Now the Secretary of Homeland Securities confirming that the US Coast Guard seized another sanctioned oil tanker off of the coast of Venezuela yesterday. ABC News Senior White House correspondent Selena Wang has details.
This is the second oil tanker in less than two weeks that was seized off of the coast of Venezuela. As we've really seen this pressure campaign on Nicholas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, escalating over these last few months in the administration now going after the nation's oil exports and that's the nation's economic lifeline.
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Pregame sports Talk presented by your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers. I am ken Brew, and yes, we have arrived at this moment in time, this Sunday before Christmas. And oh, how we had home back in the day,
back in the sweltering heat of summer camp. How we hope that this would be one of those defining moments, one of those days when the Bengals would fly south take on the Dolphins in a monumental showdown for both teams, each team clawing and fighting trying to get into the postseason. Sometimes what you expect is not what you get, and it's not what we got today. We all know what
happened last week. The Bengals, for all intents and purposes, eliminated a few weeks ago, finally from a statistical standpoint, eliminated last week. Meanwhile, against the Steelers, it was the same song for the Miami Dolphins eliminated from the postseason. Miami just underperformed. They made up quarterback change and that quarterback change is to a tag of Iloa is out probably for good in Miami. For Cincinnati, the problem, as we all know, was injury. Joe Burrow was out for
the majority of the season. This is a Joe Burrow centric team. And although Joe Flacco came in here kind of on a surprise trade and delivering some surprising moments for the Bengals, it just wasn't the same. So the Bengals, like the Dolphins, are just faced with one thing now and that's finishing out the season. And I guess from an interest standpoint, because look, the bottom line in any sport is winning a championship. There is only one team in every single sport that goes home happy at the
end of the season. It's the team holding the trophy. But when you can't compete for that Trophy. Well, it makes the sting a little bit well, just a little bit worse. And so now with three weeks to go, what are the Bengals do Well? They certainly try to win all three. That's the name of the game. They're paid to win football games. The schedule, as you look
at it, seems a little forgiving. You have the Dolphins today and then back home with the Cardinals who are not very good next Sunday, and then of course finishing out against the Browns. There are a lot of things on the line for the individual players, not Joe Burrow, not t Higgins, not Jamar Chase, but the players that are fighting for a spot, some kind of favorable review at the end of this season to give them a
chance here or somewhere else to continue their career. Meanwhile, the Bengals need answers, a lot of answers, particularly on defense. Who exactly is going to help them pull this team out of this quagmire that they're in. Where are they going to find the right players either through free agency or drafting. Drafting has not been all that great for this team lately, and free agency is a game they always play on the second and third and fourth day
of free agency. They're not always there. In fact, they're rarely there on the first day of free agency. So you have to have maybe a philosophical change that gets you to a personnel change that gets you to December of twenty twenty six, when you're in a much better shape than what you are now. That is basically what begins today. We'll tee up today's Bengals and Dolphins game.
You'll hear from players and coaches, some writers around the league, some folks that follow football and have opinions like you and me as to what needs to be done here and what truthfully, realistically can be done here because it's not like here in a lot of other NFL towns. We'll get to all of that in just a second.
College football is in the playoff mode right now, and we saw some interesting games yesterday, some that were blowout, some that had results that I think everybody thought would happen, but nevertheless, it was an interesting day in college football. People would say at the end of that selection process a couple of weeks ago, James Madison University, what do
they doing there? Two lane? Are you kidding me? And those opinions were born out yesterday because at Oregon James Madison, although it did put up a lot of offense, winds up losing to Oregon fifty one to thirty four. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore nineteen of twenty seven, four touchdowns, two interceptions, wide receiver Malik Benson five receptions one hundred and nineteen yards, and he caught two of those touchdown passes. This game, though,
was a very entertaining game. There was over one thousand yards of total offense between the two teams. But it's Oregon that's moving on to take on Texas Tech in
the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. Meanwhile, Old Mess without its coach Lane Kiffen, he of course sailing off to LSU at the end of the regular season forty one to ten over two Lane Mississippi quarterback Trinid Dad Shambliss, who came from FCS, the next level down from FBS, the championship level that the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State and every other team that's playing for a national well for a quote unquote Division title Division one title.
He came from FCS football and yet comes in Leeds, Georgia. I'm sorry, Lead's old Mess to a forty one to ten win. Trinidad Chambliss twenty three of twenty nine two hundred and eighty two yards, threw for a touchdown, ran for a touchdown on a day when his team advances and the team that he left wins yet another championship at the FCS level. Here's Trinidad Chamberlass at the end of that game yesterday.
It's it's a surreal moment.
If you would have said this before the season that I'd be the starting quarterback and I'd get Ole Miss their first playoff victory, I'd be like, you're crazy, But it's amazing. I just got to give thanks to God because you know, without him, I mean, none of this is possible, and just also got it to give thanks to Ole Miss and my team to be honest too, like we've we've been through a lot, a lot adversity
and glad that we got the win. And yeah, Farris Day actually did win the national championship today, so they'd beat Harding back to back years, So props to them.
Yep, from Farris State to Old Miss to Round two of the College Football Playoffs. They take on Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day. Meanwhile, down at Texas A and M University, the wind was blowing. It was a major factor in this game between Miami and Texas A and M. It affected Miami's kicker a little bit more than anybody else. Carter Davis lined up for
four field goals. He made one of them, a twenty one yarder, but he made one that was very important because Miami beat Texas A and M ten to three, and Miami had a terrific game from Mark Fletcher Junior seventeen carries one hundred and seventy two yards. His head coach Mario Christobal absolutely ecstatic at the end of the game.
This is awesome.
It's a next up right and validating what we came here to do. So obviously we're excited by the time.
We end up walking into the locker room, well start.
Thinking about the next one.
But again, number one or number two, I said, say credit to them.
Not a great football team over there.
They're physical of this environment is second to none. But the Miami Hurricanes are are just gonna started.
Now.
Well we'll see if they're getting started or if they hit a roadblock. In game number two, they take on Ohio State on New Year's Eve in the Cotton Bowl. So there yesterday at Oregon advancing to play Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl, Ole Miss going on to play Georgia and the Sugar Bowl, and Miami onto the Cotton Bowl to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. Now Friday night, you at Alabama and Oklahoma. Alabama rallied to win this game thirty four to twenty four. Quarterback Ty Simpson two
hundred and thirty two passing yards, two touchdown passes. Oklahoma was up seventeen to nothing after the first nineteen minutes in this game. And then it went to sleep, and then it has really horrible look on special teams. They had a punt blocked, they missed two field goals. Meanwhile, it was Alabama and head coach Kaylin de Boor cashing in on all of that.
Yeah, just our guys have, like you said, had been in it.
All year long, and and man.
Just I'm proud of the fight. I know I'm gonna get that every single time we step on the football field. We had to trade our own breaks a little bit. We knew it's gonna be a fist fight.
We knew it was gonna be.
A physical game. It would be hard moving the ball, but you just got to you just gotta keep playing.
Meanwhile, over on the Oklahoma side of things, this game in their stadium in Norman, Oklahoma, the fans were shocked, the players seemed absolutely shocked, and after the game, they're head coach Brent Vnnibles was fighting back the tears.
You know, I had a seventeen point lead, had great momentum, and and just we lost the momentum and gave up a seventy five yard drive and the third and six that we lost leveraging coverage and we gave up a.
Fourth and two on that drive.
And you know, Alabama has got a really good football team and really good staff, and they were able to start to slowly but surely creep back into the game. And then then we had a couple of really ill timed mistakes that they capitalized on.
Yeah they did. And now for Oklahoma they go home. Alabama moves on to face Indiana in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. College basketball last night, Xavier goes on the road, takes on Georgetown and wins eighty to seventy seven. Xavier goes to nine and four one and one inside the Big East. Trey Carroll was huge in this game to set an early tempo for Xavier twenty two points, eight rebounds, four assists, and then off the bench,
Roddy Anderson contributed fourteen points. But here's the key. Xavier out rebounded Georgetown forty five thirty six. Look, Georgetown, going back to the days of John Thompson, has always had a reputation as a physical basketball team. If you don't win the boards, you don't win against Georgetown, especially when you play out in the nation's capital. It's exactly what Xavier did. They beat them on the boards forty five
to thirty six. After the game, Richard Patino on the thing that he wanted to look to deliver most of his team, it was a three pronged thing.
Yeah, that was it.
I mean that's what I had a couple of offensive keys, I had a couple of defensive keys, and then the last thing I said was toughness. That's what matters. And our guys did a great job. You know, we're going to play a lot of teams that are bigger than us, but we scrapped and fought and won the rebounding battle.
Yep and Xavier's next game New Year's Eve against Yukon. That was a very impressive win for them last night out in Washington, DC. Also, Miami is now twelve and oh Travis Steel has got it going on up in Oxford eighty six seventy seven over ball state the icelander Almore Atlassen off the bench eight for fourteen and twenty six points. Monumental effort from him. But get this as a team. This kind of highlights why Miami is all
to an incredible and historic start. They shot fifty percent from the field, fifty four percent from three point range. They were thirteen of twenty four and twenty one of twenty two from the free throw line. That mister grand total of one free throw twelve and zero one And oh, now in the mac got some college basketball around here today three o'clock here on seven hundred WYLWUC at seven and four goes to Clemson. Actually they go to Greenville,
South Carolina to play Clemson. Clemson is nine and three. Pretty good basketball team seeing the two of their games so far this year, Clemson will be a handful for U see and then at NKU at noon, the College of Charleston takes on the Norse. Chris mack head coach at the College of Charleston, coming back to the area. His team is six and six NKU nine and four. So there's basketball, there's football from the college standpoint, and standby will dive deep into the Bengals and Dolphins. Next,
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tuning in the RNL Carriers Pregame Show. Bengals at four and ten go to Miami today where it will be in the eighties at kickwoff, time, Dolphins are six and eight, both teams eliminated, and the weather decidedly different than what it was here last Sunday when they took on the Ravens. Let's hope the outcome is a little bit different as well. So the Bengals are out of it. Joe Burrow denied
yet again a chance to play in the postseason. Now, as I said earlier, a lot of that has to do with the fact that he missed all of those games because of his toe injury and subsequent surgery. Something that has plagued Burrow throughout his career is injury, season ending injury. This one, he worked his butt off to come back and finish the season, and as admirable as that was, it was a season that was probably doomed
long before Burrow got back on the field. Nevertheless, Zach Taylor this week, who revealed that he has two years well, actually he didn't. The digging of Paul Dayner Junior at the Athletic revealed that he had two years remaining on his contract here with the Bengals. Zach Taylor says he still believes and still thinks that the core is here for this team to turn it around. In twenty six and make a run.
I got a ton of belief in our coaching staff, our scouting department, our ownership that we are very much in alignment with every decision we've ever made here, and so again it when things haven't been good enough over of course this season, there's really no one to blame other than me, truthfully, and so I know we all play a piece of this, but I'm the guy to get to sit there and talk to the team every single week and present plans and make in game decisions,
and so frustrating that I haven't done anything job this year, but a ton of confidence, and maybe it rings hollow to everyone listening, but I know that we've been here before and I've seen how we can get out the other side. I'm very confident we're going to get the nice Well.
See, it's one thing to say it, it's another thing for it to happen, and it's another thing for the people that he's provided with by Duke Tobin and ultimately signed off on by the Brown family. It's ultimately all of that that goes into whether or not this team can turn it around or not. Let's face it, all of their money is on the offensive side of the football. On defense, they went draft picks and they went young, and in free agency they bottom fed and it didn't work.
So now they've got to come up with some sort of plan to retain those they need and yet go out and try and harvest a free agent market and draft better than what they've done here recently. But for the players, it's it's finishing out a season, and a lot of that is pride for the stars to prove that they're worth the money they're being paid, and for the other players that fill out a fifty three man roster, it's to prove that if not here, but somewhere they belong.
Jamar Chase on all of that earlier this week, they're.
Just trying to finish strong, finish out, will win, and I just keep playing at the end of the day, just make sure we finished strong. Can't go out there and amvess in oursells the organization. We were putting ourselves out there.
But here's here. Here is the quote I think that I carried this week when trying to figure out whether or not this team is cashed in for this year or is going out and trying, as Chase just said to acquit themselves well, not necessarily not embarrass themselves, but to show what time kind of talent they are. This is Dalton Reisner, and I think this hopefully encapsulates what this team is hopefully going to do over the course of the next three games. Dalton Reisner, I.
Mean, we all know that we're both out of playoff contention. There's a lot to play for. I mean, I said this last week. I don't speak for the team, but I know this is the mindset of the team is we get to be Cincinnati Bengals. We get to wear the stripes, we get to go represent ourselves, but even more importantly, we get to go represent the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. So anytime I'm putting on the stripes, I don't care if playoffs are on the line or not.
I'm going out there. I have so much to play for. This is this is a blessing, and if you take it for granted, you you ain't gonna be in this league for long. So there's a lot to play for. On Sunday, I'm excited to go play the Miami Dolphins.
We're gonna be ready to go.
Meanwhile, in Miami, we're A source told ESPN yesterday that prior to the twenty twenty draft, the Dolphins called the Bengals and offered them four first round draft picks if the Bengals would have given them the number one overall pick in the twenty twenty draft, obviously the draft that brought Joe Burrow. Here, the Bengals said no and did not entertain the conversation any further than that. But imagine that.
Imagine if the Bengals did not get Burrow, and imagine if they had a settle for two at Tagaba Looe, who had some nice seasons. I'm not putting the guy down completely, but basically has regressed completely to a point where's head coach Mike McDaniel had to bench him this week in favor of a guy that hasn't taken a snap in a meaningful NFL game. Here's McDaniel.
So the decision is complicated but simple. The simple pieces. I think Quinn gives this team the best chance to win. You know, our focuses obviously to win the next three games, but in particular, like I tell the players, we are focused on beating the Bengals. So that was the motivation. Zach will be backing them up and two will be the emergency.
Uh uh. That was a man that seemed very uncomfortable, a guy that may be on his way out the door in Miami as well. Well, we don't get to it today. Quinn Yours, who has bounced around college football Ohio State, Texas and was drafted late in the draft last year. Quinn Ewers gets the call quarterback today. Open a new cannon quarterbacks in Miami. When we come back, Mike Renner from cbssports dot Com is going to join us. He is their draft expert. I'm not We're going to
look at it. I believe me. There'll be enough yapping on this radio station between now and the draft about the draft, but just in general what they should be looking for and how this season unraveled the way it did. This is the RNL Carriers pregame Show. It's presented by Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers on ESPN fifteen thirty and seven hundred wl W.
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Tensions arising between the US and Venezuela. This is the nine thirty report. I'm Sandy Collins breaking now. The US Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Nomes says the US Coastguard seized another sanctioned oil tanker off of Venezuela's coast, and there's no de escalation of rising tensions there between the Maduro regime and the Trump administration. ABC News Senior White House correspondent Selina Wang has more.
It's the same type of unit used just ten days earlier when American forces repelled from helicopters onto another oil tanker's debt to take control of the ship.
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It'll be chilly compared to yesterday, as we're only going to top out in the upper thirties this afternoon, but we do see mostly sunny skies Tonight. We fall down even colder, low twenties, but we end up in the mid to upper forties for a high on Monday, with chances for rain moving in later in the day. From a severe weather station, I'm nine first Warning Meteorologist Camp Harden on news Radio seven hundred wlw's.
Twenty seven at news Radio seven hundred WLW and the Bengals game day forecast for this afternoon. Look for temperatures close to eighty at kickoff in Miami. Bengals Game day forecast is built by American Hometech. Your Roof's Best Defense begins with American Hometech dot com and today is officially the first day of winter. It's also the shortest day of the year. It's December twenty first, the winter solstice.
That's when the northern hemisphere is tilted furthest from the sun and is getting the least amount of sunlight all year. In Florida, talks beginning with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. They're underway. Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy met in Miami on Saturday with US on boy Steve Witkoff and Trump's advisor Jared Kushner.
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Russian envoy Caill Dimitriev told reporters that the talks were positive and talks will continue today. President Trump's envoys have been negotiating for weeks for that twenty point piece plan in Ukraine. US official say the difference remains on issues of territory and security guarantees for Ukraine. In northern Kentucky, a manufacturer is going to be closing its Florence plant and lay off about eighty workers. It's rod Tech Incorporated.
Their parent company is combining those operations with another plant in Aurora, Ohio, and then we'll permanently close the Florence location. College football opening round to the twenty twenty five college football Playoffs come to a close. Miami of Florida got the day started with a tight ten to three win over Texas A and M. They'll now play Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. Old Miss crushed Tulane forty one
to ten. Now Old Miss will play Georgia and the Sugar Bowl, and Oregon beat James Madison fifty one to thirty four. Oregon will now square off with Texas Tech and the Orange Bowl. I'm Sandy Collins next. Updated ten News Radio seven hundred WLW.
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Gother's wrong with a little elo in the morning? Welcome back RNL Carriers pregame show presented by your Cincinnati in Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers. I am ken Brew. Great to have you with us. Counting down to the Bengals and Dolphins. Fore Zach Tednor was on the Miami Dolphins coaching staff for four seasons, rising to interim offensive coordinator all the way back in twenty fifteen before he headed out west to join Sean McVay in the Los Angeles Los Angeles Rams.
There's a connection. Here's another connection in this game. Number one overall pick in twenty twenty Joe Burrow and as I mentioned in the last half hour before the draft, story surfaced last night that before the draft, the Dolphins offered four first round draft picks to the Bengals, in exchange for that number one overall pick, and the Bengals thankfully said no. And then after that, four picks later,
the Dolphins took two at tag of my law. They passed on Justin Herbert, who went immediately after that, and they also passed on Jordan Love who went late first round. And I'm sure that they're thinking about things like that, or even passing on Jalen Hurts, who went later in the draft round two, fifty third overall pick. But Tua is benched today. Tua will not play unless injury dictates. He is the third quarterback, the emergency quarterback for this game.
You got benched, and he's not happy about it.
Say I'm disappointed. I think it's normal, it's normal human emotion. But you know, outside of that, I got to do my part. My role here right now is to help whoever the quarterback is going to be for this team, to lead this team, help in whatever way I can, you know, to help the team win win this game.
On Sunday. Yeah, we'll see Quinn yours not long in the tooth, and quite frankly, I would be surprised if Al Golden's defense doesn't simply bring it against him, confuse him in the secondary. Bring it. It hasn't been a stellar year for Al Golden or his defense, but you would think they throw everything they got at the kid. Let's check out the delivery of last week's game, brought to you by RNL Carriers. Visit ORLC dot com. Make
RNL Carriers your global transportation provider. Look, it didn't score a point all last week, so the delivery of the game is probably an infamous one. But nevertheless, let's make it a Lohi Gilman quarterback a quarterback, I'm sorry for the for the Baltimore Ravens, a Lohi Gilman takes a pitch and returns it eighty four yards on an interception return. So classic play. If it didn't work, it would have been one of the all time bonehead moves on defense.
But nevertheless, it worked, and off the pitch on an interception, a Lohi Gilman eighty four yard interception return twenty four to nothing, Ravens over the Bengals. At CBS Sports, Mike Renner is their guru when it comes to the draft. He's already working on twenty twenty six, and unfortunately, that's what the future holds for the Bengals, not just three games to finish out the season, but also the twenty
twenty six draft. Mike Renner's Sundays are very busy. Nevertheless, the Guru is going to carve out some time for us here on seven hundred WLW today as we continue with the pregame show and Mike Renner, how are you on this glorious Sunday.
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. Ken.
I'm glad you're here because you do see all and know all about the draft. Now, let me just ask you this. If you look at the Bengals right now, we'll get into your mock draft that just came out, but as you look at the Bengals right now, and you had the ability to start rebuilding this team, particularly on the defensive side of the ball, of all the eleven positions on the defensive side of the ball, regardless of who's available when when you pick, we're just going
to talk best case scenario. Where would you begin.
I think defensive tackle.
I think getting a real impact guy there to make the linebackers look better, secondary look better, if you can rush the passer. You know ideally you want edge help too, but you've used first rounders there to the last three years, so it'd be hard to say, let's go address that again in the first round. But defensive tackles where it's like, okay, we if we we've invested sub draft appital, not a whole lot, we have some vets, they're kind of aging out.
I think that's.
Where one certified dude would really make this whole defense look a lot better and probably where I look first to address.
Yeah, they've tried, right, I mean Chris Jenkins, they tried with him, McKinley Jackson, they brought bj hillback, but that has been a chronic problem for them. They also need edge rusher who knows if Joseph Osaiah is coming back? And Trey Hendrickson I think confirmed at least in the in the the Browns family's mind that you don't invest
in players heavily after they turn thirty. Whether that's right or wrong, that theory for them I think has been certified with what happened this year with the Trey Hendrickson. But Ken, if you've got an I at edge that's available when you pick, and right now you have them picking top ten in this upcoming draft, what an edge guy, Trump an interior guy. Even if the edge guy is a little bit of a reach, I.
Don't think so.
I think I still look at her. But out in this class specifically, there are going to be more edge gaps, and in this class actually there's a lot of what I call edge hybrids. There's a lot of guys who are edge players in college, but they're like two hundred and seventy five two and eighty five pounds at In the NFL, that's the defensive tackle nowadays, So there are a lot of and they sometimes moonlight there, whether it's Ruben Bain from Miami, whether it's Keldric Fall from Auburn.
That those guys could be NFL dp's and I don't think anyone bad and I given their body types, so.
That would be an interesting thought for them.
Is a guy who could kind of do both, who could really bridge that gap, and especially with the way defensive fronts are going in the NFL, you want flexibility from those guys. Schmar Stewart kind of has a little bit of that. I don't think bals Murphy does, but like that's an addition that you could get all three of them on the field. Then at that point, all three of those former first hundreds.
You know, like anything in life, in football, you never stopped paying for a mistake. And they paid for a very long time to try and find an answer to Andrew Whitworth, whom they let go, and we saw what happened after they let him go. Jesse Bates. They have tried to figure out a way to replace Jesse Bates when it would have been just more prudent to hang
on to Jesse Bates. Right now in you're a mock draft, and I know these things are fluid and we're still months away from the draft, but you have the Bengals picking ninth overall in round one, and you have Caleb Downs, the great safety from Ohio State. And I don't emphasize the words a great enough when we talk about this guy. He is. He is the real deal. If Caleb Downs falls to the Bengals and they are indeed picking ninth overall, to me, that's a no brainer. Is it a no brainer to you?
I think it's pretty much a no brainer.
The only way again I change that is if either address safety and free agency, or if you know a different need position falls to them and something that you didn't expect. But to me, he's a top ten pick sword in safety. Those don't come around every year. Probably the last one was Kyle Hamilton, and he even did go top ten, even though I can call him top ten pick.
But like those guys, you know it when you see it.
And a lot of Bengals fans probably familiar with Ohio State as well. It's like he has transform that defense he transferred from Alabama, his ability to just cover grounds, tackle, be reliable. It's like all the things we lament this angle secondary for not being.
Able to do. He is that guy.
Yeah, and again a difference maker, There's no question about it. As I look at your draft, you have the number one overall pick going to the Jets and that would be Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza obviously is terrific. This pick is predicated on a trade with the Giants. The Giants have Jackson Dart so obviously they're not looking for a quarterback
in this particular draft. But if Mendoza does indeed go to New York and plays for the Jets, and this is I guess more I don't know anecdotal than it is based in evidence, But that's a tough place to be a quarterback. Mendoza seems like a really young guy. I mean, he just seems like he comes off as young, and he comes off as a little naive. I'm afraid the New York media, in addition to the fan base, and to eat this guy up if he's not not
successful out of the shoot. Do you think Mendoza could survive in that environment?
Actually, you know, me being this draft analyst, just focusing on you know, the skill set and the fit and the offense.
That's not something I had ever even like occurred to me. But you're right.
I mean when you watch Mendoza talk and when you hear him speak about he's very it all comes off as like nerdy, right, Like he has a very academic way he looks at the game of football, and yeah, it's gonna be it's going to a media market where any of all of those things that he says is going to be torn apart every which way by millions of people after every game.
So yeah, it's not the ideal fit. You know, Ideally one of.
Those guys you know kind of seton Herbert I think has like a similar sort of vibe. I see those guys go to a small market and you don't really hear from them, you don't get to hear the quotes from them, and it doesn't really matter, and then they can be successful. But yeah, I guess that is the thing that for him specifically, you might worry about in a bigger market.
He's he's obviously wildly talented, but he comes off as a high school junior. I mean when you just watch these these interviews, I worry about a little bit. You have Carnell Tait in your your mock draft going to the Browns. Of course tit is is just absolutely terrific, paired up at Ohio State with Jeremiah Smith. But what in the in in the case of Tate that would
be an inordinate upgrade at wide receiver. Do you think he'd actually fall to uh to four overall or do you think that somebody may and that that somebody may be uh maybe the Titans, I mean they need a receiver there, the Raiders need a quarterback. You have Dante Moore going there with a second overall pick. But do you think the Browns would be tempted enough to take Tate at four overall?
I do, and specifically for the Browns. He's just like what they're missing. They don't have one a guy who can really make contested catches consistently on the outside. I mean just last week that Jared Judy like gave the ball to the cornerback. He's kind of your post boy for a lack of ball skills at the position, and he's had a lot of spled to a lot of incompletions this year. I think don't really have that vertical threat either. I mean, Isaiah Bond's kind of been, but
he's very small. He's kind of just a vertical threat. And to me, Carnal takes your number one sort of X wide receiver on the outside that can win those routes consistently. So for them specifically, it's not too high. I mean, just the fact that he's playing next year, my Smith, I think underrate him. Hembery will be the second best wide receiver in the country. It's just that his teammate is the best.
Yeah, And as you point out in your analysis there, he has it had a single drop all year. Mike Renner the draft guru at cbssports dot com. Mike also a terrific writer about other things in his own right. We have the Bengals Dolphins later this afternoon. Quinn Yours is going to quarterback the Dolphins. I'm not sure what the motivation is there for Mike McDonald other than to get too of Tago by a little off the field
and on the bench. But as you look at as you look at this game today, and people tend to write off games that aren't important to a playoff chase. The playoffs run everything. But I think this is I think these next three games are important to the Bengals to try and get Shamar Stewart on the field, get some plays under his belt, and to just get Joe Burrow right again. People say, what do you play at Burrow for? Well, he's paid to play football, he's paid
to win games. So I'm not writing off these last three games. But I have limited expectations. Of course. What about you and this team today against Miami.
Yeah, I think the first thing you said there about Shamar Stewart and truly just all these young guys defensively is what you care about right now, because you know they have been better from where they're at midseason, when they're on pace to break the record for most points aloud or whatever.
But you want to see.
Improvement from these young guys because that so we just kind of talked off the top about this defense. It's a lot of guys you've drafted highly in the last four years, a lot of rookie contra So that's why it's hard to really pinpoint where do you attack, because well, you're kind of still hoping that this cornerback takes a step forward, your linebackers that are real his take a step forward, your first round edges take a step forward. So it's like, that's what you want to see those
guys take a step forward. These next three games actually show you something because if not every position of the defense is truly a need at this point with the way they've looked this season.
Boy, if that's not the truth. The truth is what you get when you want anything related to sports at cbssports dot com, and here is the purveyor of the truth on the NFL Draft. Mike Rennert's always great catching up with you. I know we'll talk down the road. Merry Christmas to you and your family and for your time today.
We thank you, Mary. Christmas to you as well. Ken, thank you so much.
That man you bet there he is and he's he's must must destinate. He must read destination right now. Unfortunately, but that's where the Bengals find themselves. Yeah, go back to twenty twenty in that draft on the heels of a twenty nineteen season, not to resurrect bad memories, but we all know what the Bengals were in twenty nineteen. They finished two and fourteen that year, got right down
of the wire in that game against the Dolphins. I remember vividly as that game went to overtime and Andy Dalton is standing next to Zach Taylor, rookie head coach, and they were both kind of laughing, like, Man, if we messed this thing up and win this game in overtime, we're gonna We're gonna miss out on Joe Burrow. But in that draft in twenty twenty, Bengals first Burrow Redskins
they were then known as the Redskins Redskins. Second, Chase Young Third, Detroit went with a cornerback Jeff Acota Andrew Thomas. A tackling on a good one from Georgia went to the Giants fourth overall that year and fifth overall to the Dolphins was to attack of Ilola you win that game in Miami and that draft is turned upside down, but it turned out differently and Burrow fight. The fact that he says cryptic things now remains with your Cincinnati Bengals.
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presented by your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealer. Let's Salute, Salute the Performer of the Week, brought to you by Crown Royal, the official whiskey of the Bengals, bringing the spirit to every game this season. Performer of the Week, Well, it's an interesting thing. Let's let's go back and take a look. Let's look at receiving. And I want to highlight a guy that had what I thought was just a stellar, stellar week, and that was Kyle Pitts side
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If indeed the Bengals can turn the flame up on the Dolphins defense today down in Miami, we'll see maybe so maybe, no, maybe next week. Time to look at who's hot in the NFL. And that's brought to you by plumb tight, fast response times and no service fees. Well, I mean you have your passing leaders, your rushing leaders, your receiving leaders. How about Miles Garrettles Garrett made a boatload of money in the offseason, signed that contract, paying
him thirty five thirty six million dollars a year. Miles Garrett is one sack away from the NFL record for most sacks in one season that has stood for twenty four seasons. Michael Strahan has twenty two and a half sacks. He achieved that in two thousand and one. Miles Garrett going into today's game at home against Buffalo, Miles Garrett with twenty one and a half sacks. That's who's hot
in the NFL. You pair that with the Denver Broncos, who were just absolutely motoring right along, having won eleven in a Row Denver at home today for a four o'clock start against Jacksonville, Denver giving three and a half on that day. Joe Burrow another week, another news conference, and you know the media in whenever they smell uncertainty or something that's off, they'll hone in on. It doesn't matter whether it's Cincinnati, New York, Los Angelesia coll it
doesn't matter. So Burrow, who was talking about not having fun and almost questioning his longevity in the NFL a week ago, this week, this past week, was asked, could you ever envision yourself playing for another team other than the Cincinnati Bengals. This was Joe's answer.
Yeah, A lot of crazy things happen every year. Michael Parsons got traded right before, right before the season. I think this year that is a something I hadn't seen in a long time in the NFL. So crazy things gonna happen.
It's an honest answer. It's an honest answer. Teams move on from players they feel are no longer a fit ownership sometimes change just coaches, sometimes changes. Players sometimes aren't performing as well as they did early in their career. I don't think you have any worries about Joe Burrow going anywhere anytime soon. The Bengals simply will not. They're not. It's this is a Joe centric team and the analogies to Carson Palmer don't fit. No, that's that's not happening.
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Well less than three minutes, three hours to kickoff, and we are counting down to the Bengals and the Miami Dolphins. Here on seven hundred WLWNESPN fifteen thirty all the play by play live from Miami with Dan Horde and Dave Lapham. NFL Last Night, Philadelphia twenty nine Washington eighteen. Philadelphia clinches the NFC East. Meanwhile, the Thriller last Night was in Chicago. Chicago roars back and wins an overtime twenty two to sixteen.
Green Bay starting quarterback Jordan Love was knocked out with a concussion in the second quarter. It affected the way the rest of this game was played. Chicago tied the game with twenty four seconds to go, then in overtime, Green Bay gets the ball first possession and Molique Willis, filling in for Jordan Love, falls the snap on a fourth and one. Chicago gets the ball and Chicago turns around and Caleb Williams finds DJ Moore with a forty six yard touchdown pass in overtime in Chicago with a
twenty two to sixteen win. Those were the Saturday games in the NFL. Let's check out today's Spotlight Player, brought to you by Furniture Fair. Get the guaranteed low price or it's free at Furniture Fair. I got two and they probably have a lot to do with how each other will perform today. First spotlight Player Miles Murphy. Up until the latter half of this season, Miles Murphy was viewed, I think by most players, by most people, media, whatever.
I think he was viewed by most people as a whiff that he hadn't contributed the way a first round draft pick should contribute, and because of that, there was great questions about the Bengals going forward at the edge, Trey Hendrickson on a one year deal and Murphy underperforming. Murphy had two sacks in that game last week against Baltimore, acquitted himself very well with a lot of other quarterback hurries. He's in the spotlight today because not only can he
bring the heat. Also, Quinn Ewers is starting from Miami today, not two otagoa loa, and yours making his first NFL start. We'll probably have, as Sam Weisch used to say about young players, eyeballs as big as saucer cups. As for yours, he's excited about today, as you will would almost expect he would be.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a dream come true for me. I've always wanted to have the opportunity to play in the NFL and for that to for that to be coming is just truly a blessing, and I'm thankful for the opportunity.
I was happy.
Well, we'll see how thankful he is if the Bengals can tee off on him. But those are our spotlight players. And we thank again Furniture Fair for being with us all these games of this season. All Right, we have a guy that joins us a lot, and I like Ian Hart. It's for a number of reasons. One he's a good guy too is Whenever I say Ian can you can you be on the show? He says, sure, absolutely, dial me up. And that's what we're going to do.
He is with Matthew Berry Fantasy Live before that Pro Footballfocus dot Com and a guy that knows sports inside out, but particularly football and oftentimes, as we know in football, fantasy interjects itself into reality. So I wanted to get him on today to talk about why things went south with the Bengals this year and is the obvious answer a little too easy? So let's bring them out in Ian hartits how are you on this glorious Sunday?
It is a great day to be great. Can always want to get to talk to you as well, so appreciate you having me on as always.
And yeah, I would say a tough.
One for the Bangles. Spent a couple of years my life living in since I'm in Columbus now, so maybe.
Not the same.
But I will say despite again just a down season. Okay, Joe Burrow, you still like Jamar Chase and as much as you've been hanging on to Acty last few years, that still is a pretty darn kick start routes as well?
At when did it fall apart for this team? Is it too easy to say that it all ended when Joe Burrow got hurt in game number two of this season. Game one, they were lucky to be Cleveland. I mean, the Cleveland kicker missed several significant kicks and Jacksonville had their way with Cincinnati up until Burrow got hurt, and somehow, some way, you know, the Bengals came back and won
that game. I'm just I'm wondering, is it too easy to say that this season got torpedoed when Burrow went down or is that the exact reason why it got torpedoed more or less?
I think the time when you really had to stop dreaming about the possibility of Burrow making that return kind of leading them, you know, back into contention was just you know, losing those back to back and against jackson Baar offense, those coint thirty eight plus points on berthaccasion, that just made it really tough to come back from.
But even with all that in mind, man like the playoff percentage were starting to look a little bit enticing, you know, around that ten minute mark in that Bill's game. But unfortunately, you know, a couple of great plays, a couple of fluxes by that Bill defense turns turn things around the hurry. So look, I when you have Burrow, you got Chase, I get it. Sixty minutes of football and then they can compete with anyone. But just they the margins are so thin, you know, regarding the air
that they can make. When you just have the defense, it's going to be giving up thirty five plus to any offense you know what aren't out there. So you know, Trey Henderson being out for this, you know majority of the season hasn't helped matter as well. I just think again, you were you were asking Burrow and Chase and Piegans, we've been acting to basically have their superman caps on each and every week to have a chance. And you know, it's pretty hard to do when you're facing teams like
the Bill like the Ravens, you know, even the Patriots. Now, just I think when you kind of go to a position group by position group really do hold far more days.
Well, they were failing to address the needs on defense in the last free agents period in March of twenty twenty five. I said, look, it's great, you have Burrow, it's great, you have Chase, Great, you have Higgins, you got Chase Brown. It's not fantasy football. You've got to block and you got to tackle in this game to win. And it's one thing to say that this offense can deliver thirty five, thirty eight points a week. It's another thing to have to deliver thirty eight points per week.
Everybody said, oh, you're crazy, this team can stay with anybody.
This is that.
No, it isn't, because your offense isn't on every single week. Now, they did have some games where they delivered forty points a week and lost, But I do think that this was a giant miscalculation on their part on the defensive side of the football.
Would you agree, yeah?
And I mean you look at them last three years, ever since losing Jesse bas In my thirty first point sets. Now this year's thirty second just total yards allowed and you.
Want to say, well, how can we not better?
But well, what.
Would make you think they were going to be better overall? Again, outside of Trey Henderson doing his thing, but when he's banks up, this is the sixth cheapest defense you know in the NFL and twenty twenty five and even looking
at twenty twenty six dollars, it only gets worse. So we do see teams like the Rams and the Charges out in Massangeles They've done a great job hitting on a lot of their rookie picks, and they also have very cheap defenses, and they still managed to actually put forward you know, far better obviously, you know, minis on the field than what the Bangles have had. So I think at the group effort, obviously al Bowlden didn't exactly fix that defense, you know, schematically the way and that
we were hoping. But at the end of the day, I do tend to lean towards the Timmis and Joe's, you know, making more of an unpacked many acts, and that was out there. So man, he just looks after these last teams after in particular, and almost every single top one hundred picks has been a whift. And again the injuries play a role, but Krischa mar Stewart not getting anything going on, Demetrius Night's PFF's third worst. You know, greater linebackers this year. Haven't seen much from Chris Jacksons
and mckillley Jackson, and then even the offensive line. Then you know, then fair Child not exactly all pros out there. Pert Is, I haven't on the freaking team anymore, so one with after another, I think when you string together. You know, multiple draft clauses in a row. You're not getting any difference makers. I mean, these are sort of seasons I catch.
Up to you.
All right, I'm going to anoint you the general manager of the Bengals just for this moment. Ian Hardens is the general manager. He reports only to Mike Brown, and the Bengals are picking. Your team is picking somewhere in this draft. Probably early teens is where I would put them. We'll see how the next three weeks go. But early teens, maybe mid teens, that's where you're picking. Where are you looking for first in the draft to fix this team?
If we have one of those drafts here where the Bengals have eight picks and they use every single one on defense, I have Portland warranted at this point because, again mentioned before, the offensive lineman maybe not playing great, but in the credit I mean, they've got the run game going obviously without even having that big devotion of resources to the running back room Joe Burrow on the season, we've actually seen the sixth rowest pressure rate overall in
the NFL. So we're gonna let the offense rest as is. And I think again, if we are picking this Matt lower ten of fifteen range. The dream pick would be Ohio State Safety killed down Scorf Award a winner, and just I've seen a lot of you know, the Dame Burglars and drill class of the world. Actually getting to Troy Paula moodelcom because I'm sure AFC North Fence if he has the line you know, nightmares Oven Cincinnati. But still it would be great to get one of those
guys on your squad. Just again, a rangey box safe and we can go these things and coverage as well, but just someone who can get I think helps solidify and just help kind of improve pretty much everyone working across that defense. The other potential guy who again could just kind of go sideline the sideline for you would be another buck Eye Sunny style, someone who actually was
playing safety on his career, get out of Pickerington. And just again, when we talk about freak athletes, amongst freak athletes like study Pallas really is.
One of them.
So he's really, you know, started to come more into his own as a true linebackers with these last seasons. And again just getting some more speed out there, King, because I think that's one of the bigger issues When you watch the defense play, there's just no one in the back end that's actually going sideline the side by making plays. So yes, everyone, I am a very bias Clubs Ohio native and so so we take that and was for us.
But at the same time, we're talking about all Americans here, and you know guys who I think even a more neutral fan I would have bet or with your top fifty picks. So again, Caleb Downs would be the dream, and I think there is a chance for him to follow you guys as much as we're going to see Caleb literally ranked as a top five overall process in this draft, just kind of the positional value of safety that makes it so that he might not go in the top ten.
So fingers crossed the down.
Does Ian hard It's general manager of the Bengals attempt to re sign Trey Hendrickson or has that boat sailed?
I think the boat kilm And the thing is like when Henderson, even when he was leading the NFL, and that's not like I was still producing a great defense. Look, we've seen what happens when he's not out there. They go bad to literally the worst group in the league. So not trying to take anything away from Hendrickson, but in the day, you know, we just turned thirty one
years old, obviously couldn't stay healthy this season. I just don't think, you know, signing up to give you know, a law and multi year extension to a guy who you know, for good reasons isn't very happy with your ownership in the first place. So I think at this point, whether you can try to get a trade or just let a walk and hope you get a dec of
compict probably makes more sense. There Again, if you've learned anything this year, that we're now one player away from really scrucing up the defense anyway, So hopefully again try to use that you know, actually thirty forty million and cap space a multiple positions.
As you look at the defense and as you look at free agency and knowing it is the Bengals and they are not spend thrift, I mean they are spend thrifts when it comes to anything that involves signing free agents. How aggressive would you be, not knowing, of course at this point of the year, who would be available at at what price, but how aggressive would you be? Would you would you go overboard? Would the number one guy that's out there on defense, be it the interier out an,
a edge rusher, a linebacker, whatever it may be. How aggressive would you be to try and bring in immediate help because quite frankly, if we just talk about the draft, I don't know if they can fix that defense inside of one off season.
Yeah, but at the same time, when you are employing Burrow and Chase and spending thirty forty million on each per year, like your window is now, even if it maybe doesn't look like it's ready to exactly pick up that slack, So I.
Would be very aggressive.
Look, we have seen turn arounds to four where we fad like we need the Bengals field from the thirty second ranked defense the first Okay, we can go to war with the eighteenth ranked team hopefully has the ball bounce our way a couple times in January and things will probably be good enough there. So I would be again just all in on this window and trying to
make the most out of it. So whether that's going to be you know, really I don't looking at the free agents right now, and you're right, it is early. And Andrewson is probably going to be the guy headline in the class anyway, So I don't know about completely, you know, emptying the cliff on just one of these edge rushers, trying to get it all there, but again trying to bring him four or five potential difference makers.
Maybe more so in that eight to twelve million annual salary range would make a little bit more sense to me. So I will say, you know, just when you look at free agency, a lot of time teams I think when they do mess up, it is trying to spend up on that wide receiver or on that quarterback who, let's say, if they were better, probably wouldn't behave the
open park in the first place. We do see teams manage to have a bigger you know, overhaul and turnaround successfully in free agency when we are looking at the more line of scrimmage and defensive typosition. So I am optimistic again they could maybe go come horrific to just below average and here if their offense is going to be great, hopefully that's enough.
Hopefully Ian Hard It's Matthew Berry Fantasy Live, our guest. They get quinn Ewers today in Miami, as the Dolphins apparently have moved on from to at tag of Iloa. It sounds like it's going to be a a pricey way to move on. But nevertheless he's done and here comes youwers who had success in college but not so much so far in the NFL. What are you expecting today in Miami? The line on this game is like, I think it's gone to Bengals minus four and a half. What are you expecting in this game today?
Be a very ugly.
Football game, But I'm hopefing that a bang will you see that will give us an offense the highlights the fend with yours and maybe he does turn around. This was a guy who I think coming out of high school was twenty four to seven sports like number one that waited the quarterback. Ever, so obviously you know anyone has lost in my textas over the years kind of knows is the radicness out there. So not expecting too
much of yours. But then again, I mean watching two of the course of the past no year or two really has been striking just how much he's fallen off. I never got behind, you know, actually ranking two up there with the Justin Herberts and Joe Burrows. But twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, I mean he still was playing like an above average quarterback by pretty much any metric you want to look at. So very disappointing to see it again. What's kind of happened with Tua?
Maybe yours, you know, can go ahead and give us something. I'm to the point we're not going to see that Dak Wilson experienced him because as much as I'm look, Doc Wilson's the bus, he's a terrible quarterback.
I did it.
But see as that fun bad quarterback. Okay, he's kind of got that, you know, they were actual confidence. He's got the mobility to move around and at least make you laugh at you too. Another interception, So that's my one disappointment there. But overall, I'mtobner was a big place from Furrow Casey Bocha.
Dan Marino in his present state I think might be a better option than Zach Wilson. But that's why they play the games, right.
That would be something man. Ever, since you know, Philip Rivers came out for the Colts, I saw a couple of Jack liars man actually adding Maurice Jones Drew on Twitter and hey man, I could you come back and play? He said, oh heck, And they had that Uh, you know that commercials from going around with Marino and Smith and Jerry Rice going out there. Maybe it's a little more realistic than.
We gave it.
Yeah, maybe so maybe so. Ian Harte, you have a merry Christmas, and you know we'll be calling down the road. But for your time today, we appreciate it, my friend.
Appreciate you.
You bet.
Can you imagine some of these former NFL players coming out of retirement, who would be the number one Bengal you'd like to see coming out of retirement to the rescue for these final three games? How about Carlos Dunlap but Gino Atkins get a little heat on the quarterback probably like no, I'm dude, We're done. It's coming up on ten twenty five. We're counting down to the Bengals
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Ten twenty nine. On this Saturday before Christmas, Welcome back Arnel Carriers game show Little Baseball. Note here the winner of the sweepstakes for Japanese slugger Manataka Morikami. The winner is the Chicago White Sox in on an agreement with the Japanese slugger two years, thirty four million dollars, arguably the most fascinating player in free agency. A big slugger, strikes out a lot, his defenses and all that great.
But nevertheless, two year contract which means he'll be a free agent again in twenty twenty seven, and maybe a couple of years in the in the majors will clear up some of those doubts about his inability to play the field and his propensity for strikeouts. But that was somebody, you know, I looked at it. I'm sure you did too. And you know what about him in the middle of the Reds batting order, it's third basement. I understand that Reds have a couple of candidates to play third base.
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Ten thirty six on the Sunday News Radio seven hundred WYLWESPN fifteen thirty. I am Ken Brew and this is the Arnhill Carriers pregame Show. It's presented by your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers, Bengals and Dolphins on the Horizons standing body join us in just a moment. Lee Stirling, Paramount Sports. It's got fought? Is there four or five today? I forgot He's got five, five games. He is convinced that will come home as winners for you. Here's what
happened on this date in Cincinnati sports history. It's brought to you by Pedal Windows and Doors Making life brighter Pella now Hey. Later, on this date, December the twenty first, all the way back in nineteen hundred and seventy five, the Bengals were playing the San Diego Chargers. I'm sorry nineteen seventy three Bengals San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati runs away with a forty seven to seven win. Ken Anderson three touchdowns and a rushing touchdown, and Cincinnati ended the
regular season eleven and three. They lost to Oakland the following week in the playoffs. Big offensive day for Ken Anderson in the Bengals offense on this date, December the twenty first, in nineteen seventy five, fifty years ago, the Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association took on the Quebec Nord Deeks at Riverfront Conlisseum and in a wild game, skated away with an eleven to seven win, eighteen total goals in the game. Brian Campbell. Brian Campbell, they called
him Soupy. He War number seven. Brian Soupe Campbell two goals, three assists, and a not so robust crowd of five thousand, three hundred and ninety two soaked it all up and on this state. In nineteen hundred and sixty eight, the Cincinnati Royals went to San Diego to play the Rockets. Royals, of course, no longer in existence. They have moved on through a number of incarnations. They are now the Sacramento Kings. They took on the San Diego Rockets. Of course, the
Rockets are no longer in San Diego. In any event, the Rockets come along and come away with a one hundred thirty two to one hundred and twenty four win Oscar forty eight minutes, thirty nine points. That is among the many things that happened on this date in Cincinnati sports history. All right, Lee Sterling, Paramount Sports. He's had a big year. He's had a big year with us. He is in Miami, that's where he's based. And Lee is going to the game today. If you're going to
the game. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app and you're down in Miami, look for Lee Sterling. But he's standing by to join us right now as we handicap some hopefully winners in the NFL today. And Lee, how are you of this glorious game day?
I am good and getting ready to head over there in just a few minutes to the to a little bit of tailgating, hopefully a lot of tailgating. I probably might be smarter just to stay in the tailgate section rather than going into the stadium, but I'll do a little bit of both.
You realize you said last week on this radio station that anybody that was listening and they go down to the game, the first beer is on you. You remember that right there. I'm ready.
I'm ready.
We'll get to twenty lot twenty. We'll get to that Titanic matchup in a moment. I want to go inside the division. Steelers eight and six at Lions eight and six. Lions are giving seven. Pittsburgh controls its own destiny inside the division, but the Lions are currently on the outside. Look at it right now at the playoffs. This game event against Pittsburgh at Minnesota and that at Chicago to
finish the season. This is a big game for both teams, but do you I think even more so for the Lions, don't you?
It is, but I think they're going to make this is a great matchup for them. Why do I say that they're playing a Steelers team that you know, if you're looking for kudos beating the Dolphins and cold weather, they're not going to get it. They also always went on Monday, So anyone who is betting the Dolphins on Monday, maybe they should think about quitting the street. I mean they can run the football. Number five rushing offense, number
three in passing offense. They got weapons all across the board.
You didn't forget about.
Think one of the best tight ends. So how is Pittsburgh going to stop him? It's gonna be touugh without TJ.
Watt.
The Steelers offense barely averages more first downs than the Jets. Believe it or not, only seventeen point one first downs per game, and the defense allows as many as Washington, Arizona in Dallas, near the bottom of the totem polt twenty one point nine first downs per game. Here, I know the Lions are playing to stay alive here. But I think they're going to get it done here. I don't think Pittsburgh's offense is built to trade scores here Detroit thirty four.
To twenty three, thirty four to twenty three Lions. Well, if that happens, then new life for the Ravens, who are at home today giving three to the Patriots. But hang on a second, the Patriots, there's six and oh on the road this season, six and zero on the road, one game up on Buffalo with three to go, and so from that standpoint, it's a big game for the Patriots. How do you see this one?
Yeah?
And they were three and fourteen.
Year to expect them to all of a sudden go from three and fourteen to running away with the division, I think it was asking too much. My wife came in and popped her head, and when Buffalo's trailing twenty one nothing, she goes, who do you have here, Buffalo? And she goes, well, not looking good. I said, not over yet, and sure enough came starming back. So it's baby steps. You know you're not going to, you know, all of a sudden be a champion. You've got to go through some adversity here.
And the thing is that Baltimore.
I don't think Baltimore is that good and they're not ain't close to where they were last year. Lamar Jackson is afraid to run, just two rushes last week, drop passes all over the field. All his receivers seems like don't want to hold onto the ball right now. Drake May I think is a better runner and the better passer than Lamar Jackson. And I think he has the most explosive player in Trevian Henderson. I don't know why he's only carrying the ball about sixty four percent of
the time compared to the other backs. They put Stevenson in from three, four to five carry stops a game. Here, it's fifty six and fifty two yard touchdown burst last week here, I think the wrong TAM's favorite. Give me New England here, stupour.
Twenty seven to twenty four. Don't worry about the points Patriots now. Look, any game can be the best game of the week. Look at Thursday Night. But I'm telling you this Jaguars Broncos game is shaping up.
To be that way.
Five in a row for the Jags, eleven straight for Denver Jags inside the red zone are money this season. Here are the Broncos at home giving three and a half to the Jaguars. This could be the game of the daily Yes, and.
No one saw this coming here.
So here's the situation with jack Ville.
Are they improved, Absolutely, they won five straight and they covered five straight. But look who they played. They beat the Jets last week. Trevor Lawrence had six touchdown passes. He may not have six touchdown passes the rest.
Of the season.
And now they got to go all the way out West, played a mile high, got to face the number three run defense. That's going to be troublesome if they can't run the ball. I got to throw the ball. And Denver, as we know, has one of the top two or three pass rushes, and they got cornerbacks and safeties that can cover like no other. And then on top of that, bone Nicks all of a sudden, he's starting to put it together. I mean, Sean Payton gradually allowing that leash
to grow here and he's not even running much. So I just think this is the game where Trevor Lawrence shows two or three interceptions.
I like Denver big here thirty to.
Thirteen thirty thirteen Broncos to blow them out. Don't worry about the three and a half. It's fading fast on Indianapolis. I mean, yeah, the Philip Rivers is a nice story. They're home today against the forty nine ers, and that NFC West is that conference is just brutal. I mean it's exceptional, but it's brutal. Colts are getting five and a half, but they've lost four in a row. Oh
and again they're fading at this point. So here they are at home and a must win for them to stay alive in a playoff race against the forty nine ers, who are duking it out with three other two other teams in the NFC West.
What do you think?
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So you are going to this Bengals Dolphins game today. Both teams are out of it. Miami is benched to Quinn Ewers at quarterback for the Dolphins. And Joe Burrow, I mean, it seems like every time he opens his mouth now he says something cryptically about himself. He did it again this week. The Bengals look horrible last weekly, as you well know, and here they are against the Dolphins. Dolphins were playing well until last week, then they hit
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Well, I did some in preseason. I think they might rally around him a little bit. The thing we do know is going to be playing not a very good Cincinnati defense, but I think Joe Burrow is going to be able to He rarely has two bad games in a row. So the weather looks to be perfect here fast track. The one thing is Miami does have a winning record straight up and against the spread at home, so we know they're able to do much much better at home.
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Yeah, it's interesting. This game could be an absolute mess in terms of performance. Mikah Fitzpatrick, the safety, the aging safety for the Dolphins is out. They've got a bunch of players questionable. DJ Turner, best corner on the Bengals roster, yesterday, popped up on the injury report after a full week of practice. He's now questionable. They didn't say why. He's questionable, but questionable in NFL parlance, means uncertain if the player
will play. You've got no offense. The tight end is out, You've got Charlie Jones, the return guy continues to be out with an ankle problem. And you have Joseph Osai out. So you have all of that and then some questionable guys on that Bengals roster and two teams that are out of it. Let's see who answers the bell strongly. The difference could be the quarterback. I mean, Quinn yours first NFL regular season dart, but he's at home. It's warm. It's been cold here. When you go from cold to
warmth or warmth to cold. The team that is doing the traveling is always the team that is at a disadvantage. Nevertheless, Bengals are a better team, even if they haven't showed it. If you just look at the rosters, they're a better team. But with those players out, it could throw everything into a bit of a jumble. More on that coming up.
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Welcome Back ESDN fifteen thirty seven hundred wlw T the RNO Carriers pregame show bottom of the hour. It's countdown to kickoff with that man about town, the Hall of Famer Wayne Box Miller Champagne Wayne, and he will take you right up to kickoff. We found out this week through Paul Danner junior at the Athletic that Zach Taylor does not have one year left on his contract. He
actually has two two years left on his contract. And so when the media gathered to question Zach on this week's game, the contract was like the first thing that was brought up. You know, can you confirm that? Can you confirm that it's two more years?
Here?
We all thought it was one year until you know, Danner dug this piece of information up. Here's what Taylor said.
I don't think it won't matters. I coach every day like it's my last. And I've been through years in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty that were literally you coach every game thinking it could be your last game. And I've seen how we responded after that. Twenty one twenty two compete for division titles and championships, and so this year is no different for me. It's going through adversity coaching every game in this profession like it could be your
last one. I have a lot of confidence in our staff that we're going to get this turned around and we're going to finish the season really strong and put together a great plan to get back to those championships I mentioned.
So very confident we can do all that well. I mean, why would he feel otherwise, right, I mean why would he feel otherwise. If he felt otherwise, he probably shouldn't be there in the first place. But the problems that this franchise has run deeper than the coach.
I mean, yeah, you.
Could run an idea past management ownership. Now, maybe Zach shouldn't call his plays, maybe he should just be a quote unquote head coach. I mean, I guess that's one thing you could look at, or yeah, maybe there's a time and a place and maybe this is the time and the place to move on from the de facto general manager Duke Tobin. But that's not happening. This is a run it back organization, as you just heard, and you know it's happened before they went to the super Bowl.
They ran it back the next year. They came within a couple of bonehead plays, bad punt, hitting a guy out of bounds from going back to the super Bowl again. But even Burrow knows there's got to be changes in this off season or what's the point.
I have a lot of confidence and and everybody that's putting together the plans for us weekend and week out, that's time to say that changes don't need to be made. Not saying personnel or people. I'm just saying, you know, what we've been doing hasn't worked the last couple of years, so you know, we have to think outside the box and get creative about where we go from here.
Everybody's caught, they got confidence and everybody, by the way, there was not a woodpecker that was in the conference room. That was somebody on a laptop banging away. Don't know why we have to hear that, but nevertheless, Yeah, everybody's got confidence in everybody else. And Borrow got exactly what he wanted last offseason. He got Jamar, he got Tee signed the long term deals, he got Gasicki signed up, he got Hendrickson signed up. It didn't work for whatever reason,
largely because he got hurt. And that's where they are today in Miami, eliminated. But it does not mean that there is not something to play for. And you're playing for besides pride, besides a paycheck. You're playing for another team to see what you may be able to do for them. Because the changes will involve personnel, if not front of office and coaching. So maybe the players, a lot of them that are here right now won't be here next year. Well, they're still looking for a job
in football. So you damn well better not lit up in the final three games. I mean, here's the guy that I think has been right place, right time for this team all season long, Jordan Battle, starting safety. He knows what today means, no.
Matter the circumstances. And obviously you know the playoffs there nine to no more. But anytime you get a win, that's that's good for your pride, you know, good for your for your manhood.
You know.
We you know, we're a group of guys you know who who hate losing, you know, and losing doesn't feel good, you know.
But and you win, obviously you feel better going home. And that brings us to how every piece is important, brought to you by Donato's Pizza. Where every piece is important. Donado's the official pizza of the Bengals. It's a lot of pieces. I'm gonna start with the captains of this team. This is when you step up. This is when Burrow steps up. This is when you galvanize a locker room and say, look, this ain't going away. We thought it's
going to go. But we still have ourselves, we still have our fans, and we still have our team to represent. Go out there and do it the right way. Play today like it matters. Play today like it matters whether or not you go to the playoffs, even if it does not. So the pieces are many. They're the captains. That's why they elect you captain. Standing by to join us. John Breach cbsports dot com more on today's game and
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We are just about two hours before kickoff. The opening tickoff is bought you by a door and window company. They sell the best and they service the rest and our thanks to Bill and Adam Webber for their continued support of the Bengals all these many years. Yes, yes, yes, one o'clock kickoff down in Miami, Tua has been benched. Why was two a bench?
Well?
Their coach Mike McDaniel says, I didn't see the kind of play I need out of a quarterback. He really hasn't been the same. And you'll remember this when the Dolphins played here, I think it was a Thursday night and he was concussed on the field at pay Court Stadium. Followed that followed a previous concussion, and there was one more to follow that, and it just hasn't been right
for him this year. He's thrown twenty touchdown passes but fifteen interceptions, and he doesn't seem to be reading rushes all that well. He's been sacked thirty times. Yours only has five completions and eight attempts in a fill in role this year. But there are other weapons that the Dolphins have, starting with Devon a Chain eleven hundred and eighty six yards so far this year, seven touchdowns. He doesn't put the ball on the ground. He's only fumbled
once and when the quarterback Crows. He's got Jim and Wattle Watta with eight hundred receiving yards this year, six touchdowns, thirteen big plays, that's plays of twenty or more yards. Tyreek Hill is out. That was a major problem early on with the Dolphins this season, and now it sounds like they're trying to run them out of Miami. Tight end is serviceable. We've been around a while. He's not bad, Darren Waller, but it's not like this is a offensive juggernaut.
That's one of the reasons why it appears that the coach is on the hot seat and the quarterback is out. So with all of those changes and with a new quarterback, at least for Zach Taylor, this is a tough team to prepare for.
But it's a very difficult offense regardless of who the quarterback is. They put a lot of stressing in the run game. They do a great job getting guys open with a lot of speed in the past game that can finish on explosive plays, and so it's a very ranging group to go against.
And on the Bengal side of things, it's been an interesting couple of weeks for Joe Burrow. Of course, last week was I would say, I don't know if anybody would disagree. If you do, feel free to this is the worst game he's played as a Cincinnati Bengal. That was on the heels of comments he made a week ago Wednesday about not having fun and how if he's not having fun, what am I doing? That led to an uproar, and then this week the topic was raised.
You know, I mean, could you ever envision yourself like at some point not playing for the Bengals? And his answer was, well, crazy things happen in the NFL. Well, they do, but he's here, right here, right now. But something else just doesn't seem to be clicking with him right now. I don't know what that is, but to say those kinds of things would mean that he's doing a lot of thinking and not thinking about football is not a good thing at this time of the year. Nevertheless,
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Look, so Joe Burrow last week he starts talking out loud about how it's not fun anymore, and this and that and now. Joe Burrow chooses his words carefully. I think he's a thoughtful person. And some thought that maybe he was delivering some sort of message with that, and I looked at it as a twenty nine year old guy, and I've been around twenty nine year olds just venting. I just say he was venting. I agree, you know,
he's deep. He doesn't say things capriciously, but I just thought it was venting last week about how he's just you know, it just isn't fun. But all of a sudden it explodes into something like Oh my god, Joe Burrow may retire. He may be the next Andrew Love. What did you how did you view what he said last week before we get to what he said this week, Well, it.
Certainly was interesting, just because he went to that press conference and he was kind of on a downer. You know, it was his birthday. Some people don't like their birthday. Some people just want the day to be over. And so just the way he carried himself, the words he used, because you never want to hear someone, especially a franchise quarterback, say hey, I don't know if I'm gonna I'm having fun here anymore. I'm having fun doing this because that's
why you play the game. And that's that is kind of what Andrew Luck said toward the end of his career. So it wasn't completely crazy for people to make that comparison. Certainly understand why they did. But you know, Joe Burrow wants to win, and that's really what it feels like, is that that is what is weighing on him. The fact that he's been injured is weighing on him, and I think really the big issue is that he works so hard to get back so quickly we're talking about.
The original thought was that he wouldn't be back until mid December. He made it back by Thanksgiving, and he goes through all that rehab, gets back and boom, within two games, the Bengals are out of the playoff race. They're eliminated.
It's all over.
And so I think that was wearing on him that he spent all that time to get back and now the rug's been pulled out from under you and you're essentially eliminated, which is what happened after that Bill's lost. They weren't fully eliminated, but it was pretty much all over at that point. And then Burrow had that press conference that following Wednesday, and you could just kind of see it on a space.
But he didn't walk in to that news conference and sit down and saying I'm not having fun. He was asked a question, and my feeling is is that he probably, for all the reasons that you just outlined, was down. I mean, birthdays are different for different people. My gosh, will he turns fifty. But the fact of the matter is the fact of the matter is he didn't come in there with guns blazing. He was asked the question,
and yeah, it's not fun. And I don't know, And you asked him that same question maybe next week and you'll get a different answer. I mean, it's just the way people are. I think it's human nature, don't you.
Yeah, absolutely, And I think the unique thing about Joe Burrow that you really don't get a lot of in today's NFL is that when he answers a question, he's very honest. He's very open, and I don't think he worries about the consequences are what people might think of his words and the fact that we're parsing through all of them and breaking it down and trying to figure
out what this means for his future. He just one of the few guys that is brutally honest as what's on his mind and asks what's gonna happen?
Sometimes that you're gonna.
Get answers like this where oh, no, Joe Burrow wants to leave Cincinnati or Joe Burrow is going to retire. Is that's just the nature of how he answers this question. So I certainly I like the fact that he is absolutely open and that he does say what is on his mind. Maybe that's not a great thing for fans who are going to.
Panic every time Joe Burrow has a press conference.
Conference from now on, Well, Keith on our contract through twenty twenty nine. I would be absolutely stunned if he was not playing through that entire contract.
John, you grew up in a house where you fully well knew at a very young age, and Mike Brown doesn't do anything that Mike Brown doesn't want to do for the betterment of the team, And getting rid of or trading Joe Burrow isn't there, and making Joe Burrow happy is there. So I just to me, I just think that, you know, I just think he's down, like you know, the team is down, like the city is down. But now we get to what he said this past week, where he's going to going to play for a long time.
But he's also thought about the possibility of leaving the Bengals at some point. Well, who wouldn't you have the ability now in the business, unlike when your dad played and even when Boomer was here, that you can go anywhere to any team and you can make a lot of money if you're a free agent. So yeah, the possibilities certainly would have had to have crossed his mind, you know, it crosses everybody's mind. Your business, my business.
And again, I don't think it's anything that's calculated. I think if he wants to say these things saml Sam to Katie Blackburnard and Mike Brown, he probably already has. So I'm sure he's thought about the possibility of change in his life at some point. He'd be foolish not to. But I'm not sure that's that's a big deal, is it.
Yeah, I'm not sure it is.
And that was basically Joe Burrows asked, Hey, do you plan.
On being the core you point on not being the quarterback in Cincinnatia at some point in your career, and he said, you think about a lot of things.
Now.
The interesting thing there is that he also gave that same exact answer when he was asked if you thought about retirement. You think about a lot of things. But we're not sitting here and talking about it maybe retiring. We're talking about him maybe leaving the Bengals, because that's just what Joe Burrow says.
He does think about a lot of things.
And like you just said, I am it is almost certain that he probably says the same thing to ownership.
He just doesn't really have a filter.
He thinks deeply about what he says, and then he says it.
I think the important thing to remember about his most recent press conference is that he was talking about a lot of things. He was talking about the fact that he wants to play until forty. He wants to emulate guys like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, and of course, you know those are two of the best quarterbacks ever. He mentioned Drew Breese, he mentioned Aaron Rodgers. All those guys played for multiple teams in his career. So I think he was just kind of saying, hey, look, crazy
things happen in the nfls. You don't know that you're going to be in the same place forever. Most guys aren't.
He specifically mentioned Michael Parsons.
Getting trade and how he was shocked by that trade, and so it is the NFL, and sometimes eventually you either wear you're welcome or the team find something shinier and brighter. Maybe that's eight years down the road, and that's just the nature of the league. So I don't think it's crazy for Burrow to think, hey, look, maybe I won't be here forever, but surely it's possible.
He planned to be here for another ten years before maybe leaving.
Yeah, again, these are questions that are asked. He didn't walk in and sit down and start spouting this stuff off. And it's a beauty. I think that a lot of the writers in this town should embrace. It's like when Boomer was here years ago, there was nobody more honest about his assessment of things than Boomer is Sias and this is kind of like what Boomer did thirty five years ago when he was here. But nevertheless, Joe Burrow is in much better shape right now than two at
taga Iloa. This game today opened at Bengals minus two. It's now Bengals minus four and a half, largely because they've made the quarterback switch in Miami and Tua got benched. His coach was pretty blunt. He said, look, I'm doing this because we're not getting the production out of the quarter that we need. I'm not sure quinn Ewers is the answer, But what do you expect that happened? What do you expect that does to the Miami offense?
Well, it's interesting that the Dolphins made this decision right now, because I think if you're benching to he obviously he's not in their long term plans now, so at some point you're going to probably get rid of him. But he has that huge, huge tap hit in twenty twenty six, and so it's just thinking about trading him, which maybe is your only realistic option, and you probably have to pay some of his salary for twenty twenty six to get that deal done.
Then you would want him out on the field to kind of get his.
Trade compensation make teams say oh, okay to it.
Can still play. So we know he played in Pittsburgh two.
A time of low it's horrible in cold weather.
It was twenty degrees in Pittsburgh.
But now you have two home games coming up in Miami against the Bengals obviously tonight or today, and then against the Buccaneers next week, and then they close against the Patriots, and so it's just weird because again, if you want to see your quarterback, maybe Tour could play well against the Bengals.
We've seen what the Bengals defense has been this year.
So the flip side of that is Quinn yours answer your question again is that if you're going to start a rookie quarterback.
At this point in the season, I'm sure Mike McDaniels.
Said, maybe this looks like a defense we could maybe have some success against. Because the whole thing if you're starting a rookie quarterback is that you want them to be comfortable. You want to make sure they're successful. Early screen passes, little short throws build their confidence up. And so I'm guessing that's what Mike McDaniel's thinking is that this is a defense I think our rookie can have some success against.
The number the total on this game is fifty and a half, So I guess the smart guys are expecting a lot of points in this game today. What about you.
Yeah, Look, I think that we talked about Joe Burrow already. If there is one thing that one other takeaway from that press conference on Wednesday is that Joe Burrow was very upset with his performance again the Ravens, and he said it's an outlier. This is not something that's going to happen again. So he seems pretty determined to go out and just throw for five hundred yards against the Dolphins.
That's really what it felt like. So I will not be surprised if Burrow has a huge game, and so if you're the Bengals and you score thirty thirty five points, then it's can the Dolphins keep up in a shootout with the rookie quarterback? Probably not, but I do think most of that total is the Dolphins or the Bengals and Burrow probably getting to the thirty point mare.
I agree whole heartedly. I think the Bengals win this game. I mean, obviously the playoffs are out of the picture, but for all the reasons you just outlined, I think Cincinnati wins this game, and I kind of think they went it going away. It's unfortunate, you know what happened last week. It's unfortunate the way the season went. But finishing strongly. A lot of people think, well, what are they playing for? Bench Burrow? Why are you playing Burrough? No,
you're paid to play football. You want to finish strongly. There is something to be said for some kind of mojo going into the next season, particularly for the players that are going to be back. So yeah, I think this game takes on importance, as does next week's in the week and one with Cleveland at the end of the season. I think they all take on importance for things like that. You don't want to walk into a season. So at the end of a seasons some sad sack,
trying to rebuild your entire roster. No, these are important games, aren't they.
Yeah, you definitely want to win.
Out and I think for Joe Burrow specifically, it's look.
These guys train all years.
You're keeping your body in shape for twelve months, and you only get seventeen games. You're only guaranteed seventeen games. So when you miss nine of those, like Joe Burrow, did you miss fifty percent of that? You put all that work in and so now that you are healthy and you are able to play, you're going to have to rip Joe Burrow off the field for him not to play, because that's what he mentioned that again, it's hey, look,
I'm healthy, I want to play football. It's that simple, and I think that should be the feeling in the Bengals facility. I want your star quarterback out there, you want everyone out there, and yeah, you want to get a few rookies maybe some extra playing time down a stretch now that you are eliminated from the playoffs. But I do think that playing Burrow over these final three weeks and just playing guys like you are still in the playoff race does make a lot of.
Sense, so I absolutely agree with you there Ken.
All right, John, Well, Merry Christmas. I know it's going to be fun Christmas for you this year, and you and I will visit down the road. But for your time here today, thanks.
Thanks for having me.
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I keep your eye on a number of games today. Buffalo is at Cleveland. Cleveland is a ten and a half point underdog. Buffalo is one back of New England in the AFSEAS. Keep your eye on that one. Also, Tampa Bay at Carolina, both teams seven and seven, but Tampa Bay with the advantage at this point. This is for the fight for the NFC South Championship. Carolina is at home and is getting three two very big one o'clock games to keep your eye on. At four o'clock
you have Jacksonville at Denver. Denver is giving three and a half Jacksonville is ten and four. They got a one game lead over Houston. Houston has a four to twenty five game today at home against Las Vegas. Houston is giving a lot, they're giving fourteen, but straight up and with implications, Houston is nine to five, and as I mentioned, one back of Jacksonville. In the AFC South, you have Pittsburgh Detroit as a four to twenty five game.
Steelers lead the AFC North by a game. Detroit giving seven in this game is eight and six and right now is eight. In a seventeen playoff race in the National Football Conference. And then tonight Sunday Night Football, you got New England at Baltimore, Baltimore giving one one back of these Steelers in the AFC North. New England is one up on Buffalo in the East.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to count Down to Kickoff on the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network for today's matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins. I'm Wayne box Milliy to count Down to Kickoff host, And these are the games they show who plays for the love of the game and to solidify their spot on this team or in the NFL. The Bengals are trying to rebound from hard to explain shutout lost last week, and the Dolphins are
coming off a beatdown courtesy of the Steelers. Now, much has been made of Jill Burrow of the Bengals lately, most of it hyperbole, but make no mistake about him on the field. He wants to play, compete, and win. Now the Bengals will be tested by a team that played a physical brand of football for US threats last week,
but looking to do that for four quarters. Standing by with today's call of the game at hard Rock Stadium, my colleagues Dan Hood and Dave Lapham, Gentlemen, can we borrow ten degrees?
I'll tell you what We've got plenty down here in Miami, and let's start with that lap Last week, the game time temperature in the loss to Baltimore was ten degrees. The wind show was minus one. It is currently seventy nine degrees here in Miami, Florida. That's an eighty degree swing. Based on how it feels on the body. It certainly feels good. But could that be a problem for the Bengals today.
You know, it might be if they'd let it become one, Dan, you know, if they let it if they concern themselves too much with it mentally physically though, I can tell you that doctors and trainers us when I was playing for the Cincinnati Bengals, that your blood does stick it in cold weather, in the viscosity, whatever of it it does sticking up, and then you go from that cold game down here to warm and it starts to thin out. And that process there's no pain or anything involved. It's
just an adjustment that you have to make. And you got to stay hydrated. That's the biggest thing in this football game. Guys have to have plenty of water. If you think you've had enough water, drink more. You haven't had enough. That was the advice that was given to us when we came down here and played after playing in fridgid temperatures up north.
How about you dropping a viscosity on the Free Hot Show. I'm impressed. Excellent Syracuse University education. Let's talk about some roster moves for the Bengals today. We've got good news. Ninety minutes from kickoff. Number one T Higgins is going to play today. Tea, of course, had concussion several weeks ago, then more concussion symptoms the game after that. Did not play last week. He was a full participant in practice. On Friday, they sent him to Pittsburgh to see one
of the world's foremost concussion specialists. He signed off, everything looks good for Tea, so Ta is back today. Additionally, Cincinnati's best performer on defense this year. Cornerback DJ Turner got sick yesterday, but we just watched him go through the pregame warmups.
He is active.
That looks like he has recovered in twenty four hours.
It does.
It might be like a twenty four hour above the twenty four hour flu virus, whatever it may be. You know, there's obviously some reverse paristalsis that.
May have gone on in the hotel room.
But yeah, he didn't probably participate much of pre game meal and it was it was a pretty good pregame meal that the hotels put out their nice friend. But I think he'll play. I think he'll play well. But again, he has to stay hydrated because you know the concussion
factor as well. I mean, when your players are dealing with concussions, the biggest thing that you have to do is if in the heat, and you know, I mean I got being my I get my belt wrong a few times and practices and games, and when the heat starts to affect you as well, that's when you start to get a little bit dizzy. Your equilibrium starts to get messed up a little bit, and you have to make sure that you're drinking more water than you think you can.
The Bengals will be facing a first time starter at quarterback for the Miami Dolphins to a Tongo vy Loa getting benched after allowsing performance on Monday night in Pittsburgh. Quinn Ewers, the last quarterback selected in this year's draft, a seventh rounder out of Texas, makes his NFL starting debut. He did play briefly in a game early this year against Cleveland, but he'll be making his first start today.
Yeah, and you know he played major conference. You know, Texas plays big time college football look Horns. There's no question about that. The thing is, though your defensive coordinator Al Golden has no tape on the guy, and a lot of times that can be uncomfortable for coaches going into a game where at the professional level, maybe just some preseason reps, but those are totally different than regular season and I think that's going to be a factor. They don't know exactly