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00:00it is week six it's time we go around the afc north remember all those guests appear
00:04on the wise heart right we make a right call cow right hotline we got three of them the first
00:08one
00:09up we go to baltimore 105 some of the fans bob haney in baltimore they get ready to come to
00:13town
00:14on sunday to take on our cleveland browns the former cleveland browns that's never been set
00:19on sports talk radio here huh no not at all 1 p.m kickoff it is lamar going to be
00:26on the field
00:27sunday for the baltimore ravens bat well i will paraphrase jesse mentor and say he's doing
00:34everything he can to be on the field sunday against the cleveland browns they're back at practice today
00:40players usually meet with the media at 11 30 and lamar usually speaks on wednesday if he did not
00:46last week didn't play so we shall see even if he doesn't speak i don't think that means he will
00:51not
00:52go against uh todd monk and his former oc but yeah i'm still 50 50 but we'll get obviously more
00:59insight later on today when the players speak and then jesse speaks coming up around 230 was todd
01:05monk it ever seriously considered for the head coaching job in baltimore i'm not sure to be totally
01:12honest with you i don't recall his name being mentioned as a possible candidate but i would assume
01:18that you know garrett acosta did his due diligence looking at todd monk and there were some whispers
01:23maybe someone loud that that you know lamar and monk in and henry and monk in and etc weren't really
01:30seeing eye to eye with the way their offense was being run last year so i guess when john harbaugh
01:35was
01:36fired uh the organization felt as though they'd just make a clean sweep here and i believe there's
01:42only one holdover coach from last year does tyler huntley make it easier to sit lamar jackson
01:48and rest and get ready to to be fully healthy to play he is uh three and oh in his
01:54last three
01:55starts and wins over you know atlanta who had been on a heater going into sunday's game and then beat
02:00chicago and green bay last year two playoff teams he's not an explosive player running the football he
02:07doesn't air it 80 yards down the field throwing it but he knows the offense he has now the confidence
02:13of his teammates and we saw in that last drive in the uh game on sunday past against the balcons
02:21that
02:21he did in fact have that that clutch gene in him and eventually scored the game winning touchdown so
02:26yeah a couple of games short tyler huntley can get you where you need to be but uh you know
02:32you saw
02:32him in cleveland if it was 17 games i mean there might be a different story here do you consider
02:37deshaun watson a threat to your defense uh no well and one of the main reasons too
02:46the offensive line's not doing all that great and the ravens aren't exactly you know the 85 bears when
02:51it comes getting to the quarterback but hendrickson could be back this week who's missed the last couple
02:56of games so i think and you know we're starting to see mike green second year player really start to
03:02get into it just now i'm the excuse me matt bk is uh getting closer and closer to his all
03:08pro self
03:09i just think the pass rush might be a little too much for cleveland to overcome on sunday
03:13do you think there's anything about this baltimore team that would have fans thinking this year could
03:21be the year they make a playoff run uh yes there are some things here tyler loop he has really
03:29played
03:29well kicked well this year he was one for four from beyond 50 last year he's five for five
03:34this year so he has regained the trust of the fan base not that they really matter in the grand
03:39scheme
03:40of things but lamar healthy playing like an mvp he was great in the first half against tennessee
03:46hamilton's a defensive player of the year candidate uh jay flowers has taken his game to another level
03:51there's a lot of things to like i mean the defense still isn't where it wants to be
03:56in regards to total domination but i mean if you look at the afc right now baltimore has as good
04:02a chance as anyone if they stay healthy bob haney 105 some of the fan in baltimore as the ravens
04:06get
04:07set to come to town 1 p.m on sunday we now go to cincinnati they're on a buy senior
04:11writer and
04:12bangles.com jeff hobson joins us right now is there too much reliance on joe burrow going on because of
04:18the run game of problems i'll just say this if trey henderson doesn't play this week he will
04:23certainly play next week against the mangles uh yeah i don't know this is a debate we've had this
04:29this is a debate that's been going on forever is there too much joe joe's pretty good you know uh
04:35so
04:35i uh i you know i think they're at the point now where they believe that they can you know
04:42it's a
04:43game-by-game deal and they're and they're responding they're being reacting to the defense whatever the
04:48defense is going to do to them they're going to cover it they can throw it and they have to
04:54and
04:54they have to run it and they've been emphasizing that ever since you know for the last two weeks
04:59after they couldn't run it against jacksonville so i think it's uh i think they believe they can beat
05:05you any which way and they certainly can with burrow but they are really uh trying to uh they're really
05:12trying to get into this ground game i know there's this number that emerged over the last few weeks
05:17about his score his record in one score games is there anything to that or is it easily debunked
05:25if you actually go through and look at each and every game and what they're counting i'm not smart
05:30enough after reading after reading a couple articles about it i think you have to have an engineering
05:36degree uh to figure out the numbers and the analytics okay all i know is that the guy's the most
05:44accurate quarterback of all time okay and he he he makes unbelievable throws in tight windows whether
05:53he wins these games or he doesn't i can think of many i i i can think of the first
05:59okay the uh the
06:00first game against cleveland he played make it beat him with 50 seconds left a minute after he gave them
06:07the lead um so there's a string of games that the defense did not close for him okay this guy
06:15is
06:15dangerous with anybody in the last two minutes the numbers don't say it but there's a lot of reasons
06:21why and if you read ryan fitzpatrick what ryan fitzpatrick and some of these other guys have said
06:26he's great in the last two minutes so by taking in all these other factors so you know i i
06:34uh to say he's
06:35not clutch is absolutely ridiculous you know i mean you know most everybody in the league knows
06:43he's gonna pass and then and the man is leading the league in completion percentage so uh you know
06:49don't tell me he's not clutch the man it the man was nine of 13 on third down you know
06:54uh on sunday
06:57and he does that kind of stuff every week the trade deadlines is still a little bit away but it
07:02is a
07:02bye week there have been a couple articles and things like that about trades do you think that
07:06they could make a trade before the ravens game next week yeah i know that's not in their dna i
07:12mean i
07:12know they did flacco last year but that was i think that was extenuating circumstances that was a
07:18quarterback i uh i i i really think they like their right they could they could but i really think
07:23they like their roster and uh i think uh you know i think they feel like they had a really
07:29good
07:29draft i know their tight end hannah hudson came up nicked i think they got a guy in jack
07:34andrews i think that they like the seventh rounder out of texas so i think i i do think they
07:39i do think
07:40they believe in their roster and they'll uh i think that that's what they'll go into uh baltimore with
07:44jeff hobson senior writer bangles.com's the bangles get ready for a bye week this weekend before
07:50they take on the ravens next week let's get to chris muller 93 7 the fan in pittsburgh as the
07:54steelers are in tampa bay 1 p.m on sunday uh is aaron rogers good again i do not know
08:02if he is no
08:03i i would say he's better than he was last year because he's got a better game planner and a
08:08guy
08:08who knows how to get uh him in the looks that he wants but no i mean i think you
08:14got to find him
08:14throwing the ball frequently and really effectively at an intermediate level to say that he's good again
08:21like i mean you look at for example you look at this last game his biggest play in the passing
08:26game is him getting clobbered and taking the hit to make a throw but the throw is seven yards and
08:31then
08:32jaylen warren just takes it and runs with it and dk metcalf throws two good blocks and it turns into
08:36an 80 yarder so no he's not slicing and dicing defenses he had a couple plays i really liked in
08:41that game but i'm not ready to say that this guy's like a you know top 12 quarterback in the
08:46league like
08:46i think everyone sort of narratively wants to when he has a solid looking game all right jaylen
08:52warren's already always been a decent back but this season he's gone up to almost six yards per carry
08:57what's the difference i think they're blocking a little bit better i also think they understand
09:02their personnel like they're at their best when they go and play bully ball which is put washington
09:08and friar move on the field at the same time and put i i actually think this is the other
09:13revelation
09:14from this last game jeremy jerry i'm sorry you've got to say right it's not jeremy spoken class
09:19today it's jeremy bernard like it like it sounds jeremy bernard is clearly their second best wide
09:25receiver even if there's going to be some hiccups if he's a rookie he's won over rogers he had the
09:29most targets by three i think of any steelers player in that game uh against indy their best
09:35personnel is metcalf and bernard the two tight ends in warren and i think now that they have leaned
09:39into the idea that we basically have a mobile second right tackle or whatever in darnell washington
09:45we're going to build the offense around that kind of look and doing stuff off of that i think that's
09:49part of the reason warren is so much better right now he's also just like kind of a beast he's
09:53like a
09:53five foot eight ball of knives that no one wants to tackle and he rarely goes down at first contact
09:59so
09:59i think it's also just people noticing how good this guy has been and them noticing that they can
10:04actually give him 22 touches a game and he's not going to completely fall apart now obviously we we
10:09when we can try to consume some of uh your radio in town and what the fans are saying and
10:16we always
10:17wonder like what would it be like to be 500 much better than the browns have been but for an
10:21extended
10:22period of time and obviously there seemed to be a malaise over the last few years is that malaise
10:26still there with this team or is there newfound excitement because of the new coach
10:31uh there's always going to be people that are wanting to believe that it's going to be different
10:37it's probably easier to do that now than it ever has been before because there's a new coach and
10:42because he's offensive minded because he treats quarterback like the priority instead of ah
10:46fine i have to i have to win a football game throwing a forward pass like i wish it could
10:51be
10:51single wing which is mike tomlin but but i think more people than than not still look at it as
10:58you
10:58have a 42 year old quarterback you have a leaky defense that's really highly paid and getting
11:03older a lot of the same problems that have plagued the steelers and made them that average football
11:09team still apply in many ways what is the level of confidence fans have in patrick graham
11:15uh low right now i would say yeah i don't i don't think it's even after the win over the
11:21colts
11:22no because ken here's the thing they gave up points on six of functionally six of nine drives
11:28well they traded away as best cornerback they they did do that and people are not giving them
11:34a free pass on that one like i won't deny that people are people are not happy like even though
11:38you have like the usual fan sentiment of ah greedy athlete like there's enough people who know porter
11:43is good and there's enough people who know that their internal rules about how they handle these
11:49situations are laughable and absurd and create distractions that they're designed to allegedly avoid
11:54that like that's not that's not one where the front office is getting a pass so i even so even
11:59still i would say he has not like been this visionary change it up i'm going to throw a bunch
12:05of
12:06different looks and have it work and we're not going to have communication issues type of guy which
12:10is what i hoped he would be they're still having a lot of the same issues and by the way
12:13they still
12:13have two very bad off ball linebackers that i think are the obvious weakness of the team can we
12:18trade for uh sweatsinger and uh williams by the way i don't know if carson's gonna i think he'll
12:23be able to go on sunday but i think he's banged up himself but you cannot have him regardless you
12:28can't have him at 60 for him at 60 percent might take over queen or peyton wilson patrick queen
12:34what the hell has happened there oh i mean i can give you that easily when i when they signed
12:41him
12:42my first take was because i think i went on very shortly after it happened that day like minutes
12:46after i said this is a bad signing it's a bad it's a football player who's not going to be
12:51next to roquan smith anymore who is one of those dudes and even he's fallen off you're overpaying
12:57for a guy who's had one good year and it was alongside a true like batman alpha dog inside
13:02backer and i have been proven correct i mean he some of his tape against you guys is some of
13:07the
13:08worst linebacker tape i have ever seen uh he was like people were saying oh queen was better against
13:13the colts like maybe they were good against jonathan taylor they deserve well i hope he was
13:16better against the colts he was garbage against us no i know i that ken that's what i mean it's
13:22like
13:22yeah he was better against the colts that's like saying you know if i had the worst show of my
13:26life
13:26if and then the next day i was slightly better you'd say well he was better than he was yesterday
13:30when he had a show that should have gotten him fired but i never understood the move i don't think
13:35he's a good football player and they have really desperately tried to commit to that position
13:41post ryan shazier and just every effort has blown up and then you even got one like devin bush goes
13:46to you guys and now has like rehabbed his career submission to the idea that he got a multi-year
13:50deal from somebody like you sort of wonder is it like nature versus nurture are they getting put in
13:55positions in pittsburgh that that they just can't handle who is going to be the quarterback for the
14:00steelers next season not aaron rogers which is good um because he nixed that and i actually believe
14:09him when he says he's done done uh man that's i think it's probably if you just put a gun
14:15to my
14:16head and say you got to pick a name out of a hat right now i would actually say it's
14:19going to be
14:19drew aller in week one i think they're going to give drew aller because of the pedigree because he like
14:24checks the does he look like he's from central casting boxes i think it's going to be drew aller
14:30getting that job in week one like and now here's what's already happening they're already like some of
14:35the steelers media and some of the people who kind of sniff around the team oh you know this 27
14:40quarterback class isn't shaping up like people thought it would and uh you got to think about
14:442028 and it's all just like a prelude to we're going to give drew aller a real shot to be
14:49the guy
14:49and i i for one think even with mike mccarthy even in a quarterback nurturing environment that that is
14:55probably not going well because i'm a penn state graduate who's also a penn state hater who laughed
15:00very hard when he threw a ball directly to a notre dame player to cost him a trip to the
15:04national
15:04championship now wait a minute i like that young man and i like his family he's from here you better
15:08ease up is it menner or mentor when you say where he's from i say menner but some people do
15:14say mentor
15:16i think menner is is much better he seems like a nice guy i'm just saying well he's from medina
15:21he's from medina mitch trabisky's from menner right okay that's you can understand how i would get
15:27them confused of course is now is that medina or medina that's medina that's not the deftone song
15:35uh yeah deftone's good band i mean i'm trying to think of a white pony joke to make here is
15:41it
15:41true that your midday show does the same segment but they do it for an hour yes i was actually
15:47going to bring that up and i was going to bring that up and make sure i lit the stick
15:50of dynamite
15:51uh on that one but yes they do this segment which is a great little whip around that i enjoy
15:56joining
15:56every other week except they turn it into like an nfl film level thing where they're just doing an
16:03hour and and uh rob long in baltimore is being asked in-depth questions about the dynamic between
16:09mark andrews still being there and isaiah likely not being there i mean i can't okay all right and
16:16they're mad at me because i wouldn't do that every week or barely or something yeah i mean if
16:21they're mad at you like their producer is mad at you to me that's like a good place to be
16:25in life
16:25honestly i didn't ask him to say that i didn't did i did he text me i didn't see it
16:33i don't say
16:34maybe maybe he might have if he did and you ignored it i mean hey i i'd call that you
16:39know that i'd say
16:40that's a good play call by you though jeez i don't mean to be i don't mean to be rude
16:43if i ignored him
16:45i apologize might have texted me the wrong time don't worry he doesn't if he does take it personally
16:51again that's on him okay well we all know you're a busy man ken we all know that you don't
16:56you're
16:56not just made of time during these days i know i'm made of dough thank you very much chris muller
17:0293.7 the fan in pittsburgh made a chrisco
17:07i mean i'm not i'm not talking about the bronze for 20 minutes in pittsburgh every week
17:13okay no no that's not happening do people in pittsburgh care that much about julio mclaughlin
17:19no because that's where those conversations will go all right coming up in five minutes like i care
17:24about julio mclaughlin nice story nice young man but coming up in five minutes uh do we do we plan
17:32on keeping watson on the football team for 2027 can i ask you that question what would be your answer
17:38right now off the top of your head no no okay so if i'm not going to draft high enough
17:43i do have to
17:44add to the room right because i got cussed out yesterday and i thought i was going to get cussed
17:49out for something completely different i'll tell you what i got cussed out for in five minutes on the fan