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NFL Draft 1st Round thoughts, Eugene Rapay talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  Friday, it's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  For the next couple of hours. We're talking sports with you
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  and thanks for starting the afternoon here with us.
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  Trent Condon and Ken Miller. We will keep you until 2 at that
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  time off the bench. Sean Roberts, Lucas Strain, they
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  take over. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program. We're going to head to
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  Pittsburgh. Russ Crew from Graphite
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  Construction. He was part of the draft last
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  night kind of behind the scenes as he represented the Chiefs,
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  one of the fans that had their name drawn to be able to go back
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  behind behind the stage and do some of the advance, get the
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  jersey ready, the card ready etcetera before Goodell took to
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  the stage and the player walks forward.
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  We now know that who that is. We know who all of the 32 were
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  in the first round. But I want to pick Russ Cruz's
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  brain on just what he saw behind the scenes and how the NFL pulls
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  off this absolutely massive event to 12:30.
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  Eugene Repay covers Iowa State course he Travis Hines, all the
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  Iowa State media will be entrenched it Jack Tri Stadium
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  tomorrow is Iowa State will hold their open practice 1:00
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  Likewise for Tom Caker, but he won't be at Jack Trice.
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  He'll be at Kennick Stadium where Iowa at the same time will
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  be holding their spring event. Tom Caker at hawkeyereport.com,
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  football and basketball conversations with Tom and then
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  Mike Palm, the VP of operations at Circus sports.
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  He will join us at 1:30 the latest, go behind the counter
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  with Mike, etcetera, etcetera. Just gambling topics with Mike.
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  Palm is going to join us in studio.
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  Excited about that. I don't think he's been in
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  studio before, but I don't think so he has either.
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  So we will have him at 1:30. Trent's picks, circus sports
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  sponsor, those coming up at 1:50 and away we will go.
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  Draft round one is in the books. The home teams ruled the roost
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  in the NBA last night. Pretty good night on ice as
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  well. Pretty fun time of year.
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  How much draft did you watch? More than I thought.
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  Like I watched picks one through 32.
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  He didn't move. I thought I was.
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  I was. I wasn't into it.
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  Watch the whole thing. It's football.
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  It's a terrible draft. Yeah, nobody cares start to
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  finish. Couldn't turn off.
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  Couldn't turn it off. No, no, I was not that deeply
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  involved as you were, but definitely had my my attention.
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  That was where attention kind of number one was now at the Twins
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  hitting a Grand Slam to tie thing.
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  So but then what happened? I know the bullpen, the the
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  Knicks Hawks game had to get over there for the end of that
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  one and just very quickly all of a sudden the Hawks are up two
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  to. One.
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  How about that? And a season and the the Knicks
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  just look a little bit off. But yeah, a lot going.
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  On teams look a little bit off. There's another NBA team looks a
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  little bit off the plate last night.
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  Too, And that's where I was throughout the course of the
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  late evening. And that was in Minnesota last
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  night. My buddy Rusted, who I talk
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  about often, he was at the game and he said a lot of nerves
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  early on, but that building was good and I saw the athletic
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  writer for the Timberwolves, John starts with AK.
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  It's a long. You know what KA something you
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  have anywhere. Krasinski, something like that,
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  he had a tweet last night, said he talked to Harlan in the
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  tunnel after the game, said that was one of the loudest
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  environments that he has called a game in.
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  Really. Yes, which I was very surprised
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  and Kevin Harlan's been a lot of.
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  He's been a lot of big games. Absolutely.
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  Tebow's fans were fired up and. Rightly so.
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  They never had that run in the second-half were oh, here they
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  come. It just was what?
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  Was it at the? It wasn't quite 20 but it was
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  close at after 24 minutes, was it not?
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  Yeah, they were up. Let's see here.
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  They were up at the half 6139 so it.
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  Was. And just that ain't nothing
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  spurt, you know, in in a minute and a half kills you like that
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  Yep, kills you. There was nothing.
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  The momentum and Joker. He is in a blender with Rudy
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  Gobert. You mentioned it the other day
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  after, after Game 2, I think it was.
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  If you just look at the box score, you think what why do
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  they play? Why are they playing Gobert
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  right? Doesn't do anything.
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  Take a closer look and and look what he's doing defensively.
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  He's shutting this dude down and not many guys can try it.
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  Not many guys have been able to say this over Joker's career.
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  Just the the incredible job that he's done on maybe the game's
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  best player. I think so, yeah.
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  He's still mine. I mean, Wendy still has a little
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  bit more to prove. SJ is just not my type of guy,
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  as talented as he is. I'm with you.
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  I do not enjoy watching him. So Joker has taken in the series
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  now 24 three pointers and three games.
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  He was 2 to 10 last night, one to seven in game 2/2 of 7/5 of
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  24. That is 20.8% from behind the
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  arc and with that volume and that just kills you.
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  But it's because he's not scared to go inside.
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  No, no, no. He just knows that it's not
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  advantageous to go inside the way that Gobert is playing
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  defense on him is Rudy Gobert, a Hall of Famer, 13 points, 12
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  rebounds throughout the course of his career.
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  It doesn't feel like. It doesn't.
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  Trent No. Back-to-back Western Conference
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  finals, there's those moments you have to take him off the
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  floor and that's going to hurt him.
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  But he's a four time defensive player of the year and that
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  might be enough, maybe. Which it just feels.
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  Weird if they get there this year would that help?
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  Especially if he showcases in the finals.
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  I mean, obviously they're a long way from a parade.
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  That path is not easy. They're a long.
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  Way from a parade at this point, but man, last night was
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  unbelievable. Is Gobert Hall of Famer?
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  Interesting question. You know what?
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  I will defer to somebody who watches the NBA right night in
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  and night out, and probably not the one to ask on.
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  That, well, we had something right though what, 6-7 years
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  ago, Desumu? Oh my God, that dude, the game
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  he had last night, just. Thick.
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  Tough. Yep.
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  And you know, you don't need a guy like that.
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  We'll just trade him away. Really.
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  What are you doing? What it it's absolutely is just
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  terrible, just poorly run. Well, the the bulls losses, the
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  T wolves gain. He was unbelievable last night.
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  They've got a chance obviously now to go up three one in this
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  one. I don't think they will.
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  I think this thing is going to be tied up at 2 a piece, but we
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  shall see. And of course the good news is
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  they're going to determine that on the floor, not on talk radio.
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  So we will see. Yeah, I just got AI just got a
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  tweet that yeah, Gobert will be remembered in back in the COVID
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  era in the very beginning of it, yes, you remember that.
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  And he didn't know any better. Nobody did, right.
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  But yeah, that's that's true. All right, the draft from last
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  night. Look, I I love your bears pick.
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  Yeah, I do too. You absolutely.
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  Have you seen the it's an, what do they call them overlay of
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  Diggs, Jefferson, a couple of other players doing the 40 at
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  the combine? Have you seen that?
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  No Dynamite runs them all. Oh, wow.
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  Yeah, You know how they do the Rich Eisen and you know, or
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  against somebody. So yeah, I'll find that and send
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  it to you. He is.
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  He loves to hit. He is a very cerebral player.
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  He can run. And the Vikings loss is the
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  Bears game in my opinion that's they should have taken them.
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  What makes it even a little bit sweeter for me as a fan, yeah,
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  is everybody, it felt like had Dieterman mock to the Vikings.
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  They did Harry the hit man. If he's not done, he's close to
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  done. Yeah, maybe.
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  What's? He waiting for right and now,
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  maybe now maybe that is opens the door a little wider.
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  That that he hey, we need you. We need you because we decided
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  to go with Caleb. Banks off the injured.
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  I have to put that in there every single. 2nd snapped his
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  foot the day before the combine. He was practicing, you know,
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  getting out of the blocks of for crying out loud.
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  Look, as they said, who did you watch?
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  NFL Draft or ESPN? Started ESPN, ended up by the
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  time we got later on I was on NFL.
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  Were you, Well, I if you were watching the Banks pick on ESPN,
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  they called him, and I'm paraphrasing when healthy, a
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  poor man's Chris Jones. When healthy, a poor man's.
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  Arm length, size get off, but it's the first 2 words healthy.
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  We'll see if if he can stay healthy.
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  He is, I think I think that's a really good pick.
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  I love what both New York teams did.
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  New York, I think the city of well, they don't play in New
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  York and get it, but the Giants and Jets fans, they enjoyed the
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  night last night in a big way. The Chiefs could they have
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  waited to get Delaney at at that point or Delane rather at that
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  point from LSU? Who did they fear was going to
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  come up because Sonny Styles was still on the board.
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  So he's going off. Did they really think that the
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  Saints were going to take they were going to take Delane means
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  LSU kid. Is he from there?
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  I don't know. I don't.
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  Know that either, not that that matters, but maybe it could be a
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  deciding factor. I thought that was really good,
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  but I love what the Cowboys did. I love what your Bears did.
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  Who else I thought was had good nights last?
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  Cowboys. Yeah.
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  Cowboys really good. Absolutely.
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  Cowboys had a really good night, without a doubt.
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  I like both of their picks. Caleb Downs to fall that far.
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  I mean, that's that's great. I'll tell you who I hated and I
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  if if you're a Rams fan today, you are apoplectic with this
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  pick. There is no reason to draft Ty
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  Simpson at 13 and nobody in the look, here's the thing.
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  His teammates are going to hate him.
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  Going to hate him. They're in win Now mode.
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  Absolutely right. Who cares about 27 exactly?
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  It's like when Peyton freaking Manning was there and they
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  drafted Illinois. But the Brock Osweiler?
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  What for? You just sit on the bench.
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  You had an opportunity to get a running back.
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  You had an opportunity to get Makai Lemon, any of those guys
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  at that time, get some weapons to make a run in this thing.
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  And you go out and you take a quarterback, a six foot one
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  quarterback who's made 15 starts in his career, and Alabama was
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  running him off the team. He couldn't beat out Jaylen
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  Millro. For God's sakes.
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  That's the guy you went for. Here's a terrible and I'm not a
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  Rams fan, but I got a lot of futures.
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  But so maybe that factors into my way of thinking.
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  But what a terrible pick. Coupled with this caveat, too,
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  it'll win that league. The Rams if Stafford has a year
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  left, two years left. Mcveigh's been very close to
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  leaving. For TV.
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  To go to the TV house. So now you're having this
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  development. We're going to have him develop
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  under Sean McVeigh and then he'll be Sean Mcveigh's
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  quarterback. I don't think Sean Mcveigh's
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  going to be Stafford. Leaves, Sean McVeigh.
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  Leaves. I'm right there with you, right?
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  And that's another reason that it is incredibly difficult to
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  wrap your mind around the reasoning behind it.
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  If you think that McVeigh is going to be your coach for the
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  next 20 years, I think you can sell it much easier.
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  Unless he apparently thinks he's going to be the GM for the next
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  20 years. Because if this goes poorly and
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  The thing is when they rebuild because they are in when.
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  Absolutely, they're the favorite in the betting market.
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  That rebuild is going to be incredibly difficult.
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  I mean, there's going to be salary cap hell like we've seen
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  with plenty of these. When you have these old very
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  well compensated quarterbacks, when you come in the back end of
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  it, that rebuild, it takes a while.
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  And after year two and three and four of a rebuild and Les need's
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  still going to get that. It probably passed to Ty
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  Simpson. He got another quarterback that
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  you're trying out at that point. Well, if if Stafford says two
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  more years, you almost have to get to that a fifth year option
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  window. And whether you've seen him play
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  enough or not, you almost have to take that fifth year right?
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  Well, you would at least know or at least feel, you know, even
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  without game action, McVeigh can't see enough.
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  I would anticipate to say, yeah, we feel OK about this one.
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  But I was with you. I thought that was absolutely
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  terrible. I I got a kick out of all the
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  Steeler fans all fired up and there you go.
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  Here's a offensive lineman you can't.
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  Pronounce with a really cool story, though I I do like the
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  story, but yeah, right. I mean, stories are one thing.
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  You don't win with stories. There's no there's no column in
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  the when you're looking at the standings in the paper WL cool
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  story. There's nothing there's nothing
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  like that. But you know when you when you
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  watch it and and the way that it unfolded.
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  Mackay Lemon thought he was he was going to be drafted with the
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  pick before he he was he was he was headed to where's he going
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  to Dallas or to Pittsburgh, rather.
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  Pittsburgh's on the phone with Lemon and Philadelphia comes out
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  of nowhere, jumps in front of him to take him, which, you
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  know, it's a really good pick, but my God.
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  So, yeah, fun night. I thought the NFL does a 320,000
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  people. How about that?
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  Did you look, I mean, you saw, did you see any crowd shots and
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  think that there was 320? No, not.
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  I didn't either. Yeah.
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  What do you think of the way they did the Steelers with the
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  sticks and the Renegade was that was that?
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  Renegade. Yeah, yeah.
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  That's the song that they kind of.
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  Are they from Pittsburgh Sticks? I don't know if it's just a song
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  that, you know, they started playing and people got into it.
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  I don't know the the justification behind it. 6 is
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  Canadian, aren't they? I don't know you.
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  Know. I would think I would know,
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  yeah. That's another four letter,
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  right? Four letter being.
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  For back of the stand rush by the.
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  Way you've told me I. Can't stand Rush, I have no idea
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  how they got successful. Your last week, I'll rush.
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  Yeah, I'll rush out the door a little earlier.
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  Good stuff. All right, so the NBA draft, we
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  continue on. We'll get to that rounds 2 and
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  three tonight. I, when I was state, should get
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  involved at some point with a couple of picks in this draft
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  when we resume. It's 6:00 tonight.
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  Did you say it was 7 last night? I think it's 6 I think.
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  It's 6:00 tonight for the two rounds.
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  All the NBA action tonight is once again on prime as the
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  network stay away from that and away we go.
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  Let's get to Jeff. He's been patient as we do our
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  little NFL segment. Jeff, how are you?
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  I'm doing well. I I can't.
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  I thought you would open the standard talking about the
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  weather last night. I mean, I know you're brutal.
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  You follow the weather pretty close.
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  Where, where do? You live, I live in Grind.
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  So all we really had was some heavy rain and then, you know,
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  Slater and Shell doll. Polk City kind of had a little
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  bit more major stuff. My grandma, who's 87, lives in
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  Colfax, so she's by herself. So I was kind of, you know,
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  wishy washy getting her downstairs.
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  She made her feel everything was fine there.
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  But when I'm watching the weather last night, I thought of
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  Ken Miller, you know? Meteorologist Ken Miller,
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  please. That.
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  Right, you know, for for a while there was like 1/2 hour stretch
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  of time in Ankeny that the sirens never shut off.
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  Or if they did, maybe it's just that they were resetting to go
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  again because my gosh, it was one after another after another.
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  Anyways, Jeff, what's on your mind other than the weather?
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  First thing, Rudy Gobert, you know, for the NBA, it's
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  different than other sports. When you're a four time defender
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  of the year, you're really automatically in.
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  It doesn't matter what he does in the playoffs, winning a
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  championship, you know, because I believe he was the first team
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  all NBA and that kind. Of was he really?
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  I that was don't quote me, but that was before they changed it
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  so you needed a center. So now they changed it where
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  it's just, you know, five players.
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  But I think when he got in, they had a vote in a center.
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  Don't quote me on that could be wrong.
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  But I think he's going to be not just a Hall of Famer.
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  I think he's going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer, which I
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  don't agree with, but I think because I'm not a big, you know,
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  Rudy Gobert fan, but I think that's where it's going to go
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  going into the Knicks. Atlanta series, Mike Brown.
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  I don't know how this guy keeps getting coaching jobs.
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  Mike Brown. It didn't do a great job with
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  New York going into the playoffs.
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  I liked Atlanta in that series. You talk about a flop.
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  Mckell Bridges. What they gave up for him is an
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  absolute disaster. Josh Hart has been a no man in
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  this series. Last time he had two points.
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  And then while you look at Atlanta and I'm not going to go
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  over their roster, but if you don't watch the NBA, you have no
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  clue who's on Atlanta's roster. I mean, I know he'll call him on
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  the roster. He's a great shooter, ageless,
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  But you go up and down that roster, Kaminga, it's been
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  playing unbelievable since Golden State just gave up on him
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  years ago. And here they are two, one
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  series. It's been a fun series.
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  Now you go to the Denver series and you look at Denver's roster
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  and this has been a, you know, if you watch them all season,
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  Gordon didn't play, but you're relying on Christian Braun.
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  You talk about another trade, Cam Johnson, and it's been a no,
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  a no show in this series and you're relying a lot on him.
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  And then you, you know, you go down and Murray goes 5 for 17.
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  That's a problem. Joker, like you guys have talked
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  about Rudy's kind of been, you know, I'm not saying a huge
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  problem, but he's been kind of like a just a scratch that you
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  can't get on your back. He needs to be better.
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  When we talk about Joker, we're talking about the best player in
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  the game and we're talking about a top 15 top, yeah, probably a
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  top 15 player of all the time, all said and done all the time.
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  So if I'm thinking of a top 15 player of all time, damn it, I'm
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  going to need you to be like that and get through the first
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  round. And we all know this Minnesota
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  has been they've been a phenomenal series.
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  They've played a couple times in the playoffs.
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  But I mean, going into this, I believe Denver was like a -, 3
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  dollar favorite, something like that.
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  And as this series has, you know, went on, it looks like
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  Minnesota was kind of the the team so far to be in this
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  series. There's a lot of games to be
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  played at best 7, but we need Joker to look like a top 15
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  player of all time. Guys, have a good day.
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  Appreciate the call. Thank you, Jeff.
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  Well, yeah, I agree. There's a lot, a lot of
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  basketball left to be played. I'll defer to NBA people who
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  watch the NBA on a nightly basis when it comes to Gobert, anybody
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  as far as their Hall of Fame candidacy, I don't watch enough
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  of it until it gets to this point here and the draft's over
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  and it's back on TV. That helps.
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  That helps the Amazon Brian. I had two iPads going ahead, the
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  NHL, the NBA and the draft. All I, I hate doing that.
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  I I just can't focus. Here's Russ Carew.
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  He was at the. Draft.
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  He was focused. Yeah, I bet you were.
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  How much fun was it on a scale of 1 to 10 and didn't live up
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  to? So when you boarded the
• 18:38
  airplane, we left you on Monday. You were, I think you left on
• 18:41
  Tuesday or Wednesday. But let's get Fast forward to
• 18:44
  last night. When you got to the event, was
• 18:47
  it all you expected? Did it not live up to
• 18:50
  expectations that was there something missing or was
• 18:53
  everything you could have wanted and more?
• 18:57
  Oh, that's a tough question. So reality is, I've never been
• 19:02
  to Pittsburgh. So Pittsburgh is a really cool
• 19:04
  town. Everyone I met here generally
• 19:08
  has been really nice except for random fans.
• 19:11
  Like last night I got accosted by a nine year old who decided
• 19:15
  to poke him back and come up and say the Chiefs suck, you guys
• 19:18
  suck. I was like, what are we doing
• 19:20
  here? But the draft itself, the
• 19:23
  experience was amazing. I am still floored today on what
• 19:27
  happened. I'll send some pictures and
• 19:31
  maybe you guys can post them for you.
• 19:32
  But like to walk into the venue is you have these sections of
• 19:36
  areas for every team obviously, and there's this giant mountain
• 19:40
  of swag for you when you're walking in or where you're
• 19:42
  sitting. And then we're meeting
• 19:44
  international fans of the year. If anyone ever gets an
• 19:47
  opportunity to meet Team International Family or do it,
• 19:50
  those people are amazing. I have run into them the entire
• 19:53
  time here and they have been the nicest people ever.
• 19:55
  I have hung out with Bill's fans like half of my trip.
• 19:59
  It's been crazy. But the draft itself has been an
• 20:03
  amazing production. The overall view of what you see
• 20:09
  on TV is nothing compared to what it is in reality.
• 20:12
  It is like a giant party in there.
• 20:15
  There is music that is so loud I needed earplugs.
• 20:18
  I felt like it was an Arrowheaded Points.
• 20:20
  They gave us actually like pictures that were mounted on
• 20:22
  frames and they look like a drum because of the bass, how much it
• 20:26
  was moving. So it, it's just a crazy
• 20:29
  production. Logistically, they definitely
• 20:31
  could do a little bit better with the setup and kind of
• 20:34
  communication on that with some of the VIP experiences.
• 20:36
  But in general, I would say it's a a very cool thing as an NFL
• 20:40
  fan, if you ever wanted to go to go.
• 20:43
  And then you get to the part where I got to do stuff that
• 20:46
  most people can't do. And I I'm still for it.
• 20:49
  Like, so I'm sitting there on Twitter because I'm a nutball
• 20:53
  and I'm on Twitter while I'm sitting at the draft watching
• 20:55
  people make pics and I'm like, OK, who's on the board?
• 20:58
  Who's left? And I'm seeing, you know,
• 21:00
  various people on Twitter just posting pics early.
• 21:03
  And I'm like, oh, no, I'm like everyone, everyone.
• 21:05
  And they're like, what? I'm like the Chiefs just traded
• 21:07
  up. And then I see this lady come
• 21:08
  screaming up to me who's like, I got to take you out backstage
• 21:12
  right now. And I'm like, what?
• 21:13
  OK. And I am running like 150 yards,
• 21:16
  like full on running 150 yards. Back to the pressing room.
• 21:20
  It was just like a maybe a 30 by 30 room with about 20 people in
• 21:24
  there. Every jersey you can see last
• 21:26
  name is all over the place in decals and everyone.
• 21:29
  And then there's these just giant huge pressing machines and
• 21:32
  one of them is like this crazy bedazzle thing.
• 21:34
  I will never forget this. It is like looks like my 12 year
• 21:37
  old went crazy with her little bedazzler and put 80,000
• 21:40
  rhinestones on it. And then they're pressing
• 21:42
  people's names in there and I get back there and they're like
• 21:44
  hey, who do you think it's going to be?
• 21:45
  I'm like, I'm like, oh man, Dane Delane or lemon And they're
• 21:52
  like, it's not in the pit comes in.
• 21:54
  I don't it goes so fast. I'm in there for like 35 seconds
• 21:57
  at most and they're like picks in it's Delane.
• 22:00
  The guy slaps it on there. He's like, what do you think?
• 22:02
  And I'm like, I'm not going to complain.
• 22:04
  So he he says, put out your arm after he presses it on, puts out
• 22:07
  my arm and he's like, OK, I'm holding it like I'm taking, you
• 22:11
  know, someone to prom. So imagine holding your arm kind
• 22:13
  of all cock eyed and weird. And he like folds the jersey
• 22:16
  certainly. And he's like, listen, you
• 22:17
  cannot move this jersey off of your arm.
• 22:19
  You cannot move the folding. You do not show it to anyone.
• 22:22
  I'm like, Dang, OK. And then I get ushered up to
• 22:25
  backstage and I'm seeing in their backstage the giants.
• 22:29
  They just announced the giants pick the the kid who has the
• 22:32
  giant shoes. He's walking up there and it's a
• 22:34
  couple of minutes ahead of the chiefs.
• 22:35
  And I'm just talking with the people and I get to see calling
• 22:38
  Wolf. I get to see Cynthia Froyland.
• 22:41
  And then rendez Barber is back there and I'm like, man, I
• 22:46
  didn't realize how tiny Colleen Wolf was.
• 22:49
  And she's like the lady is like she's got 3 inch heels.
• 22:51
  And I'm like, what? No way.
• 22:53
  And then since the Cynthia Froyland is taller than me and
• 22:56
  so it's just funny, just I actually got to talk with him
• 22:58
  briefly for a second. And then they run me up on stage
• 23:00
  and you guys of course don't get to see the awkward moments of my
• 23:04
  life. So I go on the stage and Roger
• 23:07
  Goodell is writing his name on the card because he writes it on
• 23:09
  the name of his name on the card for every pick.
• 23:12
  And so he writes his name on the card and he's just spinning
• 23:14
  around like looking at the screen, look at the other way.
• 23:17
  Look where the players come out because it's opposite side where
• 23:20
  the players come out compared to the the guests and then or the
• 23:24
  hosts and then the people hanging on the jerseys in.
• 23:26
  And so he's looking the opposite way.
• 23:28
  And I'm staying up there for like, probably solid 2 minutes
• 23:30
  just looking at Roger, Like, at one point I'm like, hey, Raj, I
• 23:34
  got the jersey here. Do you want to take this?
• 23:36
  And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah. So I hope Jacob.
• 23:39
  And he's like, what do you think of the pick?
• 23:40
  And I'm like, I love Delane. Best, best corner in the draft.
• 23:43
  He's not injured. And I said overall, you can't
• 23:46
  complain about a guy who only gave up 160 yards in the
• 23:49
  entirety of last year. No, no touchdowns, no
• 23:52
  interceptions. He's like, you know a lot.
• 23:53
  And I'm like, yeah, I know. And he's like, well, good for
• 23:56
  you guys. And so I got my picture taken
• 23:58
  with him. Hopefully here in a day or two,
• 23:59
  I'll get it from the NFL. So then I'm walking.
• 24:02
  They they take me off stage, Take Me Out back.
• 24:05
  I get to poke my head in the green room.
• 24:06
  I get to see all the other players sitting there with their
• 24:08
  entourages and everything. And I was like, this is cool.
• 24:11
  So I got to do. That and then as I'm walking
• 24:13
  back, they're taking you backstage and around kind of
• 24:18
  some corners and stuff. And I actually see Elaine
• 24:20
  walking with his girlfriend and his mom and maybe his dad or
• 24:24
  Asian or something like that. And I'm walking down the stairs
• 24:26
  parallel to me and I and he's just visibly happy, like so
• 24:31
  excited that he is crying me and he's telling his girlfriend he's
• 24:34
  like, I cannot believe that. I cannot believe I'm a chief.
• 24:38
  This is like the best opportunity, the best chance for
• 24:41
  me to be successful. He's like, this is my dream.
• 24:44
  And then as he's walking by, I'm like, and I'm hearing that I'm
• 24:47
  like, hey, welcome to Chief's Kingdom.
• 24:49
  And he's like, what? And I'm like, welcome to Chief's
• 24:51
  Kingdom. And you're going to love being
• 24:53
  coached by C Spangola and Dave Merritt, and you're going to
• 24:56
  just enjoy it so much, man. We're rooting for you.
• 24:58
  And he comes up, shakes my hand and, like, dabs me up.
• 25:00
  And then I walk back and I was just like, my mind was blown,
• 25:04
  Like so blown. It was crazy.
• 25:07
  Got to see you on the Woods pitch as you guys were front and
• 25:09
  center. You and Heather got to see you
• 25:11
  guys both up there too. Sent you a couple of pictures
• 25:14
  off the television. We we need to get you on next
• 25:17
  week and we're going to recap kind of everything here.
• 25:19
  You got a big night still in front of you.
• 25:21
  What you got? What do you got coming up today?
• 25:22
  Don't you get to go a little bit more back beside behind the
• 25:25
  scenes? So we actually this morning I
• 25:29
  got to hang out again with my buddies from the international
• 25:31
  fans of the Year and we actually got to go in the brain of where
• 25:34
  the draft is. So I got to meet the guy who
• 25:36
  physically runs the drafts. I got to talk with the guys who
• 25:39
  were on the phones when trades happen, the guy who announces
• 25:42
  the picks. I even got to meet a couple of
• 25:43
  international players that are doing their international path
• 25:47
  to play and hopefully get drafted night.
• 25:49
  So I'm rooting for a couple. It won't be tonight or probably
• 25:51
  be tomorrow night. I'm rooting for those guys.
• 25:53
  But it was so cool. You got to hear them talk about,
• 25:56
  you know, everyone's favorite team in the north that doesn't
• 25:58
  know how to make first round picks finally.
• 26:01
  So we got it. We got to hear all about the
• 26:03
  Vikings and what happens with that and the phone call that got
• 26:07
  made by the the guys running the draft to Minnesota been like,
• 26:12
  are you guys gonna make a pick or not?
• 26:13
  And no one answered and then they just had to move on.
• 26:16
  And so we gotta hear that story and a bunch of other stuff.
• 26:18
  So it's really, really, really interesting.
• 26:20
  I enjoy the next couple of days. We got to we got to move along.
• 26:24
  We will reconnect with you next week and recap the whole thing.
• 26:27
  I'd love to vicariously share the experience of what it's like
• 26:31
  to be at the draft. Russ crew, good stuff, Graphite
• 26:34
  construction group. Russ, enjoy the next couple of
• 26:36
  days, travel home safe and we'll talk to you next week, OK?
• 26:40
  Sounds great. Thanks guys.
• 26:41
  Have a Good Friday. Yep.
• 26:42
  Good to hear. Good to hear from you, Russ
• 26:44
  Crew. What a time.
• 26:45
  That's amazing. That is really cool, Really cool
• 26:47
  experience. We'll take a time out.
• 26:49
  We will come back. Eugene Repay from the Des Moines
• 26:51
  Register will join us. What's he going to be focusing
• 26:54
  on? I'm sure him and Travis have a
• 26:55
  game plan as to how they're going to absorb the Iowa State
• 27:01
  spring football practice tomorrow.
• 27:03
  Miller and Condon, we're on a Friday.
• 27:05
  We're glad you're with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 27:23
  Mary Conn's is just past 12:30 on a Friday.
• 27:27
  Still to come, our number 2, we'll talk to Tom Caker.
• 27:30
  Mike Palm will join us, VP of operations at Circus Sports
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• 27:36
  Those coming up here at about 10 minutes or so before 2:00.
• 27:40
  Let's talk Iowa State, shall we? Eugene repay Travis Hines.
• 27:44
  They'll be at Jack Trice tomorrow.
• 27:46
  Here's the particulars at 10 AM. The gates will will open
• 27:49
  northeast, southeast gates open. You're going to be on the east
• 27:52
  side. The fans in attendance, 1030
• 27:54
  stretching will start 12:30. It comes to an end.
• 27:57
  So they'll stretch for a while. Then they'll get down to
• 27:58
  business seating as I mentioned only on the east side of the
• 28:03
  stadium and they will have those 2026 season posters available on
• 28:09
  the east concourse. Eugene Repay as we mentioned in
• 28:12
  one register, he will be there. Eugene Trenton, Ken, thank you
• 28:15
  for coming on. Busy time for you.
• 28:17
  Football wraps up here. Well, tomorrow I guess wouldn't
• 28:21
  when you wouldn't Travis head up there, you're probably going to
• 28:26
  got a game plan as to what you want to watch, who you want to
• 28:28
  talk to etcetera. But I'm guessing one of the most
• 28:32
  maybe focused on areas would be the quarterback position.
• 28:36
  And is there really a competition when your eyeballs,
• 28:39
  when you see Flores versus Rayner in your mind, do you
• 28:42
  think it'll be close, how close we watch that, Eugene?
• 28:45
  Yeah, that will definitely be one of the position groups that
• 28:47
  we keep an eye on the most. It was compelling to hear that
• 28:50
  Zane Flores is right there in the mix with Jalen Rainer, at
• 28:54
  least according to what coaches were saying last week.
• 28:56
  But I think that this spring practice will show a lot more.
• 28:59
  Hopefully we'll get to see who's taking more of the first team
• 29:02
  reps That's going to be something I'm going to be
• 29:03
  looking at. How many throws is each guy
• 29:05
  going to get? What are they going to look
• 29:07
  like, a live situation? And then just any drills where
• 29:10
  they get to go, whether it's 11 on 11 or whether it's, you know,
• 29:14
  against coverage. Those are going to be very
• 29:16
  telling and I'm curious to see how it is.
• 29:18
  I still feel like Rayner is the front runner.
• 29:21
  It's one of those where maybe they're just talking or just
• 29:24
  trying to put in a competition. Maybe there isn't one, but we'll
• 29:28
  see more tomorrow. You know, just real quick follow
• 29:31
  up, I know you guys have had a chance to speak with Rayner.
• 29:34
  Has Flores been made available to the media?
• 29:37
  Flores has not been made available, but last week when
• 29:40
  they did have Rainer available, they only did one player per
• 29:43
  position group. So it was Rainer and then it was
• 29:46
  Keaton Roskopf. But I also thought that that was
• 29:48
  pretty telling as well. No doubt.
• 29:50
  And yeah, I think Rainer A prohibitive favorite still, even
• 29:53
  though they're going to push and have a competition and and
• 29:55
  that's definitely a good thing. So here's always the interesting
• 29:58
  about spring practice is you're going to have maybe the
• 30:01
  offensive line looks really good.
• 30:02
  That means the defensive line doesn't very look very good or
• 30:05
  vice versa here. You know, when you're going
• 30:07
  through your kind of setting things up, yeah, you want to
• 30:09
  spotlight the highlights, but when you're playing each other,
• 30:12
  that also leads to low lights on the other side.
• 30:15
  How do you do that as a writer and understanding that, yeah,
• 30:18
  there's something that looks really good, but if that
• 30:19
  happens, there might be something that looks really bad.
• 30:22
  Yeah, I think it's just more so just keeping note of what the
• 30:26
  the first team is looking like, what the second team is looking
• 30:28
  like, who the personnel is rather than what the actual
• 30:31
  results are. The other thing with this is
• 30:33
  this is only one practice. This is also a controlled
• 30:36
  environment. So you can't really, you don't
• 30:39
  want to overreact, you don't want to under react to anything.
• 30:41
  But more so just being looking at the units overall and and who
• 30:46
  who's taking those first team snaps, who's getting a bulk of
• 30:49
  the reps, Who are some of those guys that are trying to shine
• 30:51
  early. And you'll just like with any
• 30:54
  game, you'll probably see some players that will have big
• 30:57
  moments. And I'm sure the same goes for
• 30:59
  practice. So just kind of raining it in
• 31:01
  and kind of keeping it in the mental bank for when we get into
• 31:04
  the summer, when we get into the fall.
• 31:07
  Did those guys still stay where they were?
• 31:08
  Did they keep progressing or their new players that are
• 31:11
  emerging to the forefront? So just kind of keeping those in
• 31:14
  mind and just embracing this for what it is.
• 31:16
  It's kind of like the first taste.
• 31:18
  There's still going to be a lot of rust.
• 31:19
  It's probably going to be a ton of kinks to work out.
• 31:22
  But this is where they are right now will be a lot more further
• 31:26
  ahead and more telling them where they were two months ago
• 31:28
  or a month ago. No question one more on the
• 31:30
  quarterback was a battle position, but further down the
• 31:34
  depth chart, the imaginary depth chart.
• 31:37
  Honor Moberly, local kid what? What do you expect to see from
• 31:40
  him tomorrow? Obviously Raynor and Flores are
• 31:42
  going to draw the most attention.
• 31:44
  Will Moberly get an opportunity, do you think, tomorrow?
• 31:47
  I think they'll give them some synapse.
• 31:49
  They haven't shared the exact format for what to expect from
• 31:52
  the spring practice or the spring showcase tomorrow, but I
• 31:55
  wouldn't be surprised if we saw something common Moberly mixed
• 31:58
  in and we just got to see what he's able to do just for him
• 32:01
  being a local kid as well. And and also just staying with
• 32:04
  the program, being one of 40 players overall, 1 of 21
• 32:07
  scholarship players. I I think it'll be kind of
• 32:10
  remiss to not have them get any action.
• 32:12
  And but of course, most of the action will be, most of the
• 32:16
  spotlight will be on Flores and Rayner.
• 32:18
  You heard me mention offensive line, Eugene.
• 32:22
  You will realize in our conversations going forward, I
• 32:25
  talk a lot about offensive line and this is like the whole
• 32:28
  everywhere across the roster. But you bring in four Power 4
• 32:31
  transfers, guy from Michigan State, guy from Auburn, guy from
• 32:34
  Oklahoma. Feels like at minimum pretty
• 32:36
  good baseline of getting things started.
• 32:38
  What have you heard about that group up front?
• 32:39
  Because if you don't got an old line, doesn't matter how good
• 32:42
  the skill position players are, got to have guys that can block.
• 32:47
  Portal, this was one of their better.
• 32:49
  I thought they did an awesome job of the offensive line.
• 32:52
  It was clearly a priority. It was clearly enough just for
• 32:54
  them. This was the group that they
• 32:56
  rushed or quickly assembled compared to some of the other
• 32:59
  ones. And as you mentioned, you bring
• 33:01
  in 3-4 power Four guys in here and you have that nice base as
• 33:05
  well as a couple of guys that are returning.
• 33:07
  And to me, this is exactly what the core of the offense is going
• 33:10
  to be. They're looking to run the ball
• 33:11
  a lot. So I'm not surprised that they
• 33:13
  put too much emphasis in building this group 1st and
• 33:16
  emphasizing priorities this. But I think that this group is
• 33:20
  especially is going to be one of the most important ones going
• 33:22
  forward. They got to be able to protect
• 33:24
  the rain or they got to be able to protect floors or whoever
• 33:26
  will be in the backfield. But for if their main focus for
• 33:30
  this offense is to be run heavy and use a lot of play action and
• 33:34
  be physical, you're going to need the old line to do just
• 33:37
  that. And some of these guys like a
• 33:38
  Jake Taylor or DeAndre Carter, like you mentioned, coming from
• 33:41
  the SEC, they had some snaps. They have some experience not
• 33:46
  coming in with big booming resumes, but they're guys who
• 33:49
  have experience in those big time locker rooms and they're
• 33:53
  looking for a fresh start and a big opportunity.
• 33:55
  So what better way to do that than here at Iowa State in this
• 33:58
  new chapter? You know, this time last year we
• 34:00
  were talking about all the linebackers that they were
• 34:02
  forced to play the year before and how this should be a a real
• 34:05
  strength of this football team because they had to go through
• 34:08
  so much depth of those young guys got so many reps that
• 34:12
  probably than normally they would have been on the
• 34:14
  sidelines. Now there's what is there one
• 34:16
  starter? I mean, well, it's obviously
• 34:19
  Goodwin came back, but those are the 2.
• 34:21
  So we just don't mean it's, it's so hard to to look at this
• 34:25
  roster on either side of the football and I think really come
• 34:28
  up with a, you know, an opinion that you can actually back up
• 34:32
  with some facts because we just don't know, do we?
• 34:37
  No, and and tomorrow I think that's one thing too that I want
• 34:40
  to see. Just what does this 425 defense
• 34:43
  look like? How are they going to line?
• 34:45
  Who are going to be those go to guys, especially with Braden
• 34:47
  alls out to like it when alls was coming in that looked like
• 34:51
  the the marquee transfer on the defensive side just so
• 34:54
  accomplished that what he did in Toledo and then for that to be
• 34:57
  taken away. Now you you're right, like we
• 35:00
  don't really know. We don't really know.
• 35:01
  Sure we have village and we've seen them the last couple of
• 35:04
  years, but we don't know what these pieces are going to look
• 35:07
  like and how they're going to fit in with one another.
• 35:09
  So it's hard to really come with any speculation or or any
• 35:12
  credible analysis until we see what this product looks like.
• 35:15
  But that is honestly been one of the most difficult, challenging
• 35:18
  things of this offseason. You want to get excited for
• 35:21
  guys, you want to look at film, but what they did in the past
• 35:24
  doesn't really compare it to what they're about to do in this
• 35:26
  completely new system. Recruiting seems to be going
• 35:30
  pretty well here in the early going.
• 35:31
  They got a three star play out of Wisconsin, a linebacker.
• 35:34
  The biggest one Will Slaggle, who a lot of people had destined
• 35:38
  to maybe follow Matt Campbell to Penn State or even make his way
• 35:41
  to Iowa City. That's a big recruiting Will
• 35:43
  with Slaggle. I know you've been writing about
• 35:44
  that over at the Des Moines Register.
• 35:46
  Early returns pretty good here for Coach Rogers.
• 35:49
  Yeah, they've done a great job so far with the 2027 recruiting
• 35:52
  class and they just recently got their first defensive prospect
• 35:55
  with Keaton Wallin from Wisconsin, who had just a
• 35:58
  monster season last year on both sides of the ball.
• 36:02
  But they've been doing a great job so far. 6 recruits early on
• 36:05
  and Flaggle to me was just such a huge one to be able to we get
• 36:09
  him after losing him and to keep him here in Iowa State, like
• 36:13
  that's a massive recruiting win for Jimmy Rogers and also an old
• 36:16
  lineman as well. They have a couple of old
• 36:18
  lineman already in the fold. So that just continues to show
• 36:20
  that that's just another position group that they're
• 36:23
  prioritizing, really emphasizing and trying to build up here.
• 36:26
  And Slagle, it will be a huge addition and you got to be
• 36:29
  excited if you're an Iowa State fan.
• 36:31
  I know that he has the family ties.
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  His uncle and his dad went to Iowa.
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  They played. But when you be committed, of
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  course there's all that uncertainty.
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  But to just keep them here and recommitted, reaffirmed, that's
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  huge for him moving forward. Yeah, I thought when he
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  committed it at the tailgate, that certainly got the attention
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  of Cyclone Nation in this positive way.
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  I hate to keep defaulting to last year, but I kind of find
• 36:53
  myself doing so. So this time, remember Darien
• 36:56
  Porter switched from the offense to the defense.
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  He got drafted by the Raiders last year.
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  Was Nagoye following in Porter's footsteps?
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  Nagoye, I don't think he played a ton last year.
• 37:06
  He's still around. I haven't heard a ton about him
• 37:09
  this spring. Any anything you could tell us
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  about Benny Nagoya year 2 from switching from offense now to
• 37:15
  defense? Any anything come up at any of
• 37:18
  the press conferences on the Goya at all?
• 37:21
  Yeah, just a little bit on the Goya.
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  They're impressed with his life and athleticism, which is
• 37:25
  something that we already knew about.
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  But they actually one of when I asked Jimmy Rogers about one of
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  his favorite groups on the defensive side, he said that it
• 37:33
  was a cornerback room. He thinks that there's a lot of
• 37:35
  death, a lot of athletes there. And sure, three of those guys
• 37:39
  were from Washington State, so he's familiar with a lot of
• 37:42
  them. But I'm curious to see how Benny
• 37:44
  and the Goya factors. And he did play when all the
• 37:46
  injuries were starting to pile up in the secondary there.
• 37:49
  He did get out there, but definitely still raw.
• 37:51
  I'm curious, now that he's had one full season at quarterback,
• 37:56
  does he take the next step while learning a new system?
• 37:58
  Is this system going to work better for him?
• 38:00
  But it'll be interesting to see if we see some Benny Nagoya and
• 38:04
  just the fact that he stuck around too, not many of them.
• 38:08
  So it's interesting to see how those guys translate or carry
• 38:12
  over into this new era. Eugene, I had my notes last
• 38:16
  night as I was making my notes for our guests and some
• 38:18
  questions I had is it's a dumb one now in hindsight, moving
• 38:22
  from the 335 to a four man front now, who cares?
• 38:26
  Almost all these guys are due so, but it is a new transition.
• 38:29
  Obviously Jesse Bobbitt coming in.
• 38:31
  It will be a different look than what we're used to under Haycock
• 38:34
  and what he employed defensively.
• 38:36
  What have you just heard overall, the defense in general,
• 38:39
  Obviously a new look for Cyclone fans from what they're used to,
• 38:41
  but how overall the defense has been going?
• 38:44
  The players that were here last year at 3:35, it sounds like
• 38:48
  they've been transitioning well to this new scheme.
• 38:50
  Carson Wellich this particularly as a guy that thinks that he'll
• 38:54
  be able to thrive better in this system.
• 38:55
  He thinks that the responsibilities are better.
• 38:57
  A guy like Zamir Hawk as well-being an interior lineman
• 39:00
  with a four man front. They also feel like it'll
• 39:02
  benefit him. But overall, this this new
• 39:05
  system, this new scheme, it's going to be a little bit
• 39:07
  different, but it sounds like that the team is really getting
• 39:11
  it down pat So far. I'm, I'm just, you know, what's
• 39:14
  one of those where it's like, we need to see what this product
• 39:16
  looks like against opposing teams, other teams in the
• 39:20
  conference. It's nice to hear that they're
• 39:21
  excited. It's nice to hear that guys are
• 39:23
  picking it up and learning it. But until we see some meaningful
• 39:27
  reps, especially if this is where they the defensive side,
• 39:30
  they want this to be their bread and butter moving forward, the
• 39:32
  core of their identity as a team, we can't really make any
• 39:37
  full judgments until we see them hit other opposing jerseys,
• 39:40
  other teams and other players and things like that.
• 39:43
  But so far the the early returns have been good.
• 39:46
  But it's only 15 practices, so we'll need to see a little more
• 39:50
  live before we can really start to invest stock in it.
• 39:54
  Wrapping up with a little basketball news from the other
• 39:56
  day. Iowa going to play most state
• 39:58
  down in Kansas City, 5 neutral court games are going to open
• 40:01
  things up early in the season against Memphis, up in Sioux
• 40:04
  Falls and of course. The three games of the Players
• 40:06
  Era tournament schedule starting to come together here.
• 40:09
  Do you like the makeup that you're seeing so far of what's
• 40:11
  going to be the non conference schedule this season?
• 40:14
  Yeah, I totally did not expect to see all these new neutral
• 40:17
  site games coming up like you mentioned, the one and two falls
• 40:20
  coming back there again for the season opener against Memphis
• 40:22
  and now this one against Missouri State.
• 40:24
  I think it's you're an Iowa State fan.
• 40:27
  It's it's I'm curious to see how they show up.
• 40:29
  We all know that they love to travel and Kansas City is
• 40:32
  obviously a favorite destination.
• 40:33
  And now they get to go there early in the season before the
• 40:36
  way before the Big 12 tournament to see what will probably be a
• 40:40
  Gimme, but just add some excitement, adds intrigue and
• 40:44
  and just being invited to the Hall of Fame classic for the
• 40:46
  first time since 2014. That's not the marquee opponents
• 40:49
  that they faced that last time they were there.
• 40:51
  But it's still just a cool opportunity for the non con to
• 40:53
  really switch things up and and you know, just not be a cupcake
• 40:58
  factory at at the Hilton Coliseum or whatever it may be.
• 41:01
  Just mixing it up and adding some new destinations and banks.
• 41:04
  I'm. All for that good stuff, Eugene,
• 41:05
  repay Des Moines Register. Eugene, thanks for popping on.
• 41:08
  We'll read all yours and Travis's coverage of the spring
• 41:12
  football tomorrow so at desmoinesregister.com
• 41:15
  desmoinesregister.com for Eugene.
• 41:17
  Thank you Sir. Talk to you next week.
• 41:18
  Appreciate it. Good to talk to you.
• 41:22
  Eugene repay on Iowa State. So this this is a topic for for
• 41:25
  months from now. OK.
• 41:26
  But, and usually one we would get to in late June with this
• 41:31
  new roster, how do you reward somebody to take them to media
• 41:35
  day? Did you just default to who was
• 41:38
  ever sticking around that they're going to start that?
• 41:40
  Is intriguing. Do you take the quarterback you
• 41:46
  have? To take Rainer, Yeah, and again,
• 41:48
  we're way ahead of ourselves. But but when it comes to I was,
• 41:51
  it's just Carson Willick cinch in bookie ticket.
• 41:58
  People find out. I don't know.
• 42:00
  Yeah. Is he going to take one of his
• 42:02
  new guys? But how many spring game stars
• 42:04
  have we seen then and then don't?
• 42:06
  No, I'm not saying that they you have to start tomorrow.
• 42:09
  No, no. But if you're using that as kind
• 42:11
  of, oh, sure, this guy's going to go because he had to bring
• 42:14
  and then those guys don't even play, Yeah, we see that.
• 42:17
  See. That see every.
• 42:18
  Year. Yeah, absolutely.
• 42:19
  Would it be? Maybe.
• 42:20
  Some of the Washington State guys probably have a leg up.
• 42:23
  Well, you got to take Rayner because he's the QB and he's the
• 42:25
  newbie and at the position, right, right.
• 42:27
  And and you got to take Willich because he's been there and
• 42:30
  played a bunch, yes, but he's has he played more than anybody
• 42:33
  else that's still there. He has to have.
• 42:35
  I I think so. Samir Hawk was there for was he
• 42:36
  one year? He said this is a second.
• 42:39
  He played two. Years.
• 42:39
  Did he play? 2 years.
• 42:40
  Yeah, he played a little bit as a red shirt.
• 42:41
  OK, not a lot, but yeah, he got some snaps, but in terms.
• 42:44
  Of between those two, Serge has missed a lot of time.
• 42:46
  Last year, coffee's been banged up, yeah.
• 42:50
  You got to take the QB, you got to take Willich and then and
• 42:53
  they take one of the wazoo guys I guess, or they did last year I
• 42:57
  think. Austin Barnett Barrett, I mean.
• 43:00
  Barrett, you're the lineman, Yeah.
• 43:02
  Possibly. If he starts or if he's.
• 43:04
  Trending towards starting at least, but if he's going to be
• 43:07
  your 11th offense lineman, probably not.
• 43:08
  Wild. Absolutely wild.
• 43:11
  We'll take our final time out. We'll come back our number 2,
• 43:14
  Tom Cacert hawkeyereport.com. They too will have their spring
• 43:18
  extravaganza tomorrow. We'll talk to Tom about what he
• 43:22
  expects to see there. Mike Palm is going to join us,
• 43:26
  VP of Operations at Circus Sports.
• 43:28
  Look forward to seeing Mike and then Trent will make his plays
• 43:31
  of the day. How did you do yesterday?
• 43:34
  Not great. Two and four.
• 43:35
  Two and four, so you're a really good start.
• 43:38
  Two and one on props, though those props continue to hit, you
• 43:41
  know. Maybe you should give up the
• 43:43
  playing games. Oh God, no.
• 43:46
  It's my entertainment tax. No, I get it.
• 43:49
  Miller and Condon, our final segment, our number one, it's
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  coming up next following these quick break.
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  I forgot, damn it, I just realized it.
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  COIN at KX and o.com. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
• 44:15
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• 44:25
  back. Final couple of minutes, hour
• 44:27
  number one, Tom Kicker on Iowa, Mike Palm in studio, Circa
• 44:31
  Sports VP coming up here at about 1:30.
• 44:34
  Baseball yesterday, Cubs had another injury to the bullpen.
• 44:37
  Field Bar came in to pitch the 9th.
• 44:39
  He couldn't finish the inning. Of course they promptly blew
• 44:43
  that save, but then the sod comes in and and cleans things
• 44:48
  up and gets credited with the win.
• 44:50
  Phillies were down, I think it was 6.
• 44:51
  Two came back tied at six, six and Suzuki is starting to hit
• 44:55
  the ball a little bit. That's back-to-back to back
• 44:57
  days, I think with a home run. So Cubs will head to LA with a
• 45:01
  nine game-winning streak in tow. How about that?
• 45:04
  And running away with things suddenly, no, not so much.
• 45:07
  Still a game and a half. Well tied with the Reds there,
• 45:10
  but still everybody above 500. We talked about that Monday of
• 45:13
  the week and it continues. Everybody keeping their head
• 45:17
  above water. Who's?
• 45:18
  The most surprising team in the division thanks the Cardinals.
• 45:22
  I think so too, yeah. 14 and 10. Reds are a playoff team.
• 45:27
  Pirates we both like. I mean both like them to flirt
• 45:29
  with 500. That's probably still a likely
• 45:32
  scenario for them. Maybe the Brewers bad start?
• 45:36
  Didn't they start off working on fire in the first couple of
• 45:39
  weeks of the year? It was like the first week,
• 45:41
  yeah. And then it went and now they're
• 45:43
  right back at it once again going to be a great race.
• 45:46
  It is well done for the Cardinals 14 and 10.
• 45:49
  We'll take time out. We'll come back.
• 45:50
  Tom Caker will join us. Our number two, our final over
• 45:53
  hour of the week. It's next.
• 45:55
  We're glad you're with us wherever you are listening on
• 45:57
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network.