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Football Friday with Hawkeye talk with Tom Kakert & Mike Palm from Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon on a
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football Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network flag shipped out of Des Moines sports station One O 6.3
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KX&O, Trent Condon, Ken Miller live from the Hyvee in Urbandale
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86th streak, where the Spooktacular spirit sale goes
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on. I think there's more people here
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this year than it was last year, and I thought last year was
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ridiculously mobbed, but it's good to see.
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And we've already had our first winner come by and redeem.
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You know, if we put that contest on the line, Kicks and o.com, I
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think we had 40 people that won an opportunity to pick a random
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envelope. There's a gift card in each and
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everyone from the IV Ross from Des Moines was the first one to
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stop by. And by the way, if you are one
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of those people, you have to do so before 5:00 here today.
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But Ross stopped by, picked the first envelope and $100.00 gift
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card. How about that?
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That'll get the weekend started in a positive way.
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Not just a hundred. A $100 $106.30 one O 6.3.
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Hang on a second, Yes, I get it now.
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Yes, yes, yes. Good.
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Well, you know what? That $6.30 goes a long way here.
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I'm looking at the Fireball. It's 699.
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There you go, You paid for that right away.
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Little fireball for the tailgate tomorrow, That's what I'm
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picking up. So what time you leaving?
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About 10:30 we're meeting at the casino now.
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Here's the Riverside. No, the one on the Interstate.
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On the Interstate, because we got people from Ankeny, we got
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people from Milwaukee, we got people from Johnston.
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So yeah, we're all meeting over there.
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So here's my dilemma. Firing first, right, because
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this is not just boys weekend. The wife and kids are going to
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Sioux City to go see Grandma so. She's going one way, you're
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going the other. Way so it's not that I I'm
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hanging out and I'm going to play some Legos with Jack before
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we go, we're going to go play some catch with Ella softball or
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anything like that. I got the house to myself, so I
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wake up early, get over the casino right then when we get
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back, my car is right there. Now we're probably going to have
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to take the Uber back for the casino to get back home that
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night, but might be double dipping Prairie tomorrow.
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Why wouldn't you? It's open.
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I rarely get there. Yeah, let's make a change I.
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Mean both casinos right off the Interstate.
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Yes, good stuff. Well, obviously Tom Caker.
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Here's the guest list. Tom Caker will kick things off.
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We will talk to Tom about the weekend recap media day.
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By the way, I didn't tell you this yesterday.
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I told you on the air. I, I thought your piece was
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Sturtz and McCullum were outstanding.
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Thank you. Especially Sturtz McCullum.
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I've heard him speak before and he's pretty open, but starts,
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I've never seen him kind of open up the way he did to you.
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And so nice job anyway. So we'll talk to Tom about that,
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get some of his thoughts. Obviously the Penn State game,
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the Big 10 overall. Tom Caker coming up at 12/20
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12:40 We'll head to Las Vegas. Mike Palm, vice president of
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operations at Circus Sports, his weekly spot.
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Get the latest from Mike. How did they do last night?
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Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, What's the World Series looking like of
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the championship series? How they going as far as what
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their needs are? So we'll do that with Mike. 1:00
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Bama, Trent and I will go around a handful of college football
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games, some of the bigger games of the weekend.
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Eugene repay before he heads over to Omaha to cover.
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I was stating Creighton tonight in their exhibition game.
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I can't remember an exhibition game that hey, I've been this
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excited about watching and talking about and covering.
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I don't want to watch it. I'm going to watch Minnesota,
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Nebraska, but just, you know, talking about it.
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I love the fact that schools are monetizing these things.
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They realize, you know what, people will pay to see it.
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People will pay to broadcast it. Why shouldn't we do this,
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especially in this era? I love it.
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It makes so much sense. And when this started, what
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three years ago, I think was the first one, it was like Kansas
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and Kentucky involved. Whoever was a couple of blue
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bloods that were involved, they just did it for charity.
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Then I think ESPN U or something also picked it up kind of last
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minute and they said, well, why don't we all start doing this
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right, Right. It's money, right?
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It's money that we can exposure help ourselves and and get a
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look at things. You know, I, I saw John
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Rothstein last night. He was watching some exhibition
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game, some scrimmage game and I think Alabama was involved in
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that one. But it just makes a ton of
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sense. And when we get through the
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whole season, it's not going to matter.
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No, it's really not. You remember the really good
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free McCaffrey Iowa team, the one that got up to third in the
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country with Utah and company and of course the wheels fell
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off. But that aside was still a team
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that went to the second round, was a seven seed in the NCAA
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tournament. They lost to Augustana in an
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exhibition game. So that was really good
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Augustana team that won national championship, their level.
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But yes, still, it's still an exhibition.
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And as McCollum talked about with us on Wednesday, it's an
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exhibition. We have to remember that by the
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time we get to March, though, it's not going to matter.
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No, it it matters now because it's October and we're searching
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for anything. And if you're a basketball fan,
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but just to get a glimpse of these guys and I'm excited to
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see all the freshmen. Around the state, yes.
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And because it's an exhibition I anticipate.
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See a lot of them. We'll get to see all of them.
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I, I would hope it at some point we're going to be able to see
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and not 30 seconds at the end of a game, get to see a 4 minute
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clip with each of these guys and see what they can do and how
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they translate obviously against a very good creating program.
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No, no doubt about it. So we'll talk to Eugene about
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that. We'll make some picks before we
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get out of here at 2:00 and turn things over to Lucas and Sean as
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they will come off the bench and spend 2 to 5 right here.
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So let's go back and recap last night.
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I watched a ton of football last night.
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I was into that game trend, didn't think that I would be.
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But watching these two dinosaurs under center in Rogers and
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Flacco and my takeaways, they can both still play.
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And Joe Flacco and I haven't seen this Joe Flacco in a long
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time. Now, granted he's got Chase and
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Higgins. I'm guessing they would make you
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look good. But Joe Flacco was on point last
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night. He's running around last night.
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Is Cincinnati OK? This can sound crazy.
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OK, Did they they were on life support, Fair, yes.
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Oh, absolutely. Did they get off life support or
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is there a chance now? Is Cincinnati more of a threat
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in the North than you thought So before the game last night?
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I think they are. And it's not just what we saw
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from Flacco, though that's a huge piece of it.
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I mean having. Some line was good.
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Yes, the offensive line played certainly their best game of the
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season, but it's because of the rest of the division.
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We said before last night we both thought the Steelers were a
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fraud. And somebody hit us up on
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Twitter. I can't believe you're not
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talking more about these four and one Steelers.
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They're not good. They they played some metrics,
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had the easiest schedule in the NFL to that point and it
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finished with domination, a defense that made a couple of
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plays. Can you play 500 ball and get
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there? Because it's not a stretch to
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say 9:00 and 8:00 at minimum is going to get you a tie, right?
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Nine and eight's going to get you a tie in that division.
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Obviously it'll come down to tiebreakers, but I, I think that
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is a realistic thing. And if you get Burrell back by
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early December? That's the plan, that's the goal
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and. We're having a completely
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different conversation about this as we got our super fan
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over here, Giffy, taking some pictures of us.
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Didn't recognize her. Yes, that Farrell's is working.
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It absolutely. Is good for her.
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I'm with you. I think Cincinnati's they, they,
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I can feel a pulse and I couldn't feel a pulse as of
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late. And, you know, so anyways, we
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both got the brownie thing wrong, we thought, after what
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we'd seen from him before. Because the year before he was
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good, Trent. And I don't know what happened.
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I don't know how quickly it can change, But when you have that
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component, when you have that happen in that level, and then
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you go out and get a Flacco and we saw him.
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Oh, he looks cooked. He looks absolutely right, dead
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in the water and now when you get those kind of receivers,
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it's going to be completely different and we saw that last
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night. It was an entertaining game last
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night. Yes, it was.
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I got to tell you about the final play of the game, the Hail
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Mary. And did you see?
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He chucked it, so 65 plus yards. I mean. 41 years old.
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Now my wife's used to it, but looking like a idiot by your
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wife, I said well the old man's not going to get it to the end
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zone. That 5 yards is not going to
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matter, that 5 yards mattered. So I saw this stat this.
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Morning. Go ahead.
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Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary pass attempt that resulted in the
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incompletion travelled 69.8 yards in the air, the longest
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recorded pass attempt since 2017.
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And who was it back then? It might have been him it.
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Could probably was. He's still got a hose.
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He does. He can Chuck it, no doubt about
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that. And it almost looked like he
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didn't even get all into it because there was a lineman kind
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of in front of him and maybe even could get more.
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And did you see him hollering at his guys?
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I did after a while, one of his teammates tackled him for crying
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out loud after the touchdown, the long touchdown and he was
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not too pleased. But really good game last night.
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Steelers aren't out of it by any means.
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Cincinnati. He's back into it by I think
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we'll see where Baltimore goes when they get their when they
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get the quarterback back. Cleveland is Cleveland, although
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I kind of like Cleveland. I like their defense and you
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like them. This.
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I kind of like them over Miami. You know what I feel like you
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this week. I've got too many games, got too
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many. I got to narrow some down.
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I mean simple talk mean to take in Nebraska last.
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That's an awful I know. And I swear to God, Trent, I
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mean. Simply yesterday, 4213.
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Well, that's why. That's why I'm on.
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Board. Simple.
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No, He's back to. He's back to Husker media.
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Well, he had. Let's wait till the game.
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He had finally distanced himself and he told us before the year
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that they were gonna have a better offensive line than Iowa,
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that they had all these guys. That offensive line's not very.
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No, they're not. Now he's predicting A-Team
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that's beat him four straight. They're gonna beat him 4213.
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He is drinking that Kool-aid and.
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It is defensive and they might lose, but but Minnesota's not
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good. They're not.
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I mean, I think I was gonna absolutely pace him.
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We'll get to that week of that game here in in a week or so.
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Let's do the baseball real quick.
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What did you see? I mean, are the are the Dodgers
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just, I don't want to say unincible.
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Is it inevitable that they're about to do it?
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Again, I know you March. It's a dumb sport.
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It is stupid sport. They just, it's like they were
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playing with their food. Now they're serious.
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That's all they have to do, get in.
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That's all that matters. And they're proving it once
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again. The depth of talent that they
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have, it doesn't matter if they're depleted in the Bulls.
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The Brewers are pretty good. Pretty good regular season team,
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right? Pretty good regular season team.
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And the difference and what these Dodgers can do come
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playoff time because it's not just because they might spend a
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lot of money. Yeah, it's that they have Andrew
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Friedman that also knows how to build a roster.
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You couple it with Mookie Betts, we're just going to move him to
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infield and he makes it a tremendous play last night.
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I mean, just going off the floor.
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To be fair, I mean, Andrew Vaughn was running, that's true,
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right? But it was he was a heck of deep
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in the hole contoured his body. For an outfielder, right, right.
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For an outfielder. For an outfielder and.
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He does. That's what he is.
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Yeah. Knows Good he.
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Is incredible and time in and time out, that's what you get
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with that guy. Just free.
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Been putting this roster together, filling in the holes,
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figuring out what they need, getting the right veterans, not
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just veterans, not just spending money to spend money, doing it
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in the right way. And it's a broken system.
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It's a broken system. When you look at them, they have
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more revenue than everybody else.
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On top of it, they spend more than anybody else and they win
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more than anybody else. They would love the NFL model.
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Yeah, they would. American League, it's two
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apiece. Yeah, it's here's the thing.
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Here's the if you're if you're a Seattle fan, I think the worst
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news is Vladimir Guerrero is is awake.
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You've seen this. I have because as he goes, the
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team goes. They follow their leader and he
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is their leader. I thought they were cooked, you
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know, leaving Toronto down, down to nothing.
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But Guerrero got going and Springer's going and Kirk is
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going and all of these role players, I mean, who's ever
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heard of Ernie Clement, right? Ernie Clement burst onto the
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scene two years ago. And some of these other dudes
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and Jimenez, this guy can't hit the ball hardly out of the
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infield and he's got home runs in back-to-back days.
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So we're going to get a game on Saturday night or Sunday night
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rather that that's that's the good news.
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And because the NFL game is who? San Fran and who?
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Atlanta. San Fran and Atlanta, it's a
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good one. It's OK.
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Yeah, it's OK. Especially after Atlanta looked
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the way they did. Sounds as though Purdy's not
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going to play again. Yes, That's the way it's gone.
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That's the way The thing is. Trending so I am down to a
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couple of plays for Survivor this week as I'm still alive in
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Circus Survivor and this week. And 14,000 people are not.
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I'm tossing and turning. I am struggling mightily and I
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think I've zeroed in because I told you from the get go, this
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is not just Survivor, this is to win.
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I mean, if you're going to get a prize out of this, it's not
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getting to Week 11 or getting to Week 18.
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So you don't want to sell? No.
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Well, that's a different conversation, right?
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It's circa Survivor, but it's about winning it because yes,
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you just take the Chiefs this week and you move on.
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Well, they plan Thanksgiving, they plan Christmas.
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I don't want to use them and as I go through this week and the
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teams that I've already used, I'm down to.
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Two who do they play on Thanksgiving?
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They play Denver on Christmas Day.
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And Thanksgiving Day, I'd have to look, but yes, they're
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they're on Thanksgiving. I'm down to 2 this week, though.
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It's either I don't want to use New England because I'm going to
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use the next week at home against Cleveland.
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OK, seems like a good spot. I'm down to either using Monday
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Night Football which? Ones the late game over the
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Texans. The Seahawks at home against the
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Texans. Seahawks are really good.
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The Bears against the Saints. Oh, you got to go with your
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boys. You got to go down.
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You got to go with your team, Trent, don't you?
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But it's my. Team that I hate.
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It's my team that I don't believe in.
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It's an organization that I've watched be.
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It's the Saints that may wearing a brown paper bag on your head
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famous. That's true, right?
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Coming off short week off Monday Night Football, traveling home,
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don't like that component. There are certain tenants that I
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have divisional games I stay away from and that's another
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reason I don't like either. Take Seattle.
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Take Seattle. They're only a 3 1/2 point
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favorite Papoy. I know the the Texans last time
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and. You won't use New England, You
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said you're Yep, I'm, I'm saving the Patriots.
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Yep. Saving them for Plus they're on
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the road and I know they're going to Tennessee, who's awful
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still new coach bump, you know, kind of just the weirdness of
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that one. I want to.
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Stay away, but it's their old coach that's going to go back
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and and teach a lesson to his old.
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Team that that's that would mean.
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I think, I think Vrabel, man, I don't know.
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I think I'm going to. Make this contest so much fun,
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right? Especially for you that still
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alive here as we reach the middle of October.
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And again 18 / 18,000 people entered this contest.
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There's only 4000 of you left and you're one of them.
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The estimates last night that are some of those sites that
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kind of track this about 7% probably eventually last night
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had the Steelers. That was some of the estimates
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that are out there. We won't know until Saturday
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night on Visen when Derek Stevens announces what these
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selections are. But I think that's where I'm
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going. I think it's going to be
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Seahawks for me this week and at least I'll I'll make it to
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Monday. You'll.
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Make it to Monday. Make it to Monday.
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Yeah, when everybody else can't see that.
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All right, again, we are at the hockey in Urbandale Spooktacular
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spirit sale. Tyler yes, we will hear from
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Andy momentarily here. Spooktacular spirit sale is
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ongoing places mobbed. You know what it the the actual
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spirit section of the store. That's not the only place you
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can get. You can find everything.
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I mean, there's actually look at this, there's actually a map of
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the store that they've printed out.
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Whether you know you're going for beer, you're going for vodka
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and going over this section of the store for wine, or of course
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they've got it in the spirit section.
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But because it gets so elbow to elbow shoulder the shoulder in
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there, they've actually expanded it throughout the whole store
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and every single check out is open and every single check out
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is and how many of them are there?
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There's goes all the way down to 12.
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And so so one through 12 are wide open and people just
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continue, you know, flock into this place and some of the
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people that the the carts that are walking out, just
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unbelievable. We've had a number of people
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show up and redeem their entry. Their their news that they won
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at the last winters. Rhonda Bolt.
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How about that Rhonda? Is that the guy in the Chiefs
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polo? A Chiefs fan gets 100 out, you
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see? That just goes to show you that
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this is legit because it would have been me handing out the
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cards. You got a $10 way.
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That's not true, but Rhonda Bolt, way to go.
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Rhonda Bolt, good for you and spend your $100 wisely.
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I'm sure that you again, you have to be down here before 5:00
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to redeem it. If you're one of the 40 that we
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contacted and said yes, we drew your name, you've got until 5:00
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to get down here. We've heard from 30 of you that
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you will be here for sure. But 5:00, we packed this thing
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up. And if you didn't, unfortunately
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for you. All right, let's get Who do we
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got here? Andy, Andy, what's on your mind?
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Welcome to the program. Good.
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How are you guys? Good.
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What's up? Hey, so I know Trent, you're
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going over early in the morning. I'm doing a double dip going to
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you and I to watch my son play at 1:00 and then go to the
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Hawkeye game after that. So I'll be coming in right at
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game time. But how worried should we be
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that Penn State's going to rally around their new coach tomorrow?
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It's a good question, Andy and it's something that I've been
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trying to figure out this week. I think we're going to know
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early. I mean, is that a fairway to
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look at it? Ken, this is 1 even.
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More worried about the quarterback?
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Drunk Meyer making his first career start.
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That's what that's what would concern me more.
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I mean, coach can only do so much.
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I just want to, you've seen a lot of teams that just fold up.
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I mean, what's this team got left?
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This team was a national championship contender.
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They went to Big 10 media days. That's all they heard.
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That's all they read that this is a legitimate threat to win a
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daddy. I mean, they, they might be on
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pace for 8:00 and 4:00 at this point.
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Now the one thing defense. Andy, thanks for the call.
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I appreciate it. Knowles, his defense is not
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played at the level expect and neither is Colenecki's offense.
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Maybe without the head man there.
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Somebody said that to us yesterday.
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So you think shackles? Down.
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I don't even think it's holding it down.
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But you don't have a boss now, right?
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You can do exactly what you want.
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There's no fingerprints on the head, man, Those kind of things.
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Well, probably. Let's be, let's be realistic.
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Those guys are probably gone at the end of the season, well in
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there because their new coach is going to come back and you know,
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he's going to hire people. He's familiar.
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With right, so those guys are. So let her fly coaching coaching
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for their job. I could see that I don't put or
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or building a better resume for his for their next job.
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Now, both of those guys are going to be fine.
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Yeah. Regardless, even if things
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crater right, they're both going to be fine.
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Jim Knowles might be the head coach at Oklahoma State.
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He's that well renowned. And of course, that's where he
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really got his defensive guru kind of moniker was what he did
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at Oklahoma State. But yeah, I think that's another
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concern. What do you look at this game?
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I said. I got to see it.
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I got to see what Penn State looks like the first drive or
18:28
two of this game before I think we're all any of us are.
18:30
Really. Is there a chance?
18:32
Because I've never been an hour guy, I never.
18:35
And you know that. And I don't think you're the
18:37
biggest fan either. What if this, what's his name
18:39
again? The freshman Drunkenmeyer.
18:41
Drunkenmeyer. Drunkenmeyer.
18:43
What if he's Brunkmeyer? Brunkemeyer.
18:45
What if he's? It's not that big of a a drop
18:50
down from Hour who's played forever to the new dude.
18:53
He can move. He's not athletic like
18:56
quickness, but he's more of a Gournowski kind of runner.
18:59
He can get yards. That's one thing a Penn State
19:01
guy that I had on my podcast this week mentioned.
19:04
So I don't think it's a foregone conclusion.
19:07
I really can't get there. There's too much talent on that
19:09
team too. And the UCLA example from 2
19:12
weeks ago, yeah, I think that's something you also have to look
19:14
at too. I just got a note from Sean
19:16
Roberts, all 40 of you that were notified that you are a winner
19:20
have RSVP. So they'll all be here.
19:22
Good stuff. Get here before 5.
19:24
Tom Cakert next. Miller and Condon live at the
19:26
Spooktacular Spirit sale. I'm glad you're with us
19:29
listening on the radio wherever you are in the state of I man,
19:31
you wish you were here, especially if you like to imbibe
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the some of the bargains. They're unheard of prices.
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They truly are. Miller and Condon, we'll be
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joined by Tom Cakert. We come back, it's the Iowa
19:42
Sports Radio Network. All right, welcome back Millery
19:45
Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
19:47
It's Des Moines sports station one O 6.3 KXNO Trent Condon, Ken
19:52
Miller. We are live at the Urbandale
19:55
High V 86th and Urbandale. We just had another winner.
19:58
Dan Holm is that. Stan Holm, Dan Holm.
20:01
Dan, you got a way. I want to stop with you.
20:03
I said Haiti. I know Dan Holm.
20:05
I didn't recognize him. Congrats.
20:08
Dan Holm thanks you for listening.
20:09
That's Dan Holm from Ankeny. Yes, absolutely.
20:11
Covers all the high school stuff.
20:12
You know, Dan. I know Dan.
20:13
I see Dan all the time. You do.
20:14
Where are you going to be tonight?
20:15
Ain't. Going to be at Ankeny, I'll see
20:17
you. Tonight, well, tell Dan hi, I
20:19
will, absolutely. Who's on the other side of the
20:21
field? Valley Ankeny Top five showdown
20:24
5th ranked Ankeny against the third ranked Tigers big one and
20:27
the winner of this one probably sets up that they will get a
20:30
opening home game at minimum and maybe 2 come play off.
20:33
Awesome. Well done.
20:34
Good stuff. All right, let's get to Tom
20:36
Cakehart, Hawkeye report.com. Tom, we're live in location.
20:39
We're at the Spooktacular Spirit sale at the Hyvee on Ernie's 86
20:43
in Urbandale. Good to talk to you, Tom Cacart.
20:45
How are you? I'm doing well and I'm glad you
20:48
guys are out and about today. Hell yeah have.
20:51
An out of the studio slash basement the only two places he
20:54
goes. Don't leave very often, Tom.
20:56
So let's get into a couple of things.
20:58
I want to go back before we go forward.
21:00
Let's go to basketball and obviously media day.
21:03
Trent was out there, so we talked a lot about it.
21:05
But I just want to get your take.
21:07
Just what you thought of the of the event, maybe a a player or
21:11
two that stood out to you. I know that's not the first time
21:14
you've seen them, obviously, but just give me your take on on
21:17
Iowa men's basketball media day, Tom.
21:21
Yeah, I thought it was, you know, kind of what we we thought
21:24
it would be getting to find out that Bennett Sturtz has got kind
21:29
of a sharp sense of humor after last weekend, you know, in
21:34
Chicago and then listening to him this week.
21:38
He's he's got a little bit of a dry sense of humor that I didn't
21:42
expect from him, which is kind of fun.
21:46
Bogaris seems to be a very popular player, kind of loosey
21:51
goosey, and it seems like talking to talking to Ben and
21:57
talking to some of the assistants that they're getting
22:00
there with him kind of being a little too casual with the
22:02
basketball. And he's he's starting to come
22:05
along in that area. Yeah.
22:08
I, Trey Thompson's interesting. You know, he's, he's 17 years
22:14
old, but he's he's going to be somebody that's very interesting
22:18
this year. You just wonder if he's going to
22:21
hit a hit a wall that a lot of freshmen hit at some point this
22:25
season. I think at minimum he's going to
22:28
help them and probably more maybe even than we thought at
22:30
the beginning. He had a wild moment in the
22:32
little bit of the scrimmage that we got.
22:34
Really. Yeah, he had a big dunk and it
22:36
was an eye opener. He's got, he's got some bounce
22:38
to him. And there's a reason that UConn
22:40
and Kansas and Purdue were after this guy.
22:42
He's got some skill there. He he might look like some of
22:45
the guys that they normally get, but he's got some bounce to him.
22:48
Yeah, he does. And he's got some toughness to
22:51
him. And I brought it up to him that
22:53
the the first time I saw him was playing against that Ivy United
22:57
team with the air Fond beyond that 7 foot kid that goes there
23:01
and and air Fond is a is a load. He's, you know, 300 lbs.
23:06
He's a big, big, big dude. That's and and Trey Thompson did
23:10
not back away from him. And I found out later that that
23:13
was kind of the first time that that Ben McCollum had really
23:17
kind of seen him and watched him and was like, we need to offer
23:21
this guy. So that's when they that's kind
23:23
of the the genesis moment of those guys going after him was,
23:27
was when he saw him play against Aerophone and he was giving up,
23:31
you know, 5 inches and, you know, 100 plus pounds.
23:34
And he did not back down at all from him.
23:39
Tyler Gattenberg just stopped by.
23:40
He just won $100.00. So well done.
23:42
We're going through these gift cards big time.
23:45
Good stuff. Let's get to football, Tom.
23:46
And you know, Trent and I, we had a caller call us and get our
23:50
opinions and I don't, I think we're kind of on the fence as to
23:54
what we're going to see when it comes to Penn State.
23:56
What does a new coach do? What does a new quarterback do?
23:59
Is there a bounce? Has the team kind of mailed it
24:01
in? Obviously it can go either way.
24:03
What do you expect from this Penn State team, Tom?
24:06
A team, obviously that's their season long plans and
24:10
aspirations seemingly are down the drain.
24:13
But what do you expect from this Penn State team?
24:16
Yeah. So are they going to turn into
24:18
being like the team that beat him a couple weeks ago, UCLA,
24:21
who's just kind of turned their season around after you go, good
24:25
point. Or are they just going to be a
24:27
team that's resigned to their fate this year that they have,
24:31
you know, this season is basically plan it out at this
24:34
point. Their goals and aspirations are
24:37
gone of, you know, Big 10 titles, national titles, playing
24:42
in the College Football Playoff, all those things are pretty much
24:45
gone at this point. And now they're the thing that's
24:49
different about them and UCLA is UCLA, you know, changed
24:53
everything. They got rid of everybody
24:55
basically that, you know, except Tim Skipper and they they've got
24:59
a new OC and guy from Colin plays and, and they opened up
25:04
the offense and it seems like it's energized them.
25:07
So I don't know what this is going to look like.
25:10
I kind of knew if I'm Iowa, I would have felt a whole lot
25:14
better if James Franklin was still coaching the team, because
25:16
I think that team had quit on it.
25:19
And now it's you don't know, are they going to come back to life?
25:22
Because we all know they've got the talent to be a top five team
25:26
in the country that you know, they, that's where they were
25:28
before the season started and, and it was justified because
25:31
they were that good. Question for you, Tom, on the
25:36
Iowa perspective, Mark Gordowski, there are a couple of
25:39
moments that leave me concerned, just kind of stumbling as he
25:42
rolled out. I talked about a lot this week.
25:45
Is this something that's going to get better?
25:46
And with that, with the passing game kind of going forward,
25:50
getting Van der Zee back out there seems like that could be a
25:52
big boost to what they're doing throwing the ball.
25:55
Yeah, I think you're right. The Vanderzee thing was was big
25:58
for them because he had developed a really good
26:00
chemistry with Gronowski. So just that alone was I think
26:05
going to be a real good benefit to the team, that they were
26:10
going to have another option throwing the football.
26:12
But you're right, he he seems to say that things are going to
26:17
keep getting better. And I think part of it last week
26:20
was just learning how to play with that in a game and trying
26:25
to trust it but not be too crazy with it.
26:28
And you saw that towards the end of his time out there in the
26:31
field when he he ran and it's kind of got down because they
26:35
didn't, he didn't want to risk and hit.
26:38
And I think he was kind of under instructions not to do some
26:41
things. So I, I don't know if that leash
26:43
gets a little longer this week, but he said he's feeling better.
26:48
So we'll we'll see. But he also told me that he's
26:51
going to wear that brace the rest of the year.
26:53
So that that's something that just going to have to accept
26:56
that he's going to wear the brace.
26:59
Tom Caker, hawkeyereport.com, part of On Three Media, joining
27:03
us each and every Friday. Tom, as always, thanks for doing
27:06
this. Appreciate it.
27:07
We will run you down next week. Tom, thank you.
27:10
Absolutely. Thanks guys.
27:13
Good to talk to you, Tom Caker. As we check in on Iowa, We'll
27:16
take a quick timeout. We'll come back.
27:18
We'll go to Vegas. Mike Palm, VP of Operations at
27:20
Circus Sports will join us. Got the latest from Mike on a
27:25
number of topics. That's next.
27:27
Bama, Bob, you know we're #2 Eugene Repay on Iowa State in
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our plays of the weeks, Miller and Condon, we are live at the
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Spooktacular Spirit Sale. We're in Urbandale at the Hyvee
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86th and Urbandale that I mentioned Tyler Gartenberg.
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I did. He's just another $100 winner
27:42
since you and I've been on the air.
27:43
We had 1234 of them. Yes, how about that?
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Keep them coming. Keep them coming indeed.
27:48
Good to be I'm glad you're with us on the Iowa sports radio
27:52
network. Hi welcome back Miller and
27:54
Condon on the Iowa sports radio network.
27:56
Des Moines sports station one O 6.3 KX&O Trenton.
27:59
I live from the Hyvee in Urbandale 86th and Urbandale in
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86th and. Douglas. 80 There you go 86th
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and. Douglas was giving you a hard
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time Got. To get to see.
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Oh yeah, yeah. But just follow the line of cars
28:15
because everybody's coming here and why wouldn't you?
28:17
The Spooktacular liquor spirit sale is going on.
28:20
Let's us go to Las Vegas. I know my direction there.
28:23
Let's get to Mike Palm, VP of operations at Circus Sports.
28:27
Mike, back in the day when you were growing up in Dubuque in
28:30
the state of Iowa, was your family high V Shoppers Mike
28:33
Palm? No, we were Eagle shoppers, I'm
28:37
sorry to say. Eagles Country Market High V in
28:41
Dubuque was way on the West End of town and we lived on the
28:44
North End, so it was a 25 minute drive.
28:46
So, you know, we shopped there occasionally if we were in the
28:49
area, but regularly. Eagles and Kenny, don't feel
28:54
bad. I mean, people who live in
28:55
Ankeny rarely ever make their way to Urbandale.
29:00
Yeah, that's true. Well done.
29:02
I'm taking a lot of those kind of shots here today, Mike.
29:05
Yeah, the old man's out and about.
29:06
Watch out. Anyways, let's let's go to last
29:09
night, Mike, Watching Cincinnati and Joe Flacco up against Rogers
29:13
and the Steelers. Did Cincinnati's win do anything
29:16
as far as their season long fortunes are sitting?
29:20
I mean, the division seemingly is wide open from what you saw
29:23
in the Bengals last night. What?
29:25
What was your take away? Well, I guess it dissuaded me of
29:32
the idea of how horrible the Packers were the week before.
29:35
I just hated the lack of urgency the Packers had in that game.
29:39
And I said I'm not sure Laco is that much of an upgrade and he's
29:44
certainly not Burrow. But obviously flash forward to
29:50
Week 2 and, you know, they pull out a shootout with a couple 40
29:54
year old quarterbacks and so, you know, can they keep them
29:57
viable? I thought that was a big game
29:59
for Pittsburgh, right? To really take a stranglehold on
30:01
the division. You're hoping Lamar's out a few
30:05
more weeks here with Baltimore, Although let's be honest, the
30:08
Ravens weren't great with Lamar. OK, so who knows?
30:13
I've heard a lot of people their best bet of the week is
30:16
Cleveland, the pair of one and five teams.
30:17
But our friend too has stuck his foot in his mouth and and it's
30:21
going to be very windy and we know how he plays and weather.
30:25
So who knows who knows about the Browns?
30:28
I mean this Browns you can argue had the best defense.
30:31
I know they have 5 losses already.
30:33
But what you said, Teddy, is right.
30:36
It's wide open. Survivor contest obviously plays
30:41
a part of this too. As we look at the contest now,
30:44
we will not know until Saturday officially how many people in
30:47
there mentioned earlier. Saw some estimates about maybe
30:49
7% of the field were on the Steelers last night.
30:53
This is a difficult week, Mike, because you have the Chiefs, the
30:55
big favorite where they play both holiday games.
30:58
I'm looking at Monday Night Football maybe with the
30:59
Seahawks, but they haven't been very good at home this year.
31:02
My God forsaken bears are on my list.
31:04
Difficult week this week. Do you think this is going to be
31:07
a carnage week in Survivor and did it start last night?
31:11
I don't know about what, we can't say too much, 7% low,
31:14
high. But here's the dichotomy.
31:18
I say this is the hardest week so far.
31:21
It's interesting the dichotomy between survivor and
31:24
grandissimo, because I don't think you need to save Kansas
31:27
City for Thanksgiving. I still think the Eagles are my
31:31
number one choice against the Bears on Black Friday.
31:33
I think you do need them for Christmas if you're in.
31:36
If you're one of the 15 grandissimos, are you worried
31:39
about Christmas or do you just survive in advance with the
31:42
Chiefs this week? But for survivors, certainly
31:45
not. I don't think you can use them
31:46
unless you have multiple entries and you know you use them on a
31:49
couple. New England is interesting as a
31:52
7 point Rd. favorite at Tennessee.
31:56
Several factors here. Callahan's fire.
31:59
Do you get the dead coach bounce?
32:00
But he really should have been fired the week before and in
32:04
Arizona inexplicably threw that game away in the fourth quarter.
32:07
And then there's the revenge factor and Brabel going home.
32:10
My point about Tennessee, about New England is they host The
32:13
Jets in a few weeks. I think you need to save him
32:15
there. I would consider, and I think
32:20
the Bears have to be a consideration.
32:22
I think the Rams in England, even without Buca, I thought
32:27
Jacksonville was just downright awful.
32:29
I watched every snap of that game.
32:31
They were terrible offensively and terrible, terrible
32:34
defensively against Seattle. Game really probably wasn't as
32:37
close as the final score. It's really, really Seattle by
32:41
two touchdowns. I don't know what the philosophy
32:44
is that they think Jackson Smith the jig, but it's just a
32:46
possession receiver and they were going to let him beat him
32:49
deep every time. I mean, it's amazing.
32:50
But I would consider the Rams in this spot.
32:53
I mean, there's a lot of options.
32:54
Pittsburgh was an option last night.
32:56
It's tough though. It's a double whammy of road and
32:58
division game. So but I think it's a it's a
33:01
wide open week. There would have to be a lot of
33:04
teams lose for there to be cartage because I think the
33:07
picks are going to be spread out.
33:10
Interesting theory. I could see it going that way.
33:12
Exactly. Before we get to baseball one
33:14
another, let's stay on the football theme.
33:16
College football, Penn State, Iowa, obviously the look ahead
33:20
line a lot of places was 10 1/2 eleven this summer.
33:23
I was a three 3 1/2 point favorite with Aller being out
33:27
and Franklin being fired, etcetera.
33:29
What kind of action are you seeing on Penn State as they
33:31
come to Kennick Stadium tomorrow night, Mike?
33:34
Well, at circa it's gone back and forth between 3 and 2 1/2.
33:37
We're still, we're at three. We never got into 3 1/2.
33:40
That's a 14 point swing. I mean, I think you're supposed
33:46
to take Penn State here. I don't know.
33:50
I mean, what's the reaction? It's it was a shocking firing,
33:53
right? It's a shocking firing when the
33:56
guys, whatever he is, you know, 40 and eight.
33:58
His last 48 I get. He didn't win any of the big
34:01
games. I guess they could.
34:03
They forgave the loss to UCLA traveling cross country, but
34:06
losing that home to Northwestern and Northwestern was the more
34:08
physical team really, said Shockwaves.
34:11
I think a lot of these players are still processing that James
34:15
Franklin is gone. Does it rally them or is it
34:19
distraction? You have to play without Al or
34:21
everybody high on Iowa. I mean Luke tickle must hate
34:25
cheese. That's all I can say.
34:27
I did parenting company had to be looking around 17 points in
34:30
the first quarter and I don't know that when that happened in
34:33
a big 10 game. I don't want to re overreact to
34:36
the win in Madison. My gut tells me take 10 state.
34:40
I don't want to. I'll probably just watch the
34:42
game and cheer for I would have a have have some sort of a shot.
34:47
You know, they get the tough teams at home.
34:49
Maybe, just maybe they're in the periphery of a bowl
34:52
conversation. I, I don't know, I mean, of a
34:55
playoff consideration. I'd like to see what State
34:58
certainly is not. Yeah, for sure.
35:03
Yeah. The starting quarterbacks come
35:05
out and this team doesn't tackle well.
35:07
It's not a very Haycock esque type of defense there.
35:10
There's some definite problems there.
35:11
Speaking of college football, tonight it starts.
35:13
I've told Ken all week long, careful, Miami.
35:16
These are the stupid games. It feels like Cristobal can
35:18
lose. Brahm is excellent in this role,
35:21
both as an underdog and a major underdog.
35:23
Not has he discovered he has won these games outright.
35:26
You give Louisville any shot tonight against Miami.
35:29
Plus we also get Nebraska, Minnesota tonight.
35:32
Yeah, I give a little a shot to cover and probably a high
35:35
scoring game. Traditionally these two teams
35:38
have played high scoring, close, one score game.
35:41
So you have to give you a little bit of a shot here.
35:43
I do think Miami is probably 1 AI, think Ohio State's the best
35:48
team and then Miami is 1A. You have to recognize in Indiana
35:56
and and what they did at Ousted, I switched the volume at Bar
35:59
Canada from from the Red River Shootout, which was unwatchable
36:04
to to the volume like an half of Indiana and Oregon.
36:08
And I listened to Gary Danielson must have said four times then
36:11
and Dan Lanning. Watch how Kirk Barrett's and
36:13
Parker defended this team, the pressure, pressure, pressure.
36:16
And yes, Mendoza made the play with two minutes to go against
36:19
pressure. But Oregon just sat back there
36:21
and Indiana pretty much did whatever they wanted to in that
36:24
game. So Nebraska, Minnesota is
36:27
interesting. TJ Flex, a used car salesman.
36:29
I mean, it's when's that act going to wear out there?
36:33
Is rule really being considered for Penn State?
36:36
That's another amazing thing to me.
36:37
But certainly Nebraska much must March on here at their shot of
36:41
trying to get back into relevance.
36:43
It's an important game for them. I like Nebraska a lot here.
36:47
I got to ask you about your alma mater, Notre Dame 10 point
36:50
favorite USCI. Love this rivalry.
36:52
I love this game. Sadly, it's going to go away.
36:55
Your thoughts on your Fighting Irish tomorrow, Mike?
36:58
I said 10s insanity. The biggest play of the week
37:01
that we had an Emmy every sharp was on USC -2 1/2 against in
37:05
Michigan. One guy bet $1,000,000.
37:08
It really wasn't much of A sweat.
37:09
The fumble made it a sweat till half time, but it wasn't.
37:12
This USC team is pretty darn good.
37:14
I tend to throw out the Illinois game a bit.
37:17
Ridiculous travel spot, playing at 9:10 AM body clock game and
37:22
the line immediately went to 8 1/2.
37:24
We're back to 9 1/2 high scoring.
37:26
I think USC covers the number. This is the play in game for
37:29
Notre Dame. You win this, you go to the
37:30
playoffs. Yep.
37:34
Well, that might be just a play in for the Dodgers.
37:36
There are -210 currently on the Circus Sports Iowa app to win
37:40
the World Series. Can he come up with a cognitive
37:43
argument for anybody in the American League to beat them?
37:48
I think you could come up with an argument for Toronto, OK,
37:53
only because I think Toronto can generate some offense against
37:57
those Dodger pitchers and they went on the road and I like it a
38:02
lot. Today, Gausman, you're all of a
38:03
sudden you're back to even and you have Gausman going and
38:07
Toronto has home field. I asked Chris Bennett for the
38:10
look ahead, Dodgers and and the two AL teams.
38:15
He said 190 Seattle, 170 Toronto.
38:20
I thought Seattle was light and Toronto was about right.
38:26
I'm with you. Let's we got to talk about the
38:29
app, Mike. It's, it's just what a, what a
38:30
great enhancement to Circa. I, how are the bugs going?
38:35
I mean, I, if I can do it and I can, it's got to be pretty
38:38
simple. I, I just absolutely love it.
38:41
What's the feedback bin now, two weeks into the new Circa Sports
38:44
Iowa app? So it's easier to negotiate.
38:48
Obviously the problem is still with the end game and there's
38:52
there's fields when we put the end game up, it really
38:55
compromises the end game in other states because it doesn't
38:59
take down the puck line, run line, field, the three fields,
39:02
right money line, total puck line, run line.
39:06
And it leaves it up there and you have to go a manual and
39:08
sometimes you can't take it down.
39:09
And then we hang bad numbers and you got hockey teams that have
39:12
been down two goals that came back and tied a game getting 2
39:15
1/2 goals. And it's so the end game
39:17
continues to be the major issue. We continue to get more ways to
39:21
fund and and withdraw from the app.
39:23
So that's good. But we got to get the end game
39:26
figured out. That's the priority right now.
39:29
Good stuff. Mike Palm, vice president of
39:31
operations at Circa Sports. Download the new app in the
39:33
state of Iowa. Those of you listening in the
39:35
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Mike Palm joins us this time each and every Friday.
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Mike, enjoy your weekend. Thank you.
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Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Take care guys. Good to Yep, good to talk to
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you. Our 2 coming up by Bob Trent and
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