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Eagles sneak past Dallas, CyHawk thoughts, Eugene Rapay talks Cyclones & Mike Palm on sports wagering from Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, on a Football Friday, welcome to Miller and Condon,
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  the Iowa Sports Radio Network, Iowa based programming for the
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  next 6 hours. Thanks for starting it off with
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  myself, Ken Miller and my partner Trent Condon.
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  We will talk sports with you, mostly football right up until
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  2:00 here today. Then we'll turn things over off
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  the bench. Sean and Lucas believe they're
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  on location here today at Hy Vee, out on Urbandale, Hy Vee
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  for their show. But we will be here and we will
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  talk football. Here's who we'll talk with
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  coming up in about 20 minutes. Eugene repay, he covers Iowa
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  State for the Des Moines Register.
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  We will talk to Eugene, get his thoughts, what he expects to
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  see, maybe some of the games, keys to the game from Eugene
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  when he joins us. Then we'll head off to Las
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  Vegas, catch up with the vice president of operations at Circa
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  Sports, Mike Palm. He's an Iowa native, born,
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  raised in Dubuque. He'll join us the latest on
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  their three contests, what they saw last night from the betting
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  perspective and what perhaps we can see.
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  And of course, we're going to pay a lot of attention to the
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  betting splits on Cyhawk. And we'll get that from Mike
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  Palm coming up here at 12:40. Bama, Bob Trent and I will break
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  down perhaps the worst week of college football in the history
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  of the sport. And I'm not being, I'm not being
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  facetious. There's been bad weeks.
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  Well, this, this is, I mean, I put this up again.
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  Now remove CYHAWK. Yes.
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  Oklahoma, Michigan. OK, one, go ahead, go, go ahead.
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  Michigan State. Boston College.
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  You reach and. Do it that that doesn't do it
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  for you. Look at we.
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  Yeah. It's good to do it because I put
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  it on our list to talk to Bama. That's how bad it is.
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  You can Syracuse. There's a needle mover, you
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  know, Bama sent a texture in the show yesterday and you know just
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  how bad it was. And I guess I didn't realize
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  until I was trying to take a look at some of the marquee
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  games of the week. But here's the here's the good
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  news. When we've had bad ones before,
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  we come back on Monday every single year saying, my God, what
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  a great week. Something always happens.
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  Absolutely something always happens.
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  And hopefully it'll be in the game that kicks them off
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  tomorrow at 11:00. It's a Jack Trice stadium.
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  I don't care either way. Just entertain us for overtimes.
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  That would work again, but we'll see where it goes.
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  Tom Cakehart, he's going to be in his car making his way to
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  central Iowa and he'll join us at 1:30.
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  We will talk Hawks with Tom Cakehart, our final guest of the
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  week. Trent and I will make our picks
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  for our head to head contest and our contest against Sean and
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  Lucas. We to pick five games we can 2
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  college, 2 pro and a best bet. Do you like the Slate bet from a
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  betting perspective this week? I do.
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  Next week in the NFL will be my favorite week to bet.
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  That is overreaction week, where basically everything goes the
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  other way. I have a handful of games, but
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  you know, I'm in the the college contest with the Super book and
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  with a bunch of buddies. How many?
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  People ended up entering that car 'cause I just disappointed
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  in the number I remember. Well, just over 1000, there were
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  people that thought Miami was going to be 8 or 900.
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  So that was kind of the speculation when we were out
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  there is it wasn't going to reach 1000.
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  It went over that. But I think about 1200 was the
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  final number that are entered into it.
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  Now you have to finish top 10 for the full season to be in
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  there and we're not off to a good start, but we got five
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  guys. Everybody threw in 100 bucks and
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  trying to get then those final two games because everybody gets
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  one pick and then those last two then it's.
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  Community choice did you have? Anything a lean and one guy he's
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  dead paid wants Michigan State and two of us their.
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  Number they're. Three 3 1/2 something in that
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  range over BC. There's just getting those final
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  2 picks when he do that. And you've been doing this for
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  years with your circa million selections because you play with
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  the group. Does it ever get divisive?
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  No, they just let me pick them. It gets to that, huh?
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  It just lets let Ken do. It and I really don't want to,
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  right? Yes.
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  The pressure, yes, that goes into it, yeah, when you get down
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  to that. In fact, it happened this
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  weekend because there was dispute for Monday night Bears,
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  Vikings and a couple of the guys didn't want to do Monday Night
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  Football because the division. So they put it on me and I came
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  up with and I'm not, I'm not real proud of it.
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  Cincinnati over Cleveland. Oh, Cincinnati early season.
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  I know, and I think you like Cleveland and Cincinnati.
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  Early season's been a dead set bet against since Zach Taylor
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  got there. So we'll see.
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  The Iowa, Iowa State line, it is now 3 1/2 everywhere.
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  This time yesterday it was 3. Maybe.
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  I think maybe DraftKings was 3 1/2 and Circa, but now
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  everybody's 3 1/2 across the board.
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  Totals anywhere from 42 to 43. Oh, there is a 41 out there
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  that's offshore anyways. So let's go back to last night
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  from what we saw. OK.
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  Dallas better than we thought. Philadelphia worse than we
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  thought. Little of both.
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  Well when you start the game you lose 2 guys off your roster.
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  I mean, you know, before the ball snapped.
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  What? What incredible start.
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  I feel awful for the special teams kid.
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  The kid was going to be the full back #43 I don't know who it is,
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  I don't know his name, but the first play of the year, you run
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  down and it was non contact. You could see him grabbing his
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  knee. Yeah, he reached for the guy to,
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  you know, the guy that was blocking him, but he just, that
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  wasn't what caused the injury. It was just a complete fluke.
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  And then Spit Gate looks really bad.
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  And then you look later on in the night and they find the
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  second spinner and maybe it's not quite as bad as we thought,
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  that there was a spit that preceded the spit that got the
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  ejection. And Jalen Carter, Dak Prescott
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  got away with one. It's always the second guy,
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  always the second guy. And they got the second guy.
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  Look, I I was just not surprised by how many Bears fans
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  immediately went to Twitter. I see.
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  I know there's a reason we didn't drive.
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  Jalen Carter's the best at his position.
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  In the league, but he's also a knucklehead.
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  He is, but there's a whole league full of knuckleheads.
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  Sure. I would want this guy on my team
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  every single day that ends in Y. He is a difference maker and he
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  is a knucklehead. And he does have the Georgia
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  baggage. I mean, he killed a guy.
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  Yeah, right. I mean, he killed a guy.
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  He also, and this is what I bring up often with you when you
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  start crying about Josh Allen. It's also about situation.
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  And we're not sure if Carter went to a different situation
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  that didn't have the Fed veteran leadership, also had Georgia
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  players, people that knew him. The wrong branded Graham that
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  was able to take one of those those type of guys.
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  The wrong situation for the wrong type of personality, and
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  that bears organization. It's awful.
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  Was is is until they prove it is, until it changes, is
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  ineptitude for 40 years, Yeah. He's a hell of a player.
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  Yes, but it's not just about talent.
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  It's also about fit. It's also about the right
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  coaching, the right people, the right mentors, all those
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  different things. That's why I go back to Josh
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  Allen. There's no guarantee.
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  Look, he was bad as a rookie and there's no guarantee he turns
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  into the Josh Allen today without what he had, the
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  tutelage, everything that went into it.
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  And it's the same thing here. Jalen Carter, Chicago, hell, he
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  could be out of the league. I mean he, he.
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  Well, he wouldn't be out of the league.
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  I mean, if somebody give a. Chance, that kind of
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  personality, those kind of decisions he's made in the past,
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  there's no guarantees there. He could be.
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  He could be locked up, he'd mention.
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  It the league's full of a bunch of a holes.
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  There are, there are, but all those guys, not all of them make
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  it. That's what I get into when you
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  bring up those kind of. Things Jalen Carter's he's an
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  all pro. He has, yeah.
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  It's it's not a talent. It's never a talent.
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  It is situationally. The Eagles were a great Who did
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  you draft? I remember can I do you want
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  some help? Yeah, yeah.
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  What's that Justin fields here? Oh God, yeah, you tried to sell
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  me on that. One.
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  Well, who would you rather have? That's easy.
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  So I win, let's move on, let's get back to the game itself.
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  Cowboys could have won the game, Trent.
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  Oh absolutely if it would have. Should have won the game. 3
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  drops. 4/4 Yeah, three in the final couple minutes.
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  Miles Sanders coughs it up and where The seven yard line?
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  They're going going in. I think there's two things to
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  take away. The Cowboys are gonna be OK.
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  They're gonna be. OK, playoff.
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  OK. Yeah, OK.
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  I'm. 899 and eight break here or there, one way or the end, but
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  yeah, they're gonna be. Precipice, everything goes their
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  way. Maybe they get a seven seed.
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  Six seed? Yep, I agree.
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  They're gonna be OK. The Eagles last night, that game
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  plan, I mean, you talk about Kirk Ference, vanilla ice cream.
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  That was boring football. And maybe they just believed
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  that they could play that way, but there was not a whole lot
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  into it. It's.
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  A good thing Jill and her showed up.
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  Absolutely. In a divisional game, where was
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  A.J. Brown?
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  Did he show up? Did he?
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  He had to catch late. He did.
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  Yes, the when they threw it on 2nd down to salt the game away
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  and they got to 3rd and 1. He was the guy that caught that
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  ball. That was it.
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  It was a weird game plan. I thought maybe they were just
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  surprised that Dallas was hanging with them.
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  But it was a very boring game plan.
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  There just wasn't a whole lot into it.
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  Was that by design? I don't know.
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  Or do we go back and there's some shuffling of faces?
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  The defense in Pack Field certainly has questions back
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  there. If this Eagles team were
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  talented but remember went wrong a couple years ago.
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  I don't know. It just looked odd to me
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  watching them last night. And I'm anxious to see where
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  they go, both of these teams. Eagles look as, I mean, it's
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  Week 1. But did the Eagles look as
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  daunting as they did throughout the regular season last year?
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  They lost a lot of guys on that defensive line, as I think
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  Collinsworth pointed it out at some point during broadcast last
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  night. Lot of guys gone, couple moved
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  on. Gray moved on to, you know, he's
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  retired. They still got Barkley,
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  obviously, they still got really good receivers.
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  The offensive line is really good kickers.
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  Back to being what he thought he thought he was early in his
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  career. What's the weakness on this
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  team? There isn't anything.
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  I wish I had more Philadelphia NFC tickets.
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  That was my biggest take away. I think they're legit.
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  I do. Button up in the second-half.
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  I don't I I guess we're on other sides.
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  I also do have some Philly stuff in My Portfolio, but I wasn't
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  impressed by Philadelphia. You weren't No, I didn't think
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  Oh yeah, this is the best team in the NFC far and away clear
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  cut. I didn't see that.
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  So if you think that you gotta believe more in this Dallas team
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  then right? I do believe more than the I do
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  like. That was one of my takeaways.
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  CD Lamb is not going to be that. Bad.
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  No, Absolutely. He's going to catch those balls
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  more times than not Javonte Williams looked like the the
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  running back that Denver thought he was going to be when they
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  drafted him. Where was that for crying out
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  loud? God, dude ran hard.
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  We'll see. Fun game, fun way to lift the
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  curtain on the NFL season. I'm guessing it did a massive
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  number with the with those two teams and.
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  The delay might hurt. Yeah, that's true, Trent.
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  That's a, that's a very good point.
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  I think it probably hurt more in the Eastern Time zone because
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  it's getting a little late. But you know, we'll, we'll see
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  where it goes. Yeah, I was here doing work in
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  you. Really.
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  You were. What to what time were you here,
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  130? Good God, yeah, you do a lot of
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  those shifts. I I do, yeah.
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  That's when I get my work done. Everybody's sleeping and I get
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  my stuff done. Is there anybody in the
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  building? Sometimes there's cleaners.
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  Yeah. What?
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  Didn't see anybody last night. Sometimes maybe there'll be
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  somebody at WHL, but rarely. But.
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  Usually you got to, if you bump it, you got to scare that person
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  because they're used to this building being them alone.
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  Oh. Absolutely.
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  So I'm pulling out of the parking lot at 1:26 or something
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  like that, and there's a cop car circle around.
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  All of a sudden their headlights go on.
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  Like those top headlights, the floodlights.
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  Yeah, I'm like for you, hands up.
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  I don't know. It wasn't it.
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  I don't think it was me at least.
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  But yeah, they whipped around in the parking lot across from
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  here, didn't come after me or. Anything where where they they
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  parked for the school. Yeah, just a little bit further
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  down there. Yeah, where the school was.
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  Yeah. Like maybe a little nervous.
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  I'm like, well, I got nothing to be worried about over here, I'm
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  just working, but would have an oddity when you're traveling
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  around early in the morning, as I was last night.
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  I was also getting ready for Cyhawk.
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  And. All week long.
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  Yep. We've been laying out Iowa State
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  advantages. We both like Iowa State.
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  No, I but I was going to win the game.
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  But you think I was going to win.
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  The I do like Iowa State, but I think I was going to win the
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  game. Is it just because of this game
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  the way that it is? Yes.
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  Everybody goes one way, you go the other.
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  Last year, there's so many examples we can play this game.
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  Iowa looked like garbage against.
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  Albany and when teams look like awful before the side hawk game
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  and almost every single time goes away.
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  Is it Gronowski? Is it the run game is it just
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  defensive? What is it about Iowa, though,
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  that really pushes it over the edge for you?
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  What is the? It's the game.
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  It's nothing about Iowa. It's the game, yes.
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  Just how? Iowa State looks like they're
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  going to crush Iowa based on the two weeks I've seen the Clones
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  and the one week I've seen the Hawks.
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  They they played Albany as a what, 30?
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  How much point favorite were they?
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  And they, they look bad. They can run the ball, but you
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  should push that defensive line around.
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  If you're a Hawkeye defensive line, you should offensive line,
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  you should push them around. You should win the trenches.
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  And they did handily. I was going to win the game.
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  I was going to win the game. They can win up front on both
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  sides. Outside of Dom Orange, that
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  defensive line has been disappointing.
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  Well. And they have one sack.
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  Yeah, but that's not what they do.
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  That's right. I know they sit in coverage last
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  year. Here's the thing that I look at,
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  you look at the final numbers for Caleb Johnson, they're
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  outstanding. But you're not going to take
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  away the big runs. But it was a lot of feast or
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  famine, right? It was those huge runs, those
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  304050 yarders and then a loss of 1, 2nd and 9 after he picks
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  up a yard. Have to stay away from those.
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  Get into the six second and six, get into the second and four get
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  into those because Iowa, we just know they can't play behind the
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  sticks and I think that hurt them certainly in the
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  second-half is it wasn't Caleb Johnson because he still made
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  big plays even in the second-half of the game.
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  It was those yardage plays that were going the wrong way.
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  Iowa has to stay away from that and with that offensive line, I
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  think they should be able to. Iowa State started crashing on
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  the edges last year. They're probably going to do
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  that again. I was going to have to bounce it
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  outside. And does that lead to more
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  Xavier Williams or is this a troll Washington game?
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  We know he's of the group. He's definitely the speedster
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  out there out there. If they make the decision to go
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  with him a little bit more and try to get him on the edge.
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  The other thing, Iowa State special teams are improved.
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  I was still has an edge. There they do, and they might
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  have a bigger edge because there's a bunch of rumors out
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  there that Florida's not going to.
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  Our Flora is not going to be able to answer the bell.
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  Went a little gimpy before he got hit out of bounds on that
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  second hamster. Yeah, that changed.
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  And there's no injury report, so we will just be forced to
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  speculate. Townsend, though he's good,
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  return. That would be the guy.
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  Yes. And he's shown that wiggle that
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  we've talked about. I think Iowa has to win special
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  teams, don't have to dump, win special teams.
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  Granowski obviously has to be better.
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  Yep, and dominate both lines. And that's not a stretch at all.
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  No, Iowa State's not the 85 Bears.
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  Nope, that's not what this team is.
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  They're good. They played really well.
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  Is it and I was best interest to come from behind because I don't
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  think you want to leave Rocco Bect anytime on the board with
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  work to do because he usually does it.
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  Would you rather sign up for being up a couple or down a
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  couple? I think up a couple.
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  If you're the Hawks or. Down a couple and have to come
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  back and kick that field goal to win it.
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  You feel good about your Stevens, too.
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  You do absolutely do. Oh my God, this game, this I, I
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  just absolutely love it. I truly do.
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  And we'll see where it goes. I think Iowa State should win
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  the game, but I don't think they will.
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  That's how I see it. We'll take a time out.
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  We'll come back. We will hear from Eugene Repay
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  who covers Iowa State, Look forward to him joining us and he
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  will do so. On the other side, Mike Palm,
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  the from the vice president of operations at Circa.
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  Their contest closes up shop tomorrow.
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  There are over 17,000 entries in Survivor.
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  What are they, 59 in grandissimo, something like
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  that. They hope to get 15 when they
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  first came up with the idea. They're at 59 and I think
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  counting and they might get to 70 because as we talked when it
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  first was announced, when Palm was on with us, we all agreed
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  that if you're going to enter grandissimo, you're not going to
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  do so until last weekend. Absolutely.
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  Keep $100,000 in your own bank account, Right, Eugene?
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  Repay next. Miller and Condon underway on a
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  football Friday. Thanks for being with us on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Millory Condon, welcome
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  back. Coming up on 12/25 Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network, wherever you're listening in the state of Iowa,
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  we are grateful that you are. We'll take you until 2 and then
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  off the bench, Sean and Lucas until 5.
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  Let's get Eugene repay covers the Cyclones for
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  desmoinesregister.com. Eugene, Trent and Ken, thank you
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  for coming on. PSY Hawk now 22 1/2 hours away
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  and the ball will be in the air and promises to be a day very
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  similar weather wise to this. How are you, Eugene?
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  I'm great, I'm great. I'm pumped for tomorrow, big new
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  and kick off. We'll be on the national
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  platform as well, so it'll be a big day for for the Seahawks
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  series. No question about it, and it
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  seems like it always is. It's a coin flip game.
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  Regardless of what's happened to these two schools in their games
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  leading up to this one. When it when it comes to the
• 17:29
  cyclones and just rock go back to what he's been able to do so
• 17:32
  far this year. He's been near perfect right.
• 17:35
  He's off to a terrific start and needs to be tomorrow.
• 17:39
  What's the key? Do you think that the he'll have
• 17:41
  to throw the ball for Iowa State to run, knowing that seemingly
• 17:46
  the Hawks will be able to at least limit the ground game for
• 17:49
  Iowa State? Yeah, He might not necessarily
• 17:52
  need to replicate that 95% single game completion record,
• 17:56
  but I think Ronkelbeck will definitely be an X Factor in
• 17:59
  this game. Just with the way that Iowa's
• 18:01
  defenses and just the way that they bring it stopping the run
• 18:05
  and and whatever it may be, Rocco Beck is going to have to
• 18:08
  be pretty good. He's going to have to be pretty
• 18:10
  good tomorrow. But I feel like his coach Gene,
• 18:12
  and what he's shown that he's able to do in the fourth quarter
• 18:15
  will be crucial, especially in the game that, like you said, no
• 18:18
  matter what happens or no matter what the records are, the
• 18:21
  rankings are, it always seems to be a close one.
• 18:23
  It can always go out of the way. And when you have a quarterback
• 18:26
  that can perform when the pressure is the greatest, that
• 18:28
  that should bode well for the Cyclone.
• 18:30
  You mentioned obviously Rocco and what he does in the passing
• 18:33
  game, but you don't want to become one-dimensional against
• 18:36
  the Iowa defense. Iowa State hasn't run the ball
• 18:38
  great these first two weeks. Carson Hansen and Busama, both
• 18:42
  those guys averaging under 4 yards per carry.
• 18:44
  What have you seen out of the ground game and and with Burrs
• 18:47
  illness and him being out and potentially out again this week?
• 18:50
  Is it a front or do you see something with the running
• 18:53
  packs? Why isn't it clicking in the run
• 18:54
  game? Yeah, I think Taylor Mauser
• 18:57
  wants to see more physicality, wants to see the offensive line
• 19:00
  really step up and really pave the way.
• 19:02
  It felt like that they had moments against Kansas State,
• 19:04
  particularly in the first and fourth quarters, where they were
• 19:07
  able to move the ball well. But then when you can't really
• 19:09
  move the ball against an FCS level defense, who knows what
• 19:12
  the Hawkeyes are going to bring and what kind of challenges
• 19:15
  they'll present. So I think where Iowa stayed for
• 19:17
  goodness, establishing a run earlier, establish a run often,
• 19:20
  it'll be good for them. But easier said than done,
• 19:24
  especially with just how physical Iowa is every year,
• 19:27
  year in and year out. What are you hearing on Aidan
• 19:30
  Flora? Is the hamstring that he seemed
• 19:33
  to tweak on his second punt return?
• 19:35
  Is that an issue going into tomorrow?
• 19:36
  Have you heard Eugene? According to Matt Campbell, he
• 19:40
  is OK I. Personally.
• 19:42
  Need to see exactly. Yeah, I personally need to see
• 19:45
  it to believe it. That's how I felt, especially
• 19:47
  once he said that Aiden Flora obviously been having a great
• 19:51
  couple of games on special teams and his help and you know, 1
• 19:55
  you, you want to see the the guy succeed.
• 19:57
  I mean, it's a great story just to walk on thriving in his role
• 20:00
  and making a name for himself on special teams, really building
• 20:03
  early season momentum there. But just the, the injury itself,
• 20:07
  I know Campbell says he's healthy, but one of those
• 20:09
  things, and I'm sure a lot of Cyclone fans feel the same way.
• 20:13
  They need to see it, to believe it.
• 20:14
  We talked a ton this week, Eugene, about the Iowa State
• 20:17
  tight ends, how good both Bramer and Burkel have looked, and
• 20:20
  they're not alone in that group. The wide receiver mark, though,
• 20:23
  it's been a question. Eskelton's been good.
• 20:25
  And outside of that, that you transfer guys.
• 20:27
  We did get to see last week, though, a little bit more Xavier
• 20:31
  Townsend and not just as a receiver using him in the run
• 20:33
  game, in the return game. They can do a lot of different
• 20:36
  games, different things with him.
• 20:38
  Do you anticipate that this is going to be more Xavier Townsend
• 20:40
  this week? We're going to see more of him
• 20:42
  and maybe some more ways to get the ball in his hands.
• 20:44
  And then secondly, what's going on with Jason Chase Soul out of
• 20:48
  East Carolina? Yeah, With Xavier Townsend, you
• 20:51
  could really see in the limited touches that he had or when he
• 20:54
  did get the ball in his hands, you could really see that
• 20:56
  athleticism. You can really see that
• 20:58
  shiftiness and what he, what he's able to bring to the table.
• 21:01
  I think that they're going to start to use Xavier Townsend a
• 21:03
  little bit more. It seems like he's really
• 21:05
  starting to find his footing a little bit.
• 21:06
  And As for Chase OL, definitely not the start that anybody had
• 21:10
  anticipated. 0 receptions through two games.
• 21:13
  He was highly touted coming into the transfer portal.
• 21:17
  Hasn't really done anything yet. He's got a couple of targets but
• 21:20
  hasn't been able to reel the ball in with Chase OL.
• 21:23
  One thing that Taylor Mauser has stressed is just being able to
• 21:27
  be patient with the wide receiver.
• 21:28
  Especially some of these newer faces.
• 21:30
  They they alluse to the fact that Jaden Higgins took a few
• 21:33
  games or took a while before he was the Jaden Higgins that
• 21:36
  everyone knows right now through two games.
• 21:39
  Definitely a little bit of a yellow flag, something that to
• 21:42
  monitor moving forward. Whether or not he's able to get
• 21:45
  his first catch in this game, we'll see, but definitely a
• 21:49
  little concerning. But with the way that the Titans
• 21:51
  have been contributing, it's really relieved some of the
• 21:54
  pressure off of these wide receivers and just helping them
• 21:58
  get off to a good start offensively.
• 22:00
  With the running game for Iowa State, as Trent alluded to, kind
• 22:03
  of struggling out of the gate with Sama and Hanson, and I know
• 22:06
  Dylan Lee was, it was in garbage time.
• 22:08
  They were well in front and they had a bunch of backups in I'm
• 22:12
  not sure South Dakota did or they were still playing Her
• 22:14
  first team was whatever Dylan Lee looked really good in the in
• 22:19
  the playing time that he got. Might he be a bigger factor than
• 22:22
  we're kind of, you know, in the back of our minds at this point
• 22:26
  are realizing Mike Dylan Lee Seymour carries this week.
• 22:30
  And what did Mauser get asked about that at all?
• 22:33
  Yeah, if he, if he wasn't on everyone's radar, I feel like he
• 22:36
  really put himself on the map or, or just kind of was like,
• 22:39
  hey, you know, I'm here too. He carried the ball very well in
• 22:42
  the fourth quarter. Like we mentioned, the running
• 22:44
  game didn't really get much production until he came in and
• 22:48
  really helped clean up some of those numbers and made the the
• 22:50
  running stats look better than they actually were.
• 22:53
  Mauser and Campbell have kind of alluded to the fact that, you
• 22:56
  know they're going to ride the hot hand or whatever it may be,
• 22:58
  but I do feel like after a game like that, he definitely created
• 23:03
  some opportunities for themselves going forward.
• 23:05
  Now, what part of the rotation or will he see a prominent role
• 23:08
  against Iowa? We'll see.
• 23:10
  But I feel like he definitely turned some heads and improved
• 23:13
  some coaches and his teammates around him with what he was able
• 23:16
  to do last Saturday. Eugene, you're new to the
• 23:19
  Midwest and this is going to be your second year going through
• 23:22
  the Rival rivalry, the first time it being in Ames.
• 23:25
  What's been your take away now going through this the second
• 23:28
  time and just this rivalry as as an outsider, what you think of
• 23:31
  the Sidehawk game? I love it.
• 23:34
  Just from talking to some of the players here this week, and the
• 23:38
  guy is namely the guys who didn't grow up in Iowa, we all
• 23:40
  feel the same way. It didn't matter where you grew
• 23:44
  up, but once you set foot in the state, you realize how important
• 23:48
  this game is to everybody and everybody within the state
• 23:52
  borders. And I'm just very excited for
• 23:55
  it. For me, it'll be my first time
• 23:57
  seeing it live. I actually came in just after
• 24:00
  the Skyhawk game last year when I moved here to Iowa.
• 24:02
  So I missed the the epic finish at Kennick.
• 24:05
  But just what this rivalry means, you you hear about it,
• 24:08
  but now to be able to experience it and just see it on a national
• 24:11
  platform for the third time in six years, it's going to be
• 24:14
  exciting. And, and I think that I'm I'm
• 24:17
  ready to experience that first hand tomorrow.
• 24:19
  Does Jameson Patton have another game changing play in him?
• 24:22
  Obviously the when the the play made against K State late in
• 24:26
  that game, the interception early in the game when it was
• 24:30
  ever. Both teams are going up and down
• 24:32
  the field. Pat made a huge interception in
• 24:37
  that game was what, 14-7, soon to be seemingly 14 apiece.
• 24:41
  And it's the momentum totally shifted after that.
• 24:43
  He's off to a great start, Eugene.
• 24:46
  Yeah, it totally felt like against South Dakota, his pick
• 24:48
  really just took the wind out of the Coyote sails and after that
• 24:52
  they were never the same. Offensively.
• 24:54
  He's really coming along together.
• 24:56
  Well, obviously he's had great explained experience over the
• 24:59
  last couple of years, but he was one of the safeties that the
• 25:02
  coaching staff was very high on throughout the offseason and
• 25:05
  through the preseason. Now here he is balling out with
• 25:08
  Jeremiah Cooper now at cornerback.
• 25:10
  His contributions along with these other safeties has been
• 25:13
  very much welcomed. And it also just kind of shows
• 25:15
  like when the coaches made that move to shift Cooper over to
• 25:19
  quarterback, they felt confident in the guys that were going to
• 25:22
  be able to take over at safety. And here's Jameson Patton
• 25:24
  proving them right and making plays through these first couple
• 25:27
  of games. Give us one on each.
• 25:30
  Iowa State wins this game if. Iowa State loses this game if.
• 25:35
  I would say Iowa State loses this game if they lose the
• 25:38
  turnover battle. It feels like when you look back
• 25:41
  at the last seven or eight years, the, I think in seven of
• 25:45
  the eight last eight games, the team that wins the turnover
• 25:48
  battle ends up winning the game ultimately.
• 25:50
  And you got to take care of the ball against an Iowa defense
• 25:53
  that you know is going to be tough.
• 25:55
  It's going to bring it to you at all at all fronts.
• 25:57
  But then also, they're going to control the ball, they're going
• 25:59
  to run it down the Cyclone's throat.
• 26:01
  So I'd imagine so if I was they can win the turnover battle.
• 26:05
  It'll be in good shape now. I would say we'll win.
• 26:08
  I would say if Rocco back is able to perform well.
• 26:11
  And I feel like I'm really heavily believer and that this
• 26:16
  will be another close game. And when you have a bad guy
• 26:19
  under center, it'll go a big way.
• 26:22
  He just seems to perform his best when the team's backs
• 26:24
  against the wall or when they need a lot out of him.
• 26:27
  He seems to shine the brightest this and in a game that's
• 26:30
  projected to be close once again, I think of we'll see
• 26:33
  another fourth quarter game-winning drive from Rocco
• 26:35
  Beck. We shall see.
• 26:36
  Eugene repay covers the cyclones for desmoinesregister.com.
• 26:40
  Eugene, thanks for jumping on grab you in a couple of weeks.
• 26:43
  Thank you, Eugene. Thank you guys.
• 26:44
  Yeah, good to talk to Eugene Repay.
• 26:47
  Is there a 100 yard rusher in this game tomorrow?
• 26:50
  Yeah. You think there is?
• 26:51
  Yeah. And he's a hot guy.
• 26:52
  Yes, Washington. No, Xavier Williams, you think
• 26:57
  it is. I really like.
• 26:59
  Oh, I do too. I do too.
• 27:00
  He looks different. Doesn't he?
• 27:01
  Yep, he does. See.
• 27:02
  They've got something. There and he was the 4th guy
• 27:04
  that was mentioned in the preseason.
• 27:05
  He's like going going back. Last year, probably the 5th.
• 27:08
  Is because McNeil was getting the top.
• 27:10
  Hype. It was McNeil over him.
• 27:11
  Yeah, yeah, it. Was the top three, then McNeil,
• 27:15
  then Williams, You know, not a bad stable to have.
• 27:18
  Oh man. Well, that's what they call
• 27:19
  themselves. The stable.
• 27:20
  The stable, Oh my God, who leads The Who leads the Cyclones in
• 27:27
  receiving yards tomorrow? Xavier Skilson caught that long
• 27:31
  win early in the game. Xavier Townsend.
• 27:33
  You think? I think it's going to be a
• 27:34
  Townsend. Game.
• 27:35
  You think it's a breakout game for him?
• 27:37
  Look, he looked really good last week.
• 27:38
  He did. I'm with you.
• 27:39
  And I think they're going to get him even more involved in this.
• 27:41
  Not a tight end. Not a tight end.
• 27:45
  Oracle gets loose man. He does you.
• 27:47
  Don't see where it goes. We're going to go to Las Vegas
• 27:50
  next and catch up with Mike Palm, the vice president of
• 27:52
  operations at Circus Sports. Miller and Condon talking
• 27:55
  football with you on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 28:13
  I'm Mary Condon. Welcome back.
• 28:14
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trenton.
• 28:17
  Ken with you until 2. Off to Las Vegas.
• 28:20
  We go. Mike Palm's the vice president
• 28:22
  of operations at Circus Sports. The contests that opened up in
• 28:26
  May, they're going to close tomorrow at, I believe, 4:00 our
• 28:30
  time, and Mike Palm joins us. Mike, I remember when you guys
• 28:34
  first announced grandissimo the Friday that we had you on.
• 28:37
  And we're both kind of speculating, all three of us,
• 28:40
  what you might get to. And we all felt that whatever it
• 28:43
  is, it is, it's going to really peak right around the final
• 28:45
  weekend of this contest. Well, you're at 59 now, Blue by
• 28:50
  the 15, the guarantee. Do you do you still think that
• 28:55
  there's something to our theory that even though you've got 59
• 28:59
  in, we may there might be a chance this number gets close to
• 29:02
  70? So 5058. 58 OK.
• 29:07
  And yeah, we did 4 yesterday. I don't think so, maybe I would
• 29:13
  say 6263, maybe 65 but I've been wrong all along saying 30.
• 29:19
  I never thought we'd have 11 on August 1st which really
• 29:23
  surprised me how much team it picked up early in the sign up
• 29:26
  period, but definitely will go by 60 which which is great in my
• 29:32
  mind. What I've been thinking about
• 29:34
  the last two weeks is what do we do Year 2?
• 29:36
  Yeah, really. And what have, what have you
• 29:38
  been thinking, 1/4 of a million? I think that's aggressive, but I
• 29:43
  mean, if we did 6060 this year and had 6 million or 6.5
• 29:48
  million, I think Derek would probably be pretty, pretty
• 29:51
  comfortable guaranteeing 10 million next year.
• 29:54
  I think we'd see that growth, you know, usually see a pretty
• 29:56
  big spike between year one and two of an event.
• 30:00
  So if Philadelphia would have lost last night, not knowing how
• 30:04
  many entries in Grand Decimo were there, do you think that
• 30:07
  would have changed the equation were people on them?
• 30:10
  I mean, if you had to take a guess of what that about would
• 30:12
  have done and how it would have changed the $100,000 contest?
• 30:18
  You mean for reentry? Yes.
• 30:21
  I cannot reveal obviously how many were taken in Standard
• 30:24
  Survivor and how many were taken in Grandissimo.
• 30:30
  I conjectured that there would be a higher percentage in
• 30:33
  Grandissimo on Philadelphia, not save, not worrying about
• 30:37
  Thanksgiving, then there would be in the regular Survivor,
• 30:40
  which I think it will prove out that I was right with the higher
• 30:42
  percentage. I don't buy all these theories
• 30:45
  that if Philadelphia had lost, we'd suddenly see this big spike
• 30:47
  and everybody would rebuy. Grandissimo maybe more so.
• 30:51
  But you just can't get that more, many more entries into
• 30:54
  Survivor because the proxy appointments are all booked.
• 30:57
  And remember tomorrow's unlimited window, it cuts off
• 31:00
  it, too. A lot of the proxies cut it off
• 31:02
  much earlier than that because they have to start putting the
• 31:04
  picks in. Oh, sure.
• 31:05
  Yeah, That's an excellent point. Mike Pom, VP of Operations joins
• 31:10
  us. Well, Mike, we're doing
• 31:12
  completely different this year. Usually, I mean, last year we
• 31:15
  were on like everybody else was on Cincinnati.
• 31:17
  We have two teams that that normally I wouldn't have been
• 31:21
  on. We're taking Pittsburgh over The
• 31:24
  Jets and Jacksonville. How many Jacksonville over
• 31:28
  Carolinas do you think? Do you think that'll be maybe
• 31:31
  the 5th or 6th most popular? We're going against the grain
• 31:34
  this year. I think Denver will be the most
• 31:38
  popular. Yep, by far.
• 31:41
  By far. And then I'm not sure I, I think
• 31:50
  that it will end up that Philadelphia was the third or
• 31:53
  fourth most popular. I think Arizona is going to be
• 31:55
  the second a road, a road team. I'm having a hard time getting
• 32:02
  my arms around the Commanders because I hear a lot of people
• 32:06
  talking about taking the Giants and the points.
• 32:09
  Perhaps the Commanders comes in fourth behind Philadelphia.
• 32:12
  I think Jacksonville could be could be right in that mix of
• 32:15
  345 though. There's arguments either way
• 32:19
  though because you're going to get Tennessee at home as I know
• 32:22
  you don't like to play divisional games.
• 32:23
  I think there's other spots to use Jacksonville.
• 32:26
  If I had 10 entries, I think I have to probably put like 4 on
• 32:29
  Denver, though maybe a couple on Arizona.
• 32:33
  I personally would take the Colts with a couple.
• 32:36
  I like the Colts a lot this weekend.
• 32:37
  I think the Dolphins are a mess and I think the market
• 32:41
  downgrades the Colts because of Daniel Jones, and I don't think
• 32:44
  it should. That's absolutely the right
• 32:46
  choice to be the quarterback. And there's no way he would have
• 32:48
  left Minnesota unless they promised him the starting job.
• 32:50
  Let's just be honest about that. And you could have got two days
• 32:53
  before it was announced he's the starter, 2 to 1 offshore, that
• 32:56
  he would be the starter. It just didn't make any sense to
• 32:58
  me. Mike, we talked a week ago about
• 33:00
  the overreaction I felt like in the market to the Micah Parsons
• 33:04
  trade on the Green Bay side, how they became the favorite in the
• 33:07
  division, one of the favorites in the NFC.
• 33:09
  You look at the point spread in this game also, that thing is
• 33:12
  flipped over. A Packer is the favorite in the
• 33:14
  game. What are you seeing in the
• 33:16
  splits? And because this line has been
• 33:18
  out there for a while week when lines have been out there for a
• 33:20
  while, has that changed the equation at all?
• 33:23
  What normally this would look at with the Packers Lions game this
• 33:26
  week. I think if if this was week 6
• 33:32
  and the trade had been made at the beginning of the week or
• 33:34
  something like that, the line would have been impacted more.
• 33:37
  As you say, there was there was more in the pool because it's
• 33:40
  been open for months. I still think everything's an
• 33:43
  overreaction on both sides. Dallas going from 6 1/2 to 8
• 33:48
  1/2, a 2 point move there. I mean, I think this number, you
• 33:53
  know, we got to 2 1/2 Packers, it's back down to two.
• 33:56
  I I'm not sure he plays and I'm not sure if he plays.
• 34:00
  He doesn't get hurt. It just seems to me he's right
• 34:03
  for an injury here. And he's.
• 34:05
  Not been conditioned, conditioned at all.
• 34:08
  And so I don't think he makes that big of an impact in this
• 34:10
  game. So I think the overreaction in
• 34:12
  this game is even more pointed than it is in the market for the
• 34:16
  NFC North or the NFC. That's fascinating.
• 34:18
  Your highest. Never thought of that.
• 34:19
  That's an excellent point the lack of lack of August quite
• 34:23
  frankly for him the two prime time we'll get to side hawk
• 34:26
  right after this Baltimore Buffalo is absolutely an
• 34:29
  appointment TV and from where we sit and I think that the country
• 34:33
  will feel the same way yes it's Monday night it's the only game
• 34:35
  so you're going to watch, but Chicago and Minnesota has a lot
• 34:38
  of cachet as well Sunday and Monday night you guys both got
• 34:42
  to love those matchups I. Think that Monday night game is
• 34:46
  more important for people that that win totals on either team,
• 34:51
  for people that have hopes of the playoffs.
• 34:53
  Look, Baltimore and Buffalo are both going to be in the playoffs
• 34:56
  in the the Bears and the Vikings probably both aren't going to be
• 35:01
  in the playoffs. I think you have two fan bases
• 35:03
  that are very high and have high expectations with these teams.
• 35:07
  Minnesota won 14 games a year ago and the Bears, of course,
• 35:10
  the savior Ben Johnson has arrived in town and he's going
• 35:13
  to fix all that, all that ails that that franchise.
• 35:17
  I will tell you this, I did play a first half under.
• 35:19
  I think the Minnesota defense is really, really good.
• 35:22
  I think it will take Caleb time playing within a system for the
• 35:25
  first time in his life to get used to Ben Johnson and what he
• 35:28
  expects of him. My source who is very close with
• 35:32
  KOC, who hasn't been wrong about anything, including a month ago
• 35:37
  when he said KOC says we can't go into the season with Sam.
• 35:39
  How was our backup? I mean, everything he says comes
• 35:42
  to fruition, said Koc is very concerned about his passing game
• 35:47
  with the Addison suspension for three games.
• 35:49
  And Jefferson is not 100%. He's going to have to run the
• 35:52
  ball. And although he does not like to
• 35:53
  involve this quarterback in the running game, he's going to have
• 35:56
  to have planned runs for McCarthy in this game.
• 35:58
  I bet McCarthy over 11 1/2 -, 110.
• 36:01
  I bet him over 15 1/2 + 120. I bet him over 19 1/2 + 170.
• 36:06
  And I even bet him over 29 1/2 at 7 to 1.
• 36:10
  I believe what he said. Now, does that mean McCarthy is
• 36:13
  going to, you know, run three times and gain that?
• 36:16
  The bears won't expect that? I would think so.
• 36:19
  I laddered it. Could be wrong, but I think
• 36:22
  that's good information. I will put that in the back
• 36:25
  pocket and open up my app and start firing away at that one
• 36:28
  like that. All right, Mike, let's go to our
• 36:31
  state Super Bowl, Iowa, Iowa State, it's in Ames once again.
• 36:35
  Number currently 3 1/2. A little bit of juice right now
• 36:38
  on the Iowa -115 minus one O 5 on Iowa State with a three and
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  the hook. A lot of public funny this week
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  on the Cyclones. Yeah, I think, I think this is
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  another ladder situation. I think, boy, maybe I'm
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  overreacting to Week 1, but I think that victory by Iowa State
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  means something. That's South Dakota is a well
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  coached, good team. And I know playing the names in
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  August is different than playing in South Dakota or playing in
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  Montana in late December when they have their playoffs.
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  But I was impressed with the Cyclones, I was impressed that
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  they could go, and I thought for the most part, make the Kansas
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  State offense look pretty pedestrian in the rain and
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  Ireland. And here we go once again.
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  Iowa can only complete 8 forward passes against Albany.
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  I mean, this is pathetic. I don't think this game is
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  close. So far, I've laid 3 1/2 and I've
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  laid 6 1/2. I might lay 9 1/2 on an
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  alternate as well. I think this crowd is going to.
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  I think this crowd is going to be very pro pro Cyclone and I
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  think I was going to be in trouble in this spot and this
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  game could get ugly. Wow, that's interesting because
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  I I think I was saying is absolutely the right side, but I
• 37:52
  think I was going to win the game because it's the side hawk
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  game and you just never know what about the rest.
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  You know I'm, you know, you know I'm no Matt Campbell guy.
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  Yeah, it's true. I'm not a big believer in Matt
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  Campbell and I really don't like him in games where there's
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  closely lined, whether that the point spreads around a field
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  goal or less. But I just think there's a big
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  talent disparity. We'll see.
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  I don't disagree with your theory.
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  I really don't. Let's talk about the rest of the
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  day because it's not the shiniest day by far.
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  But Michigan, Oklahoma might save the weekend.
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  As far as the college weekend, Mike?
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  There's no headliners. I don't know.
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  I don't know enough about either team.
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  When I see a 5, I want to take it.
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  But the rookie quarterback on the road in a tough spot.
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  Michigan doesn't usually travel and play on the road in the
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  South. I have to stay away there.
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  I think the other day, another game at 9:00 AM or 11:00 AM your
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  time. It's a very tricky game for
• 38:52
  Illinois. Going to North Carolina and
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  playing Duke. I think this will tell us a lot
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  about Illinois and I know a lot of pro betters are taking the
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  three with Duke here. I'm laying off because my
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  opinion of Illinois, I think, I think their value is
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  exaggerated. They had a lot of close wins
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  last year. They had a lot of turnover luck
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  in fourth quarters. Maybe they are as good as their
• 39:10
  ranking, but we'll see because this is not an easy spot in an
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  early time game for a Big 10 team going to play on the East
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  Coast against the Duke team. That because you think they're a
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  basketball school. Their football team has been
• 39:21
  pretty good, at least decent and competitive in the ACC.
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  If Illinois goes down there and wins convincingly, I might have
• 39:29
  I have to make a big change in my power rating on Illinois.
• 39:32
  Yeah, like Mensa over there. I'll last 30 seconds with you,
• 39:35
  Mike. UCLA goes to UNLV.
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  Dreadful performance out of UCLAI know normally you guys
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  would be excited about a power for conference school.
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  Come to town. How many fans?
• 39:43
  I mean, they they can't get 15,000 Bruin fans in the Rose
• 39:46
  Bowl. How many going to come to Vegas?
• 39:51
  Surprisingly, UCLA travels decently when they play
• 39:54
  basketball in Las Vegas, so maybe there'll be a few fans.
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  I don't know what to make of a win over Stan Houston.
• 40:02
  UNLV was terrible against Idaho. I'm staying away from the game.
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  I tell you, the team that really caught my eye outside of Florida
• 40:10
  State, who looked like they should have been the two
• 40:12
  touchdown favorite against Alabama.
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  I thought Utah looked really good.
• 40:16
  I thought, this, this looks like the Kyle Woodingham teams we've
• 40:19
  been used to for the last 20 years.
• 40:21
  And with all this Cam rising Willie play, won't he play
• 40:23
  Willie, save Willie go out of the way.
• 40:26
  I I did make a bet on Utah to win the Big 12 after watching
• 40:29
  them dismantle UCLA. Congrats to you and your team on
• 40:32
  all three of the contests Trent and I had.
• 40:34
  We set the over under 5850 for millions.
• 40:38
  We did that a couple of days ago.
• 40:39
  I think it's going to go over that.
• 40:42
  I'll go, I'll go under. I'll go 5750, and my number
• 40:45
  right now on Survivor is 19. One, I said 18-8 the day we
• 40:50
  announced the contest. I think I'm going to be pretty
• 40:52
  close. I'll go with my revised number
• 40:54
  of 19. One, have a great weekend, my
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  palm talk to you next week. Thank you.
• 40:58
  Enjoy Cyhawk guys. Thank you, buddy.
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  Friday. Yep.
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  Hour 2 coming up next, Miller in Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network.