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starts in about one hour, getting ready for the big games the night in
Baltimore. Joining you on all is the voice of your Cincinnati Bengals. I
say, the best play by play man in the business. Even bigger and
better than Phil Samp is Dan Hord, Dan Hord, Welcome again to the
Bill Cunningham Show. Dan or you recall Phil samp I never knew Phil.
I never met Phil. I certainly know of Phil, and I've heard many
of his great calls over the years, so I know he is the eternal
voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'm happy to be following in his footsteps
many years later. Two issues are percolating around my brain like a bbe in
an empty railroad box car. Number one Brian Combs head this morning this factoid.
Since winning a Thursday night game in Philadelphia in December of twenty two twelve,
the Bengals have lost fourteen consecutive primetime road games in the regular season.
What primetime defined is starting at six thirty or later. Et is that accurate
is zero and fourteen. The number is accurate. But I'm very happy you
brought that up, Willy for this reason, does job or does Andy Dalton
throwing a primetime interception in twenty thirteen have anything to do with the Cincinnati Bengals
Now? The answer to that question is no. I say this is the
year for JB. The only statistics that matter are the ones in the Borough
era because Joe Burrow has changed everything we think about where this franchise is concerned.
So primetime games used to freak everybody out. They don't anymore because we
have Burrough. Now. Having said all that, they are zero to four
in primetime road games in the Borough era, this is a milestone that he
needs to overcome. He's lost to in Cleveland, he lost the AFC Championship
Game last year, and he lost in primetime last year in Baltimore. So
I don't know about you, but when you present Joe Burrow with something that
he has never been able to do before, and people talk about it and
they debate it in Sports Center and stuff like that, what does Joe usually
do win? He takes care of it exactly. He wins. So the
number is accurate. They have lost fourteen in a row. All that matters
is that it's four with Joe Burrow and let's see if he ends that tonight.
I think there's a pretty good chance that he will. Before the kickoff,
can you get this information to him? Can you pass it on and
say, hey, Joe, do you know that you're zero in five that
the Bengals are zero and fourteen? Can you get him that information? If
I see him in the team dining room, I'm going to say, by
the way, Joe, you realize you've never won a road primetime game.
The Bengals quarterback, you're owen four. Joe, You're own four. Joe,
You're own four Joe in the cl response. Now, Secondly, I
thought this was a joker, some sort of a prank headline in ESPN.
As of twelve oh one pm today, Big twelve WWE pairing hands title belt
to conference champion. The new pack will include a blended Big twelve and WWE
logo on the fields at eight and G Stadium. The partnership is and also
Nelly's going to perform at halftime. But did you know that the Big twelve
where you've seen Al calls home has hooken up with Pro Wrestling. I didn't
know that until your producer, the Great broadcast. Sheriff Dave Peaton informed me
of that before I went on, but I did take a quick peek at
the ESPN story on the subject. I'll tell you Brett Yormark, who is
the commissioner of the Big Twelve, will do anything and everything to try to
expand the conference's footprint and audience. You know you're gonna play basketball games south
of the border. They had a basketball clinic in New York City in the
off season that the Cincinnati coaches were involved with. So I'll give them credit
for trying to come up with creative ways to get people talking about the Big
Twelve. It does seem to work well. You talk about Hull, Klagner,
Rick Flair, give me the Dan Hord, Mount Rushmore and pro wrestling.
Now that you've hooked up with the WWEE, who are the four heads
on Mount Rushmore For Dan Horde of pro wrestling, I'm not sure that I
can come up with four, Willie. I've never been a big pro wrestling
guy. My grandmother, my mothers or my father's mother, Norma Hoard,
was an avid pro wrestling fan. She was convinced it was real. So
Grandma Hoard never missed pro wrestling, but her love of that broadcast entertainment sports
entertainment was not passed down to her loving grandson Dan. So you can't give
me hul Cogan, Rick Flair, maybe the Undertaker give you the Rock.
The Rock, I can give you the rock yep I can give you Andre
the Giant. Okay, So there we've got four. That'd be a good
matchup, right there, that'd be a good matchup. All right, let's
talk about football with your permission. I know you want to talk about pro
wrestling, but we got to talk about football now. Big story in the
inquiry today about the key injuries. Of course, we know about t Higgins
and Sam Hubbard with the Ben Galleys. Any other players are going to be
injured and not playing the night other than Higgins and Hubbard. And yeah,
Andre Rochi Yosi Vash the rookie wide receiver out of Princeton won't play. But
I think Trey Hendrickson will play. So that's the big headline in the last
twenty four hours or so. Because Trey got hurt late in the loss of
Houston on Sunday, Hyper extended Hyper extended his knee. A lot of people
speculated that well, Thursday night game, you won't be able to come back
that quickly. But he has basically lived in the training rooms and it looks
like he will answer the bell tonight. So that's big. That's your best
pass rusher, somebody that can hopefully keep Lamar honest when he drops back to
throw. So they're gonna miss Hubbard and Higgins certainly, but I was really
happy to hear that Trey Henderson is going to be able to play. And
what about the Ravens quote the raven Nevermore, which Ravens will not take the
field field of honor tonight about eight fifteen. They're missing their Pro Bowl left
tackle Ronnie Stanley, so that's a big loss, and they might be missing
their best cornerback, Marlon Humphrey. He is listed as doubtful for the game
tonight, so that means less than a fifty percent chance according to the NFL
standards for that kind of stuff. So those would be two big guys out
if that's the case for Baltimore. Baltimore's favored by three and a half points,
which is basically a pick him kind of a game. But the Bengals
have always had trouble with Lamar Jackson. They've had trouble with Baltimore. When
Lamar Jackson plays, off the top of your head, it appears that when
Lamar Jackson plays with Joe Burrow, I have a sense Joe Burrow has a
losing record. Am I correct? You are correct? So Lamar Jackson has
made eight starts in his career against Cincinnati, the Ravens are seven to one.
When he's missed games during that time period, the Ravens are owing three.
So that's a pretty big indicator of his value to the Ravens. Now
head to head against Burrow, I think it's three to one in Lamar's favor.
One of those games was Burrow's rookie year, you know, when the
Bengals weren't very good. But in recent years it's two to one in Lamar's
favor, including Week two this year with the Ravens won by a field goal.
So we'll see if joey be can even up that head to head tonight.
Can you put in perspective, well, we made our picks back in
May. By that, I mean segment myself in the rock and all of
us had the Ravens winning tonight. Looking back from May. In June,
predicting the entire seventeen game season, eighteen week seventeen games, we predicted,
all of us said the Ravens are going to win that game. We all
of us predicted the Ravens would lose at a pay corps that didn't turn out.
So can you put in perspective how big this game is for the Bengals.
Ito's huge. I don't think the Bengals can win the AFC North if
they don't win tonight. I don't think it would doom their playoff chances because
there's kind of a muddled pack in the AFC of teams that have somewhere between
like three and six losses, and a couple of those teams will emerge and
become wild card playoff teams. But if they lose to Baltimore tonight, you're
two and a half behind them in the division. You're zero and two head
to head, so you'd lose the tiebreaker. I think it would be virtually
impossible to win the division for the third great win our third grade year if
they don't win tonight. So their chances of winning the AFC North I think
will be determined at about eleven thirty this evening Tony Bender tells me that the
Bengals going to win this game flat out because when the chips are down,
when Joe Burrow's backs up against the wall, when they got to win a
game, this is the kind of game they win. Plus, the weather
is going to be extremely cooperative for both sides as far as a passing attack.
The temperature is going to be in the upper fifties, low sixties by
the time eleven the'clock rolls around, maybe the low fifties. That is perfect
Joe Burrow weather, It's perfect. I wish we had T Higgins. I
think to have that nextra receiver would be huge. That you're saying there's no
chance of him playing. There's no chance of T Higgins playing tonight. That
is correct. He's not practiced since Wednesday of last week, so Tea is
definitely out tonight. It's going to be a feed Jamar Chase kind of night,
and the Ravens are going to double team him. It's going to be
hard to get him the ball, but it's going to be up to the
Bengals coaches to find creative ways to do it. I will say this,
there's one thing about Thursday Night Football that I think comes into play tonight.
You've got very little time to do opponents specific game planning for a Thursday Normally
you've got several practices where you are doing a lot of stuff specifically based on
the film study of the other team. You just don't have time to do
that for a Thursday game. So I think Thursday games really just kind of
come down to basic stuff. And with Joe Burrow certainly anything as possible,
and I expect Joe to play very well tonight. And lastly, I mean,
look at the game Ravens lost to Cleveland. They've looked that they've lost.
Now Nick Chubby didn't play, and Deshaun Watson looked like the old if
there wasn't old Deshaun Watson in the second half in Baltimore, I think it
was fourteen to fourteen. There's that number again. In the second half,
he was fabulous. Now he's out for god knows how long. So the
Ravens are depressed. The Ravens don't need the game as much as the Bengals
need the game. If the Ravens lose, they're still in first place.
And with Cleveland having all these problems, it looks as in Pittsburgh. I
don't know what Mike Tomlin is doing in steel Land. It's unbelievable. Well
what I mean to have a six and three record with that team, and
they have a much easier record. But if Cleveland falters as Cleveland always does,
I mean, nobody would want to live in Cleveland, and so for
God's sakes and so you really it's the Bengals, and it's the Ravens and
the Bengals. How they lost that game to Houston was it's unbelievable. But
nonetheless, the Bengals need this thing like a pit bull needs a pork chop.
And then the Ravens are on the other category. If they lose,
it's okay, they move on, they get ten days, then they come
back. All right, Dan Horde, I don't want to put you on
the spot at all, but give me the final score. Let's say it's
now eleven forty seven pm Eastern time tonight. I'll hold you to account for
this. What is the final score? Willie? Last year, in a
night game in Baltimore, the Bengals lost on a last second field goal by
Justin Tucker, the great Ravens kicker. They flip the script tonight. They
win the game on a last second field goal by Evan mc pherson from about
forty seven yards away. Final score Bengals twenty four, Ravens twenty one.
All right, we're going to hold you to account for that. Get my
best to Dave him and Dan hold Dan? Are you living out your dream
right now? A little boy helping Syracuse? Are you living out your dream
here? It is twenty twenty three. I think about you calling against Alabama
and then the Bengals Super Bowl? Is this your dream? Have you reached?
Have you reached the mountaintop? Willie? Reality has exceeded my dreams.
I wanted to be a sports broadcaster. If that had been the Friday night
high school game of the week back in my tiny hometown of Lakewood, New
York, I think I would have been happy. But I'm going to do
an NFL game tonight. I'm going to do a college football game on Saturday
afternoon. I'm going to do a college basketball game on Sunday afternoon. It
is the greatest gig in the world, and I am unbelievably lucky to be
able to do it. Both of us live undeserved lives, and certainly the
case for me, Willie me just a good way of phrasing it. I
am very grateful, Dan Horde, you're a great American and thank you for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you in anytime, Willie, Thank
you, God bless America. Let's continue with more. The line becomes available
five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, twenty four
to twenty one Bengals forty seven yard field goal money Mac maybe hits the uprights
and goes in. How about that? I take it. Remember Joe Burrow
zero and four Bengals overall zero and fourteen in primetime road games in the regular
season and playoffs. It ends tonight, Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WLWO.
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