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Minnesota sports talk with Dane Mizutuani, Chiefs with Nick Athan & Packers with Dave Sinykin & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  Wednesday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Trent Condon, Ken Miller for the next couple of hours to talk
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  sports with you. Appreciate you starting your
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  afternoon with us. If you're listening on Des
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  Moines Sports station, one O 6.3 kicks and no any of the
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  affiliates throughout the state of Iowa anywhere, anytime on the
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  I Heart app. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program. We are going to devote a bunch
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  of time today to the NFL draft and we are going to get the
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  involvement of our regional teams, yes, including the
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  Packers. You Packer fans, I know that
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  you're sitting out the first round, but we'll talk to Dave
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  Sinican. I, I hope it's dunker.
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  I think he's a Packer. He feels, doesn't he feel like a
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  Packer in the second round, maybe the third, But we'll talk
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  to syndicate about the Packers. Obviously, we're going to start
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  with the Bears and our buddy the Bears blog, Jeff Hughes will
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  join us. Dane Mazzutani, a variety of
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  topics with Dane, mostly the Vikings, but we'll dip our toe
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  into the wild waters. I'll do some Twins as they had a
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  nice win last night. Come from behind, win boy.
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  The Mets fans, my God, they're apoplectic.
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  Are they not booing? It's unbelievable.
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  Something has to give, something has to be done there. 12 in a
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  row. My God, you can't
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  recover@chiefsblitz.com. Nick Athan and then Dave
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  Sinican. So that's what's on tap during
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  our program. Kind of got a little bit and
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  wanted to do it tomorrow. But with Cappy having to push
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  back his weekly appearance, David Kaplan, who joins us
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  normally every Wednesday, couldn't make today work.
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  I had a commitment. So he'll join us tomorrow at
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  1:00. So we'll do Chicago sports with
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  Cappy. Centurion Stone of Iowa sponsors
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  him on a weekly basis when he'll join us tomorrow at 1:00.
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  So therefore, we'll get in front of the draft, which gets
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  underway here tomorrow night. 7:00, I think is the first pick
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  of the of the draft for those of you so inclined.
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  Are you? Oh yeah, I'll be there.
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  Pick one. Well, I'd have to look at our
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  calendar as you know. Yeah, right.
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  You got kids and. And and I will tell you this.
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  Baseball. Is the worst time of year.
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  Right. What?
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  So what a baseball? What all collides?
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  So we have piano lessons on Monday after piano lessons for
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  both. For both, yes, they go
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  back-to-back after that one day. Oh, thank you.
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  Oh well, I hope so. I wish I would have, yes.
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  I do too. I never did anything before and
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  I have no clue. And when they're doing piano
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  lessons and if they're struggling and they're, you
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  know, doing their practice, I'm, I really have no, I do not know
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  how to read music at all. I have no clue.
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  I didn't play an instrument in 4th grade when everybody else
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  did. It was me.
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  Did you guys? Have to do the God forsaken
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  recorders. I don't even remember doing
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  that. I remember recorders, but yeah,
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  yeah, yeah. Oh.
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  My God, what an awful sound it it.
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  Absolutely is. But Jack, he's in kindergarten,
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  he knows how to read music like he's good, he's thriving, he's
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  doing very well and he wants to play the drums.
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  When he gets up into 4th grade, he gets his opportunity to do
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  that. So we got piano so.
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  Those will end up under the tree.
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  Oh, absolutely. You know how that goes, Yeah.
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  Then I got to take Jack to wrestling right afterwards.
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  So sometimes Tara will put. Contrast.
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  Now piano to wrestling. Those two don't really marry
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  together. It's kind of like me watching
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  the Masters during Monster Jam with the monster trucks doubting
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  the Casey Center. Then Ella now has Reck.
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  No, she has tournament travel ball practice on Monday, so we
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  got to divide and conquer on Monday evening after piano
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  lessons finish up. We go right from picking him up
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  to school, right to piano, right to wrestling or softball for
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  them. We have also the convergence of
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  both travel ball and wreck ball. Have to play both in the West
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  Des Moines system. So she's got that practice a
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  week there, couple of practices with the travel team, couple of
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  games every week and then of course our tournament schedule
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  that's in front of us. Jack also does does a ninja
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  class, so that's on Wednesday. So we do off that.
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  It's all over the place. Baseball is starting now for
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  Jack, that'll be on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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  It is just one thing after another and you know what?
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  I couldn't love him. More.
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  Yeah, absolutely. I I wish I was in your shoes.
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  I'll turn the clock back and get those shoes again.
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  For me, it was Ferrell's on in Beaverdale.
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  But that and that was fine. I've enjoyed the hell out of it.
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  Anyways, enjoy it. Yes, I will, but I.
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  Understand about your schedule, Yes, so cup Thursday.
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  Evening. It's still TBD what what things
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  are going to look like and I'll I'll have an earbud in if
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  necessary. I'll maybe be in the car and be
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  listening that way. That's usually the way a lot of
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  this stuff plays out and then everybody gets to bed and then
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  dad can watch. Sports.
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  Yeah, I'm not. I mean, maybe it's the top ten
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  pick. I'm not even sure I'll turn it
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  on. I mean, the hockey's been
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  unbelievable, the NBA and boy, the by the way, the NBA, what a
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  significant change in these playoffs as of last night,
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  Wembignon is like a tree falling in the forest, and that's a long
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  way down for him. And when he hit his head, boy,
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  oh boy. Obviously the level of concern
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  among San Antonio Spurs fans, coaches, players has to be
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  through the roof at this point because concussion protocol.
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  He hit his head hard and Trent, you saw the result of what
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  happened once he's out of the he played 12 minutes, play 12
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  minutes different, different team.
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  Portland can win this series now or no.
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  Without him win the series, I think that they'll adjust.
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  I mean, they went to the game last night thinking he's going
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  to be there. Now game #3 when the series
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  shifts to Portland, they'll know in all likelihood that they're
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  not going to have him. That's why I don't think it's as
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  maybe as dire as some NBA fans think it will be because they'll
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  be, you know, break prepping for not having him on the floor.
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  If they get that Scoot Henderson that we saw last night, he was.
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  Unbelievable. So I didn't know anything about
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  him. Yeah, I I tried to.
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  What did that? How did I I keep my mind?
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  Am I losing it? I don't remember him in college.
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  He's. A G Leaguer, yes.
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  And he came in with a lot of fanfare.
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  There were a lot of people that kind of hitched their wagon that
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  he was going to be, he was going to be a stud.
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  And I didn't believe it because the shooting in the G League
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  wasn't great. He hasn't been up until this to
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  maybe last night, right? That has been still an issue for
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  him. Not a great shooter from the
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  field, 3435% from three, which in today's NBA isn't very good
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  and he put it all together last night.
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  If they get that scoop, which is likely not going.
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  Down. I don't think so, no.
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  Win the series. I'll still say no.
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  What is the most likely return for Wimby?
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  I mean, I haven't heard that was significant.
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  He's not playing Game 3. No, I would be shocked.
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  He shouldn't. Game four, well we also have to
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  remember how stretched out these bags are.
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  So let me take a peek here at this schedule.
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  We will get Game 3 coming up on Friday night, then we go to
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  quicker turn around Sunday for Game 4.
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  Oh, that's an afternoon affair. I see it.
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  I thought I didn't see it when I first looked Till.
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  Yeah, that is. So a week away would be Game 5
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  back in San Antonio for game five, maybe facing elimination.
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  Maybe, yeah, but that perhaps. Concussions of football I get
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  are different, but Wimby, even though he's he feels like a foot
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  taller than everybody. Else well, he is he still.
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  He still takes a beating and there's still contact that can
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  happen to your head even if you are 7 foot 4.
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  So, boy, that that maybe even. Feels more likely.
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  He's body sore today for sure, even though as much contacts as
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  he takes during the regular seasons 'cause I can say that's
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  a long way for anybody to fall. Well, and suddenly we go from
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  that Timberwolves path. There is no shot you're going to
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  go through Denver, through San Antonio.
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  I'm with you. Well, suddenly maybe things are
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  looking a little bit different and we're changing the
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  conversation because the Timberwolves played poorly, I
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  thought, in game one and had. They did.
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  They did. And they played great in the
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  fourth quarter defensively and they stole game two.
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  You win that series. Maybe things are starting to
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  change and we could get back-to-back to back in the
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  Western Conference. Wouldn't that be something?
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  I don't like them against OK see if they get that again but.
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  Still. Yes, another run out of the
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  Timberwolves that that would be good here.
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  We got, of course, the G League team here in Des Moines and just
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  well, the Bulls have been terrible for 30 years now.
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  Yeah. How many Bulls fans are left
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  outside of people that are older like a.
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  The the gravitated the vet from in the 90s.
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  I wonder if the kids who are so impressionable at that point
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  that we're Bulls fans because that's what was on TV all the
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  time. I wonder if they've given up.
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  Right. Absolutely.
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  And then their kids, well, I was a Bulls fan back in the 90s, but
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  I'm watching. And then they pick the Thunder.
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  They pick, they just pick a Steph.
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  Curry and a Golden State fan, or you're a LeBron fan and as many
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  stops along the way, Pick a team.
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  Yeah, we'll see. We'll see where it goes.
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  But that was a scary incident last night, to say the least.
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  Stayed up again late last night to watch the West Coast game.
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  I just, I love the playoffs in these late games and watching
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  the Lakers once again do it, I thought, all right, they got a
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  game at home. How did Durant look?
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  Awful? Did he?
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  He was absolutely body Marcus Smart, who's like a foot
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  shorter, just absolutely bullied him in the fourth quarter and
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  really threw out the game and he could see Durant.
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  He's not 100%. He's not even close to it.
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  And yet they're running so much stuff through what what are the
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  I don't know what the Rockets are doing and you're not going
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  to fire a coach in the middle of the series.
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  But if there's ever a time, I mean, jeez Louise, Now, both
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  those games were in LA, to be fair.
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  We'll see. But Canard has been tremendous.
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  I did not have that on my bingo card that that was going to be
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  something happening in this playoffs.
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  And LeBron, I'm sure you did. You see the highlight this
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  morning. Just the highlights.
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  His reverse dunk, yes, still got it.
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  He's 41 years. Old.
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  I know it's not fair. This is.
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  Stupid. I know it is.
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  In a way, are we? I get it turns into the MGA
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  LeBron debate and it's guys 40 plus against people in their 30s
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  and 20s and down, and it just turns into that and evolves to
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  something that it shouldn't be because they're both great,
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  they're both incredible players. But the longevity Michael
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  Jordan, we saw him at. The Wizards, he was brutal. 3839
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  at that point, and that lift was there anymore.
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  It was completely gone. And Lebron's not the same Dynamo
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  he was, but he's still got to be.
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  I mean, if you could put percentiles in athleticism.
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  As to what he's at now and what he was in his prime.
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  He was number 1. He was in the top 1%.
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  Yep. For 15 years.
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  He's not there anymore. He's still in the top 10%.
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  Yeah, close. He's 4141.
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  Yeah, and a game where a guy's but.
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  All of a sudden, because he can't outrun for all the time,
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  all of a sudden he just gets you.
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  And I'm not saying he's going to get him in this playoffs, but
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  enjoy it because he's not good if if you're a basketball fan,
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  if we like greatness. And that's what we've seen his
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  entire career. I mean, when he first set foot
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  on the on the big stage after ESPN 2 made him cover his
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  tattoos when he played in that high school basketball, I'll
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  never forget it. Never forget, wouldn't let him
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  go on because he had tattoos in a high school game and they did
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  not want to show that. And I'm, I'm guessing, I mean, I
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  don't know for sure. There was nothing offensive
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  underneath them. Just couldn't have tattoos.
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  That's right, Not on our watch anyways.
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  I watched a lot of Cubs last night, a lot of Puck last night,
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  this Nico Horner story. You know, I meant to do this
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  before the show, darn it. And I purposely stayed away from
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  it last night 'cause I know what I would have done.
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  You would have bet, yeah. What's his MVP price?
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  I mean, it's obviously it's Otani, right?
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  By Otani is a is the shortest of short shots.
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  And the only way you can get there is an Otani injury.
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  Yes, that's the only path. Even if it's an arm injury and
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  he can still hit, he's still going to win the MVP.
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  And we saw that. Well, all right, I can't pitch
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  you this year. I'm just going to go out there
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  and steal 50 some bases and Oh yeah, he's.
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  Speaking of gifted athletes. Another next level guy, Nico
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  Horner to win nationally. National League MVP.
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  I would guess right now. Going to DraftKings, I'm going
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  to see if I can find this bad boy.
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  I would anticipate it is something in the range of.
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  They don't have awards list of Trent.
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  They don't. You know, I'm surprised.
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  Is there a game underway? Yes, that's why.
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  The The Cardinals are playing. Yeah, there's a game Cardinals
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  are getting. Beat Reds Rays just opened up
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  Astros Guardian so. Son of a gun.
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  I wish I would have looked at that earlier. 50 to 1, yeah, my
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  guess was 40 last night. So we're we're kind of in the
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  same ballpark. But at that price, you take a
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  flyer, right? Yes.
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  And you're betting on a guy to get hurt.
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  Right. Which, you know, but for that
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  type of price and injuries are part of sports.
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  He's having a phenomenal year. He's having a phenomenal year.
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  The power, I don't know how he's found it.
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  You know, he how he was with with his glove in his hand.
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  He's he's good in the batter's box.
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  Obviously he's a very smart player.
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  He can run the bases. But now that he's incorporating
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  power into his game, my gosh, what a player he's become.
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  It's unthinkable it is that you'd have this guy.
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  Light hitting is the term that we used to use for a guy like
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  that. Contact specialist.
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  Now you throw pop into it. What's his high watermark?
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  How many homers can he get to? Can he get to?
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  His high career wise 10. It's not very many.
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  It's not Nico Horner, Baseball Reference.
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  Here we go. In his career, he's got forty
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  home runs. And the high watermark one year
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  was what? 10 you nailed it. 2022 had 9 the
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  year after IN237 back-to-back years double it to 20.
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  If he can get there, I'm not even.
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  I mean, maybe that. Seems like a.
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  Lot that does seem like a lot, but we're in April.
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  I don't know, I'm just trying to make a case of trying to find a
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  price but and maybe so circus got theirs taken down the only
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  other. App that might happen.
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  Is bet Rivers and my guess is they don't have anything either
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  because they're very quick to take theirs down I think
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  normally. Yes, I'm looking futures at
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  FanDuel also say, oh, they do have awards.
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  Oh, here we go. Where?
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  Oh, you bet, Rivers does too. How about that?
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  This is from FanDuel so as I'm scrolling through here and I am
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  still scrolling and still. Scrolling Jesus.
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  Oh my. And still scrolling, I found
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  him. Hang on, let me find him on.
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  On what? What app are you on?
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  You're. I'm on FanDuel.
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  I'm on FanDuel, this is what we talk about, shopping for prices.
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  I I found him you're 50 to 1 was right kinda.
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  You forgot that one in front of it.
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  Same at FanDuel 100. Rivers, He's 150 to.
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  One along with Pete Crow Armstrong.
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  CJ Abrams, Saya Suzuki, who finally got a home run last
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  night, finally made some contact which is good to see.
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  Michael Bush, wow. And, and Otani's price is what
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  he's -4 dollars. -350 that's crazy, but is it?
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  If he doesn't give up a run all year, I think he's gonna win it.
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  True. Yeah, that's true.
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  But it's crazy if you, if that's all you're gonna bet, right?
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  Right. I mean, if you want to stack up
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  a couple of other things, then maybe you can get a palatable
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  price. But my God, minus $4 -, 3 1/2 at
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  FanDuel. Unbelievable.
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  Unbelievable. Anyways, if you're so inclined,
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  and if you're a you'd like to follow the Cubs and you want to
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  take a flyer 150 to 1, there's worse places to spend your 10
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  bucks. Boy, that'd be a nice return at
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  the end of the year. Anyways, a couple of other
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  topics wanted to touch on the College Football Playoff.
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  It. Does it sound to you like the
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  SEC and the Big 10 are now on the same page when it comes to
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  expanding to 24? We're.
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  Getting there, it seems like it's very, it's closer than it's
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  ever been, right? And I think a part of this is
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  Sankey and the SEC, We're heading there.
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  We all know we're heading there. They don't want to be the team,
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  the conference that is looked at.
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  We got that one wrong. We were wrong at.
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  But it's the Big 10 is the is the mover and shaker behind?
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  Absolutely. But they know that the seas
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  everywhere is pushing this direction now.
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  There's going to be concessions. Group of Five is going to want
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  at minimum 2 beds. I'm fine with that.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Sure, top two teams that are
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  ranked or top 2 conference champions, however you want to
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  determine it, absolutely in a 24/2 team field, those other
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  conferences absolutely deserve I think a minimum of two bids.
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  I'm fine with that part. Is it come down to rankings?
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  Is it going to be automatic qualifiers?
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  And that's the one with the Big 10 came up with.
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  You had what was it the? They want what they want 5.
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  It was. Was it 5?
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  Is that what it was? 5 automatic bids?
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  But then the Big 10 can determine it in whatever
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  fashion, so they could have. Well, in collaboration with the
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  SEC, right? Because aren't they married if
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  they get this through? Well, the third place team plays
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  the 8th place team, whatever, and they get an automatic bid.
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  And if the 3rd place team is still good enough to still get
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  in the field as at large, that's OK.
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  So the if we go to 24 the top 8 seeds get a buy correct?
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  The first two rounds of the playoff are played on campus.
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  Let's push that back. How many you want?
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  All the way through the quarterfinals, OK.
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  Yes, OK. All the way through the
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  quarters. Well, wouldn't that?
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  Wouldn't that get to the corners because the semis then go to the
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  College Football Playoff? Bowls, you'd have the round of
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  24, the round of 16 at home. The round of eight, which is a
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  quarterfinals would not be no, you're right.
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  That's what I want to see. So you want to add 1 more?
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  Yes, absolutely. Get that opportunity.
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  You can host twice. You know, games are better on
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  campus. I know you love bowl games.
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  Yeah, I do. And if you lose the first one,
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  are you still bowl eligible or is your season over?
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  Season over, I mean, how many guys are going to play in?
• 17:07
  That well, true, yeah, good point, good point.
• 17:10
  There are yeah, not very many. The roster would be decimated as
• 17:14
  it's, you know, a lot of them are already are, so the bowl
• 17:18
  games they would. Get what's left?
• 17:21
  Over reduce of them would be a reduction of how many are
• 17:25
  currently offered. But if we get 23 playoff games
• 17:28
  is what we'd get in a 2014 bracket, coupled with another 20
• 17:32
  bowl games for the remaining. That's good.
• 17:34
  And what would it be over in your mind first weekend in
• 17:37
  January? Pretty early in January, we've
• 17:39
  seen. Because the Rose Bowl is going
• 17:41
  to want a semi at the very least.
• 17:43
  Give them something that's just static, was going to be there
• 17:47
  every single year and tell him to shut up.
• 17:49
  Well, I think they're getting to that point, honestly.
• 17:52
  It's time. Yeah.
• 17:53
  It's long past time. Yeah, the PAC 12's gone.
• 17:55
  That the the Rose Bowl is dictating everything that
• 17:57
  happens for the betterment of the sport because of a stupid
• 18:00
  parade. And I love the parade.
• 18:01
  I went to the parade. Still, it's a stupid parade.
• 18:03
  Did. You go to the parade till when
• 18:05
  we were out there. We went and saw well all the
• 18:07
  floats afterwards. That's what he did.
• 18:09
  That's what you did. I had tailgating too.
• 18:10
  I didn't have time for flipping parade put a praise with my
• 18:14
  kids. Don't need to be doing that at a
• 18:16
  Rose Bowl. But it was really cool actually
• 18:19
  the full and you could get up close to him and see and like
• 18:22
  every flower, you know, every tiny flower because that's all
• 18:25
  it's made out of. And a little decision that had
• 18:28
  water in it. It was incredible to see it up
• 18:30
  close it and how cool that was, but not cool enough to go to
• 18:33
  actual parade. No, I'm with you.
• 18:35
  Speaking of, incredible to see up close as we move from the
• 18:38
  College Football Playoff to the Kansas City Royals.
• 18:41
  Have you seen the renderings of their new downtown stadium?
• 18:45
  I have in the past, there's new ones.
• 18:47
  There's new ones that came out. They they announced it.
• 18:50
  What do they call the comp? The Truman complex?
• 18:53
  Is that what it is now, where they play, where the Chiefs play
• 18:56
  and and the Royals play? That's a whole bunch of land
• 18:58
  that's going to have. I don't know what they're going
• 19:00
  to do with it, but it's moving downtown.
• 19:02
  The stadium is going to be built downtown at this.
• 19:05
  And I don't know Kansas City at all.
• 19:08
  Apparently the of all businesses that that had their headquarters
• 19:12
  there Hallmark cards. Are you aware of that?
• 19:16
  I saw that in this little release here.
• 19:18
  Hallmark Cards has their headquarters and that is going
• 19:22
  to be, I guess, repurposed or developed, and that's where the
• 19:25
  stadium is going to be. I mean, if it gets anywhere
• 19:29
  close to the drawings that we saw today, man, I hate to use a
• 19:32
  baseball term, but that's a home run.
• 19:35
  I absolutely love Kaufman too. I do too, Trent.
• 19:38
  I wish they built it on wheels. You know, they can just push it
• 19:40
  down there. Just drag it down there.
• 19:42
  But it's also in Major League Baseball comparison.
• 19:44
  It's in a tiny ballpark, yeah, but now, are there fountains?
• 19:48
  They're not the ones I've seen, no.
• 19:52
  I want to see some no I. Didn't see it.
• 19:54
  I didn't see, I saw it from like a drone shot from above in the
• 19:57
  photo in the in the drawing that I saw.
• 20:00
  Now, maybe there's something, you know, if you're sitting
• 20:02
  behind a home plate and you're looking at the outfield, maybe
• 20:04
  that's there, but in left field, you know, Petco Park has those.
• 20:08
  I I don't know if it's a some kind of warehouse building that
• 20:11
  they've made apartment, but there's left field.
• 20:13
  It looks like there's apartments and they're now they're they're
• 20:16
  all suites. That's what it looks like he's
• 20:18
  going to go with this new Royal Stadium.
• 20:19
  So I see in center field one of the endings I just took.
• 20:22
  A piece does have the. Fountains.
• 20:23
  There's good. Well, I don't know if there are
• 20:25
  fountains that go all the time or if it's just like a water
• 20:28
  feature that like after a home run, water splashes up.
• 20:32
  Well, you have to have something because that's kind of a
• 20:33
  trademark of that ballpoint, right?
• 20:35
  Yes, got to have some kind of some kind of homage to that and
• 20:40
  looks like they have at minimum something there.
• 20:41
  But cool area. It really is.
• 20:44
  Hung out there for the draft. What was that for you?
• 20:46
  So that was. Kind of, yeah, because it.
• 20:47
  Didn't you? Say you were close to the World
• 20:49
  War 1 monument, and that's like a couple of blocks from where
• 20:53
  this building's going to be or where the stadium is going to be
• 20:56
  built. So we'll get more into that with
• 20:58
  Nick Athan. Yeah, we'll pick his brain when
• 21:00
  he joins us at 1:25. But we'll also obviously talk
• 21:04
  about the the news that came out today that the Royals are
• 21:08
  they're moving and they're going to, I guess expedite this.
• 21:12
  So and it's going to stay in Missouri, which should keep the,
• 21:14
  you know, residents of that state very, very pleased with
• 21:19
  that. All right, we'll take a call
• 21:21
  here before we go to break. When we come back, we're going
• 21:23
  to talk to Jeff Hughes on De Bear's De Bear's blog.
• 21:27
  What he is hearing, if anything, there perhaps some Intel on the
• 21:31
  new statement of Capy. Capy's dying on this hill.
• 21:34
  It's Arlington Heights and he'll join us tomorrow at 1:00.
• 21:37
  Not today if you're joining us late.
• 21:39
  Cappy had to switch his day, so he'll be with us tomorrow.
• 21:42
  Let's head to Waterloo, shall we?
• 21:45
  Mike, did you guys, did you, did you get the storms that pass
• 21:48
  through the area last weekend? Was it as bad as I as I heard?
• 21:52
  Oh yeah, we got a lot of hail down here, all right.
• 21:55
  Cars got hail damage. Yeah, I bet, I bet.
• 21:58
  All right. Good stuff.
• 21:59
  Well, not good stuff, but glad you got through.
• 22:02
  What's the what's going on with you?
• 22:03
  You know what? You know that Murakami for the
• 22:06
  White Sox? Yeah.
• 22:07
  I have never seen a guy hit the ball so far.
• 22:10
  Did you see that home run? He hitting Sacramento over that
• 22:13
  60. Foot wall.
• 22:15
  I did not. I'll take your word for it.
• 22:17
  But yeah, he's off to a pretty good start. 32 feet.
• 22:21
  Yeah, they short changes. 450 or 460 last night he had another
• 22:26
  home run and they were they brought in a regular player and
• 22:30
  he was throwing lob balls to him.
• 22:32
  He hit 3 so far. I couldn't believe it.
• 22:35
  They were foul and I got one more.
• 22:37
  Thing and he's up to 9 now, right?
• 22:39
  Yeah, he's up to 9. He's a superstar.
• 22:41
  I didn't know he was so tall. He's about 6-2 really put
• 22:44
  together. I mean, what's he weigh?
• 22:46
  About 2:30 or 40? Massive swing.
• 22:49
  And then, you know, people have been criticizing Audie Crook.
• 22:53
  And you know what? It ain't her fault that she was
• 22:56
  left with two players left on the team.
• 22:58
  That's the coach's fault. And anybody, you know, Sean was
• 23:02
  kind of criticizing her, you know, for 1.4.
• 23:05
  Million go, go. Hey, I take that money and run
• 23:08
  because I I don't even think I made that money in my lifetime,
• 23:13
  so I'm Flash. Hey, I'm going to watch every
• 23:15
  Oklahoma State game because she's fun to watch and I hear
• 23:18
  she's really getting into shape, so I hope the best of her good
• 23:21
  stuff hang up and listen. Yup, guys.
• 23:23
  Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it, Mike.
• 23:24
  Yeah. I I don't get the Audi crooks
• 23:26
  push back. I don't either.
• 23:27
  I don't I don't get the Rocco back push back that he knew how
• 23:30
  long where he was going. So what?
• 23:31
  Yeah, we'll So what? I think we could connect the
• 23:33
  dots on the right. Now, should Matt Campbell be
• 23:36
  slapped on the wrist like Kirk Ference was?
• 23:39
  It was into the portal. He was making contact.
• 23:41
  Yeah, but that's impermissible. It is, but Matt Campbell was
• 23:44
  wise. He didn't self report.
• 23:47
  Don't do that right Todd? Forbid you actually play by the
• 23:50
  rules and actually report what you.
• 23:53
  Make of just not a ference. I mean, this is everyone's doing
• 23:56
  it. Let's not be naive.
• 23:58
  It's a self report. It's not even just a sports
• 24:01
  thing, is it just in general? And it's one of the things I
• 24:04
  drive home to my kids, just tell the truth.
• 24:07
  Just. Beg for forgiveness?
• 24:09
  Don't. Yes, I I despise societally what
• 24:17
  this is turned into. Never admit mistakes, never
• 24:20
  admit a mistake, just on and on and on.
• 24:22
  And it is has permeated everywhere, not just sports, but
• 24:26
  everywhere. And we see a perfect example
• 24:28
  back in our sports world. Kurt Ferentz made a mistake,
• 24:31
  owned up to it, gave himself A1 game suspension.
• 24:34
  Not enough. Not enough?
• 24:36
  Drop the hammer, other people, and we know everywhere this is
• 24:39
  happening, of course, but don't self report.
• 24:42
  That's what we learned out of it.
• 24:43
  Look, McCullum did it. Yep.
• 24:45
  Koch admitted it on the on the podcast.
• 24:47
  Absolutely. Speaking of podcasts, do you do
• 24:50
  you know Matt Randazzo at all? I do, yes.
• 24:52
  And then it does a nice job. Yes, he does.
• 24:53
  It does a really nice job. Really good guess.
• 24:55
  Have you OK? It gets really good guess.
• 24:58
  And if you're listening over in the eastern part of the state,
• 25:00
  you absolutely know who I'm talking about.
• 25:01
  TV guy, right? Yes.
• 25:03
  He had Owen Freeman on yesterday.
• 25:06
  He's based out of the Quad City, so it makes sense.
• 25:10
  What a waste. Yeah, talent's there.
• 25:14
  I don't know if the drive is there.
• 25:15
  Well, obviously wasn't. He admitted it last year.
• 25:17
  There wasn't there? Yeah, oh boy, oh boy, boy.
• 25:20
  If I'm a Creighton fan or a Creighton booster, and what a
• 25:23
  waste of money. Hopefully he gets it together.
• 25:25
  Where's he going to Auburn, Right?
• 25:26
  He's going to Auburn. Going to Auburn.
• 25:28
  And Matt Cadence is there. Yeah, that's the connection.
• 25:30
  We'll see if he can get his because to the Leafs.
• 25:33
  Right, exactly. Maybe third time's a charm from
• 25:35
  Fran. He quit on them.
• 25:37
  To McDermott, who's now left the sport, Yeah, well, it happened.
• 25:41
  To you connect those dots a. Little Steven Pearl, because if
• 25:44
  they don't make the tournament this year, yeah, I think Steven
• 25:47
  Pearl's going to be out. He should be.
• 25:49
  Yeah, he should be. I think that's why Pops was
• 25:51
  politicking so damn hard. Yeah, but Matt Randazzo, if
• 25:54
  anybody knows him, you know, 2 thumbs up from these guys in Des
• 25:57
  Moines from noon to two. He does a nice job and gets some
• 26:00
  really good guests. I think I saw anger on with him
• 26:02
  earlier. One final note, as Audie Crooks
• 26:05
  came up, you saw Coach Steyer leaving that with State.
• 26:08
  Yeah. Jodie Starr.
• 26:09
  Yeah, Yeah, 24 years. Good for her.
• 26:11
  That's a long run. Glad you mentioned that, Trent.
• 26:13
  Glad you mentioned that. I mean longevity obviously a big
• 26:17
  part of that program and retirement well earned and well
• 26:21
  deserved. And big shoes to fill now and
• 26:24
  that coaching staff as they look to fill out their roster and
• 26:26
  find those final pieces to make it come together.
• 26:29
  We mentioned this yesterday. I think it's gone better for
• 26:31
  sure for that. I thought it was.
• 26:33
  I anticipated you're. Going to get the leftovers is
• 26:36
  why when I thought he was going to get.
• 26:37
  And it's been better than that. So we'll see.
• 26:40
  He did it four years ago where he's going to have to try to do
• 26:42
  it again. And we'll see.
• 26:43
  The freshman class is coming in, what they're going to be able to
• 26:45
  build along with some of the players that they got out of the
• 26:48
  portal. But yeah, Coach Steyer, hearing
• 26:50
  her so many times here on Kxido, we had the coaches show and
• 26:54
  she'd, you know, fill in for coach friendly.
• 26:56
  Just always enjoyed hearing her talk about the sport and women's
• 26:59
  sports in general. Great career and.
• 27:02
  Good luck. Absolutely.
• 27:04
  Well learned. We'll take a time out.
• 27:05
  We'll come back, we'll talk NFL. We're going to spend a lot of
• 27:07
  time on the regional teams here today.
• 27:10
  Plan to do it tomorrow. But plans change and we will do
• 27:13
  that here today. Vikings kick off our number 2
• 27:17
  Chiefs and Packers in there as well.
• 27:19
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 27:25
  I'm Millery Condon, Welcome back.
• 27:27
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Glad you're with us.
• 27:29
  Trent and I until 2 Jeff Hughes momentarily the Bears blog.com I
• 27:34
  will talk about the Bears second hour of the show.
• 27:37
  Start with the Vikings, get the Chiefs, the little Packers as
• 27:40
  they wait until Friday before they make their pick.
• 27:43
  Assuming that they don't get involved.
• 27:45
  Let's get the Jeff Hughes the Bears blog.com Jeff Trenton Ken,
• 27:49
  good to speak with you. Are you excited about this
• 27:52
  draft? Jeff?
• 27:53
  Are you excited about Thursday night or where are you?
• 27:56
  I think you guys talked to me for long enough to realize that
• 27:59
  I don't ever get excited about any draft.
• 28:02
  This one in particular. I mean I hate to rain on
• 28:06
  everybody's parade, but everyone I talked to around this league
• 28:10
  tells me the same thing. There are 7 or 8 guys in this
• 28:14
  draft they view as blue chip style players and the rest of it
• 28:18
  is role players and they don't see this draft as any more than
• 28:22
  10 or 12 deep. And then it's can you make the
• 28:25
  right choices from then on out if you're looking for a high
• 28:29
  quality productive starter at the back end of round one right
• 28:32
  now? They're not there.
• 28:35
  Or certainly the guarantees aren't there.
• 28:38
  So it's that kind of a draft which is coming on the heels of
• 28:42
  what is reportedly going to be one of the best drafts in the
• 28:44
  years next year. So I don't know if this is the
• 28:49
  the impact of NIL money and players moving around and
• 28:52
  stockpiling talent on individual college rosters, but this is not
• 28:56
  a great draft. But it doesn't mean great
• 28:58
  players can't come out of it. And we've seen that plenty of
• 29:01
  times in the past. There's going to be guys that
• 29:02
  pop, the guys that come out of nowhere, and it happens every
• 29:05
  single year. At 25, the Bears will have a
• 29:08
  choice likely if they don't trade up or trade down in the
• 29:12
  first round. What is a more likely scenario?
• 29:15
  I know it's dependent on what happens the night of the draft
• 29:17
  and what's going on, but what's more likely?
• 29:19
  What you're hearing right now, the Bears move up from 25, try
• 29:22
  to get a better pick or moving down from that 2520 fifth
• 29:25
  choice, I think. Everybody from 15 down wants out
• 29:30
  of the first round. I think if you can somehow
• 29:34
  parlay your pick this year into a pick next year, that is what
• 29:39
  the front offices are looking to do right now.
• 29:41
  But even still, there's that big of a difference right now
• 29:45
  between pick 25 and pick 35 S, I think I think you're going to
• 29:50
  see a lot of teams in the back half of the first round
• 29:54
  desperately trying to accumulate more picks because this is the
• 29:57
  kind of draft where more picks matter.
• 30:00
  You want to take ten shots as A5 shots and hope you can find a
• 30:05
  couple of quality starters in that group.
• 30:08
  I would be surprised if anybody trades up though outside of
• 30:13
  maybe the top 10 picks in the draft.
• 30:16
  Or if somebody panics and has to have Simpson a quarterback,
• 30:20
  maybe. But I'm with you, Jeff, you
• 30:22
  know, and I think that'd be a huge mistake, by the way, but.
• 30:25
  I don't mean to, I don't mean to, I don't mean to bemoan the
• 30:27
  kid, but like, how many years do we have to see this happen?
• 30:31
  Like every year, teams fall in love with a quarterback who's
• 30:35
  just not that good. Yeah, they lose their minds.
• 30:37
  I have to say Ty Simpson can't be a a decent player down the
• 30:40
  road. But if you're staking, I mean,
• 30:42
  I've heard the Arizona Cardinals, that is a new regime
• 30:45
  taking over and they're going to stake their future on Ty
• 30:48
  Simpson. The best thing that can happen
• 30:50
  to Ty Simpson is he goes the third round where he should go,
• 30:54
  gets a couple of years in a good system and finds his way to to
• 30:58
  the starting role. This is the kind of thing when
• 31:01
  people start overdrafting the Christian Ponders and the Josh
• 31:05
  Rosen's and the Ty Simpson's. When you start overdrafting
• 31:08
  these kids, that's when their careers get get derailed because
• 31:13
  now the expectations rise and they shouldn't.
• 31:16
  Nope, I agree with you. So if the Bears keep the pick or
• 31:19
  whether wherever they drive, don't you think if they do
• 31:22
  anything other than offensive line or edge rusher in
• 31:25
  particular on that D line, don't you think that's where Chicago
• 31:28
  should be focusing their attention as far as their first
• 31:31
  round pick? Oh, absolutely.
• 31:33
  And I and I think I would be surprised if it's not a lineman
• 31:36
  with the first round pick and I'd be surprised if it's not
• 31:38
  another lineman in one of with one of the second round picks.
• 31:41
  I think they know where their deficiencies are.
• 31:44
  The Aussie trapeio injury has really come at a bad time.
• 31:49
  They do not know the status. They will not know his status
• 31:52
  probably till the middle of next season.
• 31:55
  They've got Braxton Jones, they've got Willis, they've got
• 31:57
  people who can fill that role. But if you if you identify a
• 32:01
  tackle at the end of this round, we do think can start day one,
• 32:06
  I'd be surprised that's not the pick.
• 32:07
  And I'd also say this about the Bears.
• 32:09
  They are not looking right now explicitly at 2026.
• 32:15
  They are not. They are building a program for
• 32:18
  the long haul and they have two aging guards on this roster.
• 32:22
  So if someone like a Chase Basantis catches their eye, I
• 32:26
  would not be surprised. They they go and say we're going
• 32:29
  to find the guy who's going to take over for Joe Tooney in a
• 32:32
  year or Jonah Jackson in a year. And as far as the defensive line
• 32:36
  goes, it's unlikely at 25 you're going to find that edge brusher
• 32:40
  that's really going to make a difference.
• 32:42
  But I think if if one of the defensive tackles catches their
• 32:46
  eye, that just seems like a natural spot for it.
• 32:49
  Absolutely does. What do you want to see them not
• 32:52
  do? They're we have heard Ryan
• 32:54
  polls, we have heard Ben Johnson both say best player available.
• 32:57
  They're that's kind of their the philosophy that they have.
• 32:59
  What do you want to see? What would make you grumble?
• 33:02
  Maybe not even a 25, but even some of those second round picks
• 33:04
  like don't do that. You know, I don't really have
• 33:10
  the one thing I don't want to see them do is trade up and get
• 33:12
  rid of picks. I just don't see this draft as
• 33:16
  having the kinds of guys that are going to make that big a
• 33:19
  difference. You know, there's two edge
• 33:21
  rushers that are going to go in the top five picks tonight.
• 33:23
  Are the Bears really going to try to get up and get one of
• 33:25
  them? No, you'd have to give up picks
• 33:27
  next year. I have to give up too much.
• 33:29
  I like what I'm hearing from inside the building.
• 33:32
  They're not overreacting to what was a thrilling 2025 they're not
• 33:37
  doing with the Command did a year ago and saying we had our
• 33:39
  great year, let's load up and go for next year.
• 33:42
  They are building this thing exactly the same way this
• 33:45
  offseason as they started building it last offseason.
• 33:49
  So I like the idea of just stay where you are, cumulate picks,
• 33:53
  take who you can take and hope the guys are productive.
• 33:57
  But again, if you're expecting 25 in these second rounders to
• 34:00
  come in immediately and make a big difference, the things I'm
• 34:03
  hearing are is that that's just not the kind of draft this is.
• 34:07
  Where are they going to be playing their home games in the
• 34:09
  future? Cappy's dying on the Arlington
• 34:11
  Heights hill. He is convinced it's going to be
• 34:13
  Arlington Heights. He won't listen to anybody that
• 34:15
  says Indiana. What are you hearing?
• 34:17
  I, I've been, I've thought it was Arlington Heights now for
• 34:20
  two years and I just would not. Now if you, I don't know if you
• 34:24
  guys are following it today, long 380 page document came out
• 34:29
  of the Illinois State legislature today about
• 34:32
  Arlington Heights. I would be lying to your
• 34:34
  audience if I told them that I sat down and read that document.
• 34:37
  If you've ever read a government document and that would take me
• 34:40
  a week to read. I just don't see the team
• 34:43
  leaving Illinois. But I will say this and I've
• 34:46
  said this, there's a meant to my readers.
• 34:48
  This has been so badly handled by both the state of Illinois
• 34:52
  and the Chicago Bears. Kevin Warren has been such a
• 34:55
  disappointment as a team president.
• 34:57
  He was brought in to get this building built.
• 35:01
  That is what he did in Minnesota.
• 35:03
  That is what he's here for. And we were supposed to break
• 35:07
  ground, if you remember, by the end of 2025.
• 35:09
  Well, we are not. We did not achieve that goal.
• 35:13
  But I do think Arlington High School will eventually be the
• 35:15
  destination when I have no idea. Jeff, you mentioned a little bit
• 35:20
  earlier obviously the true pillow injury and and sounds
• 35:22
  just about as devastating as you could think.
• 35:24
  It's not not even conversations about will he play the season
• 35:28
  and what his career looks like going forward.
• 35:30
  They had so many injuries defensively also though last
• 35:33
  season, Jaylen Johnson, Kyler, Gordon Stevenson, they had a ton
• 35:36
  of them over there. What have you heard about the
• 35:39
  veterans coming back and their health as they work their way
• 35:42
  towards next football season? And this is the argument I was
• 35:45
  making about the defense all offseason is that we were
• 35:47
  judging this defense last year without their two best players
• 35:51
  in their secondary. Austin Booker didn't play
• 35:53
  essentially the first three months of the season on the
• 35:56
  edge, as you saw when he came back, the difference he made.
• 35:59
  They were injured at defensive tackle.
• 36:01
  Brady Jackson wasn't Grady Jackson, Grady Jarrett.
• 36:05
  Grady Jarrett wasn't really healthy until about like middle
• 36:08
  of the season. They were really banged up on
• 36:10
  defense. They're going to be better
• 36:12
  defensively just by having Tyler Gordon and Jaylen Johnson on the
• 36:16
  field. So I don't think this is going
• 36:19
  to be a bad defense, but they certainly need more talent.
• 36:24
  They've added in this offseason and this is a word I keep
• 36:27
  hearing about. Ben Johnson, bad speed, Kobe
• 36:31
  Bryant fast. The new linebackers are fast.
• 36:35
  They are, they are not. They do not want to see the
• 36:38
  Christian Watson slant route go for 80 yards every time the
• 36:43
  Packers completed. And that is what they have
• 36:45
  added. So they they intend to be a
• 36:47
  faster team on the defensive side of the ball.
• 36:49
  That's what Dennis Allen wants. And I think if they're healthy
• 36:52
  this year on that side, they're just going to be better by
• 36:54
  default. How important is this year for
• 36:57
  Romo Doonese? They don't have to commit to him
• 36:59
  until next year. They can picking up his fifth
• 37:01
  year option. Obviously I think this is
• 37:04
  critical. Like I think he's a hell of a
• 37:05
  player. I do.
• 37:06
  Injuries cost him a significant amount of time last year.
• 37:09
  But it nonetheless my feelings aren't going to matter when it
• 37:12
  comes to the Bears decision. Your thoughts on the importance
• 37:15
  this year of a Doonese? I said this to someone the other
• 37:17
  day. I would watch this draft this
• 37:19
  weekend. If the Bears take a wide
• 37:22
  receiver in those first couple of picks.
• 37:24
  I think it's giving us a hint of what Ben Johnson and the staff
• 37:27
  think of Roman Doom say. I think they like him.
• 37:30
  I think at the start of last year, he certainly looks like a
• 37:33
  star on the field. Again, injuries derailed that.
• 37:36
  He was not the same player the last few months of the year, but
• 37:39
  they were very comfortable getting rid of DJ Moore.
• 37:42
  They love what they're getting from Luther Burden.
• 37:44
  Roman Doom, say, is the key to this.
• 37:46
  They're going to be a superstar offense or you know, top ten,
• 37:50
  very good productive offense. But if you see them target wide
• 37:53
  receiver with one of those first 3 picks, I think the reading of
• 37:57
  that should be to light a fire under Roma Dunes because they
• 38:01
  want more from their top receiver.
• 38:03
  One of the more under the radar signings that they made was
• 38:06
  Khalif Raymond, who is a slot guy.
• 38:09
  You know, he's kind of a gadget type of guy.
• 38:11
  But wait, his returnability, his punt returnability, I think it's
• 38:15
  a game chair. I get he's getting up there.
• 38:16
  He's 30, he's going to be 32 when the season begins.
• 38:18
  But for something that didn't cost a whole lot is going to be
• 38:21
  both your kick returner and your punt returner, most likely.
• 38:24
  I really like that signing and a veteran going in there with
• 38:27
  those two youngsters, with Burton and a doomsday.
• 38:29
  I think this is going to help out a lot more than maybe people
• 38:32
  on the surface we're getting credit for.
• 38:33
  What are your thoughts on Raymond?
• 38:35
  Well, think of how involved the chaos was last year.
• 38:38
  Yes. Essentially in that role,
• 38:40
  dropping past the first three months of the year non-stop.
• 38:43
  That's the Raymond role now because we're on Iowa radio
• 38:47
  taking the opportunity. I want this wet Gen. character.
• 38:53
  Regent. Was it reaching like we heard
• 38:56
  the guy those three days ago and I started watching highlights
• 38:59
  that I said I don't whatever, reach for him fourth round, grab
• 39:04
  this kid because he looks like the prototypical great special
• 39:09
  teamer that we have simply seen for decades in this league.
• 39:14
  He just looks the part like that guy.
• 39:16
  That guy is going to be a great retirement and a gunner.
• 39:19
  So if we're staying Iowa specific, I hope Ryan Polls is
• 39:23
  listening to this show because that kid is going to make some
• 39:26
  special teams, coach a lot of money moving forward.
• 39:30
  He is that good a return man. He is that steady a presence on
• 39:33
  specials. But I think a good comparison
• 39:36
  for him might be Khalif, because with the speed and just the
• 39:40
  awareness, having a reliable force, I think it's going to be
• 39:45
  a very I, I think this this office is going to be very good
• 39:47
  this year. Yeah, Ouija and the only the
• 39:49
  only thing I'd say tap the brakes on they've they've
• 39:52
  reached for an Iowa player in the fourth round before and the
• 39:54
  fan base went out. Now granted it was a punter, but
• 39:58
  it seemed like a stretch to go for.
• 40:00
  But Ouija is a different player now they're.
• 40:01
  Going to get me to criticize going for punter.
• 40:03
  No, I love Taylor. I love Tori Taylor.
• 40:05
  He's been good. Yeah.
• 40:06
  It's so remember when you talk about Ouija and Norwegian,
• 40:09
  that's essentially how I, you know, committed it to memory.
• 40:12
  That's that's that's interesting.
• 40:13
  Yeah, I, I literally, I studied the draft for one week.
• 40:16
  That's my rule. I don't start till last
• 40:19
  Thursday. He jumped off the screen to me
• 40:21
  on Friday and I said I'm going to promote this guy because
• 40:24
  this, this is an NFL return man and an NFL special teamer for a
• 40:27
  decade. The Bears Blog, the Bears Blog
• 40:29
  for Jeff Hughes and all the Bears content.
• 40:31
  Jeff, thanks for jumping on. Appreciate the contribution as
• 40:34
  always. Jeff Hughes, thank you.
• 40:35
  All right, take care, guys. Yeah, good to talk to Jeff
• 40:38
  Hughes. The Bears blog.com found a good
• 40:41
  one. Yes, absolutely.
• 40:42
  In region. He's got his vision, is running
• 40:44
  a year for him. His vision is incredible.
• 40:47
  His awareness. I thought that was a really good
• 40:48
  word. Awareness is just understanding
• 40:51
  setting up blocks so good at it. And then just.
• 40:54
  Angles, you know. Because he's not the absolute
• 40:57
  fat. Tim Dwight was faster.
• 40:58
  It felt like on a football field.
• 40:59
  It doesn't. You're right.
• 41:01
  He he was, he did. But it's, it's the football
• 41:03
  speed, right? Whatever that means.
• 41:04
  But it's, it's he's. Shouldn't they run 40s in pads?
• 41:08
  Yes you don't. You don't like the shorts and
• 41:10
  T-shirt? Right, because guess what?
• 41:13
  They're not going to. Get to you.
• 41:14
  They're going to get killed if that's how you take the field.
• 41:16
  We'll take a time out. We'll come back.
• 41:18
  We missed the keyword earlier. I'm guessing it's, well, I don't
• 41:21
  know. Head to KX and o.com if it's not
• 41:24
  too late. The keyword for this hour was
• 41:26
  cash. Cash at KX and o.com.
• 41:28
  Promise I'll get to next hours on time, but it was cash at KX
• 41:32
  and o.com. Miller and Condon back after
• 41:34
  these messages. I'millory Condon, welcome back.
• 41:37
  I was sports rec radio network Trenton Ken with you until 2:00.
• 41:42
  We'll continue talking draft with our regional teams,
• 41:45
  Vikings, Chiefs and Packers in that order in our number 2,
• 41:49
  although with the Vikings and Dane in particular, we'll branch
• 41:52
  out with the wild tied up at 1 apiece.
• 41:54
  I think they was a game three night got to be right.
• 41:56
  It is tonight to Saint Paul. So we'll talk about that we'll
• 42:00
  do the twins a little bit as their come from behind victory
• 42:03
  last night over the Mets who've now blown her lost 12 straight.
• 42:07
  Hey, just real quick, some Vegas news from yesterday and I think
• 42:10
  it's pretty big news with the Super book being because a lot
• 42:14
  of folks love the Super book. I love the Super book.
• 42:16
  It's really cool. It's a nice.
• 42:17
  Property. It was the first big sport it
• 42:20
  was that I'd ever been to. Yep, it wasn't just, you know,
• 42:22
  put it in the corner, right? This was actually a full blown
• 42:25
  sports book. They've been purchased by
• 42:28
  Caesar's, which is bad for betters because it's one less
• 42:32
  line. You know, there's the stations,
• 42:35
  there's MGM, there's Caesars South Point and Circa.
• 42:42
  Yeah. Am I missing anybody?
• 42:43
  I. Don't, yeah, because like
• 42:45
  Peppermill is that's by that's under a different umbrella now
• 42:48
  I'm trying to think of the other smaller ones that are out there,
• 42:50
  I think stations well. You know what, Joe Asher, who
• 42:52
  started William Hill? Yeah, he's got Boomers.
• 42:55
  So maybe that's got. Yeah, that's just open.
• 42:57
  Just I was gonna say, I don't think.
• 42:58
  I'd heard of that. No, Brandon is pretty much
• 43:00
  within the last six months. But yeah, I know a lot of folks
• 43:03
  that listen to us go to Vegas or have been to Vegas over the
• 43:06
  years, and the Super book prior to Circa was, you know, if you
• 43:10
  like go to watch sports, that was the book to watch a minute
• 43:14
  and I know a lot of people did. I partook in the Super Book
• 43:17
  College contest. Did you this year?
• 43:19
  Yeah, that was fun. Where we picked, I think it was
• 43:21
  six games, seven games like that a week did.
• 43:24
  You get a because there wasn't many people in it.
• 43:25
  I don't. Think no, no, we were had an
• 43:27
  opportunity for maybe a top 100 finish.
• 43:29
  I had two different entries, one with Chris Williams, the other
• 43:32
  one with a group of buddies and we, I had that little moment.
• 43:36
  I think it was beginning in November.
• 43:37
  But you remember November was when the downturn started for
• 43:40
  me. Yeah, right.
• 43:41
  My 4 month ugly ugly Betty. Too bad Chris wasn't in this
• 43:45
  thing that year. He was.
• 43:46
  Remember that year? That Oh my God, on fire.
• 43:48
  It was like 80, well, 70 something percent.
• 43:51
  That was you two years ago. Two Yeah, 2.
• 43:55
  Those years when they happened. Yeah.
• 43:56
  And then you start to overthink it.
• 43:58
  What was I doing? You have a bad week the next
• 44:01
  year. Well, what was I doing then?
• 44:02
  Nothing. Yeah.
• 44:03
  It just was going. It just went our way.
• 44:04
  Yeah. All right, hour number two
• 44:06
  coming up next. Well, got a couple of seconds to
• 44:08
  remind you here. East High Golf Classic.
• 44:09
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• 44:12
  So if you haven't signed up, ehsgolf.org, ehsgolf.org.
• 44:18
  It's at Copper Creek. May the 8th.
• 44:20
  That's the Friday, May the 9th. There's four different tee
• 44:22
  times, Friday, 7:30 and 1:00. Saturday at 11:30 and 1:00 EHS
• 44:27
  golf.org But the tee times are not just pulling your leg,
• 44:30
  they're going quickly as this thing will fill up.
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  This message brought to us by doctor Steven Fuller
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  fullerdental.net. Hour 2 is next, Miller and
• 44:39
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 44:41
  I'm Miller and Condon. Welcome back Iowa Sports Radio
• 44:43
  Network Trenton Ken with you until 2:00.
• 44:47
  We'll continue talking draft with our regional teams,
• 44:50
  Vikings, Chiefs and Packers in that order in our number 2,
• 44:54
  although with the Vikings and Dane in particular, we'll branch
• 44:57
  out with the wild tied up at 1 apiece.
• 44:59
  I think they was a game three night.
• 45:00
  Got to be right. It is tonight, Yep to to Saint
• 45:04
  Paul. So we'll talk about that.
• 45:06
  We'll do the twins a little bit as they're come from behind
• 45:08
  victory last night over the Mets who've now blown her lost 12
• 45:12
  straight. Hey, just real quick, some Vegas
• 45:14
  news from yesterday and I think it's pretty big news with the
• 45:17
  Super book being cause a lot of folks love the Super book.
• 45:21
  I love the Super book. It's really cool, isn't it?
• 45:22
  It's a nice property. It was the first big sport it
• 45:25
  was that I'd ever been to. Yep.
• 45:27
  It wasn't just, you know, put it in the corner, right?
• 45:29
  This was actually a full blown sports book.
• 45:32
  They've been purchased by Caesar's, which is bad for
• 45:36
  betters because it's one less line.
• 45:38
  You know, there's the stations, there's MGM, there's Caesar's
• 45:44
  South Point circa. Yeah.
• 45:48
  Am I missing anybody? I.
• 45:49
  Don't, yeah, because like Peppermill is that's that's
• 45:52
  under a different umbrella now I'm trying to think of the other
• 45:54
  smaller ones that are out there, I think stations well.
• 45:56
  You know what, Joe Asher, who started William Hill, Yeah, he's
• 45:59
  got Boomers, so maybe that's got.
• 46:01
  Yeah, that's just open. He's just.
• 46:03
  I was going. To say, I don't think I'd heard
• 46:04
  of that. Brandon's pretty much, you know,
• 46:06
  within the last six months. But yeah, I know a lot of folks
• 46:08
  that listen to us go to Vegas or have been to Vegas over the
• 46:11
  years. And the Superbook prior to Circa
• 46:14
  was, you know, if you like go to watch sports.
• 46:17
  That was the book to watch a minute, and I know a lot of
• 46:20
  people did. I partook in the Super Book
• 46:22
  College contest. Did you this year?
• 46:24
  Yeah, that was fun. Where we picked, I think it was
• 46:27
  six games, seven games, something like that a week.
• 46:29
  Did you get a because there wasn't many people in it?
• 46:31
  I don't. Think no, no, we were had an
• 46:33
  opportunity for maybe a top 100 finish.
• 46:35
  I had two different entries, one with Chris Williams, the other
• 46:38
  one with a group of buddies and we I had that little moment.
• 46:41
  I think it was beginning in November, but you remember
• 46:43
  November was when the downturn started for me, my four months
• 46:48
  ugly, ugly Betty. Too bad Chris wasn't in this
• 46:51
  thing that year. He was.
• 46:51
  Remember that year? That Oh my God, on fire.
• 46:54
  It was like 80, well, 70 something percent.
• 46:56
  That was you two years ago. Two Yeah, 2.
• 47:00
  Those years when they happened. Yeah.
• 47:02
  And then you start to overthink it.
• 47:03
  What was I doing? You have a bad week the next
• 47:06
  year. Well, what was I doing then?
• 47:07
  Nothing. Yeah.
• 47:08
  It just was going. It just went our way.
• 47:10
  Yeah. All right, hour number two
• 47:11
  coming up next. Well, got a couple of seconds to
• 47:13
  remind you here. East High Golf Classic.
• 47:15
  There's one foursome left in on Friday afternoon.
• 47:17
  So if you haven't signed up, ehsgolf.org, ehsgolf.org.
• 47:23
  It's at Copper Creek. May the 8th.
• 47:25
  That's the Friday, May the 9th. There's four different tee
• 47:27
  times. Friday, 7:30 and 1:00.
• 47:29
  Saturday, 7:30 and 1:00 EHS golf.org.
• 47:33
  But the tee times are not just pulling your leg, they're going
• 47:36
  quickly as this thing will fill up.
• 47:38
  This message brought to us by Doctor Stephen Fuller.
• 47:40
  Fuller fullerdental.net. Our 2 is next, Miller and Condon
• 47:44
  on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.