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Weekend Recap as Iowa State escapes Ark St, Iowa rolls UMass, Bill Seals talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome to Miller and Condon on
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a Monday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network flagship here at Des Moines Sports Station One O 6.3
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KXNO. For the next two hours, Trent
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Condon and myself, Ken Miller will talk sports with you.
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And thanks for starting your afternoon with us.
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Wherever you are listening in the state of Iowa, anywhere on
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the I Heart app. Here's what's coming up on our
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program on this Monday. At the bottom of the hour, we
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will chat with Bill Seals. The Cyclones head into their
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break and do so with a perfect four and O slate.
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Bill Seals on Iowa State coming up at 12:30.
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Then Bama, Trent and I will take a look at a round look back
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rather at the week that was in college football.
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Look forward to that before. Scott Dockerman will join us
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recapping UMass in Iowa and ahead to the Rutgers game coming
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up on Friday night. That is a 7:00 tip.
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It's on Fox, but if you can't be in front of your TV, it airs
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down the dial or down the dial on the on the AM dial and down
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the hall from us on News Radio 1040.
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WHO? So a couple of games left in the
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NFL tonight. That'll put the capper on week
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#2 another. Depends who you route for.
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See if you see the weekend differently.
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Your team got clobbered. My team got screwed.
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Not really. It was the rule.
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It was the rule, it was Enrique standing on the centre.
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You're not allowed to do that and but never gets called except
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for, you know, when it goes against the team you look for.
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But anyways. It's not true.
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It's not true, it did yesterday, but the the Bears are awful, JJ
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McCarthy stinks as we overreact to week #2 but let's start in a
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college game, unless you wanted to linger on the NFL.
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But we could get there a little bit later on because I I don't
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need my blood pressure skyrocketing. 12O2.
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Ditto. Oh, what a what a an up and down
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missed it. Anyways, we'll get back to the
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NFL. All right, so let's start with
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Iowa State 'cause they played first and look, it was far from
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the thing beauty at the end of the day, the four No, yes, and
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that's what it's all about. It doesn't ask how, it says how
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many and that's how many they've got as they go into their buy 4.
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No, we talked all August how difficult this was going to be,
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you know, coming off what they had to do, go to Dublin, play a
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really good FCS team, which they did, pasted them, here comes
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their rival, got them in a close game and then head on the road
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to George Jonesboro, AR and to find a way to win a football
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game and that's what they did. So hats off to him for that.
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That overby they win this football game that played late
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in the first half. That was really good.
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I understand there there's still 30 minutes of football
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afterwards, but boy that felt so massive.
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Yeah, I agree with and now that you put it that way, that was a
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big play. I'm Carson Brown at the end.
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Yes, I was shocked they were throwing the ball.
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Right. Yes, I'm.
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Stunned. What do you do?
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Nice play. But yeah, look, Rocco Beck plays
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for the Cyclones and he's got a chance when he's on the field
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because he's that difference maker.
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I'm surprised they didn't run the football more.
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They seem to be doing. Didn't you say at some point
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last week the Arkansas State was giving up over 11 yards a carry?
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Yeah, it was 11.1 yards per carry and it was brutal.
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Basically the whole Arkansas game that did that because they
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were OK in the first game. It was just awful against
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Arkansas the week before. And I'm right there with you and
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we talked about it. Look, if if Iowa State wasn't
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able to run the ball, then we were going to have major
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conservatives. They were able to run the ball.
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Now did they do it enough? Malice's game plan.
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Head scratching. Yeah, head scratch wasn't his
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best work. No, I'm, I'm with you on that.
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Rocco was OK and like he said, he made the play late to win the
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game to salt it away and then put a knee on it.
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The. Interception.
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There should be somewhere in in statistics.
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I don't know who's going to be in charge of this.
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OK. But he's, he's charged with the
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interception. That's not his fault, right?
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That's a team interception. Well, I brought up.
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Last week, turnover worthy plays and that's one of those
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statistics that that goes and would not count against the
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quarterback in that instance is turnover worthy plays when we
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get Bama on. Speaking of that, DJ Lagway, 5
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interceptions, he actually had seven turnover where he plays.
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Did he really? It could have been even worse,
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but we'll get to that a little bit later on.
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You got the win. I think you said it at the top.
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This is not going to be 1. You're going to be bouncing your
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grandkids underneath, talking about the time that they went
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down to Jonesboro and got the win.
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They just got the win right. And what could be a special
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season, they got the win. No ammunition for the Big 12
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haters out there because they're waiting and they're waiting for
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anything that they can use. Arizona State's lost last week
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to Mississippi State, those kind of things.
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That's not there anymore. You got the win, you move on.
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You get your bye week now and chance to get right.
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One guy I want to single out in positive light, Trey Bells
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interception. No, he I mean, that's top 10
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Sports Center, right? I mean, I don't know if it was
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or it wasn't, but boy, oh boy, what a play he made.
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You know who else caught my eye in that game more?
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The tight end. He's got a little got a little
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giddy up to him. Johnston Kid.
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Did you know he could run like? That.
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Oh, absolutely. I saw him at the high school.
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So at the high school level in the way that Johnston plays with
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Coach Woodley up there, they split him out.
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I mean, there were four wide a lot.
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So he was playing in the slot and even outside a lot of times.
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So I just wondered if it was going to translate if he could
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get big enough. It was never an athleticism
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question. He always had that.
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Got some wheels? He absolutely does and just goes
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back to what we talked about this team, the death at the
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tight end position. He's incredible.
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Yep, absolutely incredible what they have.
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Couldn't go and couple of guys picked things up and he was
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certainly one of them. Good to see Cooper Alexander
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caught a put caught a pass in that football game.
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Carson Brown was Carson Brown you mentioned over me so well
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caught a ball did was it him or Townsend had the bad drop One of
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the two newcomers had AI think it was I think it was 2, but it
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had a good game. I mean that play down the left,
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down the left sideline and what a throw by Rocco to put it in
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there. Just terrific defense was OK, a
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lot of missed tackles, a lot of missed tackles.
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That would be the one thing maybe that's fatigue, but lick
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your wounds, boys. Here comes Arizona.
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It's a night game. It's a 6:00 kick on ESPN on the
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27th that was just announced earlier this morning.
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So Arizona, Iowa State in Arizona looked pretty good on on
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Friday night against K State. Not sure if you're getting home
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in time after. You did.
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And seeing you the end of that one.
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But yeah, this this game, I I just thought this was going to
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be a little bit tricky, but we shall see.
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Both teams have a bye week this week, so they'll both get the
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rest as we lead up to that game over to Iowa City for a 630
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kickoff. Congratulations to Coach
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Ference, the all time winningest coach in the Big 10.
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I can go a lot of directions with this.
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When they should have beat UMass, they did beat UMass.
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That's a. Bad team.
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That's a really bad team. Yeah, that's a really bad.
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Team, That's what we thought Albany was going to look like,
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yeah. How did Kate Region look so bad
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against Iowa State? Too charged up, I mean when you
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get a penalty on the first play and then the things are off.
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He talked about having the wrong cleats last week on Tuesday or
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just a lot of negative that went against him.
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You could even see before he busted one there early in the
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second-half too. He was frustrated with himself
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one time after he had like a 40 yard return that he didn't get
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the end zone for that. So I think that's kind of that's
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the way he's wired and I'm sure he's kind of that kind of guy
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out there that is always really amped up.
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And when it goes too far, as it did against Iowa State, you can
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see the negative part of that one.
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But a game he had, he becomes the first Iowa player to have a
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kickoff return, a punt return, a receiving touchdown and a
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rushing touchdown in his career. That's unbelievable.
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Yeah, and Jesus. What?
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I thought Tim Dwight would have done that.
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Yeah, you would have, right. If, if, if anybody, you would
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have thought that would have been him.
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Of course, the last time we saw him was returning a kick in the
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Super Bowl. Super Bowl 3333.
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Yeah. What?
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Who won? Oh, OK, OK, yeah, anyways.
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The team that got beat by freaking leverage yesterday.
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Did you see anything in the passing game that says not that
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it's fixed? But OK, well, they were throwing
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the ball down the field right away.
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Certainly encourage. Yeah, right.
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Away, Right away. Second play from the game.
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Second play of the. Game Sam Phillips up the left
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sideline, looked like he was looking for maybe a post route
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over top that wasn't there. Went to his next read.
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That's been a knock against Mark Radowski as he's not great going
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through his progressions and he was able to do that.
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Find Phillips on that one. Then the next play it was an RPO
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found the guy darting in South Anderson.
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Great route that leverage on the cornerback different.
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There's a couple of drops in that game, maybe, maybe more
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than a couple. KJ Parker had two.
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Yes, he. Did Anderson had one?
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There was maybe a tight end that had one I.
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Remember Parker's two and and and certainly Anderson's.
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Dayton Howard maybe had one in there too.
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Can't have. It it was in the fourth quarter,
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you've got to help me because I didn't see.
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It you, you were out at that point.
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I had to keep it on. It was on.
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One of the TV's had to keep it on because late in the game did.
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Yep, got a couple of carries in the game.
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I saw him. I saw him in the in the box.
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Score. So he got in there.
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That was a happy moment. Had a lot of smiles in in the
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house there and the kids got a kick out of him.
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My wife got a kick out of it. Really fun to see him out there
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for. Those of you don't know family.
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Friends. Yes.
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Yeah, I grew up, his mom and me grew up from kindergarten
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through high school together, still remained really good
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friends. Dad also an Osage guy that play
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fantasy sports with and tailgate with and everything like.
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So yeah, that was a special one. That was really cool.
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And just hearing his name go over the PA as they're watching
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the TV broadcast, Yeah, that was really awesome.
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Indiana, Iowa, It's just been announced.
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Did you see this? 230 great kick off time.
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Except it's on Peacock and it's the ladle land, right?
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It's the way it's the era that we're in.
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So and it was going to happen sooner at some point.
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And this is the week it's going to happen.
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Boy, that's the same week. So, So Iowa State, Arizona will
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be going up against Oregon, Penn State.
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Is that the whiteout for Penn? I think it.
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Is yes, it is I. Think it is on NBC, so that'll
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certainly draw some eyeballs. God I love this sport.
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It is so much fun, isn't it? It just truly blows me away
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every single week. It delivered.
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So here is the Big 10 matchups that week, including this is an
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interesting one, Which one USC goes to Illinois.
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That is the Big noon kickoff body clock.
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To be in Champaign, so get ready for a 9:00 AM kick. 9:00 AM
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Pacific Time for the Trojans going to Illinois.
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Rutgers at Minnesota. BTC got that one at 11.
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Your CBS game Ohio State goes to Washington.
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I feel like I have no feel at all in the Huskies.
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No, nor do I. No feel at Ohio State screwing
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around with Ohio, mentioned Indiana.
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Washington in a primetime spot this weekend, I think.
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They play wazoo, don't they? And and.
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Somebody got they do national game CBS.
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Middle of the day or night 63630. 630 CBS has that one.
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I'll be over on NBC watching Illinois, Indiana.
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Yeah, me too. Me too.
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It's going to be outstanding. Other games.
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How about this one? UCLA at Northwestern, It's a 230
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game on BTN and then the NBC game.
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Oregon, Penn State. UCLA is in the market for a new
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head coach as his Vaught Tech trump two weeks into the season.
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You've got guys walking the plank.
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I think last year somebody put on one of the, maybe Feldman,
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one of those guys, maybe Brett Mcmurphy.
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The the first fire in college football last year was like Week
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3 of October. I don't remember who it was, but
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boy, oh boy. It seems early, right?
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But what are you going to do when you're used to look, I
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don't care who you name as head coach, you're not filling the
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Rose Bowl. No, not at all.
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No. Hey, it's, it's, it's not on
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campus. I'll take people's word for it
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that it's tough to get to for those people that lived there.
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I walked out of the lobby, got in an Uber.
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Next thing I knew was at the game.
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So I have no idea how we got there, how difficult it was, but
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it's just, I mean, it's spectacular to play there, but
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it's, it's, I guess not ideal. From offshore, here are your
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odds to be the next head coach for both Vattec and for UCLA.
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For the Bruins, start Big 10. You know, So is Campbell on the
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list? I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling it.
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He's way down there. He's.
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Like this because 2015, I saw one, one, I don't know, pole or
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whatever you want to call it. One list had him right at the
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top. He's not going to use LA.
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If he didn't take the USA job. He's not going to use, which he
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could have. Yes, the job was his.
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He was. He turned it.
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Down. When he turned it down, Lincoln
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Riley was next in line right when he turned it down.
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Think of that. Lincoln Riley was the guy Your
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betting favorite is who? John Gruden.
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Come on. Now the second choice, is it a
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college? Name.
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It is. Is he currently a head coach?
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He is. What conference?
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The Big 12 and it's not. Aranda.
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No decent name. He is on the list.
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He is the 6th betting choice. It's Dionne.
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Dionne's going to quit because of his health, yeah.
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I I think that's more likely than him taking a job like.
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Design, huh? Another Big 12 up next, Kenny
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Dillingham. Now is he going to leave his own
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mind? No, I don't think he will
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because he and they've been fun, right?
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Rising like crazy to get a new indoor facility.
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And I think it's working. I think the community is is
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heeding the call. We'll see.
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Let's see, how about some other names?
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Alex Golish is on the list. He's 18 to 1.
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He's. Going to get a job somewhere.
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He will. John Summerall, who's doing a
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great job again at Tulane, who's been great everywhere he's been.
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He's on the list. A little bit further down,
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Vottech. Also listed here, John Gruden as
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the betting favorite. The second choice, though, not a
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surprise. Shane Beamer.
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Go back, go back, we're dead. Of course, built things up.
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Justin Wilcox on both of these lists.
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Alex Golish on both of these lists.
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Jimbo Fisher of Vottech. Interesting name.
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Willie Fritz doing a great job of Houston, as we saw Friday
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night. You had that game too, didn't?
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You that was that was a winner so.
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This is from a buddy, Jay Scott. We just talked about Iowa State,
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Arizona going up against Oregon and Penn State.
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They're also going up against Alabama, Georgia at the same
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time. What a night of college
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football. You got to get your multi screen
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set up. I got to watch on my phone.
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I'm at Prairie Meadows that night.
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It's closing night. I It's all right.
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It is. You got DVR you'll be able to
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watch. No, I'll be able to watch, but
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wait, we'll watch it on my well, you do it right on the phone.
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Absolutely. That's the one thing.
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And I bitch and moan about about this stuff because I'm old and
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all old people bitch and moan. And if you're not old and
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you're, you will be at some point, I hope for your sake and
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you'll be bitching and moaning. But when I go for take to take
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jet for a walk or you got to pee in the middle of a game and you
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won't leave me alone, just take my phone.
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Boom, right? You got some ear pads to put in?
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No, I just turned it up. I do have those, but anyways,
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good stuff. 12:15 here. Miller and Conda, we're going to
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talk at the bottom of the hour to Bill Seals on Iowa State.
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What else from the weekend? What game did you see much of
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the Notre Dame game? I did.
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What a finish, what a game. And I'll be honest, Notre Dame,
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that thing could have been even worse.
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Now the endless cuts to the holder, Can we stop?
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Do we have to show him 15 times? Yeah, 20 times.
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How many times? Yeah, no, it was constant.
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It was too much it. Was constant, yeah.
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It was over the top to continually cut back him.
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They did it. I mean, before the drive even
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starts, they just kept going back to him and back to him
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back. You're up 6.
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I know get a stop. And get a stop and get this kid
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off the hook. And no, they wouldn't.
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They just kept cutting. I felt absolutely terrible for
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him. And then look at, to be honest,
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did you see the replay? I mean, one of the IT was the
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left guard for A and MI don't know who it was for Notre Dame.
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He absolutely tackled him on his way to the quarterback, threw
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him on the ground. Reed was about to be sacked but
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didn't get called. Reed missed that.
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I saw four guys wide open up the field.
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That Notre Dame defense is rough.
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He got a game coming up against Arkansas.
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That Petrino, he's got that offense cooking.
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Yeah, he's got a quarterback. And talk about a charged up
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environment. How often does Notre Dame make
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their way down to Fayetteville? Not very often.
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They are going to be ready to go in that one.
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If you think that this is just going to be no problem, they're
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going to win the final ten and get into the playoff, I got news
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for you. This team absolutely can lose to
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Arkansas, definitely lose to USC.
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Those wide receivers against that defensive backfield, this
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thing. Could get ugly. 8:00 and 4:00.
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Yeah, it could. Well, USC is going to give them
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a game. I'm convinced that's going to
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happen. We'll we'll see.
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You know, one of the best things I saw all weekend and it's an
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ACC thing, so I'll get it out of the way now, but AC, the ACC is
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a conference taking us behind the curtain when it comes to
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replay. It was amazing.
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It's phenomenal, isn't it? It's all, all the transparency
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is right there on display. You're listening to the replay
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room and everybody that's in it with their opinion talking to
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the white hat who's underneath the well.
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He's not underneath the tarp, but he's looking used to be,
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he's looking at his monitor and they're conversing back and
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forth and what they're talking about and they're giving their
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opinion and they're getting the play right.
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OK, we're going to call it non incomplete timers going to go
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back to 842, It's going to be second down, blah, blah.
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All of those things laid out for us to hear and I've never heard
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it before this weekend. Is this the first weekend it
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was? I thought it was phenomenal.
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I was not watching when you and Bam in our text that started
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talking about it, but I did see the one in the fourth quarter
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and I was watching at the time and had the volume up on that TV
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at the time. So I was able to hear that one.
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It was a touchdown for Clemson in the back of the end zone and
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them just going through all the different parts.
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This is what happened. This was that touch they took
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that touchdown off the. Board, yes, took it off the
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board and said this is what we see.
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This is where he doesn't have control foot out of bounds
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explaining it in a way that makes a whole lot of sense.
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This could be if this continues and everybody starts to do oh.
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They have to now. This could be as big as anything
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that we've seen viewing games in television since the first
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downline. I was going to say the same
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thing since the yellow line. That's exactly right.
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I totally agree. With you, that was the biggest
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innovation that has changed and that.
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Was what, No 20 something you? I was doing mornings in
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Indianola on the jock. So that's when that's how long
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that's. I was in college 'cause I
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remember us talking in 2000 and that's just being baffled of how
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they did it. Uh huh, 99 maybe.
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Wonder if there's a guy like, how do they step on the line
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and, and their foot isn't there? Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. How it was superimposed into the
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field. How do they do that?
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Well, obviously they had the technology to make that happen.
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First time in 25 years we've had something like this.
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It's it was great. It was great.
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I'm like you. Like you say, I think the other
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schools almost are going to be forced to do this.
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If you didn't see it, you'll you will at some point coming up
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here. And I believe that you'll feel
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the same way that Trent and I do because, you know, we're all
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fans. We all like to bitch and moan
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and complain about the officials.
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And how did they miss this? No, no, it's it's great.
19:19
Listening to the I think there was three people in the room.
19:21
Was there three? Seems like there was 3.
19:23
Seems like. Yeah.
19:25
All had a mic on and talked into the white hat.
19:27
It was great. All right, let's get Jeff in
19:29
here. He wants to chime in.
19:31
Hello, Jeff. How are you?
19:33
Doing well, a couple quick shout outs.
19:35
There's a boxing match. I know I have no idea what this
19:38
market does for boxing, it's a dying sport, but Terence
19:42
Crawford against Canelo on Netflix Terence Crawford as an
19:47
underdog winning going up to the right of.
19:50
Omaha. Pride of Omaha out, out boxing,
19:54
Canelo looking, You know, Canelo's been almost lighted out
19:57
since Mayweather a long time ago.
20:00
And Terence, I mean, put on a clinic.
20:03
I mean the speed, the move. And it was a unanimous decision,
20:06
right? It was it was unanimous, but the
20:09
biggest again, the take away for me when you go up 3 weight
20:12
classes, you're not supposed to take those punches.
20:14
And he was taking punches like he was living around the 1:50
20:18
one 54162 weight class. He just moved up to 1, 47 a
20:22
couple years ago. He lives in that 140, maybe 140.
20:26
7 Was it on Netflix, Jeff? Yeah, it was on Netflix.
20:29
And so it's no pay-per-view other than you, if you have
20:31
Netflix, you got to fight. Yes.
20:34
Got you. Well, I'll say this, I talked to
20:35
my son yesterday and and who works at Circa and he has he
20:39
said that he's never seen it busier for for boxing, took more
20:43
bets. Yeah, so it was swamped and I
20:46
saw some pictures of stadium swim and it was elbow to elbow.
20:49
And that's a big facility. Anyways, go ahead.
20:52
So I was at a friend of mine gave me cheap tickets yesterday.
20:58
Billy, my girlfriend's first game NFL experience.
21:02
Tailgating was awesome. The weather was awesome, the
21:06
fans on both sides awesome, and I just want to just be frank.
21:11
I'm not a Chief fan, so I'm going to kind of give you
21:14
straight up the middle of my thoughts.
21:16
The Chiefs are in trouble. Chief Nation, you are in
21:18
trouble. Music to Ken's ears.
21:22
You can't. No, you can't run the ball
21:25
besides Mahomes. You can't.
21:28
It's very hard from Holmes to go down the field.
21:30
I'm talking 15 yards. I understand there's receivers,
21:33
Hurts. I've got all that.
21:35
They need to get on the phone and they need to get Kyra kill
21:38
back in Kansas City ASAP. Their defense, their defense was
21:42
fine. They stopped Saquan after about
21:44
the first quarter. He held a Saquan.
21:46
If they held him in check. I thought they did a pretty good
21:48
job with Hertz. You know, that tip, that pit
21:52
ball that Kelsey had on the goal line, large, huge, very big
21:56
deal. But if Kansas City, I love when,
22:00
if there's a Kansas City fan that calls in or you know, the
22:02
guys that you bring in that are, you know that right?
22:04
For Kansas City, they play Baltimore in two weeks and I
22:07
don't know what that's going to do.
22:08
I know it's in Kansas City. But if you think that right now
22:11
Kansas City is better than Baltimore or Buffalo, I haven't
22:14
seen it. These fans need the layoff, the
22:17
Bud Light or the Bush Light and look through and look through
22:20
your eyes. Kansas City.
22:22
It's not just as top of the AFCI don't know if they're going to
22:26
win their division. Tick tock to you.
22:29
I'm with you. I I think it's well, we'll see.
22:32
Jeff, thanks for the call. I appreciate it.
22:33
But I, I don't disagree with what you said, but now I didn't
22:36
see a ton of the game. I was watching the the Colts
22:38
screw the Broncos late and they get they look, they forgot
22:41
themselves. So so JK Dobbins picks up a
22:44
first down clocks in Denver's favor.
22:47
Tick, tick, tick, tick. Decides to spike the ball.
22:52
He spiked the ball after he picked up.
22:53
Ran for 12 yards. Spiked the ball.
22:55
Yeah. OK.
22:56
Delayed game, 5 yards. Go back.
22:58
Next play is holding. Will Lutz has a chance to win
23:00
the football. Well, to put them up by 5 points
23:03
or whatever it was. Clanks off the upright, opens
23:06
the door then. The Colts can finish.
23:10
And try. That's the point.
23:11
Here's the thing. Colts are good.
23:13
Colts are good. 400 He's 12 to one in the Comeback Player of
23:17
the Year, by the way. 7.1 yards per play, 6 for the Broncos. 473
23:23
yards against that Denver defence.
23:24
Indianapolis easily could have won this game.
23:27
They haven't. Punted all year.
23:28
Yes. September 27th, 1998.
23:32
The first time we saw the yellow.
23:34
Line. Nice.
23:35
Thank you, baseball. Benny, let's get let's get Steve
23:39
in here. Hi, Steve.
23:39
How are you? Good guys, How are you?
23:42
What's up? They, a wise man, told me to the
23:45
game of the week was Cal against Minnesota.
23:48
Yes, a wise man did didn't. He and I'm wondering from a
23:52
future standpoint for Cal to win the ACC, they avoid Clemson,
23:58
Georgia Tech, Miami and Florida State the rest of the way in
24:02
conference play. Do they really?
24:06
That's an advantageous schedule if there ever was 1 you.
24:10
Can get the golden bears right now going through Not listed at
24:16
That's not listed right now What?
24:18
Yeah. Got Duke, Louisville, Georgia
24:22
Tech, Clemson, Miami at the top. Not seen them listed on
24:25
DraftKings. I'll keep looking though.
24:26
Yeah, Steve, worth a. Look, they got a quarterback.
24:29
Sagapulitelli, what was that? Was that close trend?
24:31
Pretty good. Who?
24:33
Who will buy? Him for next.
24:34
Year, that's a great. Well, he was on Oregon's campus
24:36
for like a minute. And they let him go.
24:39
Well, because they had Dante. More and there and he's a
24:41
freshman. Yes, so they were OK in that
24:44
Ave. Lefty, he's a hell of a player.
24:46
That's a good point though, Steve, because Cal's going to
24:48
have to pony up, aren't they? He's a hell of a thank you,
24:51
Steve. Appreciate you listening.
24:51
Glad you watched the game. Did you see much of it?
24:54
I did. Yeah, I had that one on late
24:56
night and it was pretty good. ACC, Let's go over to show all.
25:00
There we go. They're still not listed.
25:03
This is at FanDuel. Where are the Golden Bears?
25:08
Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, SMU.
25:10
There's Cal there. They are 27 to 1.
25:14
Mission for the heavy heads in that conference, that's
25:17
advantageous. 27 to 1. Geron Cavu, Keva Sagapulitelli,
25:24
A lefty, and he's accurate as hell.
25:27
He's accurate as hell. Doesn't run it a ton, but he's a
25:30
heck of a player. 14 to one to make the playoff.
25:32
Are they? Yeah.
25:34
Danny Dimes, 12 to win, to be come back.
25:35
Can he? He does qualify.
25:37
For that, right? Yeah, coming back from
25:39
awfulness, but. Yeah, could.
25:41
Too bad he couldn't have waited a couple more weeks not to be
25:44
off JJ McCarthy real quick. Oh yeah, you're right, aren't
25:47
you? I think so.
25:48
I think so too. Goes too fast for him.
25:50
It does. Can't process when you have
25:53
better players, it's easy to win a lot of games.
25:57
Wasn't asked to do a lot. Nope, Atlanta's got a good
25:59
defense. Yeah, they're, they got to be
26:02
kicking themselves. They're not 2 and O yeah, that
26:05
was a winnable game, Yeah. I don't disagree.
26:07
But yeah, that defense that we've been here for years and
26:10
years and years, got to fix the pass rush.
26:12
They have to do it. They finally did.
26:14
The Vikings will be better. Darasaw's gonna be back.
26:16
Harrison Smith's gonna be back. That offensive line yesterday
26:19
was awful, Kelly, but. You're concerned with Kelly with
26:22
concussions. He's had a ton of them in his
26:23
career still. They're gonna be better than
26:25
that. But at home, that was a future
26:28
performance. Home opener.
26:30
Yeah, certainly not a thing of beauty.
26:32
All right, we'll come back. We'll talk to Bill Seals.
26:34
He covers Iowa State. Iowa State goes into the bye
26:37
week 4 and O they get Arizona. It's a night game, 6:00 kick on
26:42
ESPNA week from Saturday night. Miller and Condon underway on
26:45
the Monday. It's Des Moines sports station
26:47
one O 6.3 KX&O on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
26:52
Hi, Miller and Condon. Welcome back. 25 minutes before
26:54
1, Trent and I with you until 2 Bama Bob kicks off hour 2.
26:58
Scott Dr. Man on the Hawks and the Big 10, et cetera, coming up
27:02
at 1:30. Bill Seals covers Iowa State,
27:05
cyclonereport.com, cyclonereport.com for Bill, and
27:09
he's with us, Bill Trenton. Ken, thank you for coming on.
27:12
Look, it wasn't a thing of beauty, but they're four.
27:15
No. And that's the bottom line as
27:17
they head into their break. I guess we should start with The
27:20
Walking wounded. First of all, and I don't think,
27:23
correct me if I'm wrong, you'll have a coach's availability this
27:26
week. That's the way Iowa State's
27:28
handled it in the past. We may not know anything on
27:30
Conradi or on Berkel, but let's start with Berkel.
27:34
Do you know when it happened? Because I, I didn't, I, I wasn't
27:38
Privy to any buzz chatter, rumors that he got hurt during
27:43
the days leading up to the game. What happened and what do we
27:46
know, if anything? Bill, thanks for coming on.
27:49
Yeah, Appreciate you having me. I think it was a practice injury
27:53
in the days leading up to the game.
27:56
I think that he was questionable.
27:59
Leads me to believe that because he made the trip, obviously
28:03
they're limited, limited on the number of guys they can have in
28:07
that travel roster. And going into a hot game like
28:11
that where you're going to need all of that group of 70, I think
28:15
it is the number that they can travel with.
28:17
You know, they're going to bring guys that they think can play.
28:20
So I think Berkel was questionable and it just came
28:23
down to a game time decision. They decided to hold them out.
28:27
Probably a wise move and they they ended up getting the win.
28:30
They get a bye week now and Big 12 play resumes week from
28:35
Saturday. So I think a prudent move for
28:37
the staff, but I I don't think it's anything real serious with
28:40
him. Good news, certainly on that
28:42
front, Conradi just kind of confounding even that first
28:45
field goal, just something felt a little bit off there.
28:48
What can you fill us in on those details and if it comes to the
28:51
point where Conradi's out the rest of the kicking game and how
28:54
that goes? Well, that's it.
28:56
Yeah, that's a good question. It sounds like he's dealing with
28:59
a hip injury. I'm not sure if it's some kind
29:02
of hip flexor or it's just something that it sounds like he
29:05
keeps tweaking. Did so again on that that that
29:11
last kick that he had against Arkansas State.
29:14
You know, what confounds their problems here is that Jace
29:18
Gilbert was also out. He had been handling the short
29:22
punts, the the kickoffs. So he he went out early, I think
29:27
just had the one kick against South Dakota and then Conradi
29:32
took over and he's been dealing with the this hip injury.
29:36
And that's kind of pushed Chase Smith into action, who was a
29:40
former a high school quarterback in eastern Iowa and also just
29:44
happened to punt for his team and and do some kicking and did
29:48
a good job. They brought him in as a a
29:50
preferred walk on and he's a true freshman.
29:52
But as we saw in that game against Arkansas State, I am not
29:57
sure that that leg is is matured enough like some of these other
30:02
guys on the roster. So I think you're going to see a
30:04
lot with the him with kickoffs. It's going to be a 15 to 20 yard
30:09
line boot and then they're going to have to be really sharp on
30:12
the return coverage with him. And then we'll we'll see on
30:16
field goals that it's it hasn't really been tested a whole lot
30:20
yet as far as like the the field goal kicking goes.
30:24
So we'll we'll see on that. If Conrarti's not back Conrarti.
30:28
It was one for one in field goals against the Arkansas State
30:33
Saturday, but Smith didn't didn't get in for an attempt.
30:36
Yeah. Well, so this sounds like with
30:39
Canardy, if it is a hip flexor or point or whatever it is, that
30:42
this might not be something that's, you know, just heals
30:45
itself. Could this linger, Bill?
30:47
Do you know anything about that? Yeah.
30:49
Oh, yeah, yeah, I think it, I think it's probably, it's
30:52
probably going to bug him the rest of the season.
30:54
I would think, you know, I'm not a doctor.
30:57
I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night or anything.
31:00
But I, I mean, with a hip injury like this and he's already, it
31:04
already has been lingering for a few weeks now.
31:07
So I think it's something that the the coaching staff's just
31:10
going to have to monitor as as things move forward.
31:13
But gosh, it'd be a a big deal if they can at least get Jace
31:17
Gilbert back to help with to help with some of that.
31:21
And, and who knows, you know, he could maybe be a guy that they
31:25
push into field goal action again as well on maybe some of
31:28
the longer distances. Trey Bell had his best game in a
31:31
Cyclone uniform, had the pick, but just all over the field
31:34
making plays and really look tremendous.
31:37
Lindenwood is where he came in from.
31:40
Lindenwood. Let's say the emergence
31:43
continues for Trey Bell and I understand the way that they
31:45
play with the safeties and things going, but could we get
31:48
to a point potentially with John Tez Williams on the other side
31:51
that you know what, we think we really have something here with
31:53
Trey Bell. Let's move Jeremiah Cooper back
31:55
over to his natural position safety and then with the bye
31:58
week here, something that maybe they could tinker with if if
32:01
Bell continues to make those kind of performances.
32:05
Well, yeah, he he's versatile enough to to do something like
32:09
that. I, I think they like what
32:10
they've gotten out of those safeties so far this season.
32:16
And Marcus Neil continues to show up.
32:19
Tayshawn James had one of his best games, I think, and he came
32:23
back in and is starting now. Kaijaan Cummings, Coleman, I
32:28
think he took over his role. Jameson Patton, another one
32:31
that's been solid. So I think that they like the
32:34
rotation that they got at safety right now.
32:38
You know, one one question mark, though, I I think moving forward
32:42
as far as the cornerbacks go is John Tez Williams only played 12
32:47
snaps against the Red Wolves on Saturday.
32:50
I'm not sure if that was a cramping issue or if there's an
32:53
injury for him moving forward. So I, I think again, we're,
32:59
we're not going to know for, for over a week here and, and maybe
33:03
we don't even know until that first availability report comes
33:07
out next Wednesday night as they'll release 1 going into a
33:10
Big 12 game. So as far as Williams's status
33:15
and if that was a serious thing. So I think right now though,
33:18
Cooper for the foreseeable future probably going to remain
33:21
at corner. Do you have Pro Football Focus
33:24
numbers in front of you? So, Bill, if so, how did the how
33:27
did the old line grayed out and, and I guess who in particular
33:30
because they did a lot, a lot of shuffling during the game.
33:33
Yeah, they did. They did.
33:35
They got Trevor Borer in there for his first, first action of
33:40
the season. So it it graded out, it graded
33:44
out OK. And then this is always kind of
33:46
been a unit that that has passed blocked better than than run
33:49
block. You probably say that about a
33:51
lot of offensive lines around the country.
33:53
So it's surprisingly so Brendan Black, a guy that started for a
33:59
couple years now, seemingly maybe had his back against the
34:03
wall with Bore coming back in and Black responds and and it
34:09
was the highest graded of the offensive lineman against
34:13
Arkansas State. So he played 56 of 63 snaps.
34:18
So, you know, maybe I think that was the the competition, though.
34:21
It's always I think always a good thing and probably was with
34:24
black and how he graded out so that that allowed them to keep
34:28
Boniface at center then and keep black where he is and then bore.
34:34
Now who knows? Maybe it's a competition between
34:37
him and Dylan Barrett at another one of those guard positions.
34:41
But you know, so far it you look at the snap counts in that
34:45
Arkansas State game and and Barrett still received about
34:50
well if my math correct about 67% of the snaps in that game.
34:54
So I think it though it will be a competition moving forward
34:58
maybe between those two guys. Outside of getting healthy,
35:01
getting a little bit of a break and a respite after what they've
35:03
gone through these last four weeks, what do you want to see
35:05
during the bye week when they come back out there against
35:08
Arizona? What are some of the things that
35:10
you believe they need to key in on and get better as we get
35:12
ready for get back into Big 12 play?
35:15
Yeah, I think that the on the defensive side, I'm going to
35:19
start. This has been a group here that
35:22
has struggled at times to get off the field the defensively on
35:26
3rd down. They they did that a couple of
35:30
those drives against Iowa aim seem to be teetering a little
35:33
bit and it it bore out against again against Arkansas State.
35:40
So I think that means a defense that tackles a little bit
35:44
better, tackles in space better. We saw Arkansas State with that
35:48
mobile quarterback and Rainer and just gashed them.
35:52
So they're going to need to be on their keys there.
35:55
I think with with that. So tackling better pass continue
36:01
to kind of Peck away at the, the pass rush end of things.
36:05
You shift over to the offensive side of the ball and maybe a
36:09
little more clarity. I'm, I'm going to be putting up
36:11
some, some question marks too on my site, by the way, But you can
36:14
look for a little more details on all these.
36:17
But the, the, the wide receiver group, I think we need to get a
36:22
little more clarity there and who, you know, who's the white
36:27
wide receiver one or who's the alpha guy.
36:29
I think Lucas and Sean asked me about this on Friday.
36:32
I'm not sure we're ever gonna get to a point maybe with this
36:35
group where we have a wide receiver 123 it in in Iowa and
36:41
Matt Campbell even said the midpoint of the season.
36:44
We're probably not going to really know what this wide
36:46
receiver group looks like. But with the bye weeks now worth
36:49
of practices get back into game prep, sure be nice to see maybe
36:53
chase so well start to kind of carve out a bigger niche.
36:57
And we saw it with Xavier Townsend with what he did in
37:00
that game, that big 44 yard catch that that he had.
37:04
So maybe he's emerging a little bit, but likewise, yeah, yeah.
37:08
And in addition, we know what they've got with Bramer and
37:11
Berkel, but that should be nice to get a little more clarity on
37:14
how that wide receiver group's going to look.
37:16
Yeah, I'm surprised Bramer hasn't been a bigger part of the
37:18
game plan or because he had I don't know how many targets he
37:21
had. He had that one unfortunately
37:22
look at happens right. Unfortunately, the shows up in
37:26
Rocco's box score, but but Bramer hasn't hasn't had that.
37:31
Oh my God, there's a, there's an NFL tight end game in the last
37:34
couple anyways, and I 'cause I'm, I'm confident he has that
37:37
in him. Yeah, well, I I think with with
37:41
him, he he seemed to really thrive with Berkel being being
37:46
out for one reason or another. I'm sure ones who are a little
37:50
more well versed and the XS and OS and breaking down game tape.
37:54
A football could, could tell you.
37:55
But you know, maybe with having a guy like Berkel out there, it
37:59
takes somebody off of a Bramer. But seem like in that Arkansas
38:04
State game, they were really able to key on him and, and take
38:07
him out of the game. And Kenny, they're going to need
38:10
to get him a little more involved too.
38:12
I think with the, you know, the wide receivers with when you had
38:15
Higgins and you had Noel, they they weren't really going to
38:18
take somebody and, and just put him on Bramer to try and take
38:21
him out of the game entirely. So yeah, I mean that they've got
38:25
to get him more involved though, and most definitely moving
38:28
forward. Bill Seal, cyclonereport.com
38:30
just because those cyclones are off, the content won't take a
38:33
week off at cyclonereport.com part of on three.
38:36
Thank you, Bill. We'll talk to you next Monday.
38:38
Appreciate you coming on. Thank you.
38:40
Sounds good guys, have a good one.
38:42
Yep, good to talk to Bill Seals on Iowa State.
38:44
We'll come back, finish up our #1 Miller and Condon talking
38:47
sports with you on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
38:50
Hi, Miller and Condon, welcome back.
38:51
Final couple of minutes, first hour of the program.
38:54
Didn't watch a ton of baseball over the weekend, in fact, very
38:57
little. That's more.
38:58
Than me. So did you see Rizzo on Saturday
39:02
as they honored Rizzo? He's out in the Bleacher.
39:04
I saw that he can't make this up.
39:05
Went to the bar, was buying people drink.
39:08
Buying people drinks. But is he sitting in the
39:09
bleachers at Wrigley Field? I don't know which one of the
39:12
Cubs hit it, or even if it was a Cub.
39:14
Could have been Ray. The ball went right to him.
39:16
A home run. He dropped it.
39:20
It's awesome, but good for him. The face of the 2016 World
39:25
Series champion Chicago Cubs retires as a pretty good, pretty
39:29
good ceremony. Bottle accounts and see who he's
39:32
sitting with. No, I get Eddie Vedder, I get
39:34
that. But you know who is between
39:36
them? I give you a million guesses.
39:39
Cindy Crawford, right? I mean, good for them.
39:44
Yes, absolutely on one hand. But I, I guess I don't
39:46
understand the connection. It is odd.
39:48
It isn't it odd anyways? Your Blue Jays looking to be in
39:51
good shape. I think they are, Trent.
39:52
Just just when you think they are, that's something.
39:55
Cubs 5 1/2 back. Yeah, they're on catch.
39:57
The the path isn't there. The Jays are starting a kid
40:00
tonight, their first overall pick last year.
40:03
Oh, really? As pitcher all the way, he's
40:05
already made it to the bigs, so we'll see.
40:07
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