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Iowa State Depth Chart released, Bears dominate in preseason, MLB new divisions? Bill Seals talks Cyclones & Mitch Holthus on the Chiefs · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, and away we go, Miller and Condon on a Monday.
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  Welcome to the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Trent Condon, Ken Miller, setting sail on a college
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  football season. And we're glad that you're
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  starting your week here off with us as Trent and I will take you
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  until noon at that time. Off the bench, Lucas and Sean
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  from 2:00 until 5. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program. We will start with our first
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  guest of the week, 25 minutes from now, a Bill Seals from
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  cyclonereport.com. We'll talk Iowa State, K State.
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  Iowa State put out their depth chart today, which is good.
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  Can't wait till Wednesday. There's another report coming
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  out that I can't wait to see. We'll see that one.
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  Sure. We'll have some fun with the
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  first availability report put out by the clones in advance of
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  their K State game. So we'll talk to Bill Seals
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  coming up here at 12:25. Mitch Holtis on the Kansas City
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  Chiefs, back from a trip to Seattle.
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  Talk about the Chiefs, where they're at.
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  I want to talk about Kingdom 2. I got through 2 episodes over
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  the weekend. Not a bad not a bad ESPN Plus
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  program. Anyways, Mitch Holtis 12/25,
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  Papa John's throughout the state of Iowa sponsor that.
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  Then Matt Snyder on baseball. A lot of ground to cover with
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  him. Man Oh man, Rob Manfred dropped
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  a bombshell last night, didn't he?
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  This realignment talk certainly got some wheels spinning as to
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  what these divisions may look like once they expand baseball
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  from 30 to 32 teams. I don't think it's going to
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  happen in the next couple of years, but it's certainly on his
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  radar. So Snyder on M LB and then Scott
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  Dockerman on college football. The proposed, is it 2028 or 24?
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  Whatever it is, both, both or both are on the table.
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  I like the 24 better. I can do the 28.
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  We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Big 10.
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  We'll talk about Iowa with Scott Dockerman at 1:30.
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  Trent will make some picks. Circus sports sponsor those.
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  Those come up at about 1:50. So, so much ground to cover.
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  Your Bears looked unstoppable early in that game last night,
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  especially the first drive. I mean that was that was a thing
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  of beauty. back-to-back to back passes to tight ends to get
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  Caleb Williams going. A long pass, a long pass, but a
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  nice catch and run for the first score of the game.
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  What was he, Williams six or seven?
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  I think on the 1st Dr. OK, it's pre season football, but Bears
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  fans needed to see that. In my opinion.
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  They did last night. We'll see what it means, big
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  picture. Well, this is a Bears fan
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  sitting in this seat and before the game began, I was mowing
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  last night. It was hot.
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  We did the fair. Went to fair yesterday.
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  Yeah, So sweated out a lot. Yeah, I bet everything that went
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  in got sweated right back out. But as I was doing it formulated
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  before the game began, I went through what I've been reading
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  for the last three weeks now, and every single, even the
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  positive kind of spin that you read from time to time was
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  there's still kinks. And I couldn't get over this
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  young quarterback that needs reps in this new system, him not
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  playing in game one. And if it went poorly like I
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  anticipated, it was last. Of course you did.
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  You're a Bears. Fan and it goes back to the
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  Friday practice. They had six procedural
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  penalties before they could even get a snap off in against the
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  Bills on Friday. And I was so ready.
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  I had all my talking points. I was ready to go and I was
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  going to come in here and yell at you.
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  Yeah, that's fair. I was going to yell at you.
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  Broncos fan, so why not? Right now, I was going to yell
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  at you because you sold me a bill of goods with Justin Fields
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  and I never wanted to believe and I believed you and you were
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  doing the exact same thing with Caleb Williams.
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  And then seven O 2, the ball game starts last night and all
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  of a sudden you talk about a 180.
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  I took it hook like in the sinker last.
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  Night, he was great. I for the first time, I mean, I
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  always sell the Bears to my little man Jack at home.
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  We took it to another level last night.
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  What we're talking about getting new jerseys, what we're going to
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  do Monday Night Football. I'm Marty.
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  Hey. We're both getting jerseys
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  matching numbers. Absolutely.
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  We're, we're, we're diving deep into it.
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  When the girls are upstairs watching the Viking side, we're
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  going to be in the man cave. What we're going to do?
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  What do you want to have for food?
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  Like I'm laying it all out there.
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  I am absolutely selling. A Monday nighter.
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  For Monday night. Is he late for school Tuesday?
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  He might be. It's going to be a late night
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  and we're going to make it. So I'm selling all of this stuff
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  and it's and it's dumb, but it's fandom, Sure.
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  And that's what fandom does. Because in the end, we're both
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  fans. Yes, we want to play it down the
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  middle. We don't want to have Homer
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  Radio. That's not what we're looking
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  for. But the fandom, it still seeps
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  in for me, even as long as we've been doing this.
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  And that part last night, I had everything ready to go.
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  And then you watch and you see something.
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  Boy, he looks shy. I haven't seen, no, not at all.
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  And Beija looked good in his in his stint.
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  He did anyways. Yeah, good for your Bears out
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  outstanding for that first drive.
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  I mean, that first drive, that's all you need to see.
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  And I I'll be honest, I didn't see much more after that.
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  Saw the second drive, saw some Beija.
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  But I was watching the Little League Sunday night baseball.
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  It's it's over the top. I know I sound like old man and
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  I am. It's just over the top.
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  Yeah. And the kid.
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  We don't need kids. I don't need kids.
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  That's that's pretty grumpy there.
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  Yeah, I know. Just broadcast the.
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  Game. Yeah, that once a year you can
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  handle it. Come on, old Van Miller.
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  Was asked to do it last night and we got through it anyways.
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  So, so much to get to. Obviously the first depth chart
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  has come up for Iowa State. I don't know if there's a shock
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  on there. Maybe 3 freshmen in the in the
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  two deeps at positions where you know, I can see, maybe you know,
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  receive or something. But these are big dudes.
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  Backup nose guard behind Dom Orange, an offensive lineman,
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  maybe 2 offensive lineman in that spot.
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  Carson Hansen seems to have been named RB.
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  One, the two transfer receivers are not on top of the depth
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  chart. I'm not sure if that's just the
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  way Campbell goes about his business.
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  And you're going to see Seoul eventually A play more than over
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  B, who's a big dude 565. We'll we'll see where that goes,
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  but in Townsend likewise and night, nice to see at the tight
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  end position that our guy Ben Bramer is right on top of it.
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  Although there is an OR with Berkel and I like Berkel, but
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  those may be the shocks to me. And I don't think we learned
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  anything that we weren't kind of expecting.
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  I'll say one more. I thought Berzina because we
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  heard so much about him this time last year that this is
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  going to be this is Mike Rose Junior, right?
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  He was going to play right from the jump and Berzina did, but he
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  got hurt. But Cooper rebel had a had a
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  nice year when he was on the field.
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  So that'll be fun to watch. Jameson Patton getting named a
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  starter. Trey Bell has won one of the
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  quarterbacks cornerback spots. So and I don't make I don't take
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  anything away with the backup quarterback.
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  I think it's alphabetically. Do you see that Matsky over
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  Moberly, MA as opposed to MO? Is that the case?
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  Well, that's not the case. So just go down one spot to the
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  next running backs. Our point Dylan lead Aiden
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  Flora. Yes, that's not alphabetical.
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  No fair. So.
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  That's a good point. One thing I know with I watch a
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  lot of Moberly called a lot of Moberly's games in high school.
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  Not the same with Mansky, but. As far as you haven't seen him
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  at. Times right, right in comparison
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  kind of Moberly at the high school, he was a great high
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  school quarterback, no doubt, but he had a good arm, but he
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  never wowed you arm wise. Mansky going back to those
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  reports and remember Bill Seals will join us today talking about
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  his arm strength was one of his strengths when he went to Elite
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  11 and when he was doing those things.
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  And I always wondered with Conor Moberly, not that he could work
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  in a system and do the things. Does he have the requisite arm
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  strength? That was always my concern with
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  him and that would be my guess because and again it's just a
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  guess. I have not seen Minsky go, but
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  in terms of just raw, getting that ball down the field,
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  hitting that 10 yard stop route and getting it there in a hurry,
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  I think that that was where Mansky would have a step forward
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  from overly And, and that was always my question with him.
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  Not that he couldn't make most of the throws.
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  It was arm strength with him. So that's probably where I would
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  go. But you're right, you go
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  through, there's a lot of ORS on there.
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  That was definitely one of the more eye opening ORS I think on
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  the def. Yeah, I I never read it that
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  right to it that way Trent. But the the more you yeah,
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  you're how does the percent right don't have to go very far
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  L before F. So that or my or theory flies
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  out the window. Sounds like Townsend's going to
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  be the return guy. Both kick and punt.
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  He's got that. There's no ORS there but floor
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  is right behind him. Canardi is expected one that
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  Tyler Perkins the punter. So we will see.
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  We will see. And you know, it strikes me just
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  being on Twitter as much as I am.
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  Bush Cyclone fans are really digging this Ireland trip.
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  Oh yeah, and you. Know it?
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  Kind of you kind of not jealousy.
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  There's, there's part of me that I'd love to see the country.
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  Sure, you know, because it's this, the history, the castles,
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  you know, the, the land, water, the old pubs.
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  They look pretty cool anyways. I talked to a couple Cyclone
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  fans, one that's on a trip right now is already over there and
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  they're absolutely loving it. Another that they're Irish and
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  they didn't want to go over. They've never been to Ireland
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  before. They didn't want to go over.
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  As much as they love the Cyclones, if they were going to
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  do it, they wanted to do it where it's go.
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  Look up family, you know, lineage, that kind of thing.
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  It's kind of hard when you got 10,000 of your cycling brethren
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  do it the same. It's just a different kind of
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  trip. But the for the people that are
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  there, you're right there with you.
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  Condon, an Irish name, it's on my bucket list.
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  Hoping to get there at some point in my life.
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  And yeah, seeing the people, the pictures, everything that goes
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  along with it, absolutely great. The one more take away from the
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  depth chart, yeah is where my eyes went was the offensive
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  line. At the starting center.
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  And or or or Dylan Barrett or Brenda Black or Jim Boniface and
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  now they still. Haven't decided.
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  No, and that it's a pretty big concern for me coming into this
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  one. As we know the slow starts
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  almost every single one of the years.
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  The slow starts we talked about with Iowa State, you can take it
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  back to offensive line play. Last year.
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  I don't know how they did it because that was as good early
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  in the season as they looked in the offensive line and they did
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  without Jalen Travis, who not only they brought.
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  In how many games did he miss a couple?
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  I think it was 3, something like that.
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  He was back, maybe game four. He was a huge part of what they
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  did and what they still built into.
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  Came a fourth round pick by the Colts.
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  But they were able to kind of cobble it together early on.
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  Something that is the ORS, I don't know.
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  No, there's a lot of ORS on here and we know that's the way that
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  Mac cable does it. So you can't overreact to it.
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  But it was just one of those. I wish that was solidified.
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  Yeah, I'm with you. I, I'm, I'm all over the place
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  with this team, Trent. I, I, I can see them starting on
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  three. I could see them starting on
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  three. I think South Dakota's going to
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  be an absolute trap. Wow, South Dakota's going.
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  What are they going to do on Saturday?
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  Watch the K State Iowa State game?
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  Absolutely right With a former Iowa State signal caller licking
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  his chops. You, you don't think that
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  they've been, they've been preparing for Iowa State game
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  one for them all offseason. Of course they are, right.
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  And and have been, they're going to follow suit to all the other
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  FCS teams that have come in there in the past.
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  Then the number what they're top five team.
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  They are, yes. A top five not #1 Nope, not to
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  go to state, I'll give you that. But I bet I'm just and I'm not
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  picking them yet to lose to South Dakota.
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  But I'm just saying it's going to be tough and the point
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  spreads less than two touch. Yeah, yeah.
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  I was just going to say it. Yeah, look at headline after 13
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  1/2, right? 12 and a half 13 is what I saw.
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  So that's out there already in a short week coming off that trip.
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  Yep. And jackets to crazy talk.
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  Though it is, I'm not going there.
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  I'm not going there. I'm just saying I can convince
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  myself that I can, they can go this path.
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  I can also convince myself that they're two and O going into
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  Sihon. Oh absolutely.
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  And they absolutely can win that game.
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  I mean, all the goofy things that have happened in Jack
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  Trice, the ball that is bounced. I was wasting only every time in
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  that building. Well, at some point it's an
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  oblong ball. It's going to bounce the other
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  way you'd anticipate and it doesn't take a whole lot of
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  stretch. They've won two out of the last
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  three in this series. It's the bugaboo for Matt
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  Campbell was Kirk Ference. He couldn't figure it out early
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  in his career. That has changed, winning two
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  out of three. Now the one final step is to do
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  it in your own building, something they haven't done
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  since 2011, but that's going to come down to the wire too.
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  That's. Crazy to me that that it's been
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  that long since they won at home.
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  It's unthinkable. It is, it really is because the
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  series is kind of a back and forth.
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  Right. You know.
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  You can go both ways. I see this team, it's not a
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  stretch that they're back in the championship game again, seven
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  and two in this conference. That'll probably get them in,
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  yeah, with all the parents. That's what it was a year ago,
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  and to get to 7 and 2 doesn't matter what happens.
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  And that game of Jack Trice against the Hawkeyes, It doesn't
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  matter if you stub your toe against South Dakota.
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  It's only your conference record.
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  That's all that's there. Boy, get off on the right foot
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  Saturday. Get off on the right foot.
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  The tie break. You'll have it.
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  The head to head goes in your favor for one of these two
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  schools. Both of these two schools are 7
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  and 2:00-ish. Massive, massive game.
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  And I can't believe it's it's coming up in six days.
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  It's unbelievable that it's here, is it not?
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  What do you make about the two transfer receivers that did not
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  at least see their name on the top of the depth chart to begin?
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  Now, to be fair, there's that big old 2 words OR yes or Green
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  or Townsend Overby or solo. What do we make?
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  I think it's just guys that have.
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  Been in the program I do too. I don't anticipate that we're
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  going to see overby out snap. So I don't anticipate that Eli
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  Green's going to see more snaps than Xavier Townsend.
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  And and in fact, I think it's going to be pretty significant
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  edge for both of the transfers coming in just a week and a nod
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  to the guys that have been in the program.
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  But over but over be kind of, I mean, he kind of tantalized.
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  He's 65, he's big. He's one of those big Iowa State
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  receivers. You know, we'll see where it
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  goes. All right, where I want to go
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  with you because this when I heard the man for last night on
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  the broadcast, yes, talk about expansion.
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  I don't like the teams, Charlotte and Nashville.
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  I mean, come on. Let's rock it, Charlotte.
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  I thought there's no one of them.
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  There's no. Montreal on the list?
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  Well, they had a chance. They did, but a lot of teams get
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  second chances, thankfully. OK, I I get it too needle.
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  But the but the way the way that divisions are going to find me a
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  more difficult division than Red Sox, Mets, Yankees, Phillies.
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  Yeah, it's going the way the NFL, it's going to be 814
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  divisions, right? The North, the Reds, this
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  American League, obviously. Yeah, I should say that because
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  we're crossing over the the American League East will be Red
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  Sox, Mets, Yankees, Phillies. Then the North, the Reds,
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  Cleveland, DEET, Jays, Mid-Atlantic, Orioles,
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  Charlotte, Pirates, Nationals. That's a lot of yuck.
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  SE more yuck Braves, Marlins, Nashville and the Rays.
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  Here's one Midwest. Cubs, White Sox, Brewers.
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  Twins. All right.
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  Southwest Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Rangers.
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  So the Cubs and the Cardinals are split.
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  Pacific Coast, Rockies, A's, Mariners, Giants, and the West
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  would be the Diamondbacks, Angels, Dodgers, Padres.
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  So the Giants, Dodgers is gone. The Cubs Cards is gone.
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  The only one of the three big quote rivalries that survives
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  Red Sox Yankees, by the way, we'll see Sunday night in Sunday
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  Night Baseball. Do we need American League and
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  National League I? Don't know if we do.
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  I mean they split it in the NF. I fell that's why I'm going
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  American League. But how do you, I mean the
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  record books, everything's not everything starts new, but all
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  of those division records, etcetera, league versus league,
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  we're about to, you know, full stop, another chapter, the home
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  runs, the the RBI, those kind of things.
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  They stayed the same. I just wonder pitchers don't hit
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  anymore. No DHS in both leagues.
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  You're playing anybody, everybody.
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  Anyway, Now, every year with the new schedule, is it time to do
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  away with that? Is it time to move past that?
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  This one's from CBS, and it has the Yankees, the Red Sox, the
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  Mets and the Phillies together in a division.
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  Yep, that's about Jim Bowden's, too.
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  The North Brewers, Cubs, Twins, White Sox.
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  So that's different that they they.
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  Bowden called that one the Midwest.
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  And then? You did.
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  Did you have Cubs and Cardinals together?
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  Did you? Say, well, his two expansion
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  candidates were Nashville and Portland was the other one that
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  he had. Yeah.
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  So the Northwest becomes the A's, the Giants, the Mariners
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  and Portland in a division where the Cardinals then would end up
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  in a division with the Rockies, the Royals and Nashville.
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  Yeah. I.
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  Don't love it, but I'm also willing to listen.
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  There's a lot of things on the get go I don't like initially.
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  Maybe I just look at it in the division that the team that I
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  root for in is winnable and all of a sudden, no, it's still
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  winnable. But the Cubs have more money
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  than the rest of everybody by a significant margin.
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  And then the Northeast is asinine.
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  You got both New York teams, Bananas, plus the Red Sox and
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  the fair. That's not a division.
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  It's not fair, no. It's it's not, I don't care give
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  a crap about any of those 14. No, but it's not fair, right?
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  We're trying to get some kind of.
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  Parody of balance, yes. And that absolutely doesn't
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  happen there. It's is it going to happen
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  though? We got two teams that are
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  playing a minor league parks right now.
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  I know, I know can. Can we figure that part out
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  before we start worrying? Well, it's going to get to Las
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  Vegas and it sounds like the Tropicana.
• 17:52
  They, they for the for months they just moved dirt around
• 17:56
  thinking and they put up a big wall last time when we were in
• 17:59
  Vegas. Did you drive by the ballpark on
• 18:01
  your way to the airport? Probably, but maybe I wasn't.
• 18:04
  OK, so I, I would, I look for it because I and I asked, asked my
• 18:08
  guy to take his by there. And there was a bunch of walls
• 18:11
  of like, I don't know, you can't see through them.
• 18:14
  Just where the Tropicana once stood.
• 18:16
  I wanted to get a peek and they're just moving dirt around
• 18:19
  for like months. But now there's actually those
• 18:21
  cranes are in there and they're dumping in cement.
• 18:23
  So it sounds as though that's going to happen.
• 18:26
  But as far as Tampa Bay, I don't know, Yeah.
• 18:31
  Well, at this point can't they move anywhere?
• 18:32
  Yeah, Montreal. Might as well.
• 18:34
  Might as well, we'll have to build a downtown ballpark
• 18:37
  anyways. 12:20 We're coming up Iowa State conversation next
• 18:40
  with Bill Seals. He will join us
• 18:43
  cyclonereport.com team leaves Wednesday and the the team
• 18:49
  personnel will also be on the second plate.
• 18:52
  Broom. I, I told you I talked to Brent
• 18:54
  Bloom. I believe he told me this.
• 18:56
  I don't think I'm making this up.
• 18:57
  I'm sure I heard him right that they had to get permission from
• 19:01
  the Des Moines International Airport for the size of plane
• 19:05
  that they're flying out of here on.
• 19:06
  Oh, OK. Does that make sense?
• 19:07
  Couple of bigger ones. Well, yeah, you got to have more
• 19:09
  fuel and all those things to make a non-stop.
• 19:11
  Yeah, a lot. More runway more and and and
• 19:15
  since we're talking airports to see Southwest made their made
• 19:18
  their announcement today as far as route changes.
• 19:19
  No, no longer will we be connecting through Saint Louis.
• 19:24
  Back to Midway in Chicago. The bells ring on the banners
• 19:28
  fly. I hate it.
• 19:29
  If I want to go to Chicago, I don't wanna go to Saint Louis.
• 19:31
  Then back to Chicago. It's now Des Moines, Chicago,
• 19:34
  like it should be starting in April.
• 19:36
  I think of 2000. You love Southwest.
• 19:38
  I do. I do Bags.
• 19:40
  I was gonna say bags fly free, but that's not the case anymore.
• 19:43
  1220, Miller and Condon underway.
• 19:45
  It's a Monday. Bill Seals next.
• 19:46
  Mitch Holt is still to come. This hour you're listening to
• 19:49
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Millory Condon, welcome
• 20:07
  back. Coming up on 12:30 on a Monday,
• 20:10
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trent Condon, Ken Miller with
• 20:14
  you until 2. Mitch, hold us the voice of the
• 20:16
  Chiefs in about 20 minutes right now, Bill Seals, he covers Iowa
• 20:19
  State, cyclonereport.com. cyclonereport.com for Bill
• 20:23
  Seals. Bill Trenton.
• 20:24
  Ken, happy game week to you Sir. The Cyclones released their
• 20:29
  depth chart earlier today. By the way, they are now a
• 20:33
  three-point dog across the board.
• 20:35
  I saw some three and a halfs. It's three across the board
• 20:38
  everywhere as of this second. That aside, Bill Seals joins us.
• 20:42
  Bill, just welcome, first of all, your thoughts.
• 20:45
  What surprised you listening to Campbell and his coaching staff
• 20:49
  all the August training camp press conferences?
• 20:52
  Anything surprise you Bill, when the depth chart was released?
• 20:57
  Well, what let's let's go ahead and start at the top.
• 21:01
  Alex Mansky and Connor Moberly on the OR line as as the number
• 21:06
  2 quarterback. I think that's noteworthy.
• 21:08
  I wouldn't have put it at that happening quite yet, but just
• 21:13
  goes to show Mansky's really come on and in fall camp and
• 21:17
  that could be interesting. Probably not going to see, well,
• 21:20
  barring injury, I should say. We're not going to see either
• 21:22
  one of those guys in in Ireland, but it will be interesting how
• 21:26
  those reps are are kind of divvied up in the week one game
• 21:31
  the following week against South Dakota.
• 21:33
  So moving down the line, Hanson now a clear one line over a
• 21:38
  Boostama. If I recall, I think those guys
• 21:41
  were on an or line much of last season, but a little bit of
• 21:44
  clarity there. I believe Hanson going to get
• 21:46
  the start now at running back tight end, no surprises there.
• 21:51
  Wide receiver. I think maybe the lack of
• 21:54
  clarity there a little bit of a surprise.
• 21:57
  All three of those spots guys are on an or line and Dominic
• 22:01
  Overby we've heard good reports on the red shirt freshman most
• 22:06
  of camp and he is one of those on an or line with chase so well
• 22:10
  the East Carolina transfer. So really goes to to show you
• 22:14
  what Overby's done in the in the preseason, Eskeld on an or line
• 22:20
  with Carson Brown and then Eli Green re emerging.
• 22:23
  He's healthy this year was nicked up with a lot of stuff
• 22:27
  from what I understand in 2024. He's on an or line with the
• 22:31
  Xavier Townsend. So offensive line.
• 22:34
  No, no surprises really. I don't think with the tackles
• 22:38
  you still got that Tyler Miller, James Neal there.
• 22:41
  There still is a battle at center between Dylan Barrett,
• 22:46
  Brendan Black, Jim Boniface. That's yet to be be determined.
• 22:49
  I think the one who doesn't take hold of that center job on
• 22:54
  Saturday between Barrett and Black probably switches over to
• 22:58
  right guard. And I think Jim Boniface, if he
• 23:01
  doesn't get it, I think you see him shift into like a James Neal
• 23:05
  type of role for this season. Obviously injuries could impact
• 23:09
  that, but kind of that heavy tackle, eligible 6th offensive
• 23:14
  lineman, I think Boniface flexes out to do that.
• 23:16
  So yeah, that that's about kind of what stands out about the
• 23:20
  offense. Did you guys have any questions
• 23:23
  about the offense or you want me to give you the defensive?
• 23:27
  All. Right.
• 23:30
  Well, yeah, I had speculated kind of the last couple weeks
• 23:34
  that Tomatoa McDonough would be the starting Leo Rush and Edge
• 23:40
  guy. And he is he's exactly I think
• 23:47
  we saw that over the weekend. What was going to happen there.
• 23:50
  So inside Dominic Orange, the number one at nose guard.
• 23:55
  I I still think, well, they list the four man front, but they'll
• 23:59
  play a three mostly. So I the the number one
• 24:03
  defensive tackle is the mayor Hawk.
• 24:05
  They did it a lot that a lot last season with Jr.
• 24:08
  Singleton, Dominic Orange. They had those two guys listed
• 24:11
  on the one line, but I think I think behind Orange probably
• 24:15
  still will be Zamir Hawk, the who's listed as the number one
• 24:19
  defensive tackle. But again, it is kind of
• 24:21
  interesting though. Kamori Moore, a true freshman.
• 24:24
  He's one of I believe if I'm not.
• 24:29
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:30
  Well, yeah, yeah, exactly. True freshman in the depth
• 24:33
  chart. So Vaya Ikakuma was another one
• 24:38
  at that right guard position, but you shift over to defense.
• 24:42
  Kamari Moore, we've heard some good reports on him I think over
• 24:46
  the past couple weeks. He's behind orange there at the
• 24:50
  nose guard, Elijah Carnell, and also good reports on him.
• 24:54
  Jace Gilbert, Those two were red shirt freshman shown in the
• 24:58
  depth chart on 2 lines. Interesting at linebacker too.
• 25:03
  I think it's not a surprise that didn't really play out the way I
• 25:07
  thought it would as I was speculating in the preseason
• 25:11
  because as coaches have said, they've got nine guys there that
• 25:14
  they're comfortable with. Still a solid 3 deep across the
• 25:17
  board, but Caleb Bacon switches out to the Will.
• 25:23
  Cooper Evil was the starting Will last season.
• 25:26
  He's now the Mike linebacker. Good size on both those guys
• 25:30
  though. I think you're prototypical
• 25:32
  inside linebackers. Will McLaughlin, Carson Willich
• 25:36
  on an OR line at the Sam linebacker.
• 25:39
  Willich flexes outside. He played a little bit outside
• 25:42
  early in his career, but noteworthy they moved him back
• 25:46
  outside and then in the secondary, not a whole lot of
• 25:49
  surprises. Corner Trey Bell on an OR line
• 25:53
  with Quinton Taylor. I still think there's going to
• 25:55
  see the Lindenwood transfer. Bell, though, end up starting
• 25:58
  there opposite of John Tez, Williams, Jeremiah Cooper,
• 26:02
  Marcus Neil. Not a shocker.
• 26:04
  Those two guys are going to start at safety.
• 26:06
  And then you've got Jameson Patton, the guy we've talked
• 26:11
  about him for weeks now as once seemingly won over that field
• 26:16
  safety battle over Tayshawn James.
• 26:19
  So big preseason out of him and going to get to see him start on
• 26:24
  Saturday against K State. Want to go back to the backup
• 26:28
  behind Dominic Orange, and that is Kamari Moore, a guy that was
• 26:31
  committed to Oklahoma, if he can take us back, a true freshman
• 26:34
  showing up in the depth chart, that's eye opening in its own
• 26:36
  right. And also Iowa State getting a
• 26:39
  guy that was committed to Oklahoma, that's also kind of an
• 26:41
  eye opener. So can you take us back to his
• 26:43
  recruitment a little bit? And the guy that already looks a
• 26:45
  part at 61320 is an 18. Well, I, you know what, I, I
• 26:51
  would like to kind of pat myself on the back one Trent patting
• 26:56
  myself on the back as we speak here.
• 26:58
  But I saw Kamari Moore as a coming out of his freshman year
• 27:03
  at an Under Armour camp down in Kansas City that I was had
• 27:06
  attended covered and I was just blown away by him at that point.
• 27:12
  He was beating guy, an interior guy at the time.
• 27:15
  So he stayed there beating kids that were one to two years older
• 27:20
  than him and and looked up nothing out there on the
• 27:23
  recruiting services on him at all.
• 27:26
  And he was just a revelation that day down and he from the
• 27:29
  Kansas City area and put some stuff up there about him online
• 27:34
  and just raving about him. And I think I had a couple
• 27:36
  videos out there and I don't think it was any more than 24
• 27:42
  hours later Iowa State became his first offer.
• 27:45
  So things kind of got started there.
• 27:48
  I think the Cyclones were in really good shape at the
• 27:50
  beginning of that. Obviously when Oklahoma comes in
• 27:54
  with an offer though, I think it wasn't too long after that that
• 27:57
  he had committed to the Sooners. But then I, I think Oklahoma had
• 28:03
  had added some other guys at that, none of that similar
• 28:06
  interior line position. And then, you know, Kamari
• 28:09
  Moore, I think he liked the situation as it was at Iowa
• 28:13
  State, maybe a little bit better with the competition coming in
• 28:17
  there, just the numbers at that position at OU and ends up
• 28:21
  decommitting and and visits Iowa State and the rest is history.
• 28:25
  And now he's come in and I think done what I expected him to do
• 28:29
  when when they signed him and that's make an early impact.
• 28:33
  And I think very fortuitous timing for Iowa State there,
• 28:37
  too, because the guy that he's behind is a senior in Dominic
• 28:41
  Orange. So there's going to be a lot of
• 28:43
  snaps out there to fill in that 2026.
• 28:46
  He's off to a good start, though.
• 28:48
  One name that I I wasn't sure if he's going to be on the depth
• 28:51
  chart, which is he's got that unfengettable name right, River
• 28:54
  Peppers, and he did not. He's there's a couple of red
• 28:58
  shirt freshmen that are listed above him.
• 29:00
  What does that mean for River Peppers, a 2025 seats special
• 29:04
  teams guy? What is he going to do?
• 29:06
  Yeah, I think, Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 29:08
  I think he's someone that can impact the, the team there.
• 29:11
  I, I think entered camp on a really high note And I, I think
• 29:17
  I, I had heard anyway, as they had gotten into camp, maybe hit
• 29:20
  a little bit of a freshman wall and no shame in that.
• 29:24
  He's still someone I think very big into their plans in the
• 29:27
  future. But we did hear over the last
• 29:29
  few weeks Dylan Lee's name get brought up a little bit and, and
• 29:33
  the the camp that he had and I think he really is rounded into
• 29:36
  form and we all expected him probably to be that number three
• 29:40
  behind Hanson and Sama. And that's kind of the way it's
• 29:43
  playing out right now. Talking with Bill Seals as we
• 29:46
  take a look inside the depth chart for Iowa State and getting
• 29:49
  ready for a game number one. Well, let's start to peek ahead
• 29:52
  Bill because it's game week we've we made it it's here and
• 29:56
  looking at this Kansas State team what my big take away and
• 29:59
  looking at their depth chart they got a ton of transfers on
• 30:02
  that offensive line yet they got some guys that are banged up
• 30:05
  that it's Kansas statewide. I can't wrap my my arms around
• 30:09
  this K State team as many people are just the questions that they
• 30:12
  have upfront. What you've been taking a peek
• 30:14
  at Kansas State? What have you seen?
• 30:15
  What kind of pops off the page as we get ready for the game
• 30:18
  Saturday? Yeah, I think that's a good
• 30:20
  point, Trent. Maybe just some, some question
• 30:23
  marks there along the offensive line and they, they will,
• 30:26
  they've got I think a pretty good in IL budget.
• 30:29
  So they're able to go out and get some guys to fill some holes
• 30:33
  They've got aside from the depth chart, a new offensive
• 30:37
  coordinator that's in there. So I think a lot of question
• 30:40
  marks on on how they will roll out offensively with, with Matt
• 30:46
  Wells coming in there, former head coach in the Big 12.
• 30:49
  So Avery Johnson. We we know what what they've got
• 30:53
  there running back, I think they're very good there as well
• 30:59
  with Dylan Edwards as well as Joe Jackson.
• 31:03
  Those two guys, they interesting that they left a pair of running
• 31:07
  backs in that depth chart, but at Dylan Edwards, one of those.
• 31:11
  So I think they've got some good experience coming back.
• 31:14
  Edwards that transferred in from Colorado I believe a year ago.
• 31:19
  He was there in at K State in 2024.
• 31:22
  So tight end, another good spot. I think a lot of Cyclone fans
• 31:26
  familiar with Will Ancio, he was recruited pretty heavily.
• 31:30
  He's on the two line there. They're going to they're going
• 31:33
  to play a couple of tight ends there though.
• 31:35
  And and CEO is is 1 I think a lot of people familiar with.
• 31:40
  So yeah, I think offensively it it it's just going to be
• 31:44
  interesting to see how that comes out.
• 31:46
  Maybe Iowa State. It's kind of a reverse effect of
• 31:50
  what it has been when they played them in November.
• 31:53
  Both teams know each other well when you think they would know
• 31:55
  each other pretty well after playing in the regular season
• 31:59
  finale at 2024. But here we are at opening 2025.
• 32:04
  I think a lot of question marks on on both sides really in K
• 32:07
  state. I think offensively is the the
• 32:09
  big part there. Bill, I want to spend our last
• 32:12
  minute with you kind of promoting your site because so
• 32:16
  many on three subscribers now have access to you.
• 32:19
  I know you've got a big piece that comes out on Friday, kind
• 32:22
  of give us the the lay of the land.
• 32:24
  What happens during the week at Cyclone Report?
• 32:27
  For those of us that didn't have access to your site prior to
• 32:31
  this last couple of months, what can we expect, Bill?
• 32:34
  Well, yeah, we're it's kind of an interesting week 0.
• 32:38
  This time we'll get into more of kind of a traditional approach
• 32:43
  next week when we've got that weekly press conference with
• 32:47
  with Campbell and then we'll get players.
• 32:50
  They'll also start alternating coordinators week to week that
• 32:53
  we'll get as well. So that'll be ahead of the South
• 32:56
  Dakota game. But we did we did already get
• 32:59
  Campbell and players on Thursday.
• 33:01
  So there was a lot of that coverage that you'll get game
• 33:04
  weeks last week out of those guys.
• 33:07
  So, yeah, a lot of a lot of coverage though outside of the
• 33:11
  OR from the game week press conferences that are that that
• 33:16
  we'll have to look forward to player features out of that
• 33:20
  Campbell synopsis notebooks. And then also the first what
• 33:27
  couple weeks? Well, I, I should say
• 33:28
  traditional weeks are home games week one, Week 2.
• 33:32
  So a lot of recruiting coverage to look forward to as well.
• 33:36
  And if you've been on my site, it's the the the largest network
• 33:40
  right now, I think out there of recruiting analysts now that
• 33:44
  Rivals and on three have merged. So you've noticed the recruiting
• 33:47
  coverage on top of the stuff that I'm already doing has
• 33:51
  increased, I think tenfold. So a ton of recruiting
• 33:54
  information to look forward to game day visitor rosters and
• 33:58
  then recaps from those guys starting the the weekend of
• 34:02
  their visits. So that that's kind of the
• 34:04
  rundown of it though, as we will get into kind of a traditional
• 34:09
  game week next week. But still plenty of good stuff
• 34:12
  to roll out here. I've got a breakdown of the
• 34:14
  defensive depth chart coming up here in the next probably hour
• 34:18
  or so. Already rolled out the offense
• 34:20
  here about an hour ago. So a lot of good stuff still to
• 34:24
  come. Good stuff.
• 34:25
  I was told this morning that you're going to join off the
• 34:28
  bench with Sean and Lucas on Friday and with Miller and
• 34:31
  Condon, you'll be here on Monday.
• 34:32
  So lots of radio opportunities coming up this season as well.
• 34:36
  Good, good stuff, Bill. Thank you, Bill.
• 34:38
  Seal cycle import.com, part of on Three Media.
• 34:41
  Bill, we'll talk to you in a week.
• 34:42
  Thank you. Sounds good, guys.
• 34:43
  Appreciate it. Yep.
• 34:44
  Good to talk to you, Bill Seals as we check in on
• 34:47
  cyclonereport.com. All right, Mitch Holtis is next.
• 34:50
  Miller and Condon, it's a Monday.
• 34:52
  It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 34:56
  I'm Millery Condon. Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
• 34:59
  Network. We take you until 2:00.
• 35:01
  Let's get right to our friend Mitch Holtis, The Voice of the
• 35:05
  Kansas City Chiefs. They play the Bears coming up
• 35:07
  this weekend. Mitch, I appreciate you coming
• 35:10
  on as we always do, Papa John's throughout the state of Iowa.
• 35:13
  Sponsor this. I want to get to the report.
• 35:15
  I'm anxious to hear. I watched with my own two eyes.
• 35:18
  Josh Simmons moving men against the will of where they wanted to
• 35:21
  go. You got something?
• 35:22
  I hate to say it as a Broncos fan, but it looks like another
• 35:25
  good pick. But I want to start with the
• 35:27
  Kingdom. I'm 2 episodes into it.
• 35:29
  I really enjoyed it. I thought episode 1 was really
• 35:32
  well done. It got me to click on episode 2
• 35:35
  and I'm so glad that I did because I really like Andy
• 35:37
  Reid's story. You're a big part of it.
• 35:41
  It's well done, Mitch. I'm glad that I'm glad I'm
• 35:43
  investing the time in it. When did it start kind of take
• 35:46
  us behind the scenes? I mean, I know it's a whole look
• 35:48
  back at last year, but when did you guys actually sit down and
• 35:52
  you know, do your parts etcetera?
• 35:55
  My part was done in three, actually 4 separate Times Now.
• 36:02
  The one you're mainly seeing in these first two episodes was
• 36:07
  done in roughly early to mid-october, but then there are
• 36:13
  more to come as the episodes go on.
• 36:17
  They were going to, they started following us around, even at
• 36:19
  training camp. What is what I've been
• 36:23
  encouraged by it, Ken, is they're telling the story, the
• 36:27
  stories that haven't been told. For example, Andy Reid, to get
• 36:31
  inside of Andy Reid a little bit.
• 36:33
  He's such a remarkable human being, not just a great coach.
• 36:37
  And people just either have not chosen to do it or don't have
• 36:41
  the long form to do it, but they've done it.
• 36:44
  So they're getting some of the stories in this series that I'm
• 36:48
  glad are getting accentuated because the world needs to see
• 36:52
  him. And again, you can doubt the
• 36:53
  Chiefs, just like the Chiefs disrespect the Chiefs.
• 36:56
  But you, you've really got to admire the Chiefs.
• 37:00
  And as you watch these episodes, it only gets better, my friend.
• 37:03
  I'm not trying to sell it, but there's so many stories that
• 37:07
  will captivate you. No, I'm going to get to the end
• 37:09
  and and one just real quick because this blows me away.
• 37:13
  The underground area or whatever that is that they've stored the
• 37:17
  history of the Kansas City Chiefs going back to when they
• 37:21
  were in Dallas and all of those files in the cat that I don't
• 37:25
  know if he lives down there. He looks like he does.
• 37:27
  This fascinates me, Mitch. I mean, I would, I would love to
• 37:31
  get, I know you can't, but wow. When they take, you know, when
• 37:35
  they take the Mount Rushmore, as you call it, on your Week 1 down
• 37:39
  there and they start pulling that.
• 37:41
  That just amazed me, Mitch. Remarkable.
• 37:46
  And there's a lot of caves under Kansas City.
• 37:48
  I had no idea there's a labyrinth of caves underneath
• 37:52
  the city, but those in particular are the property of
• 37:56
  the hunts. They've been there for a long,
• 37:57
  long time. A lot more.
• 37:59
  Does look like the Indiana Jones guy a little bit.
• 38:03
  You know, Mr. Jones, you have some things that I've vamped,
• 38:07
  but that is a remarkable scene. So well done.
• 38:10
  The four of those guys walking down in this huge space of caves
• 38:14
  and they're all going, man, expect some villain to jump out,
• 38:19
  you know, take us on and and Andy's just like, where am I at?
• 38:22
  What's going on here? So, yeah, it's remarkable.
• 38:25
  But that's where that's where everything's stored to preserve
• 38:28
  it. Josh Simmons the number one pick
• 38:31
  and what about a top 10 or if it wasn't for the injury?
• 38:34
  Well, he's healthy, he's looking good.
• 38:35
  You guys got another good one there that for every reason drop
• 38:38
  down those draft boards. The Chiefs look in good shape
• 38:40
  here, Mitch. The three of us have mentioned
• 38:43
  this trend. If you're going to try to stay
• 38:45
  at the top in the NFL over a long period of time, you've got
• 38:49
  to find steals in the draft or you've got to find the guy.
• 38:53
  That Trey Smith, we get him in the sixth round.
• 38:56
  A redraft has him in the first. Simmons would have been a top
• 38:59
  seven pick had he not got hurt hurt at Ohio State and he would
• 39:05
  have been the top tackle taken. Now I had a chance to talk to
• 39:08
  him. This is music to the ears of an
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  online coach or a head coach or anybody that likes a football
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  team to hear their left tackle embassy protector say these
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  words. I'd say technique just just just
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  because everything here is hits a little faster to get up here a
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  little faster. The hands from D lineman are a
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  lot faster. So making sure I'm very accurate
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  with my punches, keeping low body, like good body, body
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  posture and like a pass, you know, stuff like that.
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  So. We're talking about working with
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  the other guys. I noticed today in OLD all it
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  was 2 on 2, so some of that's working in concert.
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  How much of that are you growing into?
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  A lot. So at the NFL they're going to
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  have different blisses that I probably haven't seen in
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  college. So like to go back.
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  It's going to all be about technique and communication and
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  also studying tape and watching like what they'll do out of a
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  certain front, so. That is music to the ears of
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  someone who has a young offensive lineman go technique.
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  I've got to be a technician. So he is dove into the playbook,
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  He's dove into the technique, he's dove into being physical.
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  We have such great college wrestling programs in the state
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  of Iowa. Well, offensive line in the
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  National Football League is roughly wrestling.
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  And you've got to master footwork, hand placement, move,
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  move, counter, move, counter punch.
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  This kid is on his way and. It's been exciting to see it.
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  Mitch, I wish I had more time. I I just had to talk to you
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  about the Kingdom. I know that somewhere in Johnson
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  they've got those caves and that Donaldson's are down there and
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  they're coming up with something.
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  That's how I envisioned it. Mitch, let's talk about the
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  music's playing brother. If you look really closely, go
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  back, look really closely, you'll see Matt Donaldson on a
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  golf cart way back there. The Mount Rushmore guys, you'll
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  see him cross. You got to look at it real
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  quick. But he'll crossover because
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  they're working on it. The next one, they had to move
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  it out of Johnston. Too many people were trying to
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  break in. They moved into the caves in
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  Kansas City. Good stuff, brother, we'll talk
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  to you tomorrow. Mitch holds his voice.
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  To the Chiefs, Papa John's sponsors.
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  Thank you. Mitch, talk to you more.
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  Hour 2 is next.