Billy cutting into Great America. Welcome to floor his Friday afternoon, the tri
State getting ready for so much action, I can't stand it. Red Spaceball
kicks off tonight from my ballpark to Great American. Three games against the Cardinals.
Hopefully the Cardinals won't treat the Reds as the Steelers have treated the Bengals
over low these many years. And there's twenty games left. I think if
they go thirteen and seven, they're in the playoffs without any question. According
to Dave Lapham, they need to go maybe fourteen and six. I say
maybe even eleven and nine might get it done, or maybe twelve and eight.
But until then. Big news last night that Joey Burrow is now a
multime multibillionaire. Between his two contracts he signed so far, he's gonna make
almost three hundred million dollars and then he'll be thirty two years old when it's
all said and done, time for another contract. Could be another, I
don't know, three to four hundred million. He'll be almost as rich as
Mike Brown by the time he gets done. Joanan, you and I now
is the great Dave lap Him of your Bengals and Dave welcome again to the
Bill Cunningham Show. When I had you on about a week ago. There
was some doubt in the minds of Tony Bender. He has many minds that
Joey Burrow would actually sign, and I told him, Tony, relax a
little bit. It's going to be okay. The Bengals have a history of
actually signing players getting on the bus to go to the plane, other than
Joe Mixon and has problems getting on buses going to planes. That's a different
issue. But nonetheless, are you surprised at the signing of Joey b yesterday?
The great number nine, not Carson Palmer, but the Great Joe Burrow.
Happy it's the word, I mean, very very happy that they got
it done, No question about it, Willie. It's weird. I woke
up on September fifth, nine five, twenty three and I said, wouldn't
it be great if today they signed Joe Burrow and T Higgins. It's nine
five, those two numbers nine twenty three two Higgins new numbers number five.
All the football gods didn't align that day. But when they did agree to
a contract with Joe Barrow on nine seven. On nine seven, nineteen oh
eight, Paul Brown was born. How about that football God said, you
will, you will come to a contractual arrangement agreement on the birth date of
the legendary Paul Brown, who founded both the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals school
of the opponents to each other in the first game. And I'm telling you,
mana non wow, this is good stuff right here. So this is
numerology at its best. So if Mike Brown, if Paul Brown was still
alive, he'd be what one hundred and fifteen? And I'll tell you what,
Paul Brown, God rest the soul were over. You are, coach.
He raised an eyebrow at the number two hundred over a quarter of a
billion dollars. He raised an eyebrown, maybe both eyebrows, but he's like,
he's also he's also raised an eyebrow that he loved. Cincinnati Bengals franchises
work between six and seven billion dollars too. It is crazy, man.
Well, and I would think that Joe Burrow had something to do with the
value of the Bengalis franchise when he arrived in like twenty twenty when he was
drafted. You know, who knows what something is worth until you try to
sell it. But nonetheless, the Bengals at that point allegedly were worth one
point five billion. Now they're worth five to six billion, and Joey b
has a lot to do without a night post it last night in social media.
That basically, get all the money you can. And this is unbelievable.
But the town is so happy about this. Is almost as if you
and I are getting a piece of the action. Are you getting any of
the money from Joe Burrow? I wish, I wish ike, I'll take
table scraps, That's fine with me, But I'll tell you it is mind
boggling. And Katie Blackburn is as good a topologist as there is in the
National Football League. Now, this is a five year extension, but in
seventy five million, there are two years left on his deal, so there
he's under contract for seven seasons to the Tuners. I don't know three hundred,
three hundred ten million dollars whether the hell it is, it's it's crazy
numbers. But I'm wondering, okay, how much of this upfront? What
kind of bonuses we talking about? Katie Blackburn does as good a job as
anybody. In fact, she's highly regarded around the league by other owners and
general managers as a capologist that does a great job or handling the salary cap
and making sure that, Okay, now that you get this monster deal with
Joe Burrow, can you afford te Higgins? And then next year Jamar Chase
and on and on and on it goes. But they're young. It's a
young football team, and I think it's young for that reason. You know,
you get rookie a lot of rookie contracts, and you've got you know,
Joe Barrow. They knew, I mean they were. They've been planning
for the signing of Joe Barrows and not something that you know just oh boy,
here it is. It's upon us already. Now. They've been planning
on this for a while, so they've done their due diligence. There's no
question. Isn't T Higgins eligible now for an extension? And might there be
some surprise on that? Yes he is. That's why I was hoping on
nine five twenty three, get a double dip, get Joe Barrows deal done.
And then T Higgins says me too, I'm in, and I think
I think that's the next shoot to drop. I mean, the first one
that dropped was maybe a use size shoe, and Logan Wilson with that his
deal obviously not as significant economically as the Joe Burrow sign, but Logan Wilson
was very intelligent, get it done, get the deal done, cleared the
deck there. And then Joe Barrow, here's the here's the big dollars.
And now I would think T. Higgins would be next man up. As
such, we'll see, well, what year was Paul Brown? What year
was he born? And was at oh eight? It was eight, nineteen
o eight. And also right now, the number of T. Higgins is
five. And if you take the five and twenty three, take the five
and the three, that's eight. Paul Brown was born in on oh eight.
Higgins, this number is five, but it's twenty three year twenty three,
Take the three and the five, that's eight, and Paul Brown was
born and oh eight. The stars are aligning today for T. Higgins.
I'm telling you, the football gods are trying to tell us something Herett's you
know, the football gods are finally being maybe maybe a little bit kind,
but it really is. It's a it's a remarkable, remarkable how the league
has grown. I mean, it is literally a five hundred pound gorilla in
every way a five hundred pound gorilla can be. It is just a marketing
you know. It's a marketing genius. The NFL is a marketing genius playing
a simple and the big money is yet to come, which is all the
Apple Plus TV, the YouTube TV, the the Rakou, the Racou,
the Ray Goo Saws, the racco It's all still coming into the future.
I have no idea. I'm as money. There's all the money in the
world's in the National Football There'll be no money left anywhere. It's all going
to be in the pockets of the National Football League. And so one forgets
there's a game to be played on Sunday. And I've spent the last few
days on TAM Radio in Cleveland and they do the Browns games, and that
they have a butcher shop ready when the Bengals walk into whatever the name of
their stadium is. Do you know the name of the Cleveland Brown Stadium?
No one knows. What is it? Cleveland Brown Stadium? What the hell
is the name of that? Nobody knows. It's I don't know what it
is. Yeah, I can let me, let me find it. Go
ahead. But whatever it is, they have a butcher shop that they're ready
to go, that they want Joey being to come there and they're gonna chop
them up like a piece of liver and samba horror flick. I mean that
they want joe Burrow drawn and quartered, which means stretched and chopped into little
pieces. And by the way, what's the record of Joey b when it
comes to play in the Brownies one and four? He is three and one
against Patrick Mahomes and one and four against the Cleveland Browns oh and two up
in Cleveland. In fact, here's a couple of little nuggets for you,
Willie. The Bengals had not won a road opener since two thousand and nineteen
and decade his turn, haven't won a road opening yet, and they've not
won in Cleveland since two thousand and seventeen. So it's time. It's time.
It's uh, you know. And and here's the The AFC North argue
the toughest division in football, and this is a this kind of bears it
out. No team in the AFC North has won the division title three years
in a row since it was formed in two thousand and two. The Bengals
could be the first to do so. They've wanted two years in a row.
They could be the first. And when you think about the run Pittsburgh
has had Baltimore's head, they never wanted three years in a row. And
with Joey b and the big contract, maybe they can win it three years
in a row. Here we'll see. Now you're you're an old offensive lineman.
And I was talking to the Great Number eighty five, Tim McGee,
And in fact, you we take eighty five, take five from eight,
that would be three. And then if he had at the five, which
is the number which is the number of war by T. Higgins, that's
eight. And Paul Brown was born in oh eight. See, the stars
are aligning right there. But I talked to the Great Number eighty five with
Isaac Curtis and Tim McGee and Ocho Sinko and T. Higgins. That seems
to indicate there is going to be a deal signed by T. Higgins Higgins
somewhat soon. He's telling me that he's onto his ninth knee operation. Tim
McGee, how was the Great Dave Lapham able to avoid so many surgeries when
you were in the pit, you were down there being hit upon by offensive
lineman, defensive lineman, defensive backs. You were chop blocked, you were
guillotine. They took off pieces of your body. How does Dave Lapham still
exist when you play during an era when you could actually play football? Yeah,
it was a very fortunate good gene pool. I guess sturdy bone structures,
no question about that. Unfortunately, you just have to be you have
to be lucky. But I will tell you Willie haven't turned seventy one years
old. A lot of mornings. Now I want to get out of bed's
oil? Can you kind of? You don't jump out of bed, you
gotta roll, get on the floor, get the knees under you. Up
you go. All right, let's talk about the offensive line, of what
you're an expert. Many have said, including Tony Fender, this is the
best offensive line the Bengals have ever had. Now you know something about offensive
line. Super Bowl and Pontiac where Chris collins Worth cost him the game with
all those fumbles, and then you also saw the great offensive line and Miami.
Is this the best Bengals offensive line ever? I'm not gonna say ever,
but I will say in the Joe Joe Burrow Era, that's for sure.
Joe Barrow off that endorsement for his offensive line. This is the best
one that he's had in front of him and uh and it's going to be
incumbent upon them. Joe Barrow in the last two years has been sacked one
hundred and twenty one times, the most of any quarterback. Has been hit
two hundred and forty times, the most of any quarterback. Now that's including
the playoffs, So all the quarterbacks have not played in as many games as
Joe Barrow. But the fact remains he's going to be playing maybe slightly hindered.
You gotta keep him clean, you gotta keep him upright. You can't
make him have to be you know, quick, short space, quick movements
with that calf problem in the pocket to avoid getting lit up. You know,
he hasn't he hasn't been tested like that. He won't be tested until
Miles Garrard's bearing down on him, who's got thirty two sacks in the last
two season, sixteen apiece. So the offensive line is going to have to
as a group, you know, really really play as one. Like always
talk about the offensive line being a fist. It's you don't think about curling
four fingers and wrapping your thumber round. One of the group's playing well together,
you make that powerful fist. And if you're not, if you have
one component of it not doing his job, it's not it's not a fist.
It's not a strong thing to punch with. So they're gonna have to
play as a group. They're gonna have to uh, you know, be
unified. And they haven't really taken snaps yet, so they haven't had an
opportunity to gel. They're gonna have to gel quickly. It's gonna be interesting
to see how well they perform in front of Joe Burrow. And the other
thing is Deshaun Watson. I mean, God bless him. That guy's had
nothing but difficulties. Between the guaranteed money, I think it's two thirty five
for Deshaun Watson, like two nineteen. Put those numbers together, that's like
four hundred and fifty four million dollars of garry. Now we're talking about money
for a change. We're talking about money right now. And so I'm concerned
also about Ellie Dela Cruz. Could you see Ellie Dela Cruz playing wide receiver
for the Bengals on an emergency basis. Boy, I'll tell you, Ellie
de la Cruz, to me, it looks like he could be a heck
of a route runner. I don't know, you know, there's a difference
between just being fast and being able to change direction, stop and start,
sink your hips, get it in the cuts. But I would bet that
Ellie, Ellie de la Cruz is a guy that could could handle all that
now. And uh, he's got good hands. I'll tell you here,
he'll throw the ball further than any quarterback. That dude's gonna how what you're
hanging off that shoulder music. So I'm thinking if something happens with Jamar,
if you lined up on the fifty yard line, Jamar versus Ellie and you
shoot the gun. Who gets to the goal line first, Boy, that's
a that'd be a great race. Let's do that. I mean that they
should do that for charity. You know, everybody in attendance pays, you
know, some sort of admission. Please do it, and the money goes
through a big charity. And at the gun here we go. All right.
It's kind of like chat out your sinko against the race horse. I
took I took the horse. I've seen Collins would try to race a horse
at Turfway. That didn't go well for Chris, who cost us the super
Bowl. He did cost us the super Bowl and Pontiac. But that's a
that's I'm just telling the tray with you. I'll watch him drop balls and
fumble. I mean, he was terrible, but all right, give me
the final score. I'll hold you an account for this on Monday, Dave
Lappin's final score and the first and the next nine days. If the BEng
galleys are two and oh, all, hell's gonna break loose. If they're
zero and two, that's a different issue. If they're one, one and
one, that's not so good. If they're zero, zero and two,
that's not so good. Give me the final score. Well, I'll tell
you the last night's game, you know, great indicator Kansas City in Detroit
hu wins twenty one twenty. I'll take that score. I'll take the Bengals
winning on the road. Detroit went on the road and beat Kansas City.
I'll take the Bengals going on the road playing a tough opponent. Division rival
hasn't gone well up there. They haven't one up there since since two thousand
seventeen. I'll take that twenty one twenty score, just like last night.
I about that one, and if you take the two and the one and
the two, that's a total of five and five the new number of t
Higgins. And I see the numbers are lining up right here, twenty one
twenty Bengals. Maybe a last second sixty three yard field goal. Uh Evan
gets it done. And the five, the two, the one, and
the two is five. The five is the new number, and the deal
was signed on the fifth. Therefore I see a Bengals victory. According to
Dave Lapham, the numerologists without equal here here we go twenty one twenty,
the two, the two and the one that's hive zero. The zero is
no nothing. So that's my point. I mean the whole score, the
whole score. That's it right there you go. Now, if that happens
about four thirty on Sunday afternoon, I want you to tell Dan guess what
you predicted that score with Willie twenty one twenty because it's the five. You
see what I'm saying. You're the best, Dave Lapham, god Blass.
And if your number was sixty two right, correct, if you take the
sixth and the two, that's eight? Am I right or wrong about that?
And what is today's date? September eight? There it is. It's
all lined up, man, it's all right there, all right. Dave
Lapham, thank you very much. We got it all fre Ingo, Dyve
lap Him. You're the best. Thank you for your predictions on the Bill
Cunningham Show. Thank you, thank you. Let's continue with more. In
fact, when you think about it, Paul Brown was born on September seventh,
oh eight, and who was president in oh eight, William Howard Taft
from Cincinnati, Ohio. There's the connection right there. Hit the music,
hit it. Yeah, Paul Brown is rotating like a barbecue in his grave
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