WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.719 Get tonight. One of the games scheduled tonight was circled 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:06.799 by the Great American in August. I said, it's going 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.199 to be exciting. There'll be in Dallas Monday night football. 4 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:12.519 Dallas will be poting for the lead in the NFC East, 5 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:14.839 and of course the Bengals will be right there and 6 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.480 the AFC North and away we go. But things didn't 7 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:20.120 turn out that way. But Mo, Hagar, welcome again to 8 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.679 the Bill Cunningham Show. Mo, how are you? I'm great, Willie, 9 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:25.199 how are you well? I'm all upset. I'm angry. Why 10 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:28.039 because tonight's game doesn't have the significance it should it. 11 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:29.679 But before we get to that, you. 12 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.719 Know, mathematically, mathematically, this is a possible Super Bowl preview. 13 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.200 What year? I mean now? 14 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.399 Mathematically, yes, both these teams are still alive for the postseason. 15 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.119 So if Dallas wins the rest of their games, Bengals 16 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:45.479 win the rest of their games, and all the opponents 17 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.600 possibly they match up against loose the rest of their games. 18 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.799 It's possible. It's mathematically, I said, possible. Let's talk about 19 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.479 Dave Parker. Yes, the Cobra tell me great news for him, 20 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.280 and we have a lot of cuts coming up later, 21 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.799 But tell me about Dave Parker's worthiness for the Hall 22 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:03.159 of Fame. 23 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:09.079 Well, to me, two players got induction that made me 24 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.920 push for his candidacy. One was Harold Bains. Harold Bain's 25 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.519 terrific player, got to three thousand hits, was a D 26 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:18.959 eight starting the twenty seven years old. Dave Parker was 27 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.760 a better baseball player than Harold Baines. Dave Parker was 28 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:26.000 the ultimate five tool guy. Could hit, could hit for power, 29 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:29.480 could run despite his knees, could go get it in 30 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:31.359 right field. And I'm not sure I've seen a better 31 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.959 throwing arm. Go put on YouTube the nineteen seventy nine 32 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.280 All Star Game. It's it's majestic. So that was number one. 33 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:39.120 Number two. 34 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.400 One of the arguments against Dave Parker was he was 35 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.480 included in the group of players who was involved in 36 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:45.719 the Pittsburgh drug trials. 37 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.000 I was there. Nobody knows what that those trials were 38 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.159 actually about. I was there the players, and I didn't 39 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:51.359 know what. 40 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.200 The players themselves were not on trial, but a number 41 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.120 of them had to testify. One of them was Dave Parker, 42 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.840 the other was Tim rays Or. One of the others 43 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:01.920 was Tim Rains. Tim got inducted a few years ago. 44 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.439 On are the arguments against Dave Parker was, well, the 45 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.159 cocaine thing, Well Tim Rains had the cocaine thing. 46 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:09.680 That didn't preclude him. 47 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.120 So once those two men got in and by the way, 48 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.319 both deserving Tim Rains especially, I started to rethink Dave 49 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.120 Parker's candidacy. One of the things that was held against 50 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.879 him is if you look at what should have been 51 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.400 some of his prime seasons, I believe his age thirty 52 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.400 and thirty one years he started to deal with injury, 53 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.800 so his peak was relatively short. But in the mid 54 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:30.960 to late seventies, I'm not sure there was a better 55 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.800 baseball player. Two time batting champion, arguably the best player 56 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.360 on the nineteen seventy nine Pirates which won the World 57 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.639 Series and then dealt with health issues, comes to Cincinnati 58 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.879 and enjoys a career revival nineteen eighty five, number two 59 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.840 in the MVP voting. One may argue he should have 60 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.800 won over Willie McGee. I think the MVP that year 61 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.919 should have been Dwight Gooden. That's neither here nor there. 62 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.639 But Dave Parker has this career resurgence in Cincinnati, and 63 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.960 there's an MLB Network special on Dave Parker that aired 64 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.319 two to two and a half years ago, and on 65 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:04.759 it you have men like Barry Larkin and Eric Davis 66 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.680 who talk about, Look, I was a young player, Dave 67 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.800 Parker was my teammate. This guy showed me the ways. 68 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:11.439 He then goes to Oakland, wins a World Series with 69 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.680 the A's in nineteen eighty nine, hits three postseason home runs, 70 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.039 plays through nineteen ninety one. So had a long career 71 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.840 and for a stretch of time in the late seventies 72 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.599 was arguably the best player in baseball. 73 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:25.199 So this was a guy. 74 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:27.759 You know, I think we have I think we have 75 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.840 smarter people looking at this now. Dave Parker's the highest 76 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.960 number of votes he or percentage of votes he got 77 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.039 from the writers I believe. 78 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.800 Was twenty four and a half percent, ridiculous. 79 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:39.439 But we run these guys through a series of committees, 80 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.360 and I think this is good because I think it 81 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.199 provides the system of checks and balances. And the people 82 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.479 of Dave Parker's era knew that this was a guy 83 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.159 from Cincinnati who at his peak there was nobody better. 84 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.199 Plus he was one of the coolest players of all time. 85 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:54.840 He smoked in the dugout. He wore Adjasent's mask on 86 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.840 the field. When he broke his jaw, he stood over 87 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.479 the plate with that hulking frame. I'm not sure I've 88 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.199 seen anybody his size tower over the inside part of 89 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:05.199 the plate like Dave Parker. 90 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:06.879 So you're a picture on the mountain. You want to 91 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:07.560 come inside, right? 92 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:08.000 No? 93 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:09.120 I want to hit him. No. 94 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:13.520 So just I'm thrilled for him, and you and I 95 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.800 have both had him on our respective shows often over 96 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:21.279 the years. His Parkinson's diagnosis has you know, it's taken 97 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:23.839 somebody who was kind of defined by size and strength 98 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:26.279 and might, and it's wilton him down a little bit. 99 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.480 But he still has that handshake, and he has worked 100 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:33.920 tirelessly to help people also dealing with and living with Parker, 101 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.480 and I think that's admirable. So I am very, very 102 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:38.639 happy for the Colbert today. 103 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:41.399 In the mid eighties, when you talk to those in 104 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.399 the locker room, there was no one more dominating in 105 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.199 the locker room and in the dugout than Dave park 106 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:49.959 Oh wait, now, let's move on to tonight's game. 107 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.680 And by the way, twenty seven hundred hits, three hundred 108 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.319 and thirty nine homers a career two ninety batting average. 109 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.720 I mean people talk about counting stats. I mentioned he 110 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.600 led the league in ops. He legallygan slugging percentage twice. 111 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.319 He was a two time batting champion. This was a 112 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:07.759 hillaciously good player. Led the league in doubles, had a 113 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.879 thirty four homer season, a thirty homer season, and by 114 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.439 the way, at the age of thirty eight in nineteen 115 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:16.240 eighty nine, he drives in ninety seven and hits twenty 116 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:17.920 two homers for a team that won the World Series. 117 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.920 Not bad, pretty good, and that curt as strong stuff 118 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.160 to Caterer and Pittsburgh. I was president for the trial, 119 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.439 and I'm thinking, you know what, Dale Barra was there 120 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.600 and I'm thinking, what is this about? Tell me, tell 121 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.959 me what this is about. And the prosecutor there wanted 122 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.480 to prosecute the Caterer because it allowed him to bring 123 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:38.959 to Pittsburgh all these famous guys and cross examined them 124 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.920 when they were not directly charged at all. 125 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.759 Yeah, there's a great book about that. And the players 126 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:46.199 were lied to because they were told. And it's Tim 127 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.199 Rains Dave Parker. I think, uh, Dale Barra, Dale Barra, 128 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.519 Keith Hernandez, five or six players, well known players, and 129 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.759 they were told, all right, you'll testify, but we're gonna 130 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.079 sneak in the back of the courthouse. 131 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:59.439 They all got the Pittsburgh what do they do? 132 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.399 Raided them in front of all these television people, and 133 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.199 they all got fined. They serve deferred suspensions, they had 134 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:09.560 to do community work as assigned by Peter Youberroth. But 135 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.439 I you know, forty years later, we know those players 136 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.560 did cocaine, but we don't know why they were, why 137 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:15.360 they were in the courtroom. 138 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:17.120 Nobody knows about it because who they were, that's why 139 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:17.879 they were in the court room. 140 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:18.240 Now. 141 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.079 Secondly, yeah, you know the facts a little better than 142 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.399 I do. When it comes to sports, would you agree, no, 143 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:29.639 Lamar Jackson, you have to benchmark the Bengals against like Baltimore. 144 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.879 I think against the last ten or twelve games, Lamar 145 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.519 Jackson's like ten and one or eleven to one to 146 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.160 the positive side, something like that. And I think with 147 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.160 Pittsburgh this century, the Bengals are like four and twenty 148 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.199 one at home against Pittsburgh not good. And against Cleveland 149 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.639 they have a losing record the past five years. So 150 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:52.480 in tonight's game should have been like unbelievable, Joe Burrows 151 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.279 having the best year any Bengals quarterbacks ever had, and 152 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:57.920 you're talking about the possibility. But of all the things 153 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.439 that might have been, this year's team was three or 154 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:06.439 four plays from being leading the division. How sad are 155 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.879 you tonight to listen to the game tonight? Right here, 156 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:10.560 it's said suppressing. 157 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.399 They've scored ninety nine points over their last three games 158 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.319 and they haven't won any of them. 159 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:17.600 Let me just think about that. 160 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:19.680 If they win two of them, If they win two 161 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.439 of those games, they're going into this game tonight six 162 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.040 and six in it, and you're looking at him, going, 163 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.319 you know what, if this team can just get in offensively, 164 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:31.079 they've got a chance against anybody. But instead, because they 165 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.079 can't make a play on defense, so they don't make 166 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:37.160 a kick on special teams, or they keep wasting greatness 167 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.920 by Joe Burrow in this offense, and Joe hasn't been perfect, 168 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.759 but he's played at an MVP caliber level. Instead, they're 169 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.079 essentially playing out the string, and we should be talking 170 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.120 about them again. Just make it six and six. Take 171 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:51.680 any one of these games, or any two of these 172 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.639 games where they've scored a bunch of points, they win them. 173 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.279 They're six and six, Your five and a half point 174 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:00.399 favorite tonight against Dallas. I believe your favorite next week 175 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:03.160 against the Tennessee Titans. You're gonna be favorite at home 176 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.600 against the Browns, who have already been eliminated, right, And 177 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.160 you're probably gonna be favorite at home against the Denver Broncos. 178 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.079 And you go to Pittsburgh, a team that you at 179 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.160 times scored out, will on. We should be talking about 180 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.480 the home stretch here we go. Just get in and 181 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:20.079 you've got a chance against anybody. But because they have 182 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.560 built a historically bad defense, because they have failed in 183 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.759 so many areas to kind of take what they did 184 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.120 on defense in twenty twenty one and translated to a 185 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.879 better unit with younger players this year, this team is 186 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.279 four and eight and an avatar for wasting greatness. 187 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:36.559 Chuck Ledwick kind of went after you and the Rock. 188 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.320 You and the Rock say it'll take years, Chuck says, 189 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:43.120 a couple players away. They're back next year. They're real close. 190 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.360 Who's right, Chuck? Are you and the Rock? Chuck or 191 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.840 chick Chick? I mean chick or Chuck? Well, I call 192 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.240 him Chuck like we can can they can. They be 193 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:55.440 a playoff team next year. 194 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.360 Absolutely, but we're talking about like competing for a championship, right. 195 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.799 That's the whole idea behind drafting Joe Burrow was he 196 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:04.679 is going to lead them to a title, and he's 197 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.159 come close. In order to do that, they need a 198 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.159 better team. How do they get a better team? Look 199 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:10.879 at all the areas they have to address. This is 200 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.519 the longest off season to do list they've had in 201 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.279 quite a while. Now, the good news is, regardless of 202 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:19.120 what the coaching staff looks like next year, regardless of 203 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.720 how you feel about the draft, what they do in 204 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.600 free agency, they've got this one amazing piece to build 205 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:24.200 everything around. 206 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:25.120 And that's number nine. 207 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:26.960 First of all, you've got to have a resolution to 208 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.919 the Jamar Chase thing, which is gonna cost them more 209 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.000 money now because he's having a great year. They need 210 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.840 help on the offensive line. They need help out wide receiver. 211 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.759 Have they replaced t Higgins yet they're gonna lose in 212 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:36.399 this offseason? 213 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:36.480 No? 214 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.000 So those two areas, I'd argue. They could use help 215 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.519 at running back. Okay, now let's look at the defense. 216 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.279 Need help on the edge, need help on the inside, 217 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.200 need help at linebacker, need help at corner, need help 218 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:47.759 a safety. 219 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.679 There's eight positions. There's eight positions, Lodwig says, quickly turn 220 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:53.559 around next year. 221 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:58.399 Now, can they address each of those positions? Yes, well, 222 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.080 they successfully address all of them enough to take this 223 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.240 team from four and eight through twelve games too. 224 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.399 I don't know, ten and two, nine in three Baltimore 225 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.759 when they don't beat Baltimore, they don't beat Pittsburgh, they 226 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.200 don't beat the Browns well. And they also get off 227 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.600 to slow starts. How's that possible? 228 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.320 And so you know, think of all these things they've 229 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.399 they've got a switch. You've got to be better in 230 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:22.080 your division, right, which they've struggled for a while, even 231 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.720 two years ago, and they ran away with the division. Essentially, 232 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.120 they were bad against the AFC North. Their slow starts 233 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.720 are an organizational narrative that you cannot avoid. Oh to 234 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.440 three this year, oh and two the year before, oh 235 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:35.840 and tow the year before that. How does Zach Taylor 236 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.240 balance keeping our players healthy during the offseason but getting 237 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.960 them more ready to start the season right next year? 238 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.919 Cannot be oh and two, oh and three? 239 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.679 But like that's that's the thing we could talk about. 240 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.360 A banded schedule next year, we too, we can. 241 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:49.840 They had a bad schedule this year, right, They were 242 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.720 big favorites against the Patriots. They should have beaten the Commanders. 243 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.679 They should have won that game against Kansas City. They 244 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.559 did not, So we could talk about what they haven't 245 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:59.240 done in recent weeks. Losing to Pittsburgh, losing to the Chargers, 246 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.639 losing to the Baltimore Ravens. Those losses sting more because you're 247 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:04.559 trying to make up for a ground that you lost 248 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.360 back in September, So all these things have to get changed. 249 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:10.759 I would be more than willing to bet the Bengals 250 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.399 are a playoff team next year. Joe Burrow plays seventeen games, 251 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.440 but are the championship caliber team to go from where 252 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.639 they are defensively to what they're gonna have to be 253 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:23.039 I think is going to take more than one offseason. 254 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.559 What causes me excitement if you live in this area, 255 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.759 you got the Cleveland Browns and stink the Buckeyes. I 256 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:34.679 talk to a very high place source really in politics, oh, 257 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.919 the highest, almost the highest, who said the wine can't 258 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:42.519 say day is done, okay, can't happen? 259 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:44.399 Well, I think it's going to be really hard for 260 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:46.639 Ryan Day. If they lose this game to Tennessee. 261 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:48.039 And they're favored by eight and a half. 262 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.879 Now, now, are we really going to let's say Ohio 263 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.600 State plays for the national championship. 264 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.320 Oh, that's different. Like, so here's my question. 265 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.039 How far does he have to advance Ohio State football 266 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:00.919 in the playoff in order. 267 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.519 To get people in the championship game? Because okay o, 268 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.600 Higo States headed up to here with Ryan. 269 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.559 Dew so they could conceivably win the national championship. Course, 270 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.320 by the way, it could happen. They're favored against Tennessee. 271 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:17.159 They almost beat Oregon in their building. If I'm an 272 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.960 Ohio State fan, I don't feel like that game. I 273 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.720 don't feel like that game is impossible to win. 274 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:24.399 I'm in the middle of my question, by the way, Well. 275 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.919 But here's my thing. Let's say they win the national title. 276 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.799 Does the conversation instantly become that's cool, but you're on 277 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:30.440 the hot seat. 278 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.120 Because you haven't beat Michigan in four years. Well, here's 279 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:33.879 my issue with that. 280 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:38.480 We have deflated the value of regular season games in 281 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.759 college football. Right now, you can lose three times and 282 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:46.480 still make almost So we have said these individual games 283 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.879 in the regular season matter less. You no longer have 284 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.039 to go undefeated to play for a championship. You no 285 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:52.639 longer have to go eleven and one to play for 286 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:54.960 a championship. You no longer have to win a conference 287 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.720 championship to play for a championship. So we have deflated 288 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:01.039 the value of individual games. Yet in this one game, 289 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.159 one game made it so it has never mattered more. 290 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:06.519 I'm in the middle of my two things. Don't mesh. 291 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.000 Go ahead, I'm in the middle of my questions. I 292 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.480 haven't gotten to close ask your question. I'm just looking regionally. 293 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.919 The brown stink correct, Buck guys in trouble, Uh huh, 294 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:20.080 Bengals not good. What do we care about the Browns 295 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:25.840 Because I'm doing regional. I haven't got South yet. I'm 296 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:29.840 done to the Bees, the Browns, the Buck guys, the Bengals. 297 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:32.720 And then you got the Cincinnati Reds, who I love deeply. 298 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.559 Not good stuff. And then you got Kentucky football with 299 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.519 stoops not good. And then you got the Muller High School. 300 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.600 Then you got Anderson. Everywhere I look, I see nothing 301 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.799 but well they lost. And then you throw in FC 302 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.759 when they're up two goals against Columbus a year or 303 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:53.639 two ago. And is there any sense that in this 304 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.919 region we're blessed with so many positive things, but professional sports, 305 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.799 which I include the buck Guys. Professor, this morning, buck 306 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.440 guys are playing for a national title. They're in the playoff. 307 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.000 You talk to Buck Eye Nation as I do. I 308 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.080 take their pulse. It's not good. That's it's not good. 309 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.240 That's a reflection on them, not a reflection on the program. 310 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:13.600 Ryan Day runs a good program. 311 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:15.720 And then the bear Cats, He's. 312 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.080 Beaten multiple playoff teams this year. The Bearcat football team. Look, 313 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.679 Scott Saderfield's got his hands full. Man, there's no getting 314 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:21.080 around the. 315 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.200 Arizona State was picked and finish sixteenth. They're in the playoffs. 316 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.720 Bear Cats beat the Bearcats beat him and now was 317 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:32.240 playing for so everywhere I look, Browns, Buck Guys, Bengals, Bearcats, 318 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:37.480 Kentucky High School except for Scott Tackett Beechwood did unbullieing. 319 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.440 So do I have hope? Give me hope? Mo I 320 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.679 need hope? I think you see and Xavier are both 321 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.000 going to make the NCAA tournament. Who wins this weekend 322 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.440 cross time shootout? Let's talk about that later this week. 323 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:50.879 Xavier will win Okay, fine, they win. I have no hope. 324 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:53.919 So Xavier going to be n CUBA tournament teams. I 325 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:55.960 think Kentucky's going to be an NCAA tournament team. How 326 00:14:55.960 --> 00:15:01.559 about their comeback on Saturday night down eighteen against Kenzaga 327 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.159 and Seattle and Mark Pope coached his brains out and 328 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.240 one and one. So there's a short handed too short handed. 329 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:10.639 There's a lot to like there. The Miami Radhawks are 330 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:12.159 in the Snoop. 331 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.120 Dogg Arizona Bowl. 332 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.120 Huh sponsored by Gin and Juice the Miami RedHawks, so 333 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:18.440 things to like? 334 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.240 Oh you, the Bobcats won for the first time in decades. 335 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:23.639 Good for them, Ken, Bruce, happy and Brew. We gotta run. 336 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.600 But Mo, everywhere I look, I see nothing but opportunities 337 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:32.759 tonight its until you look at me. Wasted opportunity, Mo eager, 338 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.200 Thank you very much, thank you. Let's continue have hope, 339 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.440 I say, Moke. All we have, MO is hope, keep 340 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.480 hope alive. I have hope. All we have is hope. 341 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.639 That's all. Do you have hope? Are we going to 342 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.879 wager on the shootout? Absolutely? I'm taking Zager by the way, 343 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:51.679 straight up, no points. Whatever Xavier gets I get on 344 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:55.240 seven hundred w l W meanwhy let me get after 345 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.159 a decade and more good things going on relative New 346 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:03.000 York City and what's happening there. Number one, Daniel Penny 347 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.639 was found not guilty of the underlying charge and there 348 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:11.240 was hung jury on the more reckless homicide side charge, 349 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.120 which means the case is now dismissed. And of course 350 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.919 those who couldn't have cared less about Jordan Neely in 351 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.879 life now wants to benefit from his death. And the 352 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.639 crowd is forming in New York City outside the courtroom 353 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:27.799 demanding one hundred million dollars for a life not well lived. 354 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:29.919 And his family and friends could not have cared less 355 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.120 about him when he was alive. But now that he's dead, 356 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:35.600 you're going to have the Benjamin crumbs and others wanting 357 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:37.960 to profit off of it. That's a different matter. I 358 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.240 would also note that a man has been picked up 359 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:46.399 in Altoona, Pennsylvania and McDonald's restaurant connected to the United 360 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.759 Healthcare CEO shooting the murder of the CEO, and when 361 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.639 he was arrested, this man who appears to be similar 362 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:59.360 in appearance to the one who killed the CEO executive 363 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.240 in his possession a weapon similar to the one used 364 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:08.680 in the murder, and a suppressor, and so he's twenty 365 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.119 six years old. Picked up at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA. 366 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.920 After an employee at McDonald's thought he looked like the 367 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.000 man in New York City called police. The police showed up. 368 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.759 He had fake IDs, including one NYPD believes was used 369 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.319 by the killing suspect New York City to get a room. 370 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.160 The tune of police responded to the call, picked up 371 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.799 the man, searched him, found all this incriminating evidence. The 372 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.319 man also had some documents investigators wanted to examine us 373 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:40.480 potentially relating to a motive. Also had those documents. He's 374 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.759 being questioned as I speak. And this isn't the murder 375 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:49.880 of the CEO of healthcare Company United, and it all 376 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.160 we can with a tip. The man stopped a person 377 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:58.000 traveling by bus, recovered a suppressor, stopped into McDonald's employee calls, 378 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:04.720 and suddenly, probably the murderer of Brian Thompson has been apprehended, 379 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.720 along with documents that may provide the motive. One is 380 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.640 presumed that had something to do with turning down the 381 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.319 either he or a family member for medical care. There 382 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:19.079 was a partial fingerprint and DNA recovered during the search. 383 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.839 So far that's not yield in any matches on databases 384 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.279 all over the world. The fingerprint was recovered from a 385 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:29.720 purported burner phone thought to belong to the suspect, and 386 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.400 once he's fingerprint, which will be quite soon. If the 387 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.480 fingerprint of the twenty six year old man picked up 388 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:39.559 in Altoona, Pennsylvania matches the fingerprint on the burner phone, 389 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.119 that is somewhat incriminating, would you agree. Also there was 390 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.079 DNA from a water bottle an energy bar wrapper the 391 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.279 suspect is said to have bought New York City. So 392 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.039 from the from the DNA swab, they're going to take 393 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.559 some time this afternoon that's going to hook up and 394 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.599 police release new photos of the suspect in the backseat 395 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.359 of a taxi wearing a jacket while walking on the 396 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.240 street and both he's wearing a hood and a face mask. 397 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.000 And backpack believed to be the suspects was recovered Friday 398 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.880 in Central Park and cops have said it contained money 399 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:14.119 from a Monopoly board game, a law enforcement a source 400 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:18.839 told CNN and then Tommy Hilfiger jacket and police divers 401 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.319