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Football Friday! Bills survive, Hawkeyes travel to Rutgers, Tom Kakert on Iowa & Mike Palm from Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon on a football Friday Miller in Condon on the
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Iowa Sports Radio network flag shipped from Des Moines sports
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station. One O 6.3 kicks and all.
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We welcome you back to Iowa based programming for the next 6
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hour block. Trent and I will start things
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off. We'll take you until 2.
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Then the boys, they're on location today off the benches
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at Scheels, at the Jordan Creek Mall out in West Des Moines.
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But Lucas and Sean coming up from 2 until 5, overtime Iowa,
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at that time, 5 until 6. And of course, it continues on
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here with football Friday night taking over at 6:00 and covering
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high school football and bouncing around central Iowa,
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getting scores from everywhere. In fact, literally everywhere in
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the state of Iowa they'll have throughout the evening.
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So football Friday night, meanwhile, Trent is on 96.9.
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The bull, well, he'll have Ankeny and Ankeny play by play
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there. I have to remind you, 'cause the
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Register forgot to include us today.
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Our media partner pissed me off anyways.
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Forgot to include. What they did a big they did a
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big list of all the all the high school coverage in in central
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Iowa where you can hear the game.
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Oh, OK. Except for their media partner.
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Whoops. Maybe we should forget their
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Hawk Central one night. Well, probably.
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Wouldn't go very well. Well, this didn't go very well
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with me. Yes, it's all about me.
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Who do we need to remind? I don't know, but it's been
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taken care. Of good, good.
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Yeah, and if it wasn't, it was just now.
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So we'll move on. Let's get to what was coming up
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on the program here. Tom Keikert, he is on the ground
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in New Jersey. I got there yesterday, of
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course, Rutgers and Iowa. Tonight's a 7:00 kick on FOX for
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that one. We will.
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And if you can't be in front of your TV down the hall on News
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Radio 1040, WHO? That is the flagship for Hawkeye
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football. We'll carry that game as you
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knew we would. That's to start off our number
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one. Then Mike Palm will head to Las
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Vegas, catch up with the vice president of operations, kind of
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go behind the counter with Mike Palm, get the latest on some of
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the numbers, some movements, what they need, what they saw,
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what last night meant, etcetera, etcetera with Mike Palm.
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Our number 2, Bama, Trent and I will go around college football,
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get a handful of games to opine on and then Eugene repay will
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kind of put a bow on eye with State's four.
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No football start, but I want to spend some time talking hoops
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with Eugene, talking a little bit about this team and I'm sure
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we will. Tom Caicard when he joins us, as
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well as the Hawkeyes basketball schedule.
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The Big 10 slate was unveiled yesterday and spent some time
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going over that. They get the double play against
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Purdue. Thanks.
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Right team. That's are they.
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The consensus number one team in the country are certainly top
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three, right? Yeah, I think everybody has them
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certainly in the top five and I would be surprised to see them
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anywhere out of those kind of rankings.
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They'll beat people. I don't think it'll be
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consensus. I don't think when we get there
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that'll it's going to be suddenly everybody has them in
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the top 25, but they're going to be up there.
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Bart Torvik. His preseason rankings are out
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for this season. There's a name that we'll spend
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a lot of time hearing about in that week, months to come.
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He's got the Boilermakers #4. Behind who?
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Houston. Houston's number one, OK, the
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dookies #2 All right. And this was a shocker for me.
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The Michigan Wolverine, hey. Trent, they're good.
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They're good. I.
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No, they're good. But they got a transfer of the
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the begged out of the NBAI mean, I can't remember the guy's name.
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He begged out of the NBA draft late in the process and and left
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his school to come to Michigan and that put them over the top
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apparently. We'll see.
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Is it the kid from North Carolina?
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I don't remember. Elliot Caddo could have been
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him. He's projected to be one of
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their top players this season. Also, Burnett's back, GAIL, who
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started Ohio State, Burnett they got from Alabama.
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So Wolverines are a little bit more loaded than I anticipated
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this year. And I will will get them at
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home, their final home game of the regular season.
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Those preseason rankings, by the way, Iowa State #15 In the
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rankings fair, the Hawkeyes #38. All right, Bubblicious.
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I love it. Well, they're going to play in
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the Big 10 tournament. We know that.
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Everybody is. They've expanded that.
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You know what? That's the right thing.
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That's your soft heart for Nebraska showing.
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But what am I? You mean the winner of the
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crown? That's right, the defending
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crown champion. That program, yes.
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Know what it is? It's my I want to watch
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basketball on Tuesday night show.
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Yes, absolutely. I was a little bit surprised
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that they just didn't put extra games.
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Yeah, on day one. Yeah, but extra day, you got the
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building for the week. I'm sure that's how the rental
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goes. And it's in Chicago.
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This year. It is back to the United Center.
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Don't sit in the upper deck. No long ways here.
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A long way away. And you know what?
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The press box is even higher. Oh really?
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The Media Center is even a level up.
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He's like the ceilings right above you.
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We had good seats. We were down low for media when
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I was there a while back but my wife was with we and she had
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tickets in the upper deck and went up like 1/2 time to say hi
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and the rest of our crew and boy seeing what it looked like down
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there like you guys got me moved down.
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No kidding. Well, I last time I was.
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In fact, the only time I was there was I was stayed Virginia.
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Oh, yes, yeah. The Sweet 16 game and they
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parked us way up at the top. Anyways, glad to have been
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there, glad to have covered it, and that was fun to be a part
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of. You ready for this Football
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Friday? I really am, Trent.
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I really am. I'm looking forward to tonight.
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I know you have to work. I I couldn't be any more excited
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for the entire weekend, honestly, when it comes to
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football, and it started last night.
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Look, give the Dolphins credit, give the fish credit.
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They hung around in that game and I don't know how.
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You know I don't either when Trader missed that field goal.
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That was it. That was it, because Buffalo was
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doing whatever they wanted. And then what was it
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back-to-back 3 and outs or short drives from Buffalo there in the
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third quarter? And that was my survivor pick
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for Circus Survivor. And you weren't the only one I
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heard from, by the way. You also had an entry, one of
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your two on the bills. But there were some tight
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sphincters last night. Absolutely.
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The survivor community. You know, and and having the
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thought Miami nothing to lose. Are they going to go for two if
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they score here? Absolutely they would've.
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I mean, the way that they were driving and right before the
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play, my wifes chuckling me again four days later as I was
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during the Arizona Carolina game.
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Yeah, she's like, you're sick. I'm like yeah, yeah, it's a
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sickness. It is.
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And but. You know what?
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We'll get knocked out. Yep, I'd never played this
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again. And then the calendar will turn
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2026 and it'll be April, and you're starting to get the band
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back together. You want to try this one more
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time? You can't quit this the contest,
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Trent. It's so fun.
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Can't. And it's the illusions of
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grandeur, right? That boy, if we could just, if
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you get to Thanksgiving, maybe you buy out a portion, maybe you
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make sure that your next 5 entries are paid for at minimum
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and then you're good to go with something like that.
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It's the thought. It's like playing the lottery,
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right? Playing the lottery where people
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do you. Think you're empowered because
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it's not just a random ping pong ball.
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Hell, I know the NFL, you're doing it right, and there's no
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point spread. Hell, I can do this.
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This sounds easy. Well, good luck.
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Good luck. And I said right before the
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play, the interception, somebody's got to make a play.
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Yeah, boom, they did. They made a play, and that is
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the difference. And then even the field.
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Goal. Well, the roughing kick.
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The roughing the punter too. Oh my God, what a terrible play.
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Yes. Terrible play, need a little bit
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of luck in this thing. You do, you do, and maybe
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Buffalo people that had Buffalo last night got.
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Passed. I'm staying away from divisional
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games, you know, that's one of my tenants yeah.
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And I went away from it last night and I'm like, if this is
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the one that's going to be not knocked me out this year, one of
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my basic tenants that I try to stay away from, I'm going to be
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mad for, well, another 50 weeks or so.
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You. Know until you get to sign up
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and do it all over again because you can't quit it.
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You just can't. All right, let's let's get back
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into the here and now. And if just to finish my point
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about the entire weekend of football, because Monday night
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Lions and Ravens. This is a hell of a cake,
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absolutely. I mean, this is a this is a 5
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star in my mind, especially after how good the lions looked
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last week. So we'll see where that goes.
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But with the Ravens, and So what, what you've what you've
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seen from Buffalo and you've seen, we've seen them a couple
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of Times Now three and O do they look like the best team in the
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NFL to you? Is it too early to obviously
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definitively come up with a who's number one?
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But they're got to be in every conversation.
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I mean, what's their weakness? At the defense again, I mean,
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they had a Miami team that looked dead.
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Yeah, but no, Milano and Oliver, these two are difference makers.
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Sure, but they're difference makers.
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You're absolutely right on that. There's been issues though with
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that team and because of that I I can't get there.
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But who would I put in the top spot?
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Ravens. No, I mean they lost to him then
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and their defense didn't look very good in that game.
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Either is it Lac, dare I say? That's kind of where I was
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thinking about going with the Chargers.
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Well, let's wait till they play the Broncos.
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This week till they a desperate. Denver, A desperate Denver team
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after the way they screwed themselves, the refs made the
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right call last look. At you covered.
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Around no, no, I said I've been the same way since since it
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happened since I saw Wazirique put his body weight on the
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center and you can't do that but anyways enough about that all
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right so back to Iowa football Rutgers tonight 7:00 kick
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Rutgers can't stop the run Trent and how big of a workload will
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Moulton have in your mind I. Don't think it's going to be
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huge by any. I mean, I saw something last
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night that the expectation was he could probably use another
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week. If, oh really if.
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Xavier Williams wasn't hurt. They probably would be able to
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go into this one feeling all right.
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We're going to be able to get through it.
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I think it's going to be a ton of jazzy on Patterson.
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He's a veteran. He runs hard.
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He's probably not going to break that big one, but he's going to
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be able to churn out those 456 yard runs.
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You're going to go that direction.
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Here's another thing, Rutgers this year not only struggled
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against run 5.6 yards per carry this.
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Season relatively well against the pass.
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Either that either, but two quarterbacks so far this year
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have rushed for A / 80 yards against.
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Them. So, big day for Gronowski,
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potentially. This is a Mark Gronowski over
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rushing. Total run him 1518 times.
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That's the kind of game plan I anticipate that we're going to
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see that this is going to be heavy.
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Gronowski with the run. Use that.
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Long drives, low scoring type of affair tonight.
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Yeah. I think there's going to be a
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few more points maybe. I think it's going to be around
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that. What?
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Is the total. Do you know I?
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Think it was like 44 something right in that range, 45 1/2.
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OK, yeah, so right in that mid range.
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Not like I don't think it's 1310.
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So I don't think it's going to be that kind of game.
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I think there is going to be a little bit more scoring here
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because on the other side, Rutgers Catholic man has has
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played incredible. He's throwing it around Trent.
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He's averaging what, 250 I think in the three games, 270, Is it
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that much? Yeah, 7 touchdowns, no
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interceptions. Considering that 73% of his
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passes he is playing sharp. But see I.
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Liked him in his brief stints as a freshman at Minnesota.
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I thought he sucked. I thought they had some, I mean
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he. Was awful against Iowa, too,
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that was. Probably what it was, yeah.
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But a couple of other numbers and the difference is what he's
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got out wide. So we'll see.
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About Ian Strong. He is their best receiver.
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He's really talented. But on the other side of him,
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they got a 66 kid, KJ Duff. He mentioned Deshaun Lee at
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59510 against the 66 receiver. As we saw the touchdown, Iowa
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State scored. It was going to the big guy.
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That's concerning. But maybe the biggest difference
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I think in this passing attack is what they have in a in the
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slot with DT Sheffield, little slot guy out of North Texas.
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He's also the return guy. They haven't done a bunch in the
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return, but he's a guy that can get 5. 758 like a.
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Little taller, but yeah, but he's, he's a quick guy, right?
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He's that slot, he's your prototypical slot receiver and
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he's been, I think, impactful of helping out the two bigger
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outside guys you couple. But one other thing that that
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does concern me about this match up, we see it almost every week.
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I always got to win special teams.
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I always got to dominate sometimes special teams.
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Rutgers has blocked 3 punts for touchdowns this year.
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It's. Unbelievable.
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Their kicker hasn't missed a kick, and reading through the
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transcript from Shiano earlier this week, he was talking about
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special teams and just in general.
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This is a guy that dedicates a ton of time to special teams.
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Caden Wegen is a difference maker for them when he's right.
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Yep. Without a doubt.
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We saw what happened when he wasn't right against Iowa State.
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They need Wegen to play well. I think Iowa again be a coupled
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with the miscues two different times on the snap and it was the
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Boston College snapper that is the kid that's doing the field
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goals and extra points. Yeah, 2 bad ones.
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This extra point miss vehicle. They have a different punter guy
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that's been or a long snapper, excuse me, that's been there.
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That is the punk guy. Keep an eye tonight.
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I wonder who's going to go out there for that first snap if
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this was a competition because it's not like it was close for
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both of those positions going in.
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They wanted the faster guy for punt returns because they're
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they're snapper does go down and cover kicks.
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I do wonder though, maybe we'll see something different in the
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snapping game for kicks here this evening.
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So don't get up and go refresh your drink or anything like
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that. But when the offense or defense
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comes off the field, good stuff there.
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Well, a 7:00 kick and I was 2 1/2 point.
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Favorite yeah, 2 1/2. I hadn't looked here recently if
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it moved it all today, figure they're probably going to be a
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little bit more action that is happening here today as I take a
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look at the board currently. Yeah, some steam coming in on
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the Scarlet Knights and those ticket counts and money counts
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were very much in the favor of the Hawkeyes earlier this
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morning. Not the case anymore.
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Down to 65% of the money and 56% of the the tickets.
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That was upwards of like 78% of the money when I looked at maybe
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8:00 AM this morning and like 65% of the tickets.
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So a lot of steam coming in on the Scarlet Heights.
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The the game earlier in the evening Tulsa and Oklahoma
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State. What am I missing here?
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How so? I I think Tulsa can give him a
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game just getting 10 points. Just because.
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Oklahoma State's so bad. This is a Tulsa team that has
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lost to New Mexico State and lost by 19 to Navy.
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Help me out on Oklahoma State. They're bad, right?
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I think it's 2 bad teams. Yeah, might be, yeah, But two
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bad teams, you're gonna give me 10 points.
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Do you like your picks by the way this weekend?
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I always like my picks. I don't, I've got too many.
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Too many, yes. I threw the dogs out.
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Yeah, I threw the dogs out. We bet different ways.
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I know Tulsa was one of them I liked.
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Wyoming was another one that I liked.
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But you took away the dogs. I did.
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I did. There's nothing worse than one
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of those guys that you paired off your list.
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Yep, comes home and could be the case tonight with the Golden
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Rican. You're right and I made another
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mistake when I sent my pics to Lucas I I made the wrong best
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bet but I'm not going to change it because just when you change
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it you should have left. It.
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That's right. So we'll see in all.
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Our pics are coming up here in about 10 minutes before 2:00.
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Baseball from last night. Colin Ray pitched his.
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You know what? Off you have to tell me about it
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and watch a pitch. There was a no hitter in the
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game trend right through till the 7th inning.
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I think Hunter Green was unbelievable.
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This game did not take two hours.
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Cubs clinch then flew then partied and and flew to
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Cincinnati but but Colin Ray struck out 11 didn't walk
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anybody gave up a run second or third inning and that was it.
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But Hunter green was amazing in that game last night.
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He went the distance complete gamer.
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But that aside the baseball news that we that I wanted to focus
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on was Clayton Kershaw calling it a career after this year.
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I mean it's not a shock by any means and and marches right into
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Cooperstown. I mean this, this has to be, I
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don't think it'll be unanimous or or near the near the the
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threshold of some of the guys that have got the most votes
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based on his. How could I put it
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underwhelming? Postseason.
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Oh, absolutely. I I think that's almost where
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the conversation starts with Clayton Kershaw, as unfair as
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that may be. When I think of them, certainly
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that's what comes to mind first. It's not the great years year
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after year. It's not the Cy Young
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award-winning seasons. It's not the multiple All Star
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games. It is back to the postseason.
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The Cardinals got him how many times?
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Every full season? That's where my mind goes for
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him. Fair, unfair.
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That is the reality. Career ERA in the postseason.
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I'm is it north of five? No 4 N of four is it?
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4.49. No, he's he's an ace.
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Anyway, by the way, I just got this tech.
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Tulsa was open at 13 1/2. It's now 9 1/2.
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So the Tulsa money's flying in for those of you who want to get
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involved in an early game. All right, we're going to head
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to New Jersey. We'll catch up with Tom Keikert,
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hawkeyereport.com. He is already there.
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Look forward to catching up with Tom getting the lay of the land
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from how he sees this Rutgers Iowa game coming down tonight.
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But let's first of all go to Andy joins us Andy's in Vegas.
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Hello, Andy, How are you? Good.
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How are you guys? Where are you, Andy?
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I'm at the Palms, my son plays football for you, and I still
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made a Vegas weekend of it because they're playing Utah
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Tech and Deacon Hill tomorrow night.
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So I am in Vegas. So I know you guys are big Vegas
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people. What I do are not here.
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There's one thing you got to go to.
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Circa, first and foremost, to watch the games.
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Now. Now, the Palm still has a sports
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book, right? We, the company I work for, used
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to have it there. Do you?
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Do you? Do you know?
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Yeah, sure. It's right.
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It's kind of on the end of the book there.
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Yeah. Go to circa.
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That would be or. Watch the Hawkeye game there
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tonight. Or yeah, that would be.
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That would be. It is.
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Is kale working tonight, Ken? He is my son's working guac up
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if you go to Circa and that's. For everybody, not just.
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Andy. That's just Andy.
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Exactly. My son's behind the line.
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He's a supervisor. He's not punching tickets.
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He's he's big dude. He'll be the one, the biggest
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one behind the counter. Just go up to him and say I
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listen to your old man or and he said to give you a couple of
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drink tickets. So if you get the circuit to
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watch the game, it's a 5:00 kick.
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My son's name is Kale KALE. Ask him for a couple of drink
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tickets and that his old man sent you OK.
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I appreciate it, boys. Yeah, I see.
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I was down to 1 1/2. I know a lot of rutters.
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There's money's coming in. Enjoy, enjoy Vegas, Andy, good
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luck to your son. Appreciate you coming on.
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Thank you. Yep.
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Good to talk to you. Good stuff as he's off strip at
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the palms. Not a bad place.
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I like Palm's place better. It's connected to it.
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Yeah. But anyways, all right off to
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New Jersey we go Tom Cake hurts will join us on the other side.
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It's. Pretty close.
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Hour and 45 minutes from Utah Tech to.
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That's all it is. Yeah, I was surprised by that.
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In the car tomorrow, head on over.
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It's not too. Bad squad, Why not and spend it
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and where would you rather stay? Right with you have to stay
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within an hour and a half away. For me, it would be Vegas.
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Yes, absolutely. I think that's what Hawkeye
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Andy's doing. I.
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Don't blame him one bit. I appreciate you listening when
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you're on vacation out there. 12 Tony K Curt Necks Miller and
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Tom Trenton. Ken, how are you?
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I'm. Doing great hanging out in
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beautiful New Jersey today. No place else you'd rather be
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until it comes time. Time to get home.
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Have you ever flown out of New Newark Airport on time?
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You know what? Out.
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Maybe I've only fallen out of there twice.
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OK, well, you're due then for a bad one, because it's brutal.
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I'll tell you what, I know I'm worried about that because we
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took a later flight too. So it's like that's just not and
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it's not going to be cool. But yeah.
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But I'll tell you what, our flights in are on time and early
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actually. Yeah, you're due.
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I hate to break it to you, Tom, but Newark has just got awful
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getting out of there. Anyways, you're there to what,
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cover football and let's get in to this game tonight.
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I I have a good feeling that we're going to see Iowa's
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offense look very good tonight, Tom.
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I do just to be Rutgers is struggling to stop the run.
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Teams are doing business through the air of them.
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Gronowski, I think he's going to have a big game.
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We'll see where it goes, but I think Iowa's offense is going to
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impress some people tonight. How about you?
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I kind of think that that's the that's the right tack.
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They're giving up 148 a game on the ground and they have not
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played anybody with much of A poll other Ohio's kind of pulse.
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But other than that and they barely squeaked out.
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They almost let the Ohio game get away from them.
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But you know, Miami of Ohio's bad this year.
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They played N state last week was bad.
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So I, yeah, I kind of tend to think I was going to be able to
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run the ball. You know, it's going to, I think
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it's going to come down to whether is this Rutgers past
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attack a mirage or is it real? Is Athen Kelechmanis really good
21:51
or is he just really good against bad teams that don't
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have good secondary? So I just have a tough time, you
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know, thinking that that Rutgers is going to beat up Iowa through
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the air when Phil Parker is is still the DCI.
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Just don't see that happening. Yeah, they've looked really good
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on that side of the football and got a kick earlier this week.
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Seth Wallace calling them the no boys back there.
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Not the no boys anymore, right? Like Needling Dev a little bit.
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So do they get one tonight? Do they get one and run back
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over the sideline and hand fill the football?
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Phil or they chase Seth down but the thing they'll do and I'll go
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after Seth but yeah they're they yeah he he kind of threw it at
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him a little bit and remember the last time I played here
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Cooper Jean he had had a big six and Kayvon Merriweather had a
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scoop it score so and I think Kayvon had a also had an
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interception in that game. So they've got they've had some
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success here in the past picking off the the Scarlet Knights.
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Now it's a different animal. They've got some really good
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receivers. I'm going to be curious to see
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if the strong kid is playing today.
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He was the question mark. They're on their third left
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tackle. That's probably not a less than
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ideal situation when you got mad Maxwell and coming at you off
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the edge. But yeah, I kind of think I
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picked I would win just because I I think they're going to just
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wear them down. And here's the other hidden stat
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too. Two of the quarterbacks that
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they have faced this year have run for at least 80 yards, so
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Mark Bronowski might have some success on the ground tonight.
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How about Kumari Moulton, How much success will he have on the
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ground tonight? What kind of workload do you
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expect, Tom after listening to Coach Ference early in the
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night? That's that's, I think one of
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the big question marks to this. And I think it might depend on
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how he looks early and how he does early.
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I've just kind of decided this is going to be one of those Jeff
23:51
Patterson games where they just let the battering ram go and
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just let him run and grind it out.
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Keep that Rutgers offense off the field.
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Just kind of beat up that that Rutgers defense and out fiscal
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on. Does McNeil play tonight?
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I think so. I think they're going to have
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to. But Washington, I was, I had
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really high hopes for him and he just hasn't clicked yet.
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And maybe, maybe this will be the game that he clicks, but he
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has not run the ball as well as I thought he would.
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They really haven't utilized him in the past game as much either.
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So we'll see. But I, I, I got Jazz Patterson
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on my mind tonight. Jazz with the big game, all
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right, wide receiver. We saw Sam Phillips make a
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couple of plays, including the second one, Seth Anderson with a
24:37
couple of touchdowns. A sign of things to come or
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UMass is just that, their ass. And that was the only reason we
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saw anything in the passing game.
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I'd like to say it was, it's fine if things to come, but I'm
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going to have to see it before I believe it that it's going to be
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something sustained. I I thought they did really
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well. Now, one thing Growski told us
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on Tuesday was that UMass came out in the defense that they
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thought they would cover 4 and they just torched it right out
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of the gate. 3 plays or down the field touchdown.
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But then they eventually switched to a form of cover 3
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and that's something they hadn't seen at all from them on film.
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So they had to adjust some things and that but you know, E
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math was just bad. That was just not a good
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football team. So yeah, I think they'll I have
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some success, but I don't know that I looked at the number
25:34
because I had a layover in Chicago and it was like 133 for
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Gronowski for passing yards. OK, so there you go.
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Yeah. In Illinois, you can find those
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things readily, can you not? Yeah.
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You can, absolutely you can. You can find those things in the
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fine state of Illinois. Tom's been known to hop across
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the river and maybe find some of those things out with some of
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those numbers. Tom, I went this direction with
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Ken. It was at the end of the show
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yesterday. If it doesn't go as Iowa's way
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tonight, you know what your message board's going to be
26:05
like. It's going to be an absolute
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dumpster fire. But when I was struggles early
26:10
in the season, it's usually a pretty big harbinger of what's
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going to happen unless you go back to 2004.
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I mean, we're going back a long ways.
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If they lose a couple of games early, we know it's going to go
26:20
down. If that happens, how much does
26:24
the end of Kirk fair and start to change for you?
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And maybe the perception of what the season's going to be, what's
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in front if they can't find a way to win tonight.
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That we always go back to the the 9898 Yep, we go back to that
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with with coach try and and just you know it just bottomed out
26:42
really quickly and yeah, you think about that.
26:46
You have to because the guy coming in next week will bear,
26:51
will bury you if he can. I mean, he will.
26:54
He will step on your throat and keep stepping if he has a
26:58
chance. So that's coming next week.
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By the way, can't wait for the confrontation on the field
27:04
between the Big Bird and Signetti because it's coming
27:07
tomorrow at some point, isn't there Saturday's point, isn't
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it? That's a great point.
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Those guys are just 2A males. They're just going to just like,
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be two like mountain goats, just button head.
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It's. Going to be great I.
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Can't wait, Tom. Good stuff.
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Thank you. As always, always say trip back
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and we will talk to you next Friday in advance of that
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Indiana game. Thank you, Tom.
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All right. Thanks guys.
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Yeah, good to talk to you. Tom Cacert, on the ground in New
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Jersey. hawkeyereport.com. Mike Palm is next.
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born and raised. He joins us.
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Hello, Mike, Palm, Trent and Ken.
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You know what, I want to start with you, Mike.
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I want to go back to last weekend.
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We haven't spoken since then. Last week we were on TV and
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maybe I should ask you then, but I forgot to just how big the
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boxing was. Crawford, Canelo.
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There was a lot of buzz. I saw some of the pictures at
28:23
stadium swim seemly was absolutely packed.
28:27
Talk to my son. He said he was swamped.
28:29
He works for you, as you know, but maybe the audience doesn't.
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Just how big of an event was it, Mike?
28:35
It was terrific. We had a lot of demand to go to
28:38
the to Allegiant for the fight. We have that 15th floor here
28:47
where we it's an unfinished floor where we bring people up
28:50
to watch UFC because we have it on the big screen in stadium
28:54
swim. But the book was packed.
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Stadium swim, I think we had over 2500 people out there and
29:02
then the right all week. It wasn't just Saturday, but I
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mean starting on Wednesday we had people coming in wanting to
29:08
bet, actually wanting to bet 7 figures on the fight we took.
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We took quite a few 6 figure bets, not 7 figures.
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But this was a really classic situation where every wager
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probably $100 and less was on Canelo and every wager 5000 or
29:27
more was on Crawford. Wow, interesting.
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So it's kind of like turn the clock back, right?
29:32
I mean, a big boxing event in 2025.
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Haven't seen one of those in a while I'm guessing.
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No, no, not, not, not to this magnitude, not since I think
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Canelo fought Triple G would be the the best comparison that I
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had to to how how much volume we did and how many people we had
29:51
here. Let's get into some football
29:52
with you, Mike, and start with tonight, Iowa goes on the road
29:56
to Rutgers and Ken and I were just talking a little bit seeing
29:59
that you guys at circle look like you guys are taking on a
30:01
little bit of steam and across the market right now.
30:04
Iowa was a 2 1/2 point favorite for most of the week, down to
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two at circle of 1 1/2 Starting to pop in.
30:10
Where's this Rutgers steam coming in?
30:12
Did this a system play or did one of the big whales come in on
30:15
the Scarlet Knights? No, it's been more than the
30:19
number of bets. I don't think we've taken a bet
30:23
bigger than. I think 8800 was the biggest bet
30:27
I saw come through on this game, which was on on Rutgers.
30:30
But yeah, ticks down from 2 1/2 to 2 and ticks up from 45 1/2 to
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46 in the last 24 hours as well. I I have a tough time to get a
30:39
feel for this game because to me there hasn't been really
30:43
inequality wins between either team.
30:45
You could argue Ohio is the best win, which Rutgers had as their
30:49
defense was impressive and at least slowing Ohio State down.
30:53
So I don't know, we'll see. I guess this is the first big
30:55
test for Iowa and if they win this game on the road, maybe
30:58
they throw their hat in that they're going to be competitive
31:01
to try to finish about four or five in the Big 10.
31:04
But I don't know. So I'll be watching the game,
31:07
trying to to to learn a lot about this year's Hawkeye.
31:10
When it comes to Saturday night, college football wise, how much
31:14
does conference matter, if at all?
31:16
I mean, we've got a Big 10 tilt, Illinois, Indiana, NBC 6:30
31:21
local. But then you got a couple of
31:22
national brands, right? Florida and Miami going head to
31:25
head essentially at the same time.
31:28
Does does does conference affiliation matter?
31:30
Of course, in this case, in the other game, it's SCC versus ACC,
31:34
but does that matter at all, Mike?
31:37
You know, it's, it's more about the team and which teams are
31:43
involved. Like if you didn't said last
31:45
year, we said the Big 12 doesn't draw a lot, but Colorado did,
31:49
right. So team dependent, Miami's a
31:52
national brand. So that that will put eyes on
31:55
that game. The fact that it's Illinois and
31:57
Indiana and we're sort of a brief side to say we're a Big 10
32:00
casino because we get a lot of upper Midwest visitation, that
32:04
will help it. But you know, I if you said
32:08
which game is going to write more, I don't know.
32:10
Right now I'd lean a little bit Miami, FL, but you have to
32:15
understand the end game becomes a factor.
32:17
So one game closer than the other, that's probably the way
32:19
it's going to go. Mike, you've told us before, you
32:22
always get a lot of USC people, USC money coming in there.
32:26
You guys have to love the late night kickoff. 8:00 for you guys
32:29
out there, a late kickoff with USC against Michigan State.
32:33
Plenty of us Spartan fans as well.
32:34
Part of that Michigan engine there there.
32:36
What do you get? A Not Hawaii playing late, not
32:39
Utah State, But when you get brands like that, how much does
32:42
that help the late evening on Saturdays?
32:45
Well, it helps that they were good at Purdue last week too,
32:48
right? So that that increases the
32:49
interest on the team. I was questioned their defense a
32:52
little bit, but after that, what, 3 1/2 hour rain going.
32:55
And by the way, I mean, now it's like if lightning is within 20
32:58
miles, we're just going to stop every This has become baseball.
33:01
Football is becoming baseball now with these weather day, I
33:04
think it's getting ridiculous. I don't say we don't err on the
33:08
side of safety, but my God, there's that.
33:10
It seems like they're stopping five games every weekend because
33:13
lightning is somewhere within 50 House of the stadium.
33:16
Anyhow, I thought it was a good defensive effort against Purdue.
33:19
They certainly look good. Maybe they're the 4th best team
33:22
in the Big 10. I don't know.
33:23
But and it's a Fox game, right? It's the national game as well.
33:27
So this is this is terrific for us.
33:30
It's good anytime you can get a 7730 or 8:00 start.
33:34
You got one tomorrow night. What about last night, Mike?
33:36
What did that do? They favored 1 but didn't cover,
33:39
but it was an overwhelming favorite.
33:42
Yeah, and the and the line moved in favor of of Buffalo to which
33:46
I thought, I thought anything over 10 in that game was kind of
33:49
out of line. I know Miami looked bad, but but
33:52
at the same time, it's still a division game.
33:54
I mean, I don't think people understand when you play a team
33:57
twice a year how much that flattens out any talent
34:01
differential or scheme because of the familiarity.
34:05
And that's why sometimes people don't like to use the division
34:09
teams and survivor. And I can't, of course, reveal
34:13
right how many because we don't announce because people don't
34:16
have to have their picks in until Saturday afternoon.
34:20
But as as far as the as the house goes, we won to every
34:25
number except 1111 was the only losing number for us.
34:30
And it was better, the better that the fewer points they won
34:33
by. So the Dolphins winning by one
34:36
to 10 was better than by winning to 12 or more.
34:38
So it was, it was a fine result for us and and and of course the
34:44
significant portion used them in both Survivor and and the Granby
34:48
Simo. Mike, we definitely know you
34:50
guys have kind of those power numbers for different
34:52
quarterbacks, but we get backup first.
34:54
Backup like you do with Cincinnati and Minnesota.
34:57
Incredibly difficult, I'm sure, for a lot of people to handicap.
35:00
What are we going to see out of Carson Wentz?
35:02
He's been OK in this kind of role before.
35:04
Browning threw 3 interceptions last week, but what was he four
35:06
and three as a startup last time the Pearl was out for an
35:09
extended period. How do you come up with that
35:10
number and going through and figuring out with these backups
35:13
and certainly backups like whence in a different situation,
35:16
how you put that together and come up with that number?
35:19
How you put a number out there and then you let the market take
35:21
it where you can. I mean it at least with
35:24
Browning, you have the recency of last week and you got to see
35:27
him play a significant portion of that game.
35:31
I also think you have to factor in that Kevin O'Connell has been
35:35
good with the wince type of quarterback, right?
35:38
A taller, more experienced quarterback when you go through
35:42
his history with with Stafford and with Cousins and with
35:47
Darnold. I'm not convinced and I don't
35:50
want to question injury reports, but I'm not convinced McCarthy
35:53
has much of an ankle sprain. I think at this point O'Connell
35:58
takes a look at this and says we cannot play him until we get
36:01
back from Europe. And I think they're going to
36:04
take their shot with wins thinking that he gives them the
36:06
best chance to win. Now, I think he can call the
36:09
whole playbook with wins. And so, I mean, he's not even on
36:12
an injured list. I mean, it's funny to me that he
36:16
if he has this high ankle sprain, he's not even on any
36:19
injury reports. So take put that what you want.
36:22
Did not realize that. Couple of NFL things for you.
36:25
If we've got the rematch of what maybe was the best game in the
36:27
NFC last year, Rams and the Eagles.
36:30
And then I want to get to the prime timers because normally
36:33
Sunday night wins the week as far as how much right you guys
36:35
will do. But it's Kansas City and the
36:37
Giants. I get it's Kansas City,
36:39
etcetera. But Monday night, I mean my God,
36:41
Lions in Baltimore, that is a five star if there ever was one.
36:46
Might Monday night come closer to to Sunday Night Football as
36:50
far as business for you guys that it normally would because
36:52
of the matchup? Yeah, Monday night will be
36:55
great. And it's Detroit Chargers,
36:58
Broncos will be great in the end that the afternoon slates.
37:00
Not that bad because you got Dallas and the Bears.
37:02
Yeah, huge. That's a huge game and and the
37:06
Broncos game with the Chargers, the big game too.
37:08
So that's a good it's kind of a downer.
37:11
I mean, I guess every time we have The Jets and the Giants on
37:14
Sunday Night Football, it seems like it the plates in a little
37:16
bit, but really a must win game for Kansas City.
37:19
I have to tell you, when you look at the whole rest of their
37:22
schedule, you circle at Tennessee and at the Giants is
37:25
their wins and then the rest all the games are going to, it might
37:27
be a field goal or less. You would think that may be home
37:30
to the Raiders. So, but the Raiders always give
37:33
them trouble. So I think they really have to
37:35
win this game. I guess the Giants showed a lot
37:37
of signs of life and really probably should have won the
37:39
game in Dallas last week. So it's a little bit of a
37:43
bummer. But Monday nights, a dynamite
37:45
matchup, you should have a ton of points and we'll see how good
37:48
the Lions really are. Now, baseball wise, there's a
37:51
reason, because my twins are hopelessly out of it again this
37:54
year. But it's hard for me to get into
37:58
it, and outside of Tuesday and Wednesday, even handicapped
38:00
baseball over the weekend. Houston, Seattle this weekend.
38:03
And I, I didn't even know. I mean, it's just that that's
38:06
where I am as a baseball fan. Ken's a little bit different
38:09
than I am. What do you guys see in the
38:11
market? I mean, when we're kind of full
38:13
throttle into football season, how different the right is for
38:16
baseball. Well, the right is down on
38:18
Saturday and Sunday compared to the rest of the year, but but
38:21
not as much on the other day. But it becomes lost on Saturday
38:25
and Sunday, I'm sure. All the football obviously,
38:27
right? Very interesting series.
38:30
Twins, Guardians, This Guardians decision now I had a decision.
38:35
They just don't score a lot of runs.
38:36
I had a decision to make yesterday because I have the
38:39
Tigers at -1 O 5 and -135 I bet them twice in April to win the
38:43
Central. And I sat there and the
38:45
Guardians were 15 to 1 yesterday and Bibby was 2 to 1.
38:50
You know, Bibby's won eighteen straight decisions against the
38:54
AL Central. Now I took Bibby, I took Bibby
38:57
at 2:00 to 1:00 is the hedge. But the 15 to 1 is now 7 to 1.
39:01
Three 3 1/2 games, still 3 left with the Tigers, but they play
39:05
the twins this weekend. This everybody tells me it's
39:08
impossible. There's no way they can do it.
39:10
I'm not sure. I'm not sure that they can't.
39:13
I know they don't score. They have a little bit.
39:15
They have very little margin, the Guardians, but I think this
39:19
is going to come down to the final weekend and of course,
39:21
they'll have to beat Schoolville again probably to do it.
39:24
Also very interesting to me with the Cubs, you know, you could
39:30
still find Kate Horton at a minus $1.80 for nationally
39:33
rookie of the year. I think he's got to win it, I
39:34
think. He's.
39:36
AI also yeah the market where varies widely. 180 in one place,
39:41
6 -, 6 dollars in another. I wonder if he gets a start if
39:46
they're almost locked into the fourth team.
39:48
The National League looks like Padres at Cubs.
39:50
I wonder, does Kate Horton get a start in that series I hear a
39:56
lot of? People game one.
39:58
No, you got to throw Shota in game one I.
40:01
Would. See, I would throw Kate.
40:02
I would throw Kate Horton in Game 2IN that series.
40:05
Yeah, I would. Let's talk about the ALMVP
40:08
because I I think it's Cal Raleigh.
40:10
I know the numbers all say it's Judge, judge, judge, Judge, but
40:13
we've seen fatigue before. Help Priscilla beat Verlander
40:16
for the Cy Young when he shouldn't have got 30 seconds
40:19
left, Mike, before the music plays.
40:21
Does Cal Raleigh have a shot to win the ALMVP?
40:24
He certainly does, and you could have gotten him in May and even
40:28
early June at over 75 to 100 to one.
40:33
He's still 5 to 1. I think if you take him off that
40:40
team, they're not in the playoffs, and if you take Judge
40:42
off the team, they're probably still a wild card.
40:46
I think at 5 to 1 is still worth the bet.
40:49
Of course, you'd love to have them at 100 to 1 or so.
40:53
I know you're running out. Of music's playing.
40:55
OK. Have a great weekend guys.
40:57
Good to talk to you. Thanks, Mike.
40:58
Yep. Mike Palm, VP of operations at
41:00
Circus Sports. Said the same thing.
41:02
Great minds think alike. Hour 2 is coming up greater than
41:05
mine. Baba Bob will kick off the hour.
41:08
Eugene Repay on Iowa State. Miller and Condon, one hour to
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