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Matt Campbell Penn State press conference, NFL Week 14 Wrap, Eliot Clough talks Hawkeyes · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Eyes for hawkeyeinsider.com, part of 24/7 Sports.
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  Hawkeyes have their bowl Destination will recap that
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  press conference with the Kirk Ference.
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  I will do that also. Take a look at Cyhawk as it is
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  fast approaching. The women tomorrow night, the
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  men on Thursday in our number two, our buddy baseball buddy
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  Matt Snyder got a book out the lead off man.
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  That book is available at Amazon just in time for Christmas.
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  Matt Snyder's going to join us on his new publication as well
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  as on the winter meetings that are going on.
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  Couple of the big moves already coming today, Diaz from the
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  Mets. He's now going to close for the
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  Dodgers. Is there no end?
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  Is there no end to what money they will spend?
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  Apparently not. And Kyle Schwarber stays with
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  the Phillies. He'll get $30 million a year
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  over a five year contract. So Schwarber back with the
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  Phills, Diaz switches coasts, switches divisions from the NL
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  East to the NL West and he's a Dodger going forward.
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  So baseball Topics with their buddy Matt Snyder as well as his
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  book, The Lead off Man, right? Yes, he chronicled, I think he
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  said 75-P-75 players, 75 lead off hitters.
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  Don't you just skip the number one?
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  I mean, is, is, is is there really, is there really any
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  intrigue as to who the best lead off hitter is of all time?
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  Ricky. Yes, Ricky, Ricky Anderson.
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  What a, what a phenomenal career He had no doubt about it.
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  And he passed away, right? Yes, he did.
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  He's dead. He died.
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  That sounds right. No, he did.
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  I think you have that. I think he did.
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  Yeah. I think he's a Christmas.
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  It was a Christmas Day, baby. And, and, and he's passed.
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  Anyways. We'll talk baseball with Matt
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  Snyder coming up to kick off our number 2.
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  And our final guest in the program will be Matt Postons,
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  who covers the Big 12. We'll take a look at Texas Tech
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  and their run into the College Football Playoff, as well as do
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  some basketball with our buddy Matt Postons from Heartland
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  College Sports. Trenton will make some picks
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  before we get out of here at just before 2:00.
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  So the football, NFL football come and gone.
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  Week 14 is behind us. We'll get into that in the first
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  segment because like you said yesterday late in the program,
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  boy, we didn't even have time to talk Bears, Packers.
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  And that was a phenomenal. It really was a terrific
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  football game. So we'll get into that.
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  But just just put a capper on what we saw yesterday, both in
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  Ames, then in Happy Valley. I think Jimmy Rogers, by all
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  accounts, listening to Cyclone fans, I don't, I think they're,
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  they're OK. I mean, they they're not pleased
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  that Matt Campbell left, but I think that they're, you know, I,
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  they believe that Pollard, obviously the proof will be in
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  the pudding, but they think that Pollard went out and did the
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  best he can. And then listen to Matt Campbell
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  that Penn State was weird. It was just weird just, you
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  know, seeing him there and just different, right?
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  I think he's going to do very well at Penn State.
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  I do we'll see. We'll see if that if he plays in
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  the Big 10. I I know their fan base is
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  ecstatic, Yeah. And they really.
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  Are because they were dreading the worst.
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  They were and it looked like for a long time that they may be,
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  you know, that there might might be no coming back from this 50
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  something days that had lapsed by the when they hire or they
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  fired Franklin rather to the point that they were at.
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  So we'll see. But it was just different.
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  Did you have any takeaways watching Campbell yesterday?
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  I agree with you. I think it's going to be good.
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  I'm also intrigued to see what it's going to look like.
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  What do you think about Matt Campbell?
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  A couple things jumped to mind. The togetherness quote sticks
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  with me. When in the dark or whatever,
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  no. No, no, no.
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  Those things, those are cliches. Coaches use that all the time.
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  OK, that, that's. The the win in the dark was he
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  used that a lot. Yes, when in the margins, all
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  those, but but those are out there coaching cliches.
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  He is not alone in an island there.
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  But when he went after the reporter, they talked about
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  their preseason expectations and said no, no, no, you guys said
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  that, not us. That's not going to work at Penn
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  State. Those kind of things that work
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  at Iowa State, those will not work.
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  The sideline antics, and there were plenty of them and some
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  embarrassing moments on the sidelines.
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  Really. Which ones?
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  Big 12 championship game, completely freaking out, losing
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  his mind and that happened many I.
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  Think that that was paled in comparison to one of his
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  predecessors. Paul Rose was complete nut case.
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  But Paul Rhodes is not going to Penn State.
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  Right. And Matt Campbell is.
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  And when you do it at a place like Iowa State, compared to
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  what it's going to be, everything is elevated at Penn
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  State. Everything's going to be.
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  I get the sense the Penn State fans wish that James Franklin
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  had a little bit more of that in him.
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  Oh, absolutely. He would, I mean he go bananas.
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  I mean that's coaching hires in general, right?
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  You go kind of different direction, but those things that
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  nationally were swept under the rug weren't talked about a whole
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  lot. It's going to be elevated.
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  These are things that are. Going to stay, yes.
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  Yes, and that is going to be a big change for him.
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  The demeanor, the sideline demeanor, the dressing down of
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  officials that he did as much as any college coach that I
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  certainly can remember. Oh, absolutely.
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  Remember this trend? Oh, absolutely, yeah.
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  Dressing down college. I mean, every college coach
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  does. To me he took it to another
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  level. I guess I'm wrong.
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  No, I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't recall it being, as
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  you know, being is one side of the meter that you've got it on.
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  I mean coaches blow gaskets. Yes, absolutely.
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  I just always felt he took it to a different level.
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  All right, now, did you hear me bring it up?
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  No, because it's not a big deal. But it will be a big deal, I
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  believe, at Penn State if it continues.
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  Well, if you would. Still, if he wins while doing
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  that, that will become a narrative.
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  That aside, yeah. But the other fan bases, Penn
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  State fans wouldn't care. They're gonna look at the bottom
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  line, 11 and 112 and O, 10 and two, whatever it is going to be
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  now, the, the, the, the fan bases of teams he vanquished.
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  Yeah, you know, they'll poke holes.
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  If they start beating Michigan and Ohio State and suddenly that
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  is going to be something bigger again.
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  It's the stage and I that is one thing that I'm interested to see
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  this stage because everything is going to be.
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  Elevated where are we? Absolutely 100% agree.
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  You're not going to get away after a tough season with
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  preseason expectations and say what were the most together
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  team. 1. Yeah, I mean, you're 2.
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  You better. Start, you know, challenging
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  'cause I think their schedule's pretty easy this year, this
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  upcoming year. I, I, I've looked at it at one
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  point over the weekend. I thought they got a pretty good
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  break. By the way, do you see Iowa's
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  schedule next year? Have you looked at the Hawks
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  schedule next year? Tough, tough, Yeah, I'll say
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  that's the Big 10 W sprinkle a little at Illinois in there.
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  You go to Washington, you know they're not going to win.
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  There. Oh no.
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  I mean, good God. Are we going to go the same
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  direction we went at 365 days ago?
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  This team is going to struggle to get to a bowl game.
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  I don't see 6:00 and 6:00 because we had those
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  conversations right here on these Airways.
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  Probably as recently as July. Oh, no.
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  After they got Granowski, I started to change that minimum.
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  Yeah, they're a bowl team. They're 7 and 580.
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  Four, yeah, I think I picked them 7:00 and 5:00.
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  But regardless of that, yeah, I looked at I was scheduled
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  yesterday at some point the holy crap.
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  Now the the first three games, you know, you you get, I was
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  stayed at home in the northern Northern Illinois, Northern
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  Iowa, correct. And then the Ohio State at home,
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  I'll say this, pretty good slate of home games.
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  If you're trying to sell tickets, not that you struggle
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  at Kinnick, but get your tickets early for that one.
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  What's their easy? It was Purdue.
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  Purdue was on this game. Purdue in.
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  Nebraska, I mean, those are the wins in Nebraska, in the city,
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  of course. Same category as Purdue.
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  That's funny. There's five wins there.
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  The proofs in the pudding. There's five wins there.
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  Yeah, certainly at home, Nebraska, at home, Purdue and
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  the Three Nine Conference, You feel really good about those.
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  It's in Kinnock. Yeah, I would.
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  I would absolutely say I will beat Wisconsin.
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  But find a couple more out of this Ohio State at home and the
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  road games at Michigan. No.
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  At Washington. Probably not.
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  At Minnesota, at Northwestern. It was the new stadium.
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  Is it next year? I think so.
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  I think it is too at Illinois, another coin flip.
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  Yeah, it kind of look at that. Illinois's back on the schedule.
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  OK, Say they lose, obviously to Ohio State.
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  Yeah. Say they lose at Washington.
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  OK. What else?
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  Do you feel they don't have a shot?
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  Michigan, probably. You do.
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  Michigan, probably. You.
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  Well, you saw something out of Bryce Underwood in his freshman
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  campaign every. Chance, I got him.
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  He was the one that told us this is he's the best freshman
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  quarterback that the sport's ever seen.
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  He said that. If I went to Michigan this year,
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  who wins? Oh, I don't know who wins.
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  Probably I don't know. I I.
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  But it's koi flip type game. Yes, for sure, for sure, for
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  sure. We don't know.
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  What's going to happen in the portal?
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  I was just about to say let's wait till the portal is closed
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  and we see where they'll go, but my point being is Penn State's
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  got a pretty easy schedule in 2026.
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  So I clicked on I and I went, holy crap, this is the water
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  gets a little bit deeper from one year to the next.
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  Anyways, let's go to the NFL is the curtain fell last night.
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  What is you you've been down on this Eagles team all year long.
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  You might have turned a little bit, you still weren't all the
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  way there. That you know, this team, this
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  team is better than I thought that I said that the.
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  Reason I didn't think they were as good is just because they're
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  so boring. But out during this three-game
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  losing streak. Last night wasn't boring.
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  It was just one thing after another.
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  I said it yesterday, they're not having fun.
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  This is a team with bad chemistry and he can blame the
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  head coach and a lot of people are.
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  You can put that blame on him. Aikman wasn't willing to do that
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  there. He stacked his resume in the
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  first couple of years. What'd he say?
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  First two or four years of his coaching?
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  Put it up against anybody that's ever coaches what?
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  He said. And it is, absolutely.
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  But this is the second time in three years where there's been a
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  second-half collapse. Yeah, it happened two years ago.
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  You did they lose what, their final six or seven or six in a
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  row at the. End a bunch.
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  Got blown out by Tampa in the first round of the playoffs and
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  now we have this year and they still might hold on and win the
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  division. Probably so because they had
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  such a big lead and the Cowboys, I thought, had to win in Detroit
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  to give them any chance. But if you got the Seahawks
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  going out there for a first round game, you got the 49ers.
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  Hell, he got the Bears going out there for a first round game.
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  Who are you picking? I need those 3 Rd. teams.
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  Absolutely in Philly. Without any doubt, any of those
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  3 Rd. teams. They look broken.
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  They do without a chance of coming back out of it.
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  Yeah, because again, the ammunition of what happened two
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  years ago, I think that has to, for whatever reason, when things
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  are going well. He is a great coach.
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  Yep. However.
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  When things the quarterback certainly isn't helping them
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  out, Neither is A.J. Brown.
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  I mean, and and Aikman was spotted boy like Troy Aikman
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  spot on calling him out last night.
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  I mean, he heard footsteps. He absolutely heard footsteps.
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  Buck called it I think cut the past was a little bit high in,
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  in, in, in, on and on. You're an NFL receiver.
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  You've got to make that catch, and he did have to make that.
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  Catch a little chuckle after that he.
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  Was really good. What are you laughing at?
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  I'm like Troy Aikman's just to RIP it out players again.
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  You know what, good for him, good for him.
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  Because too many former athletes and a Hall of Famer, Troy
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  Aikman, they're they're they're not willing to do that.
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  I guess before we go to the NFC and and more into those games,
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  let's just get to today's news. The Colts are signing Philip
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  Rivers. He's 44 years old.
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  He hasn't played since what, 20 or 21 was his last year, 2020,
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  the 2020 season has not played since never.
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  The fleet is to foot to begin with.
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  Obviously that hasn't changed. In fact, he's gotten slower.
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  They worked them out last night, but this is where they're at.
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  I mean, Riley Leonard, their backup quarterback is going to
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  miss some time. Obviously Daniel Jones is
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  probably he might be done for his career.
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  I mean that's he's not going to play in all likelihood next
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  year. The fact that you can come back
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  from the killing me maybe, I guess in December, but he
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  doesn't have a team. Well, and Achilles injury is a
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  member of changed. They have changed in the way
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  that we have seen you get that surgery right away.
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  I mean, this goes back to Jason Tatum when that happened during
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  the playoffs a year ago and it's turned into Jason Tatum is going
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  to be playing likely in the next six weeks, but close.
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  To being Jason Tatum right off. Well, that's yeah.
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  Still, this is not I don't think it's December for him.
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  There's a possibility, maybe October for Jones.
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  That aside though, why was he playing?
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  He's got a broken foot. Yeah.
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  How many Achilles injuries have we now seen with a guy that is
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  debilitated with something in a leg?
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  Yep. Knee.
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  Ankle. Overcompensating on your good
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  one. And what happens so many times
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  this has happened and I think. That tendon rolls up the back of
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  your leg. That's so gross to.
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  Watch as soon as you. See it, You know where it's
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  going, you know where the news is going to be.
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  It's not good. But you go under the knife
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  within 24 hours, that has helped.
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  That's something that they have learned with this injury.
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  I don't think it's a career enter for Daniel Jones.
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  But but he doesn't have AI mean he's free agent.
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  We'll see where he goes, but for the Colts this year, so.
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  Where's Anthony Richardson? I know we broke a bone getting
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  hit by a ball or a strap in. That's what it was.
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  Is that what it was? Yeah.
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  Broke his orbital bone. Wouldn't you think that's
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  something that you should be back from at this point?
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  Yeah. You would think.
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  Yeah, there are people that say he was lucky he didn't lose eye.
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  Yeah. So I just I have not heard
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  anything which I find interesting.
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  But but yeah, this is where you have to turn.
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  What else is out there? That's what I'm wondering.
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  Is there nobody out there that you can turn to?
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  Do you think that? Do you really think Phillip?
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  And I love Phillip Rivers. He's one of my favorite
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  quarterbacks to ever play the game.
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  I loved him. Loved him seriously.
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  I mean, if you're a Colts fan, you got to be devastated.
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  Would you rather take a shot on him finding something even four
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  years or more for playing or a guy that's not even on a
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  practice squad? I don't know.
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  I mean, obviously you're desperate trade.
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  Deadlines done. Yeah, they can't do.
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  You're not getting anybody. Somebody goes on waivers,
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  somebody's going to pick somebody up and not do the Colts
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  any favours because it's pecking order at that time.
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  We'll see where it goes. All right, let's go back to your
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  game because it was a phenomenal game, It really was.
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  These two teams are going to play again a week from Saturday
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  night, which is awesome that Fox has that game at Soldier Field.
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  That game will be going up against the James Madison game,
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  the second play, the second college football game.
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  But just the game. Bears lose.
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  You feel worse about your Bears? No, I don't either.
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  I feel better about. Them.
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  Oh, absolutely. I mean, this is a team that I
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  didn't believe in. I don't know if I'm quite there,
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  but I certainly believe in a more.
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  Do you believe in the Packers more today?
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  No, about the same. I still don't know.
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  Just you see those stretches and and it's all the Bears are just
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  doing whatever they want. And if a Bear player makes a
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  tackle, I mean, they get the ball back with a chance to win
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  the game as opposed to have to go down there after Green Bay
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  gets that third down conversion and goes on obviously to score
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  the touchdown to make it 2821 Green Bay.
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  I just for every reason I can't get a feel.
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  I think they're good. I do too.
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  I think they're good, but it's not anything where I feel
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  definitive that they're good. The Bears on the other hand, to
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  go into that environment to play awful offensively for the first
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  half, Caleb missing guys, drop passes, play calls that were
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  head scratching, couldn't get anything going in the run game.
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  And to turn around and do that from down a couple of different
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  times, make it a three-point game, down 10, come all the way
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  back, get it tied up. You saw including that final
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  drive, some big time plays, the touchdown pass in the right side
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  of the end zone. There are two guys in the NFL
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  that can make that pass, 21's down just to the South of us in
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  Kansas City and the other one's in Chicago, 2 guys that can make
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  that throw, complete that pass. That's the kind of arm talent
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  that you're talking about. He has to be more consistent.
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  There's no doubt. You can't afford in a playoff
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  game a first half you don't think?
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  Bro makes that throw I. Don't think he has arm strength
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  of that. That thing was a.
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  Rope. You don't think Josh Allen makes
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  that throw? No, he probably throws it short
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  and throws an interception. Josh Allen.
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  Yeah, OK. All right.
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  Well. We're we're, we're picking it.
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  Right. OK, throw those guys in the
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  next. Quarterback on the other side of
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  the field and Jordan Lufspin. It's it.
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  I don't know what it is about this guy, but every statistic
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  says he's an elite. Quarterback, he's got to win
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  more. He's got to win more.
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  While they're on top of the division.
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  He's got to win more in January. You want to get to that echelon.
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  You want to get into that conversation with the three
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  games outside of Williams that we just mentioned.
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  You have to win Josh Allen, by the way.
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  This is the year Kansas City's out.
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  Joe Burrow's out. Lamar Jackson's out.
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  Lamar Jackson's out. I think Josh Allen, you don't do
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  it this year, you don't do it this year.
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  There's going to be a lot of questions.
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  Fair. Unfair.
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  And the defense is unfair because their defense is really
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  bad. Yes, really bad.
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  But when those quarterbacks are out of your playoff bracket?
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  Out of the tournament, as Parcells likes to call it.
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  So what do we have for quarterbacks in the AFC?
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  Let's take a look at the AFC quarterbacks as of today.
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  Bo Knicks, Drake May, Trevor Lawrence, Aaron Rodgers, Justin
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  Herbert, Josh Allen and CJ Stroud.
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  That's where we're at. This will be what do they hear?
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  This will be the first time as long as kids 2. 1010 since Brady
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  or Mahomes have not been in the AFC championship game.
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  Yes. 2010. That's crazy.
• 17:29
  Crazy. So that's the list.
• 17:31
  Accord. That's one through 7 right now.
• 17:33
  And the Colts, arrows pointing down the.
• 17:35
  The Colts, I think, are cooked. I really do.
• 17:37
  Baltimore, they could get in because they've got 6.
• 17:41
  Kansas City, they're not mathematically dead.
• 17:44
  But doesn't it feel like they're dead?
• 17:46
  Yeah, it really does. It When that pass went off
• 17:49
  Kelsey's arms into the into the arms of one of the the Texans,
• 17:55
  it just felt like, OK, that's it.
• 17:57
  The curtain came down. That was the final act of the
• 18:00
  play, seemingly for this group, the 1st.
• 18:04
  Part of that, a 1010 game where Houston was doing nothing, 4th
• 18:11
  and one, and it was not that they didn't get it.
• 18:15
  I don't know what that play call was.
• 18:17
  There was nothing there. That was the thing that was so
• 18:20
  confounding. Of course, Houston comes down,
• 18:22
  scores a touchdown, makes it 1710, but they weren't doing
• 18:25
  anything. It's a 1010 game.
• 18:27
  I get it. Today's environment.
• 18:29
  This is not old stodgy guy on the radio yelling about the way
• 18:32
  football used to be. I think anybody that listens our
• 18:34
  show, that's not who I am. However, in that instance, you
• 18:38
  got to understand what's happening in this game and as it
• 18:40
  comes to game theory, that was awful by Andy Reid to go for it
• 18:45
  in that spot where Houston was dead.
• 18:48
  You had everything going your way.
• 18:49
  You didn't get it fourth and one punt it back.
• 18:52
  They're going to go 3 and out. You're going to get it back at
• 18:53
  your 30 yard. Line he panicked, I think.
• 18:55
  So he did. Was that the 31?
• 18:57
  Yeah, something like that. I mean, there was a couple of
• 18:59
  occasions I thought Andy Reid really shown some vulnerability
• 19:02
  and this is Hall of Fame coach who could nothing do nothing
• 19:06
  wrong since they drafted #15 for crying out loud, who's the team
• 19:10
  to be in the AFC? Are you willing to go to the
• 19:12
  seven seed right now? Houston?
• 19:14
  Look, Denver's not going to win the one seed.
• 19:16
  Denver's schedule is daunting down the stretch.
• 19:18
  It's daunting. They're they're dogs at home
• 19:21
  this week. Green Bay is a favorite in
• 19:24
  Denver this week. They've got to play the
• 19:26
  Chargers. They've got to play the Chiefs
• 19:28
  and they've got to play Jacksonville.
• 19:29
  That's tough. That's tough, yeah.
• 19:31
  So New England's got one tough game left, Bills this week,
• 19:35
  right? And then they've got The Jets,
• 19:36
  the Dolphins and I and the Ravens.
• 19:39
  And the Ravens on the road. Yes, and the Ravens on the road.
• 19:41
  So that'll be a tough that'll be a tricky spot.
• 19:43
  Patriots will be the one. I, I, I don't think that
• 19:46
  there's, I, I'd be shocked if Denver was the, the was, was the
• 19:50
  wincy Jags are probably going to win the division.
• 19:53
  Yes. OK, I think so too, because
• 19:56
  they've got AI mean the Colts, like we say, the Colts are going
• 19:59
  the other way Houston's. A game or two back, well, maybe,
• 20:04
  maybe, maybe Houston could win it because they play each other,
• 20:06
  do they not? They do not.
• 20:08
  They're done. The Jaguars finish home for The
• 20:10
  Jets this week, OK, they go to Denver, they go to Indianapolis
• 20:15
  and then they finish up at home against the Titans and minimum
• 20:18
  2, maybe 3. While the Texans on the other
• 20:22
  hand, who are a game back, they have the Cardinals this week at
• 20:25
  home. When?
• 20:26
  The Raiders at home. When?
• 20:28
  They go to the Chargers. Cough.
• 20:31
  And home for the Colts win. They're three.
• 20:33
  They're three if it's two and two, and I don't know what the
• 20:36
  tiebreaker is between those two. However, did they sweep the
• 20:40
  Colts, The Texans, Colts, Texans, Colts, they beat them
• 20:45
  obviously a week ago. And the other match up, why
• 20:49
  can't I find it? I can't find it.
• 20:52
  I'm scrolling through and I can't find their second match up
• 20:54
  this year. We haven't played yet.
• 20:57
  Oh yeah, the second one is at the end and they win that one.
• 20:59
  Yeah, they have the tiebreaker. So they're yeah, simple.
• 21:01
  Go 3 and 1, two and 2:00 on the other side and the Texans are
• 21:03
  there. And that's the part of it where
• 21:05
  the Texans get up there and get a home game in the first round.
• 21:08
  I just don't see even with that great defense, them winning 3
• 21:12
  consecutive Rd. games. I'm with you.
• 21:14
  It's CJ Stroud as much as anything.
• 21:18
  I I think that's, that's the and, and the offensive line.
• 21:20
  The offensive line is not great, but who do you trust in the AFC?
• 21:24
  The Patriots, I mean, I guess you almost by default, if you
• 21:28
  have to trust one, it would be them, I guess, just because
• 21:33
  their schedule's been so easy. But is Drake May going to get to
• 21:37
  a Super Bowl in year #2 I mean, somebody's going to burrowed it.
• 21:43
  Yeah. I don't put those two in the
• 21:44
  same category, but Drake May is a hell of a player.
• 21:48
  Do you trust Trevor Lawrence in Jacksonville?
• 21:51
  No. Can Aaron Rodgers lead the
• 21:52
  Steelers, this Steelers group? No Can Justin Herbert and had
• 21:55
  offensive line with the Chargers, No quarterbacks been
• 21:58
  hurt, been hit more in the game than him this year?
• 22:01
  Maybe, like you said at the beginning of a conversation,
• 22:04
  maybe this is the year for Josh Allen.
• 22:07
  If the playoffs are what it is right now.
• 22:10
  Yeah. Out of the group I trust the
• 22:13
  Bills because of Josh Allen just win shootouts, the Texans
• 22:17
  because of the defence and the Patriots because they've shown
• 22:21
  it week after week after week. But those are the only three I
• 22:26
  can't get there with Bonex. Why?
• 22:29
  Too inconsistent. He is inconsistent, but he's
• 22:31
  he's pretty good player. Trent, OK, he can run, he can
• 22:37
  throw. He makes some.
• 22:40
  You know what it is with Bonex, I'm convinced of it.
• 22:42
  And I think the final play, their final offensive play on
• 22:45
  Sunday, I know everybody that bets on sports is killing Pete
• 22:49
  Carroll, right? Why should they?
• 22:50
  They shouldn't. No, it was a terrible beat.
• 22:53
  It's not on Pete Carroll. It's not.
• 22:55
  It's on two guys, Brandon Jones for jumping on the pile.
• 22:59
  But preceding that, Denver's final drive deep in Vegas
• 23:03
  territory, they ran the ball four times, including fourth and
• 23:07
  four, right? What are you going to do?
• 23:09
  4th and four, you're either going to kick a field goal which
• 23:11
  would have been 40 yards. Will Lutz has already kicked a
• 23:15
  58 yarder in the game. Then you go up and you take the
• 23:18
  field goal off. He ran the football.
• 23:20
  He wouldn't let Bone Nix run. Throw the football on 4th and
• 23:24
  four from the Raiders 28 yard line.
• 23:28
  Why won't you trust him? If your coach doesn't trust him,
• 23:31
  maybe we shouldn't. Maybe you're right.
• 23:33
  You watch obviously him a whole lot more than me.
• 23:35
  Every single snap. It's just the inconsistency that
• 23:39
  I see. Is it the college Bo Nicks?
• 23:41
  Because do you remember? No, because everything was just
• 23:43
  screen passes in college. Well, no, it wasn't just there
• 23:46
  was a lot of them, but there was the we called it, we had a term
• 23:49
  for it. It was the Bo Nicks experience.
• 23:52
  Absolutely right. And you wouldn't be in Bama
• 23:54
  whether he was playing for Auburn or whether he was for a
• 23:57
  Duck two or three times a year. It would be the Bo Nicks
• 24:00
  experience. And maybe that's part of it, but
• 24:03
  their defense is every bit as good I think is Houston.
• 24:07
  I think they are. They've got as good a kicker
• 24:10
  they do Will let's is a solid kicker.
• 24:14
  They've got an offensive minded head coach.
• 24:16
  They've got a much better offensive line, a way better
• 24:20
  offensive line. Denver, one of the Boston
• 24:22
  offensive lines in the game. The receivers are, I'll give the
• 24:25
  edge to the Texans, not because there's three Cyclones, but
• 24:28
  because there's a 2. A couple of legitimate supers.
• 24:31
  I like Court and Sutton. I don't love them.
• 24:33
  I don't I don't like Mims, don't like Franklin, tight end,
• 24:36
  Ingram, take them or leave them. But they've got they've they've
• 24:41
  got a lot, a lot of things going.
• 24:42
  So why don't we just just eliminate Denver?
• 24:46
  They've won a ton of close games.
• 24:48
  Yep. Kansas City was able to do that
• 24:50
  a year ago. Yep, but it was Kansas City with
• 24:52
  15. The sustainability of that we
• 24:55
  know in the NFL doesn't last. And I think of London game,
• 25:00
  awful, terrible, the Thursday night game against the Raiders.
• 25:03
  And these are the few times that I saw them in standalone spots
• 25:06
  where I was just watching them. And maybe that also taints it
• 25:08
  for me. I mean, compared to you that
• 25:11
  watches it week in and week out, it's different.
• 25:13
  Standalone game against the Commanders should have lost that
• 25:15
  game. I just mentioned 3 bad teams,
• 25:17
  bad teams that they struggled mightily with.
• 25:20
  And I'm sure because I watched more of them in those games and
• 25:23
  probably anyone else, that's probably a reason that I'm a
• 25:26
  little bit tainted on Denver. Fair, Unfair.
• 25:28
  That is the reality. I'm not watching every snap of
• 25:31
  the Broncos. No, I don't.
• 25:32
  You are you believe. I'll take your word for it.
• 25:36
  I believe in in this year's AAFC.
• 25:39
  If I had to rank them as far as who I would put Buffalo on top,
• 25:44
  I would put Buffalo on top. I'd put Houston second.
• 25:46
  Houston. 2nd. Houston second.
• 25:49
  But it's something about this. But it's not in a vacuum.
• 25:51
  It's not a power ranking. No, I know.
• 25:52
  It's also the path. Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:54
  And the path for Denver, the path for New England is going to
• 25:56
  be much easier. And because of that.
• 25:58
  New England's New England's going to get a buy, New England
• 26:01
  is going to get a buy, but I don't think there's anybody that
• 26:05
  could show up in New England on divisional weekend and not beat
• 26:09
  them. Oh, I'm, I'm in the same
• 26:11
  direction. Yeah, absolutely.
• 26:13
  Just the teams that we mentioned there, Buffalo or Houston, Yep,
• 26:17
  making their way there. Chargers, yes.
• 26:19
  Got a shot? No doubt wide open.
• 26:22
  You know, we don't get this in the NFL.
• 26:23
  So let's do the NFC real quick and then we'll get to Elliot
• 26:26
  Clef. How many teams legitimately can
• 26:28
  win represent the NFC After last night?
• 26:32
  Do we eliminate the Eagles from the conversation?
• 26:34
  Yes, I agree. I agree.
• 26:37
  I can win the. Win the conference?
• 26:39
  Win the conference. Are there 3 or 4?
• 26:41
  There's 2 for sure, the Rams and Packers.
• 26:43
  Yes. After that, who's your third?
• 26:47
  Seahawks. Why I love them?
• 26:50
  You love I. I would not be shocked if
• 26:52
  Seattle's playing for a Super Bowl.
• 26:54
  I would be. I I won't be.
• 26:56
  Donald can't suck every big game now.
• 27:00
  He has it to this point to be fair.
• 27:03
  And it's done at every big game, too.
• 27:04
  He struggled. He struggled against the Vikings
• 27:06
  a couple weeks ago. I like the Seahawks team.
• 27:09
  I like the. I like the receivers.
• 27:11
  Oh, I love Smith and. Jagna, the kid they got from New
• 27:15
  Orleans, can flat out fly. I think they're in a good spot.
• 27:17
  What about the Niners? To be determined.
• 27:22
  OK, getting healthier, Yeah, like the direction that they're
• 27:25
  certainly ending, but still TBD for beyond them.
• 27:28
  So Tampa. No, no, that team's broken.
• 27:32
  Chicago. No, they get there.
• 27:34
  No. So, Rams, Packers, and where
• 27:38
  else do you go? That's the list.
• 27:39
  You've got 2. That's the list.
• 27:41
  I would throw in the other two NFC West teams and I'd put
• 27:44
  Niners at the at 4:00, fourth most likely to get there.
• 27:49
  And put the Niners above the Seahawks.
• 27:51
  You would do they play each other?
• 27:53
  Yet? They got another game against
• 27:55
  each other. Who did they finish with the
• 27:58
  final season? Niners got the Titans this week,
• 28:00
  you know, at the Colts. Home for the Bears, home for the
• 28:04
  Seahawks. What do the Rams have left?
• 28:11
  And the and the Rams and the Seahawks play a week from
• 28:14
  Thursday. They do.
• 28:15
  Is that the final? Oh, no, it's not.
• 28:18
  Because Christmas is Thursday, right?
• 28:20
  Is Christmas Thursday? Yeah, it is.
• 28:21
  Yeah. And that's Denver, Kansas City.
• 28:24
  Three games that day, Yeah, yeah.
• 28:25
  But it's not on. Or is it on prime?
• 28:29
  Yes, the night game will be the Chiefs and Broncos is Netflix
• 28:33
  has the Vikings, has the first Lions and the Commanders and the
• 28:37
  Cowboys. Yeah, we from Thursday night.
• 28:40
  That's appointment TV. You love Sam Darnold.
• 28:42
  I do. I don't love him.
• 28:45
  I like the team to win despite the quarterback.
• 28:48
  Who'd you rather have, Darnold or Nicks?
• 28:51
  Oppo next. It's not close.
• 28:53
  It's. 1230 Miller and Condon, we'll take a time out.
• 28:55
  We'll come back. We'll be joined by Elliott Clef.
• 28:57
  We'll get the latest on the Hawk guys.
• 28:59
  Matt Snyder, he's a book author. He writes for CBSSports.com.
• 29:03
  He covers baseball. He's got the lead off man that's
• 29:05
  his book is now available on Amazon.
• 29:07
  We'll talk to him about that and the winter meetings.
• 29:09
  Matt Poston's on the Big 12. Trent's got some plays of the
• 29:12
  day. Miller and Condon glad you're
• 29:13
  with us as we'll talk sports with you right up until 2 on the
• 29:17
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller Condon welcome back
• 29:23
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• 29:27
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• 29:29
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• 29:33
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• 29:35
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• 29:43
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• 29:46
  24/7 Sports. He joins the program.
• 29:50
  Hello, Elliot. How are you, Sir?
• 29:53
  I'm good. How are you, Ken?
• 29:53
  I'm. Good.
• 29:54
  I appreciate you coming on, giving us a few minutes.
• 29:56
  I'll get to basketball in just a second.
• 29:58
  Just put a bow on. At least where we're at so far
• 30:01
  in football, we know that I was going to play Vanderbilt in that
• 30:05
  game. Do you think that Pavi is going
• 30:07
  to play? Have you heard either yay or
• 30:10
  nay? I'm not sure why he'd bow out.
• 30:12
  I mean, I don't think he's got an NFL career, but far be it
• 30:15
  from me. What are you hearing about A
• 30:18
  holdouts are not going to play, but Iowa and then in particular
• 30:23
  Pavia with Vanderbilt, Well. Start with Pavia, I haven't
• 30:27
  heard anything on that front. My expectation is that he'll
• 30:30
  play as far as I know. I actually I'm pretty sure I
• 30:34
  heard this on a broadcast the other day.
• 30:36
  Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he's
• 30:40
  fighting for another year of eligibility and I'm that's not a
• 30:43
  joke. So if that's the case, he will
• 30:46
  most likely almost definitely be playing this this this bowl
• 30:51
  game. But yeah, it would surprise me
• 30:53
  either way. If he doesn't play.
• 30:54
  I don't think he's, you know, a top three round pick, even a
• 30:59
  pick at all, you know, so I I would be surprised if if he
• 31:03
  decides to opt out doesn't really seem like his style
• 31:06
  either, But but who knows? I'm in terms of Iowa.
• 31:10
  Kirk Variance said it on a zoom call with us with the media the
• 31:14
  the other day that he does not expect any opt out for the bowl
• 31:17
  game for Iowa. So not not really surprised by
• 31:20
  that. Iowa doesn't really have a, you
• 31:22
  know, a Caleb Johnson this year. You know, you can maybe point to
• 31:25
  a Jennings dunker as a guy who's been mocked in in first round
• 31:29
  drafts, but he's he's that's not that's not who Jennings is at
• 31:33
  all at all. He'll he'll want to play in his
• 31:35
  final game that that he can play in at Iowa.
• 31:37
  Yeah, I saw Dunker yesterday in first round mock draft.
• 31:40
  Yeah, still there. Absolutely.
• 31:42
  Had a good season. That offensive line had a good
• 31:44
  season. They are a finalist for the Joe
• 31:46
  Moore Award. Plays Indiana.
• 31:48
  Who and I win? One other, I think.
• 31:50
  Yeah. Anyways, go ahead Sir.
• 31:51
  They I put it together and and you look at next year though,
• 31:55
  they're gonna be losing some big pieces including Jennings
• 31:57
  Dunker, a three-year starter in Logan Jones and feels like the
• 32:00
  pieces are in place for them next season to have a pretty
• 32:03
  good offensive line. That's a pretty good starting
• 32:04
  place. When you go into the portal
• 32:06
  season starting here in January, knowing that at minimum that
• 32:10
  offensive line looks like it's going to be at least solid.
• 32:12
  How do you see the offensive line and probably a place
• 32:14
  they're not going to be shopping?
• 32:15
  Elliot? You know, they, they could go
• 32:19
  out and get a depth piece. You know, I I I do think that is
• 32:22
  is something that I will want to do actually just a a guy, not so
• 32:27
  much a A1 year rental like they've had with like the Dejon
• 32:31
  Parker's, the Rusty Fest, the Bryce George's who Rusty Fest is
• 32:34
  the only one of that trio who actually contributed a a good
• 32:38
  amount of snaps. But yeah, I mean, this is a
• 32:41
  phenomenal starting point going into another year.
• 32:43
  And with Tate Peeper and Trevor Locke could presumably coming
• 32:46
  back, Michael Mizlinski back for his final year of eligibility
• 32:50
  thanks to a medical waiver. Leighton Jones with a bunch of
• 32:54
  reps that left guard this year with both Steven having some
• 32:56
  injuries here and there. And then Jack Dozler, who dubbed
• 32:59
  in for for Jennings dunker at right tackle and started the
• 33:04
  year switching off with Trevor Lock at that left tackle spot.
• 33:07
  So you've got you might not have a ton of starting experience,
• 33:11
  but you've got a bunch of experience coming back and and
• 33:13
  veteran leadership on that offensive line.
• 33:16
  By the way, Oregon was the other one in the the Joe Moore Award
• 33:20
  running. But yeah, I mean, hats off to
• 33:23
  George Barnett, right? Like he came in through this
• 33:26
  program and the, the recruiting and, and where things sat with
• 33:30
  the offensive line was just a mess.
• 33:31
  And, and he completely turned it around.
• 33:34
  Obviously you had Linderbaum at the time, but other than that, a
• 33:37
  bunch of young guys and a bunch of guys who just weren't very
• 33:40
  good. And he, he built that that group
• 33:43
  and he built it with guys that were politics guys that weren't
• 33:46
  even his, like Jennings Dunker, Logan Jones.
• 33:48
  I mean, Logan Jones was brought in as a defensive tackle, but
• 33:50
  still, Jennings dunker was a politics recruit and and Barnett
• 33:54
  came in and and shaped the room. So what he wants it to be, he's
• 33:57
  got his guys on the line now and they're one of the best
• 33:59
  offensive line, if not the best offensive line in college
• 34:02
  football. What will they do with the
• 34:03
  quarterback position as far as I will, will they be looking for
• 34:06
  someone? Obviously we there's, I, I think
• 34:09
  Hank Brown is going to have a decision to make.
• 34:12
  There is no, what do they call it the spring a portal anymore.
• 34:17
  There's there's only one. So if he's going to, it's going
• 34:19
  to have to come relatively soon. You can't go through spring
• 34:22
  practice and then, you know, enter the portal right after
• 34:25
  that, that two week period. What does Hank Brown do?
• 34:27
  And are they going to be looking?
• 34:29
  I would assume that they're going to have to be right?
• 34:31
  Or is it all dependent on Hank Brown's decision?
• 34:34
  Well, I'll tell you this just got a bit of info the yesterday
• 34:38
  actually, that Hank Brown has has started to practice really
• 34:42
  well in this this bowl prep window.
• 34:45
  So don't count him out. He's going to give Hecklinski
• 34:48
  everything that that he can to win that.
• 34:51
  You know, I may not win it, but compete for the starting job
• 34:54
  going into next season. It might be a competition
• 34:57
  through spring based on on that. You know, it's only they've only
• 35:00
  practiced twice full go with the twos and the threes in bowl prep
• 35:04
  over. They went Friday and then
• 35:05
  Monday. But apparently I think this
• 35:07
  looked pretty good and Hecklinski was actually miss
• 35:10
  practice. He was just sick.
• 35:11
  But so brown got got a ton of reps and and apparently looked
• 35:15
  pretty good. So don't count him out if if he
• 35:18
  does enter the portal, you know, which is still a possibility.
• 35:21
  Would not surprise me if I would does go after a quarterback.
• 35:24
  They like to have four scholarship guys and a walk on
• 35:27
  in that room for the sake of well, we saw why in 2024 when
• 35:33
  Jackson Stratton had to play. So especially if Brown portal
• 35:37
  then they'll they'll look for a quarterback in in my mind die.
• 35:40
  But I think they're I think they're happy with four
• 35:42
  scholarship guys and a walk on. Obviously that being hecklinsky,
• 35:45
  Brown messenger, Jimmy Sullivan and then Fitzgerald at that walk
• 35:51
  on spot. So if they do, you know, if
• 35:54
  Brown sticks and they do decide to add another walk on piece, I
• 35:58
  would imagine it would be like a Stratton situation where they're
• 36:01
  just like, hey, this is a guy with the depth, with a bit of
• 36:03
  depth that have some college experience that can come in and
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  add some some, you know, leadership or or, you know, just
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  experience to the room. That would be my guess.
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  But if Brown doesn't stick, then then you got to go get somebody
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  because I don't think you can go into the season getting a
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  little. Funky in that direction, Yeah,
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  it seemed like we were on the verge of of losing.
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  Ellie and we're out of time anyway, so.
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  Unfortunate. So what do you think?
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  I mean, that that's encouraging for Hank Brown that he's
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  practicing. Well, you made the point
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  yesterday. I don't.
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  Who are we speaking to? And he's reminded me, because I
• 36:38
  forgot all about it, that there's only one portal.
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  I mean, there's only one transfer that's only open once.
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  You better get in. You can't go through spring
• 36:47
  practice and then you know what? But it's probably not in the
• 36:49
  cards. I'm going to move on after that.
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  You can't. It's too late.
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  Now, no doubt I look at it and I think of a guy like Jazzy on
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  Patterson. Yeah.
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  Go back home, right? Florida Atlantic, you know,
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  Florida Internet, you know, something like that where you
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  can probably go in there, be a starter and get a cedar season
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  to do that. Those are the kind of pieces you
• 37:09
  look at the offensive line or there's some of those veteran
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  guys that are looking around. I know some conversations have
• 37:13
  already been had. They're going through the
• 37:15
  one-on-one with Coach Ference and position coaches.
• 37:18
  There's been a few guys that said you look at those red shirt
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  sophomores haven't played yet. Yep, probably not going to
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  happen, right? And then they have been, some of
• 37:27
  them I know have been told I guess that probably not going to
• 37:32
  play here, might be able to be a special teamer, but that's it.
• 37:34
  How many of those guys depart? A lot of those guys say, I'm
• 37:38
  fine with that. Local guys love this experience
• 37:41
  at University of Iowa. They're fine with it.
• 37:42
  I'm quite happy being a deaf piece until we know that portion
• 37:46
  of it. Here's another thing.
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  Do we know what the roster limits going to be next season?
• 37:51
  No, that's a great point. No, I don't think we do.
• 37:54
  Shouldn't that be something that we should know?
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  We they just changed the rules on the fly last year.
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  Yeah, they did. And then all these guys that
• 38:01
  were some places, like in Iowa City and Ames, did it right and
• 38:06
  tried to help these guys find homes.
• 38:08
  Other places lunged for it. Essentially, yes.
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  For doing the right thing. And the SEC, they still had 125
• 38:14
  guy rosters where our in state schools did it right, got down
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  to 1050. Just no, no, actually we're
• 38:20
  going to walk that back. Yeah.
• 38:22
  What a mess. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
• 38:24
  Sports Radio Network. Hi, Miller Cotton, final couple
• 38:34
  of minutes here. Our number one, our number 2
• 38:37
  will start with Matt Snyder winter meetings going on in
• 38:39
  baseball. He's also published a book that
• 38:42
  has just become available as of this week.
• 38:45
  I believe Amazon has it. It's the lead off man.
• 38:48
  We'll talk to him about that. He's a Hall of Fame voter.
• 38:50
  Pick his brain on that as well. And then Matt Poston covers the
• 38:53
  Big 12 for Heartland College Sports.
• 38:55
  You just mentioned the Cowboys during the break and that there
• 38:58
  still is a path. They're not going to win a wild
• 39:03
  card. I don't think so.
• 39:05
  No, I don't think so either. But they do have a chance to
• 39:08
  catch the Eagles. I think so.
• 39:10
  So it starts with winning out, right?
• 39:12
  They have to, and here's what they have left, and it's
• 39:15
  anything but daunting. They have the 28th easiest
• 39:17
  schedule remaining Chargers would be their most difficult
• 39:20
  game. Then they play.
• 39:21
  They've got the Giants, the Commanders and the Vikings and
• 39:25
  the Vikings on Sunday night, which I'm still surprised they
• 39:27
  didn't move. I really am.
• 39:29
  I get it. It's the Cowboys, but we're
• 39:31
  football fans. There's more football fans in
• 39:33
  general than there are Cowboys fans.
• 39:34
  But more people watch the Cowboys than most anybody else.
• 39:38
  Piss on that. Anyways, that's what we're
• 39:40
  getting. 1061 if they win out. And and the Eagles, conversely,
• 39:46
  where's the see? Their schedule's even easier.
• 39:48
  They've got the 30th easiest schedule.
• 39:50
  Bills, Raiders, Commanders. Twice.
• 39:53
  So what do you look at it win this week at home against the
• 39:56
  Raiders for Eagles? I mean this is a get right game
• 39:58
  if there have ever been one the. Raiders are so bad.
• 40:01
  They go to the commanders. I mean, that's the one.
• 40:03
  The Commanders looked awful last week against the Vikings.
• 40:06
  That really looked really good against the Broncos.
• 40:08
  Really good. At Buffalo, you put that in the
• 40:10
  outcome. Basically, what you need if
• 40:12
  you're a Cowboys fan is them to lose one of those two games
• 40:15
  against the Commanders and Buffalo.
• 40:17
  And Buffalo? Not a stretch.
• 40:19
  No, I don't think so. I mean, the Cowboys have to win
• 40:21
  out. And the Cowboys have to win out.
• 40:25
  Not dead yet. No, I'm not dead yet.
• 40:26
  You know who else isn't dead? Who, Yeah, Don't tell.
• 40:29
  Me, I was playing on the ESPN playoff machine and it spit out
• 40:33
  the seven seed Chiefs. They open up on the road in
• 40:35
  Denver. I know you'd be excited about
• 40:37
  that. Chiefs have to beat the Titans,
• 40:41
  the Raiders, the Chargers and the Broncos.
• 40:43
  We'll see. Hour 2 is next.
• 40:44
  Miller and Condon on One O 6.3 KXNO.