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Circa Football Contests, Who can beat the Eagles in the NFC? Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, Good afternoon. Welcome to Lauren Condon on a
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  Friday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Welcome back to it is we're going to be with you for the
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  next 6 hours. Two of them, Trent and I Trent
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  Condon, myself, Ken Miller, take you until 2:00, off the bench at
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  that time, Sean Lucas until 5:00 and then overtime Iowa snippet
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  from the first quarter, Miller in Condon and likewise with off
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  the bench. So here's what's coming up on
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  our program. We will start in about 20
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  minutes or thereabouts with Tom Kecker.
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  He covers Iowa regular Friday guests with Trenton Eye
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  hawkeyereport.com part of on three media.
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  A look at the Hawks at 12:30 and they're weak.
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  And what lies ahead as media day certainly do with Tom Kecker at
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  the bottom of our number one. We'll give you an opportunity, 4
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  of you to participate in our chicken coop giveaway.
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  If you haven't played in the last 30 days, you're eligible to
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  do so. We'll give you 4 questions and a
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  tie breaker. You get the most right.
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  You'll get a $50.00 gift certificate to use it.
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  Any of the three chicken coop locations throughout central
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  Iowa, Urbandale, West Des Moines and Ankeny, the locations there
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  that's coming up here. We'll give you the cue to call
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  about 45 minutes. Our number 2, Travis Hines will
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  kick it off. A good hit on the Cyclones with
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  Travis, both football and basketball.
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  He's coming up with the ball or the top rather of the second
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  hour of the show. And then we'll head to Las
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  Vegas. Well, really head to Las Vegas
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  in a few days. We'll do it via the telephone
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  with Mike Palm, VP of Operations at Circa Sports.
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  The latest is sports return. What's it been like in the book
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  the last Wednesday night? Thursday night, not a lot going
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  on, but we'll talk to Mike Palm about what they're seeing NFL
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  and college football wise, what's moving your needle as far
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  as futures, etcetera. With Mike, when he joins us at
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  about 125. Trent will make some plays.
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  They'll come to you at about 10 minutes before 2:00 or
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  thereabouts. So we are about to embark on a
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  full slate of baseball games. The long four days, almost.
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  Well the Ulster game was good, a long four days essentially of
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  that's it about to be behind us. Although I was into your bet
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  last night on the CFL. Well done.
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  Well, we went one and one they you talked me into putting that
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  one on the cartoon. So we just lost the juice last
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  night as we had a summer league bet that wasn't even close.
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  Lost by 20 but we hit in a close game the.
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  Argonauts it was. I was on 2/21 and they've got
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  another game tonight. If you need a football figure,
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  it's tough. I mean, I found American
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  football and it's like, what if there's this crap that I've been
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  spoon fed? At one point in the game, the
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  score was 11 to 4. OK, yes, yeah, this is stupid.
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  God, I hate the rules. But anyways, but there's going
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  to be a one of our questions in the chicken coop giveaway is
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  tonight's CFL affair as we inch our way to NFL into college
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  football. And it is getting closer and I
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  kind of hope the calendar slows down now at this point.
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  Now take your time. Oh, now it's time.
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  So yeah, basically from May on, you start begging for us to get
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  to football season, and now you're ready to pump the brakes
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  a little. Starting to mean training.
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  Camps are about to open up and media days are going on and, and
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  I love the month of August for what we do.
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  You know, the speculation, the, the talking season for us, our
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  talking season tried to, you know, figure out what's going to
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  happen whenever, right? But that doesn't matter.
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  We have fun with it. We.
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  Do have fun with it and look forward to doing that.
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  And so, yeah, go ahead and feel free to slow down, but that's
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  not going to. Happen.
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  That could happen. No, you have no control over
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  that. SEC Media Days finishing up.
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  It's what? When did they start?
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  Mondays or four day affair or Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Thursday, Friday or. I think it was 4.
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  I think it was just four teams each day.
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  Is the way that they split it up this year one of the more boring
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  SEC Media days? There has not been much that
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  came out Kiffin. Was good early in the week,
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  yeah. And he was like, I think he was
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  day one. I think you're right, yeah.
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  But other than that, yeah, really nothing.
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  Right. Kirby Smart never made any news.
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  No, not at all. No.
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  Like, it's a good point. I never thought of it.
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  Yeah. It just normally we get a lot
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  of. Storylines now, one of the
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  Alabama defensive lineman was asked about the Florida State
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  quarterback, the Cassianos, the Boston College transfer lipping
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  off and they're going to play each other.
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  And he said that he, you know, had an answer to that.
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  But yeah, I mean, when that's the sound bite that's getting
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  the most play, you're right. It's interesting that that has
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  been the case. Hopefully we'll get some news
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  next week. And here's the difference.
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  You have Greg Sankey out there all the time.
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  He's talking, he's happy to do it.
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  That is not Tony Petit. When does he?
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  I mean, I know he'll speak Tuesday.
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  Tuesday. You know the.
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  Time I do what time is it can. We carry it.
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  We can't because we have an interview scheduled with my or
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  with Derek Stevens at that time. Darn.
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  It, but we record it. Yes, absolutely.
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  Yes, we can definitely do that and we will get that on the
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  airwaves one way or the other. He and Sankey not seeing eye to
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  eye absolutely when it's in particular when it comes to the.
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  Well, and that's it. I mean, Sankey said we'll just
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  stay at 12 and that's going to be the format if they, if the
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  Big 10 in SEC cannot come to an agreement and we've been talking
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  for months, foregone conclusion, it's going to be 16.
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  If they do not come up with a resolution by December.
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  And this is only Big 10 in SEC, they have the power, sure.
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  If there is not a resolution, it will remain at 12.
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  It's as simple as that. And.
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  The Big 10 wants the SEC to play 9 league games.
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  That is a important box to check for them.
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  They've been reluctant to do so. I don't get it.
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  You keep hearing about how tough it is in the SEC.
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  It's eight more losses in the league.
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  It's the coaches don't want it because it's eight more losses.
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  It's as simple as that. The coaches don't want that.
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  Here's a component, though, and I hear this all the time.
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  Well, you know, the SEC is so tough and then they bring up the
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  mid tier teams. You know, it's tough to go into
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  South Carolina. It's tough to go to Kentucky.
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  We saw Georgia struggle with a very pedestrian Kentucky team.
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  Guess what? It's also very difficult to come
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  to Iowa City. It's difficult to go to a good
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  Illinois team. The the mid tier is the mid tier
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  in every league. You can say the same thing about
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  the ACC. You can say the same thing about
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  the Big 10. How?
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  Look at Miami last year. They're up 21, nothing against
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  Syracuse and they lose that game.
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  That's what league games are. The SEC middle and lower tier is
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  not. Yeah, but it means more Trent.
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  Appreciably better than any of these leagues out there.
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  They just put it at a level to make people believe, and it's
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  not true. It just isn't.
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  It is another lie that the SEC puts out every single year.
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  Look. At their championship, the last
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  few years hasn't been there. Hasn't been there.
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  They have it one. They have 6 in the playoff era.
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  The Big 10 has three and Clemson has two.
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  That's championships. One soon to be 3, hopefully.
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  If we don't get a resolution now, here's a little.
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  Maybe the most interesting nugget to me is Eli Drinkowich,
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  another guy that likes to talk he wants.
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  To go to 30. Well, he does want to do that,
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  but he is more of a favor of the Big 10 model as opposed to the
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  SEC model. It is good to see a coach
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  actually talking back outside of your talking points at your.
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  Company line, yes. It's good to hear somebody that
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  is actually thinking about this a little bit.
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  I understand that my thought process is tainted.
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  As a Hawkeye fan, I get that because this is the best system
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  for Iowa. But not just Iowa.
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  Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue,
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  Indiana, on and on and on. After the big boys of this
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  conference, everybody else, they want this because it's something
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  attainable, something realistic you're in to shoot for.
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  Finish in the top 6 and we got a chance.
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  Yep. And I agree with you and I agree
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  with Petiti. We'll see where it goes because
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  there's I think there's a collision coming.
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  But I do want to hear from him, without a doubt.
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  So. So what time do we have Derek
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  Stevens on Tuesday? 1:00 our time. 1:00 our time,
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  and that's when Petiti's on the stage.
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  Yep. Well, we don't get it.
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  Maybe Lucas, because Lucas will be broadcasting live from out.
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  There, we will have it here on the Iowa Sports Radio.
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  Now, good, good, good, good. And then Iowa goes on Thursday
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  and you and Lucas will be live from the Mandalay Bay from Radio
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  Row there, and Ference is going to stop by.
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  Yes, he's going to stop by, I believe 230.
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  Our time with Lucas, he'll be here.
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  How about some of the players? Yes, and then the three players
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  will be in in the 3:00 hour and we'll get to hear from all of
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  them while that's happening. While the players are on, Kirk's
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  also going to be at a different podium.
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  So I'll jump over there, record that, and we'll have a lot of
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  content coming out of Big 10 football media.
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  Day good, look forward to it then I'll listen to it when I
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  get back cuz I'm gonna bail on you on Wednesday and come home
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  back. Home for you 2 days is enough. 2
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  full days. You got 2 full days though.
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  Two full day land Sunday afternoon 110 OK and then look,
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  the reason I've said I'm not trying to pull the wool over
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  anybody's eyes. I'm going early spend an extra
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  day with my kids right right. So that's why I'm going and
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  coming back in anyways. But I'm looking forward to it
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  looking forward to being at circa little Sunday night
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  baseball, little sports next week.
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  We're gonna have a big gathering on Tuesday night.
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  It'll be fun. Let some of the media that
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  hasn't been a I had the opportunity to stop by and
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  experience first hand, including our colleague Lucas Strain, the
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  largest sports book in the world, with their own two eyes.
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  So a couple of things that we haven't brought up.
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  We're going to be signing up for the football contest out there.
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  We encourage everybody to do the same. footballcontest.com,
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  Maddie and Tony who we've talked about in the past, they've been
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  my proxy out there. So in order to do these
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  contests, just to re familiarize some people, maybe new listeners
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  out there, if you're heading out this summer some point, if
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  you're going out next week or any other week, you have to have
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  a proxy. The proxy is the person that
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  puts in your pics every week because you have to do it in
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  person. That's how you put.
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  You send your pics to the proxy via the Internet and they turn
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  them in once they get them. So Matt and Tony.
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  Tony's from Ankeny. She's and that's a Midwest guy.
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  He's a Chicago guy. I've known them now for a number
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  of years. Here's something though, they're
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  giving back. If your entry gets knocked out
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  the first three weeks for Survivor, get your entry fee,
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  your proxy feedback. No kidding.
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  Yes. That's good news.
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  I mean, that's something to look forward to.
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  Absolutely, because it's inevitably going to happen to
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  both of us. So you got that compoted to it,
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  but the rates are as good as anybody.
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  I have used it. It is incredibly simple.
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  I set my time up. I got a little alarm on my
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  phone. Let me know each week need to
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  have my entry and by then can either do the Friday entry or a
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  Saturday entry a little bit more as you move later into the week.
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  You can do it both ways, but footballcontest.com is where you
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  can go to get all the information there.
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  You can contact them. Hey, I'm going to be out there
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  August 11th. I want to meet you at the sports
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  book at 2:00 PM Boom, you're set up, they'll send you a
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  confirmation e-mail. You go there, you sign out the
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  paperwork, then you go up with them when you're putting your
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  entry in. So it's as simple as that.
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  And what other thing I'm going to do the new college football.
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  Are you at the Superbook? Yeah.
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  Have you been? Have you spent much time at the
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  Westgate? It's been a long time.
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  Yeah, it was the nuts for a while.
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  Absolutely. It was.
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  It was it. If people haven't heard, so
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  they're for the first time in a while, there's a contest.
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  South Point had one for a while. There's been a few other places.
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  William Hill, Yep, William Hill, back seven and picks a week.
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  That's what you make 7 picks against the spread.
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  Against the spread. Lions will come out I believe on
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  Wednesday for that one. But seven selections against the
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  spread every week for college football, $500 entry for that
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  one. So gonna jump aboard, do an
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  entry on that one and have a little bit of fun.
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  And you never know, right? You never know.
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  And that take. A flyer.
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  That's what we're all doing. And we're kind of like buying a
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  lottery ticket. It's that dream.
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  Although we think we have an edge because we think we know
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  sports and we don't. Yeah, if you put this in the
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  pudding, because we haven't made it to the month of, we haven't
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  survived till the month of October.
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  I didn't year one. You did you're, what, the first
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  week of October? And then you were done.
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  Week 5 it was over. Week 5, it was over.
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  I'd look at. I'd love to see Week 5 anyways,
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  one of these years, one of these years.
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  So since we're talking football where we haven't spoken about
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  one team, it don't tell me driving home yesterday trying
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  to, you know, talk about I'm trying to wrap my mind on what I
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  think I'm going to be watching unfold this season.
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  Watch the end of quarterback. The series last night was really
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  good and I'm and I'm more sold on the Bengals this after
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  watching the series than I am. But you know who we haven't
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  spoken about? A team that has, I don't think
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  graced the 2 noon to two time slot on the air.
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  Who's that? That's got a legitimate chance
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  just the defending champs. Yeah, that's right.
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  Haven't spoken about the Eagles. Yeah, that's crazy, right?
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  Is it just that foregone conclusion that they're going to
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  be really good again, that it's going to break and they're going
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  to be there and they're such a can because it's almost
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  impossible rasterized to poke a hole in that team.
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  Is it their? Can't Two years ago, they lost
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  Kellen Moore. OK.
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  Well, last time they lost the Rosie didn't go well.
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  They lost both both coordinators to be fair that.
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  Season and Victoria Fangio is back.
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  Because two years ago they started the year.
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  Were they 8:00 and 1:00? I think they might even been
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  better than that. 10 and. One, they just crashed and
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  burned. They did and it, but you heard
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  these kind of murmurs about them throughout the course of the
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  season when it happened. I don't think it was a huge
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  surprise because they're just felt like there was a lot of
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  tumult inside that organization at that time.
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  Now I I can't get there. I can't have the same kind of
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  concern that it's going to happen and it just right back to
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  they have talent. So here they here's 2023 two 455
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  and 18 and 110 and one they beat on Thanksgiving weekend.
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  They beat Buffalo in overtime and the next six games to end
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  the regular season. They went one and five, the lone
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  win being on Christmas Day against the Giants and got
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  crushed in the wild card round by a Tampa Bay.
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  And then last year they turned things around obviously, and win
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  the whole cotton picking thing and just dominate the Kansas
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  City. I mean, they dominated the
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  Chiefs. Oh, absolutely that Super Bowl.
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  But I don't want to say boring. It wasn't boring if, well, maybe
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  you're a Chiefs fan. It was probably.
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  More frustrating than boring? Probably, yeah.
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  So what? Where do you poke holes?
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  Wayne Johnson's back. Do you think that they're going
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  to get to the Super Bowl again this year?
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  Are you going to bet that they are?
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  I'm not. I'm not.
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  Because of the price, Yep, I can't get there.
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  I can't. I'm, I don't think this looks
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  like to me, a team that's going to repeat.
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  The middle of the defense is outstanding.
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  You know, yeah, for certain. You like the Kobe Dean?
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  I do, and he was hurt last year, but you know, I really like his.
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  Jalen Carter, yes, who I think is Aaron Donald Light.
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  That defensive backfield stout, I mean, Cooper Jeans, your
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  Nickelback. Right.
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  Not a bad one. Yeah, not a bad one.
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  And there feels like there's still more upside with him, the
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  middle of that front with Jordan Davis and Jaylen Carter.
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  Yeah, it's as good as the risk. I guess I don't love the
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  defensive ends. Are they going to get to the
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  quarterback a ton? But another thing that they went
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  out and did. Squan Barkley, right?
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  You got Saquon that that Saquon, Yeah.
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  That helps. Brown Smith.
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  That's a pretty good 1-2 punch. Dallas Goddard, pretty good.
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  The offensive line is maybe not. No, no, they're still good.
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  And they went out and they fortified it with depth.
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  You know, they brought in a couple of veterans that are
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  going to help out, I think, with the depth of that offensive
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  line. And when you have Elaine Johnson
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  at at this age? Still playing at elite level.
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  Always a concern though with an older offensive lineman.
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  Still, they went out and they would draft.
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  A snap count every single time he gets an extra half step and
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  they just let him do it. He's not alone.
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  Hope. There's a few tackles that do
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  the exact same thing in a drink. Kansas City, likewise.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And it drives you crazy, but
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  they allow it. Yep yeah, the Eagles hard to
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  poke close. So what is the price?
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  Do you know off the end what the?
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  Price is for the Eagles. I don't because I don't shop at
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  that time at that end of the of the odds board.
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  I'm in the middle or the back end of it looking for prices.
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  They've got to be the second choice.
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  Are they six to one? 6 1/2 to one?
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  This is from DraftKings. There is a three-way tie at the
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  top of the Super Bowl betting board.
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  All right, it's the Chiefs. Nope.
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  It's not the Chiefs. It's not the Chiefs.
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  It's the Bills for sure. The Eagles for sure.
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  Who am I missing? The Ravens.
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  It is the Ravens, all three of them, plus 650.
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  The Chiefs are 8 to 1 at DraftKings Lions at 12:50 and
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  then you get a big jump up to 18 to one for the Commanders. 49ers
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  at 20 to 1. Any interest at all?
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  I love their. Schedule.
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  Yes, I love their schedule. What are they going to be
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  favored in 15 games? I think that's what the the
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  advance, the advance point spreads week by week are already
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  out and I think they are what don't Can you trust Christian
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  McCaffrey? Another healthy season for him
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  because they're a completely different team when he's out
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  there. Yep, They go to that apex.
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  They go to that kind of team that absolutely can win a Super
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  Bowl with the caveat, you know, he has to be.
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  Held Brandon Iuke is an enigma. Yes.
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  I like Ricky Pearsall, great story.
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  George Kittle, another year older still, I think still, you
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  know, upper echelon offensive line is good.
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  Fred Warner is elite. Nick Bosa is really, really
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  good. But they lost Greenlaw, they
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  lost Tafanga. Both of those guys are wearing
• 17:53
  Bronco suits. Thank God Jake Moody's trust him
• 17:59
  to make a big kick. Not really.
• 18:02
  I don't that that, that whole division.
• 18:04
  Trent, yes. Who do you toss out?
• 18:05
  Seattle. I can't even toss them out
• 18:09
  Cardinals. No, I can't toss them.
• 18:11
  No, I'm not tossing the Rams. No.
• 18:14
  Well, that means you can get a price, right?
• 18:17
  I would think. Both Seattle and Arizona plus
• 18:19
  475. Rams plus 195.
• 18:22
  And the Niners are favored to win the to win the division,
• 18:24
  plus one of their schedule. Because of that schedule, it
• 18:27
  sets up incredibly well for. Them so so if the Eagles are
• 18:30
  going to repeat in the NFC, who's their biggest competition?
• 18:33
  Who's their biggest competition out there?
• 18:36
  I mean, I think their division might be in their own division
• 18:38
  might be the commanders. You love the commanders.
• 18:40
  I do love the command. I think Jane Dan is about to
• 18:42
  become. He's already a household name,
• 18:45
  but I think he's he's going to be talked about as one of the, I
• 18:48
  think best in the game very shortly.
• 18:50
  Maybe not this year. Obviously, the North is the
• 18:53
  north. There's a lot of love for Tampa
• 18:56
  Bay. Not in this chair.
• 18:59
  Not with worse hurt. Yeah, and that's a big blow.
• 19:01
  How long is he hurt? For about a month, you know, I
• 19:03
  think targeting maybe a week 5 return if if memory serves when
• 19:06
  that first came out, I. I'm glad Baker Baker Mayfield
• 19:09
  has resurrected his career. Carolina, I think is going to be
• 19:14
  better. Atlanta I.
• 19:18
  Feel like I've been burned by Atlanta.
• 19:19
  Right. I'm the I'm the same way.
• 19:21
  And New Orleans is going to try and finish with the worst record
• 19:23
  in the league so they can draft Arch Manning's grandson Arch to
• 19:29
  be their quarterback. And what a story would be.
• 19:30
  I kind of hope it happens. So what is it about the Lions
• 19:34
  that you because you've been kind of saying that you love the
• 19:36
  Vikings, You think the Bears got a step in them.
• 19:38
  I know you don't you're not in love with the Packers by any
• 19:41
  means, but you keep saying that the Lions you you anticipate a
• 19:44
  step back. Well, the.
• 19:45
  Only reason I do is because we saw it in Philadelphia.
• 19:48
  Aaron Glenn is as good a defensive mind as there is and
• 19:51
  Ben Johnson as good as offensive mind is there?
• 19:54
  I mean watching quarterback and some of the trick now, I didn't.
• 19:57
  I hated the one against. Against Washington in the
• 20:01
  divisional round where they had Williams, I think it was
• 20:04
  throwing the football and no business throwing.
• 20:06
  It cost him interception late in the football game.
• 20:10
  But Quince, Dilt, Dank Quinn. I I like what I see out of Jared
• 20:17
  Goff. I love the running back.
• 20:18
  I love the receiver. Jameson Williams, obviously Aman
• 20:21
  Ross St. Brown is is a he's a, he's a
• 20:26
  terrific player. He's a Pro Bowler.
• 20:27
  He's an All Pro. Sam LaPorte is outstanding.
• 20:30
  I don't like the fact that they're centre just retired.
• 20:33
  Ragnar just, you know, quit last month.
• 20:36
  But they're guys on defence, they get back.
• 20:38
  And they're going to start a Rooney at centre, Is he?
• 20:41
  Yeah, I thought. It was the guy from the the
• 20:43
  plate for he was with Detroit. Then he went to Denver to you
• 20:46
  and he washed. Oh, starts with the G, Trent.
• 20:48
  Oh, Giovanni Manu. No, no, no, no, no, no glass
• 20:53
  now. Glass now I'm I'm looking at the
• 20:56
  roster, I'm not even seeing it's.
• 20:58
  Glass now's his last name. He is projected to be the
• 21:00
  starting right guard. Oh, so he.
• 21:02
  Is and their second round pick, Tate Ratledge is projected here
• 21:06
  from the Orlads depth chart to be their starting center, a
• 21:11
  rookie second rounder. I love the right tackle, Sewell.
• 21:14
  Yep, Decker I, I still think they're going to be good, but I
• 21:18
  think you have to dock them a point or two just because they
• 21:21
  lose those two coordinators. Speaking of that, their
• 21:25
  offensive coordinator now is John Morton, who was the passing
• 21:28
  game coordinator for your Broncos.
• 21:30
  Do you remember? No, I don't.
• 21:31
  No, nothing. Because I mean, you've.
• 21:34
  Sean, how much sway did John Morton have inside that
• 21:38
  building? You know what, Sean, I got this.
• 21:41
  Probably not going to go over real well.
• 21:43
  So you go from that title. Passing game coordinator for the
• 21:46
  Broncos helps. You get gigs apparently.
• 21:49
  Now he was in Detroit before that, 2022, so he's got some
• 21:53
  background with the organization.
• 21:54
  I guess that would probably help.
• 21:56
  You know what, it kind of reminds me of when they got
• 21:58
  bounced last year in the divisional round after having
• 22:01
  the one. Crazy game that it.
• 22:02
  Was it was bananas. I mean, Washington's legit 1990.
• 22:07
  It was a 5 or 6/19/96. The team with the best record in
• 22:12
  the AFC was unbeatable. No one's going to beat this
• 22:16
  team. Broncos.
• 22:17
  Yeah, here comes Jacksonville. Mark Brunel, Brunel.
• 22:21
  And then? Keena McArdle, Keena.
• 22:24
  McArdle And after having that bad taste in their mouth all
• 22:27
  offseason, they won two straight Super Bowls.
• 22:30
  So that's kind of where I'm trying to equate the two.
• 22:34
  I said maybe this had to happen for Detroit before they are able
• 22:37
  to take this next step as anyways, we'll see.
• 22:40
  Alright, let's go to break. Ohh, gods football season.
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  And then throughout the afternoon and off the bench with
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  Sean and Lucas, they have as well.
• 23:08
  Tom Caker joins Trenton I next. Miller and Condon underway on a
• 23:12
  Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio.
• 23:15
  Tom Caker joins the program hawkeyereport.com, part of On
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  Three Media. Before we do that, Soul and beef
• 23:21
  days going on. Tristan Werfs will not be in the
• 23:25
  hay Bale toss this year. I got the word.
• 23:27
  I got a text. Apparently this is really
• 23:29
  popular. Tom, have you ever covered it?
• 23:31
  Have not ever gone yeah, Werfs had the had this knee scoped or
• 23:37
  whatever. He's on the PUP list.
• 23:39
  So he can. Do it.
• 23:41
  I don't think Dunker's doing it. Keeper told me he's doing it so
• 23:47
  I would put him as like -400. Yeah, probably.
• 23:52
  All right. Maybe we need some.
• 23:54
  Maybe we need some odds on beef days.
• 23:57
  Yeah, I think we should. I'm all for it.
• 23:59
  That's outstanding. But pretty big event
• 24:01
  nonetheless. And so and good for them.
• 24:02
  And I think it's the first mention of them on the on KX and
• 24:06
  on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 24:07
  So get out there and have fun if you're in the area tonight and
• 24:11
  tomorrow. Well, Tom, lots of ground to
• 24:12
  cover your aside from from Solon Beef Days media day on the
• 24:17
  precipice as we inch our way closer.
• 24:20
  I I guess who's the. Team Tom, that that's on Iowa's
• 24:23
  schedule, that that maybe I don't know, that you gave them a
• 24:28
  lot, gave Iowa a win over them, that you're starting to, you
• 24:32
  know, get some feedback or get some pushback that, you know,
• 24:35
  don't overlook this or that or the other thing.
• 24:37
  Who would that team be, Tom? I think the most fascinating
• 24:41
  game on the Iowa schedule is Indiana.
• 24:46
  And it's just because because we just don't know.
• 24:48
  Is this, you know, do they kind of come turn back into Indiana
• 24:54
  or is this thing real? Is Sigmeti really the greatest
• 24:58
  coach since Newt Rockne or Dick Sabin or whoever you want to put
• 25:02
  him with? I mean, coach, Google me, as I
• 25:06
  call it. You know, he he's, he does not
• 25:10
  lack for bravado. He's got a quarterback.
• 25:14
  He's got his, you know, got Mendoza, so he's got some talent
• 25:19
  back. I just think that's such a
• 25:22
  fascinating game early in the year in the conference because
• 25:26
  it could honestly could set up either one of those teams to be
• 25:30
  in the conversation in in late November for a College Football
• 25:34
  Playoff. Who would have had Indiana in
• 25:37
  the College Football Playoff one year?
• 25:40
  Back-to-back years? Yeah, same group that picked
• 25:43
  Arizona State last, right in the Big 12, you know, nobody saw.
• 25:47
  Dummies in the media. Dummies in the media.
• 25:49
  We don't know anything. Not a thing.
• 25:51
  Guilty. Speaking of the beginning of the
• 25:53
  Big 10 slate, Week 1, it's Rutgers on the road short week
• 25:58
  after a night game against UMass.
• 26:00
  They got to go out there on a Friday night.
• 26:02
  Now, I was dominated this series and some decent teams also that
• 26:05
  I was been able to beat. Any concerns though about that
• 26:08
  game? Any concerns about what Schiano
• 26:09
  is building? Or it might be a slog, but I
• 26:12
  will find the way against Rutgers.
• 26:14
  I know that all the people at Rutgers will be all fired up
• 26:17
  because it's going to be a Friday night and their early
• 26:20
  season schedule suggests they'll be 3 and O.
• 26:23
  And so everybody's going to be excited out there and, you know,
• 26:27
  lathered up on a Friday night in New Jersey having some fun.
• 26:32
  But I just don't, I don't, I don't see a lot of a lot of hope
• 26:36
  there. Is Kelly Mannis back?
• 26:38
  Yes. Yeah, yeah, I think it's I, I
• 26:41
  think I joked in my preview there my, my, my fearless
• 26:44
  forecast. But it was like the the 10th
• 26:47
  time that I would face and Kelly.
• 26:50
  Seemed like. The quarterback between
• 26:52
  Minnesota and Rutgers, and probably not that far off, but
• 26:57
  yeah, he's back. But they don't have Benung Guy,
• 27:01
  the guy who's with the Bears. Man, the seventh round pick.
• 27:04
  He's gone. They think they've got some
• 27:08
  receivers, but lost a lot on defense is what I was told.
• 27:12
  So I, I, I wonder and you know, last time Iowa went up there and
• 27:17
  then that game they, they handled them pretty well.
• 27:20
  I I just think Bill Parker will dial up some defense and they'll
• 27:24
  create a couple turnovers and it'll be like 27 to 10 or
• 27:28
  something. Like last year they lost in
• 27:30
  conference to Nebraska, Wisconsin, UCLA, USC, and
• 27:33
  Illinois. Well no, they lost.
• 27:35
  They lost to Illinois but beat Michigan State, Minnesota,
• 27:38
  Maryland and Washington. So not the upper echelon of the
• 27:41
  conference but still finished seven and six after a loss to K
• 27:44
  State. So I guess my point being is
• 27:46
  Shianna does have them seemingly headed in the right direction.
• 27:50
  If if nothing else, what's the? I know your forecast has them
• 27:54
  losing a couple of games of the two.
• 27:58
  More likely that you're wrong is it's got to be the Heroes game
• 28:02
  right over in Lincoln against a brat because I can't see them
• 28:04
  beating Penn State. I just can't.
• 28:06
  Yeah, yeah, I Penn State is just going to be going to be rough
• 28:10
  and and you know, I see it's well totally win a game on the
• 28:15
  West Coast. It's not at a neutral site.
• 28:18
  It's just hard for me to, I mean, I thought they would win
• 28:21
  last year against UCLA that that UCLA team that wasn't any good
• 28:26
  and. Trying to tell you guys.
• 28:27
  That game, yeah, you did. You're right, you did.
• 28:30
  Yeah, Trent did. Trent had that.
• 28:32
  Sniffed that one up. I'm I'm just not going to bet
• 28:36
  Iowa to win. I'm not going to pick Iowa to
• 28:38
  win West Coast game until they do, so that's where we're going
• 28:43
  to be at. We don't.
• 28:44
  Mark Gronowski obviously is going to be the starter here.
• 28:46
  Hank Brown's got a lot of buzz. The transfer from Auburn,
• 28:49
  Jackson Stratton, we saw him last year and at least there
• 28:51
  were some glimpses out of him. And they got Jeremy Hecklinski
• 28:54
  coming in from Wake Forest. Who ultimately wins that backup
• 28:57
  job? Who would you anticipate?
• 28:58
  Gronowski, you know, tweaks an ankle week one.
• 29:01
  Who would be the guy that would be taking the snaps next?
• 29:05
  Right now I think it's Hank. I I think I think he's kind of
• 29:10
  in in charge that second spot, but I'm keeping an eye on his
• 29:15
  Glenski, you know, and I had Tim Lester on the pod and he said
• 29:21
  that Warren Ruggiero said that he thought he would have been a
• 29:24
  four year starter at Wake Forest.
• 29:26
  So that's Wake Forest, but still, it's just that's
• 29:31
  basically anointing him as a starter if he was still there.
• 29:35
  So that tells me the guy's got a little bit of something, but he
• 29:38
  just had it wasn't with him in spring.
• 29:41
  So it's just it would be hard for me to see him as the number
• 29:45
  two guy right away. But you never know.
• 29:47
  You just never know what what they might do.
• 29:51
  By the way, I you know something that we haven't really talked
• 29:54
  about. I did this.
• 29:55
  Tim's always kind of Pooh poohed the mesh, you know, the Gerald
• 30:00
  slow mesh stuff. He kind of brought it up and
• 30:03
  when we did that podcast interview that they, you know,
• 30:06
  it might have a little little of that in reserve.
• 30:08
  Sometime we may pull that out of the out of the the the back end
• 30:13
  of the closet there at some point, which would be kind of
• 30:16
  fun if they do that. Can you look kind of quizzically
• 30:21
  Google slow mesh? And it's basically you stand
• 30:25
  there with the running back for a long time before you make a
• 30:28
  decision if you're going to hand it off or not.
• 30:30
  It's something that he ran at Wake Forest.
• 30:32
  It is slow developing, but when it's clicking, it is almost
• 30:37
  impossible because, I mean, your wide receiver is getting 15
• 30:39
  yards down the field before you actually have to make that
• 30:42
  decision. A lot of faith in your own line.
• 30:44
  Oh, absolutely. And I think that they do.
• 30:46
  Well, seems like it. And it's if they're running that
• 30:48
  they must. Yeah, no, that that one's a new
• 30:51
  one to me. I can't wait to see it.
• 30:54
  We'll see if it does materialize.
• 30:56
  Basketball anymore football trend basketball from early in
• 30:59
  the week. Tom a take away or two from from
• 31:02
  the media availability. Well, I was not there at the
• 31:07
  availability early this week. I was on a little family jaunt.
• 31:10
  But I did get out yesterday, went to Chicago for some some
• 31:16
  recruiting. So I had to watch some some high
• 31:18
  school basketball. I got to see Colin Rice in
• 31:20
  action yesterday and, and I'll tell you what, so schools can
• 31:26
  have four guys out on the road at once.
• 31:29
  Nebraska had all four of their coaches and that included head
• 31:32
  coach Fred Hoyer at Colin Rice's first game.
• 31:35
  They when you go 4 deep, that's so they had three assistants and
• 31:44
  Fred watching it, watching Colin Rice, the kid from Waukee
• 31:47
  Northwest who's really blown up. He's a terrific player and he's
• 31:54
  still planning to go see Northwestern later this month
• 31:58
  and in Illinois, but after that, maybe a decision.
• 32:04
  He talked a little bit about Michigan State and UCLA trying
• 32:07
  to get in. They may offer.
• 32:08
  We'll see. But yeah, yesterday it was
• 32:12
  interesting because Nebraska was 4 deep Northwest, one was too
• 32:15
  deep. I know Ben McCollum is there
• 32:18
  today with assistant coach Jesse Shaw.
• 32:21
  Jesse was watching the game last night, so they've got yeah,
• 32:27
  right now I think, I think Nebraska's in the league maybe
• 32:31
  kind of semi comfortably, but we'll see if they can they can
• 32:34
  hold on to him. By the way, I'm watching the
• 32:36
  slow mesh right now, it's fascinating.
• 32:38
  It is. It's really, it's fun to watch
• 32:40
  you. It's.
• 32:41
  It's kind of hypnotic when it's gone.
• 32:43
  Yes, It's this. It's it's wild.
• 32:46
  Yeah. That's that's great.
• 32:47
  Hey, Speaking of basketball recruiting, the women's
• 32:50
  basketball program, I mean, they're going big game hunting
• 32:53
  here. They're going after some of the
• 32:54
  top prospects. Now.
• 32:55
  You got a Local 1 here with Jenica Lewis from Johnston, but
• 32:58
  they're going across the country.
• 32:59
  We talked about Kate Harpering, Matt Harpering's daughter when
• 33:01
  she came to town back during the season, Addison Bjorn from down
• 33:05
  in Kansas City. When the top ten players in the
• 33:07
  country, where are they? I mean, it feels like this
• 33:11
  recruiting classes, women's recruiting class is kind of slow
• 33:14
  right now to be committing. Any insight into the reason for
• 33:17
  that and what Iowa's chances are for some of these top level
• 33:19
  prospects? Yeah, I think they feel pretty
• 33:22
  good about some of the some of the players that they've got.
• 33:28
  I I think right now they're just waiting to kind of formulate
• 33:31
  who's going to be on campus this fall this week.
• 33:35
  Kyle Houston is over in Chicago today and tomorrow at the the
• 33:40
  Nike Nationals, which has the the, the big Iowa team that with
• 33:47
  Jennifer Lewis and everybody on that team.
• 33:49
  So they'll he'll get to see those those players and get some
• 33:53
  feedback from. So I look for a lot of content
• 33:55
  from Kyle on women's basketball front.
• 33:58
  But they're yeah, they're going big game hunting and you might
• 34:02
  as well try and and see what you get.
• 34:04
  I mean, they're as hot as they're ever going to be as a
• 34:08
  product. And you got to try and
• 34:10
  capitalize and get some of these top players.
• 34:13
  And I think they're going to get a couple of them.
• 34:16
  I really do. And then you took couple them up
• 34:19
  with Addie Deal and Leila Hayes and Journey Houston and you
• 34:24
  start building a really strong foundation not just now but or
• 34:30
  you know, the next four or five years.
• 34:32
  The brand has never been hotter and that's that's certainly
• 34:35
  seems like an understatement in a lot of ways.
• 34:38
  Hey, Tom, back to where we started and that's a big 10
• 34:40
  football you. I'm guessing you'll be in the
• 34:44
  audience for Petiti on Tuesday once he speaks.
• 34:47
  Fascinated to hear this because Trent and I both feel that
• 34:50
  there's a, there's going to be a collision, of course, between
• 34:55
  him and Sankey at some point. Anxious to, anxious to see how
• 34:59
  it turns out. And you know, Petiti's going to
• 35:01
  be forced to, to talk about it whether he wants to or not.
• 35:03
  And he hasn't wanted to up until this point.
• 35:07
  Yeah. And, and frankly, he has a very
• 35:11
  good position to to take in terms of demanding things.
• 35:16
  Now, I don't love, I don't like the the demanding for teams, but
• 35:23
  I like the position that he's taking that the SEC needs to go
• 35:26
  to non conference. And, and I think that is part of
• 35:31
  that, though, it's a financial decision for the SEC.
• 35:35
  All they have to do is get ESPN to say, Hey, we'll give you more
• 35:37
  money. And guess what?
• 35:38
  At 9th games happening, It's just how it's going to be.
• 35:43
  So it it's you know, it's always money that that drives every
• 35:48
  decision. And I think that's what we're
• 35:51
  just kind of waiting for is for them to to decide that they want
• 35:55
  to equal up and and go to 9 conference games and PDS.
• 36:01
  He is really right. But well, he's got a bad hand
• 36:04
  that he's playing though, because nobody likes that four
• 36:06
  thing. Like 4-4, whatever.
• 36:09
  I think the Big 12 should be all over it personally with their
• 36:11
  two that they would get automatic.
• 36:13
  But we'll see. They can still fight for that
• 36:15
  third. There's going to be a couple of.
• 36:17
  They still, they still got to decide if they want 16.
• 36:20
  Yeah. You know, yeah.
• 36:22
  That's true. Too, I, I think they have to go
• 36:24
  to 16. I just, you know, because you're
• 36:26
  going to go there anyway, at some point you might as well,
• 36:28
  just, you might as well just go there now.
• 36:30
  It's a nice round bracket and go go from there.
• 36:35
  Looking forward to seeing you Tuesday night at Circa, if not
• 36:38
  before. Tom Keikert, have have a safe
• 36:40
  flight out there. OK, We'll see you in Vegas.
• 36:42
  OK. I'll see you guys in Vegas.
• 36:43
  Yep, thank you. Tom Keikert, hawkeyereport.com.
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• 38:09
  Hey, Cubs are Cubs Red Sox this afternoon?
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  Cubs all day. Does an American win the Open
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  Championship? No.
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  Winnipeg gives 4 1/2 to the Stampeders of Calgary.
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  Winnipeg. Does Buxton need a home run this
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  weekend? No.
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  Total points in the WNBA All Star game.
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  Derek closest without going over.
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  Oh, 192. Thanks Derek, Have a good
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  weekend. Thank you bud.
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  Yep. Thank you.
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  Scott's up next. Hi, Scott.
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  Yes, Sir. Cubs, Red Sox.
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  Give me the Cubs. American win the Open.
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  No. Winnipeg 4 1/2 to Calgary.
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  Winnipeg. Buxton hit a home run this
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  weekend. No.
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  All Star game total points closest without going over. 186.
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  Thank you, Scott. Appreciate the call and Tyler
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  brings it to a close. Hi, Tyler.
• 39:18
  What's up? Cubs or Red Sox this afternoon?
• 39:21
  It's Colin Ray Day. Let's.
• 39:23
  It is Colin Ray Day, G Alito on the The opposing pitcher does.
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  An American win the Open No Winnipeg 4 1/2 to Calgary.
• 39:33
  Sorry, Kenny. Let's go Calgary.
• 39:34
  All right, does Buxton hit a home run this weekend?
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  Yeah, he'll go deep. OK, total points in the WNBA All
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  Star game closest without going over. 196.
• 39:45
  Have a good weekend, Tyler. Thank you, man.
• 39:48
  Appreciate it. Appreciate the chicken coop.
• 39:50
  We do this each and every Friday.
• 39:52
  The Trent's here. I'm a little.
• 39:54
  Yeah. Can't trust myself to get them
• 39:56
  right. Anyways, that will do it for our
• 39:59
  number one, our number 2, Travis Hines on Iowa State.
• 40:04
  Mike Palm is the VP of operations at Circa, where
• 40:07
  Mountain West Football Media Days just wrapped up.
• 40:10
  Mike Palm will join us. Vegas topics About 125
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  transplays of the day at 10 minutes before 2, Miller and
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  Condon, our number 2 is next. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network.