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Miller and Condon Hour 1 7-29-2025 · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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Tuesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network
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Ken Miller solo for the next couple of hours.
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Appreciate you starting your day here in your afternoon rather
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with me Trent on vacation for the remainder of the week.
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So I will take you up until 2:00.
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Turn things over to off the bench.
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Lucas Strain guiding you in through that one until 5:00.
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Here's what's coming up on the program here today in 15
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minutes. We'll do our first of three
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different segments this this week with my good friend Bama
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Bob, who talks college football twice weekly during the regular
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season. But as we usually do it late
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July and the beginning of August, we take a look at the
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power conferences as well as the Group of Five.
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We'll lump those in today. Group of Five and Big 12 will be
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in focus. We will talk to Bama Bob or I
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will talk to Bama Bob. Then tomorrow, the Big 10 finish
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things off with the ACC and the SEC on Thursday, But we will
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have a look at for the benefit of both Bam and I as much as
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anything. I'll be perfectly upfront with
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you. So college football conversation
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coming up at 12:15. Mitch Holtis is back.
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His daily Chiefs training camp report some sound today from #15
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Patrick Mahomes. Mitch joins Trent and I every
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day during the during training camp for the Chiefs with the
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exception when they're travelling on the road to A to a
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preseason game. But Mitch will be here today.
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12:45 Papa John's in central Iowa.
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off the second hour of the program and look forward to
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this. I was you found my Phil Steele.
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I was going to have an all points bulletin with five O
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tomorrow. Thank you, Lucas.
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Phil Steele was missing. It's like the Bible couldn't
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find it panicking, but I've got it back and Lucas Strain found
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it for me and I certainly appreciate that.
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Anyways, where was I? Sam Burnaby, Iowa Cubs is going
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to join me. He's the general manager.
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So what I planned on doing this week with Trent being gone,
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doing a couple of things differently, and I want to talk
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to old guys in sports, 1 old guy in sports, talking to a couple
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of other old guys in sports. And today I was going to talk to
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Sam Burnaby about his, you know, career at the Iowa Cubs.
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He's in his 42nd year, which is hard to believe you're 42, the
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general manager of the Iowa Cubs.
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But obviously the tenor of our conversation is going to at
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least take AU turn or an about face for a little while.
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But the passing of Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg and Sandberg's
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been in Des Moines multiple times and at SEC now Principal
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Park over the years. And I know Sam will have some
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good things to say about not just Sam.
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I haven't seen anybody that says anything bad about Ryan Sandberg
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and not just recently, you know, as he is his passing approach,
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but going back over the years, by all accounts, terrific
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baseball player and a terrific person off the field.
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So Sam Burnaby on that. And then his career, what he's
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seen changed. Was Des Moines ever in jeopardy
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of losing the Chicago Cubs AAA franchise?
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I'll ask Sam about that because there were some rumors back in
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the day that we may have a different tenant down at
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Principal Park. So Sam Burnaby at at one O 2 by
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the way, coming up at the same time, or is it?
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It's Thursday. Bill Fenley's going to join me.
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Long time women's basketball coach, obviously at Iowa State's
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and the only coach still in his spot.
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That actually predated sports talk radio in the state of Iowa,
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which is bananas to me that year, 1995 when Bill Fenley came
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aboard. So we'll talk about his career,
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etcetera. But that's Thursday, Sam Burnaby
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2 day and then Bill Bender, college football.
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He was at ACC media days. We'll talk college football, not
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just the ACC, but we'll cover a lot of bases with Bill when he
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joins me coming up here at about 1:30.
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Obviously the Brewers and the Cubs game, which really was an
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entertaining baseball game, at least for the for the most part,
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but kind of took a turn in the game as well when the Cubs, I
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believe they were the first ones to make the news public that
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Ryan Sandberg had passed away yesterday.
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It seemed like, you know, the, the unfortunately, you kind of
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could see the tea leaves, right? Read the tea leaves that maybe
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Ryan Sandberg is, you know, sadly not long for the world
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when last week we saw John Lester and Carrie Wood.
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Within the last couple of weeks, both of those former Cubs take
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the mound and we're and to throw out an opening pitch, the first
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pitch and did so while wearing Ryan Sandberg's jersey number.
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So you kind of got a hint there that that's the way it was
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coming. They did a tribute speech to
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Ryan Sandberg at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown this past
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weekend when the Hall of Fame ceremonies were there.
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And obviously Sandberg was unable to attend, which
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obviously he would have as a Hall of Famer if he'd been in
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perfect health. But you could kind of see the
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writing on the wall, sadly, you know, you just go back to the
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beginning of the year when it, when it became public that at
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least the thought was that he'd beaten cancer, that it was
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behind him. I mean, he was part of the Cubs
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convention, the winter event taking place in January in
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Chicago. Cubs Con I think is what they
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call it. And Ryan Sandberg was one of the
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visitors, one of the keynote speakers at the event as
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recently as January. But sadly, the cancer return, he
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put out a statement, oh, about 3 weeks ago or so on X just kind
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of giving us a, an update that unfortunately has been able to
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make it to Wrigley Field, but he's still watching etcetera,
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etcetera. Well, sadly, his life came to an
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end far too young yesterday. But what a terrific player he
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was and recognized by the Hall of Fame as he should be.
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So Sam Burnaby will join me today to talk about that.
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Look forward to it because I'm going to pick Sam's brain as
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much as anything. 1984 I did not get WGNWGN wasn't a thing in
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Canada. So I didn't see, you know, the
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Cubs unless they were playing the Expos because there's no
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inter league playback in 1984. Remember the team once they got
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to the playoffs. But you know what?
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I'm certainly not versed on the maybe one of the best Cubs teams
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in that era, that 1984 Cubs. And what's ironic about that?
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And I found this out yesterday from all people from Darren
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Revelle, who collects everything and he tweeted out loud or do we
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X out or do we tweet out? We tweet out tickets from what
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Ryan Sandberg's first game and what his last game were.
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And what is ironic about this, at least to me, Ryan Sandberg
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and Harry Carey debuted and retired on the same day.
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Let me think about that. Iconic broadcaster, Hall of Fame
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second baseman Ryan Sandberg, both started with the Cubs on
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the same day and retired with the Cubs on the same day in
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1997. Remarkable.
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It truly was. So we'll talk about to Sam about
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those things, etcetera. Coming up here at 1:00 baseball
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from last night. Look, you got to give the
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Brewers credit. This is a really good baseball
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team. Been saying it for a while.
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Mizuroski looked like he had zero last night, had nothing.
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The Cubs were pounding him. He had to throw.
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I think it was over 40 pitches in the first inning, maybe
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404241 pitches and inning #1 I know Boog and JD were both
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speculating that he may not even come out for another training.
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Well, he did. He came out and he got, he
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figured it out and finished with seven strikeouts.
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But the story was the other left-hander was the left-hander
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for the Cubs, and that was Matthew Boyd, who's been
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phenomenal all year long. I'm not being critical of
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Matthew Boyd because this team, quite frankly, would not be
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where they are without Matthew Boyd, who going into last night
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was 11 and 3. Justin Steele out for the year.
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All the injuries that they've had him Inaga missing as many
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weeks as he has missed, tie on missing the pitching staff has
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been decimated. The one constant was the old
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guy, the 30 something who finally pitched in the All Star
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game, had his opportunity and represented the one of the Cubs
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representatives in the All Star Game for a couple of weeks ago.
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But for the first time, this was just not the Matthew boy that
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we're used to. He had not walked more than
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three batters, I think maybe once this entire year.
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He walked five Brewers yesterday.
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But give the Brewers credit. Yelich was terrific in the
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baseball game. They certainly are a good team
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and they're not going anywhere. Pat Murphy is a terrific
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skipper. This is going to be an
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unbelievable race. I have no idea what the Brewers
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have done to turn Andrew Vaughn around.
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You White Sox fans, you saw it with your own two eyes just how
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bad he was. I thought he's going to be any
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kind of player when he first broke in a few years ago with
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the White Sox. And obviously he has not lived
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up to that, made the trade. A disgruntled pitcher from the
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Brewers goes over. Savali goes over to with the
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White Sox and in exchange, Andrew Vaughn, a reclamation
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project, goes to the Brewers. He spends a little bit of time
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in AAA and he can't get him out at this at the Major League
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level. He's been unbelievable.
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Another home run yesterday. More than that, this is a good
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baseball team, a really good baseball team.
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We as baseball fans, I think, are in for a hell of a race
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between the Brewers and the Cubs as they will battle amongst
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themselves. I just don't see Cincinnati
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getting into it. I mean, they could, I guess I I
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mean, get close to these top two teams.
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But at the end of the day, it sure seems like it's it's these
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two and then there's a gap to the Reds and then the, you know,
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the others finishing up the track.
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But we shall see where it goes. But Game 2 is tonight and a lot
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of pressure now on Mr. Ray to come out and throw a pretty good
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game. I'm not sure Colin Ray has it in
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him. Quinn Priesler, who he's going
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to go up against. Priester has been good.
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Colin Ray has been better than advertised.
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No one expected the number 5 starter on the Cubs to a have
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eaten as many innings as he's been asked to do so far this
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year. But particularly at his age,
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what, 35 years old? He's 8 and 4 ERA just after just
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over 5 innings pitch. I'm not sure what how many 102
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innings pitched already this year.
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So he'll get TO170180 in all likelihood at least approach
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those numbers by the end of the regular season.
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Colin Ray has been terrific. So that's what we've got coming
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up on the program here today. Bama Bob is going to join me
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next. We'll take a look at the group
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of five who does he anticipate coming out and won't hold him to
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it. We'll have we'll go on record at
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the end of August as we always do right before week one with
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our predictions as to who's going to win each conference,
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etcetera. We'll do that in August, but
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this is kind of a primer to get both him and I kind of
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reacclimated to the game with so many changes in the sport over
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with the NIL etcetera. But that's what's coming up.
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Bamabob next Big 12 group of five Mitch Holtis 12:45 It's day
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way in about those are still tad over 1/2 an hour from now.
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Miller and Condon underweights Tuesday.
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Thanks for being with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Hi, welcome back, Miller and Condon.
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Iowa Sports Radio Network with you until 2.
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Lucas Strain comes off the bench from 2:00 until 5.
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Overtime, Iowa 5 until 6:00. Well, as I mentioned earlier in
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the program, we're going to spend 3 of the next four days
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talking to our buddy Bama. Babu joins us twice weekly
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during the college football season.
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Monday we recap. Friday we preview.
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But late in August, early or late in July, early August, we
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kind of get acclimated back to the sport and we do this every
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year and this year is no different.
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Hello Bama, how are you? Hello Kenny, I'm doing great,
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looking forward to it. Thankfully we don't have Trent
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on the slopes down today because he gets to rambles.
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Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, it's his fault.
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Yeah, it's his fault exactly. And when then now once we get to
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I think it's Friday or whatever our last day is a Thursday or
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Friday, whatever, we'll actually get to spend some time on the
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ACC because we're that ever reason he hates.
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That. Right, exactly.
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Good stuff. Well, Big 12 and Group of five
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today. Let's save the Big 12 because
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obviously they'll be what much more more topics to get into in
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there. Last year, as we know, Boise
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State prevailed, right? They and they had a phenomenal
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running back, etcetera and they were a nice team, a nice team.
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And the Group of five I believe deserves a spot in the College
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Football Playoff. I think getting more more than
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one would be kind of an upset, but we'll see how it plays out.
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Give me a team or two Bama this year.
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Who is that Group of five team? Is Boise coming back or is there
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another team that kind of got your eye on?
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I just, you know, Boise, you always kind of have to put them
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in there, don't you? I mean, it just seems like they
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now that they're moving to the PAC 12 next year, along with a
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bunch of other ones. I just, I think you have to, you
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have to throw them in no matter where you are.
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Fresno State's getting a lot of love this year.
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Yes, they are. It's going to be a really nice,
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you know, Mountain West game. I don't really know where that
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game is played, but when those two hook up, I think that's
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going to be tremendous. You know, I'll throw one out.
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And this is just crazy from the Mac.
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Toledo. Yeah, they're good.
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It seems like every year. And by the way, I saw a post, I
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put it in on Twitter that whoever wrote that post about
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the Mac was just brilliant. Scott Van Pelt retweeted that,
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which which is crazy. He goes, this is Wright Thompson
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stuff. Anyway, you know, there's,
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there's just such crazy stuff in that conference.
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They play it on, you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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pick a night, they'll play a game.
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They don't care. I'll, I'll just throw Toledo out
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there. I have no idea.
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Obviously anything about them. You know, why would you follow
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closely? Not till November.
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Yeah, exactly. Not till November, but I think,
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I think those two you know, Memphis is going to be good.
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Memphis is Lane, I think are always pretty good.
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So, you know, but I think it just kind of, for me anyway, not
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diving too deep, it kind of all starts with Boise.
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Yeah, I think so. I'm with you.
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I'm looking at the Boise schedule now in front of me.
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They do host. They host Fresno State on the
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1st of November. So the final third of the
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regular season will begin with a game against the boy.
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Here's a game in the middle of Boise State schedule I didn't
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realize was on there. How about Saturday, October the
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4th? Off they go to South Bend, Boise
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State, Notre Dame. That's got a little cache, Bama.
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It does have some cache and that is one of those that it's it's
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it's probably bigger for Notre Dame because, you know, let's
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face it. Well, maybe not.
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I mean, because if if Boise, Boise could have if you really
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want to talk about it at large group of five, what Boise State,
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you know, go undefeated and lose the mountainless championship
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game for Fresno or whoever. How you going to keep them out
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if they're going to if they've got to win at South Bend on
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their resume. So that that is a that's a great
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game. I mean, I love it being in the
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in the middle of the season, not one of these neutral site early
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season. True.
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Week 5? Yep, Week 5.
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Right, two playoff teams from last year, right.
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So I mean yeah, that boy, that's a big game.
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I hadn't noticed that. Good job out of you.
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That is a monster non conference game for for Boise or for the
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group of five in general. NBC will have it.
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So some good exposure there without a doubt.
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Absolutely. All right, so I'm with you.
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I think Tulane is a player obviously the the quarterback
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Ratzlaf comes over after he's dismissed.
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We'll see if if that you know how how much that means to that
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team. I think you can't hurt Memphis.
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Sure, I, I think it's probably Boise, but let's move on.
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Let's get to the Big 12. Or at least we think we have a
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better kind of grasp of what we're going to look at when it
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comes to the Big 12. So how many teams, when you look
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at it, I, when I look at the Big 12 Bama, I see a whole bunch of
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parody. Same as last year, right?
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We, we could have, I don't know, make four or five teams.
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I wouldn't be shocked if as many as four or five teams come out
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victorious in this thing. How many for you?
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How many can win legitimately win?
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I've got 5 and I'll I'll even throw and, and so mine are the
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first of all, I don't think we're going to get a large team
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out of the Big 12. I just.
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Don't one bid, OK. Yeah, like last year.
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I do. I don't think there's enough,
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you know, cachet in the league, if you will, whatever however
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you want to put it that there's not great non conference
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matchups like you just talked about.
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I will tell you one that's got my attention.
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I just noticed in a minute, but I think Arizona State, Kansas
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State, Texas Tech, I think you kind of started really not, you
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know, not any, you know, breaking news there, if you
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will. BYUI can't quite put in there
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because of the quarterback situation.
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Exactly. Yep, TCU I can put in there
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because of the court. Hoover, yeah, Trent loves him,
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by the way. Trent loves.
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Him. Yeah, I I agree.
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And you know, I just looked, you know, do you know who their
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opening game is? Yeah, it's Auburn, right?
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No, TCU's opener is at Chapel Hill.
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That is Bill Belichick. You tell my eyes on a football
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game on a Monday night, right? Yeah, so who?
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If Hoover goes for 300 and 350 against a Bill Belichick coach
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defense as as they would say hello, Heisman would say.
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I mean, he's right in the mix of that is a monster game for that,
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for the conference. Baylor plays on.
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Baylor plays on. Baylor that's and that's a great
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non conference game. We talked about that a little
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while and they and then Week 2 they go to SMU.
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So you know, that's that's a pretty that's a salty start
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right there. But yeah, I think that there how
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many millions of games are eyeballs are going to be on that
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game. TCU at North Carolina Monday
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night for Bill. Standalone game I.
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Put TCU in there, right? I also put Baylor in and the
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reason I do that is they get Arizona State and Kansas State
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at home, right? So you start working at the
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conference camera. No, they open with Auburn and
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they go to SMU. That really doesn't matter in
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terms of conference. It certainly will test them and
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give them two notches if they could somehow pull those out.
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But then but then the Arizona State and Kansas State games,
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who I think are contenders are are at home.
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They do go to TCU and then you know, down the line.
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So I those from me, Ritz, Iowa State, I I love Matt Campbell.
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I just think they lost too much. The receivers.
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Yeah, everything. I mean really, you know, yeah, I
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just, I don't know, I, I think that you guys obviously know
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Iowa State better than me, but I love the Iowa State K State game
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right out of the chute. I mean, tough one, huge the
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Monster Conference game, you know, there's other ones down
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the road, but I for me, Arizona State, Kansas State, Texas Tech,
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I'll throw TCU and Baylor in there.
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And but really, I mean, I think I think you know, BYU and Iowa
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State as as really long shot dark horse.
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So you've got, I've got one who I think can win the conference
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you haven't even mentioned and that and it was a disappointing
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team last year and that's Utah with the with their transfer,
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with their transfer quarterback comes in from where New Mexico
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State I want to say. Yeah, I think you're.
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Right. Dual threat quarterback and
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really sling it. The Dan Fierce's last name
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though? Yep.
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Yeah, Winningham is the coach, right?
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Could be his last, Could be there's a little noise or
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talking around that. Yeah, I'll throw Utah.
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And again, a lot of times in situations like that, you go
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with coaches, right? When the talent is kind of
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evenly spread and some teams have a quarterback, some don't,
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You know, some teams spread on defense, whatever.
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In a conference like this, you do have to kind of go back to
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coaches. And that's why I like Kansas
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State and climbing. But yeah, I mean again.
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Team under the radar. You're right.
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Utah from last year, Cam rising, finally gone.
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They move on from that after a decade.
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So you know, here we go. To that end, what's that?
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That's why I have Arizona State travelling to take on Utah's.
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The best game, the most impactful game potentially in
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the conference, you know? And that's hard to say that
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because, you know, I'm going to make a case every single day for
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the most part leading up to Week 0 when K State and Iowa State
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collide. Because, yeah, somebody's going
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to be want to know, that's great.
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But somebody's going to have the tiebreaker over the other in the
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head to head. And this is such I think we
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could have a handful of teams at 7:00 and 2:00 again.
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When you have 6 teams that can win the conference, you're going
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to be playing impactful games every week, which is great for
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you guys with Iowa State being in that conference, right?
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So they're the teams that you're familiar with in that in in
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Iowa, you know, are are going to be playing impactful games.
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You know, it doesn't be honest with you.
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It doesn't register a lot, you know, in the South, obvious
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reasons, but you know, for honks like you and me, I mean, we love
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it, right. So every, I think every week
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you're going to have you're going to have impactful games.
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You're right. What happened to Daniels,
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quarterback at at Kansas? What what has happened to him?
21:31
Bama, when he burst onto the scene, I thought Jalen Daniels
21:34
was going to be, I don't know, viewed as one of the best
21:37
quarterbacks in the conference. And five years later, whatever
21:40
it is, here he is. I think he's gone backwards,
21:43
Bama. I think he has, he got hurt, you
21:45
know, he's had injuries. And so it's hard to blame, you
21:49
know, guys for that. I mean, I think they were the
21:52
ones that knocked, memory serves, with two years ago they
21:55
knocked off. Texas and.
21:57
You're thinking, wow, and this kids coming back, you know, he's
21:59
staying. And then last year was just kind
22:01
of disappointing. And you know, my point, I think
22:04
he's it's such a tough place to win.
22:06
They are, they have upgraded, you know, facilities up there, I
22:09
think. Stadium.
22:10
Innovation is done right. So, you know, it's just it's
22:15
hard to win there. I mean, it's really hard to win.
22:18
And it's a shame really that they can't have done more with
22:23
what I think is an incredibly talented guy pulling the strings
22:27
at quarterback. But you're right.
22:29
It's, you know, we thought, man, after that Texas win, look out
22:33
because they they were spunky again.
22:35
They were kind of like Vanderbilt last year.
22:36
They just knocked off a big and they were, they were just a pest
22:39
for some other teams. It just hasn't happened and I
22:43
don't really know why. I mean, injuries are a part of
22:45
it, but I don't think there's a coaching, is it development?
22:47
Is it, you know, attitude? You just, you don't know.
22:49
But yeah, he hasn't. He hasn't progressed like you'd
22:52
hoped. Let's talk about the defending
22:54
champs, and that's Arizona State, who came out of nowhere
22:57
last year and had just a remarkable season.
23:00
They really did. Obviously scataboo is the is the
23:04
one piece of that team that's not there.
23:05
Jordan Tyson, their gifted receiver.
23:07
He's making some noise and giant.
23:09
Boy, is he ever man. So they're going to love that.
23:12
Guy yeah, absolutely will but the quarterback is back Levitt
23:17
is back Tyson is back they're gifted wide receiver lose a
23:20
couple of guys on defense, but Arizona State, they're not going
23:24
to sneak up on anybody everybody knows Kelly Denny Kelly Kenny
23:27
Dillingham now Yep we're familiar with him we an.
23:30
Attitude, man. Love it.
23:32
I love it. He's in your face he's like why
23:34
not, you know, kind of screw you.
23:37
You know, we're here, we're not going anywhere.
23:38
I mean, I love it. And that's always been a
23:41
program. If when you think about, you
23:44
know, and I know this is before nil, so nil kind of Trump's
23:48
everything now. But I always wondered like, why
23:50
can't you get a young 18 to 20 year old to commit to Tempe, AZ?
23:55
Because the scenery around there is pretty good if you know where
24:00
I'm going. So I just, I think that, you
24:03
know, they, they're putting some money into it now.
24:05
They've kind of passed Arizona. Oh for sure slapped.
24:08
Arizona, but yeah, they're they're again, you start with
24:14
quarterback, you start with coach, you start with
24:16
experience. That's a tough combination right
24:18
there. And I know they lost some talent
24:20
and Scataboo just gave them such a different dimension on offense
24:24
and yeah, they're going to blind somebody else back there, but
24:26
he's not going to likely not going to be as good as
24:29
productive. So they're going to have to
24:30
adjust, but you know, their their schedule's pretty tough.
24:34
I mean, they got they go to Baylor, they go to Utah, they go
24:37
to Ames. Yep.
24:38
I mean, it's, it's tough there. I don't see Kansas State on that
24:41
schedule. So they they.
24:43
They do catch a break there. Yep, the Baylor game, as you
24:45
mentioned, at Utah, Iowa State and Colorado, the other roadie.
24:49
Yeah, and there's no BYU, so you know, there's they do catch a
24:53
little bit of a break, but yeah, I just think it starts with them
24:56
and that's why I had them, you know, kind of first on my list
24:59
as the three corner quote. If I got to pick a team, it
25:03
would probably start with them along with Kansas State and
25:06
Tech, and then we know we talked about Baylor and TCU.
25:08
I love Texas Tech Bama. They spent a lot of money.
25:11
Here's what may hold them back. And and I'm with you.
25:14
I think Joey McGuire, a, he's got some heat on on his seat
25:16
this year with the money that they've spent.
25:19
Have you looked at their schedule, their Rd. games this
25:21
year? And they get 5 at home, but they
25:23
go 4 on the road and three of the four in the Big 12 at Utah,
25:27
at Arizona State, at K State. My God.
25:31
That's that's what you're exactly right.
25:33
And I think that's what that could hold them back.
25:35
And, you know, you look at the end of the year there, Ken, and
25:38
you know, you look at you say, wow, you know, UCF and then at
25:40
West Virginia, OK, Scott Frost is back at UCF and Rich
25:44
Rodriguez is back at West. Yeah, Fairpoint, OK.
25:46
So now you know, they will probably be, and I say they
25:52
they're probably better off catching those two at the end of
25:54
the year because you don't know what the rosters are like and
25:56
attrition. But I think I think UCF or West
25:59
Virginia is going to knock somebody off just because of the
26:01
coaching. I mean, Frost had a hell of a
26:03
time, as we know, at Nebraska, just did not work out.
26:07
I think he's better. I don't think he's as good as
26:09
what he was meant to be or made out to be.
26:12
His first in the UCF. And I don't think he's as bad as
26:15
he showed at Nebraska. I think that's a good program
26:17
for him back down there. He can recruit.
26:19
He has a style. And then I think, you know,
26:21
Rodriguez, he's a proven coach. He's kind of like Dan Mullen and
26:25
Mullen went UNLV. This is just kind of recycling
26:27
these guys, but he's sort of going home to West Virginia.
26:30
So, but yeah, you're right that that schedule now they don't
26:33
play. We're Shiano at Rutgers.
26:36
Yeah, exactly. Good point.
26:37
Excellent. You know, with the Arkansas,
26:39
Pine Bluff, Kent State and Oregon State, that's not going
26:42
to scare anybody. All three of those games in
26:43
Lubbock, right? But you're right, they get into
26:45
the conference so man it gets salty with those three you
26:49
mentioned. Is there Heisman contender?
26:53
Obviously whoever wins, it's a quarterback award we believe.
26:57
I don't know. I don't think that there's a
26:59
running back that'll wow you this year.
27:01
So it's a court. Is it as simple as whoever wins
27:04
the conference and if their quarterbacks say it's Robertson,
27:06
Baylor finds a way to win or Levitt with with with Arizona
27:11
State. Maybe Avery Johnson we haven't
27:13
mentioned. I mean, he disappointed last
27:15
year. I thought he was going to take
27:16
the conference by storm after he chased Howard to Ohio State.
27:20
That worked out well for him, right?
27:23
Is there Heisman contender? I I don't know about contender.
27:28
I guess you know, again Levitt, I think because of the name
27:31
recognition, you know, the success last year, you just look
27:36
at the the games. I mean, where's he going to have
27:38
a high profile game, the biggest non conference game it is at
27:43
Mississippi State. We could, yes, it's the best
27:45
team, but it is the bottom of the barrel of the estimate,
27:48
right? And that's why I go back to
27:49
Hoover, man. I just think that game, if he
27:52
can build some momentum right coming out off that North
27:57
Carolina game. Let me get their schedule in
27:59
front of me. Hang on one second.
28:00
You could be on to something here.
28:01
I like what you're thinking. OK, North Carol, you're right.
28:06
I mean, it's a standalone game. The country will be watching.
28:09
Everybody goes back to work. Today, it's Bill Belichick.
28:11
They're not watching for Josh. No, they're watching for Bill
28:14
Belichick. He lights it up, man.
28:16
He's, you know, all of a sudden, well, who's just kidding?
28:18
We're going to pay attention, right?
28:19
Yeah, and their schedule's not that daunting when it comes to
28:22
the In fact, I think they catch a break.
28:24
Sure, they got to go to Arizona State, but Colorado at K State?
28:28
OK, tough. Baylor at home at West Virginia.
28:31
Iowa State at home at BYU, No. Quarterback at Houston?
28:35
No chance. And Cincinnati ended at home.
28:38
It could be a dark horse team. They could be a dark.
28:41
HORSE, I mean, SMU, not, you know, out of the ACC.
28:44
There were a playoff team last year.
28:45
They got their point. They got two playoff teams
28:47
back-to-back, right? SMU and then Arizona, they do.
28:49
Arizona State. Yeah, they do.
28:51
I mean, you could get, you could build some momentum out of those
28:53
three, out of those first four games and put yourself on the
28:55
radar. Yeah, I'm anxious to talk SMU
28:58
with you when we do the ACC coming up here later on the
29:01
week. Coach's hot seat?
29:03
Is it McGuire? It's an Oklahoma State.
29:07
Is a Gundy. It's got to be Gundy, doesn't
29:09
it? I mean, how do you you go O and
29:11
9:00 last year and nobody's talking about you on a hot seat?
29:14
Yeah. Yeah.
29:15
I mean, I know you've been there two decades.
29:17
My God. I mean, at what point I don't, I
29:21
don't, you know, maybe Satterfield, you know, that's
29:23
just kind of. Yeah, yeah.
29:25
OK. But.
29:27
I don't know. I think to me it's got to be
29:29
Gundy. If if you, if you go out and
29:32
laid another egg, and I'm not talking about an O and 9 egg,
29:35
but just a three and six, I'm with you.
29:37
Whatever. I mean, how do you boy?
29:40
He's getting paid. I mean, don't you kind of expect
29:42
more? But I don't know.
29:44
I just, I think to me it's them. I don't see really anybody else.
29:48
Well, Bama, go back to when Oklahoma and Texas left and
29:51
we're trying to find that heir apparent.
29:52
You know that heavy Ed in the conference, everybody was saying
29:55
it was it's the Cowboys. It's Oklahoma State, right?
29:59
They were terrible last year. They they were awful.
30:01
They were awful. Winless and conference, please.
30:04
And you know, they had a they had a chain of Dion was getting
30:07
a lot and you know, God bless him.
30:09
I mean yesterday, I mean, goodness, you know, good for
30:12
him. And I'm totally wrong about him
30:15
on so many fronts. And I'll.
30:16
I'm with you. You know, you know the you know
30:19
he was going to leave when his kids left.
30:21
You know, you know him and you know Shudura and Hunter and you
30:24
know, I was all sizzle, no steak.
30:25
And you know, he's done a good job there and he's staying and
30:29
but God bless him for that, you know, for, for beating it, it
30:32
seems like anyway. Oklahoma State Week 2 at Oregon.
30:36
Have fun, yeah? Good.
30:37
Yeah, that's going to be a, that's a 28 point loss, right.
30:41
I mean, but. Rushed.
30:43
Look at that. I mean, I don't know.
30:46
Yeah, I'm looking at that. And that's that's just not good.
30:48
No. Alabama tomorrow, 1:30 We'll
30:51
talk about the Big 10 on Thursday to kick off the second
30:55
hour. We'll do SEC and ACC.
30:58
Again, we're not going on record here today.
31:00
We're just kind of throwing things around, seeing what
31:03
sticks, and we'll go on record at the just before week #1 as we
31:07
always do, and then we'll look back at the end of the season
31:10
and see how bad we actually are. Cool, make fun of ourselves.
31:13
Absolutely. I'll talk to you more.
31:15
Have a great rest of your day, Bama.
31:16
Thanks for doing this for me. Look forward to tomorrow.
31:18
Thanks buddy. Of course, Ken, always enjoy it
31:20
pal. Thanks.
31:20
Good. To talk to you Bama, Bob as
31:23
check in on the Big 12 and the Group of Five.
31:25
So many teams can win the Big 12.
31:28
In my opinion it's TCU team. I'm glad Bama mentioned them.
31:32
Condon loves the quarterback. He's been talking about Hoover
31:34
since we started reacquainting ourself with this sport.
31:39
Avery Johnson, K State. There's a kid who's flying under
31:41
the radar. This is a massive game Week 0.
31:45
It truly is. Give me sick of me saying they
31:47
already are. I know it.
31:50
The implications are huge. Tiebreaker.
31:53
Who's got it head to head? Somebody will when the about
31:58
2:30 in the afternoon from Dublin, Ireland on the 23rd of
32:01
August. Mitch Holtis joins me next.
32:03
It's Chiefs training camp report day #2 Patrick Kuma home sound
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coming up. Miller and Condon are on the
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Let's get to the play by play voice.
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He is Mitch Holtis and he joins me.
32:25
Hello, Mitch, How are you? Well, it has been an interesting
32:30
day because it has been the grind day.
32:34
Now people can hate the Chiefs, we can go through all that, but
32:39
the reason they've been able to be so good in September and
32:42
December and in January for 12 years are days like the day.
32:46
This was a brutal day, I don't mind telling you.
32:48
Heat, humidity, third straight day and pads, 2 long drive
32:53
drills. Not one, but two.
32:55
And so 2 hours and 25 minutes. He'll back off tomorrow.
33:00
But these guys are hurting. But they push through it.
33:04
And it's it's where your veterans lead the way to say,
33:07
hey, This is why we win consistently our days like
33:09
today. We're going to hear from one of
33:11
those momentarily and one of these guys that you may or may
33:14
not put him in the spotlight before we run out of training
33:17
camp, reports Mitchell. Hasn't been a day, I don't think
33:20
of training camp that on Twitter or X.
33:23
There's not a Taquan Thornton highlight, just a unbelievable
33:28
catch. He's down the depth chart of
33:30
ways, but he's one of those guys that Patrick Mahomes is throwing
33:33
to that that's going to push for some playing time after he
33:37
finished the year last year on the Chiefs practice squad.
33:40
Yeah, we mentioned him. In fact, we just did a podcast
33:43
not long ago actually, we did a live stream.
33:45
People can find that archived after they listened to your show
33:48
today. But yes, and he flashed in the
33:53
springtime and summer in OTAs, and there's 13 receivers in
33:58
camp. Now, where Taekwon comes into
34:00
play is if during a Rice suspension.
34:04
Now, keep in mind he had two touchdowns.
34:06
He was a high draft pick of the Patriots.
34:08
Taekwon Thornton from Baylor, good receiver at Baylor.
34:13
That was a high pick for New England and played there.
34:16
Played quite a bit his rookie year.
34:17
So, yeah, you're on to something.
34:19
This guy nobody's really thought about, but he would be the 7th
34:23
wide receiver receiver in a six man slot because the rookie
34:28
Royals is having an awesome camp and so is Nico.
34:31
Remigio would be ahead of him, Juju Smith, Schuster, and then
34:34
the other big three. So.
34:36
But Thornton is 1. Who's worthy of discussion?
34:38
I might try to track him down for the last week of our reports
34:41
just to see where he's at. And the preseason games will be
34:43
big for Taekwon. Yeah, no doubt.
34:46
Obviously one of those veterans, Patrick Mahomes, I saw the the
34:49
no, just the numbers he put up last year.
34:52
People think he had an off year, right?
34:55
It's yeah, it's unbelievable. And then what kind of really
34:58
jumped off when when you put his season record on there, his
35:02
regular season record, along with his playoff number, regular
35:06
season 89 and 2317 and four in postseason.
35:10
I, I think he's, I think he's going to be OK, Mitch.
35:14
And 17 and two last year. Third in completion.
35:17
Completion 4th in attempts, 7th in touchdowns and 9th in passing
35:23
yards. And if he would have played week
35:25
18, even though he gets that awesome Denver defense, even if
35:28
he's on average, he's going to be fifth in the league in
35:30
passing. That's a down year.
35:32
And then you mentioned his winning totals, which are the
35:34
best in NFL history for a quarterback in his first seven
35:38
years as a starter. But there's way more to this
35:40
kid. I've tried to tell you this and
35:42
get it across way more to him, way more in the way he connects
35:45
with his team. And you alluded to it.
35:47
To push through a day like the day.
35:49
And is there a Super Bowl hangover?
35:51
I ain't seeing it, nor is Patrick Mahone.
35:54
No, it's been awesome. I mean, to see how motivated the
35:57
guys are, hungry they are and just continue to get better and
36:00
better. You know, it's been great.
36:01
Competition, offense, defense. And whenever that's happening
36:05
and you're getting competition every single day, that's, you
36:08
know, you're getting better. You're so analytical.
36:10
What have you put made a priority for this year
36:13
specifically? Yeah, For me, I mean, it's
36:15
always footwork stuff and being on time, being in rhythm, depth
36:18
of routes, stuff like that. And then getting back to
36:20
attacking downfield. I mean, obviously you want to
36:23
still stay surgical, you want to stay hitting the right passes.
36:25
At the same time, you want to be able to have that deep threat
36:28
and that opens up the entire off there.
36:31
Save the end of that quote and you can play it later, because
36:34
there's two things there that's bigger than fans realize. 1.
36:38
If you attack the back third, you're not forfeiting what he
36:43
has done the last three to four years.
36:45
And that is the surgical drives and surgical strikes.
36:48
Last year, Pat, the average drive for a touchdown Chief led
36:51
the league in with 6.667 plays per drive.
36:55
Way different than humming it down there on a jet ship.
36:58
Wasp. Why is it important?
36:59
Because he's just learned this. He's he's in his eighth year as
37:03
a starter and it's like Bobby Witt junior.
37:06
They hit singles and double s, but you can also hit a three run
37:08
Homer and I think that's where Pat wants to be with this
37:11
offense. And he's such a threat when a
37:13
play breaks down, right? I mean, if it's how many times
37:16
have you seen he needed twelve, he gets 13 or 14.
37:20
It's just, it's just dumbfounding how many times he's
37:22
able to make a play down the sidelines when seemingly there's
37:26
nothing there just to keep it alive.
37:29
Devastating to a defense can if you have coordinators that are
37:33
going, I see it when I watch the video.
37:34
They throw their hands up like what are we supposed to do?
37:36
They have the great play called. They got a perfect defense
37:38
called and yet he the play within a play we call it and
37:42
he'll make you know, the 13 yards on 3rd and 12th.
37:46
We've seen guys like Jaden Daniels do it.
37:48
Look at the play Stroud made against the Chargers in the
37:50
playoffs, which should have been a 25 yard loss and then Stroud
37:53
turns out into a back breaking like 40 yard gain.
37:56
Well, those are the kind of plays when you're off script and
37:59
off the grid that you you have to do the other.
38:02
But if you can do that which the homes right now is the
38:05
valedictorian of those kind of plays, then it becomes
38:08
devastating. You can ruin a defense for a
38:10
week. No doubt.
38:11
Let's not ruin dinner, or dinner does get ruined.
38:14
Let's make it right. What do we got going on at Papa
38:16
John's? I got to tell you, dude, I got
38:18
to. I got to jump into a cold tub
38:19
myself here. This was wicked today, but when
38:22
I get when I get settled down here and get some fluid in me,
38:24
it's going to be a medium cheeseburger pizza 1299.
38:27
Sounds like tonight a medium cheeseburger pizza 1299.
38:31
Get ready for the season. Iowa State Fair, all that stuff,
38:35
man. Papa John's is bringing it.
38:36
Indeed they are. Who we going to hear from
38:38
tomorrow? Have you got that planned yet?
38:41
Just had a chat with him and he was trying to get his breath.
38:44
The Travis Kelsey, we're going to jump in to why this offseason
38:48
a little bit different for Kels and many of the others.
38:52
We'll hit that tomorrow. He certainly looks good on
38:54
camping camp. Good stuff.
38:56
Mitch, talk to you tomorrow. Thank you buddy.
38:58
Thank you, Ken. Yep.
38:59
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