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Hawkeye talk with David Eickholt, Dave Sinykin on the Packers, Chiefs with Nick Athan, Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports - Variety Telethon · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Let's get David Eicholt in here. David Trenton Ken, thanks for
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coming on. There's libel to be a little bit
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of a delay as we are on the road, but good to talk to you.
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David Eicholt, how are you? Thanks for doing this.
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Yeah, good to be join you guys. It's definitely things are
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starting to ramp up a little bit and we learned a lot last night
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about the women's and obviously tonight with the men's game.
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And I don't know about you 2, like I think Iowa has a pretty
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decent team, but I was a little bit surprised that the line went
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down to like 10 1/2. It did go back up to 11 1/2 last
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time I checked, but I'm still slightly surprised at how where
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this line is kind of at for hanging into tonight.
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Surprised in that you think it should be higher that it should
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be lower. I, I think it should be higher.
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I think Iowa State's the second best team in the country right
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now. I, I have Michigan as my number
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one team. I have Iowa is my two.
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I have Duke as my 3, in Arizona as my 4.
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That's rarefied error, David I Colt and it is moving up a
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little bit. It's now 12.
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It's Caesar. So we're starting to see some
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twelves in the market. Yeah, the win over Purdue was
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absolutely eye opening. So let's save them in for a
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minute. Let's just ladies first recap
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what we saw last night. I saw a game that I thought was
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going to get away from Iowa in the third quarter.
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Trent and I yesterday spent the day.
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At least I tried to convince them that this one's got a
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chance to be an all timer. I love both of the rosters.
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I love the match ups in the game and thought it had a chance to
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be really good. As it turned out, I was a very
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close basketball game. Both teams really struggling
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with their free throws. But to Iowa's credit, they got
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back into it. To Iowa State's credit, they had
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enough of the lead and were able to hold on and and get another
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win in the Seihawk series. David.
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Yeah. I mean, I think there's two
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things. One, I think 2 of the top 13 or
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14 teams in the country reside in the state of Iowa.
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I think this has a chance to be Bill Fennelly's best team that
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he's had in his entire career because compared to last year,
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the Iowa State team, like Audie Crooks had 31 last year.
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But in the fourth quarter she was shut down because Iowa
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realized, you know, they didn't have the help on the perimeter
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that they needed to really have a chance.
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That and that's why Iowa ended up winning.
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They started fronting Audie. They really couldn't do that
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this year because of all the other complimentary pieces
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around them. But at the same time, the one
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good quality, you know, a good quality about Jan Jensen's team
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is the fact that they never quit.
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That game could have gotten even more unravelled after they were
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down 17 and they found a way to battle back and have a chance
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with under 45 seconds to go. I think it was a Sweet 16 Elite
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8 out caliber game. I doubt both teams have a chance
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to do pretty well throughout the remainder of the season and have
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a shot at doing some damage come March.
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But I left more encouraged about Iowa than I was heading into the
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game. Look, I mean, Iowa had a couple
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of the younger players struggle, but for Iowa to battle back in
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that hostile atmosphere that they experienced, because, you
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know, I said this leading into the game, guys, this was the
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first hostile environment that Iowa has played in.
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Yeah, they were in Florida. But let's be real, Iowa's going
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to be the home crowd favorite and at least 75% of the games
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this year. And that's just because of the
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brand that they've continued to build.
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That ain't happening in Ames. Everybody hates Iowa, it names
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Iowa, right? So I think the fact that Iowa
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responded in such a way despite a behind fouling out, them
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getting in foul trouble, chit chat, right, Really emerging on
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the scene. I'm pretty encouraged about what
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I saw from the women last night. You mentioned in passing there
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off the bench, Stremlow just she's really inconsistent at a
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deal. Same thing.
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I think she's going to play well against maybe some lesser
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opponents, but I don't think she's quite ready for elite
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level competition like she saw last night.
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That leads me to Emily Rodriguez.
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Fill us in on that injury. She's got some bad habits she
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needs to break from her time at UCF, but I think there's a lot
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of upside to her game and certainly a player that can
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create herself something that outside of chitchat, they just
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don't have a whole lot on the roster.
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What can you tell us about her injury and maybe ironing out
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some of those deficiencies because think she could be a
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really important player for them?
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No, and I don't disagree with you whatsoever because I do
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think Iowa this year, the roster, they have players that
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can at least somewhat create their own shot.
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Like if you give the ball to a behind at the post, she's going
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to be able to make something happen.
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For the most part. She can hit mid range shots
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right, chitchat right is better than any of us could have
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expected. I think like I expected a little
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bit of a jump from what she had last year, but she's looking
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like she's she was an absolute steal out of the portal and
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she's saying 3 at a high rate. But for Emily Rodriguez, yes,
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she has to break some bad habits.
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Remember, I think we we talked after she dropped eighteen in
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her first game or something and I said, look, you can tell she's
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a shot creator, but are those really good shots if the shot
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isn't falling and things kind of leveled out over the next couple
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of games? But for right now, she's
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battling a back issue. I think it's something that
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could potentially linger, but I think it's going to be a true
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day-to-day, game by game feel at this point.
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I'm not going to say it's going to be something that that's
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super long term. Very curious what Jan Jensen
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says about her if she ends up playing against Lindenwood or if
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they're just going to arrest her then try to bring her back
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against Yukon. But I'd also argue that's a heck
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of a way to try to bring back Emily Rodriguez against the best
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team in the country and I think the best player in the country
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and fair strong. If you don't know how her game
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is or you haven't watched her play, yeah, you need to do that
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because she is an absolutely dominant player on both sides of
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the ball. But you're right, man.
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I mean, in terms of Emily, like, that's another player where if
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the shot clock's winding down, she can make something happen.
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She has a lot of good fundamentals, has to continue to
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buy into the defensive side of the ball.
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But there's a lot of upside to her game.
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And I think it's very clear to see why everybody on that
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coaching staff is so excited about her.
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Miller and Condon broadcasting live with the variety 2 Days of
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Compassion Radio. Thon more about that coming up.
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David Icult is joining us now as we take a look back at the
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Cyhawk women from last night. And now on to the Cyhawk men.
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David, there's going to be a lot of teams that when they play
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Iowa are going to plug in that Michigan State tape and see how
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Izo and company were able to, you know, to limit Bennett
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Sturtz as they did. I I don't know if this is if
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this is A1 size fits all, if if every coach is going to be able
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to, you know, employ that strategy, let alone pull it off.
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But as you know, watching Iowa State and you just said you
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think they're the second best team in the country.
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And I agree with you, Michigan, Iowa State both rarefied error.
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If as Bennett Sturtz go, is that how Iowa goes?
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If they are able to limit him tonight, how does Iowa keep this
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game close? Yeah, I mean, again, I don't
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think the Michigan State thing was A1 size fits all.
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Yeah, they frustrated Ben starts by also think that was more of
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an indictment on the inability to get through the 1st action of
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Iowa's offense against Michigan State.
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Like if you rewatch the tape, everybody was standing around
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once the screen and roll or the Verajal screen was not working.
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And I knew it was just sort of Bennett searched being like, all
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right, well, I guess I got to go do something.
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I would almost equate it to Lucy Olson.
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Last year. Everybody talked about how Lucy
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Olson shot the ball so many times last year.
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You know why she shot it? It's because she was the only
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one that could go out there and create a shot, right?
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And somebody has to shoot the ball.
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At least that's how I saw it last year.
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I think Iowa definitely is going to have some pieces.
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I think that they're really good pressure, bad search.
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I think Payman Lipsy, you know, God help Payman Lipsy from this
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standpoint. I don't think I've ever seen
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that dude play a game, a healthy game of basketball in his life
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because he's always battling through something.
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I'd love to see him if he was actually 100% healthy because he
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is a really good player. I think they're going to really
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possess, you know, they're really going to attack Bennett
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search starting in the half court line.
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I think they're going to provide a lot of on ball pressure.
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I think they're going to challenge Cam Maniao to be able
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to make some moves in the post. I think they're going to try to
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take away Iowa screen roll action and force that starts
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into some ISO basketball. And if that happens, I think
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that's where it gets dangerous. But at the same time, I think if
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you go back to the Michigan State game, I don't know about
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you guys, I could kind of tell Iowa.
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Some of the players from Drake were a little bit overwhelmed by
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the hostile atmosphere because look, the zones, no easy place
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to go in there and play. The Breslin Center is absolutely
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elite when it comes to college basketball atmospheres.
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I'll tell you what, they go into Hilton Coliseum with the same
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kind of wide eyed, you know, wide eyed look like deer and
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headlight. You know, we we all we all know
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Iowa State's capable of ripping off a bunch of threes and
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getting this thing ugly early. So I think it's Iowa playing
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their game. I think it's getting through
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their offensive strategy. And I ultimately think it's just
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trying to really focus on that perimeter defense because if you
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let Manshilovich get hot, if you let their big three really get
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going, that's when it's dangerous.
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Because with Iowa style of play, if Iowa State goes up 15, it's
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going to feel like it's about 25 to 30.
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The confounding case of Brendan Hassan, he doesn't get off the
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bench in a blah win against Maryland.
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He played 7 minutes, hit a three pointer against Michigan State,
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didn't play in the second-half of that game.
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What's going on here? A guy that I'd always banged up
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during the summer time, but he's working his way back.
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Certainly you feel like to full health what's happening there?
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And take us into after the game where, you know, we've heard
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some really good things where you go back to their tournament
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in California and he said keep Cooper in there.
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He's playing well, but then you get this part and he doesn't
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even play against Maryland. Just a lot of head scratches
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right now. Yeah, and I'm still kind of near
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the top of that list because you go back to preseason, I think
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you know our our colleague in French head Licego said the same
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thing like everybody had Brendan Hollison as the starting two
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guard for this team. And that that's where it gets a
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little bit complex thing to me. But I'll go back to what a
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couple of my sources said when, you know, I, I wrote a column
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about why, you know, Ben McCollum was my number one
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choice to be Iowa's head coach even before Debris ended up
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taking the Indiana job. And a couple of my sources said
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this about Ben. If you don't bleep and play
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defense, you're not playing. I think Brendan Housing gives a
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lot of really good energy off the bench.
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I think he tries to play defense, I just think combine
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that with the fact that he really isn't a driver and that
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is something that Ben McCollum has said post game when asked
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about why he isn't playing. If you can't drive and you can't
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defend, I just have a really hard time seeing how you fit in
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his system now. I also think though, it just
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depends on how the lineups would look because if you're telling
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me you can run a 3 or 4 man screen pick and pop action with
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Fulgaris, who's, you know, emerged as a good three-point
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shooter, he is a good three-point shooter with Ben
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starts and then you have Cooper Koch and Brendan Hoffman waiting
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on the wings. I don't know how you guard that,
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But I also think Iowa still waiting for Fulgaris to kind of
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get back into his groove and be that player that they thought
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they were getting. And I think that's going to be a
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big key to this team as well. I also think that that does play
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a part of it. You know, Ben McCollum, I think
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right now, and this is just my speculation, this is nothing I'm
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hearing. So to make sure that's clear, I
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just don't know. I just don't think at times Ben
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can play the line UPS that he really would like to play
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because there are certain guys not playing up to their own
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capabilities right now. And I think it's going to be up
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to full Garris to kind of regain that swagger a little bit.
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I think Pavion Banks needs to be a little bit more consistent,
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especially with what he showed early on in the season.
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But when it comes to house and man, like, I haven't heard too
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much. If there's an injury or anything
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like that, everybody's trying to figure it out.
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But from my vantage point, I just don't think he's a good
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enough defender right now. And Cooper Koch kind of is a
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specialist to a certain extent. He's got great shooting range.
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You don't want to leave him open.
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But Cooper provides more energy on the glass.
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He can drive the basketball and he's a lot better of a defender
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than he was last year. Final couple of minutes here
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with David Eichel, 24/7 Sports hawkeyeinsider.com.
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David, Football, the practices, the bowl prep has begun.
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Any Nuggets trickling out? Are you hearing anything
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football related, David? It's just going to be really
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interesting next few weeks, man. Like everything is going to
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change by the hour it feels like.
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One of my biggest things is I'm very intrigued about how many
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players enter the portal before the bowl game or if they're
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going to go through bowl prep and then enter the transfer
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portal or announce their intention, right?
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Because there is some benefit to if you announce early, you know,
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teams across the country can be like, look, you can't
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technically contact them, but you can at least put them on top
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of your radar, do some setting and you know, the guys can kind
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of market themselves. But the guys that wait will have
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more film. I'm very curious, you know, if
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Iowa cannot just, you know, let guys go in and, you know, I know
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they want to bring in some guys different positions, but this is
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a new era. You have to retain your top
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playmakers, too. I think Iowa does a really great
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job of, you know, recruiting for culture and guys that will fit
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within the system. But I'll tell you what it can
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culture overcome a $500,000 increase from other places if
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the player can go out in the open market and go get that.
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I think that's kind of the big question.
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I do think Jeremy Hecklinski is a little bit farther ahead than
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Hank Brown as far as the starting quarterback potentially
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for next season. And I think you're also going to
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hear a lot about Rashad Godfrey taking a jump.
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And I think there's a big opportunity in the secondary as
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well. And this is just something that
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Elliot Cloth has brought up. And this is just a little teaser
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of a nugget that we put in our VIP notes this morning.
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Don't be surprised if South Dakota cornerback Shaheed
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Barrows tries to get a medical red shirt and come back to the
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Hawkeyes next season. I know he went through Senior
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Day, but he was only played in three games and he's kind of
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been battling injuries here and there throughout the season.
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We'll see if he gets that because if that happens and he
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gets another year with still Parker, I think we all know
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right now guys that there there's some room in the
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secondary for guys to emerge and kind of have that playing time.
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You know, I know some people are looking at offensive line.
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I kind of like the pieces that they have coming back.
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And here's the other part. We've seen them bring in three
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transfers. Rusty Fest, the only guy that
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played Bryce George, we anticipated he was at least
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going to be in the mix. Now, I know he had an injury in
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that first game, but sounded like he was kind of out for that
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battle for left tackle. It was down to Dozler and
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Lauken. We saw the season that he had
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and you go back to what was it, Parker, the kid that came in
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from Saginaw State, a lot of people thought he was going to
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be a tackle. He never played.
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So with the Iowa system, with what obviously the expectations
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are for Ference and and Barnett and company with that offensive
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line, is that a place unless it is just that a depth piece, it
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probably doesn't make sense just because it hasn't worked very
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well for the Iowa system. And I agree though, I think if
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you're going to go out there and get an offensive line guy, I
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think you need to have two years of eligibility, right?
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Unless you're talking like a powerful tackle that enters the
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portal that's proven right. Otherwise, I do think you need
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that piece. But the other thing is, guys,
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I'm not doubting George Barnett, like I, I said 2-3 years ago
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that you need more time. And I think, you know, Iowa has
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a strong chance to win the Joe Moore Award this year.
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The guys who have been behind the, the elite offense line that
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they have, they've been developed in the system.
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Now, yes, you know, they'll have some ugly reps here and there,
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but like I'm going to Russ Barnett development and the guys
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that they got in there, you know, Kate Peeper, I think you
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know, he if he slides over to center, I'd be interested about
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that because they've talked about him playing center at the
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next level whenever he goes to the NFL.
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And at one point he was, you know, labeled a first round
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draft pick by a couple different outlets.
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So if you're going to get that piece, I think they need multi
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multiple years of eligibility. But the same time guys, I can
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name four other positions I think you have to go after
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before you look at offensive line.
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You have to get a wider fever. I think you have to get 21
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fever, quite frankly. And by the way, two years of
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eligibility, multiple years. You need a cornerback, you need
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the defensive tackle, just somebody to help Bryce Hawthorne
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out. And I think you need an edge
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rusher, but that's that's a proven guy before you even think
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about the offensive line. And then the other part of it,
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and again, this is my speculation, what's going to
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happen in the running backroom? They have guys with multiple
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years of eligibility. Jazz Patterson returned and I
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thought he'd have a bigger role than he had.
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He didn't play much down the stretch, had to overcome an
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injury. You know, is he going to be a
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guy that enters the portal? Are they going to be able to
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retain all these guys? And if you have multiple running
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backs leave, depending on who it is, guys, I think you at least
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have to look in the portal to potentially get someone else.
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So as far as Iowa's depth on the offensive line, there's a lot of
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unproven names, but you can at least take comfort in the fact
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that they've been in the Iowa system for at least a year or
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two and they've been developing behind this elite off the group
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of offensive lineman. So that means those guys know
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what it takes to kind of reach that level.
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David Eichold, hawkeyeinsider.com, part of 24/7
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Sports. David, thanks for jumping on.
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Appreciate what you do for us. Thank you, David.
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Yeah, Thanks guys. Always appreciate talking to
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you. Yeah, as we do to you.
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Good stuff. All right, we continue on here
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Director, Strategic Communications.
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Ivy, that's Trent. I'm Ken.
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Good to meet you here on the fly.
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What's your title? What do you do for this Great,
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Thanks, Mom. But I am just here to share the
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Before Trent jumps in just real quick along those lines that you
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she mentioned there's no red tape.
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You know she absolutely within 48 hours, the family had exactly
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Yeah, because the last thing you want to do when you've got a
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They just variety to such incredible jobs just meeting the
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Good stuff, Ivy from Hyvee. Hyvee from Hyvee, We'll take a
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Well, let's do a little NFL, shall we?
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We'll get to Nick Athen covers the Chiefs for chiefsplits.com.
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Get to him in a 5 minutes or so. But right now, Dave Sinican Zone
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coverage KFAN, our sister station in the Twin Cities,
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where he's in your #30 of Packer preview on Sunday mornings.
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Dave Trenton, Ken, there might be a little bit of a delays.
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We're on location here. Good to talk to you.
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Dave Sinican, how are you? I'm good, I'm good.
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Chiefs guy can wait there. Yesterday's news anyway, right?
23:03
They really are, and isn't it great to say that and feel that?
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And especially a guy who roots for a team in the AFC West?
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It's been a long time coming, Dave.
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Sure it has. Big one this weekend.
23:13
Big. One.
23:14
Yes, Sir, It's your squad and my squad.
23:17
You know, before we get into that just real quick, because I,
23:20
you know, as a impartial observer as I was watching Bears
23:24
and Packers AI came away more impressed with the Bears.
23:28
I think they're they're legit and you'll see them a week from
23:31
Saturday. In fact, the first of two now
23:33
back-to-back Saturdays is that game has now been the Ravens
23:36
game has been picked up in prime time as well on the 27th.
23:40
But you know, Dave, when we look back at the year, some football
23:43
games stick with you. And for me, Packers Bears at
23:46
Lambeau Field last Sunday might be one of those games.
23:48
What a football game. Yeah, it was it was a game that
23:51
felt like a playoff game, and we haven't seen too many of those
23:55
type of games between these two teams in a lot of years.
23:58
Obviously, you think back to the 2010 NFC Championship.
24:01
I was at that game. That was glorious.
24:04
And then the season finale three years later when Randall Cobb on
24:07
4th down caught the touchdown. I mean, there's been so few
24:10
games like that between these two rivals late in the season
24:13
that mean a lot. So, yeah, I mean, football to me
24:15
is more fun when the Bears are relevant.
24:18
They gave signs that they're on that path and looking forward to
24:21
a rematch here next week. Couple of injury questions for
24:25
you, Lucas, Vanessa, he returned to practice yesterday and a
24:28
possibility of him going as he's missed what, 7 in the last eight
24:31
games with his injury. And then Josh Jacobs, another
24:34
knee injury, new knee injury, just a re injuring of that knee
24:37
that he hurt against New York a couple weeks back.
24:39
What can you tell us about Jacobs and Van Nessa's chances
24:42
of playing? And that's back, it appears, a
24:46
couple weeks early with the foot injury.
24:48
I think they're going to be really careful with him.
24:50
I'd love to see him get some run.
24:52
I wouldn't bet on it yet this week.
24:54
Jacobs is the most concerning one.
24:56
He's the only player not practicing.
24:58
Didn't practice yesterday, didn't practice today.
25:00
He's on the bike kind of doing his own thing and, you know,
25:04
start to do some research on Ken's team.
25:06
I, I noted that the one place you could maybe attack the
25:09
defense is on inside runs. They rank 26 EPA per play on
25:15
inside runs. And if you can attack Denver
25:18
with an inside run with a guy like Josh Jacobs, that gives
25:20
Green Bay a really good chance I think to do some damage to the
25:24
maybe the best defense in football.
25:26
So that's a significant thing to watch to see if he gets on the
25:29
practice field tomorrow. Javon Bullard, the slide corner,
25:33
missed all of practice last week and he played on Sunday.
25:36
So I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility if he
25:38
misses Friday that he plays. But Josh Jacobs is not close to
25:43
100% in a matchup that could be positive.
25:46
That would be a big, big loss for Green Bay.
25:49
It really would the other the match up I'm looking forward to
25:52
is is as I assume at least Christian Watson matched up
25:56
against Pastor 10. Now I want to I want to focus on
25:59
Watson because Dave, I think that there was some, you know,
26:02
you don't want to throw the word bust out there with you, but you
26:05
started to wonder about him, right?
26:07
Gave up a second round pick. North Dakota State.
26:09
Was this a wasted pick? He was kind of slow.
26:12
I think if memory serves, didn't Rogers hit him in his first
26:15
pass, Maybe his first game and he dropped it and got in the dog
26:19
house right away. But that's no longer the case.
26:21
This guy is an emerging force at the wide receiver position for
26:25
the Packers. Yeah, it was the very first play
26:29
of the season, and he went deep in his hands rookie year.
26:32
Yeah. And that does a lot for your
26:33
confidence, not only yours, but obviously your Hall of Fame
26:36
quarterback. Quarterback who tends to hold a
26:38
grudge. Yeah.
26:40
I mean, Watson's deal is he hasn't been able to stay healthy
26:43
when he's been on the field. You know, he can run a 4340.
26:46
He's 636-4220. You've got every single
26:50
measurable you want in a stud wide receiver.
26:52
He just hasn't stayed healthy. He came back ten months after
26:56
the injury against the Bears a year ago at Lambeau Field and
26:59
obviously has made an instant, instant presence as the go to
27:03
receiver for Green Bay. Do you remember Romeo Dobbs?
27:05
You used to hear his name. You don't hear much about him
27:08
even being targeted by Green Bay these days.
27:11
So no, he's he has been, it's been a great reclamation story.
27:15
Sometimes these receivers do take a few years.
27:17
Devante Adams didn't emerge until his third season as a
27:20
second round pick. A Green Bay kind of played ahead
27:24
of the game and and redid his deal before the season and added
27:27
a year for 11,000,000 just to show him the faith that they
27:31
believed that if he stayed healthy, they believed in him.
27:34
It's looking like a brilliant move because he's looked like a
27:36
$25 million receiver right now. My guess is they'll redo his
27:39
deal after the season. Sign him long term.
27:42
He has changed this offense with his emergence the last few
27:45
weeks. 5 touchdowns the last four games for Christian Watson,
27:49
including two last week. Last thing for me, Dave Ken's
27:52
been surprised all week long. The point spread Green Bay, a
27:56
road favorite against an 11 and two team that's won 10
27:59
consecutive. Are you surprised by it?
28:01
I knew that was going to come up.
28:03
There was no doubt in mine that was going to come up.
28:06
Be a home dog with A10 game-winning streak.
28:09
Yeah. Maybe, I guess I, I thought it
28:11
might be a pick em. I am a little surprised.
28:13
I, I do think you look at the, the close calls, Denver's have
28:17
some of the miracle fourth quarter finishes and at some
28:19
point, maybe the logic is the run, the luck runs out.
28:23
But yeah, I think this to me is a toss up game.
28:27
I can see why Green Bay's favored because if you look at
28:29
the DVLA for the teams top to bottom, Green Bay probably has
28:34
an edge. They'll have the best player on
28:36
the field, in my opinion. When Love's on the field, maybe
28:39
Benito fans will disagree, and certainly when Mike is on the
28:42
field, and I think in close games that that matters too.
28:45
So yeah, I'm a little surprised, but I'm kind of confident about
28:49
my squad's chances to step into that Hurricane there and take
28:53
care of business. Well, one of the column, one of
28:55
your columns I look forward to every week is your dogs that you
28:58
put out on Saturday, that the dogs are going to be barking as
29:01
you kind try to find some upsets.
29:03
Go ahead and throw the Denver Broncos in for me.
29:05
If you would, Dave, give me a little bit of of encouragement.
29:09
Brother, we're out of time. Best of luck to you next week
29:11
against the Bears. Keep up the good work.
29:14
What you doing guys? Thanks for the time.
29:16
Thank you, buddy. Good to talk to you.
29:17
Dave Sinican covers the Green Bay Packers for zonecoverage.com
29:21
and KFAN in the Twin Cities. All right, from the Packers to
29:25
the Chiefs, Nick Athan as Chiefs blitz.com, Nick Trent and I are
29:28
on location. We're a Jordan Creek Town Center
29:30
variety, 2 days of compassion radiothon.
29:33
So there might be a little bit of a delay, but let's get right
29:36
into it with the with the Chiefs.
29:38
And boy, oh boy, if there was any margin for error.
29:40
That has now gone out the window, it seems to me, and I'm
29:44
anxious to get your thoughts. The Chiefs have to win out, to
29:47
have a prayer to get to postseason.
29:50
Do you see it that way? Yeah, there's there's no
29:52
scenario. The math just doesn't work.
29:54
If they lose any of their four games remaining, they they have
29:58
virtually no chance to to make the post a post season the first
30:02
time at Pacman home era. And let's hope it's not the
30:06
let's hope it's the last time this happened.
30:08
But the Chiefs are a victim of their own success and they're a
30:12
victim of themselves, and that's why they're in the the in this
30:15
position. If you could point to one thing,
30:19
what is the biggest issue? What is the biggest concern?
30:22
Why this team is on the outside looking in.
30:25
I think the offense has grown stale.
30:27
It hasn't changed enough. You know, you look at the, you
30:32
know, for those diehards that breakdown every aspect of the
30:35
game in each of the last fourth down calls, Andy Reid made the
30:39
same, called the exact same play.
30:41
There's just not enough creativity.
30:44
You know, they're relying on Patrick Travis and Chris Jones
30:47
to to, to keep the glue together when they, when they have some
30:50
really good pieces. But you know, they're just
30:54
listen, I'm a realist. They've won for a long time.
30:57
They've had a great 6-7 year run.
30:59
I am not upset that they, you know, they're in this position.
31:03
Hey, to me, Tank, go get a better draft pick.
31:06
Maybe you could draft Love out of Notre Dame with the 14th or
31:09
13th or 15th pick. But for me, I think it's just
31:14
guys, you know, the Andy Reid message isn't the same.
31:17
The coaching staff hasn't evolved.
31:19
It hasn't changed. And they just need some fresh
31:22
blood and some fresh perspective.
31:25
And I think if they can do that, they'll be they'll be OK next
31:28
year. But if they keep the same
31:29
coaching staff together, to me that's the culprit.
31:32
That's the reason I think they're in this position.
31:34
That's interesting, Nick. So in our final couple of
31:36
minutes with you here, you know, let's take it a step forward.
31:39
And I don't disagree with what you said about the offense being
31:42
a little bit stale. Do you think this might be the
31:44
end of Andy Reid's career? I mean, would it surprise you
31:47
getting up in age? I mean, what's he got left to
31:49
do, for crying out loud, right? He's done everything.
31:52
He's going to get to Canton. There's no doubt about it's It's
31:55
not if, it's when. Is there a chance that Andy Reid
31:59
walks away after this year? You know, that's going to be up
32:02
to Tammy Reed and his wife. I mean, they've got a lot of
32:05
kids and a lot of grandkids and, and you know, Andy, you know,
32:08
Andy, for people that don't know, Andy Reed goes to sleep at
32:12
midnight and at 3:30 AM he's at his desk.
32:15
So he does this seven, he does this six days a week.
32:19
And at some point at 6667 years old, you know, he's not a, he's
32:25
not a skinny guy. And it's no offense to that.
32:29
You know, he's got the Santa Claus look, but you know, how
32:32
much more does he have to do now?
32:33
If he's going to, if he's going to change the trajectory of how
32:36
his career and he's got to make a lot of changes, that means you
32:39
got to get rid of a lot of friends on his coaching staff.
32:42
So is this the end? Do I think he'll suddenly
32:44
retire? No, I don't think his ego will
32:46
allow it. I think he really wanted to get
32:49
Belichick's record for most wins and playoff wins.
32:51
I don't think that's going to happen now.
32:54
So I think for me, I don't think it's the last rodeo unless Tammy
32:59
says, you know what, Andy, you've done enough.
33:01
And then then he would step down and take an advisory role and
33:04
then the fun begins. I mean, you could potentially be
33:07
the next head coach for the Chiefs.
33:09
Chiefsblitz.com, Chiefs blitz.com for our friend Nick
33:12
Athan. Nick, thanks for jumping on.
33:13
Appreciate it, brother. We'll, we'll talk to you next
33:16
week. Thanks, Nick.
33:18
All right, good luck with your Broncos this weekend.
33:20
Thank you, pal. Appreciate it.
33:21
I'm Nick Catherine Cheese splits.com.
33:23
All right, we continue live here.
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The Thursday night tilt will be a part of it.
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Tampa Bay important game for them.
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I think Atlanta, they're probably their ship has already
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