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Weekend Recap with Iowa's win at Rutgers, NFL Week 3, Chad Leistikow talks Hawkeyes & Bruce Pearl retires · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon on a
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Monday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network
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back at it for the next 6 hours. Appreciate you starting your
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afternoon here with us. Trent Condon, myself, Kendall,
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or we will be with you until 2O clock and then off the bench.
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Sean Roberts, Lucas Strain at that time.
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Here's what's coming up with Trent and I at the bottom of the
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hour. The columnist for the Des Moines
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Register, Hawkeye's columnist Chad Leista Cow will be here
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year. He was in New Jersey over the
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weekend and we will talk to Chad, what he saw with his own
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two eyes about that Hawkeye victory over Rutgers.
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Nice 10 point comfortable win on Friday night.
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Lichtakau at the bottom of the hour, Bama, Bob Trenton, I will
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recap the weekend in college football.
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We'll do that to kick off our second hour at one O clock.
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And then Bill Seals previews what lies ahead for Iowa State.
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They will host Arizona. It's a whiteout 6 O clock kick
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on Saturday night and Bill Seals will talk about about that,
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where the Cyclones are four games into the season, etcetera.
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Maybe some Big 12 stuff as well. And we'll make way for Mr.
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Monday Night with his pick tonight.
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Just a classic, potentially classic of a Monday night or
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Baltimore and Detroit, those two teams.
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If we can't be in front of your TV, you can keep your radio
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right here. And we have the game on Des
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Moines Sports Station, the flagship of the Iowa Sports
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Radio Network. Coverage starts at six, kick off
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about 7:15 or thereabouts. How was your weekend, Trent?
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Pretty good, got a little apple picking in.
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Other than that, I'm pretty lazy.
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Uh huh. Did you get the apple picking
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done in time to see your bears run the cow?
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Yes, this was Saturday. We went right after soccer, so
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got that done. Was able to get back and get
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back for the afternoon window so got that knocked out.
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Cross that one off the list. Be a good dad, good husband and
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and do it the wife one before. You knew it.
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Before you know it, you'll be searching for a Christmas tree.
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Oh absolutely. Well, no, we got artificial.
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Yeah. So we're good there we're good
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there don't have to worry about that.
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But I'm sure there's gonna be another one before we get to
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Halloween and some of the pumpkin patch is gonna be there.
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But for sure good weekend tons of football and boy, I, I don't
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I, I guess we start with the Hawkeyes Friday have.
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To it was it was what a start to the game.
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Obviously region doing what region does.
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Boy, he's unbelievable. He really and truly.
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Is unless he's playing the cyclist.
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Unless he's playing Iowa State, and I don't know if that was
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just a bad day for him or a really good day for Iowa State
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game plan. Maybe a little bit of both.
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And at the end of the first half, I mean, I thought, Oh my
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God, first of all, what the hell are you doing kicking anywhere
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near right? And then you're watching the
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clock, you're watching him. You're trying to is there a
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pathway get out of bounds, get down, you know, give the give
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the opportunity to kick a field goal.
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But obviously the clock ran out before Stevens had a chance to
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run on and maybe put a three spot on the board.
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But look at it, great game. Gronowski with his legs is such
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a different difference maker back there.
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Missed a couple of throws, but he's his arrow is pointing in
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the right direction. Starting to see some quarterback
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play. They're quite honestly haven't
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seen in a long time right. And you have to feel good about
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that Now. The good, good news is it was
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you. You saw it on Friday.
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The bad news is here come the Hoosiers, right?
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And we'll get to that at some point because my good God, look
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out. But so many, so many different
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pathways you can go. Obviously the Howard Pass and
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catch was remarkable. I'd love to see that.
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Love to see Moulton back in the playing field.
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That was good, mentioned Gronelski with his legs, the
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the, the adjustments that Parker and his secondary and his
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defense made in the second-half. Those windows, and I give Kelek
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Manis credit, man, he was throwing that ball into tight
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windows. He's a better quarterback than I
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think he gets credit for when he finished 2440 / 300 yards.
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But and those windows were tight and it was just a different
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defense in the second-half. Yeah, Calico Madness has
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definitely improved throughout his career, but I think the
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credit needs to go with those wide receivers.
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No, they're good. They're good dudes.
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Ian Strong is his. I don't know where he ranks in
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the pecking ward of the big. 10 number two behind Jeremiah
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Smith, you can make an argument. Yeah, yeah.
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I'll listen to that. And if that's Ian Strong, not at
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100% exactly, I don't want to see that dude at 100%.
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You're exactly right, because he was incredible.
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The defensive backs for Iowa in the second-half were playing
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well. They were playing great, they
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were right with them. That drive that gave Rutgers a
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lead 2824, they were right there on 4 different passes and the
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guys just made plays. And they've thrown in the tight
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windows and the guys made plays and.
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That's what happens. You mentioned the game plan in
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the second-half, and I can't remember Iowa defense getting
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shredded like that in the first half and then not being able to
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clamp down. You know, we see that so often.
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All right, they're going to give up some yards in between the
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20s. And there was no clamping doubt
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at all. They did not have an answer or
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response. It was guessing.
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Every guess was wrong. It was that they were making.
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I thought the highlight, well, obviously region, but after you
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after you started to see that they couldn't cover anybody.
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I thought the highlight might be the Julian Edelman Cooper to
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Jean commercial. Did you see that for Denali?
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The begin is pretty good actually, but I hadn't seen it
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before, but but yes, all of a sudden the coverage was night
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and day in that second-half. And and and all of them, not
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just one of them that tightened up, it was it was all of it was
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Luttmer who was beaten badly early in the football game.
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Him coming to life. Yeah, adjustments at the at the
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half give him credit. You mentioned Dayton Howard, a
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play that preceded that, a couple of plays when he got
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held, and I think he was running the same route on that one, on
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that third down play where he's getting held.
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The throw was over to the right for it was third down.
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They weren't going to be off the field and putting it back to
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Rutgers defensive holding. It was Dayton Howard trying to
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get up the field. That kid that was playing
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defense came off the field and where did they target?
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They went right back to Dayton. Howard went up and made that
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play. This is the Mark Gronowski we
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saw Friday night. I thought we were going to get
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from the get go. We did.
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And whatever the excuses, whatever the reason, that's not
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the guy that we saw. This is the guy I anticipated we
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see shaking off the rust too amped up, whatever it was.
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This is the guy. He had a couple of drops again,
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including a big one early. Missed a couple of throws that
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he he piss him off I'm sure when he watches.
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Him. Yeah, the Wortworth 1.
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With one was bad and there was one on the third down and five
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to the right hash there. Anyways, you missed a couple,
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but it's going to happen, right? How much?
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Bonex missed 3 of him yesterday. God, he's bad.
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Anyways, we'll get to the NFL at some point.
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But Gronowski was tons better, you know, And the arrows
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pointing in the right direction. One guy really felt bad for it
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is we heard leading into the game, Moulton, he's going to go
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because he has to go, but he probably could use another week
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and then he had to play a lot more than probably they wanted
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to. I think he.
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Had more carries than anybody. Because jazzy on Patterson went
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down. Now we've talked about Jazz
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finally getting the opportunity, finally get this is going to be
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a game where I thought people were going to see him run it 20
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times and then. Probably that was the game plan
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going into I would imagine. And then he sprains his ankle
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and he's going to be and we'll see and we'll get availability
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tomorrow and we'll hear a little bit of more.
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But I just, I felt bad for the guy that has stuck around.
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How many guys would stick around in a a running backroom with
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this kind of depth that has shown ability?
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At a minimum, he could go back home to Florida and play for FIU
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or something like that and probably be a starter.
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But instead he stuck it out. Here's the opportunity.
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And then he turns his ankle and just, I really felt bad for him
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in the moment that that happened.
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I was a little bit surprised we didn't see more McNeil and we
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just saw him for the one carry in there.
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And it was, and it was a successful play of memory.
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Search it was, but it was just because of Bolton I think now
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ball security, he almost had one pop out too, as I always.
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Meant. Maybe that has something to do
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with it? No, no, Bolton almost fumble
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that ball when it was when they had the lead.
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It was 3128. It was the run.
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I think it was the first run of it.
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He's coming up. It was like a 10 yard gain, but
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as he's going down, that ball popped out.
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Yeah, there's. A good camera angle of it coming
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out. Excellent point.
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Excellent point. Well, it's good to see him in
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there. Nice win on the road.
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I don't care if it's Rutgers. Rutgers is a better team than
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the Rutgers we remember back in the day.
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Shiano's got that team going well.
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Their defense isn't the greatest in the world, but you know, and
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it looked like in the first half it was too bad defenses.
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But Iowa wins and wins comfortably.
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And at the end of the day, they put one in the win column and
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get set to face an Indiana team. Oh my good God, get out of their
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way. This.
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This team is on a absolute. Roll right now.
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I mean, is that the biggest national story of the week?
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Two of them, Texas Tech, Texas. I want to put them in the
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conversation. Well, let's start with Indiana
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because it connects here to Iowa.
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We'll get to get to the Big 12 in Texas Tech, But Indiana, I
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told you I liked them coming to the week.
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Yep. I was never a believer in
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Illinois all offseason. I didn't anticipate that.
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Though no, they crushed them. The inability of Illinois's
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offensive line to do anything, that's a problem, and you can
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get away with that against Duke and Zig.
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Daddy said as much. Well, they turned it over.
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That's what he said. We don't turn it over.
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No, and they didn't, Mendoza. Is absolutely legit, and he
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should be. If you like to buy futures on
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Heisman tickets, you gotta get one on him.
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You think so? I do.
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I'm not saying he's gonna win it, but he's a guy that shot
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now. I mean, I look back the
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preseason. Who's 50 to one?
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Yeah, he's 5 to 1 now. Really. 12:50 Somewhere in
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there, yeah, he's a he's a short, short price.
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And I like Altmeyer. I like both quarterbacks going
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into that game, but Mendoza was so he was 21 out of 23.
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Trent. And it's just RPOSI mean it's up
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and down the field and the running game is excellent.
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Sarat is one of the best wide receivers you're going to find
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out there. And this defense?
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And they were making plays. They were running free.
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Altmeyer didn't look like he had a clue at times.
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But it's back to that Illinois offensive line.
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They were not good enough against Indiana and they will
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take any little slight. The Hoosiers will sure they
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will. Cignetti.
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This is something that he is on that is taking it.
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The slights that he's gone through in his career and using
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them and the motivation where. Does he end up?
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Is this it for him? Is this what is he 63?
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You know, it's a good question, Trent, He looks like he's late
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50s, early 60s. So somewhere the does he have
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one more move in him? Well, let me Google him because
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that's what he likes people to do, right?
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Google him. That's right.
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Kurt Zanetti is 64 years. Old all right, so maybe he
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doesn't have a lot left. If you're, if you're a here's
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one, if you're a Florida, if you're an Alabama, Do you mean
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do you want to hire a guy that's 64?
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Well, Alabama would make a lot of sense.
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He was there for, what, four years under Saban?
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Yeah. He was, yeah, but 64.
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Fix the program, get you a good 5-6 years maybe, and then figure
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it out from there. Well, he's.
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He wins. He sure does.
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And he's he's bringing a scary football team into Kennick
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Stadium on on Saturday, 2:30 The kickoff on that one airs down
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the hall 1040 WHO? So a lot of the lines that
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started to post on Saturday night had the Hoosiers favored
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by 6 1/2. I saw both FanDuel and
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DraftKings I had that Saturday night and then it was up to 7
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1/2 in both of those places pretty quickly.
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And then with Circa, the sharpest book out there, they
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posted four, they released four, and they got bludgeoned right
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away. This is going to be all week
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long. If you listen to anything in the
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gambling space, you're going to hear that everybody is going to
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be on the Hoosiers. The public money is going to be
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there, and I would anticipate that early money.
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Do you have? Breakdowns now of of money
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that's come in on the game. I do they're, you know, these
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ones are early in the week because there's so few bets.
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Normally I don't think it's the best time to get a good
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encompassing look, but I'm going to guess.
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And there it is, 87% of the money, 75% of the tickets
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already on the Hoosiers. It is 7 1/2 at circa 7 1/2 at
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the big books. There are a few sevens in the
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market. 2 sevens in the market. Has anyone hit 8 or do what?
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What do you expect this circa did.
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Yesterday and they got up to 8 1/2, I believe.
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Yeah, 8 1/2. And then the buyback started at
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the 8 1/2 number. So then it's been back and forth
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between 7:00 and 7:00 and 1/2 at Circa.
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That's probably what you're gonna see throughout the most of
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the week until we get to Friday, Saturday when the public money
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really starts to come in. Yeah, fascinating.
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Certainly scary. A scary, scary thought of what's
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coming. We'll see.
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I mean, we've had good teams at Kinnick Stadium in the past,
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right? And it's gone the Hawks way.
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We'll see if that's the case this week.
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I want to get to Texas Tech and Utah because I thought Utah was
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going into the season. I thought this was a a team that
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was poised to poised to win a conference.
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I, I like Texas Tech. I said as much.
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I didn't like the way their schedule set up for them.
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That was my my big question when it came to when it came to Texas
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Tech because seemingly all of their most difficult games were
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were on the road. They had to go to take on a Utah
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team, They had to go to Arizona State, they had to go to K
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state. Now obviously that game doesn't
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look as daunting as it did at at one point, but they from the
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jump you could tell where where I thought Utah had the best
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offensive line in football. That's what we were told pre
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season. The defensive line for Texas
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Tech. I don't know how much money they
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invested in that unit, but money well spent because this is a
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bunch of dudes. This is a really good football
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team and they're going to be a pain in the ass.
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You know, one of the biggest things we need to talk about
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that offensive line, I just go back to the trace reportal, was
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Zambrano, their right tackle, who was at Illinois State.
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Iowa got involved with him right away and they liked him.
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You know, he'll compete. We'll see if he can be a left
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tackle and kind of what they ended up with Bryce George, but
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we'll see. But they didn't see him as a
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surefire. I wouldn't see him as a surefire
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starter like this is a no doubter and then he goes to
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Texas Tech and gets all this money and like, oh boy, if if
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they're spending for guys that at least for one of them, you.
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Thought he was fringe. Maybe at that level, yeah.
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Zaprotos played well and the rest of that offensive line the
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less the rest of those guys have also clicked.
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I don't want to fall victim though of the final score in
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this game because I don't think it's indicative of what it
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actually it was close for 3/4 it was and I don't want to.
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But don't forget their starting quarterback got hurt.
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Morton got hurt. Now Hamlin came in.
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He was really good. He he was better.
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My depend, you know, he was good.
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Morton threw 2 picks of the game and.
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So does damn fear, by the way, who's maybe you're not quite as
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good as maybe some of the press clippings would allude.
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To He can run, yeah, but it's the same thing we said coming
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into the air. He's a great runner, you know,
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Questions about the passing. Is Hammond a freshman or a
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sophomore? I think he's a freshman.
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He's a freshman. A red shirt freshman.
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Yeah, OK. Yep.
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Do they have a controversy though?
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I mean, we'll see about the injury to Morton.
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Not expected to miss but all of a sudden.
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Are they off this? Week they are, and maybe their
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most difficult game. Left Texas Techs.
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Might be their next one. At Houston.
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Yeah, Houston's good. Houston's good.
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Houston's good and they'll be ready.
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Willie Fritz, Dude wins. Yeah, Google him too and he wins
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everywhere. JUCO.
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Doesn't matter where he's been, he has been a winner every
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single stop along the way. Just those were the two teams
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that caught my eye. This.
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Weekend. Yeah, they did.
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I just want to maybe temper. I like Texas Tech a lot.
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I liked him coming there. I had been the Big 12
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Championship, as you did. However, 3410 I don't think was
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completely indicative of the way that.
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Game. No, the game was closed for a
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while. No 100%.
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All right, let's spend a couple of minutes.
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Since Iowa State didn't play, let's let's talk about the NFL
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in this block. I guess we got to start with
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your Bears. Now we I watched two weeks ago.
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I didn't watch a ton of it, but I saw enough of it.
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Russell Wilson beat the Cowboys. It looked like Russell Wilson in
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his prime in Seattle because there was no prime at Denver,
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Pittsburgh or now New York. So he beat the brakes off the
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Cowboys made a bad play in the game, but numbers wise, he put
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up huge numbers. So is this Cowboys defense just
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bad it's or the Bears? Are they they're going in the
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right direction or is it just maybe a little bit of both?
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Did you see the the flea flicker?
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I did on only on on replay. I mean, I think it looked dead
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when it started. I mean, see 8 yard pass, 8 yard
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flea flicker. You don't you don't throw the
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ball backwards that far, right? Right.
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And it worked. That's how bad this Dallas
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defense is. I think that's just that shows
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you there's guys running Jerry. Jones said today they're a
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playoff team. They expanding.
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They're going up to 16 in each. Yeah.
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Playoff team. Worried about Jerry.
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Come on, Jerry. That's not a playoff team.
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No, she has with that defense. They are brutal.
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I thought DAC played well. Did he?
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Yeah, he was. The two interceptions, one of
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them was a tip ball, the other one was late and had.
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A Chuck. So the Bears defense was OK?
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It was all right. Wasn't great by me.
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I didn't say, oh, things are fixed or anything like that.
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But Caleb fixed. No, not fixed.
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He had a great game against a bad team, a bad defense.
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That's what he was able to do. But no, that is not anything
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that I say. All right, everything's good.
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It's going to be hunky Dory going forward.
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Now for the Bears. Good win, fun win, got to win.
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Those are all things. Yes, absolutely still this week
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now do it again you go to Vegas well, let's do winnable.
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It's a winnable game before you hit it early by this year get to
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2 and two get a little bit of hope.
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But if you drop this one in Vegas, who has their own issues
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spot with Gino, how about? Genti too.
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Oh absolutely. Look at a couple of the guys
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went behind him, including offensive line when you get
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blocked. Bunch of dudes when you're 678
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guys away for being a good team. You don't need a running back.
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You don't need a running back. You don't need a running back.
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I agree with you 100%. We'll, we'll see how that one
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works out, but boy, oh boy, have to be some questions there.
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So I watched I, I think one of the best teams in in the AFC, in
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the Chargers. I didn't see your Bears because
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watching my Broncos go down in flames again on the last second
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field goal. Justin Herbert's really good.
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Justin Herbert is, I know the playoffs aren't there, but you
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got to get to him and and have a decent team around your
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supporting cast. I think he does.
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I think he does. Keenan Allen looked like he hit
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the mountain of youth. He absolutely did.
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He looked really good, saw a couple of plays out of a Marion
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Hampton who'd been a disappointment 2 weeks in,
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looked like maybe there was a little something there and they
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used him a whole lot more. No question that they had the
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first couple of weeks as Naja Harris.
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Quinton Johnson, who looked like a boss, absolutely is a
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legitimate WR1. I'll add Mcconkey's, and
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Mcconkey's terrific. He's going to he's going to do
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what he always. Does good, solid that defence.
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They're better. They're better.
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Yes, the offensive line concern, because I think the I know the
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Broncos got to, oh, they had to have four or five sacks in the
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game. What are the stats they had?
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They had to have team stats. Where's the sacks?
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Trent Hill, me with the sacks. Sacks. 5.
18:57
They had five sacks. 5 sacks. Yeah.
18:59
So that's a concern. Well, that was what going into
19:01
the game, I thought we'd see the return of what we thought we
19:04
were going to see out of the Broncos defense after not
19:06
forcing a pun against the Colts the week before.
19:09
Even the few shaky moments of Week 1, you know, I thought and
19:11
they were for the most part back to that level.
19:14
But Herbert makes place he. Does and Bonex doesn't.
19:17
Bonex had wide receivers running wide open, couple of them not
19:21
nobody within 10 yards down the field.
19:23
Now his he he couldn't set his feet properly and he's got a
19:27
cannon for an arm. So the 45 yards in the air,
19:30
whatever had to be that's that's not a problem.
19:33
But it was there. There was one at the end of the
19:34
game where he had no excuse and an opportunity to win the
19:37
football game and couldn't get it done.
19:39
But but the Chargers are good. The Chargers are good.
19:42
Feel awful for Naja Harris, the Achilles, you could just tell.
19:46
You can see it from behind, you know, just roll right up the
19:49
leg, back of the leg. Soon as you saw that, you know,
19:51
there goes there goes Najee Harris for the remainder of the
19:55
season. Nice win for the Brownies, got
19:58
to give them. Yes, absolutely.
20:00
Knocking off those Packers making the NFC North a little.
20:03
Bit more that defense is so good.
20:05
They really are. They really are.
20:08
I got to. I got to give something to you.
20:11
I think you'll like. What is it?
20:13
Chiefs are in trouble. Chiefs are in trouble.
20:17
Why? There is nothing.
20:21
Other than 15. When you don't have playmakers
20:25
and they don't. They don't.
20:26
They have one. Who?
20:29
Well, I I beat out of this skill set, guys.
20:32
No, they don't. They don't.
20:33
Not at this point, they don't. Kelsey's old.
20:35
He is, and he looks old. Kelsey should have retired.
20:38
He's going to be one of these guys.
20:39
I think that we're going to look like I stayed a year too long.
20:43
If Rashe Rice, there's no guarantee that he's Rasheed Rice
20:47
when he returns. He's missed a lot of.
20:49
I agree. There's no guarantee that Worthy
20:52
Worthy is a nice gadget guy, but is he a guy that's going to get
20:56
you a consistent, you know, 7 catches for 85 yards and a
20:59
touchdown every week? Well, there's going to be those
21:02
weeks, he goes. Sure, the only reason I hesitate
21:04
is look what Mahomes is turning Taekwon Fortin into the.
21:07
Guy that was cut by the Patriots.
21:09
A legitimate A legitimate threat.
21:12
This Mahomes made a couple of plays in the game yesterday.
21:15
You know what I thought is most important?
21:17
His most impressive play was it was a combined the worst play
21:20
I've ever seen him make and then the best play I've.
21:22
Ever seen him make Yep. The, the, the, the backwards
21:26
pass and how nobody on the Chiefs realized this is backward
21:30
because it happened twice. It happened twice in the game.
21:32
Pacheco got billed out. And then when it was a backwards
21:35
pass and somehow #58 or know who has for the Giants, he's got the
21:39
ball instead of just, you know, falling on it.
21:41
How Mahomes was able to steal that ball away from him and get
21:46
the ball back and a, at the very least prevent the Giants from
21:49
being set up at the 10 yard line.
21:51
What a play, What a play. What are the more interesting
21:54
parts we hear right away at the beginning?
21:55
Graham Cano's hurt, yes, And so they tried their punter.
21:59
He gets the extra. He was awful, yes, and then they
22:02
put him back out there for a short field goal.
22:04
But in today's NFL, you got a guy that's close and kicking how
22:09
you can run them out there. Kicking is so important, I know.
22:12
And now with the kickoff rule on top of it, it just it takes it
22:15
to another level. I walked away with Kansas City,
22:18
even with the win, the first one of the year, more concern going
22:21
forward than I had been all since.
22:22
No, I don't think they're a playoff team, Trent.
22:24
I don't think they're a playoff train.
22:26
And they get Baltimore this week.
22:27
Yeah, good luck. OK, I'll give you the short week
22:30
for Baltimore, but that's going to be a fantastic.
22:33
We how we got a hell of a game tonight with Baltimore.
22:35
Can Detroit win this game? Of course, I agree with you.
22:38
I agree. I think Detroit obviously better
22:41
than we what we thought they were after they got just taken
22:43
to the woodshed by the Packers. God, I love this time of year.
22:48
So much fun. All right, it's coming up on
22:49
1225. Chad Leistakow, I see.
22:52
Chad Leistakow ran 1/2 marathon over the.
22:54
Weekend. And won his age group.
22:57
Great work out of here. How about that?
22:59
We'll talk to Chad on the other side before we go to break.
23:01
One more thing I want because I don't want to forget about this.
23:04
Hats off to a guy who did it for four decades.
23:08
And what by mean did it all the changes with the Iowa Cubs and
23:12
the stadium and the floods and everything that the I Cubs have
23:16
gone through to etcetera, to working behind the scenes to get
23:20
the funding to build the ballpark, to make it look like
23:23
the gem that we have here in central Iowa.
23:26
San Bernardino be calling it a career after over 4 decades as a
23:30
general manager. Well done.
23:32
Sam Burnaby, tip of the cap to you my friend.
23:35
We'll take a time out. We'll come back.
23:36
We'll talk to Chad Leistekow. Miller and Condon.
23:39
Underway on a Monday, it's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
23:50
I'm Hillary Condon. Welcome back.
23:51
Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trent Condon, Ken Miller,
23:54
wherever listening in the state of Iowa.
23:56
Grateful that you are. Well, let's talk to the best in
23:59
his age bracket when it comes to running a half marathon.
24:02
He's Chad Leistakow. He's burning up the track
24:05
yesterday. Well done.
24:06
Chad Leistakow, how are you? Thanks guys, Appreciate it.
24:10
I'm sore today. Yeah.
24:12
Day off? Yeah, day off from running.
24:14
Good. So how did you get into that?
24:16
Obviously I see in the hall periodically you can tell you're
24:19
in really good shape. How long you been doing this and
24:21
what is this? The first time you've run in 1/2
24:25
marathon? You've been working up your way
24:26
up to it. Yeah, this is my SO.
24:29
I ran cross country in high school and long time ago.
24:32
We won state championship my senior year as a team, 1992.
24:37
So it's been a long time. So you can do the math.
24:39
I'm in the 50 to 54 age group now, so it's easier to win.
24:43
But but yeah, I just kind of got back into it in the last couple
24:46
of years. My son as a sophomore at 8:00
24:49
AM, he's on the varsity team, and my daughter is just getting
24:52
into it and she's in 7th grade. So we've all kind of gotten into
24:55
it as a family. So yeah, I just kind of got the,
24:59
you know, been ramping it up a little bit.
25:00
Thought I'd try the half and I did all right.
25:03
I was happy with. That so is the goal then 26.2 at
25:06
some point. You know what, like yesterday
25:09
was the longest round of my life I've ever run that far.
25:12
So we're going to go baby steps on that one.
25:14
And I, I think another half though, I think because I
25:17
stomped up, yeah, quite a bit in the end.
25:19
So I would like to run a little bit better.
25:21
Well, well done. Yes.
25:22
Well, Speaking of baby steps, we've seen some baby steps
25:25
forward out of Mark Garnowski at the quarterback spot.
25:28
Let's start at the top and Gronowski missed a couple, but
25:31
overall, a very solid game doing it with his legs.
25:35
One thing jumped out, listen to Kirk in the postgame press
25:37
conference, though, is maybe too many carries for it.
25:40
No, no, no, this guy, this is his strength running the
25:43
football. What do you see from the
25:44
quarterback? And hope going forward that this
25:46
is going to continue to build on what we saw Friday night.
25:50
Well, I know we'll get into the Indiana match up and that's
25:52
going to be a tougher animal here as we go.
25:54
But just in terms of, you know, how this offense has looked the
25:58
last couple weeks, I mean, UMass, you just had to roll your
26:00
eyes and just say, you know, throw whatever they wanted to
26:04
out there. Let's see if he can throw deep
26:06
against Rutgers or throw, you know, intermediate.
26:09
And he really did a pretty good job with that.
26:11
I mean, honestly, the first play of the game with a little under
26:13
thrown to Seth Anderson, but I still thought he should have
26:16
caught it or at least got API flag.
26:18
And then the second deep shot to Sam Phillips was like right on
26:21
the money and he just dropped it.
26:23
I mean that I thought Gronowski, I mean that was just kind of the
26:26
sum up of the day is they kept trying it and then they hit it
26:29
late with Dayton Howard. That was the longest pass play
26:32
of the season. I liked that they liked the
26:35
Lester's going back at it. I thought that was what was
26:37
missing against I was it not? I would say was giving that, but
26:42
I thought you could have tested Iowa State a little bit deeper
26:45
with their safety play. But anyway, that's hindsight.
26:48
But I think he's just kind of growing into the position going
26:51
into the role 4 weeks and that's about the length of spring ball.
26:54
Feel like that's he's kind of made-up for that now.
26:57
And now you sort of get to see the Granowski, you know that we
27:00
thought we were going to be watching.
27:02
And I think it's encouraging. Finally, he has.
27:04
He's got a little moxie. He's got a little, you know,
27:06
he's got a little flare out there holding his ear to the
27:08
crowd. I.
27:10
Think that's, I think it's, I think it's, it gets your offense
27:13
to rally right around you. You know, I think that's that's
27:15
a really big deal. Got to have confidence in the
27:17
quarterback position. Absolutely.
27:19
Kamari Moulton, I'm not sure that it was going to plan that
27:22
he was going to lead the team in carries.
27:24
Obviously the Patterson injury probably was the the 100% the
27:28
reason behind that. But what any update on
27:31
Patterson? What do you expect expecting to
27:33
hear tomorrow, Chad? I haven't seen it.
27:36
I don't think they've come out with the depth chart yet, unless
27:38
I just missed it in the last few minutes, but it looked like a
27:42
pretty decent ankle sprain to me.
27:45
So my guess would be that, you know, he might be on the shelf
27:49
this week to try to get him to the bye week.
27:53
But I think that's OK Moulton was, you know, Moulton's our
27:56
best running back. And I thought he looked pretty
27:58
good. He maybe just like, was a little
28:00
excited too much. I felt like he tripped over his
28:02
own feet a little bit, had some nice holes.
28:05
But he's the best back. So I think he gives him the best
28:07
chance to win on Saturday. And and certainly Nathan McNeil
28:11
is, would be my #2 if it was my pick because he's just got,
28:15
every time we've seen him, he's got something.
28:17
He got one carry the other day, made 10 yards out of it and got
28:20
a flag, a face mask flag. So really 23.
28:23
And so that would be about 1-2 punch on Saturday, but they
28:28
really don't have that much after that.
28:29
I mean, Terrell Washington junior has been a little bit of
28:31
a disappointment running the ball.
28:32
So he does give you something out of the in the past game.
28:35
But I think it's probably Moulton's week this week and
28:39
Granowski's of course, with the with the running.
28:41
We look over at the defense and boy, that first half was rough.
28:45
Even in the second-half as they start to apply a lot more
28:47
pressure, bringing a lot more blitz packages, calling Manas,
28:51
he was making throws all over the place.
28:53
The defensive backfield I thought played a lot better.
28:55
Even the scoring Dr. that Rutgers had in the second-half,
28:58
guys were right there. What did you see out of the
29:00
growth there? And I also thought, Speaking of
29:01
that defensive backfield, Jalen Watson was in and that one of
29:05
those final drives of the ball game in for Deshaun Lee.
29:08
I thought that was a little bit eye opening.
29:11
Yeah, let me start with Watson because you know, he's obviously
29:14
the next man. He's a #3 corner, so he's next
29:16
man in after Deshaun Lee and my I haven't you know, we didn't
29:20
get to talk to we don't get to talk to coordinators after the
29:22
game. And but my guess is if if we
29:26
talk to Phil Parker this week, for example, and he might well,
29:31
whether he tells you or not, I think what happened there is
29:35
records was kind of more in a past first situation in the last
29:38
two drives. And I think Watson's probably
29:41
your better cover corner over Lee, but I think Lee is a lot
29:44
better in run defense. And so when you know they're not
29:46
going to throw, we're not going to run.
29:48
I think that's my guess just based on what I know.
29:52
So I don't think like necessarily like a benching is
29:54
coming or anything like that. And I didn't really see them
29:57
test Watson, but I do think he's got I mean, he's right there.
30:01
He's just young. So I would guess Deshaun Lee
30:04
would be the first guy out there on Saturday.
30:08
But but Watson ready to go, go. Parker's usually, you know,
30:11
he'll pull you if you're not having a good game.
30:14
And then as far as the rest of the defense goes, yeah, it was
30:17
it was just a real incrementally increased pressure.
30:24
I think on Kelly Mass, I wrote my CVR Monday that posted was I
30:28
think he just continued to get hit.
30:29
I thought Brian Allen hit him really hard on that 4th.
30:32
Dr. Ethan Hurt hit a couple plays later, hit him hard on one
30:35
of those best plays where, you know, doesn't show up in the box
30:38
score. But I think he started to take
30:39
some hits and then I think he got a little quicker jittery and
30:44
just, you know, if you get that that quarterback off rhythm and
30:46
helps. And I think that's what
30:47
happened. What did you think of Calic
30:49
Manus's play from what you've seen when you saw him at
30:51
Minnesota? The progression he's made.
30:53
I mean, he had some tight windows in the second-half,
30:55
Chad, and I was relatively impressed by him.
30:58
How about you? Yeah, it really was especially,
31:02
especially early, I mean, he has I think 13 of his 1st 16 and and
31:07
then he, you know, he finished about less than 50% in his last
31:10
25 passes. So, so that like I said, the
31:13
pressure I think did get to him. But yeah, I was impressed, but
31:16
more so I was impressed with the receivers.
31:17
I didn't really understand how good he was.
31:21
Now I do after seeing him in person.
31:24
He was tough. And like Trent just said, like
31:26
they were making some really tough catches on that, that 4th
31:29
touchdown Dr. the only one they so they scored 21 on the 1st 3
31:32
drives. They scored seven in the last 8
31:34
drives. And the only, the only scoring
31:37
drive there was I was like tight coverage constantly.
31:40
Like one guy caught one with his knees.
31:43
It was pretty impressive actually, those receivers.
31:45
So and Indiana's going to have the same thing it's going to be
31:48
except a little bit better. So it's going to be a tough
31:50
challenge this week looking ahead.
31:51
Before we get to that, just one more on records.
31:53
What? What's a game day environment
31:55
like at Rutgers? It was cool.
31:58
You know, the Rutgers fans are pretty passionate.
32:02
I mean, you'd kind of be surprised by that.
32:03
I was maybe, but I mean, it was like, it was like a carnival on
32:07
black outside. It was, it was a real big party.
32:09
I mean, it was, I wouldn't say it was like 100% full even
32:12
though it was a sellout, but it was good.
32:15
But I think that, you know, it's, it's also a little bit
32:17
fair weather also like the traffic I think coming in was
32:20
pretty bad. And you know, it reminds me of
32:23
Maryland a lot. Like if you're winning, they'll
32:26
come out, but if you're losing, you know, they got other things
32:28
to do. So yeah, so but I like, you
32:32
know, it's like a 50 some thousand seat stadium.
32:34
I'm guessing that's the smallest in the big 10.
32:36
I haven't really like compared, but it's got to be right I would
32:39
think. Northwestern's new one will be
32:41
smaller. But but yeah, it was all right.
32:48
You know, it was actually my first time out there since 16.
32:51
I missed the 22 game out there. So yeah, it's been a while.
32:54
Drew Stevens, He makes a field goal, misses another, talked
33:00
about snapping the Boston College transfers, the guy
33:03
that's been doing the extra points And, you know, going back
33:05
to the UMass game, there are a couple of low snaps in that one.
33:08
What's going on now? And it's unfortunate, but I'm
33:11
sure I'm not alone. My mind goes back to the end of
33:13
the year 2 years ago. Didn't get the opportunity to
33:16
kick the game winner against Nebraska, then didn't get to
33:18
kick against Michigan or Tennessee because they didn't
33:20
get in scoring rage. Neither of those games but Drew
33:23
Stevens. I guess there's always that
33:24
concern, boy, because we saw the meltdown before.
33:27
When it goes bad, it could go really bad.
33:30
Yeah, at this point, I'm not too concerned with it.
33:32
I think it was just, I don't know, you know, I'd love to talk
33:35
to him, of course, you know, after every game.
33:37
And he's he's a real open book. The one he missed against UMass,
33:43
he was talking about, you know, he was, he had adjusted his
33:46
kickoff style and he thought he just kind of didn't dial it back
33:51
on like that, that other mess he had.
33:54
And then and that's why I don't know what happened because he
33:56
just missed it so badly. Like it wasn't even close.
34:00
And that's just very unlike him. And in warmups, he looked great.
34:04
Like, I mean, I don't think anything is awfully with him and
34:07
maybe just the snap operation hasn't been perfect.
34:10
Maybe he's a little thrown off with that.
34:12
So hopefully for Iowa, they get that kind of dialed in here on
34:16
this week. But I thought the snaps look
34:17
good the other day. I mean, I watched him.
34:18
I know it's kind of crazy, but kind of looked at him.
34:21
I thought the snaps look pretty good today.
34:23
Is Fernando Mendoza and I always got a bunch of really good
34:26
quarterbacks that they'll play against coming up.
34:28
Might Mendoza be the best of the bunch, Chad?
34:32
Oh man, yeah, maybe, yeah, because, I mean, everyone was
34:34
staying aller for the I mean, I've never been like overly
34:39
impressed with it. And and so, yeah, I think maybe
34:42
and I do think Kelly act Mass was a good.
34:45
He was good. You know, a good warm up for
34:47
that because I thought he was pretty good, pretty accurate and
34:50
on time and so. But yeah, this is in that
34:54
Illinois game from Charlotte airport.
34:58
I was waiting for my flight was that was impressive.
35:03
That's an impressive looking Indiana team.
35:05
I think they're second in the country in offense and 3rd in
35:08
defense or vice versa in that total.
35:11
So and they played a really good, they played a top ten
35:13
teams. So it's not like it's all
35:15
cupcakes. So yeah, it's impressive.
35:17
It's no wonder the lines move so dramatically.
35:19
For Indiana. Final thing for me, Chad, Iowa,
35:23
one thing we talked about a lot in the offseason this year with
35:25
this schedule, they're going to have to score points to win some
35:28
games and they did it Friday night against Rutgers.
35:30
It was a game they had to score and they did it.
35:31
How many points does Iowa have to score Saturday afternoon to
35:35
beat the Hoosiers? Yeah.
35:37
I mean, I think you got to probably put that number close
35:39
to 30 because yeah, yeah, Cignetti is going to find their
35:44
weaknesses. That's the linebacker and the
35:47
second quarter, and he's going to go after those sides.
35:50
He's going to pick at it just like Rutgers.
35:52
I mean, Rutgers did the same thing with probably slightly
35:56
less talent than Indiana has an offense, and then Indiana has a
35:59
much better defense and Indiana can run the ball, which Rutgers
36:02
couldn't do. So it's a tough challenge, I
36:04
would say. I mean, you're going to have to
36:06
probably win like 30 to 27 type of game.
36:08
I'm guessing. I don't.
36:10
But I think, you know, I think they have kind of woken.
36:13
I wrote that after the Iowa State game.
36:15
They can't like try to win these games like 1310 against Penn
36:19
State, Oregon, Indiana. You got to open it up and you
36:23
got to try to win these games and not just try to feel
36:25
positioned way that these wins. And I think they're getting more
36:28
confidence in doing that. By the way, I had no idea about
36:33
the Shiano Kirk Ference ties and how that story, great story last
36:36
week. It really was.
36:38
I mean, how no one was able to pick up on that over the years
36:41
because it's not the first time they've played faced off against
36:44
each other. That was a really good nugget,
36:46
Chad, and it was surprised it hadn't seen the light of day
36:49
until you wrote about it. Yeah.
36:51
So, yeah, for those who didn't know, Shianna was very high on
36:55
Ference's list. I wasn't able to confirm if he
36:57
was like the number one choice, but he was.
36:59
But I do know that Shianna was seriously considering it.
37:02
And then the Miami of Florida, BC job opened up in 99 and
37:06
Shianna took that and then Norm Parker came to Iowa.
37:08
The rest is history. And so, yeah, and unfortunately,
37:12
neither coach would talk about it.
37:14
I really, I pushed for it. They you know, I would say this
37:18
that Ference kind of acknowledged that it was
37:21
accurate and everything, but it just didn't want to, you know, I
37:24
understand like you don't want to give the insinuation that
37:26
someone else and not Norm Parker was the number one choice.
37:29
And I don't know that he was, but but Shianna was definitely
37:32
running because he got fired by the Bears or wants to have got
37:35
fired by the Bears. And so he was available and
37:38
parents knew him from the NFL. So it's really interesting.
37:42
I've always respected each other and so I was glad I could kind
37:44
of make that connect and I just wish they would have talked
37:47
about it, but maybe after you retired.
37:48
Yeah, that or maybe media days. But you're right.
37:51
You don't want to show Norm Parker in a bad light.
37:52
But great scoop. Great scoop.
37:54
I was born away that that hadn't been brought to light by the
37:58
Jack. Congrats on the half marathon.
38:00
Thanks for jumping on with Trent and I.
38:01
We appreciate it. We'll hear you on Wednesday
38:04
night. Hawk Central six to seven.
38:06
Thank you, Chad Leisto. Appreciate it.
38:08
You bet you guys. Thanks.
38:09
Yeah, good to talk to you, Chad Liceko on the Hawks beating
38:12
Rutgers and what lies ahead against the Hoosiers.
38:14
Brett Mcburk Mcmurphy has his updated bowl projections
38:21
pinstripe for Iowa. The Hawkeyes are heading back to
38:24
to. Take on the Yankee Stadium to
38:27
take on who? Syracuse.
38:30
Syracuse after they # Klepsum, good God.
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And then Iowa State. Is Tex Tech the best thing in
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the Big 12? Right now.
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Right now. Clones are going to the Alamo
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Bowl. They are, aren't they?
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Yes. Who do?
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They play in the Alamo Bowl. Same uniform US.
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SC yes, OK. Would you take that right now?
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I don't think there's a Cyclone fan in the world that would
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they. Yeah, boy, they had a lot of fun
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in San Antonio. You're not signing up for San
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Antonio. Right.
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Did they watch TV on Saturday? Maybe they just watched the 1st
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3/4. Maybe.
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OK, All right, I'll give it to you.
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Miller and Con did back the wrap up hour number one.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network flagship at Des Moines
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Sports Station One O 6.3 KXNO. I'm Miller Condon.
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Welcome back. Final minute here of the first
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hour of the program. A little breaking news.
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Bruce Pearl stepping down, effective immediately.
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His son Stevens. Taking over.
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That's right. You run out the clock.
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This is the old Oh Ryan thing that he did for Greg Garden.
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Absolutely. We've seen this.
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Well, this is how Lincoln Riley got the job at Oklahoma.
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That's right, Stoops did. The same thing happens often in
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college athletics. What do you know about Steven
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Pearl? Nothing.
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Nothing. So that makes.
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Sense Bruce's kid. Yeah, well, of course.
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Nailed it. Yeah, I was ready for that one.
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So Bruce Pearl is 65, and the rumors he's stepping down
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because he's gonna enter the political theater.
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Yes. At 65.
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So this has been out here now for a couple of weeks.
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That's when I first heard it and I just rolled my eyes at it.
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And whenever I get on that garbage app and I said, well,
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that's stupid and here we are and it's reality.
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So we'll see if the reality is that he is going to run for
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either Senate, governor, There's both of those have been out
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there. 65 You want to get into the political ring?
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Hey, there's some dirty money out there, might as well go get
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it. There's dirty money in college
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sports, too. He's been a part of it for a
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long time. No way.
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Tell me all about it. All right, Hour 2 is coming up
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next. Miller and Condon, glad you're
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with us. Bama, Bob, Trent and I will go
40:40
round college football. How about my Oscars?
40:43
They huskered it. Boy, And then we'll talk to Bill
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Seals. What lies ahead for Iowa State?
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They play Arizona White out Jack Tri Stadium 6:00 Saturday night.
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Hour 2 is next. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network.