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Texans Retire Steelers...and Aaron Rodgers? NFL Divisional thoughts & Matt Snyder talks Cubs offseason & MLB Free Agents & Indiana Football · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Millary Condon, that's who. Welcome.
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  It's Millary Condon on a Tuesday.
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  The Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon and Ken Miller for
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  the next couple of hours to talk sports with you.
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  Thanks for tuning in here. Start your afternoon.
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  Here's what's coming up on our program.
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  I want to talk some baseball. Look forward to doing so.
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  Cubs making some news, the Cardinals make him some news.
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  Arnotto on his way out of Saint Louis State in the National
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  League. But off to Arizona.
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  Matt Snyder is a Hall of Fame voter.
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  We'll do a little baseball as we creep our way to spring training
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  and to the beginning of the MLB season.
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  But to thought, what the heck? Why not Matt Snyder coming up
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  here at the bottom of. The and in Indiana grad too.
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  Well, which doesn't hurt The conversation is we'll preview
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  his team. Have you seen what it cost to
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  get into that building? Absolutely not.
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  Surprised fans waited for this their entire lives and I hope
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  they've been saving their money if indeed they're going to go
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  anyways. So we will talk to Matt Snyder
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  at the bottom of the hour then Elliott Clef on Iowa, Ben
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  McCullum met the media this morning.
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  We'll do that. We'll do transfer portal as it
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  gets set to close. I think by by all accounts, I
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  don't follow it as close to some do, but the people that do seem
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  to think that the Kirk Ference and his team did pretty well in
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  the in the board. We'll see.
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  So we'll talk to Elliot Clough coming up at 1:00 and then we're
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  going to head down to Lawrence. We'll catch up with Michael
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  Swain, who is Swain Osen Bussey sounds right.
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  I think it is right there's. One other in there, I think
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  maybe before Dylan months. Yeah, good.
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  Pull Dylan Months, Dylan Months, Michael Swain, Nick Olsen, Alec
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  Bussey. Can he go before months though?
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  I don't. Know if I could?
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  I don't think so. Either could can you?
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  No, I can't either. Anyways, these are the guys that
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  24/7 sports running cyclonealert.com and we will.
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  And now of course Michael Swain covering the Kansas side of
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  things. So we'll get that as we look
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  forward to 8:00 tonight. Maybe not the buzz of a regular
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  season Kansas Iowa State game. Well, I think 2 components.
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  I don't know. For whatever reason, in my mind
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  it sticks that it feels like this first game is usually in
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  Hilton. And it's usually 1000% first
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  week in January. First week in January, it's in
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  Hilton, and more times than not, it was also a big Monday game.
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  That's true. So it had a spotlight kind of
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  event to it. You're coming off the weekend,
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  you're leading into that, you're going to have the nation
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  watching, you're going to have kind of all these different
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  components. And I know it's not true that it
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  was always in Hilton, but it just had it does.
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  It seemed like that, yes. You're.
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  Right, that there was a lot of it and because I had the same
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  thought as you, just not the same.
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  Plus, Kansas is a Kansas I. Think that's the whole reason
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  why, yes, you know, it's not the same.
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  It's Kansas used to be a, you know, scalp you wanted to take
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  every year. And sure, you still want to, but
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  seemingly at this point, the way this team has been going over
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  the last couple years and seems to be destined again this year,
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  maybe it doesn't come with the cashier.
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  It's still going to be tough. I mean, still a phenomenal place
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  to play. Obviously a great environment.
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  It'll be banged out tonight. It'll be loud, but Jayhawks fans
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  want to beat Iowa State and knocked them off that unbeaten
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  perch. They'd love to do that.
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  We'll see if they're able to do that when we TuneIn at 8:00.
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  And if you can't, and if you're in car, you can hear the game on
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  the Iowa State Radio Network flagship tier 100.3, the bus
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  down the hall from us. All right, so the wild card
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  weekend is come and gone and wrapped up last night, despite
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  CJ Stroud, who did everything he did to hand that game the
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  Steelers. My God, is he bad.
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  Holy mackerel is he awful. Fumble in the.
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  Holy mackerel. Is he throwing the ball away?
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  Fumble in it twice. I don't know what is going.
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  It's almost I'm not saying he's throwing the game.
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  He's not doing that. It's just it just looked like a
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  fish out of water. Trent, of the 8 quarterbacks
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  that are left, where's he rank? The right, the 8 quarterbacks
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  that are left, number one is Josh Allen.
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  Yes. Unequivocally.
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  Yes. Stafford 2.
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  Yes. #3 is Purdy OK, I'll go there #4.
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  Williams, Caleb. Williams All right, I like the
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  sounds of that. Do we put the two young guys
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  together? Do we put we still got two young
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  guys on the board 'cause they're both in the same draft?
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  Do we put Knicks together with Drake Bay May ahead of them?
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  No May ahead of them, may ahead of them.
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  Then Knicks, then Stroud, then Darnold.
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  No. No, no, see if I can see that,
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  Nadia. Nope, not going.
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  You're not going to put Dartald 8.
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  No, I'm going to put him 7th. OK.
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  But but not 8th see just drums awful.
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  That defence is so good. Marx is a phenomenal running the
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  football now obviously the Nico Collins news.
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  We'll see how this goes. Short week and trying to get
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  ready through not ready trying to get cleared for the
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  concussion protocol because they're going to need him going
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  into New England. Do you like the Texans in this
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  spot with that defence and knowing that, yeah, New England
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  looked really good last week, but I'm not sure Drake May
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  looked great. I like the under.
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  Doesn't this thing seem destined for 16/13?
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  And what is the number? 40 1/2 New England favored by
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  three. This thing has old school bare
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  knuckle brawl type of feeling to it. 2 good defenses, an
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  offensive line on both sides that have struggled.
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  Yeah. The left tackle issues with the
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  injuries that the Patriots have had this year and a couple other
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  spots as well. Although what's his name Will?
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  The kid from LSU, the 6th overall pick Will.
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  Oh gosh, it's not Will McDonald. It's Will.
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  It's Will Campbell. Will Campbell?
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  Yes, but he's not banged up. Yeah, in and out of the line up.
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  You're right. So he's dating.
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  You've lost me already, OK? A college Who is this college
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  quarterback who's this color back quarterback at LSU last
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  year. He's dating his sister anyways,
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  you know. You got the you, Mr. TMZ over
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  there. Well, I'm on Twitter all the.
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  Time. Yeah, that's.
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  These things pop up. 2 bad off, 2 below average offensive.
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  Lines, yes. Two young.
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  Quarterbacks that, although I like New England's offensive
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  line better. Drake Bay had a great season,
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  tremendous. But you're also talking about
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  now two really important pieces possibly out Gonzalez for the
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  Patriots. Another one in concussion
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  protocol, yes. And then Nico Collins, this
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  thing has ugly written all over it.
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  Way too early to take a look at the weather, but anticipate cold
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  weather there. This is going to be who's going
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  to make a play. It's going to probably look like
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  the first 3/4 did last night. That was bad football.
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  That was not as enjoyable as the first.
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  What four games were of the NFL playoffs?
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  The last two have stunk. It was not just enjoyable
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  football to watch. It was bad.
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  No, I'm with you. I'm with you.
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  But you're right. At least we got off on the right
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  foot and we had the. We've got that to kind of fall
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  back on 'cause it was really good.
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  But these last two, what did? Did you think you're watching
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  Aaron Rodgers for the last time? I think so, yeah, I think so
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  too. Yeah, I think so too.
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  I think that that's probably, you know what it, you know what
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  it dawned on me watching him last night when they would show
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  close up his face, you know, understand or whatever.
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  He's old. He's old, yes.
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  Yeah. Doesn't matter how much
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  different creams and different topical things that you're
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  putting out yet you're you're stole, right?
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  And Aaron Rodgers is old. He's old.
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  He's really old. Look inside that helmet and look
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  at Now he can go off and spend the rest of his life with his
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  wife, who have yet to meet or see or.
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  He's weird, yeah, that aside. He's not married.
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  The weirdest? Yeah.
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  Mr. TMZ again. I want to go first.
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  This stretch at the end, Did you click it off right away?
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  I know you do that. Yes, I did.
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  I I went to, I went and found a hockey game.
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  So they stuck around cameras on it the whole time as he's.
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  Leaving. Oh, you know what?
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  I did see some of that, yes. Really, nobody's coming up to
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  talk to him. A few, a few, but yeah, yeah.
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  If that was, if we had the same circumstance with so many other
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  quarterbacks, has he burned so many bridges?
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  Do people just across the NFL not like him?
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  It, it was the thought that went through my mind last night
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  because I thought that was incredibly odd.
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  It wasn't a bunch of teammates coming over.
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  It wasn't a bunch of guys from the there were a couple of
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  Texans players. I, I saw a couple of them come
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  over and give him a handshake. But for the most part, it was
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  all right. Is that the way he wants it?
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  Is that the persona that he has? No, leave me alone.
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  Maybe that's a part of it too. I just found that incredibly
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  interesting. I think still paints the picture
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  of Heron Rodgers. We can think of him whatever
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  way, it doesn't matter. Although his teammates love him.
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  I mean, they said during the broadcast last night apparently,
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  or I think it was last night was one of the, it was one of the
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  Steelers games that his house is always open, you know, come over
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  and play ping pong. I think they were.
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  Talking. Does anybody actually take him
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  up? I don't know.
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  It's. True.
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  Maybe his wife's cooking dinner, busy in the kitchen, doing
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  whatever, making food for everybody.
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  He's not married. Yeah, he says.
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  He's a weird duck, right? I mean, who in their right mind
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  locks themselves in a dark room right for days at a time?
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  I mean, that would, I don't know.
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  Anyway, he's a health player and the next time we hear his name
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  when it comes to football related will be when he's
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  inducted into the Hall of Fame as a first ballot.
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  No doubt about it. Slam dunk Hall of Famer, because
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  he is a phenomenal player, really is.
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  This final chapter of his career though got the Steelers the play
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  offs. Talk about Michael Jordan
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  thinking that Wizards team of 40 wins, which was unthinkable, as
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  awful as they were, coupled with the injury with The Jets.
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  How much does it take to I I know once we get more further
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  removed, yes, it it will it'll pale in comparison for the most
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  part. I remember the highlights.
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  I remember the great moments you bring up more often.
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  Well, is he gonna ruin you know what we think about him and I
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  rarely think that. But this, it does seem odd, and
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  maybe it's just it's because it encapsulates all of it, the
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  weirdness. Do we know he was a weird dude
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  like this level a decade ago? No, we did.
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  They ran him out of New York. We thought he was incredibly
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  thoughtful person, aloof, right, different type of personality.
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  But the way that he handled the Far situation I think elevated
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  him in many people's mind. Far was made out to be the bad
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  guy. Rogers was the good guy.
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  There was a lot that I think not just the football playing here
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  over the last three years, but just in general has tainted the
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  image of Aaron Rodgers. Unlike many guys that we've seen
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  before, he stayed too. Long, Trent.
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  I think that's maybe how I'll kind of think about him.
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  Is he? I mean, I would, I get it,
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  sports aren't perfect, but wouldn't have been better if he
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  would have ended as a Packer, right?
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  Yeah. He was a Green Bay Packer.
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  He wasn't either Jet. He wasn't a Steeler.
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  He was a Packer, but he didn't have that opportunity.
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  They wanted to move on, I guess, and they didn't like to draw.
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  I think that what, what's the expression about the, the, the
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  juice isn't worth the squeeze or whatever, because at the end of
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  his days in Green Bay, is he or isn't he, you know, is he coming
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  back? Is he going to play?
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  It was turning into the far thing and they.
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  Didn't want to deal, right? Absolutely.
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  His final season in Green Bay, 26 touchdowns, 12 interceptions.
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  They went 8 and 9 missed the play offs that season.
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  And that was one of the first years that he threw double digit
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  interceptions. Well, he was coming off of
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  back-to-back MVP years, right? And then took that step back and
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  he thought, well, this guy's just a you're removed from being
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  the MVP. And how old was he then?
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  40, He was 40 when he got to the Jetsons for his playing season.
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  Well, the couple snaps that he got with The Jets before the
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  Achilles, yeah, he was 40 in that season.
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  I think there's more to it than just a guy that didn't play at
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  his prior levels. There's a whole lot more to the
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  conversation than just what we saw in the field.
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  And that I think is why this is going to be a remembered more.
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  We talked Michael Jordan. We don't talk about the Wizards
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  very often. That's true.
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  We don't. We talk about the great now.
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  Brinson does. Well, of course, because he's
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  weird. He's mine because he's a wilt
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  guy. Wilt Chamberlain, Not even the
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  best guy of his generation. That aside, that's a
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  conversation. Maybe the summer time with Jimmy
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  B, when we get him on before your retirement, we'll make that
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  happen. And one more conversation with
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  Bris, probably during the NBA playoffs.
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  That's what we like to talk to. Jimmy B.
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  The Jets got the Steelers to the playoffs.
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  There's a little something. Do you remember the buzz around
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  the 2023 season when he first got there?
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  Was it a Monday night? Was it?
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  Was it a? Prime time game came out with
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  the American flag. Came out with the flag and boom,
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  4 snaps in three snaps in. There goes the Achilles and
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  there goes The Jets season and he came back last year and then
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  a new coach comes and they run him out of town.
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  Right I. Mean they're sick of the McAfee
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  doing the McAfee show every week and you can understand why teams
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  would, you know, get fed up with that.
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  But anyway, regardless what you think of him different, a lot of
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  different ways you can go about him.
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  When you're thinking about Aaron Rodgers, one of the things he's
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  indisputable, he's a hell of a player.
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  He was an elbow player, absolutely How?
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  About his head coach. One thing that is confounding to
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  be Do you think Mike Tomlin's going to be good on TV?
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  I'm. Kind of with you, Trenton.
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  And apparently they're falling over each other trying to Fox
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  wants him in the worst way. Now look, Bill Cower's had a job
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  now for 25 years, and I don't think he's very good at it.
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  I don't. Either so and he survived a
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  couple of purges. Yes, absolutely.
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  Out of changing faces and he's been there a cower had something
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  over the weekend. I was just.
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  Yes, we know it's you got to play for everything here.
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  It's the playoffs. Thanks, Bill.
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  Yeah, really. But he's been doing it for 25
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  years and cashing some nice checks.
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  So. All right, so be it.
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  I guess there's a market for him.
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  If I was ATV executive, I don't. I don't think Mike Tomlin,
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  football coach, translates. I don't see it.
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  Jason Garrett's up there doing this thing.
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  I guess there's a market for it. I don't get it now.
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  I also don't watch a ton of pre game post game shows anymore.
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  Right. So I don't have the same depth I
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  guess, of knowledge that I once did.
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  I've never seen him without a hat.
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  Like Tommy? Yeah.
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  You could be able to wear a ball cap.
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  Maybe you can. Maybe you can.
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  Maybe you can, yes. Anyways, good, good stuff.
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  All right, so that's the football.
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  Let's take a quick look ahead to what we have coming up this
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  weekend. And I and I love a lot of these
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  games. You know, I'm down on the
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  Broncos. You are Broncos will beat the
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  Bills. They'll beat the Bills.
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  I believe they'll beat the Bills.
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  They'll run the football. Not not to the extent that you
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  would think that they will. I just think that it's asking an
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  awful lot of Buffalo. Broncos still have a good
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  offensive. Line.
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  They do a really good offensive line, although they look really
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  bad against the Chargers in Week 18.
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  Yeah, RJ Harvey is going to have a good game.
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  He could. He sets up for it.
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  Yeah, it sets up for him. Because they're not good.
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  Again. Look, if you and I still seize
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  your said and done, Kenneth, if you stop 17, you've got a
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  chance. He doesn't have the greatest
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  cast of receivers. Denver's defense is really good.
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  I love the fact that Buffalo is coming to Denver.
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  I think that's the best case scenario for this team.
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  I think Houston gives them fits. I I think this look, I said that
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  Denver would be a one and done and I felt that way.
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  But now you take a look at the match up, I think it's pretty,
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  it's a pretty good, it's a pretty good draw for Denver.
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  So I want to ask you about the middle, because we know whoever
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  and the Bills don't have great white outs.
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  I mean, Kian Coleman, where did he come from?
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  Yeah. Thought he was retired.
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  Yeah, I was. I think he was.
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  He makes the play up the sideline well, he's still on the
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  roster. No, they tried to retire him.
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  Shakur, it's fine. Yeah.
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  It's kind of like, well, not even the Broncos have better
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  wide receivers than the Bills. That's not saying.
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  That's not saying very much. Courtland Sun is fine.
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  Fine. You got maybe some upside.
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  Mims is fine. I did just a bunch of those and
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  the Bills are a step back from that.
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  But what the Bills do have when they're throwing the ball?
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  I like Pat Bryant, the kid from Illinois.
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  I know you do. Kinkaid and Knox.
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  Both really good tight ends. So against tight ends, how would
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  you measure your Broncos with? #2 #2 Sir Tan has taken one of
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  them. What?
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  Sir Tan takes whoever. I would put Sir Tan on the best
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  player on Buffalo, take him totally out of the.
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  Game, so you're going to play like inside slot kind of thing.
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  Yeah, the, the, the whiteouts do not worry me.
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  It's the tight ends that I think you have to worry.
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  About So you're having Sir Tan garden those guys.
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  One of them. OK.
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  Yeah. All right, Riley Moss, you get
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  whatever wide receiver you get here and you go that.
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  Direction and you and you know that you'll get called for a
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  couple of pass interferences because he does every game,
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  whether it's his fault or not, they're going to throw a flag on
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  Moss. You Ankeny guys are tight.
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  You love your AKD guys. That would be the question that
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  I'd have. It's just the tight that would
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  be probably the biggest concern that I'd have.
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  Josh Allen, Josh Allen's health, that has to be a component, has
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  to be he's shaking his hand for how long?
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  During that game he got back, he hurt his knee.
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  There's a lot that is starting to stack up against him.
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  I'm with you. I like Denver in this spot.
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  I think this is a very winnable opportunity.
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  I was, I think the fandom started to show a little bit
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  with you and how frustrated you were.
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  But I didn't love Denver coming in the playoffs.
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  I like I. Still don't like Denver.
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  I mean, I love Denver, but I don't like, I don't think
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  they're a Super Bowl winner. I just don't.
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  I mean, it sets up well. They're at home, Buff.
• 17:25
  Somebody's going to represent the AFC.
• 17:28
  Yes, somebody has to get that. Somebody is going to represent
• 17:31
  the AFC and, and the and you look at the teams that are left,
• 17:34
  I mean, you can, you can pick holes I think in all of them,
• 17:37
  can't you? Yes.
• 17:38
  Oh, absolutely. CJ Stroud for the Texans.
• 17:40
  Drake May. I just don't know enough about
• 17:43
  this, this patriot. How have they done this?
• 17:46
  Other than the fact that the schedule has been incredibly
• 17:50
  fortuitous to them, How have they done this?
• 17:53
  I. They have a competent coach and
• 17:55
  Frabel. I think they're, I think that's
• 17:57
  fair. That goes a long way.
• 17:58
  The defence has played at a very good level throughout the course
• 18:01
  of the. 1-2 punch at running back.
• 18:02
  Stevenson's been really good and Trevion on Henderson's got a
• 18:05
  great future good. Tight end with Hunter Henry,
• 18:08
  yeah, mentioned the offensive line drafted first of all.
• 18:11
  Hunter Henry, was he? A charger.
• 18:14
  I don't think he was a patriot. Yes, he was.
• 18:16
  He was a charger. He was a charger, right?
• 18:18
  Yes, only 31. Feels like he's been part of our
• 18:21
  life. Arkansas.
• 18:21
  Yep. Yep. 31 years old receiving
• 18:26
  Overall though Stefan Diggs not the same guy he was he's OK
• 18:30
  pretty good still at this point the booty kid he can get down
• 18:33
  the. Wheel.
• 18:33
  I like him. Yeah, I like him.
• 18:34
  I mean, he's got some wheels to him.
• 18:36
  Another LSU guy. But who are these guys on
• 18:39
  defense other than Gonzalez? And and that's the guy you know,
• 18:42
  right? It's the guy it is.
• 18:44
  And Ellis the kid, he's got 2 s s Ellis with two s s.
• 18:48
  Christian Ellis. Yes, he's a good player.
• 18:49
  Right. But overall, it's it's kind of
• 18:52
  the no name defense right back in the 70s.
• 18:54
  That's what this is. It's not household names.
• 18:57
  It's not people that, you know, Spillane, OK.
• 19:01
  It just looks weird out there. We're #14 like, is that guy's
• 19:04
  safety? No, he's a linebacker.
• 19:06
  What what's he doing out there? It is it, but it's the same
• 19:11
  thing we've talked about when the Patriots have come up a
• 19:13
  bunch of times. Just don't feel like we know
• 19:16
  them. For a team that has won, what
• 19:18
  did they win this year? 14 games.
• 19:19
  Not 15. 15 games, I can't remember A-Team quite like this.
• 19:24
  Even some of those Titans teams and things like that, they still
• 19:27
  had names that you knew, guys that you know.
• 19:29
  And that is not the case certainly nationally and and
• 19:31
  here locally, unless you're Lucas Strain with the Patriots.
• 19:34
  Yeah, I like your bears. You know why I like your bears?
• 19:38
  It's going to be 14°. Love it, right?
• 19:41
  It's going to be windy, it's going to be miserable, and here
• 19:44
  comes a California team. And that Matthew Stafford is not
• 19:47
  good in the cold weather. He has not been.
• 19:49
  He's not been. Historically, he has struggled
• 19:52
  in these types of games. Now there's going to be
• 19:55
  opportunities, no doubt. One thing we didn't mention
• 19:58
  yesterday when we talked about the epic Bears Packers game,
• 20:01
  what's the crowd? That crowd once again, I don't
• 20:08
  latest always greatest. I get it, Yeah.
• 20:10
  Oh, boy, is there an NFL stadium that rocks like that?
• 20:15
  That I mean, you can feel the pent up frustration that you can
• 20:19
  hear on these radio Airways from noon to two every day too, when
• 20:22
  the Bears come up. But just that euphoric feeling
• 20:25
  that you could, you could get that.
• 20:27
  And when they're coming back and the belief inside that stadium
• 20:30
  that down to scores down 11. Yeah, we're fine.
• 20:34
  We got this. We got.
• 20:35
  This. You don't get that.
• 20:36
  Like it's like they said, tell the way right before the drive.
• 20:38
  We got them right where we want them.
• 20:40
  Right. True.
• 20:40
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 20:42
  It's that cool demeanor. There was a lot about that part
• 20:47
  of it that just felt like something special is happening.
• 20:50
  And I know I'm a fan and I know you believe that a lot as a fan,
• 20:53
  that it's special for your team compared to other, but I'm with
• 20:57
  you. I love it.
• 20:58
  I love that they got the night game.
• 20:59
  You know, I love that we'll be landed by the time that night.
• 21:01
  Game can be it's 5:30. 530 yes, Hello.
• 21:06
  We're in good shape. Get to the hotel, be ready to
• 21:08
  go. I love the spot here.
• 21:11
  Thanks for a better. Football team they are.
• 21:13
  But here's the here's that stat I was telling you about Matthew
• 21:15
  Stafford. In cold weather, he's one in
• 21:17
  nine. Under 40° with snow and rain.
• 21:21
  One in nine. Remember last year in the the
• 21:24
  Eagles game there was snow and rain and it was cold. 1:00 and
• 21:28
  9:00 when the temperature is under 40°.
• 21:30
  Now, some of those games were with bad Detroit teams, I'll
• 21:33
  give you that. He played well against the
• 21:40
  Eagles last year, but. For for most of it, he did the
• 21:43
  the play play at the end of the game.
• 21:46
  We'll see. We'll see what goes.
• 21:47
  I like your bears. All right, let's get a quick
• 21:49
  call in here. I look forward to doing this and
• 21:52
  we will talk to Matt Snyder on the other side.
• 21:55
  He's in Indiana grad talk a little baseball with Snyder as
• 21:59
  well as he covers baseball for CBSSports.com.
• 22:02
  Hello, Jeff. Hey, guys.
• 22:04
  How's it going today? Good.
• 22:06
  I wanted to give you a couple quick stats before I get to my
• 22:08
  point on the Iowa State game. In the Bill Self era, Iowa State
• 22:12
  has walked into Alan Fieldhouse ranked seven times.
• 22:16
  They are O and seven leading Alan Fieldhouse ranked against
• 22:20
  Bill Self. There's #1 #2 Kansas will host
• 22:24
  Iowa State, who's ranked second tonight.
• 22:27
  Kansas not being ranked. The last time that has happened
• 22:30
  was 1989. There's another fun fact for it.
• 22:36
  Now you would say to me, well, what's the point?
• 22:38
  What I was they going to do tonight?
• 22:40
  I've said this to you guys numerous times.
• 22:43
  It's about their bench. Now, when I say that I look
• 22:47
  back. It's last game against Oklahoma
• 22:50
  State. Nelson had 6 minutes, Bateman 2
• 22:54
  minutes. First half.
• 22:56
  Nelson had seven points in the first half.
• 22:58
  Now, I get it. You can say Chef Nelson can't
• 23:02
  shoot the ball. I get it.
• 23:04
  But they have other guys that can do that.
• 23:05
  The way he can create and get downhill and get to the foul
• 23:08
  line maybe, which they struggle without the team to get to the
• 23:10
  foul line, they need some kind of offense.
• 23:13
  Now, you may say, well, yeah, Heisey played 28 minutes.
• 23:16
  Yeah, and 0 points. They need points off the bench.
• 23:20
  They don't need defense. They're defense.
• 23:22
  They're good. They're going to be just fine.
• 23:24
  They need points off the bench, especially on the road in a
• 23:28
  hostile environment. This is a must win.
• 23:31
  I don't want to say must win. This is a very big game for
• 23:34
  Kansas. They're struggling.
• 23:35
  They're limping in. This is a game at home that they
• 23:38
  absolutely need. Does Iowa State need this game
• 23:41
  tonight? No.
• 23:42
  Can they still win the conference?
• 23:44
  And, and again, as an Iowa State fan, it's what you do in March.
• 23:48
  I can care less what they do tonight.
• 23:50
  Yes, I do want to win. And yes, as an Iowa State fan, I
• 23:53
  think if you had a poll, I think if you're going to win a game in
• 23:56
  conference, it's absolutely Kansas.
• 23:58
  I did all that. But again, if you look at Iowa
• 24:02
  State, you guys watch the games. I watch the game.
• 24:04
  I feel like they're playing with their food lately they haven't
• 24:07
  had. A.
• 24:07
  At the beginning of the game, they are.
• 24:09
  The beginning of the game now when you go back to Purdue, they
• 24:12
  came out there and they absolutely laid it on.
• 24:14
  They haven't done that since that game.
• 24:17
  And if you're going into Kansas, you need to absolutely, from
• 24:20
  start to finish, 40 minutes, play your best basketball.
• 24:24
  I can't wait to talk to you tomorrow.
• 24:25
  Have a good day. Thank you, Jeff.
• 24:26
  Appreciate the call. Yeah, Big spot for Kansas.
• 24:30
  Jeff's 1000% right this big spot for Kansas tonight.
• 24:33
  And you're not just playing against The Jayhawks.
• 24:35
  And we'll see about Peterson you're playing against.
• 24:38
  They get a good whistle in that building, You know, playing
• 24:41
  against the ghosts. I think it's some of the
• 24:43
  comeback wins that they've had, just inexplicable victories that
• 24:47
  Kansas has well. Think of some of the whistles
• 24:49
  they got to help them, right? Go hand in hand, it's true.
• 24:53
  Got to be ready. So you know when Iowa State fans
• 24:56
  heads will explode tonight and I don't think it's going to
• 24:58
  happen, but I guess that's a kick out of it.
• 25:01
  I like the guy. You, I think you like the guy.
• 25:04
  But if King Booker recalls the game tonight, Oh yeah, they are
• 25:07
  so fed up with this guy. Why?
• 25:09
  Why don't they? Like him?
• 25:10
  I don't get it. This.
• 25:10
  Is his voice, I I think he's OK yeah, he's fine Speaking of
• 25:14
  broadcasters, we're going to do this real quick.
• 25:17
  It's not not a basketball broadcaster.
• 25:18
  Are you seeing the Tony Romo hate out there?
• 25:22
  That it's the end that CBS has a has a huge problem on their hand
• 25:25
  'cause you got so many more years left at 15,000,000 a year
• 25:29
  and the team of Nance and Romo have fallen from the top all the
• 25:33
  way down to they're below everybody nationally.
• 25:37
  They should. He's not very good.
• 25:39
  I was never. I was a Romo guy right at the
• 25:42
  beginning because. He was predicting everything and
• 25:44
  people are falling in love. I just, I never did it.
• 25:46
  Don't have to worry about King tonight on the broadcast.
• 25:49
  It's got to be for Schuler, right?
• 25:50
  We're. No, it's not.
• 25:51
  We're getting Dan Schulman and Jay Bellis.
• 25:55
  That works. Absolutely.
• 25:56
  Yeah, that's a bigger, better thing.
• 25:58
  I I agree with you wholeheartedly.
• 25:59
  That's a great team. That's a really good team.
• 26:02
  All right, we'll take your time out.
• 26:03
  We'll talk to Matt Snyder a little baseball conversation
• 26:06
  next. Speaking of baseball, the voice
• 26:08
  of the Blue Jays has the game tonight.
• 26:10
  Dan Schulman on the on the play by play Snyder next.
• 26:14
  Miller and condom. We're glad you're with us.
• 26:15
  We're talking sports with you on Des Moines sports Station One O
• 26:19
  6.3 KXNO. Hi, Millory Congdon, welcome
• 26:26
  back. Iowa Sports Radio Network coming
• 26:29
  up on 135 here on a Tuesday. Let's talk to our friend Matt
• 26:34
  Snyder's Indiana grad. His squad will play for a
• 26:38
  national championship in football.
• 26:41
  Matt Snyder, you never thought you'd see that as long as you
• 26:44
  live, don't you? Be honest.
• 26:46
  No, never. Absolutely not.
• 26:47
  I think it, I think I told you guys earlier like when we hired
• 26:51
  Signetti, if you would have said what's your best case scenario
• 26:55
  for in the second year, I think I would have said like 84 is the
• 26:58
  absolute pie in the sky best case scenario and said 15 and O,
• 27:02
  are you kidding me? Like I last night during the the
• 27:07
  Steelers Ravens game a few times when they would show promos, it
• 27:12
  still is like thinking in and seems weird like the national
• 27:16
  championship Indiana heavily favored.
• 27:19
  Like, man, I'm still kind of like, what world is this?
• 27:23
  I told you, Matt, I went to a Bloomington game one time, Iowa,
• 27:27
  Indiana, back when we were both in college back in 1999.
• 27:30
  It was Antoine Randall L on one side, Scott Mullen on the other
• 27:34
  for the Hawkeyes, through for 426 yards on that one.
• 27:37
  And the losing effort for the Hawkeyes is IU got it done 3831.
• 27:41
  The crazy thing is just seeing this fan base the way that they
• 27:44
  how starved they are. We saw it here in Des Moines
• 27:47
  when they came here for the NCAA tournament.
• 27:49
  A ton of Hoosier fans for basketball, but the football
• 27:52
  side of it, the number people that are going to make their way
• 27:54
  down to Miami, the number of people that were in Atlanta,
• 27:56
  what we obviously saw at the Rose Bowl.
• 27:58
  This is a star fan base. And I think one thing people
• 28:00
  didn't realize. And a broke fan base.
• 28:02
  A huge, huge. Fan base though, a lot of money,
• 28:05
  a lot of people that have been saving for 60 years.
• 28:08
  I think it's been there's a misconception that we never
• 28:13
  cared about football or we didn't know anything about
• 28:15
  football. No, we knew plenty.
• 28:16
  We just knew. We stuck and we're, it's frankly
• 28:20
  an embarrassing program for a long, long, long time.
• 28:23
  And people, oh, you guys are bandwagon fans.
• 28:26
  Where were you when they weren't good?
• 28:27
  Well. All right, it takes me an hour
• 28:30
  and a half to drive down there. Am I going to do that every
• 28:32
  single Saturday to watch us get our teeth kicked in?
• 28:34
  That's a lot different. I always watched.
• 28:37
  I always watched. But no, I didn't always go.
• 28:40
  But I mean, I went to the Gator Bowl after the 2019 season.
• 28:45
  It was January 2nd, 2020, when we played Tennessee because my
• 28:50
  friend and I, who I went with, who was the same one I went to
• 28:52
  every game with in college, we thought this is the pinnacle,
• 28:55
  this is the best we're ever going to be, so let's go to the
• 28:57
  bowl game this year. So yeah, it's it's been
• 29:01
  something else, I tell you what. Have you looked at how much it
• 29:05
  cost to get in? I mean, did you even kick the
• 29:07
  tires on going? It ain't happening.
• 29:09
  It's not happening. So I I probably, I am kind of
• 29:14
  kicking myself about the Rose Bowl because I didn't even think
• 29:18
  about going. And then the, the, the day
• 29:21
  before I started looking and like the ticket prices for the
• 29:25
  upper bowl were not that bad. And I was like, man, maybe I
• 29:29
  should have gone to that. I don't know if we're ever going
• 29:31
  to be back, but anyway, I'm perfectly fine to hopefully root
• 29:36
  for a national champion, which again, I thought would never
• 29:38
  ever, ever happen. And yet here we are.
• 29:41
  Absolutely incredible story and going to be fun one there.
• 29:44
  See. Feel confident against Miami, I
• 29:46
  take it. I actually do.
• 29:48
  Like I've been, it's funny, like during the Ohio State and then
• 29:53
  Alabama and then Oregon games, I've been getting texts from
• 29:55
  people who knew that I was a die hard IU football fan, but I
• 29:59
  don't really talk to that much. And for the first couple times I
• 30:03
  kept saying this is surreal, this is surreal.
• 30:06
  But during the Oregon game, I was like, I don't think it's
• 30:09
  surreal anymore. I think I've moved into like
• 30:11
  extreme confidence now and like, I definitely jumped up on the
• 30:16
  Pick 6, but it wasn't like yelling and screaming out.
• 30:19
  More like just had my hand up and was smiling like, Yep, here
• 30:22
  we go. You know, it's like once you
• 30:24
  finally get over that point, now I'm like, I'm just excited for
• 30:28
  the game. I'm not even that nervous now.
• 30:30
  Maybe those are famous last words, but hey, I've never been
• 30:33
  here before, so let me be, you know?
• 30:35
  Let's switch to let's switch to baseball.
• 30:37
  Let's talk about another of your teams.
• 30:39
  You cover Major League Baseball, but you do so in part because
• 30:41
  you became a fan of Major League Baseball and that drew you to
• 30:44
  the sport. Obviously the Alex Bregman news
• 30:47
  which broke Bears game, which itself was odd, but I get it.
• 30:51
  Another one of my themes too. That was a great weekend.
• 30:54
  Heck yeah, it's good to be you. So Michael Bush batting lead
• 30:57
  off, then Bregman, Hap Suzuki, PCA, Carson Kelly, Dansby
• 31:01
  Swanson, Moises by esteros and Nico Horner batting 9th.
• 31:05
  That's a pretty formidable lineup, if indeed that's what
• 31:07
  they break spring training looking like.
• 31:10
  It is I I might want to put Nico at the top, but I can see it
• 31:14
  both ways. And it seems like Bush really,
• 31:16
  really got comfortable in the lead off spot.
• 31:20
  And and in this day and age with the evolution of the lead off
• 31:23
  man, putting the power hitter in the top spot so he can sneak
• 31:25
  attack you, which Bush had two lead off homers in the in the
• 31:28
  playoffs. So they might stick with it that
• 31:32
  way. Very fired up about the Bregman
• 31:34
  deal. Not so fired up about the Nico
• 31:37
  Horner trade. Rumor.
• 31:37
  Yeah, me neither. Now we're hearing more and more,
• 31:40
  I tell you what, coming off the heels of signing Bregman, I
• 31:45
  will, I would figuratively, figuratively, not literally want
• 31:48
  to burn the house down if they turned around and traded Nico.
• 31:51
  I thought he was one of the most valuable players in baseball
• 31:53
  last year. He's a, he's a glue guy on that
• 31:57
  team. But when I asked Craig counsel
• 31:58
  about glue guy, he's he kind of and he's right.
• 32:01
  He said the perception behind the glue guy is he's not that
• 32:05
  great of a player. And I don't think that does Nico
• 32:07
  Douglas, because he is a great player and a glue guy both.
• 32:12
  I I know he's one year away from free agency.
• 32:14
  I know that people think you have too many infielders.
• 32:18
  You could just play Shaw at 2nd, but I don't think Shaw did
• 32:21
  enough for his entire rookie year.
• 32:23
  I know he was better in the second-half, but he was not
• 32:25
  great in September or the playoffs.
• 32:28
  I, I I don't. Think that having an extra
• 32:31
  infielder is too many, especially when it's Shaw.
• 32:33
  He can be a super utility guy and if you feel like you need to
• 32:36
  trade somebody, just trade Shaw. He's really young.
• 32:39
  He's pre arbitration. There are a lot of teams that
• 32:41
  would throw their head in the ring there.
• 32:43
  I know Nico is only one year away from free agency, but I do
• 32:45
  not think he's the type of player that's going to break the
• 32:48
  bank. I think the Cubs would do a lot
• 32:51
  more for the organization if they extended Nico right now.
• 32:55
  Now that they've already, I think they're probably done with
• 32:58
  all the outside the organization moves for the offseason.
• 33:01
  So now you can work on that extension.
• 33:04
  By the way, the 2015 MLB Draft, I'm sure you guys have seen
• 33:07
  this. Dansby Swanson went one, Alex
• 33:09
  Bregman went two, and Ian Hap nine.
• 33:14
  The first, the 2nd, and the 9th picks in the 2015 draft are all
• 33:18
  in the Cubs starting lineup. One name that we.
• 33:20
  Heard. Did you see?
• 33:21
  Did you see that Bregman, he, he wore #2 his, his jersey number
• 33:26
  because he hit second pick, not the first.
• 33:28
  And now he's on the team with the same guy and Dansley's
• 33:31
  number 2 so. Love that.
• 33:34
  Hey, there was a guy that we talked about quite a bit leading
• 33:38
  into it when we had David Kaplan on, and that is the Japanese
• 33:41
  pitcher, pitcher Tatsioma I'mi. He ends up with the Astros.
• 33:46
  What happened there? I know the Cubs were involved
• 33:48
  with a kick in the tires. Was it just the ticket price was
• 33:50
  too high? What can you tell us on that
• 33:52
  front? I from the get go it always felt
• 33:55
  like the Cubs prefer to spend free agency money on position
• 34:00
  players and try to find pitchers on the cheap, whether it's the
• 34:04
  Matthew Boyd signing last year or whether it's trading for them
• 34:07
  with Edward Cabrera. I don't think that they wanted
• 34:10
  to do a break the bank type deal on a pitcher or not that he
• 34:13
  necessarily got one because it wasn't gigantic or anything.
• 34:16
  It was a lot less than people were expecting.
• 34:19
  I was surprised from the Astros point of view because they don't
• 34:23
  have any lefties in the rotation.
• 34:25
  I know that's not really necessarily a non starter, but
• 34:28
  Pomper Valdez has been so good for them for so long that they
• 34:31
  looked like they had no interest in him whatsoever.
• 34:33
  So I thought it was a money thing and maybe it is.
• 34:37
  Valdez is probably going to make a lot more.
• 34:38
  Maybe he's the replacement for Valdez.
• 34:40
  And maybe this was, you know, part of some of the fallout from
• 34:43
  when he crossed up his catcher on purpose when he had that
• 34:46
  little temper tantrum last August.
• 34:48
  So maybe it's all related, but I was surprised just because I
• 34:52
  thought it didn't look like they wanted to spend much money and
• 34:54
  then they jumped in right there. One of the things I've been
• 34:56
  looking forward to asking you since you obviously a lot more
• 35:00
  connected to it than Trent and I are, we follow baseball, we love
• 35:03
  baseball, but you write about baseball.
• 35:05
  Is there anything going on behind the scenes?
• 35:08
  I mean, we're now in 2026 and once we get to the 1st of
• 35:12
  December, right, the lockdown is upon us.
• 35:14
  Is there anything going on and when will the two sides at least
• 35:18
  try to hammer something out? Or I mean, is this going to be a
• 35:21
  last minute thing? If indeed it does get done, or
• 35:24
  does it? Is that where you think we're
• 35:25
  going? The hunch that I get is, first
• 35:29
  of all, no, I don't think anything's happening at all
• 35:32
  behind the scenes other than what we already saw last year,
• 35:35
  which was Manfred visiting some some clubhouses.
• 35:38
  And there was the much ballyhooed Bryce Harper stood up
• 35:41
  and said don't you dare talk about a salary cap.
• 35:44
  And they got into it for a second trying to lay some
• 35:48
  groundwork there. But other than that, not really.
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  I think it once the World Series ends, the two sides will start
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  to meet. And then I don't know if Manfred
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  wants to go the route of another defensive lockout when it was
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  totally unnecessary like last time.
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  Maybe that he learned his lesson a little bit and will be more
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  open and amenable to talking to the players and listen to their
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  side. But it's the same as it ever
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  was. The commissioner can claim to be
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  a neutral party, but he's hired by the owners, he's paid by the
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  owners. So he's the owner's boy and the
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  players know that. So we'll see.
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  I think it's going to get pretty contentious.
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  I think there are 10 to 12 ownership groups that really,
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  really, really want a salary cap.
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  At least that may be more. And the players for years and
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  years and years have said that is an absolute non starter.
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  And I know that they have it and and the other major professional
• 36:37
  sports. But the system in baseball with
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  three pre arbitration years and then three arbitration years.
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  And we just saw a scoop ball where the Tigers only offer like
• 36:47
  $20 million when he's worth like 40 or 50.
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  The system in place where you have six years before a guy gets
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  the free agency, I think the players can argue small market
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  teams can still compete. Now, the timing probably isn't
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  great with the Dodgers having won back-to-back titles or first
• 37:05
  back-to-back champs, the Yankees 198 to 2000.
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  And maybe that's where the owners will jump in and say,
• 37:12
  hey, what about this? But man, the Brewers had the
• 37:15
  best record in the National League last year.
• 37:17
  They just didn't get it done in the playoffs against the
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  Dodgers. So to say that the small market
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  teams cannot compete isn't really true.
• 37:25
  Want to go this direction as we see the news of Nolan Arenado
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  moving on, obviously dimension diminished from what he once
• 37:32
  was. Cash considerations going with
• 37:34
  Arizona along with him to help pay some of that salary.
• 37:37
  But is this a sign that the Cardinals are finally doing
• 37:40
  maybe what they should have done a couple years back?
• 37:42
  It's time to tear this thing down, tear it down to the studs,
• 37:45
  and the rebuild is happening. Yes, 100%.
• 37:48
  And it already started because the sunny Gray trade to the Red
• 37:51
  Sox, the Wilson Contreras trade to the Red Sox.
• 37:53
  Now Aaron Otto finally accepted one.
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  Remember, last offseason, he rejected the trade.
• 37:58
  He towed it to the Astros. So I don't know if it's like now
• 38:02
  he just saw the writing on the wall or he's like Arizona that
• 38:05
  much more than Houston. Whatever it was, he's OK with
• 38:08
  that. Brendan Donovan looks like he's
• 38:11
  going to go. I know it seems like he hasn't
• 38:14
  been around that long. And why would they get rid of
• 38:16
  that guy? He's a good player, which is a
• 38:18
  really good utility player. Giants want him, apparently.
• 38:21
  He's 29 years old, so it's when you're looking at a rebuild
• 38:26
  that's going to take multiple years by the time they turn it
• 38:28
  around. Dot, you talk about Donovan
• 38:30
  being 3233 and makes sense to deal him right now, especially
• 38:34
  once Bregman signed and now could tell Marte looks like he's
• 38:39
  not going to be on the market. Maybe wait until Bichette signs
• 38:43
  and see where he goes and see who missed out on Bichette.
• 38:45
  And now you've got some people look looking for Donovan
• 38:48
  especially. Hopefully what for my sake, when
• 38:52
  the Cubs say we're not trading to go harder, my expectation is
• 38:56
  let's say Bichette signs with the Phillies.
• 38:59
  You've got at least the Red Sox and Giants saying, hey, please
• 39:02
  give us Brendan Donovan. Now you have a bidding war.
• 39:04
  So I think that's where the Cardinals will wait out the
• 39:07
  Bichette market and then probably hope that the Cubs pull
• 39:10
  Nico back and then that's when they can really strike with the
• 39:13
  Donovan trade. We got to go to break, brother.
• 39:16
  We will talk to you on the When is the Hall of Fame
• 39:18
  announcement? Tuesday, Tuesday, we will.
• 39:22
  Well, Trent's going to be on vacationing, so yeah, it is.
• 39:25
  I'll run you down next week to talk about your Hall of Fame.
• 39:28
  Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it, Matt.
• 39:29
  Good to talk to you. Take care.
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  Yep. Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com.
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  Take your time out. We will come back, finish up our
• 39:34
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  tomorrow's game. Iowa getting, I don't know, 8-9?
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  What's Iowa State favored by tonight?
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  I mean, I've got it. I mean, let me head over here
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  Just maybe Scroll down to it. God, there's a lot of games
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