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till nine Sterling at nine o'clock. Let's do some sports headlines, right. So Bengals played the Jets on Sunday at one o'clock. Trey Hendrickson officially listed as questionable in today's injury report. We'll see if he is good to go for Sunday. There seems to be a real sense of optimism that he'll be on the field. We'll see how many snaps we'll see if he starts, but questionable would suggest there's

a good chance he does play on Sunday. Bengals and Jets on seven hundred WLW pregame coverage on Sunday morning from the Holy Grail with Ken Brew with Tony Pike and Me starting at nine am. As for the Jets, no Sauce Gardner, no Garrett Wilson from New York, and the head coach there Aaron Glenn, who is zero to seven, still will not reveal who his team starting quarterback is going to be. The entire football world is waiting with anticipation. Is it gonna be Tyrod Taylor, Is it gonna be

justin Fields? And ultimately will it matter? By the way, of course, Sunday's game not just an opportunity for the Bengals to get back to five hundred, but on Sunday it's a ring of Honor game, which means that Dave Lapham and Lamar Parrish will be honored and inducted into the Bengals Ring of Honor. Too well deserved honors to overdue honors. Meanwhile, tomorrow, it's the twenty first rate of UC Bearcats hosting Baylor at Nippert Stadium. That is a

four o'clock homecoming kickoff. The game live on seven hundred WYLW. I have the pregame show at three o'clock. Cincinnati comes in with six consecutive victories, taking on a Baylor team that is four and three. Ten night at the University of Cincinnati. My guy, my colleague and friend, Tony Pike, is being inducted into the James P. Kelly Hall of Fame. Congratulations to him, along with Tom Marvaso and Mike Mickens, both instrumental parts of this football program. Merrity Glenn, longtime

soccer head coach at UC. Jessica Nevitt, a volleyball player at the University of Cincinnati and a KB sharp women's basketball player, also being inducted this evening. Meanwhile, college football tomorrow, the Miami Radhawks have won four straight games. They take on Western Michigan. Kentucky battles seventeenth rae to Tennessee at its second rated Indiana taking on UCLA a full slate

in the tri State of high school football games. As we inch closer to the playoffs, you can get a full rundown of all of tonight's action on high school football tonight on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Meanwhile, in Toronto, it's a game one of the World Series the LA Dodgers the Toronto Blue Jays. Blake Snell throws for Los Angeles. Trey Yasavage will throw for Toronto Games one and two tonight and tomorrow games three, four and five. In LA Monday, Tuesday,

and Wednesday of next week. College basketball, the UC Bearcats on the road for an exhibition game tonight against Arkansas. That game will tip off at eight o'clock. And the Kentucky Wildcats are playing an exhibition game against Purdue tonight. And if my computer were working, I would give you the score of that game, but it's not, so there you go. I'm just being completely and totally honest. Ten to eight Kentucky five minutes into the game, So there

you go. Game doesn't count, So who cares? FC Cincinnati is getting set for Round one of the MLS Cup Playoffs Monday night. It's Tilt at the Soccer Stadium on the West end of Cincinnati, the Orange and Blue hosting the Columbus Crew. Monday Night's game could be heard live on ESPN fifteen thirty. Also tonight, the Cincinnati Cyclones are in action, taking on Fort Wayne. I believe it's Peanuts Night at the Arena downtown and the Columbus Blue Jackets

skate against Washington. There you go, we are loaded today. Coming up at about twenty minutes, we're gonna chat with Robert Weintraub, who writes a great Bengals column every single week for Cincinnati Magazine. You'll hear a conversation with Danny Canell on college football. We'll look at the FC Cincinnati Columbus Crew series with one of the guys who's going to be calling in for Apple TV. We'll get a Joe Burrow

update of sorts from Ortho Cincy. Coming up a little bit later on, I'll tell you why you should root for the La Dodgers in the World Series. But first, Logan Wilson wants a trade. I want a snow cone machine for our studio. Chances are neither one of us are going to get what we want. But it's okay that Logan Wilson has requested a trade. It's okay that Logan Wilson's playing time has been diminished. We'll get to that coming up in five minutes. But first time for

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was a lot of fun. Then the home game before that was like a four to twenty five game. And so when that's the case, Ken Brew does his show in the morning from nine to noon, and then Tony Pike and I take over from noon to three. When it's a one o'clock game, you get Ken, Me and Tony. It's a blast. I have fun no matter what. But it's a blast on Sunday Mornings with Ken, Tony and Mo the Bengals. I just spoke myself in the third person. Bengals haven't had a one o'clock home game since Week two.

So think of everything that has changed with the Cincinnati Bengals and to a degree our radio station, but mainly everything that has happened to the Cincinnati Bengals since the last Sunday morning that Ken Brew, Tony Pike and I had a chance to sit down and do a show when we were getting ready for the Bengals Jags game,

which was Week two. We're at the Holy Grail. We were talking about Joe Burrow playing against Jack and the opportunity to get off to a two and zero start, which was certainly going to set the stage for a great season. We know what has happened since Joe Flacco is going to play his third game for Cincinnati against god knows who a quarterback for the New York Jets.

Big story this week, and really I think the big story last week that didn't involve Joe Flacco was what the Bengals are doing on defense, reducing the playing time for Logan Wilson and giving Barrett Carter, who they drafted out of Clemson this year, a chance to play every single snap. We all like Logan Wilson. Logan Wilson has requested a trade. My guess is Logan Wilson doesn't get traded, and I am also when Zach Taylor talked about this

a little bit this week. You can request a trade like there's a lot of things you can request from your boss. You're still expected to show up, be professional, be a good teammate, get your work done, do what you need to do. And my expectation, I think our expectation for Logan Wilson is the same as the teams. He's certainly not happy with not playing as much. You cannot blame him. You can't blame him for requesting a trade.

There's a lot of things I can request. I've requested a snow cone machine in our studio for the last seven years.

problem with this. The NFL is a league that's really all about two things. It's all about superstars and cheap labor. Bengals have superstars. Joe Burrow may hurt him. Jamar Chase reigning AFC Offensive Player of the Week, just spectacular against Pittsburgh eight days ago, Te Higgins, Trey Hendrickson. Those are stars, and you're seeing more and more stars are getting more

and more guaranteed money. Right, you've seen that. What has become a common part of the way we talk about this league is the verbiage highest paid non quarterback in the NFL, which Jamar Chase was for about five minutes. So you have all this money going to stars, which puts a premium on cheap labor, the cheap labor in the NFL or draft picks, and the middle class player

is to a degree kind of getting squeezed out. So all right, you're paying your stars, and then you need your cheap labor to produce, need your cheap labor to help, You need those guys to help Earlier than ever. We talked about this draft class this year for the Bengals making an immediate impact, making an instant impact, Right, that wasn't just Shamar Stewart. Shamar Stewart has yet to make much of an impact. Injuries are a major reason why. Hopefully he's on the field on Sunday better than he

did against Pittsburgh when you could barely notice him. We talked about this draft class needing to make an immediate impact. The greater likelihood of that happening occurs when all the draft picks play. Now. You obviously don't want to run guys out there just to run them out there. You want to make them earn their playing time. You want to make them, you know, have a chance to actually

succeed when he put them out there. But like, I don't know, I've watched the Bengals defense with Logan Wilson, and we all like Logan Wilson. Right. He was a big part of the twenty twenty one team. He's been a big part of whatever success the Bengals have had since they drafted him out of Wyoming. But the Bengals defense is stunk for a while. Logan Wilson's been on

that defense for a while. Logan Wilson might not necessarily be a bad player, but he certainly hasn't played to the level that is helping this defense pull itself out of what has been a multi year funk. So you can't blame a defensive coordinator for looking for solutions. They believe Barrett Carter is a solution. They drafted him to be a solution. They looked at this draft class and understandably so is one where they need to get an

immediate impact. So then what's the problem with playing Barrett Carter. Now, we talked about this on that show at the Grail last week with Rocky Boyman and Lance, and we had a good discussion about, well, you're playing against Aaron Rodgers with two rookie linebackers. Unfortunately, in a league that's all about cheap labor, and when you're a team that sits out free agency the way the Bengals did this offseason,

it puts a heavier emphasis on draft picks. And when you emphasize draft picks, you are willing to deal with whatever mistakes they make. I think it's totally within reason to say to Barrett Carter, gain experience, make the mistakes, make the corrections, and by the second half of the season then we'll come to payoff. And like maybe Al Golden looks at it this way, maybe Zach Taylor does too.

I don't know about you, but I'm kind of willing to put up with whatever growing pains there are in the context of a defense that needs more than just a different linebacker in order to be completely fixed. I'm kind of okay with putting up with the growing pains that come from gaining experience, the growing pains that come with giving a guy who just got drafted a chance

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

the season. If playing these guys in October means that by the time we get to December, or maybe by the time that Joe Flacco turns into a pumpkin, or maybe by the time that Joe Burrow comes back, this defense can perform better and actually win games for them, I'm willing to put up with those short term mistakes now in real time.

I don't know about you. They're playing younger dudes, they're playing two rookie linebackers, and again, Logan Wilson still plays a lot, But they're going sink or swim with Demetrius Knight and Barrett Carter right now. And you understand that there's a downside that comes with that. Does the upside come later on this season? And when the upside does come later on this season, is that going to be enough to help make a difference We'll see six point

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flooding and landslides to Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic. At least three people have died in Haiti already because of the storm of Melissa's forecast to become a hurricane tomorrow hit category three status by Sunday. Sharonville the site of a sobriety checkpoint tonight. It's going to be at Lebanon Road near two seventy five. Starts at eight thirty, runs until ten thirty. They'll be looking for people who are intoxicated

behind the wheel. Local teacher off the job over an accusation of improper behavior.

There is no crime nor criminal charges filed. I'mley Mawen News Radio seven hundred WLW.

trial in late January. Record highs on Wall Street today after encouraging news about inflation and the expectation of the Fed may be cutting interest rates even more this year. The dowly s and P five hundred, Nasdaq all setting records. Dow up four seventy two to forty seven thousand and two oh seven s and P five hundred and fifty three nasdag up two sixty three six point thirty six, Next News at seven matt Reeese NewsRadio seven hundred WYLW.

to six in the afternoon. Lances aug tonight. He's back on Monday for Bengals Line. Robert Wintrop is one of my regular guests. He joins me usually every Thursday, but I took Thursday off, but I'm working tonight and I thought, you know what, I'm still gonna get Robert on the show. He writes a weekly Bengals column for Cincinnati Magazine dot com. He also writes for FTN Fantasy. He contributes to their preseason almanac and writes about the Bengals every single year.

And he's absolutely awesome. It's awesome to have you on a different day in different radio station. Let's start with this. It's it's twenty twenty five, and who knows who the Jets are going to play a quarterback, But we are dealing with the possibility that on Sunday we are going to watch a football game in twenty twenty five involving Joe Flacco and Tyrod Taylor.

believe it's gone so fast. But you know, we don't think about it all that often, but we kind of assume in the back of our minds, Joe Burrow will still beat the Bengals quarterback at age thirty five plus, right, And you know, the only way that seems sustainable right now, after what's happened to him over the first part of his career is to maybe play a little bit more like Joe Flacco and to be you know, a little bit more self preservation in the pocket and a little

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

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

so much like we saw say from Gino Stone.

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

minutes here, I'll be honest with you. Logan Wilson asking for a trade is interesting in the Bengals and Jets, It's an interesting game. Joe Flacco's interesting. The Bengals are an interesting team right now. Hey not right now in sports happening, that's as interesting as the NBA betting scandal. And you know you've you've you've got players who are sharing inside information on injuries and taking themselves out of games.

And if you you know, many are going to blame the fact that gambling is legal now, and that's the problem.

That's the issue. The If you want to get rid of gambling scandals inside a sports league, what you do is you get rid of the draft, because if you get rid of the draft, you get rid of tanking at issue here with a lot of these teams that were involved in the games in question, we're talking about teams who are already out of playoff contention, who are doing nothing more than playing for the reward of the best possible draft pick or the best possible pass in

the NBA's draft lottery. Get rid of the draft, you get rid of tanking. I promise you, you get rid of a lot of gambling improprieties. The bigger one, though, for me, is the one involving Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips, where he was involved in a scheme backed and executed by the mafia, and like not the Mafia in like I don't know, Toledo, like the Five Families, the real

Mafia New York. The coach of the Blazers, who's a Hall of Fame player, Chauncey Billups was involved in a poker scheme that targeted victims who were lord to participate in poker games because they were given the chance to play alongside professional athletes like Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones

who played for a long time in the NBA. And the FBI says the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck, and then they relead that information to an off site operator, and they called the off site operator the quarterback, who would send that information to somebody at the table. And they had poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses, glasses that could read mark cards, X ray poker tables

that could read cards face down. The FBI says that the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquired a rig shuffling machine. And so at the center of all this is an NBA head coach who, by the way, was a terrific player. Again, he's in the Hall of Fame, Chauncey Billups, who it seems to me, among others, has the ultimate choice call it Chauncey's choice where he could either save his hide by ratting out the mafia, and we know what happens when one does that, or he

can go to jail for a very long time. I have never been more intrigued by like a sports scandal than I am this one. I am a sucker for mob stories. I'm a sucker for mob movies, mob books, and I love basketball.

delays that we're seeing right now. I have some construction delays to seventy five is well in Boone County as you're heading toward Lawrence Burger gone two seventy five.

in Merrimont this morning. The victim is expected to recover. The man who jumped was rescued from the Ohio River and he is charged tonight with felonious assault and domestic violence. While on his route, a rumky driver found a body along Ohio Wins twenty five in Brown County earlier today.

The Ohio State Highway patrel says the person found was twenty two year old Caleb Olbert of Russellville, and police believe he was struck by a vehicle which took off kid who goes to Williamstown Independent Schools in northern Kentucky removed from the campus earlier today for allegedly bringing a gun. There had to be a lockdown. Gun was found during a search, but not known which school in Williamstown the child attended, and not clear if there are any charges file.

Cincinnati the target of some negative outdoor advertising. More from Brian Combs.

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

seven thirty five. Plus, one of the biggest what ifs in all of sports has ties to the Tri State, and we'll talk some college football with a great guest, Danny Canell. Coming up in just about ten minutes. Game one of the World Series is tonight. It's in Toronto Dodgers and Blue Jays, and the month of October is

awesome if you love a lot of different sports. This is some call it what the sports equinox, because in the month of October, you've obviously got the NFL, You've got college football, the NBA starts, the NHL is underway, there are college basketball exhibitions. By the way, you see plays Arkansas in about an hour, no radio coverage, so you can go watch it on the internet or something, and then the baseball playoffs happen.

it's a pretty interesting series. The Dodgers pitching and as Reds fans We saw this first hand in Round one. The Dodgers starting pitchers starting pitching has been otherworldly. Bob Baschett is gonna come back for Toronto and play for the first time since September the sixth. That is a

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

hitters in all of baseball. It's interesting. I know how this works, and I know how it works in a in a market where the baseball team is a small market team. The Dodgers spend and spend and spend and spend. By the way, for what it's worth, the Blue Jays have the fifth highest payroll in all of baseball. This isn't some mom and pop franch The Toronto Blue Jays spend. Hell, they came this close to signing show Heyo Tani and they would have spent even more to go get him.

So it's the team with the biggest actually the second biggest payroll behind the Mets, and the fifth biggest payroll in the Toronto Blue Jays. If I asked one thousand people in Cincinnati, all right, you have to pick a team to cheer for in the World Series, my guess is nine hundred and ninety eight are going to say the Blue Jays, and most are going to say it's because they don't want the high spending, big market Dodgers

to win. Now, you will find some who grew up in the seventies who will tell you, you know, the Reds and Dodgers had such a great rivalry back then, and then we'll tell you, like, I'm just not rooting for the Dodgers because of that younger fans. I'm forty eight. I consider myself a younger fan. Don't necessarily, for the most part, feel that way about LA. Here's my take. I don't understand rooting against teams who do everything they can to try to win, especially in a sport filled

with owners who blatantly don't try to win. By the way, this is not even about the Reds. You want to root against the team, read about the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates root against them. Now, you may hate baseball's economics, and there's a lot to not like about baseball's economics. There are clear advantages the teams like the Dodgers and Mets and Yankees have. By the way, it's been proven

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

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

there's some validity to that. You might think baseball's economics are so out of whack that it would make sense for the sport to take a year off for them to kind of come up with a new way of structuring their economics. Maybe, but that's not the Dodgers' fault. It's not a big market team's fault. And look, I'm a fan of a Reds fan. I'm a fan of

a small market team. But it's funny in college sports, you know, most of us root for a school, for big name schools, right, most of us route like I'm a UC fan from a football perspective, it's not Ohio State. In college sports, we love, we love financial inequity. We love it. Like if I said, if you're an Ohio State fan, and I'm not picking on OSU, I'll make

it about Kentucky basketball. If you want Ohio State football can only spend the same amount of money on recruiting and facilities as Toledo or Miami or kent State, Buckeye fans would lose their minds. In college sports, we love the financial equity, especially in the era of paying players. By the way, we have all sorts of non traditional powers that are now competing. Indiana University as the second

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

to hoard all the talent. They hate the transfer portal, which is why for decades you've had the same schools dominating in the college football playoff era when it was still just for teams, it was the same schools every single year. College football fans love that, and yet when it comes to baseball we hold it against the teams that have financial advantages that they use them. I'm rooting for a great World Series. I can't say that I'm rooting for the Dodgers' for six seven games. I'm running

for a drama. I'm rooting for a series better than last years. Like there's a big part of me rooting for David Bell to get a World Series ring. Jeff Hoffman was here, Kevin Gosman was here, no real attachment to them. But still I just want a great series. Love great baseball. But I'm not going to root against the Dodgers because they try to win. And if that's what you're doing, Frankly, I don't understand. Sixteen minutes after seven o'clock five point three, seven four nine, seven thousand

is our phone number. We could perhaps get to some phone calls a little bit later on. You see, is one of two teams in the Big twelve that doesn't have a conference loss. I think Tomorrow's game for Cincinnati is huge. Bearcats v. Baylor Stadium is going to be sold out. They've got a tough road tilt next week against Utah, some big games coming up later on in the season against TCU and BYU. You've got to win at home. This line has come down, by the way, from five and a half to three and a half.

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

business every single week. We've seen a lot of teams overlook opponents, they underwhelm.

another shutout last week, which was really impressive. My big concern for Ohio State, and this is similar to sort of some of those great teams that we've seen, you know, traditionally, it's do they get battle tested before they have to play against potentially Indiana and the Big Ten or if they have to play against Alabama and the College Football Playoff because they're so good, Like, it's just you wonder if that's gonna matter, because they won't have many opportunities

to be in a fourth quarter game where you look up at the scoreboard it's.

I thought he was a great fit at Wisconsin. I do think they're starting to learn they have a lot of making up to do in the nil landscape, and their schedule has been.

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

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

suspected drug boat, it killed six people on board. President Trump has already threatened a direct attack on Venezuela in recent days, and our military has struck ten alleged drug vessels in the region, eight near Venezuela.

Traffic is slow from the river all the way back to two seventy five. No recks there. But southbound seventy five through that construction zone at the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway on the Ohio side, that is slow, and it is slow on west bound two seventy five and Coleraine Township coming up on twenty seven Coleraine Avenue. You're heading westbound, you'll be running into some construction delays. Otherwise

looking pretty good. One more to add in there, northbound seventy one at the split with seventy five in Northern Kentucky and the Walton area.

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

starting next week. Transportation Secretary says most air traffic controllers have been showing up for work despite knowing they're not going to be paid during the government shutdown, but Sean Duffy says he expects that's going to change Tuesday, the day the controllers were supposed to be getting a paycheck.

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

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get there. Come up and so to speak for what happened in the Eastern Conference Final two years ago. That conversation coming up in just about forty minutes. Bengals and Jets on Sunday. Can the Joe Flacco magic continue? You know? I say this often on my show on ESPN fifteen thirty. By By the way, my name is Mollaggar. It's not Beef tallow In for Lance Lances back for Bengals line on Monday evening. Be interesting or be good? You gotta be one. From where I sit, you gotta be one.

Be good or be interesting. Ideally be both? Right, Ideally your team is good and it's interesting, but it's got to be one of the other. It's got to be at least one of the other. Uh, the Joe Flacco thing interesting?

the Bengals credit. The Joe Flacco story is interesting. It's been made more interesting by the fact that he helped beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and did so on a night where the defense did next to nothing in prime time eight days after joining the team. It has vaulted the Bengals back into the playoff hunt. I think it has opened the door for Cincinnati and Baltimore in the AFC North. Now it can close quickly. I think it closes that the Bengals loose to the Jets. I think it closes

for Baltimore if they lose to Chicago this weekend. But it's interesting for as much as the season has evolved and there's been changes, we've gone from Burrow to Browning to Flacco, I still have the same question I had in April, May, June, July, and August. The question is when the offense dries up, when the quarterback isn't having a great day, When the offense came run the football when the other team's defense just has their number. Can the Bengals defense win a game now? To be fair?

To be fair, the answer against Cleveland way back Week one, which feels like a lifetime ago, was yes against Joe Flacco. Now, it helped that the Browns kicker left four points on the field, but the defense answered the question in that week can they win a game for the Bengals Now? Cleveland's running back Quinn Shawn Judkins didn't play that game. He has been awesome since they've started using him beginning

with Week two. But it's the question, right. I asked it all offseason because all off season you would hear, hey, look, the Bengals just need to be league average, right, Bengals just need a league average defense, and they're gonna be okay. And I get the basic premise, Hey, you've got Burrow and Chase and Higgins are gonna score a billion points. As long as the defense doesn't screw it up, as long as they're kind of middle of the pack, they're

gonna be okay. My question was, fine, big picture, that might be the case anecdotally. Two things. One, what happens if there's a game where for the offense it's just not working. Number two, what happens when the defense has to get a stop in a game where the offense has put the team in a position to win. The Bengals are getting ready for their eighth game of the season.

We're close to the midway point. I still wonder those things, like go back to last Thursday, Joe Flacco puts the team in a position to win Gino stone In the defense almost almost give up the game. Go back to the game against green Bay. The Bengals offense starts to click in the second half. On three different occasions, the defense took the field with the Bengals down by one possession, down one score, and in every instance they gave up points to the green Bay offense. The game against Detroit,

say what you want about Jake Browning. They pulled within eleven points ten and a half minutes to go. It might not have been likely that they were going to come back and win the game, but ten and a half minutes is an eternity. Eleven points is not insurmountable. Get off the field and your team has at least a little bit more of a chance. Instead, Detroit went down the field and six plays never even got to a third down. And I could keep going. I could

talk about the Denver game. I could talk about the Minnesota game. And so like, here's the question, and I don't know that I have the answer. I'll ask you at five point three seven four nine seven thousand. Let's say Sunday that Joe flacco magic runs out, and if it's not this Sunday, maybe it's against Chicago. Joe Flacco is is gonna play a lot more right. I mean, we're still talking like Burrow mid December, best case, we're

not even to November yet. And those Burrow games, if he does come back for like the last three, only matter if they can win enough games to make them matter. So on Thursday, Joe Flacco plays very well and Jamar Chase's otherworldly, and T Higgins is good, and the offensive line was all right and they ran the ball effectively, which to me, that was the biggest offensive subplot to that entire game. What's gonna happen when that doesn't happen.

What's gonna happen when Joe Flacco turns into a pumpkin. What's gonna happen when he turns into a forty year old backup quarterback, like he's the toast of the town right now, and he should be. And by the way, I've become a fan of Joe Flacco for life, and he's played forever in the NFL, He's played for two teams inside the AFC North, and yet I've never felt strongly about him either way. He's always just been there.

I've respected him. It's had a very long career, made a ton of money, won a lot of games, Super Bowl, MVP, He's had a very good career. But I've never felt like strongly either way about him. Like if you're a Bengals fan like me, you loathe Ben Roethlisberger, how out Steelers stands low Ben Roethlisberger, But like Joe Flacco never elicited those sort of emotions. For me, I never felt strongly until I watched him here. And it was not just the fact that he's played well. It's how he's

handled himself. That first Friday after he got traded here, you could tell he just he appreciated the absurdity and the humor of this situation that he's found himself in, learning his teammates, all that sort of stuff on the fly, and it's worked, and you know it's probably gonna work on Sunday because the Jets are terrible. But here we are in late October, we're still wondering the same thing

that many of us were wondering back in August. When the defense has to get a stop, when the defense has to win you a game, can it And so far the answer has been no. And Al Golden, They've tried stuff right, They've benched Zach cam Taylor Britt, They've made him a healthy scratch. They've made a change at linebacker and let Barrett Carter play like. They've tried stuff, and there have been some decent things to happen on defense. DJ Turner has been unbelievable the last couple of games.

But we're midway through the season, nearly midway through the season. I guess seven games in big, big sample size, and it's still an untrustworthy unit. It's still a unit that since losing the game on Sunday sounds far fetched, I'll make it about that Bears game, which is the one going into the bye. It's gonna be a big game. Bengals are at home. What if it is a situation like the one they had against Pittsburgh. They've taken the lead, they need to stop. It's thirty four to twenty two

and a half to go. Can they get a stop? Now you might go, well, yeah, but it was Aaron Rodgers, Okay, but can they get a stop? Can they get a stop when they're down a score and need the ball back like they couldn't against Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers. So like, I am all in on Flacco and I think Zach Taylor deserves a measure of credit for helping him get up to speed. And man, it's

a fun story. And Jamar Chase was awesome and they've dumbed it down to a degree and it's like, dude, just throw the ball to Chase and Higgins, Like I get it.

at least since Week one. Get off the field when needed, and that's win a game. And I'm not even talking necessarily about what happens if Joe Flacco just doesn't have it turns into a pumpkin. What happens if Joe Flacco's immobility puts him in harm's way and there's an injury, and now Browning's got to play and your offense is

more limited. If the answer continues to be I don't know, or if the answer continues to be no, they can't get stops, this season goes nowhere, and we'll bring into sharper focus what Duke Tobin did and didn't do on that side of the football. Nine minutes away from eight o'clock at Mollegger on Twitter thanks to a Delta Dental, Delta Dental is building healthy, smart, vibrant communities for all good a Delta Dental age dot com News in nine minutes.

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to back weeks. I'm not sure right now that there is a coach in college football who is who is as deeply disliked by his fan base as Luke Fickle is at Wisconsin, and it's it's a great what if? Right, Like I am a lifelong and diehard UC fan. I root for Luke Fickle. I root for, for the most part, all of the coaches who have come to UC and left U see, because I think most of them left

it better than when they took it over. And you know, in particular Luke Fickle, like he was the coach when they were in the playoff man they had an undefeated season, Like, how could you root against that guy? And I think sometimes we focus so much on how it ends and not so much on the body of work. The body

of work was incredible. So I root for him from afar, but I just wonder, Look, he's handsomely paid and when they fire him, he's gonna get a you know, years worth of buyout money, and so nobody is gonna feel sorry for him. But Scott Sadderfield at you See has things trending in the right direction. I don't think they're there quite yet, quite frankly, but he's got a football team that I don't think has a ton of weaknesses.

I don't think they have any major glaring holes. They've got a good collection of talent, they're well coached, they're competing in the Big twelve. We'll see if they can avoid a second half meltdown like the one they saw last year. And I think they will because I just think they have more Big twelve caliber players and so we'll see. I just if you're Luke Fickle and you know, the Big ten that he joined at Wisconsin is not

the Big ten that Wisconsin is playing now. The Big twelve that you see is in is not easy, but it's not the Big ten that Wisconsin is playing now. I just I wonder if deep down inside he's not asking himself, what if? What if he sees it through at you see? Is there for the leap to the Big twelve? Is here during the era of the college football playoff, where the championship tournament has never been more accessible. At a program where you can win, at a program

where they have figured out some things. From an nil perspective, what would life be like instead of being in a job where it feels like you have no chance of winning big and where you are reviled by the fan base. I don't know, but by the way, I do think you see will avoid what happened last season. I'm not here to tell you they're gonna win the Big twelve. I'm not here to tell you that they're gonna win tomorrow.

But you know, last year, I think the offense went into a shell in the second half of the season. They didn't have dudes on the outside. Now I think they have dudes on the outside. And while there are weaknesses and they've got to be better defensively, and they've got to get Dante Corleone on the field for a larger percentage of the snaps, I don't know that there

are many glaring holes in that football team. And I certainly don't think that there's a game on the schedule between now and the end of the season that they cannot win. More on Logan Wilson, who's asked for a trade that plus will preview the first round series for FC Cincinnati coming up in the next half hour. Right now, though, time for the eight o'clock news on the Home of the Best Bengals coverage News Radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati.

lawmakers as well as presidents of Venezuela Lane Columbia. It's a dramatic escalation of what President Trump calls his war on drug cartels.

the seventy five seventy one split in Walton. There is a delay there, apparently a wreck involved. The rest of the tri State looking good now.

to Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican industry. Wide shortage of semiconductors the reason the Honda plant in Marysville beginning to pull back on production. Honda not specific about the amount of reduction in the length of it. Honda says impacted employees have the option to continue working, use paid time off, or take time off without pay. Two Planned Parenthood affiliates challenging the Ohio Department of Medicaid from prohibiting their participation

in the federal health insurance program. According to a news release, ODM sent letters to Planned Parenthood of Greater Cincinnati and Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region in late September informing them of the termination. The release says that the change would prevent over twenty seven thousand people from receiving affordable care across Ohio, and now both affiliates want an administrative hearing to challenge the state agency's decision. Day twenty five of

the federal government shutdown comes tomorrow. Vote on a funding bill continues to flop in the Senate.

as well. There's no deal insight, there are no negotiations happening, and there aren't really any signs of negotiations that might even start.

to cover those paychecks. Record highs on Wall Street today the Dow Game four seventy two to forty seven thousand and two oh seven s and P five hundred and fifty three Nasdaq Up two sixty three, First pitch game, Woman of the World Series starting right now in Toronto Dodgers in the Blue Jays.

get a chance to fill in. Sterling is going to join us at nine o'clock. You know, by the way, I do not mean to come off and I don't come off as negative when it comes to the Bengals. Look, if they lose. If the Bengals lose to the Steelers and they're two and five, nobody cares about how they play against the Jets, and then nobody's talking about what they can do to keep the thing afloat make the postseason.

But they did win, so the question becomes like, all right, what can they do better and what can they sustain By the way they ran the ball really well against Pittsburgh, is that an outlier? Does that proved to be something that was a on off or can they build upon that? Can they run it effectively? Moving forward the Joe Flacco thing, there's a part of you that wonders, like, Number one, why did this go so poorly? With Jake Browning? Number two.

How bad would this have gotten had they stayed with him? So they didn't sit around and wait, they went They got a guy who was a quick study, a guy who knows how to throw the football to open guys like Jamar Chase and t Higgins. But you do wonder. You do wonder defensively, like when it's time for that unit to win a game, will they be able to? And there's a bunch of different ways to look at this. The only way it really gets better, though, is if

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

guys like that. It's gonna have to come from more guys who make the sudden leap that DJ Turner has made. A guy who at times has been in the Doghouse himself, and the last couple of weeks he's played like one of the best corners in the NFL. Like what Al Golden has decided to do with the backing of Zach Taylor and maybe the backing of the front office. Is gonna have to pay dividends at some point, and if

it doesn't, then this team's defense will limit it. My take on the Bengals before the season, and I'm obviously not the only person who felt this way, was they're a team that can make the playoffs. I don't put him in the championship conversation because they have these two massive units that I do not trust. One is the offensive line, the other is the entire defense. Has the defense done anything through seven games to make you feel

like it's trustworthy. I'm still watching Gino's Stone back there, and apparent like has the longest leash of all time. So these rookies are going to have to start paying dividends, and they're going to have to start doing it quickly. The only way that happens is for them to play.

of the MLS Cup Playoffs. Dax McCarty's going to be calling the series The Orange and Blue and the Columbus Crew starting on Monday night. He's with Apple TV MLS Season Pass and he joins us next. It's RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey chevroleon seven hundred WLW.

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watch it on Apple TV's MLS Season Pass. Dax McCarty, longtime MLS Stars, now a match analyst for MLS Season Pass. Awesome to have you. You've got the series one Monday. The Eastern Conference feels very wide open, much more wide open than last year, although the New York Red Bulls kind of came out of nowhere to represent the East this year. When you look at that half of the bracket, how many teams do you look at as legitimate threats to make.

just sprang upset left and right. If I go down the list of all the different matchup in the East, it's really hard for me to determine who a favorite is in any of these matchups. And that's what makes this year in MLS and specifically in the Eastern Conference so interesting, so chaotic, so drama filled, is that I legitimately see a world in which every one of these series can go to three games, and then in the

third game it's anyone's It's anyone's game. So I tend to give the favoritism towards the home team and the teams that have home field advantaged off this first round. But as we saw last year, that didn't make a heck of a lot of difference with certain series. And so it's a totally new new season. As I'm sure all of you you and all your listeners know, you kind of have to throw out everything that happened in the regular season and just focus on the sprint that is the playoffs.

the front office for being able to constantly reload. I think it would have been really easy for Cincinnati to have a little bit of a down year after losing Lucho Acosta.

But going out and getting a third scoring option, I think was key because for all the good things that Kai Kamara does, for all the good things that Dado Valenzuela do, for all the good things that Ya Yakubo has done when he's had to play in an attacking position, none of them is an out and out goal scorer. None of them are going to be able to get you ten twelve goals when you need them to. Kai Kamara has been excellent, but he hasn't scored. His hold

up play, he opens up space for other players. It's all at a really high level, but Kai doesn't score at the same clip that he used to. Valezuela is more of a creative midfielder. So to go out and get a difference maker, a game changer in the attack in Brenner, and then you add that to Evander and Kevin Denk who are all match winners. That was a really shrewd move because the FT Cincinnati roster is built

to win now and we've seen a supporter shield. We've seen a couple playoff runs, but we haven't seen enough in the postseason from FC Cincinnati. Adding Brenner, adding Dominic Marshuk on loan from Salt Lake, I think was a really smart and shrewd move to be able to add a little bit of depth at winger. But FT Cincinnati has game changers all over the field now. It would be a disappointment if they didn't make a deep playoff run.

But it's always it's always stood out to me ever since Chris Albright and Pat Noonan took over this franchise that whenever they acquire a piece from outside, whether it's it's from another MLS club, whether it's an international signing, whether it's somebody who joins the team before the season, or whether it's somebody who joins the team once the season is underway. Almost every single time, it feels like

that player just fits in seamlessly. From your perspective, having played in the league forever, how hard is it to do that nearly every single time you bring in somebody from outside.

be successful in Major League Soccer. To go bet Dominic Marshak, who already has an acclamation period, with salt Lake and now he's just coming to a new team and maybe fit in a system that is more suited to his talent and to his skill level. I think that was a really shrewd move right for this front office. So you just go up and down the roster and you see so many game changers, difference makers, players that are going to have a difference and make a difference in

this roster. I've been really impressed every time I've seen Samuel Gide play. I really like his qualities and what he brings and can add into the midfield. So FC Cincinnati has depth, they have difference makers. They really need to put a stake in the ground in twenty twenty five. This is their year and it's the most competitive Eastern Conference that I've ever seen. And like I said at the top of the top of the show, any one of these eight teams can make a run. But I'm

looking at FC Cincinnati as one of the favorites. I picked them before the season started to win MLS Cup, and They've made me kind of question myself a little bit throughout the season. But I'm sticking with my prediction because of the fact that they have so many game changers all.

of the playoffs was the Columbus Crew. And I got a little bit of stick coming back from, you know, some of my co hosts and co analysts, and they were like, no, Cincinnati will be confident they're the better team, and I just said, look, I just wonder if because they play a similar formation, because they have that institutional know how of Wilford Nancy and his system and the way that they play, I think it's a really tough matchup for s C Cincinnati, and I think that this

is going to be just as a as it was in twenty twenty three, where we all remember that epic playoff game that they played between the teams, And don't underestimate the power of a legend retiring in a team wanting to send him out on top. I think the power of Darlington Nagby in his statement that he made that he was going to be retiring when the season

was over. His extra motivation for the Columbus Crew. I think the fact that they got a big win on decision Day and they got a little bit of confidence, because this is a Columbus Crew team that quite frankly, has been limping into the playoffs, but now that they've rediscovered their mojo a little bit. Daniel Gazdag got on the score sheet, Diego Rossi is rumored to be fit and available. This is a Columbus Crew team that e FC Cincinnati is going to have their hands full with.

And so if I know Pat Noonan, I know that he's got scared. I know that he's going to be confident going in there and being able to win at TQL. But the Columbus Crew do a lot of things well and e FC Cincinnati they need to make sure that when they're in these close games they defend a little bit better than they've been defending recently, because towards the

end of the season they conceded really sloppy goals. And if you're going to give the Columbus crew extra opportunities to punish you, they can certainly do that.

among Bengals fans and understandably so. Right Flacco team beat the Steelers mini by little time to breathe playing a terrible Jets team on Sunday optimism and I'm here for it. But also you're starting to look at like mid December doesn't seem so far away. In mid December is when we are hoping that Joe Burrow can come back. So I kind of wanted to get a sense of, you know, if that's still realistic and some of the obstacles he

still has to overcome. And so we're going to get an expert because that's what we do from Ortho Sinsey to talk Joe Burrow with us coming up in just about twenty minutes. We are looking forward to that. Don't forget Sunday. It's the Bengals and Jets. The game's live on seven hundred WLW. One o'clock is your kickoff. Pregame coverage from The Holy Grail with Cambrew Tony Pike and Me Sunday morning, starting at nine am, It's time for the eight to thirty news on seven hundred WLW.

a delay. And in northern Kentucky in the Walton area, the seventy five seventy one split north bound seventy one that has been slow all night long.

earlier today. Victim expected to survive and recover. The man who jumped was rescued from the Ohio River is charged with felonious assault and domestic violence. While on his route picking up trash, a rumkey driver found a body along

Ohio one twenty five in Brown County. The Ohio State Highway of Patrol says the person was who was found was twenty two year old Caleb Holbert of Russellville, and police believe he was struck by a vehicle, which then took off a record highs on Wall Street Today, after encouraging news about inflation, the Dow, the S and P, Nasdaq all setting records. The Dow up four seventy two to forty seven thousand and two oh seven, SMP five hundred added fifty three. Nasdaq was up two sixty three.

First inning Game one of the World Series in Toronto, Nos score between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays eight thirty five. Next News at nine Matt Reeves NewsRadio seven hundred WW for.

this weekend, and so much more. Monday three to six, The Tony and Moo Football Show, starring Hall of Famer Tony Pike, who should be on stage right about now making his Hall of Fame induction speech at the University of Cincinnati, updates you on a couple of things happening or that have happened throughout the evening. You heard Matt Reeve's Game one of the World Series. They have played an inning Dodgers and Blue Jays are scoreless. College basketball.

Earlier tonight, Kentucky and Purdue played really entertaining exhibition game and the Wildcats were winners seventy eight to sixty five at rupp Areta. Kentucky's going to be really good this year, really good this year. There's some deep analysis for me. You see as playing an exhibition game right now against Arkansas, obviously coached by former UK head man John Calipari, and the Bearcats are struggling from deep. Last I saw two of nine from behind the arc. Arkansas leads thirty three

to twenty two. If you are a Bearcat fan, and first of all, I don't want you to stop listening to me. But if you're a Bearcat fan and you want to watch the game tonight, if you're an ESPN Plus subscriber, I just learned this this morning. You have access to SEC Network Plus and you can watch the game. Cincinnati just missed another three. It's thirty three to twenty two. I love the fact that we get these exhibition games.

The college basketball preseason has evolved, right. It used to be you know, they play athletes in action, right, and another traveling team that sort of thing, and then you got a chance to play. You know, when NKU was still a Division two school, Cincinnati and nk you would play in a somewhat regular basis in the preseason and they would play maybe a team from Canada or something,

and then they started doing secret scrimmages. Now we get a chance to watch these teams, and there is a part of me that wishes, like, Cincinnati played Michigan last week, why can't that be a regular season game. Cincinnati's playing Arkansas tonight, why can't that be a regular season game.

At the same time, you get a chance to watch against good competition, players that you have to get to know and get used to, and they have to get the hang of each other in an era where there's never been more turnover, and the best way to do that is against teams that actually matter. It's thirty five to twenty two. Arkansas leads that game over UC Bearkatz played terrific in the first half of their exhibition game against Michigan last week, and we're all gonna remind ourselves

that these games don't count. Richard Patino that obviously, the new head coach at Xavier, made that point on social media emphatically after his team lost to Murray State last Saturday. These games don't count. If you're a Bearcat fan and you watched the exhibition game last year against Ohio State. If you're like me, you walked away thinking like, holy crap, these guys are gonna be awesome, and then they ended up not being awesome. So take everything with a grain

of salt, but still fun to watch college basketball. In mid October twenty away from nine o'clock are now Carrier Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW. We started the show by talking about the Logan Wilson situation. You know, like he makes a trade request. The Bengals have gotten a lot of trade requests. Right, t Higgins requested a trade, didn't happen. Trey Hendrickson twice now has requested a trade.

Doesn't happen. The Bengals don't just trade you because you ask. Now, there have been players who have wanted out and the Bengals have said, Okay, we'll do it. They viewed trading Carlow's Dunlap a few years ago twenty nineteen, Zach's first season. As addition, by subtraction, they traded Carson Palmer fourteen years ago because an offer came their way, a great offer for a player who had decided that he was never gonna play for him again.

I haven't gotten it yet. I still come to work with a good attitude and so like, I give these players the benefit of the doubt. And Zach Taylor has talked about this this week, addressing the fact that Logan has asked for a trade, Like, all right, he's made that request, and I understand he's not playing as much. He's hurt, he doesn't want to serve in a diminished role. Twenty nine years old, still thinks he has a lot of really good years left in him, like I get it.

I would prefer to not play here anymore. I'd prefer to play for a team that you know is going to give me the playing time I was getting. But that trade request, I don't believe is going to at all preclude him from preparing the right way. By the way he played in I think the number was forty six percent of their defensive snaps against Pittsburgh. It's not like he didn't dress, not like they told him, dude, don't come to the stadium. He still had an active

role in that game. And so I would expect as a fan exactly what I'm sure the coaches and I'm sure what his teammates expect, which is, dude, you're not happy, that's okay, but you still have to prepare. You still have to do what's needed to help the team one called upon. Any one of us can be discruddled in our jobs, and you may want out, you may want change, and you may have things you want the boss to

give you, and you may want different working conditions. But as as long as you're still there, you have an obligation to everybody to still handle your business like a pro. And I expect Logan Wilson to do that. I just this is gonna sound harsh, because Logan Wilson has been really good here. Number One, I give the Bengals credit for not leaning on what Logan has meant. Instead, they're looking toward what's next and looking toward what's next with the defense that Logan Wilson was a part of and

not really helping. Number two. Like, I watched the first four or five games in the season, and while I don't think you could say that Logan Wilson was playing poorly, how many times did you notice him? I'll be honest with you. I thought he played very well against the

Browns the first game. Aside from that, like never, So, you've got a linebacker who's not making a lot of plays, You've got a team that drafted two of them this past April, and you've got a defensive coordinator who can only make change within the parameters of what he has. What he has as a rookie linebacker that they think highly of, that they think is a part of their future. They're looking for a spark, they're looking for something different

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

fan favorite. But we think there's more upside with the other guy, and at the very least, we think there's a possible payoff to the growing pains he may suffer in the short term.

Show hey, Otani is at the plate, the greatest show in all the sports, at the plate with the bases loaded. Show Heyo Tani a week ago tonight excuse me had arguably we'll say, but I believe that the greatest single game performance of anybody in the history of the sport. With three homers in the game that he pitched, gave

up just two hits and struck out ten. He is at the plate right now and threatening to you don't want to say, break it open in the second inning, but threatening to build on the Dodgers lead, which is one nothing in the top of the second ending Game one is in Toronto, first two games of the series north of the border before Games three, four, and five will be in La early through middle of next week,

and then games six and seven in Toronto. The Blue Jays in the World Series for the first time since Joe Carter walked off the Philadelphia Phillies in nineteen ninety three. Also updates on that UC basketball exhibition. The Bearcats are playing Arkansas in Fayetteville right now and they're frankly getting clobbered. It's forty six to twenty six in the final minute

of the first half. Bearcats have just scored to make it forty six to twenty eight, and Otani was re hired, and so the Blue Jays get out of the inning with only a run. So the Dodgers have an early

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them for sponsoring the podcast of this show. So it's now late October. Next month is obviously November, and then soon it'll be mid December. Will Joe Burrow be back? I wanted to talk about where the Bengals quarterback might be in his progress coming off of surgery to fix his turf toe, and so I'm bringing in one of the experts from Orthos Sincy, doctor Nick Gates. I say

this every week on ESPN fifteen thirty. The great think about Orthosincy is they've got specialist locations and services all across the tri state, including walk in orthopedic urgent care at five locations with extended evening and weekend hours in Edgewood and Anderson. Check out Orthosincy dot com to learn more. That's ortho ci Ncy dot com. Doctor Nick Gates from Orthosincy is with us. So we're still clinging to this timeline right mid December. Suffered the injury a little bit

more than a month ago, then head surgery. We're still hoping for mid December? Is is is hopeful? Is hoping for Joe's return in mid December? Still? Is it still realistic?

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

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

analogy to read a little bit about Rock Party. We've got an interesting analogy or comparison as Rock Party is going through nonsurgical treatment of his turf toe injury. And if you look at his timeline and the guesses you read about that he's he's sore. They tried to get him back early, and the reports are it just hurts

too much to perform. So I think stiffness that's not painful, or just soreness and pain is going to be the two things that are going to determine whether or not Joe can come back.

takes weight off the foot. They're probably just now looking in that he's about the stage where that might be a possibility that they can do a little bit of conditioning that way. He certainly can do all the upper body and core things. He certainly could work out at this stage, but I think his aerobic capacity is the biggest challenge.

to kind of protect the stresses on that ligament. So you're going through this balancing act between protecting stress on the ligament while trying to do some controlled range of motion. So it's not it's fairly likely that that type of device inside of a shoe will be part of his rec.

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thousand troops. Now we have the latest on the roads is Friday night, latest traffic and weather together and got some construction delays to seventy five westbound at col Raine Avenue and some construction delays as well northbound seventy five at the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway. You're going to be running into delays on the northbound side, and also we'll be getting some delays on the southbound side occasionally throughout the weekend. That stretches seventy five in both directions,

always delays because of construction. Look at a little bit better on seventy one northbound at seventy five in the Walton area northern Kentucky. There have been slowdowns at that split northbound seventy one all evening. Looks like it is thinning out now.

disruptions only going to get worse starting next week. The Transportation Secretary says most air traffic controllers have been showing up for work despite knowing they're not going to be paid during the government shutdown. But Sean Duffy says he anticipates that's going to change. Tuesday, as the day the controllers were supposed to be getting a paycheck, he expects

far more disruption starting on that day, Tuesday. Former Alabama and Bengals quarterback AJ mccaron wants to be the lieutenant governor of Alabama, announcing he's going to run as a Republican. In twenty twenty six, video posted on YouTube.