 17 (23:19):
I mean, how to a Gravens fans and thinking about
that particular matchet. Yeah, it's it should be interesting.

Speaker 16 (23:26):
I mean, now that Joe Flacco is the is the
hero by the banks of the Ohio, it's taken on
a slightly different turn than we probably expected if we
had heard that a couple of weeks ago when they
first made the trade for him.

Speaker 17 (23:37):
And let's face it, I mean, it's.

Speaker 16 (23:39):
Given the team hope. He's given all of us fans
something to look forward to. Instead of dreading a Bengals
Jets encounter in mid October, we're actually fired up.

Speaker 17 (23:48):
It's the ring of on our weekend. I mean, you know,
it's it's amazing how the season has turned yet again.

Speaker 16 (23:54):
Yeah, from incredible hope to incredible despair and then right
back you know, on the on the royal coach to
arrive upward again.

Speaker 17 (24:01):
So thank goodness for Joe Flacco. Never thought I'd say
those words, but here we are.

Speaker 8 (24:05):
Here we are now. When the Bengals were getting set
to play the Browns in the first game, which was
going to be Burrow versus Flacco, I did not imagine
I would be asking this question at any point, not
just this season, at any point ever. But now I've
got to ask it. What can Joe Burrow learn from
watching Joe Flacco.

Speaker 17 (24:23):
It's very true, That's what I mean. Two months later
and here we are.

Speaker 16 (24:26):
It's a crazy world. Well, there's a few things.

Speaker 17 (24:29):
I mean.

Speaker 16 (24:30):
Certainly when you saw those shots at Burrow watching from
the bench looking pretty dejected on Thursday night against the Steelers,
you had to be thinking about what was crossing Burrow's mind,
Maybe his football mortality. You know, he's talked about how
he's been the league for six seasons and he can't
believe it's gone so fast. But you know, we don't
think about it all that often, but we kind of

(24:50):
assume in the back of our minds, Joe Burrow will
still beat the Bengals quarterback at age thirty five plus, right,
And you know, the only way that seems sustainable right now,
after what's happened to him over the first part of
his career is to maybe play a little bit more
like Joe Flacco and to be you know, a little
bit more self preservation in the pocket and a little

(25:10):
bit quicker, to you know, get out of plays when
they aren't ready for a superman ending and just move
on to the next one.

Speaker 17 (25:17):
And perhaps even you know.

Speaker 16 (25:20):
Take a little bit of that Flacco humility and kind
of I don't want to say gratefulness maybe is the
right word, and and put that into his personality. We
love Joe Burrow for his cockiness, confidence, you know, kind
of mystique that he has.

Speaker 17 (25:34):
But you know, maybe he's thinking to himself, that's.

Speaker 16 (25:37):
A young man's thing, and being around Joe Flacco, who's
just you know, has a smile on his face ever
since he got the Cincinnati and you can see how
just how amazing amazed he is to still be playing
and playing.

Speaker 17 (25:48):
At such a high level at this age is a
good thing. And you know it's not because he has.

Speaker 16 (25:52):
The the Tom Brady avocado ice cream diet or the
Aaron Rodgers megl omania keeping him going at this point.
You know, he's just kind of of even sustained himself
by playing smart and doing.

Speaker 17 (26:04):
What he knows he can do and nothing more. And
I think, you know, Burrow can probably hopefully take.

Speaker 16 (26:09):
A little bit from that. And you know, he's never
really had a mentor in the room with him all
this time. He stepped in and was the guy from
day one, and you know, maybe there's a good opportunity
for him even if been only last.

Speaker 17 (26:20):
A couple of months. To have an old hand like
Joe Flacker around to learn from and learn about things,
not just about playing quarterback, but about, you know, kind
of being a professional football player overall. Be interesting to
see if he takes any lessons from it, for sure.

Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah, I agree. It helps to have Jamar, Chase and
t Higgins to throw to. It also helps when your
team can run the ball. And to me, you know
that for most of us at least was the outlier
against Pittsburgh. The running game, which have been dormant, non existent,
made us wonder should they even try to run the football?
It made an appearance and made an appearance in a
big way. Is that going to prove to be a
one offer or that? Can that prove to be something sustainable?

Speaker 16 (26:56):
Yeah, it was so strange to see, you know, Chase
Brown being from behind. I didn't you know, I don't
know if he even recognized the feeling. It was so
nice and long last you could just see all the
players after the lineman and brought himself just kind of
like screaming with relief after they finally got some decent plays.

Speaker 17 (27:13):
On the ground.

Speaker 16 (27:14):
It'll be tricky against the Jets, because the Jets have
a really good run defense. That's about the only thing
they do well right now, a third in the league
in DBA against the run. And you know, the Panthers
want a heater on the ground. And they didn't shut
him down entirely, but they they held him under four
yards of carry.

Speaker 17 (27:29):
Last week, and I think they'll look at it the
same way.

Speaker 16 (27:32):
It's you know, we're playing without Sauce Gardner and we
haven't had much success stopping teams passing the ball, and
you know, we don't want the Bengals to be able
to have a balance attack on So let's see if
Joe Flacco can keep it up and make him throw
forty times and you know, maybe he makes a mistake
and reverts back to the old Joe Flacco, or that
Joe Flacco hasn't been as effective as we've seen him

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in the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 17 (27:55):
I think going forward, just the mere fact that they
can run. They ran the ball twenty three times last week.

Speaker 16 (28:01):
It's it's the keeping to it and that's what having
Flacco in the game, you know, it as good as he's.

Speaker 17 (28:07):
Been in the passing when full called him on the pass.
You know, it's you get a balance.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
Out of him.

Speaker 16 (28:13):
You don't want to expose him as much as you
would Joe Burrow. You don't want a default to the
passing game quite as often as you were attempted to
with Burrow because he's so great at it.

Speaker 17 (28:21):
And you know, just give.

Speaker 16 (28:23):
The lineman a little bit of rhythm. They're still playing
with the young rookie guards and with you know, they
barely have had the same five guys play all.

Speaker 17 (28:32):
You know, every snap for more than one week in
a row.

Speaker 16 (28:35):
Give them a little rhythm, give them a little chance
to establish a you know, kind of straight ahead style
and not be backtracking constantly in pass protection.

Speaker 17 (28:44):
And maybe they give you a couple of games like this.

Speaker 16 (28:46):
I'm not saying they're going to all of a sudden
turn into you know, Nicky woodch James Brooks style team
where he can run.

Speaker 17 (28:52):
For three hundred yards week in and week out, but
you know, you like to think they could at least
sustain some relative.

Speaker 16 (28:58):
Success on the ground out, just make things much easier
for Flata on the offense.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
Robert Win Trump is with this catches weekly Bengals column
Cincinnati Magazine dot com. Is there a Joe Flacco for
the Bengals defense. Who is it and is that player
currently on the roster?

Speaker 16 (29:14):
You mean, like an old guy who likes to eat
by himself in the restaurant reveling and this you found
Freedom's exactly like that.

Speaker 17 (29:22):
Yeah. I mean there's guys out.

Speaker 16 (29:24):
There who are still you know, sitting on their couch
show to speak, that might provide a little bit of help.
Guys that we talked about at the safety even before
the season, during the offseason. Justin Simmons is still unsigned.
Marcus Williams who played for the Ravens uh and was
released and is still out there. You know, guys like that.
You might even you know, kick the tires on a
guy like a Sante Samuel see if he's healthy. Christian Wilkins,

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who was really the name that always I think.

Speaker 17 (29:50):
About as a guy who if he's available to play.

Speaker 16 (29:53):
You know, he has a lawsuit going against the Raiders,
I guess in the NFLPA, but you.

Speaker 17 (29:58):
Know, I know it ended badly there. But this is
still a really talented guy who signed a humongous contract
to go play in Las Vegas, and she's.

Speaker 16 (30:06):
Just kind of out there and available or knows the
Bengals could use some interior defensive line help. I don't
know if there's anybody who could be as transformative, whether
he's on the team right now or not on the
defense as Flacula has been just by the nature of
the position. Obviously, get a quarterback who can control the
game and everything looks so much different. It's not quite
the same thing on defense, but you know, they obviously

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could use.

Speaker 17 (30:28):
Some extra players back there. What they have right now
is not working.

Speaker 16 (30:32):
Particularly, they're the worst team, worst defense in the league
by DVOA, so you know, even just bodies, and they
haven't really been beat up yet. You know, that's what
really scares me is if some of the front line
players go down, obviously Trey Hendrickson notwithstanding, you know, they
haven't really had the things that they've seen in the
years past where an entire position group gets wiped out

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and you start to go with practice squad guys. So
they couldn't hurt at least in these next couple of
weeks before the trade in line to sniff around another squads,
and also, you know, think about some of these other
free agents who at least could bring some betteran savvy
and know how that we talk about with Flaco to
the defensive side of the ball and get some of
these kids, you know, yeah, a little bit sorted out
and not running around and being at a position quite

(31:16):
so much like we saw say from Gino Stone.

Speaker 17 (31:18):
Oh last minutes of the game against the Steelers. I
know we don't want to think about it, but I
can't get that play out of my mind every time
I close my eyes. What are you doing? Man?

Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah, I've asked that about Genostone often during his year
and a half with the With the Bengals, you talk
about the kids, so like all of these draft picks
are playing, which right we talked about in April. They
need instant impact from their draft choices. They're trying to
get it. You know, Shamar Stewart was physically on the
field against Pittsburgh, didn't do much of anything. They've obviously

(31:48):
given extensive playing times Dylan Fairchild and Demetrius Knight. Barrett
Carter has obviously seen a huge uptick in his snap count.
He's gotten all of them. The last couple of weeks,
we saw Jalen Rivers and so I guess what I'm
wondering is can can the growing pains that some of
these guys are going through. Can that Can that pay

(32:08):
dividends in November and December?

Speaker 16 (32:12):
I mean, boy, you'd like to think so. I mean,
just from a sheer like mental where am I supposed
to be? How do I take care of my body
to get through from week to week? Where do I
you know, who do I lean on in the huddle
to figure.

Speaker 17 (32:27):
Out which which switch I'm supposed to make? In communications wise?
All those things obviously require playing reps, and that's good
that you want the young players to get that as
much as possible. Then, on the other hand, there's.

Speaker 16 (32:39):
The dreaded rookie wall that we hear about so much,
and the fact that a lot of these young players
tend to fall off come the winter months because they're
just now used to the grind of a long, long
NFL season. I remember what lou An Rumo said about
DJ Turner once was that.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
He didn't hit the rookie wall.

Speaker 17 (32:55):
The rookie wall hit him.

Speaker 16 (32:57):
And that was just an extreme example, but that happens
all around the league. You rarely see rookie players have
you know, a continue Game one, the game seventeen impact
because of the sheer just mental and physical exhaustion and
grind the weak tends to extol. So yes, in terms
of that, I mean, I think, you know, if they

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can stay healthy and they can stay mentally and physically engaged,
it should have a payoff.

Speaker 17 (33:21):
And they should be.

Speaker 16 (33:22):
Able to get more used to what they are expected
to do, and they'll be more more used to playing
with one another, and that can only help.

Speaker 17 (33:30):
But you know, inevitably.

Speaker 16 (33:32):
Injury set in, and you know, young players don't tend
to be able to be consistent, and that's part of
the issue. So and we've seen it already, it's hard
to see it really improving over the course of a season.

Speaker 17 (33:45):
Maybe nominally, but you know, it's hard to see there's
gonna be a real payoff for all of a sudden.
Shamar Stewart is a is an All Pro level player
by December.

Speaker 16 (33:54):
I'm not sure we're going to see that necessarily. But
you know, as long as they can stay in the
field and be healthy, all these reps can only help them.

Speaker 8 (33:59):
Going, no question and well said Robert Wintrop Bengals column.
Read it now, Cincinnati Magazine dot Com, read it every week,
and listen to him every week with me on the
other station down the hall on Thursdays at four twenty
on ESPN fifteen thirty. I understand you're gonna be in
Cincinnati this weekends to travel safe and enjoy hopefully both
Bearcats and Bengals victories.

Speaker 17 (34:22):
Thank you. I look forward to that myself, and no
matter the day or the radio station mode, it's always
a pleasure to be out with you.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Awesome to have you. Robert Wintrop read his Bengals column
right now, go there, Cincinnati Magazine dot read all the
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it's my show, or at least tonight it is. So
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Speaker 1 (34:57):
Dve Lapham's encrimement into the Ring of Honor, we pay
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Speaker 2 (35:08):
Now Here's Dan.

Speaker 18 (35:09):
And d Lap.

Speaker 19 (35:10):
You not only played all five offensive line positions during
your career, you did it in the same game twice
that's mind boggling to me.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
How did you know every assignment?

Speaker 18 (35:22):
Yeah, it was interesting.

Speaker 20 (35:23):
I prided myself on, even in high school and college,
kind of understanding exactly what everybody was doing on the
field instead of just tunnel vision on my particular play.
So knowing what's going on around you, knowing what from
an environmental standpoint, you know what is happening around you,
and not having that tunnel vision like I just spoke of,
and understanding what all of your teammates are doing and

(35:45):
why they're doing and how they're doing it, and that
allowed me to play any place.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
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Speaker 8 (36:09):
O'clock News is three and a half minutes away on
seven hundred wl W. Al Moeger in for Lance McAllister.
This is RNL Carrier Sports Talk. Seven hundred WLWW are
presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Game one of the World Series
is tonight in Toronto, and I feel like outside of
Southern California, all of America is rooting for a team

(36:31):
from Canada, which is fine. David Bell works for the
Blue Jays, which is kind of cool. He's got a
chance to get a World Series ring.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Good for him.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
Like David Bell. Not unhappy that he's not the manager anymore,
but I like David Bell. I'm rooting for a good series.
I'm not rooting against the Dodgers, and I think I'm
in the minority. We are going to get to that
coming up at seven oh five. Lots more on the
Bengals in a bit, and Danny Canell's going to talk
some college football with us coming up at seven twenty
as we get set for UC and Baylor and other

(36:59):
area school tomorrow. I got like two and a half
minutes here, I'll be honest with you. Logan Wilson asking
for a trade is interesting in the Bengals and Jets,
It's an interesting game. Joe Flacco's interesting. The Bengals are
an interesting team right now. Hey not right now in
sports happening, that's as interesting as the NBA betting scandal.

(37:20):
And you know you've you've you've got players who are
sharing inside information on injuries and taking themselves out of games.
And if you you know, many are going to blame
the fact that gambling is legal now, and that's the problem.
That's the issue. The If you want to get rid
of gambling scandals inside a sports league, what you do

(37:41):
is you get rid of the draft, because if you
get rid of the draft, you get rid of tanking
at issue here with a lot of these teams that
were involved in the games in question, we're talking about
teams who are already out of playoff contention, who are
doing nothing more than playing for the reward of the
best possible draft pick or the best possible pass in
the NBA's draft lottery. Get rid of the draft, you

(38:03):
get rid of tanking. I promise you, you get rid of
a lot of gambling improprieties. The bigger one, though, for me,
is the one involving Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips,
where he was involved in a scheme backed and executed
by the mafia, and like not the Mafia in like

(38:26):
I don't know, Toledo, like the Five Families, the real
Mafia New York. The coach of the Blazers, who's a
Hall of Fame player, Chauncey Billups was involved in a
poker scheme that targeted victims who were lord to participate
in poker games because they were given the chance to
play alongside professional athletes like Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones

(38:49):
who played for a long time in the NBA. And
the FBI says the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to
read the cards in the deck, and then they relead
that information to an off site operator, and they called
the off site operator the quarterback, who would send that
information to somebody at the table. And they had poker

(39:09):
chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses,
glasses that could read mark cards, X ray poker tables
that could read cards face down. The FBI says that
the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquired a
rig shuffling machine. And so at the center of all
this is an NBA head coach who, by the way,

(39:30):
was a terrific player. Again, he's in the Hall of Fame,
Chauncey Billups, who it seems to me, among others, has
the ultimate choice call it Chauncey's choice where he could
either save his hide by ratting out the mafia, and
we know what happens when one does that, or he
can go to jail for a very long time. I

(39:52):
have never been more intrigued by like a sports scandal
than I am this one. I am a sucker for
mob stories. I'm a sucker for mob movies, mob books,
and I love basketball.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
This combines two of my loves.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
The depths to which this may go, I don't know
if it's gonna bring down an entire league. I think
that's overly dramatic. It's not good for a league. It's
just starting at season. It really ain't good for the
guy or guys who are gonna have a choice between
ratting out the mob going to jail for a very
long time. You shouldn't root against the Dodgers for a

(40:28):
simple reason that coming up after the seven o'clock news
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President Trump ramping up the pressure on Venezuela. This is
the seven o'clock report. I'm Matt Reeese breaking now the
White House ordering the Ford Carrier Strike Group and its
aircraft to waters off Central and South America. President Trump
threatening a direct attack on Venezuela. So far, the US
military has struck ten alleged drug vessels in that region,

(41:06):
eight near Venezuela.

Speaker 22 (41:08):
This has a significant amount of fire power to this region.
We already have eight ships in the region plus a submarine.
We are told that that is going to be up
to about thirteen ships at least in the region, going
from ten thousand troops to fifteen thousand troops.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
That ABCS and Flariday. Let's check the roads now for
we're on this Friday night and the very latest traffic
and weather together, and still have some continuing delays, especially
getting into downtown Cincinnati from northern Kentucky. Slow traffic really
from the river northbound seventy five all the way back
to two seventy five, and very slow as it always

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is through the construction zone southbound seventy five at the
Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway. Those are really the biggest
delays that we're seeing right now. I have some construction
delays to seventy five is well in Boone County as
you're heading toward Lawrence Burger gone two seventy five.

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off the Purple people bridge and survived. Is suspected of
stabbing a forty one year old woman on Homewood Place
in Merrimont this morning. The victim is expected to recover.
The man who jumped was rescued from the Ohio River
and he is charged tonight with felonious assault and domestic violence.
While on his route, a rumky driver found a body

(43:29):
along Ohio Wins twenty five in Brown County earlier today.
The Ohio State Highway patrel says the person found was
twenty two year old Caleb Olbert of Russellville, and police
believe he was struck by a vehicle which took off
kid who goes to Williamstown Independent Schools in northern Kentucky
removed from the campus earlier today for allegedly bringing a gun.

(43:50):
There had to be a lockdown. Gun was found during
a search, but not known which school in Williamstown the
child attended, and not clear if there are any charges file.
Cincinnati the target of some negative outdoor advertising. More from
Brian Combs.

Speaker 24 (44:05):
It's hard to miss the twenty foot by twenty foot
mobile billboard that's been driving the streets of downtown Cincinnati,
especially in the area around city Hall pictures the Mayor
of Cincinnati as a puppet master, accusing f tab Pure
of all of putting politics over safety since i Police
Officers Union paid for the mobile billboard, alleging the mayors
behind the efforts to remove the police chief. They say
he wants to make her the scapegoat for his failed policies.

(44:26):
The FOB Queen City Lodge has endorsed Purerval's opponent in
the upcoming race for mayor. The mayor denies he was
behind the decision spend. The chief says it was not
politically motivated, but he does add he supports the city
manager's move. I'm Brian Comebs News Radio seven ever WLUB.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Home Coming weekend for number twenty one in the nation
University of Cincinnati Bearcats. Tonight, our own Tony Pike, former quarterback,
will be inducted into the Bearcats Hall of Fame, and
there is a homecoming parade tomorrow at noon. World Series
Game one tonight Dodgers at Toronto Toe first pitch coming
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(45:50):
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Bengals and Jets Live at seven hundred WLWD pregame coverage
from the Holy Grail Sunday morning at nine am. There
is something that I wonder more than anything else about
the Bengals, and we'll get to that coming up at
seven thirty five. Plus, one of the biggest what ifs
in all of sports has ties to the Tri State,

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and we'll talk some college football with a great guest,
Danny Canell. Coming up in just about ten minutes. Game
one of the World Series is tonight. It's in Toronto
Dodgers and Blue Jays, and the month of October is
awesome if you love a lot of different sports. This
is some call it what the sports equinox, because in
the month of October, you've obviously got the NFL, You've

(46:36):
got college football, the NBA starts, the NHL is underway,
there are college basketball exhibitions. By the way, you see
plays Arkansas in about an hour, no radio coverage, so
you can go watch it on the internet or something,
and then the baseball playoffs happen.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
By the time we get to the World Series.

Speaker 8 (46:53):
I don't want to get into a discussion about ratings
or anything like that, because at the end of the day,
who among us cares it? Just this what used to
be crown jewel events in all of sports gets so
lost in the flood. And they've moved Game one to
Friday so that games one and two don't run opposite
college football in the NFL. Obviously college football is gonna

(47:15):
happen tomorrow, but Game two is not gonna go on
opposite the National Football League. I think from here baseball perspective,
it's a pretty interesting series. The Dodgers pitching and as
Reds fans We saw this first hand in Round one.
The Dodgers starting pitchers starting pitching has been otherworldly. Bob
Baschett is gonna come back for Toronto and play for

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the first time since September the sixth. That is a
very good Toronto lineup. If you remember, in early September,
the Blue Jays came here and there was a game
where on a Wednesday night, the Reds hit jumped out
to a five to nothing lead and the Blue Jays
ended up winning that game by like four or five
runs and hit five homers. That lineup just keeps coming.
Vladimir Guerrero is one of the best two or three

(47:59):
hitters in all of baseball. It's interesting. I know how
this works, and I know how it works in a
in a market where the baseball team is a small
market team. The Dodgers spend and spend and spend and spend.
By the way, for what it's worth, the Blue Jays
have the fifth highest payroll in all of baseball. This
isn't some mom and pop franch The Toronto Blue Jays spend. Hell,

(48:22):
they came this close to signing show Heyo Tani and
they would have spent even more to go get him.
So it's the team with the biggest actually the second
biggest payroll behind the Mets, and the fifth biggest payroll
in the Toronto Blue Jays. If I asked one thousand
people in Cincinnati, all right, you have to pick a
team to cheer for in the World Series, my guess

(48:43):
is nine hundred and ninety eight are going to say
the Blue Jays, and most are going to say it's
because they don't want the high spending, big market Dodgers
to win. Now, you will find some who grew up
in the seventies who will tell you, you know, the
Reds and Dodgers had such a great rivalry back then,
and then we'll tell you, like, I'm just not rooting
for the Dodgers because of that younger fans. I'm forty eight.

(49:06):
I consider myself a younger fan. Don't necessarily, for the
most part, feel that way about LA. Here's my take.
I don't understand rooting against teams who do everything they
can to try to win, especially in a sport filled
with owners who blatantly don't try to win. By the way,

(49:29):
this is not even about the Reds. You want to
root against the team, read about the owner of the
Pittsburgh Pirates root against them. Now, you may hate baseball's economics,
and there's a lot to not like about baseball's economics.
There are clear advantages the teams like the Dodgers and
Mets and Yankees have. By the way, it's been proven
that having those advantages doesn't guarantee you anything. The two

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New York teams have combined to win one World Series
this century. The Dodgers won a World Series in twenty twenty.
It was their first since nineteen eighty eight. So you
might spend a lot, it doesn't guarantee anything. It certainly doesn't.
There's real there's no real sense of inevitability. But what
I don't understand is the criticism of a team that

(50:14):
has advantages that takes advantage of those advantages. The bigger
issue would be, for me, if a big market team
didn't spend by the way. The Chicago Cubs tried this,
and maybe from a baseball perspective, did the right thing.
But in the in the late twenty tens, after they
won the World Series in twenty sixteen, despite making printing
money hand over fist in Chicago, the Ricketts family, you know,

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basically pled poverty.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
We can't afford to keep our players.

Speaker 8 (50:40):
That is a thing in this sport, and it's such
a thing in this sport that we just kind of
nod along and accept it. If you could have root
against the team, root against the team that doesn't try
to win, the bigger story would be for me if
the Dodgers didn't spend. So the rules say they can spend,
they spend. If you were a Dodgers fan, wouldn't you
want your team to take advantage of their financial advantages? Again, man,

(51:02):
you think you might think baseball needs a salary cat,
there's some validity to that. You might think baseball's economics
are so out of whack that it would make sense
for the sport to take a year off for them
to kind of come up with a new way of
structuring their economics. Maybe, but that's not the Dodgers' fault.
It's not a big market team's fault. And look, I'm
a fan of a Reds fan. I'm a fan of
a small market team. But it's funny in college sports,

(51:26):
you know, most of us root for a school, for
big name schools, right, most of us route like I'm
a UC fan from a football perspective, it's not Ohio State.
In college sports, we love, we love financial inequity. We
love it. Like if I said, if you're an Ohio
State fan, and I'm not picking on OSU, I'll make
it about Kentucky basketball. If you want Ohio State football

(51:48):
can only spend the same amount of money on recruiting
and facilities as Toledo or Miami or kent State, Buckeye
fans would lose their minds. In college sports, we love
the financial equity, especially in the era of paying players.
By the way, we have all sorts of non traditional
powers that are now competing. Indiana University as the second

(52:10):
ranked team in college football right now. And I'm big
on nil and revenue sharing because i want everybody to
get paid. It's leveled the playing field in many ways.
Hasn't it all ruined the sport. I think it's made
the championship, the playoff more accessible to more fans, more teams.
It's great. But in college sports, who have a lot
of folks, they want the financial inequity. They don't love

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the fact that other schools can pay players. They want
to hoard all the talent. They hate the transfer portal,
which is why for decades you've had the same schools
dominating in the college football playoff era when it was
still just for teams, it was the same schools every
single year. College football fans love that, and yet when
it comes to baseball we hold it against the teams
that have financial advantages that they use them. I'm rooting

(52:56):
for a great World Series. I can't say that I'm
rooting for the Dodgers' for six seven games. I'm running
for a drama. I'm rooting for a series better than
last years. Like there's a big part of me rooting
for David Bell to get a World Series ring. Jeff
Hoffman was here, Kevin Gosman was here, no real attachment
to them. But still I just want a great series.
Love great baseball. But I'm not going to root against

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the Dodgers because they try to win. And if that's
what you're doing, Frankly, I don't understand. Sixteen minutes after
seven o'clock five point three, seven four nine, seven thousand
is our phone number. We could perhaps get to some
phone calls a little bit later on. You see, is
one of two teams in the Big twelve that doesn't
have a conference loss. I think Tomorrow's game for Cincinnati

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is huge. Bearcats v. Baylor Stadium is going to be
sold out. They've got a tough road tilt next week
against Utah, some big games coming up later on in
the season against TCU and BYU. You've got to win
at home. This line has come down, by the way,
from five and a half to three and a half.

(54:01):
Danny Cannell joins my show All the Time to talk
college football. We'll get his thoughts on the Bearcats and
the Buckeyes and some Hoosiers and more when we come back.
It's Rnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet on
seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
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Cincinnati and Baylor Bearcats are are six and one. Danny
Canell's with us thanks to a bet online. I got

(55:04):
a bet online. I look right now, Danny, I see
the Bearcats are plus seven hundred plus seven hundred to
win the Big Twelve Conference.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Talk me into it or out of it?

Speaker 25 (55:14):
Oh, man, I think it's pretty good value, right, I mean,
I think people are still sleeping on the Bearcats.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
My man, Brandon Sorosby has been bawling.

Speaker 25 (55:23):
I don't think he's getting anywhere near the amount of
attention that he should be getting.

Speaker 6 (55:29):
He has been awesome, and if.

Speaker 25 (55:31):
You take away, you know, one bad play against Nebraska,
this team is really close to being undefeated. But Soorsby's
got eighteen touchdowns in one interception, and he's got six
rushing touchdowns. By my math, that's twenty four total touchdowns
and one interception. Why isn't he getting any Heisman loved?

(55:51):
And I get why because.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
You're not in the market, you know, or you're not
a traditional blue blood.

Speaker 25 (55:56):
But I'm serious, he's playing quarterback as good as anybody
in the country. They're playing some great football. And if
the Big Twelve, I mean, we all we've been proven
wrong all season long.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
We all thought, oh it's Texas Tech, head and shoulders
above the field. Oh it's Texas Tech.

Speaker 25 (56:12):
Texas Tech goes and loses last week, I say, why
not the Bearcats?

Speaker 6 (56:17):
So I am not trying to talk you out of
that one.

Speaker 25 (56:20):
Of course, the Texas Tech game would be the only
one that they would have to face in the Big
Twelve championship. Don't have them the regular season. But we
just saw Utah get beat by BYU. You can handle
them BYU. You guys play at home, like, why not
at the nip You could see it happening. Now you're
thinking about I'm about to take a bet on the
Bearcats here to win the Big Twelve.

Speaker 8 (56:39):
See there you go. You're speaking my language. By the way,
two fifty to one to win the college football playoff.
It's that's not something I thought I would be looking at.
A long way to go, but it's been a fun
season so far. We were talking about this yesterday. Ohio
State gets talked about a lot in this part of
the country. I'm not sure in recent years nationally there

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has been a less discussed number one team in the
nation through this part of the season.

Speaker 25 (57:06):
Yeah, I would tend to agree. I think you saw
this happen last year with Georgia. They were just everybody
knew they'd be in the College Football Playoff and you're
kind of like, yeah, we'll talk about them when it matters.
But Georgia wasn't as dominant as Ohio State has been
this year. I just was in Madison, Wisconsin, so I
saw the buck guys in person. Of course, it was

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not a great game, completely lopsided, but that we haven't
seen a lot of teams that are just handling their
business every single week. We've seen a lot of teams
overlook opponents, they underwhelm.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
Ohio State has not done that, and I think this team.

Speaker 25 (57:42):
I talked to Jeremiah Smith after the game and he
said he thinks this team is better than last year's
and it is really hard to argue against when you
look at the totality of the roster. I think last
year's run game was a little bit better and the
offensive line was a little bit better, but outside of that,
defense is putting up historic numbers. You know, they pitch

(58:03):
another shutout last week, which was really impressive. My big
concern for Ohio State, and this is similar to sort
of some of those great teams that we've seen, you know, traditionally,
it's do they get battle tested before they have to
play against potentially Indiana and the Big Ten or if
they have to play against Alabama and the College Football

(58:25):
Playoff because they're so good, Like, it's just you wonder
if that's gonna matter, because they won't have many opportunities
to be in a fourth quarter game where you look
up at the scoreboard it's.

Speaker 6 (58:37):
Like, oh crap, we got to get this thing going.

Speaker 25 (58:39):
They might not have to face that type of adversity,
which is like rich people problems, right, Like it's a
problem that everybody would love to have. But I cannot
say enough about how impressed I was the Buckeyes, Julian
saying is playing like a seasoned veteran. I love the
way they've kind of they've taken you know, they kind
of have slow played it.

Speaker 6 (58:56):
It's like a restaurant. They have a soft opening.

Speaker 25 (58:58):
I think that's what they did early in the season,
and then now they're kind of just throwing everything at him,
and he is flurshing. It has just been really, really
impressive the Buckey's what they've been able to do.

Speaker 8 (59:07):
When you were in Madison, if I would have told
you that at this time this week, Luke Fickle will
still be employed, you would have said, what.

Speaker 25 (59:15):
I'm pretty astounded, especially considering the pulse. You know, you
get a pretty good pulse.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
When you're on the ground.

Speaker 25 (59:21):
Even before the game, fans were like, yeah, we probably
have to make a change, and then you know, at
the airport after everyone's like, well, it's got to happen today,
and then no, you get the statement of support from
the athletic director. So I'm surprised, but I'm also surprised
at how bad it's been. I thought Luke Fickle was
an a higher you know when you grade the hires.
I thought he was a great fit at Wisconsin. I

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do think they're starting to learn they have a lot
of making up to do in the nil landscape, and
their schedule has been.

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Brutal, and he's had horrible quarterback.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Look.

Speaker 25 (59:51):
So I know the athletic director said they're going to
try to give him some more resources, give more money,
but my goodness, I don't think it's gonna get I
think it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And
that's going to take a tremendous amount of fortitude for
that athletic director to continue to back Luke Fickle the
way they've lost the fan base.

Speaker 8 (01:00:08):
Danny Knell is with us thanks to bet Online again.
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Heisman and College Football Week nine lines. Stay in the
Big ten with me. Last year, it felt like Indiana
was a really neat story. This year, it feels like
they're a powerhouse. Fernando Mendoza the odds on favorite to
win the Heisman Trophy. Do you take the Hoosiers seriously

(01:00:29):
as national championship contenders?

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
Absolutely?

Speaker 25 (01:00:34):
And I would say why, like and maybe if they
didn't do what they did to Oregon, you'd probably be
waiting for them to prove.

Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
It one more time, like we need to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
But they I thought of Oregon.

Speaker 25 (01:00:45):
I still think Oregon is a really good football team.
That was a pretty convincing win. I mean, they won
by ten, but I think the style of it, the
way they were able to control both lines of scrimmage,
that was really really impressive. Kirksey that he's a great
football coach, and I still think it's very similar to
what's going on at Vanderbilt. People need to erase everything
you've known about Indiana for the last fifty years.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
There's a couple of reasons why.

Speaker 25 (01:01:09):
One, they've done a great job and they're going on
their second season kind of putting a stampoint they did
last year.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
But this is a new landscape of college football.

Speaker 25 (01:01:16):
Like you, you don't have just windows where you can win,
where you get lucky with a good class or a
good quarterback. They actually have resources, and they have the
revenue share and they've got the portal. So I think
Indiana is here to stay. And I do think Fernando
Mendoza is pretty special. They still have a lot of
players that were on last year's team that were holdovers
from James Madison, which was a championship level player.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
So yes, I think Indiana is a team that could
win the national championship.

Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
In college football, we've seen a lot of coaches get
fired with large buyouts, most notably James Franklin, who's being
paid nearly fifty million dollars to not work. Some view
that as this is a sign that the sport is really,
really healthy, And some view this as this is a
sign that the sport is in trouble and it's not
so the money going to the players.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
What's your take?

Speaker 25 (01:02:03):
No, all I know is I don't want to hear
any athletic directors or school presidents complaining about finances, right Like,
you've got to stop saying, oh, we're we're at a
point of crisis. Well, if there is a crisis, it's
on you guys, like you're the ones that are handing
out these contracts with these ridiculous guarantees and ridiculous buyouts.

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
And I don't think it changes. I think it's the
sport is in a great spot. I mean it really is.

Speaker 25 (01:02:28):
The ratings are up, the players are making money, The
expanded Playoff has brought a lot of hope to a
lot of programs. So I think the sport is in
a great spot. I mean, the coaches just have more
pressure on them than ever before, in large part because
of these salaries, because of the money that they're making.
So I think until athletic directors start getting smarter and
don't get raked over the coals by these agents with

(01:02:50):
all the leverage that they have. You're just going to
see these continue to escalate, and you're gonna see coaches
make a lot of money, either to coach or to
not coach.

Speaker 6 (01:02:58):
It's just a matter of what where.

Speaker 25 (01:02:59):
They're gonna be or on television, you know, talking about
the sport. But either way, they're gonna make a lot
a lot of money.

Speaker 8 (01:03:05):
All Right, one more, really quick. I ask you this
every time look at that online. I don't want a favorite.
Give me a dark horse. Give me a long shot
with value, whether it's the National Championship or whether it's
the Heisman Trophy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Give me one of those where I could get some
value for my wager.

Speaker 25 (01:03:25):
Spend on how long you want to go? I would
say the Miami Hurricanes, and I it was ugly right.
They lost on the national stage was Friday night, kind
of standalone game.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
I still thought they were National championship worthy before.

Speaker 25 (01:03:39):
And it's just you gotta really put a lot of
trust in Carson Beck that he's not gonna have that
type of game because he had four interceptions. The three
of them were horrendous decisions, a couple of them were
great plays. But I still think that team has an
offensive and defensive line that are very special. I think
Oregon I would put in that same category, but Oregon's
only nine to one. If you want to go a

(01:03:59):
little bit longer, fourteen to one. Like, I would not
waste your money on Texas. Think arch Manning still has
significant growth to go Texas Tech. I worry a little
bit about their competition. Ole missus defense. I don't trust them.
So I would say Miami at fourteen to one. And
this is from a seminole, So you got to consider
this like, this is me giving a lot of love
to a program that I don't like.

Speaker 6 (01:04:20):
I'll say Miami's not bad value here at fourteen to one.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
Learn more bet online, dot ag get updated college Football Playoff,
Heisman and college Football Week nine lines. Standy Canell kind
enough to join us. Always awesome to have you. I
hope we can do it before the season ends. Appreciate it, man,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
Oh we will.

Speaker 25 (01:04:38):
We might be talking about Cincinnati and College Football Playoff
cope season.

Speaker 8 (01:04:42):
Yes we will, and I might need a half hour
with you if that happens, Danny.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
Thank you definitely. All right, Well let's see I look forward.

Speaker 8 (01:04:49):
To that, Danny Canel. It's time for the seven thirty news,
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News Traffic and Weather News Radio WLW, Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
Trump turning up the heat on Venezuela. Will there be
an attack on their mainland? This is the seven thirty report.
I'm matt Reee breaking Now America's largest aircraft carrier headed
to the Caribbean. As American strikes on drug boats continue.
Secretary of War ordering the USS Gerald R. Ford to

(01:05:24):
the Caribbean to help quote dismantle transnational criminal organizations and
counter narco terrorism in the defense of the homeland scums.
As the US carried out an overnight strike on a
suspected drug boat, it killed six people on board. President
Trump has already threatened a direct attack on Venezuela in

(01:05:46):
recent days, and our military has struck ten alleged drug
vessels in the region, eight near Venezuela.

Speaker 22 (01:05:53):
The administration here says that they do not believe that
the president in Venezuela is a legitimate president one declared
himself a winner of a fraudulent election, and the driving
force behind all of this is Secretary of State Marc Rubio,
who has a lawn trek record of calling for that
Venezuelan government to collapse and he wants a democratic government

(01:06:14):
to take route.

Speaker 7 (01:06:15):
There's ABC's and flarerty Well reports this is an addition
of a significant amount of firepower to the region and
already eight ships there plus a submarine. She says it's
going to be up to thirteen ships at least in
the region, going from ten thousand troops to fifteen thousand
American troops. All right, we have a lot of problems

(01:06:35):
on the roads tonight, the latest traffic and weather together,
and we begin on northbound seventy five at Northern Kentucky.
Traffic is slow from the river all the way back
to two seventy five. No recks there. But southbound seventy
five through that construction zone at the Ronald Reagan Cross
County Highway on the Ohio side, that is slow, and

(01:06:58):
it is slow on west bound two seventy five and
Coleraine Township coming up on twenty seven Coleraine Avenue. You're
heading westbound, you'll be running into some construction delays. Otherwise
looking pretty good. One more to add in there, northbound
seventy one at the split with seventy five in Northern

(01:07:19):
Kentucky and the Walton area.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
That is slow. Maybe an accident at that location.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Now the lateies forecast from a train heating and cooling
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Speaker 10 (01:07:32):
Tonight, increasing clouds, a seven am temperature a thirty eight
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mostly cloudy, a high of fifty seven at night.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
It stays that way in a low of forty three.

Speaker 10 (01:07:44):
Sunday, an early chance of a shower, and you guessed it,
mostly cloudy, a high of fifty eight from your severe
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Sunday again at pay Course Stadium, Bengals and Jets, slight

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is a sobriety checkpoint. They're going to start in an
hour from now in Sharonville on Levenon Road near two
seventy five, starts at eight thirty, runs until ten thirty.
The Hamilton County OVII Task Force on the scene. They'll
be stopping cars and checking to see whether the drivers

(01:08:38):
are intoxicated. Warning of flight delays disruptions only getting worse
starting next week. Transportation Secretary says most air traffic controllers
have been showing up for work despite knowing they're not
going to be paid during the government shutdown, but Sean
Duffy says he expects that's going to change Tuesday, the
day the controllers were supposed to be getting a paycheck.

(01:09:01):
Duffy expects far more disruptions starting on Tuesday. Former Alabama
and Bengals quarterback A. J. Mccaren wants to be a
lieutenant governor of Alabama, announcing he's going to run as
a Republican in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
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Playing in the NFL reinforced importance of achieving goals bigger
than ourselves.

Speaker 7 (01:09:22):
AJ McCarron, a native of Mobile, Alabama, says the state's
conservative and cultural values have been under attack from every direction.
First pitch of Game one of the World Series a
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A little bit later on, we're gonna preview FC Cincinnati's
first round playoff series against the Columbus Crew that coming
up at eight twenty. FC Cincinnati had a very good season.
The Eastern Conference in Major League Soccer feels wide open.

(01:10:46):
I don't know anybody who was excited about playing Columbus
in round We don't want to play your rival in
round one. We'll see, we'll see see if they can
get there. Come up and so to speak for what
happened in the Eastern Conference Final two years ago. That
conversation coming up in just about forty minutes. Bengals and
Jets on Sunday. Can the Joe Flacco magic continue? You know?

(01:11:08):
I say this often on my show on ESPN fifteen thirty.
By By the way, my name is Mollaggar. It's not
Beef tallow In for Lance Lances back for Bengals line
on Monday evening. Be interesting or be good? You gotta
be one. From where I sit, you gotta be one.
Be good or be interesting. Ideally be both? Right, Ideally
your team is good and it's interesting, but it's got

(01:11:30):
to be one of the other. It's got to be
at least one of the other. Uh, the Joe Flacco
thing interesting?

Speaker 18 (01:11:35):
Right?

Speaker 8 (01:11:35):
Picking up the dude on Tuesday, playing a game on Sunday,
By the way, that was the right decision in real time.
It proved to be the right decision later on. For
those who don't want to give Zach credit for anything.
Zach Taylor credit for anything. They they took some heat
now for like throwing him to the Wolves against against
Green Bay. They did that so they could win the

(01:11:56):
game against Pittsburgh. Good decision there, right decision there. Give
the Bengals credit. The Joe Flacco story is interesting. It's
been made more interesting by the fact that he helped
beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and did so on a night
where the defense did next to nothing in prime time
eight days after joining the team. It has vaulted the

(01:12:17):
Bengals back into the playoff hunt. I think it has
opened the door for Cincinnati and Baltimore in the AFC North.
Now it can close quickly. I think it closes that
the Bengals loose to the Jets. I think it closes
for Baltimore if they lose to Chicago this weekend. But
it's interesting for as much as the season has evolved

(01:12:38):
and there's been changes, we've gone from Burrow to Browning
to Flacco, I still have the same question I had
in April, May, June, July, and August. The question is
when the offense dries up, when the quarterback isn't having
a great day, When the offense came run the football

(01:13:01):
when the other team's defense just has their number. Can
the Bengals defense win a game now? To be fair?
To be fair, the answer against Cleveland way back Week one,
which feels like a lifetime ago, was yes against Joe Flacco. Now,
it helped that the Browns kicker left four points on
the field, but the defense answered the question in that

(01:13:23):
week can they win a game for the Bengals Now?
Cleveland's running back Quinn Shawn Judkins didn't play that game.
He has been awesome since they've started using him beginning
with Week two. But it's the question, right. I asked
it all offseason because all off season you would hear, hey, look,
the Bengals just need to be league average, right, Bengals
just need a league average defense, and they're gonna be okay.

(01:13:44):
And I get the basic premise, Hey, you've got Burrow
and Chase and Higgins are gonna score a billion points.
As long as the defense doesn't screw it up, as
long as they're kind of middle of the pack, they're
gonna be okay. My question was, fine, big picture, that
might be the case anecdotally. Two things. One, what happens
if there's a game where for the offense it's just

(01:14:06):
not working. Number two, what happens when the defense has
to get a stop in a game where the offense
has put the team in a position to win. The
Bengals are getting ready for their eighth game of the season.
We're close to the midway point. I still wonder those things,

(01:14:27):
like go back to last Thursday, Joe Flacco puts the
team in a position to win Gino stone In the
defense almost almost give up the game. Go back to
the game against green Bay. The Bengals offense starts to
click in the second half. On three different occasions, the
defense took the field with the Bengals down by one possession,

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down one score, and in every instance they gave up
points to the green Bay offense. The game against Detroit,
say what you want about Jake Browning. They pulled within
eleven points ten and a half minutes to go. It
might not have been likely that they were going to
come back and win the game, but ten and a
half minutes is an eternity. Eleven points is not insurmountable.

(01:15:13):
Get off the field and your team has at least
a little bit more of a chance. Instead, Detroit went
down the field and six plays never even got to
a third down. And I could keep going. I could
talk about the Denver game. I could talk about the
Minnesota game. And so like, here's the question, and I
don't know that I have the answer. I'll ask you

(01:15:35):
at five point three seven four nine seven thousand. Let's
say Sunday that Joe flacco magic runs out, and if
it's not this Sunday, maybe it's against Chicago. Joe Flacco
is is gonna play a lot more right. I mean,
we're still talking like Burrow mid December, best case, we're
not even to November yet. And those Burrow games, if
he does come back for like the last three, only

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matter if they can win enough games to make them matter.
So on Thursday, Joe Flacco plays very well and Jamar
Chase's otherworldly, and T Higgins is good, and the offensive
line was all right and they ran the ball effectively,
which to me, that was the biggest offensive subplot to
that entire game. What's gonna happen when that doesn't happen.

(01:16:19):
What's gonna happen when Joe Flacco turns into a pumpkin.
What's gonna happen when he turns into a forty year
old backup quarterback, like he's the toast of the town
right now, and he should be. And by the way,
I've become a fan of Joe Flacco for life, and
he's played forever in the NFL, He's played for two
teams inside the AFC North, and yet I've never felt

(01:16:41):
strongly about him either way. He's always just been there.
I've respected him. It's had a very long career, made
a ton of money, won a lot of games, Super Bowl, MVP,
He's had a very good career. But I've never felt
like strongly either way about him. Like if you're a
Bengals fan like me, you loathe Ben Roethlisberger, how out
Steelers stands low Ben Roethlisberger, But like Joe Flacco never

(01:17:04):
elicited those sort of emotions. For me, I never felt
strongly until I watched him here. And it was not
just the fact that he's played well. It's how he's
handled himself. That first Friday after he got traded here,
you could tell he just he appreciated the absurdity and
the humor of this situation that he's found himself in,
learning his teammates, all that sort of stuff on the fly,

(01:17:26):
and it's worked, and you know it's probably gonna work
on Sunday because the Jets are terrible. But here we
are in late October, we're still wondering the same thing
that many of us were wondering back in August. When
the defense has to get a stop, when the defense
has to win you a game, can it And so
far the answer has been no. And Al Golden, They've

(01:17:48):
tried stuff right, They've benched Zach cam Taylor Britt, They've
made him a healthy scratch. They've made a change at
linebacker and let Barrett Carter play like. They've tried stuff,
and there have been some decent things to happen on defense.
DJ Turner has been unbelievable the last couple of games.
But we're midway through the season, nearly midway through the season.

(01:18:10):
I guess seven games in big, big sample size, and
it's still an untrustworthy unit. It's still a unit that
since losing the game on Sunday sounds far fetched, I'll
make it about that Bears game, which is the one

(01:18:30):
going into the bye. It's gonna be a big game.
Bengals are at home. What if it is a situation
like the one they had against Pittsburgh. They've taken the lead,
they need to stop. It's thirty four to twenty two
and a half to go. Can they get a stop?

(01:18:51):
Now you might go, well, yeah, but it was Aaron Rodgers, Okay,
but can they get a stop? Can they get a
stop when they're down a score and need the ball
back like they couldn't against Jordan Love and the Green
Bay Packers. So like, I am all in on Flacco

(01:19:13):
and I think Zach Taylor deserves a measure of credit
for helping him get up to speed. And man, it's
a fun story. And Jamar Chase was awesome and they've
dumbed it down to a degree and it's like, dude,
just throw the ball to Chase and Higgins, Like I
get it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
This is fun.

Speaker 8 (01:19:29):
And the Bengals at three and four, like if they're
two and five, we're not talking about this. We're talking
about who they trade, who they fire, what next year
is going to look like. Some will say they should tank,
but for the win on Thursday against the Steelers to
genuinely vault this team into a position where it could
remain in the playoff hunt, get a playoff spot, get

(01:19:51):
to the postseason with Joe Burrow. Al Golden's unit's gonna
have to do something that it hasn't been able to do,
at least since Week one. Get off the field when needed,
and that's win a game. And I'm not even talking
necessarily about what happens if Joe Flacco just doesn't have
it turns into a pumpkin. What happens if Joe Flacco's

(01:20:12):
immobility puts him in harm's way and there's an injury,
and now Browning's got to play and your offense is
more limited. If the answer continues to be I don't know,
or if the answer continues to be no, they can't
get stops, this season goes nowhere, and we'll bring into

(01:20:32):
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(01:21:57):
seven thousand. By the way, good conversation with Danny Canelbe.
He brought up Luke Fickle. Luke Fickle, I think, to
the surprise of a lot of people, is still the
coach on Wisconsin after his team was shut out back
to back weeks. I'm not sure right now that there
is a coach in college football who is who is
as deeply disliked by his fan base as Luke Fickle

(01:22:18):
is at Wisconsin, and it's it's a great what if? Right,
Like I am a lifelong and diehard UC fan. I
root for Luke Fickle. I root for, for the most part,
all of the coaches who have come to UC and
left U see, because I think most of them left
it better than when they took it over. And you know,

(01:22:38):
in particular Luke Fickle, like he was the coach when
they were in the playoff man they had an undefeated season, Like,
how could you root against that guy? And I think
sometimes we focus so much on how it ends and
not so much on the body of work. The body
of work was incredible. So I root for him from afar,
but I just wonder, Look, he's handsomely paid and when
they fire him, he's gonna get a you know, years

(01:23:01):
worth of buyout money, and so nobody is gonna feel
sorry for him. But Scott Sadderfield at you See has
things trending in the right direction. I don't think they're
there quite yet, quite frankly, but he's got a football
team that I don't think has a ton of weaknesses.
I don't think they have any major glaring holes. They've
got a good collection of talent, they're well coached, they're

(01:23:23):
competing in the Big twelve. We'll see if they can
avoid a second half meltdown like the one they saw
last year. And I think they will because I just
think they have more Big twelve caliber players and so
we'll see. I just if you're Luke Fickle and you know,
the Big ten that he joined at Wisconsin is not
the Big ten that Wisconsin is playing now. The Big

(01:23:45):
twelve that you see is in is not easy, but
it's not the Big ten that Wisconsin is playing now.
I just I wonder if deep down inside he's not
asking himself, what if? What if he sees it through
at you see? Is there for the leap to the
Big twelve? Is here during the era of the college

(01:24:06):
football playoff, where the championship tournament has never been more accessible.
At a program where you can win, at a program
where they have figured out some things. From an nil perspective,
what would life be like instead of being in a
job where it feels like you have no chance of
winning big and where you are reviled by the fan base.

(01:24:29):
I don't know, but by the way, I do think
you see will avoid what happened last season. I'm not
here to tell you they're gonna win the Big twelve.
I'm not here to tell you that they're gonna win tomorrow.
But you know, last year, I think the offense went
into a shell in the second half of the season.
They didn't have dudes on the outside. Now I think
they have dudes on the outside. And while there are
weaknesses and they've got to be better defensively, and they've

(01:24:50):
got to get Dante Corleone on the field for a
larger percentage of the snaps, I don't know that there
are many glaring holes in that football team. And I
certainly don't think that there's a game on the schedule
between now and the end of the season that they
cannot win. More on Logan Wilson, who's asked for a
trade that plus will preview the first round series for

(01:25:10):
FC Cincinnati coming up in the next half hour. Right now, though,
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Speaker 7 (01:25:28):
President sending huge firepower to pressure Venezuela. This is the
eight o'clock report. I'm Matt Reeves breaking now the USS
Gerald R Ford heading to the Caribbean. It comes after
an overnight strike by the US on an alleged drug
boat that killed all six people on board. US has

(01:25:49):
struck several suspected drug boats in the Caribbean as well
as the Pacific Ocean strikes, drawing criticism from some Democratic
lawmakers as well as presidents of Venezuela Lane Columbia. It's
a dramatic escalation of what President Trump calls his war
on drug cartels.

Speaker 27 (01:26:07):
The US has Ford Carriers strike group heading to the region.
That carrier bristling was firepower including F eighteen fighter jets,
missile launchers and attack submarines, adding some five thousand American
forces to the ten thousand already.

Speaker 8 (01:26:23):
In the region.

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BBC's Martha Rabbits now we check the roads for you
on this Friday night. We have the very latest traffic
and weather together, and it has improved around almost the
entire area where we said there were delays the last
half hour. Still a little bit slow on westbound two
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but looking good for the most part. Across the rest
of the tri State except four northbound seventy five at
the seventy five seventy one split in Walton. There is
a delay there, apparently a wreck involved. The rest of
the tri State looking good now.

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In the Tri State weather Tonight, we're clouding up. We'll
see a morning low of thirty eight degrees and maybe
some frost. On Saturday, early sun, then clouds in a
high of fifty seven at night, mostly cloudy, a low
down to forty three on Sunday and early chance of
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Bengals and the Jets. There is a slight chance of rain,
but again mostly cloudy in a high of fifty seven.
Speaking of weather, forecas as say Tropical Storm Melissa expected

(01:28:02):
to intensify into a major hurricane this weekend, slamming parts
of the Caribbean. Could bring catastrophic flash flooding and landslides
to Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican industry. Wide shortage of
semiconductors the reason the Honda plant in Marysville beginning to
pull back on production. Honda not specific about the amount

(01:28:23):
of reduction in the length of it. Honda says impacted
employees have the option to continue working, use paid time off,
or take time off without pay. Two Planned Parenthood affiliates
challenging the Ohio Department of Medicaid from prohibiting their participation
in the federal health insurance program. According to a news release,

(01:28:44):
ODM sent letters to Planned Parenthood of Greater Cincinnati and
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region in late September informing them
of the termination. The release says that the change would
prevent over twenty seven thousand people from receiving affordable care
across Ohio, and now both affiliates want an administrative hearing

(01:29:05):
to challenge the state agency's decision. Day twenty five of
the federal government shutdown comes tomorrow. Vote on a funding
bill continues to flop in the Senate.

Speaker 6 (01:29:16):
Rints and repeat.

Speaker 12 (01:29:17):
Government funding legislation goes to the Senate for the same
bill that passed out of the House, and it gets
three Senate Democrats to vote for it, but nowhere near
the needed number of Senate Democrats to get it over
the goal line, and it fails. That has happened now
twelve more times, and we expect that to start happening
when the Senate returns here to Washington early next week
as well. There's no deal insight, there are no negotiations happening,

(01:29:40):
and there aren't really any signs of negotiations that might
even start.

Speaker 7 (01:29:43):
On sabc'sjo'brien, half million federal workers missed the paycheck today
air traffic controllers. They will start to miss those paychecks
starting next week, and the next round of payroll for
US service members is Halloween. There's no plan on how
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By the way, last Time twenty four TV. It's a
nine at for eight. This is RNL Carrier Sports Talk
on seven hundred WLW. I hope you're having an awesome
Friday night. Thank you for making us a part of it.
Hopefully the weekend is off to a great start. It
is for Lance, I assume he is not here tonight.
He's back for Bengals line on Monday. I'm Mowegar. My

(01:31:16):
show's on ESPN fifteen thirty from three to six tonight.
Though with the King of Centerville Alex Egan producing, I
get a chance to fill in. Sterling is going to
join us at nine o'clock. You know, by the way,
I do not mean to come off and I don't
come off as negative when it comes to the Bengals. Look,

(01:31:37):
if they lose. If the Bengals lose to the Steelers
and they're two and five, nobody cares about how they
play against the Jets, and then nobody's talking about what
they can do to keep the thing afloat make the postseason.
But they did win, so the question becomes like, all right,
what can they do better and what can they sustain
By the way they ran the ball really well against Pittsburgh,
is that an outlier? Does that proved to be something

(01:31:59):
that was a on off or can they build upon that?
Can they run it effectively? Moving forward the Joe Flacco thing,
there's a part of you that wonders, like, Number one,
why did this go so poorly? With Jake Browning? Number two.
How bad would this have gotten had they stayed with him?
So they didn't sit around and wait, they went They

(01:32:21):
got a guy who was a quick study, a guy
who knows how to throw the football to open guys
like Jamar Chase and t Higgins. But you do wonder.
You do wonder defensively, like when it's time for that
unit to win a game, will they be able to?
And there's a bunch of different ways to look at this.
The only way it really gets better, though, is if

(01:32:42):
these young guys end up paying dividends. Shamar Stewart. Shamar
Stewart's obviously dealt with injury. Shamar Stewart had an eventful offseason,
but when he got on the field during training camp,
he was terrific. Wentn't very good against Pittsburgh. But Shamar
Stewart's gonna have to make an impact this season. We
said that the night they drafted him and Demetrius Knight
and Barrett Carter, like it's gonna have to come from

(01:33:05):
guys like that. It's gonna have to come from more
guys who make the sudden leap that DJ Turner has made.
A guy who at times has been in the Doghouse himself,
and the last couple of weeks he's played like one
of the best corners in the NFL. Like what Al
Golden has decided to do with the backing of Zach

(01:33:26):
Taylor and maybe the backing of the front office. Is
gonna have to pay dividends at some point, and if
it doesn't, then this team's defense will limit it. My
take on the Bengals before the season, and I'm obviously
not the only person who felt this way, was they're
a team that can make the playoffs. I don't put
him in the championship conversation because they have these two
massive units that I do not trust. One is the

(01:33:48):
offensive line, the other is the entire defense. Has the
defense done anything through seven games to make you feel
like it's trustworthy. I'm still watching Gino's Stone back there,
and apparent like has the longest leash of all time.
So these rookies are going to have to start paying dividends,
and they're going to have to start doing it quickly.
The only way that happens is for them to play.

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:34:11):
There's a whole other series of conversations about why Duke
Tobin didn't do more to make the defense better. They
literally didn't acquire another defensive back. They're the same at safety.
They've run it back with a bunch of dbs, bunch
of corners. But moving forward, if it ain't for the rookies,
how does this unit get better and help them win

(01:34:33):
games instead of getting in the way of winning games.
More on that coming up here in just a bit.
FC Cincinnati is the two seed in the Eastern Conference
of the MLS Cup Playoffs. Dax McCarty's going to be
calling the series The Orange and Blue and the Columbus
Crew starting on Monday night. He's with Apple TV MLS
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It is eighteen minutes after eight o'clock. This is RNL
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Monday for Bengals lines. Speaking of Monday, Game one, best
of three MLS Cup first Round series, FC Cincinnati hosting
the first game against Columbus six forty five at the

(01:36:47):
Soccer Stadium on the West end of Cincinnati. You could
watch it on Apple TV's MLS Season Pass. Dax McCarty,
longtime MLS Stars, now a match analyst for MLS Season Pass.
Awesome to have you. You've got the series one Monday.
The Eastern Conference feels very wide open, much more wide
open than last year, although the New York Red Bulls

(01:37:08):
kind of came out of nowhere to represent the East
this year. When you look at that half of the bracket,
how many teams do you look at as legitimate threats
to make.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
The final.

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
Eight?

Speaker 11 (01:37:21):
Legitimately, mo, I can make an argument for all eight
teams on the Eastern side to make a run at
MLS Cup. And I think that's what makes these playoffs
so compelling, so interesting. Last year was crazy if you
remember how how the playoffs went down last year. There
were upsets everywhere in terms of quite frankly, the team

(01:37:45):
that wasn't the clearly inferior team i e. My Atlanta
United Team, i e. The New York Red Bulls and
the Columbus versus the Columbus Crew. There were teams that
just sprang upset left and right. If I go down
the list of all the different matchup in the East,
it's really hard for me to determine who a favorite
is in any of these matchups. And that's what makes

(01:38:07):
this year in MLS and specifically in the Eastern Conference
so interesting, so chaotic, so drama filled, is that I
legitimately see a world in which every one of these
series can go to three games, and then in the
third game it's anyone's It's anyone's game. So I tend
to give the favoritism towards the home team and the

(01:38:27):
teams that have home field advantaged off this first round.
But as we saw last year, that didn't make a
heck of a lot of difference with certain series. And
so it's a totally new new season. As I'm sure
all of you you and all your listeners know, you
kind of have to throw out everything that happened in
the regular season and just focus on the sprint that
is the playoffs.

Speaker 8 (01:38:49):
FC Cincinnati, Chris Albright, the GM made a lot of
moves during that lay transfer window, perhaps most notably bringing
Brenner back. And you know what Chris said at the
time was we are built to win. Now we're better
built to win. How much did those acquisitions and moves
better fortify them for a postseason run?

Speaker 11 (01:39:09):
Yeah, it was the smart move and it was the
right play from Chris Albright and Pat Noon and.

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
Of that whole front office.

Speaker 11 (01:39:16):
Cincinnati is an extremely competitive team. I would say that
they are in the upper echelon of best teams in
MLS with the most consistency throughout the last three or
four years. I believe it's actually the Columbus Crew and
f C Cincinnati are the only two teams in MLS
the last three years that have both hit fifty four

(01:39:36):
points or above. And so they're in a club all
on their own, and so you have to give credit
that he's coaching staffs. You have to give credit to
the front office for being able to constantly reload. I
think it would have been really easy for Cincinnati to
have a little bit of a down year after losing
Lucho Acosta.

Speaker 8 (01:39:54):
But what do you do.

Speaker 11 (01:39:55):
You go out and you get one of the best
players in Major League Soccer in Evander, and he repaid
that faith instantly being one of the best players in
the league's he's must CTV every time he's on the ball.
But going out and getting a third scoring option, I
think was key because for all the good things that
Kai Kamara does, for all the good things that Dado

(01:40:16):
Valenzuela do, for all the good things that Ya Yakubo
has done when he's had to play in an attacking position,
none of them is an out and out goal scorer.
None of them are going to be able to get
you ten twelve goals when you need them to. Kai
Kamara has been excellent, but he hasn't scored. His hold
up play, he opens up space for other players. It's
all at a really high level, but Kai doesn't score

(01:40:39):
at the same clip that he used to. Valezuela is
more of a creative midfielder. So to go out and
get a difference maker, a game changer in the attack
in Brenner, and then you add that to Evander and
Kevin Denk who are all match winners. That was a
really shrewd move because the FT Cincinnati roster is built
to win now and we've seen a supporter shield. We've
seen a couple playoff runs, but we haven't seen enough

(01:41:02):
in the postseason from FC Cincinnati. Adding Brenner, adding Dominic
Marshuk on loan from Salt Lake, I think was a
really smart and shrewd move to be able to add
a little bit of depth at winger. But FT Cincinnati
has game changers all over the field now. It would
be a disappointment if they didn't make a deep playoff run.

Speaker 8 (01:41:20):
You know, you you mentioned a lot of guys that
this club has acquired, and look, you you acquire a
player like a Vander, you expect him to fit in
just because he's going to score a bunch of goals.
But it's always it's always stood out to me ever
since Chris Albright and Pat Noonan took over this franchise
that whenever they acquire a piece from outside, whether it's
it's from another MLS club, whether it's an international signing,

(01:41:42):
whether it's somebody who joins the team before the season,
or whether it's somebody who joins the team once the
season is underway. Almost every single time, it feels like
that player just fits in seamlessly. From your perspective, having
played in the league forever, how hard is it to
do that nearly every single time you bring in somebody
from outside.

Speaker 11 (01:42:02):
Yeah, that's extremely hard. And I hope people, I hope
people on the outside supporters of the club realize what
a great job Chris Albright has done and what a
great job Pat Noonon has done to be able to
integrate players as quickly.

Speaker 8 (01:42:14):
As they have.

Speaker 11 (01:42:15):
That's not always the case, as you just mentioned. I've
seen numerous players that have turned out to be good
MLS players, it takes them three, four, five, sometimes even
seven eight months to be able to acclimate and to
be able to really contribute at a high level. So
to go get Brenner was extra smart because he already

(01:42:35):
knew the club. He already knew what the expectations were.
He knows the training facility, he knows the stadium right,
he knows Major League soccer and what it takes to
be successful in Major League Soccer. To go bet Dominic Marshak,
who already has an acclamation period, with salt Lake and
now he's just coming to a new team and maybe
fit in a system that is more suited to his
talent and to his skill level. I think that was

(01:42:57):
a really shrewd move right for this front office. So
you just go up and down the roster and you
see so many game changers, difference makers, players that are
going to have a difference and make a difference in
this roster. I've been really impressed every time I've seen
Samuel Gide play. I really like his qualities and what
he brings and can add into the midfield. So FC

(01:43:19):
Cincinnati has depth, they have difference makers. They really need
to put a stake in the ground in twenty twenty five.
This is their year and it's the most competitive Eastern
Conference that I've ever seen. And like I said at
the top of the top of the show, any one
of these eight teams can make a run. But I'm
looking at FC Cincinnati as one of the favorites. I

(01:43:40):
picked them before the season started to win MLS Cup,
and They've made me kind of question myself a little
bit throughout the season. But I'm sticking with my prediction
because of the fact that they have so many game
changers all.

Speaker 8 (01:43:52):
Right in the way right now, by the way. Dax
McCarty MLS season pass Apple TV with us FC Cincinnati
and Columbus on Monday night, Game one, six five on
the West End of Cincinnati. I think most FC Cincinnati
fans are really excited about the playoffs, all of them are.
I think most go man Round one, anybody but Columbus.
And yet here we are, where does the Crew pose

(01:44:15):
the biggest threat?

Speaker 11 (01:44:17):
It's so funny that you say that mode because I
made the argument once the playoffs were finalized on decision Day,
I made the argument that f C Cincinnati the only
team that they wouldn't want to see in Round one
of the playoffs was the Columbus Crew. And I got
a little bit of stick coming back from, you know,
some of my co hosts and co analysts, and they
were like, no, Cincinnati will be confident they're the better team,

(01:44:38):
and I just said, look, I just wonder if because
they play a similar formation, because they have that institutional
know how of Wilford Nancy and his system and the
way that they play, I think it's a really tough
matchup for s C Cincinnati, and I think that this
is going to be just as a as it was

(01:45:00):
in twenty twenty three, where we all remember that epic
playoff game that they played between the teams, And don't
underestimate the power of a legend retiring in a team
wanting to send him out on top. I think the
power of Darlington Nagby in his statement that he made
that he was going to be retiring when the season
was over. His extra motivation for the Columbus Crew. I

(01:45:22):
think the fact that they got a big win on
decision Day and they got a little bit of confidence,
because this is a Columbus Crew team that quite frankly,
has been limping into the playoffs, but now that they've
rediscovered their mojo a little bit. Daniel Gazdag got on
the score sheet, Diego Rossi is rumored to be fit
and available. This is a Columbus Crew team that e

(01:45:43):
FC Cincinnati is going to have their hands full with.
And so if I know Pat Noonan, I know that
he's got scared. I know that he's going to be
confident going in there and being able to win at TQL.
But the Columbus Crew do a lot of things well
and e FC Cincinnati they need to make sure that
when they're in these close games they defend a little
bit better than they've been defending recently, because towards the
end of the season they conceded really sloppy goals. And

(01:46:06):
if you're going to give the Columbus crew extra opportunities
to punish you, they can certainly do that.

Speaker 8 (01:46:12):
At no point during the coverage on Monday, are you
guys allowed to show highlights of that twenty twenty three
Eastern Conference Final?

Speaker 11 (01:46:18):
Okay, hey, talk to the producers, Buddy, talk to the producers.
That's not my will.

Speaker 8 (01:46:26):
Holse oh man, it still stings, hopefully, hopefully a measure
of revenge in this best of three series which begins
on Monday. Dak's awesome to have you love your work,
appreciate the time man, enjoy the playoffs.

Speaker 11 (01:46:38):
Thanks so much anytime, Moe, that's the luck Epty Cincinnati.

Speaker 8 (01:46:43):
Much appreciated. Dax McCarty played in the League Forever MLS
match analyst for MLS Season Pass on Apple TV Monday Night.
I was going to say, Sunday, Monday night at six
forty five, Game one, FC Cincinnati hosting Columbus. It's a
best of three series in round one of course, of course,
you can listen to the match on ESPN fifteen thirty

(01:47:06):
Monday evening. It is twenty nine minutes after eight o'clock.
You know, it's interesting there's been a surge of optimism
among Bengals fans and understandably so. Right Flacco team beat
the Steelers mini by little time to breathe playing a
terrible Jets team on Sunday optimism and I'm here for it.

(01:47:30):
But also you're starting to look at like mid December
doesn't seem so far away. In mid December is when
we are hoping that Joe Burrow can come back. So
I kind of wanted to get a sense of, you know,
if that's still realistic and some of the obstacles he
still has to overcome. And so we're going to get
an expert because that's what we do from Ortho Sinsey

(01:47:51):
to talk Joe Burrow with us coming up in just
about twenty minutes. We are looking forward to that. Don't
forget Sunday. It's the Bengals and Jets. The game's live
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Me Sunday morning, starting at nine am, It's time for
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Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
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Speaker 7 (01:48:23):
Trump turns up the heat in the Caribbean as he
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Ford plus multiple warships are now steaming toward the Caribbean,
dramatic escalation of what President Trump calls his war on
drug cartels. There was a new air strike that obliterated

(01:48:47):
a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, announced by the
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today.

Speaker 27 (01:48:54):
Seth saying at least six people were killed, claiming without evidence,
the boat was being operated by trend To Aragua, a
designated terrorist organization. It's the tenth known military attack on
alleged drug boats, including two in the eastern Pacific Ocean
of Central America.

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That's ABC's Martha Rabbits time to check the roads for
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Speaker 7 (01:49:24):
This is construction delay southbound seventy five at the Norwood
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the seventy five seventy one split north bound seventy one
that has been slow all night long.

Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
Now the ladies forecast from the Train Heating and Cooling
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Speaker 10 (01:50:12):
State weather heading for daybreak Saturday, it's clouding up. Morning
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a high of fifty seven at night, mostly cloudy in
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(01:50:35):
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Temperature forty five degrees in Cincinnati. Game day forecast built
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monster hurricane.

Speaker 30 (01:51:04):
It's moving so slowly that little jump fire hoses of
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and destructive winds. We could be measuring the rain in
feet in parts of Haiti and Jamaica.

Speaker 7 (01:51:14):
Now that's ABC News Media ologius Lee Goldberg, who says
a new forecast track is a worst case scenario for Jamaica,
likely rapidly intensifying on Sunday into a major hurricane that
goes near or right over Jamaica Monday into Tuesday. Thirty
nine year old man whom police they jumped off the
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(01:51:37):
forty one year old woman on Homewood Place in Marrimount
earlier today. Victim expected to survive and recover. The man
who jumped was rescued from the Ohio River is charged
with felonious assault and domestic violence. While on his route
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(01:51:57):
Ohio one twenty five in Brown County. The Ohio State
Highway of Patrol says the person was who was found
was twenty two year old Caleb Holbert of Russellville, and
police believe he was struck by a vehicle, which then
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Twenty three from nine o'clock on a Friday evening. This
is Arnel Carrier's three game Sports Talk on seven hundred
wl W. Lance McAllister is off. My name is Maegger.
By the way, Monday afternoon, this is what you should do. Okay,
you should join Tony Pike and me at Twin Peaks

(01:53:16):
in Florence for the Tony and Moo Football Show, which
is on from three to six on ESPN fifteen thirty.
We'll talk about the Bengals Jets game, everything that will
go down week eight, to the NFL, college football from
this weekend, and so much more. Monday three to six,
The Tony and Moo Football Show, starring Hall of Famer
Tony Pike, who should be on stage right about now

(01:53:38):
making his Hall of Fame induction speech at the University
of Cincinnati, updates you on a couple of things happening
or that have happened throughout the evening. You heard Matt
Reeve's Game one of the World Series. They have played
an inning Dodgers and Blue Jays are scoreless. College basketball.
Earlier tonight, Kentucky and Purdue played really entertaining exhibition game

(01:54:02):
and the Wildcats were winners seventy eight to sixty five
at rupp Areta. Kentucky's going to be really good this year,
really good this year. There's some deep analysis for me.
You see as playing an exhibition game right now against Arkansas,
obviously coached by former UK head man John Calipari, and
the Bearcats are struggling from deep. Last I saw two

(01:54:23):
of nine from behind the arc. Arkansas leads thirty three
to twenty two. If you are a Bearcat fan, and
first of all, I don't want you to stop listening
to me. But if you're a Bearcat fan and you
want to watch the game tonight, if you're an ESPN
Plus subscriber, I just learned this this morning. You have
access to SEC Network Plus and you can watch the game.

(01:54:45):
Cincinnati just missed another three. It's thirty three to twenty two.
I love the fact that we get these exhibition games.
The college basketball preseason has evolved, right. It used to
be you know, they play athletes in action, right, and
another traveling team that sort of thing, and then you
got a chance to play. You know, when NKU was

(01:55:06):
still a Division two school, Cincinnati and nk you would
play in a somewhat regular basis in the preseason and
they would play maybe a team from Canada or something,
and then they started doing secret scrimmages. Now we get
a chance to watch these teams, and there is a
part of me that wishes, like, Cincinnati played Michigan last week,
why can't that be a regular season game. Cincinnati's playing

(01:55:27):
Arkansas tonight, why can't that be a regular season game.
At the same time, you get a chance to watch
against good competition, players that you have to get to
know and get used to, and they have to get
the hang of each other in an era where there's
never been more turnover, and the best way to do
that is against teams that actually matter. It's thirty five
to twenty two. Arkansas leads that game over UC Bearkatz

(01:55:49):
played terrific in the first half of their exhibition game
against Michigan last week, and we're all gonna remind ourselves
that these games don't count. Richard Patino that obviously, the
new head coach at Xavier, made that point on social
media emphatically after his team lost to Murray State last Saturday.
These games don't count. If you're a Bearcat fan and
you watched the exhibition game last year against Ohio State.

(01:56:14):
If you're like me, you walked away thinking like, holy crap,
these guys are gonna be awesome, and then they ended
up not being awesome. So take everything with a grain
of salt, but still fun to watch college basketball. In
mid October twenty away from nine o'clock are now Carrier
Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW. We started the show
by talking about the Logan Wilson situation. You know, like

(01:56:36):
he makes a trade request. The Bengals have gotten a
lot of trade requests. Right, t Higgins requested a trade,
didn't happen. Trey Hendrickson twice now has requested a trade.
Doesn't happen. The Bengals don't just trade you because you ask. Now,
there have been players who have wanted out and the
Bengals have said, Okay, we'll do it. They viewed trading
Carlow's Dunlap a few years ago twenty nineteen, Zach's first season.

(01:56:58):
As addition, by subtraction, they traded Carson Palmer fourteen years
ago because an offer came their way, a great offer
for a player who had decided that he was never
gonna play for him again.

Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
Just because you.

Speaker 8 (01:57:11):
Request a trade, if there's among the handful of things
we have learned about the Cincinnati Bengals and how they
do things you could ask don't mean doesn't mean they're
given it to you. I joke about this every single time.
You know, we did this with Trey Hendricks, and we
did this with t Higgins this offseason. Who t has
asked for a trade? T t wants to be Trey
wants to be traded, And I go, like, that's cool.

(01:57:34):
I have requested a snow cone machine in my studio.
I haven't gotten it yet. I still come to work
with a good attitude and so like, I give these
players the benefit of the doubt. And Zach Taylor has
talked about this this week, addressing the fact that Logan
has asked for a trade, Like, all right, he's made
that request, and I understand he's not playing as much.

(01:57:57):
He's hurt, he doesn't want to serve in a diminished role.
Twenty nine years old, still thinks he has a lot
of really good years left in him, like I get it.
I would prefer to not play here anymore. I'd prefer
to play for a team that you know is going
to give me the playing time I was getting. But
that trade request, I don't believe is going to at
all preclude him from preparing the right way. By the

(01:58:20):
way he played in I think the number was forty
six percent of their defensive snaps against Pittsburgh. It's not
like he didn't dress, not like they told him, dude,
don't come to the stadium. He still had an active
role in that game. And so I would expect as
a fan exactly what I'm sure the coaches and I'm
sure what his teammates expect, which is, dude, you're not happy,

(01:58:42):
that's okay, but you still have to prepare. You still
have to do what's needed to help the team one
called upon. Any one of us can be discruddled in
our jobs, and you may want out, you may want change,
and you may have things you want the boss to
give you, and you may want different working conditions. But
as as long as you're still there, you have an
obligation to everybody to still handle your business like a pro.

(01:59:06):
And I expect Logan Wilson to do that. I just
this is gonna sound harsh, because Logan Wilson has been
really good here. Number One, I give the Bengals credit
for not leaning on what Logan has meant. Instead, they're
looking toward what's next and looking toward what's next with
the defense that Logan Wilson was a part of and
not really helping. Number two. Like, I watched the first

(01:59:30):
four or five games in the season, and while I
don't think you could say that Logan Wilson was playing poorly,
how many times did you notice him? I'll be honest
with you. I thought he played very well against the
Browns the first game. Aside from that, like never, So,
you've got a linebacker who's not making a lot of plays,

(01:59:51):
You've got a team that drafted two of them this
past April, and you've got a defensive coordinator who can
only make change within the parameters of what he has.
What he has as a rookie linebacker that they think
highly of, that they think is a part of their future.
They're looking for a spark, they're looking for something different

(02:00:11):
than what they've been getting. They went to a place
where they replaced one guy who wasn't doing all that
much with another guy who knows so I don't know,
man Logan Wilson. Somebody described him as a fan favorite,
like we like Logan Wilson. I don't know that I've
ever seen a Logan Wilson jersey. But they made this move.
I think for pure football reasons, not sentimentality, not what

(02:00:34):
he's been in the past, not because he's maybe a
fan favorite. But we think there's more upside with the
other guy, and at the very least, we think there's
a possible payoff to the growing pains he may suffer
in the short term.

Speaker 2 (02:00:47):
We will see.

Speaker 8 (02:00:48):
We'll also see if Joe Burrow is capable of coming
back when everybody hopes, which is obviously mid December. We'll
get a doctor's thoughts on that. As the Dodgers take
a one nothing lead in the top of the second
in Game one of the World Series, Doctor Nick gates
from Ortho Sinsey on Joe Burrow.

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
Next on ESPN fifteen to thirty.

Speaker 1 (02:01:08):
With Dve Lapham's and Triment into the Bengals Ring of Honor,
we pay tribute to the life of lap presented by Skyline.

Speaker 4 (02:01:16):
Feeling Good against the Skyline time.

Speaker 2 (02:01:18):
Now here's Dan.

Speaker 19 (02:01:19):
Indeed, Lap, you are known for your boisterous enthusiasm in
the booth, but there's no better x as and O's
analyst in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (02:01:27):
Describe your approach as a broadcaster.

Speaker 18 (02:01:29):
It's probably a lot like yours, Dan.

Speaker 20 (02:01:31):
I mean, we both went to the new House School
of Communications at Syracuse University. The best there is preparing
people to enter the broadcast world knowing everything there is
to know about what you're doing, what you're broadcasting.

Speaker 18 (02:01:44):
I don't care if it's Tiddleywinks or you know, the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 20 (02:01:47):
Having an understanding of who the competitors are, what makes
them great, and honestly, I mean it's just managing enthusiasm
for the game just comes from love of the game
and do it in a way that you know the
audience appreciate.

Speaker 18 (02:02:00):
Oh man, he really likes the game.

Speaker 1 (02:02:02):
For more on the life of Lap, keep it here
on seven hundred WLW, the home of the best Spangles coverage.

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Every year for the rest of your life.

Speaker 8 (02:02:18):
Alex, he get heavy on the Michael Jackson tonight. You
know this this album thriller, the first record I ever
got six years old. My mom got it for him.
Thanks Mom. Note away from nine o'clock in the news
RNL Carrier Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW. You mentioned

(02:02:40):
right before the break Dodgers with a run in the
second inning on a key k Hernandez single have scored
first in the World Series. They are batting right now.
Show hey, Otani is at the plate, the greatest show
in all the sports, at the plate with the bases loaded.
Show Heyo Tani a week ago tonight excuse me had
arguably we'll say, but I believe that the greatest single

(02:03:03):
game performance of anybody in the history of the sport.
With three homers in the game that he pitched, gave
up just two hits and struck out ten. He is
at the plate right now and threatening to you don't
want to say, break it open in the second inning,
but threatening to build on the Dodgers lead, which is
one nothing in the top of the second ending Game
one is in Toronto, first two games of the series

(02:03:25):
north of the border before Games three, four, and five
will be in La early through middle of next week,
and then games six and seven in Toronto. The Blue
Jays in the World Series for the first time since
Joe Carter walked off the Philadelphia Phillies in nineteen ninety three.
Also updates on that UC basketball exhibition. The Bearcats are

(02:03:47):
playing Arkansas in Fayetteville right now and they're frankly getting clobbered.
It's forty six to twenty six in the final minute
of the first half. Bearcats have just scored to make
it forty six to twenty eight, and Otani was re hired,
and so the Blue Jays get out of the inning
with only a run. So the Dodgers have an early
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now late October. Next month is obviously November, and then
soon it'll be mid December. Will Joe Burrow be back?
I wanted to talk about where the Bengals quarterback might
be in his progress coming off of surgery to fix

(02:05:14):
his turf toe, and so I'm bringing in one of
the experts from Orthos Sincy, doctor Nick Gates. I say
this every week on ESPN fifteen thirty. The great think
about Orthosincy is they've got specialist locations and services all
across the tri state, including walk in orthopedic urgent care
at five locations with extended evening and weekend hours in

(02:05:35):
Edgewood and Anderson. Check out Orthosincy dot com to learn more.
That's ortho ci Ncy dot com. Doctor Nick Gates from
Orthosincy is with us. So we're still clinging to this
timeline right mid December. Suffered the injury a little bit
more than a month ago, then head surgery. We're still

(02:05:55):
hoping for mid December? Is is is hopeful? Is hoping
for Joe's return in mid December? Still? Is it still realistic?

Speaker 31 (02:06:06):
I think it's reasonable to hope, hope being a good word.
I think it's it's realistic, but it's lofty. You use
the word lofty goal three months when they first came
out with that is a lofty goal relative to the
statistics you see on this surgery. But it's possible, and

(02:06:28):
it comes into play a lot of other things about
what's going to be happening at that twelve week mark
with the Cincinnati Bengals. So it's a lofty goal to
play good, solid football three months.

Speaker 8 (02:06:39):
What is he likely doing at this stage of his rehab,
and then what do the next six to seven weeks
look like for him.

Speaker 31 (02:06:47):
He disappeared off the team for a bit because he
was likely on crutches putting not much weight on his foot.
He's now off the crutches, putting weight on his foot
in a protective walking boot, that we've seen him out
and about. He's doing what they call passive or active
assisted motion of his toe, and that's a physical therapy
term where they are starting to try to regain some motion,

(02:07:10):
but it's in a very controlled environment. The ligamancy tore
on the bottom of his toes have been surgically repaired.
They're going through a healing process. They can handle some
degree of motion, but they don't want to overstress those ligaments.
At this stage, they're really mo they're trying to balance.
We want to regain range of motion of this joint,

(02:07:31):
but it has to be stable in the end. We
don't want it to be super stiff. At the end,
he needs to plant off his foot or not plant
off this flip, but he needs to bear weight on
this foot. So they're in that balance right now, what
they call controlled range of motion therapy.

Speaker 8 (02:07:49):
If there is a setback knock on wood, hopefully there's not,
but if there were to be one, what are some
of the potential issues that may arise.

Speaker 2 (02:07:58):
Stiffness.

Speaker 31 (02:07:59):
He can get a repaired ligament, but struggle with the
range of motion of his toe, and you do need
a certain bit of comfortable range of motion to walk
if you need a certain amount of comfortable range of motion,
certainly to run, cut and play sports at a high level.
He may have a stable ligament, but if the toe

(02:08:21):
is stiff, that could be a holdback that takes longer
to work as range of motion. That's probably the biggest
holdback secondary to just soreness and pain. I'll draw the
analogy to read a little bit about Rock Party. We've
got an interesting analogy or comparison as Rock Party is
going through nonsurgical treatment of his turf toe injury. And

(02:08:43):
if you look at his timeline and the guesses you
read about that he's he's sore. They tried to get
him back early, and the reports are it just hurts
too much to perform. So I think stiffness that's not painful,
or just soreness and pain is going to be the
two things that are going to determine whether or not
Joe can come back.

Speaker 8 (02:09:03):
What can be done, because obviously the tow has to
get better, he's got to recover, he's got to do rehab.
He also has to maintain strength and conditioning. What sort
of things can be done while you're coming back from
this kind of injury.

Speaker 31 (02:09:17):
He certainly can get on a bicycle, get aerobic exercise,
and get some minimal weight bearing or low impact aerobic
and that's generally going to start with perhaps riding a bike.
He's at a stage I think he's about four, maybe
going on five weeks from his injury. There's some aquatic
therapy where we can get an athlete into aquatics, into

(02:09:40):
a swimming pool or a tank if you will, that's
even shoulder high water. What that does is get buoyancy,
takes weight off the foot. They're probably just now looking
in that he's about the stage where that might be
a possibility that they can do a little bit of
conditioning that way. He certainly can do all the upper
body and core things. He certainly could work out at

(02:10:00):
this stage, but I think his aerobic capacity is the
biggest challenge.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
Once he is back.

Speaker 8 (02:10:07):
Are there things that can be done to help protect
the toe once he's actually back and playing, For.

Speaker 31 (02:10:13):
Sure, I'm certain that they would likely be looking into
already fashioning him with what's called an orthodic or fiber
plate or his shoe wear, And what that det is
is basically a thin there are some inserts that are
thick or this is going to be a thinner insert
that's essentially going to splint or protect the big toe,

(02:10:35):
his great toe where he just located and tore those ligaments.
They're going to put a device into that shoe. They
already have one in his boot. Would be not uncommon
to kind of protect the stresses on that ligament. So
you're going through this balancing act between protecting stress on
the ligament while trying to do some controlled range of motion.
So it's not it's fairly likely that that type of

(02:10:57):
device inside of a shoe will be part of his rec.

Speaker 8 (02:11:00):
Doctor Nick Gates from Ortho Sincy talking Joe Burrow, tremendous
expertise and inside as always, always appreciate the time.

Speaker 2 (02:11:07):
Man, thanks so much.

Speaker 31 (02:11:09):
You are quite welcome, how any hun, that's my guy.

Speaker 8 (02:11:11):
Doctor Nick Gates from Orthos. Since we do a segment
with the experts from Ortho Sincy every week on ESPN
fifteen thirty, and I say this every week because it's true.
The great thing about Ortho Sincy is they have specialists
on locations all over the Tri State including walk fucking
Orthopedic Urgent Care weekdays nine a m To nine pm

(02:11:33):
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Whenever you have an urgent orthopedic injury, go to Orthosincy
dot com. That's ortho ci Ncy dot com. Uh, we
are done. Lance is back on Monday. I am on

(02:11:55):
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radio career started twenty eight years ago and the very
first board shift I ever worked as a young producer

(02:12:16):
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of the Best Bengals coverage News Radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
News, Traffic and Weather. News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (02:12:37):
Trump turning up the heat on Venezuela. Will there be
an attack on their mainland? This is the nine o'clock Report.
I'm Matt Reese breaking now America's largest aircraft carrier headed
to the Caribbean as US strikes on drug boats continue.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordering the USS Gerald Ford

(02:13:00):
to the Caribbean to help quote dismantle transnational criminal organizations
and counter narco terrorism in defense of the homeland. This
comes as the US carried out an overnight strike on
a suspected drug both that killed all six on board.
President has already threatened a direct attack on Venezuela. US

(02:13:23):
military has struck ten alleged drug vessels in the region,
eight near Venezuela.

Speaker 22 (02:13:29):
The administration here says that they do not believe that
the president in Venezuela is a legitimate president. He had
won declared himself a winner of a fraudulent election, and
the driving force behind all of this is Secretary of
State Mark Rubio, who has a long trek record of
calling for that Venezuelan government to collapse and he wants
a democratic government to take root there.

Speaker 7 (02:13:51):
That's ABC's and Flaarty reporting. This is an addition of
significant amount of firepower to the region. There are already
eight ships in the region plus a submarine, and Flariday
reports it's going to be about thirteen ships at least
in the region, going from ten thousand troops to fifteen
thousand troops. Now we have the latest on the roads

(02:14:14):
is Friday night, latest traffic and weather together and got
some construction delays to seventy five westbound at col Raine
Avenue and some construction delays as well northbound seventy five
at the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway. You're going to
be running into delays on the northbound side, and also

(02:14:37):
we'll be getting some delays on the southbound side occasionally
throughout the weekend. That stretches seventy five in both directions,
always delays because of construction. Look at a little bit
better on seventy one northbound at seventy five in the
Walton area northern Kentucky. There have been slowdowns at that
split northbound seventy one all evening. Looks like it is

(02:14:59):
thinning out now.

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Speaker 8 (02:15:12):
At the forecast. We're clouding up.

Speaker 10 (02:15:14):
We'll see a seven am temperature of thirty eight in
the morning and a chance for some frost. The rest
of our Saturday is going to be mostly cloudy, a
high of fifty seven stays that way at night. We
dropped to forty three on Sunday and early chance of
a shower. Otherwise mostly cloudy, a high of fifty eight
From your Severe Weather station, I'm nine First Warning Chief

(02:15:34):
Meteorologist Steve Rawley News Radio seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 2 (02:15:40):
Forty two degrees right now.

Speaker 7 (02:15:41):
This game day forecast built by American Home Tech storm
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again for the Bengals game on Sunday. A slight chance
of rain, mostly cloudy, otherwise fifty seven. Sharonville the site
of a sobriety checkpoint right now. It's on Lebanon Road
near two seventy five. It's going to last until ten thirty.

(02:16:01):
Hamilton County OVII task Force on the scene looking for
people intoxicated behind the wheel. Warning of flight delays and
disruptions only going to get worse starting next week. The
Transportation Secretary says most air traffic controllers have been showing
up for work despite knowing they're not going to be
paid during the government shutdown. But Sean Duffy says he
anticipates that's going to change. Tuesday, as the day the

(02:16:24):
controllers were supposed to be getting a paycheck, he expects
far more disruption starting on that day, Tuesday. Former Alabama
and Bengals quarterback AJ mccaron wants to be the lieutenant
governor of Alabama, announcing he's going to run as a Republican.
In twenty twenty six, video posted on YouTube.

Speaker 13 (02:16:42):
Playing in the NFL reinforced importance of achieving goals bigger
than ourselves.

Speaker 7 (02:16:47):
Mccaren, a native of Mobile, Alabama, says Alabama's conservative and
cultural values are under attack from every direction. Let's check
Wall Street for today. It was a record setter all
across the board, the Dow, SMP, SMP, and Nasdaq all
setting records. A Dow up four to seventy two, SB
five hundred and fifty three, NASDAC up two hundred and

(02:17:10):
sixty three points. It's nine oh six, Next News nine thirty,
Matt Reeves News Radio seven hundred, WYLLWD.

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