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NFL Week 2, Iowa/ISU thoughts, Lee Sterling's Weekly Picks & Dave Sinykin previews the Packers/Commanders · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All righty, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon On a
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  Thursday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network flag shipped out of Des
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  Moines sports station one O 6.3 KX&O welcome as we get back to
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  Iowa based programming here for the next well block of six
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  hours. Trent Condon, myself, Ken Miller
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  will kick things off. We will take you until 2.
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  At that time we'll turn things over to Lucas Train and Sean
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  Roberts coming off the bench. The boys from 2:00 until 5.
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  Here's what's coming up with Trent and myself at the bottom
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  of the hour. Lee Sterling from
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  paramountsports.com will drop by.
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  He's got a handful of games he will pine on with Trent and I
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  paramountsports.com for Lee. He'll join us at 12:30.
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  And then Dave Sinican. He is 12451245 for Dave Sinican,
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  the head cheese.com previewing previewing tonight's Thursday
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  Night Football a game. If you can't be in front of your
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  TV if you're driving around, turn on the radio and keep it
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  right here. One O 6.3 KX&O is the Westwood
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  one package continues to pay dividends Thursday Night
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  Football tonight Commanders and the Packers Steve Sipple will
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  join us his weekly spot. It's about to get better once
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  the schedule the water gets a little bit deeper.
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  I don't even know who they have this week, you Trent garbage nor
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  garbage. We'll talk to SIP, what he's
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  seen, what he expects, etcetera from SIP at about 1:10.
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  Then Dalton Wasserman from Pro Football Focus will help us out
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  with tonight's game and likewise with the remainder of the
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  schedule. Pretty good weekend of football.
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  Obviously some concern if you are a fan of the San Francisco
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  49ers with the news, the injury news to that franchise in
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  particular their quarterback, their franchise quarterback,
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  Brock Purdy, he is going to miss what is he three to five weeks.
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  I think 3:00 to 5:00 with the turf though.
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  So not good news there. Mac Jones will be under centre
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  tonight for a team who's boy, oh boy, they, I don't know, is, is
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  their window closed, Duh. Or closing?
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  You're going there. Already, well, I just was, I was
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  ready to go there before the season started because all of
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  the defections from the defensive side of the ball
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  because I just can't pay everybody, right?
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  They've got to pay so many dudes, including the
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  quarterback, including the running back, etcetera,
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  etcetera. Linebacker Warner, as good as
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  there is and and the defections that the Vikings got a couple,
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  the Broncos got a couple, this of Fungos a hell of a player.
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  I didn't realize how good he was.
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  Oh, am I glad he's wearing a Broncos suit.
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  But you, you just wonder if the San Francisco team that was
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  devastated by injuries last year, if they're not going back
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  down that unfortunate path again.
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  We shall see. But they were the favourites to
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  win the NFC West. I can't believe they still are
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  today. Let's.
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  Take a peek. I can't believe that they would
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  be still the favorite. It's got to be the Rams.
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  Well, I'm not really sold on at this point.
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  One weekend Arizona beat New Orleans and Seattle got if it
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  would have should've by the Niners last week.
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  That was a good game in Seattle. Speaking of that, pretty
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  interesting right now on the Circus Sports Iowa app, that
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  division is not listed. Isn't.
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  It it's not listed. Fascinating.
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  What's going to is DraftKings got it up still.
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  I'll take a peek at that one and see.
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  But yeah, very interesting that that is off the board currently,
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  at least on my app. And we'll find what else is out
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  there in the market currently for the futures division winner.
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  Let's go NFCAFC, scrolling through everything.
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  There we go. Your betting favorite at.
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  Draft games. The Rams.
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  It's the Rams plus 165, then the Niners.
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  There's still second choice plus one schedule's awful.
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  I mean easy. But you're not going to
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  overreact and all of a sudden make up 4 to 1.
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  No, no, I don't think he can. I don't think he can.
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  It's it's too early yet. And there's the Arizona
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  Cardinals at plus 320A team that received plenty of buzz coming
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  into the season I met. Gannon Coach of the Year.
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  Between our when we were making our predictions, I was down to
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  Arizona and Dallas for my final spot.
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  I went with the Cowboys and the day later Micah Carson Parsons
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  out the door. Whoops on that one.
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  But the Cardinals are a team to like, and they have a game this
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  week that very easily could put them at two.
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  And oh. They have Panthers, right?
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  Home for Carolina. And I think that is going to be
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  the second most popular Survivor pick this week.
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  Oh, absolutely. Right behind the Ravens.
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  Yep, I think you're exactly right on.
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  That and you know who else is starting as is getting a lot of
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  love? There's two teams and I don't
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  buy it because I think the Bear, the Bears are better than they
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  showed. There's a lot of folks that like
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  the Lions this week in Survivor. I'm not one of them.
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  And there's a lot of folks that like the Cowboys.
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  I like the Cowboys. You do?
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  I like the Cowboys this week, yeah.
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  Over the Jinskis. Yes, not a whole lot to be
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  excited about. What the Giants defense there?
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  Is if you're a fan. I mean, at the end of the
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  Russell Wilson, there has got to be any weak.
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  I don't think people have the same vitriol for Russell Wilson
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  that you do. We're scarred, I think Bronco
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  fans, when it comes to that cat, that overrated bust, he's a hell
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  of a salesman. You got a lot of scar tissue.
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  I do, but this guy's a hell of a salesman.
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  He a He fleeced the Broncos, he went on to fleece the Steelers,
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  and he's done it again in New York with the Giants.
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  Want to go back for a moment to Arizona, All right, this is
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  their schedule and I know in the market you can still find last
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  team to take a loss on the. CCR, yeah.
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  So this week we mentioned Carolina, then they go to San
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  Francisco with Mac Jones. With Mac Jones, they go to San
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  Francisco, you said? To San Francisco.
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  Yeah, Home for Seattle. Tough.
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  Home for the Titans. Better than you think.
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  They go to the Colts. Way better than you think.
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  And they have the Packers at home.
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  I don't see them getting through that's.
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  I don't. Even 7.
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  But you like prices, But I'm going to guess the price for the
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  Arizona Cardinals to be the last.
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  Oh, it's got to be absolutely. That is not a daunting schedule
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  before they get to the bye week in Week 8.
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  What would it take? What would it take for you to
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  say, you know what, I'm going to click on that bet button.
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  We're not not having everybody else's schedule in front of me.
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  That's unbeaten right now. I see a lot of wins.
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  If I gave you at the kind of casino I give you 25 to 1 I.
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  Was gonna ask for 20 so yeah, I would take it.
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  You would take. It all right well now I got to
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  see and look through the app and see if I can find that one
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  because. Because you know who's better?
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  And I think Denver gets beat this week.
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  I think the Colts are a decent football team.
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  I think they're the threat in the South.
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  Is it more the Colts are decent or the Miami Dolphins are just
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  that A. Little of both.
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  I think that Danny Dimes is a significant upgrade.
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  Look, I watched the Colts and the Broncos start to finish in
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  Denver late last year and my my take away from that game was the
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  Broncos got lucky. The Broncos were not the best
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  team on the field. They got a couple of incredibly
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  fortunate plays from Anthony Richardson's boneheaded play at
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  the quarterback position. Now Denver goes to their goes to
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  Indianapolis this week as a slight favorite.
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  I think that's a dog that's barking.
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  I think I can make a case for Tennessee this week to give the
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  Rams everything they want. I wish that number was 6.
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  Are there some sixes? Didn't see any yesterday, 'cause
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  you know, I was let me look. I was taking a peek at that.
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  That I think is. 5 1/2 At least it was.
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  It's a teaser like that I like this weekend.
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  You're gonna, you're gonna move it up or move it down.
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  We'll. Move it up.
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  I like I like the Titans a lot in that spot on the grass field,
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  Everything that goes along with it.
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  I found the market here. Last, it's 5 1/2 across the
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  board. Last team to be undefeated.
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  All right, let me. So let me.
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  Let me guess. 'Cause we've already cut the
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  field in half, we're down to 16 teams now that's true that are
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  available in this market. Yeah, and let me get it in in
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  front of me. Give me one second to fire away
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  last team. Well, the Bills have to be the
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  favorite. They are and pretty significant.
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  Because the the Bills are, I remember looking at the schedule
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  at some point. Well, here it is.
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  They've they've already played their tough game.
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  Stop me when you hear a loss, OK?
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  At The Jets, No home to the Dolphins.
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  No home to the Saints. No Home to the Patriots.
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  No. At Pantherville, the calendars
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  turn to November. They host the Chiefs.
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  They're in good shape. If they beat the Chiefs, here
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  come the Dolphins. That sounded very.
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  Different. That's it.
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  They'll get to Thanksgiving, Trent.
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  They might not lose. They got the Buccaneers the week
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  before Thanksgiving. That defense is shaky, though.
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  Buffaloes, yes. Yeah, I mean.
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  It looked awful in the preseason.
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  It looked awful on Sunday. Night, yeah, but you're going up
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  against Lamar Jackson. Sure, but you still gave up.
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  And Oliver was held, and Oliver had a hell of a game.
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  That defense was. Terrific.
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  To get through with a bad defense, that might be tough.
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  That would be my push back, but they're the betting favorite for
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  a reason. OK, who's second?
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  Team will see tonight the Packers, the Packers 6 to one on
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  the Packers to be the last undefeated team.
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  What did I miss on them pre season?
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  I thought they were going to finish 4th in their division.
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  Let me get their schedule in front of me.
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  It's a good one. Let's take a look at what.
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  Green Bay, No, no, no, no. Well here, let's lay it out.
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  Is Washington tonight, then back-to-back roadies at
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  Cleveland At Dallas bye week? That at Dallas game could be
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  tricky, you agree? Sunday Night Football Cowboys
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  will be ready, boys. Is NBC like I'll get that, don't
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  they? Good God, it's almost like
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  getting somebody new. They come back from their by
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  they'll host Cincinnati. Go to Arizona.
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  That could be the difference maker right there it.
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  Could be. But then the following week,
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  they got to go to Pittsburgh. Don't love it.
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  I don't love it. Not certainly at that price.
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  At six. They're not getting, they're not
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  getting through. Your next team listed, the third
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  betting choice is a team in their division.
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  It's the only other team with the West.
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  Vikings, they got to be. So what do the Vikings have?
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  What their schedule has to be? They're going to beat their kid.
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  There's the chance they get beat Sunday night, Trent.
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  I'm with you, I think, Atlanta. Certainly live them all they
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  want. After that, there's no way.
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  Home to Cincinnati, home to Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh at
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  Pittsburgh, that's across the pond.
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  Yep, you're back-to-back. Back across the pond.
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  Boy, they luck out. Across the pond.
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  Then they get the Eagles after that.
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  Well, how are they? The third betting choice.
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  All right, that that's interesting.
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  The Niners are next. They're 12 to one.
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  The Niners, Eagles, Chargers are all 12 to one.
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  The Steelers are 13 to one. Here's the Cardinals 15 to 1,
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  not the price we were hoping for, 15 to one.
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  Don't know if I can pull the trigger at that price.
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  No, I, I think, I think. You're gonna put that together
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  with like the the Phillies or something, aren't you?
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  Do they look like the team in the to win the World Series?
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  They look pretty good. They're they're destroying the
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  mess, but they're kicking the mat's ass.
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  No, Wheeler, I get it. But then those other guys are
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  stepping up big and they're hitting the ball.
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  They might be the team in the in the National League.
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  Boy, we're all over the place. Do we even take a breath before
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  the NFL in Major League Baseball?
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  Phillies look really good. Brewers look really good.
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  Dodgers don't look good. I don't care if they'd be
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  Colorado last night. They should.
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  Padres one step forward, one step back.
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  Giants aren't going away. Look where the Reds are.
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  They got an important start today.
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  I want to see what they get out of King.
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  King has been on the eye all, almost all season long if they
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  can, because he's a guy that's don't cease.
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  I don't want to say he's cooked. He's just, he's pretty cooked.
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  He's not very good right? Pavetta is fine.
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  I think his numbers are better than what he actually is.
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  I'd like to see his FIP in comparison to his ERA that is
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  South of three on the year. But if they can get Michael King
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  back at what we've seen from him in the past, where he can be a
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  front end rotation guy, you get that.
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  I think that changes the equation for the Padres.
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  Yeah, they're just not hitting the ball.
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  That's one of their problems right now.
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  We'll see where it goes. We'll see where it goes.
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  All right, a little quick hit on both of the needle movers, Iowa
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  State and Iowa. I guess the story of Iowa State
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  obviously trying to remain unbeaten, get through this
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  four-game stretch, having to do so on the road.
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  Jamie Pollard said something interesting.
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  Apparently I'm getting it second hand on the coaches show the
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  other night. Said that this would have been,
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  and I'm paraphrasing, 4 it would have cost Iowa State $4,000,000
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  to get out of this game. 4 million.
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  Does that seem right to you? That's the contract.
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  You got to pay, you got to buy out and then you got to buy in
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  because you're going to have to have somebody get Jack Trice.
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  But but 4 million? Really.
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  Well, we've seen that the cost of these games and certainly if
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  you're not bringing in an FCS team, and they already did with
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  South Dakota, if it's going to be another FBS team, it's
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  incredibly expensive. I mean it's north of $2,000,000
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  so and. Then your.
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  Buyout. Yeah, a million.
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  I mean, this has got to be a huge deal for Arkansas State
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  too, right? Got to be, yeah.
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  I mean, they got a Big 12 team coming to their building.
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  And unbeaten and ranked. This has got to be something
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  that certainly help sell season tickets and everything that
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  you're trying to do when you're building program like that, so.
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  You know what, I guess it probably would be well, you safe
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  travel, you safe hotel there. You said put those money, those
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  funds, but maybe $4 million is right.
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  When I when I, when I somebody said it to me, I said that seems
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  a little bit high, but maybe not maybe that that is the going.
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  Rate Going rate right now according to AI for a buy Game 1
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  1/2 to 2 million or more depending on what they're
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  paying. Ohio State last year paid over 4
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  million for their three buy games, about 1.3.
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  Michigan paid 1.85 million for their game against Fresno,
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  payouts between up to $1.9 million.
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  And I think there's been some north of that when things kind
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  of have to come together quickly in the end.
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  And that would be the case too right now if you would have made
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  this call last year or even within the last two years.
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  To find somebody to schedule. Because a lot of times those
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  teams also have to buy out of a game in order to make this
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  happen. So yeah, that number I don't
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  think is crazy. No, it's probably probably
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  right. Pollard's really good with
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  numbers, so got deferred to him, but I just kind of floored me
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  when I heard that. It seemed like a lot, but we
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  shall see. Talk to a little bit about
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  Arkansas State, get the run game going.
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  And I told you off air yesterday we were in a commercial break.
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  I was looking deeper at the Arkansas State numbers.
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  They're giving up 11.1 yards per rush.
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  Good God. 11.1 per carry, not per pass attempt.
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  Per carry. And they won a game this year,
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  didn't they? Aren't they one and one?
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  They got throttled by Arkansas. They got throttled by Arkansas
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  but I thought they won week 1. Might have.
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  Now who did they? Play.
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  Well, that's just it, right? Yeah.
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  Let me, I'll get it in front of me.
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  I thought they were one and one. They are one and one.
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  Yes. So who did they beat?
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  They got a win week one against Southeast Missouri State.
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  They got past Simo 4224 gave him 24.
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  And Simo ran the ball on him, apparently.
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  Well, they threw it a lot. Their quarterback threw for 272
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  in that game. They didn't run it a ton.
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  It was the Arkansas game that really added to that.
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  So So what what with the the fear factor going into this
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  game. It's their fourth game, it's
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  their final one. They're coming off an emotional
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  win against their in state rival Physical.
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  Game. Physical game it's.
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  Going to be hot. It's going to be 98° but August
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  was hot and humid here too, so it's not like the weather would
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  catch him off guard I wouldn't think.
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  What do you think is more likely in this game?
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  Iowa State does something similar to South Dakota.
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  They just run now, not at that same level, but they win it.
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  They. Throttle him, yeah. 41741 seven.
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  Just domination. Never, yeah, never a doubt.
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  Or well, they're up 10. It's and they're still hanging
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  around. It's. 2313 what's going on here?
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  You know, something like that. What's more likely?
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  I think the latter's more likely, and I'm not saying this
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  to be derogatory to I was Stan. I'm just saying it's because
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  this has been a pretty tough little slog, right?
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  It really has when you when you lay it all out and no buy
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  between Dublin and South Dakota and South Dakota was not
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  supposed to be a buy. They were supposed to be really
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  good and give them all that they wanted.
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  But on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if it if
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  they do find it with this Campbell He's got he's a hell of
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  a coach. He's a hell of a coach.
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  I mean, I don't like the way he does some of the stuff, but you
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  can't knock the results. No, absolutely you cannot knock
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  the results. I I think probably it's close.
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  The the answer is closer than you think.
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  And then you get to the bye because maybe you're looking a
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  little bit at the bye week at a time chance to lick their
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  wounds. We'll see.
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  I will say this about Iowa State and, and, and I don't know if
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  this guy does it. I guess where I'm going is in
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  what world is Iowa State the third best team in the country?
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  Tim Brando. I like Tim Brando.
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  I used to like Tim Brando. I don't really like him anymore.
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  He's he's one of those guys that, you know, it's probably
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  stayed a little too long to be on network TV like he is in big
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  spots. He misses a lot.
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  He does, but for him to his top, whatever was top 10, I hope we
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  hope I'm he's proven right. That'd be great for business.
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  But in the world, they're the number three team in the
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  country, are they? Well, it depends on the way that
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  you do rankings and everybody does them differently.
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  And when you look at the resume and what they've done, they've
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  done almost as much as anybody in the country.
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  Beating a preseason top 25 team in K State, beating your rival.
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  I'm going to come back and put that kind of performance that
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  they did against South Dakota. A how many teams have two wins
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  against Power Four teams right now?
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  All right, All right. I mean, if you're talking about
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  strictly resume, their resume, you can argue, I think pretty
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  easily that there you are have the third best resume.
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  And if that's how you're putting together your top 25, then
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  that's the case. It's the same thing if South
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  Florida pulls another major upset this weekend.
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  He doesn't have South Florida in, by the way.
• 18:04
  And they go down and they beat Miami, their third ranked win of
• 18:08
  the season, 2 of them on the road.
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  And where are they ranked right now, 18?
• 18:11
  18th yeah, if that happens, though if you do it by resume,
• 18:16
  not what you think's going to happen down the line, not what's
• 18:18
  going to happen if they play. You're in the here and now.
• 18:21
  If that's not the way I do it, but there are people that do it,
• 18:24
  where do you put South Florida? Can you make an argument?
• 18:28
  Hell, you should put him #1 because they've done more at
• 18:31
  that point than anybody else in the country you can.
• 18:34
  Also make the argument that Florida was way over ranked
• 18:36
  right and the case stayed and worth the darn.
• 18:38
  Right. Yeah.
• 18:39
  And you can go back the other direction and, well, they were
• 18:41
  right when we played them and then they finished five and
• 18:43
  seven. We had five ranked victories
• 18:46
  this year. Well, yeah, you did that.
• 18:48
  The year that Indiana was ranked in the preseason, Iowa State was
• 18:50
  ranked in the preseason. And Iowa was kind of using those
• 18:53
  as a batch of honor, although those teams turned out not to be
• 18:55
  very good that year compared to the preseason expectations.
• 18:58
  But the other way is at the time, that was many people
• 19:01
  thought a top ten team. And for every reason, the wheels
• 19:04
  fell. I mean, we can talk ourselves in
• 19:06
  circles, and that's what makes college football great.
• 19:08
  Yeah, and it certainly is all of that and a whole lot more.
• 19:11
  All right. From Iowa's perspective, what do
• 19:13
  you expect to see? 6, 30 Big 10 networks.
• 19:16
  Got it. Under the lights against how?
• 19:19
  Many empty seats will there be? How many?
• 19:22
  No shows will there be? Good question night game.
• 19:26
  I go back to a game very similar a couple years back, the game
• 19:30
  when they played Nevada. And what time there was that?
• 19:32
  Kick. It was a night game.
• 19:33
  OK, it was also the lightning delay game.
• 19:35
  Oh, that was the one that ended one in the morning, whatever it.
• 19:37
  Was the guy had his popcorn, the big bag of popcorn that was
• 19:40
  there from Kiddick that he just brought up to the stands, the
• 19:42
  guy had his. Dog the gates just let anybody
• 19:44
  in that. Why wouldn't you?
• 19:45
  I mean, yeah, there was thousands of you.
• 19:47
  Mean the support staff had to hit the road and go home, right?
• 19:49
  You guys go? Yeah, right.
• 19:50
  Don't need all that permar security anymore to to make this
• 19:53
  one work, but if that one there were a lot of empty pockets.
• 19:57
  My buddy, I didn't go to the game, he said out of our
• 19:59
  tailgate group and our our group of tickets.
• 20:01
  And how many do you have? 10. 10 tickets, yeah.
• 20:04
  And he said he tailgated for almost 2 hours by himself.
• 20:07
  Somebody else showed up. You're gonna sit there in his
• 20:10
  lawn chair, drinking a beer, looking at his phone, waiting.
• 20:12
  For you guys, when's? Everybody coming, anybody
• 20:15
  coming, it's the same thing this week, like we're not going to
• 20:18
  use all our tickets and I'm going to guess it's going to be
• 20:20
  something similar. Now you can spread out a little
• 20:23
  bit more. Yeah, there's with the Bleacher
• 20:25
  seating cons, Yeah. So it's not going to look empty
• 20:29
  by any way. The biggest thing, what's the
• 20:31
  student section going to look like?
• 20:33
  And by the second-half of the game.
• 20:35
  Even worse. What's that student section, if
• 20:37
  I would, does get out to 24? Nothing lead, You know, if it's
• 20:40
  the half, I mean, everybody's making their way to Brothers at
• 20:42
  that point, right? It's time to get to the bars
• 20:44
  wherever they're not. A Saturday night and let's get
• 20:46
  cooking because yeah, we could watch the second-half at the
• 20:50
  bar. Let's get moving.
• 20:51
  I watched the second-half at the Rose Bowl at the bar.
• 20:54
  You're nuts. Yeah, but I beat the traffic
• 20:57
  that you did. I mean, I saw the writing on the
• 20:59
  wall. Christian McCaffrey was
• 21:01
  embarrassing the poor ox. We were one of the last people
• 21:03
  to leave the. Room.
• 21:04
  Really. You really were.
• 21:06
  What were you doing? I don't know.
• 21:08
  I was well in EPA. You had Oh yeah, those, those
• 21:11
  $22.00 tours get to that game 7:30 because.
• 21:15
  It kicked off of what, 2:30 or 22 Pacific?
• 21:19
  Time, yes, yeah, 7:30, probably something like that.
• 21:23
  So you were well oiled by the time?
• 21:25
  Oh yeah. Yes.
• 21:27
  And looking around and it was dark and there wasn't any
• 21:29
  lighting out there in the parking lot.
• 21:31
  But just seeing that thing for the first time, it it just, it
• 21:34
  just blew me away. It felt small.
• 21:37
  That was my biggest thing really.
• 21:38
  It felt small just because it's a big bowl.
• 21:41
  It's a huge bowl. And it doesn't.
• 21:44
  Of 100,000 plus it's the. Same thing as the Big House.
• 21:48
  I told you my first time there. You walk in and I remember
• 21:52
  walking into the Big House for the first time and thinking it's
• 21:55
  kind of like Kinnick it it doesn't.
• 21:57
  And we got down to our seats and the Iowa section was way down,
• 21:59
  like we were in the third row, something like that.
• 22:01
  And then you look back up. Oh yeah, the 6th is a lot
• 22:04
  bigger. And you had to go all the way
• 22:06
  back. Oh yeah.
• 22:08
  One deck to get in through P. Those are the best.
• 22:13
  I miss the old troughs they're doing away with.
• 22:15
  They are, sadly. Oh, it's worth the days,
• 22:18
  absolutely. We'll take a time out at least.
• 22:20
  Sterling's going to join us. He's going to a pine on a
• 22:22
  handful of games that will take place this weekend.
• 22:26
  Do you have an opinion tonight? I would lean Green Bay.
• 22:30
  I do. Too.
• 22:31
  But at the same time, I think Washington's a really good
• 22:33
  football. Team I wasn't overly I.
• 22:36
  Didn't see any of it. See, and I watched quite a bit,
• 22:38
  It was on red zone a ton because the Giants were inside the five
• 22:41
  yard line it felt like for about 1/2 hour really.
• 22:43
  So it was on red zone a bunch and maybe that was the reason I
• 22:47
  just wasn't overly impressed by Washington I guess in that game.
• 22:50
  And that was my take away. Are the were the Giants better
• 22:53
  than you thought? Is that?
• 22:54
  Part of it a touch, yeah. Even with Wilson, yeah.
• 22:59
  I don't. Again, I don't have the same
• 23:01
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  I mean, the first play I'm like really the first play are DB on
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  things up with a huge match up. Notre Dame trying to avoid an O
• 24:47
  and two start as they welcome in Texas A&M.
• 24:50
  We saw this a week a year ago in Week 1.
• 24:52
  Here it is again. The Irish currently A7 point
• 24:55
  favorite. Yeah, and, and I went back and
• 24:59
  watched the tape and I'm really impressed with Notre Dame.
• 25:02
  They they got the job done. Seems like all the way down the
• 25:07
  stretch last year just fell a little short to Ohio State.
• 25:10
  Faced a really good Miami team and Miami played well and they
• 25:14
  held Miami to 3.5 yards per carry, which is impressive.
• 25:18
  I think we're going to look back and say that might end up being
• 25:21
  the best defense that anyone's played against Miami.
• 25:24
  Miami has a top five offensive line in my opinion.
• 25:27
  Top ten, top 15 stable running backs and what helps Also the
• 25:32
  Irish here, they're off of a bye.
• 25:34
  This is a must win game. They're going to prepare for
• 25:38
  this game, They're going to work on their pass rush and they're
• 25:42
  staying in the lanes because Marcel Reed loves to run back.
• 25:46
  He's the leading rusher. They're 2 running backs.
• 25:49
  Le'veon Moss and Ruben Owens have only accounted for 164
• 25:54
  total yards versus inferior opponents.
• 25:56
  So unless A&M is hiding something, holding back on a
• 26:00
  bunch, I think they're going to have a rough, rough outing here.
• 26:03
  CJ Car for Notre Dame first year starter quarterback look really
• 26:08
  impressive in the Miami game and read last year against top
• 26:13
  defenses 2 times that he played against them.
• 26:15
  Texas and South Carolina wasn't very good with that extra week
• 26:19
  to prepare. Must win game.
• 26:20
  I like Notre Dame here. They're not going to miss many
• 26:22
  tackles. Notre Dame 30 to 17.
• 26:25
  Well, it's kind of a must win game for Iowa.
• 26:27
  They should mean it's it's UMass who got beat by Bryant and it's
• 26:32
  it's 5 touchdowns Lee. It's a huge number 30.
• 26:35
  What do you do here? The Bryant, someone asked me, do
• 26:40
  you know who Brian is the head coach of?
• 26:42
  Bryant was head coach of Columbus couple years ago, went
• 26:45
  straight from high school all the way to Division One
• 26:49
  football, actually FCS, but they do play a lot of Division One
• 26:54
  opponents. I think that that UMass is so
• 27:00
  bad. I mean, you watch some of these
• 27:02
  teams, they got to think at some point about maybe dropping
• 27:06
  football. I mean, there's no crowd there
• 27:09
  when they're down here. I see them recruiting.
• 27:12
  They're only recruiting really one and sometimes two stars.
• 27:15
  They kind of know where their place is and you know, Iowa,
• 27:20
  they just can't score against top level competition.
• 27:25
  The defense, I think they'll come up with at least one, maybe
• 27:29
  two or three turnovers and if they do that, we'll have some
• 27:32
  short fields or their special teams have been fine.
• 27:35
  They just can't get over the hump and beat these top level
• 27:38
  teams. So sometimes you got to lay it
• 27:41
  if you want to play it. I'm taking Iowa here.
• 27:42
  I think they win this game here 47 seven.
• 27:44
  Going with the Hawkeyes in that one.
• 27:46
  Let's continue in state, Iowa State, this time on the road
• 27:49
  going down to Jonesboro, AR to take on the Red Wolves.
• 27:53
  Big number here, 21 for the Cyclones.
• 27:57
  I don't remember the name of the restaurant, but I think there's
• 28:00
  a really good BBQ restaurant in Jonesboro.
• 28:05
  Someone that remembers it, put it out there for everyone who's
• 28:08
  going down for the game. If I remember, I have a friend,
• 28:10
  good friend who went with me. I'm going to text him.
• 28:12
  He'll remember and I'll put it out.
• 28:14
  Do you want to stop this place? One of the top five BBQ
• 28:16
  restaurants you want to fill up because Arkansas State.
• 28:22
  I just don't see them being much better than last year.
• 28:24
  Last year Iowa State was 20 1/2 point favorite.
• 28:27
  They won 52 to 7. They ran for 237 yards.
• 28:31
  They led 31, nothing and a half. They may not lead 31 nothing at
• 28:35
  the half here, but I can't see him competing a whole lot.
• 28:39
  Iowa State by next week. So it's not like they're
• 28:43
  playing, you know, a conference opponent that's a top tier
• 28:46
  opponent they're not going to be looking at even after that.
• 28:49
  They got Arizona. So I think they're going to roll
• 28:52
  here. Arkansas State did not look good
• 28:55
  against Arkansas lost 5614. And I think Iowa State is more
• 28:59
  complete and maybe not more explosive, but they'll get the
• 29:03
  job done. By the end of the game.
• 29:05
  They should be able to to get a couple easy short field
• 29:08
  touchdowns here. They'll beat them up physically.
• 29:11
  Iowa State, 4814. Q 49 Southern BBQ Hilltop.
• 29:16
  Either of those two. No, no.
• 29:18
  Blue Ember Smokehouse. One of those.
• 29:20
  All right, those are the three that pop up.
• 29:22
  Alright, let's go to the pros. The third Blue Blue Blue Ember,
• 29:26
  Smokehouse, Southern BBQ, Hilltop and Q49.
• 29:31
  Those were 1/2. Three.
• 29:32
  That might be it. That might be it all.
• 29:34
  Right, Q49 was #1 Anyways, I'm I'm I'm wondering if we're going
• 29:38
  to get a wrong team favorite coming up here, so I'm anxious
• 29:41
  to hear the Broncos are on the road to take on the Colts.
• 29:45
  Bonex and company licking their wound.
• 29:47
  Bonex was brutal with a capital B, but there's still favoured 2
• 29:51
  1/2 over the Colts. Lay your thoughts.
• 29:54
  I can't remember I think it's been since like 2007.
• 29:57
  I have to check where a team was out the turnover was was was
• 30:06
  doom queers 4 or more that they won the game SO4 turnovers?
• 30:11
  It was. It was painful to watch.
• 30:13
  They were just not In Sync. They didn't even hit on big
• 30:17
  plays. 4.4 yards per attempt for for Bonex last year they
• 30:21
  averaged 6.7. Daniel Jones was great last week
• 30:26
  but they're playing the Dolphins.
• 30:28
  Dolphins have. I don't think the Dolphins have
• 30:30
  a cornerback that would make any other teams roster.
• 30:32
  They are that bad. And Denver here, they tried to
• 30:37
  give away the game, even went for 4th and one or fourth and
• 30:39
  two on their own 47 in the fourth quarter.
• 30:42
  So they did everything. The defense is that good.
• 30:45
  I think it's the top three, top 4 defense.
• 30:47
  Tennessee, they just weren't sustaining long drives.
• 30:51
  I think Denver, something special is going on there.
• 30:54
  I think they've got a shot to win this division.
• 30:57
  I'm going to lay the small spot here.
• 30:58
  I think the right team is favored.
• 31:00
  I like Denver here 2317. Going with the Broncos and we
• 31:04
  finish up with your Super Bowl Bowl rematch.
• 31:07
  The Eagles favored by one in Casey.
• 31:11
  So Casey's going to have to do it without Worthy.
• 31:15
  They're going to have to do it with Rashid Rice.
• 31:19
  They only had, I think it was 23 minutes of of of possession time
• 31:25
  and 226 yards. And that Super Bowl, I do think
• 31:28
  at home they'll play better. They did slow down Barkley.
• 31:33
  He was held to 2.3 yards per carry on his 25 carries.
• 31:37
  But the Eagles were still run heavy and I think that they have
• 31:41
  trouble accounting for a scrambling quarterback here.
• 31:44
  And I know Philadelphia lost 5 starters on the defense, didn't
• 31:48
  look great against Dallas, but how do you stop this offense?
• 31:53
  I think Kansas City is just there's something different this
• 31:56
  year. Unless Patrick Mahomes has a
• 31:58
  career game, throws a bunch to his tight ends and they get some
• 32:03
  kind of running game, which we haven't seen yet, I think
• 32:06
  they're in trouble here. Philadelphia has the right side
• 32:09
  here again, 2420. And Jalen Carter should be
• 32:11
  available the entire game. Here we go, Lee.
• 32:14
  It's your game of the week. It's Wisconsin.
• 32:16
  It's Alabama. SEC Big 10.
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  Alabama's just under the three touchdown favorite of the
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  Just call 800-400-9741. We're going to give them
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  You know what, I also love the game tonight, Green Bay in
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  Saturday and Sunday mornings. Dave Trent and Ken, me a couple.
• 33:48
  From my perspective, I picked this team, your team to finish
• 33:50
  fourth in the division. I just wasn't, I just didn't.
• 33:54
  I couldn't wrap my my arms around them.
• 33:57
  But man, oh man, I sure look like I was going to be wrong on
• 34:00
  this one. They looked unbelievable in Week
• 34:02
  1 and and Michael Parsons, I just guessed the threat of him
• 34:06
  coming onto the field. Maybe had Jared Goff seeing some
• 34:09
  ghosts, who knows, But boy were they ever good in week #1 Dave
• 34:13
  Sinican. Can you do remember the bears
• 34:16
  are in the north, correct? Yeah, yeah.
• 34:19
  I have no pushback. Fairpoint.
• 34:22
  Yeah, no, I obviously was higher on this team than you were, and
• 34:26
  most people were as well. There was so much to be curious
• 34:30
  about, though, especially with the Lions coming to town.
• 34:32
  And the big question Green Bay needs to answer this year is can
• 34:35
  they hang with the elite team. A year ago, you all know they
• 34:38
  went O and six against the Lions, Eagles and Vikings.
• 34:41
  And the statement has to be, you know, we've made native step.
• 34:45
  We can compete or beat those teams that had our number a year
• 34:48
  ago. And I think Green Bay showed
• 34:50
  everybody that this team's identity.
• 34:53
  I think is going to be its. Defense.
• 34:55
  I believe in Year 2 of Jeff Haffman's team.
• 34:58
  He understands what his players can do with the players,
• 35:00
  understand what they want him to do, and what the personnel has
• 35:03
  really turned into is what Green Bay has hoped for and fans have
• 35:07
  hoped for for so long. A fast, physical, aggressive
• 35:10
  defense. That's not what we've been
• 35:12
  accustomed to in years past. Michael Parsons was kind of the
• 35:15
  maraschino cherry, but we saw with Edger and Cooper coming on
• 35:18
  late last year, Xavier Mckinney's impact on some of
• 35:22
  those young lineman, that there was a chance for this defense to
• 35:24
  take a big step. And obviously they made a really
• 35:27
  big statement in Week 1. Speaking of statements,
• 35:30
  Washington ran the ball incredibly effectively against a
• 35:33
  Giants defense that I think has some pieces.
• 35:35
  They ran for 2:20. I mean, it's got to start right
• 35:37
  there, right? Winning up front and certainly
• 35:39
  winning and slowing down that run game for Green Bay.
• 35:42
  That's got to be a key to this one.
• 35:43
  It was getting pressure against golf in a week.
• 35:45
  What a little bit different this week and Week 2.
• 35:48
  Yeah, I think that's exactly it, Trent, because Green Bay's run
• 35:51
  defense was beyond outstanding last week to hold Gibbs and
• 35:55
  Montgomery to 2.1 yards per carry.
• 35:57
  You say, well, is that the defense or is that the mushy
• 36:00
  interior, that offensive line that's relying on rookies and
• 36:03
  inexperienced players? It's a far different line than
• 36:06
  what we're accustomed to. So it's probably a bit from both
• 36:08
  parts. But yeah, we'll get a much
• 36:10
  better sense. You know, Washington wants to
• 36:12
  run the ball effectively in Green Bay against that defense,
• 36:16
  that crowd and not whatever sitting on Jaden Daniels play.
• 36:19
  So we're going to learn a lot more about the screen day run
• 36:22
  defense tonight. I think whether it's the rookie
• 36:25
  bill, whether it's Daniels, you know, when he's forced out of
• 36:28
  the pocket, just what gives me hope as a Packer fan is the
• 36:32
  speed that Walker and Cooper bring to that second level.
• 36:35
  It's just something green based defense has not had and the back
• 36:39
  end the secondary. Evan Williams was the highest
• 36:42
  rated defensive player in week 1.
• 36:44
  He got the interception, but he has become a just a terrific
• 36:48
  safety that that safety duo is among the best in the league.
• 36:51
  So yeah, I think stopping the run is priority number one.
• 36:54
  And to see if Micah can add to the 4 1/2 sacks he got off of
• 36:58
  Jaden Daniels last year. Well, what?
• 37:01
  So what do we expect from him tonight?
• 37:02
  Heavier workload for Parsons? Just what, four days later since
• 37:06
  following his debut? My sense is you're going to see
• 37:09
  similar this week, similar next week against Cleveland and then
• 37:14
  all systems go Week 4 Sunday night in Dallas.
• 37:16
  I think they have to be careful. The back still hasn't listed as
• 37:19
  questionable. So 4050 he'll be, you know,
• 37:23
  pushing to play more, but about half the snaps is what I expect
• 37:26
  from Parsons tonight. Debo was kind of a revelation
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  for what Washington did. Any concerns against him or does
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  the speed of the Green Bay defense make you excited that
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  Debo maybe not as big? How about this Debo or Mclaurin
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  who concerns you more? Yeah, it's a good question.
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  I still think Mclaurins ramping up after missing most of
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  training camp. I don't really fear him Week 2.
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  You know, Debo, if this was Green Bay's defense three years
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  ago, he would terrify me. I wouldn't have slept well last
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  night at this advanced age. They'll get a great Week 1.
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  But this is a different. Back end that he's facing and I
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  just think the linebackers can keep up.
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  They'll have some package plays and I'm sure he'll run the ball
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  and and all that. But I I'm not terrified by
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  either one. It's Jaden Daniels who terrifies
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  me. He just has a sense of making
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  the magical play what he needs to.
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  And so the Daniels magic is what I'm what I'm most concerned
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  about. Lucas Van Ness apparently had a
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  phenomenal game week #1 it looks like he's fully arrived now.
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  What can? What do you expect from Van Ness
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  going forward? And was it as good as I've read
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  that it was in your mind? Yeah, You know, they talked
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  about ball training camp, how they looked like he had taken a
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  major step and he was the real key to this defense because they
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  needed a second pass rusher opposite Gary.
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  Obviously with Parsons arrival, it takes the pressure off of
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  Lucas Van Ness a bit. They can move him around because
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  he's big enough where he can really move inside on passing
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  downs. And and that's the new Cheetah
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  package they're talking about where Parsons, Gary and Van Ness
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  are all in the field together. He's got some tricks up his
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  sleeve. He's learning now for Micah
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  Parsons. I do think this guy's the limit.
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  I think Van Ness is going to emerge as a key member of this
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  defense as the season goes along.
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  Musics playing zonecoverage.com. Your preview is not up, at least
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  it wasn't earlier. How do you have the game
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  tonight, Dave? Yep, it should be posted,
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  hopefully soon. I posted a couple hours ago.
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  I wrote it. I've got the pack winning at
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  2317 tonight. Maybe a late, late win for Green
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  Bay. Good stuff.
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  We'll talk to you next week. Thank you, Dave Sinican.
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  Have a good week. Enjoy the game.
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