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Chiefs Draft talk with Nick Athan, Packers with Dave Sinykin, A look at the NBA Playoffs with Sloan Piva & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 Millery Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Trent Condon, Ken Miller until 2.
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  At that time, we'll turn things over.
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  The drive is coming up. Heather and Lucas take you until
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  5:00. Well, we've looked at the
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  Vikings. We've taken a look at the
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  Chicago Bears. Let's head the AFC.
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  We'll get back to the NFC North with Dave Sinican from zone
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  coverage here in eight or 10 minutes or so.
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  But right now, Chief splits.com is where you can find Nick
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  Athen, all the video, all of the blogs, etcetera, etcetera on
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  those Kansas City Chiefs who by all accounts Nick Athen good to
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  talk to you. Despite where they use draft.
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  Again, as far as pecking order, by all accounts, a lot of people
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  that to follow this very closely think the Chiefs once again
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  outdid their draft position. No surprise after doing it this
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  many years, right? Yeah, no surprise.
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  I mean, this class is, it's pretty impressive.
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  Maybe this compares to the 2022 class where they got 7 starters
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  or at least seven solid contributors.
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  But, you know, I think in retrospect, the Chiefs and that
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  Eagles, who picked 31 and 32 probably had the best, the best
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  weekend of any, any team in in the NFL.
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  It was just remarkable how how players fell and how they
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  position themselves. But for the Chiefs, I mean, you
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  know, it all started in round one, the one guy they coveted
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  more than any other. And he just, it just maneuvered
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  itself to, he maneuvered himself to Kansas City.
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  It's just incredible. So let me ask you about what
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  what happened at the end of the first round, because I can't
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  wrap my mind around that. Obviously, the Chiefs were
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  supposed to go 31. Eagles were supposed to go 32,
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  yet Philadelphia wanted to move up with the Chiefs.
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  Did they get the feeling that somebody else was on the phone
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  with Kansas City and didn't want to lose out on their guy?
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  Why would the Eagles do that and allow the Chiefs?
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  I think they got a fifth round pick in return.
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  I didn't understand that, Nick. What was I missing?
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  The Eagles had to think that somebody was knocking on the
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  Chiefs door. Right the the the Eagles had
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  tried to trade with the Chargers and it it fell through in the
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  end and they got nervous that someone was going to jump the
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  Chiefs. And so they made an offer to
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  Kansas City and Brad P just wanted to make sure that they
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  weren't going to take Josh Simmons and Eagles to the Kitty.
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  They were going to take a defensive player and the mighty
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  good one at that. And so they just said, hey,
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  we'll take a fifth round pick. And that avoided any other team
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  moving up. And she's used that fifth round
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  pick to move up to get Jeffrey Bossa.
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  So, you know, it all worked out kind of kind of great for
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  themselves for for each team, but for them they just kind of
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  panic. And the Chiefs are very
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  fortunate that they had a willing partner to give up with
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  fifth round pick. And that's that's in the Eagles.
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  And the Chiefs, despite their their their hatred of the
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  players against one answer in the field, their front offices
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  are very close, very tight. And so it was a it was an easy
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  move for the Chiefs to make an easy move for the Eagles to feel
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  comfortable. They can get their guy.
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  So when you look at Josh Simmons coming off the torn Patella, do
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  you see him as the day one starter or is it going to be
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  Jalen Moore? Hey, we signed him in free
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  agency, kind of a glow growing term.
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  And hey, hopefully by middle of October he'll be our starter at
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  left tackle. You know, based on what Andy
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  Reid and and Brad Pitt said after they drafted him on
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  Thursday night, that they felt comfortable that he could be
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  ready to go for the regular season.
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  In fact, they're anticipating that he's going to be ready to
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  go for training camp. And so I started making phone
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  calls after this and I started saying, OK, well, what's the
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  truth here? And the truth is there's a lot
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  of disinformation about Josh Simmons that went out.
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  And the chief said, you know, we're going to we're going to
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  we're going to try and get this guy.
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  And we know the medicals are strong because they spend more
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  time with him than any other NFL team, which is, shame on the
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  other 31, arguably the best tackle in this draft.
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  And so from all accounts of people I spoke to since he was
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  drafted, that the intent is he should be ready to go for the
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  opening of the season and training camp.
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  And if that's the case, then, yeah, they've got some decisions
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  to make on the offensive line. It gives them a few more
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  options. And this, this kid is special.
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  And I'm I'm excited. So, yeah, there's a, there's a
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  good chance. I'm not saying it's 100%, but
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  it's a good chance. He's your starter day one.
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  What about Jalen Royals from Utah State receiver who was he
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  missed most of the season last year and a lot of folks thought
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  that this guy was, you know, maybe one of the top group of
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  five players prior to the injury.
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  Is he, is he going to have an impact this year?
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  What mean? Obviously one would assume where
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  they drafted him, they think that he will.
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  Can he? Yeah, I, I had Jalen Royals is
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  like a late second, early third round pick.
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  In fact, I, I was hoping the Chiefs would take him in the in
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  the third round because they had both those picks.
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  And you know, he's the guy that foot injury last year, he
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  recovered. He had a great Senior Bowl.
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  He had a great pro game, pro workout.
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  The Chiefs were very excited about him.
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  He kind of reminds me a little where she writes he's not as
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  fast. That's Rashi Rice, because I
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  think Rashi is is a little bit faster.
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  But he runs great routes. He had what, 9 or 10 receptions
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  or plays over 50 yards last year or the year before.
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  You know, this is a guy that the Chiefs really thought, you know,
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  was not going to be there at the end of the fourth round, which
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  is quite remarkable. Kind of reminds me of the
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  luxurious need situation where they got him late in the fourth
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  round as well. And, you know, he just adds to
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  the mix. And you put him with Xavier
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  Worthy, with Rice, with Hollywood Brown, she just
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  misused her. You know, all of a sudden you've
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  got a really strong group of wide receivers and he he doesn't
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  have breakaway speed, but he can break away from from opposing
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  defenders. And there's a difference there,
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  you know, so he's going to take a little slower to get to the
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  end zone. But he's, he's got great hands.
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  He runs great routes. He'll he'll, he'll make the top
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  catches. He gets off the line of
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  scrimmage. Well, again we had them rated
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  very high, you know, in the second top of third round.
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  So anything late in the draft or free agency wise, I'll I'll tell
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  you, I got a guy that was circled for me.
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  Tight end. We know likely the last season
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  of Travis Kelsey getting Jake, bringing 1 stool out of Clemson
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  as an undrafted free agent. I think that dude's going to
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  stick. The two most exciting draft
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  picks for me was him because I watched this film at Clemson and
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  you think, OK, he runs routes like Travis Kelce.
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  He sits, he positions himself well in open space.
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  He goes up and catches the ball. He has similar hand movements.
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  He gets off the line of scrimmage.
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  He knows how to maneuver between cornerbacks, linebackers and
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  safeties and I just he trust me market today, April 29th, he's
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  making the roster. He's going to open as the number
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  three tight end. He's going to be the he'll be
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  the heir apparent Travis Kelsey. He's got the same, you know, OK,
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  I'll put him in the Hall of Fame already, but he's just got such,
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  he's just got such a great awareness and feel for the
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  position. I had him as a fifth round pick,
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  so I'm just shocked. And then the last pick, Brashard
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  Smith, excites me the most. I, I tell you, I screamed for
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  joy, Not Patrick Mahomes screamed for joy, but I was
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  screaming pretty loud in the seventh round when they got
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  Brashard Smith, who I had hoped they would take back in around
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  around 5:00 at least, but they took Jeffrey Boss instead.
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  They had him rated higher. But Brashard Smith, you know,
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  one year wonder at SMU, three years at Miami as a receiver
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  convert, he's going to be that breakaway running back that the
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  Chiefs have not had since Jamal Charles.
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  I am more excited about him than any other player of this draft.
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  I think he's going to be lights out, highly motivated, a good
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  kid, a little small, but he's got a lot of power.
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  He breaks tackles. And if you watched any of his
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  SMU games or films and he looked at that team and got him to the
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  to the playoffs, they didn't do very well in the playoffs, But
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  you know, he still had a good game.
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  And I'm, I'm, I cannot wait to see what Rashard Smith can do.
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  With the with the. Speed The Chief Savitt receiver
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  in a in a in a rebranded Patrick Mahomes.
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  Nickathenchiefsblitz.com Chiefs blitz.com for Nick just because
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  the drafts over the schedule is what may the 15th it comes out
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  so you'll have plenty of content leading up to that we're.
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  Going to do a live show on our podcast.
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  We're going to do a live reveal, so.
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  How many? What were your numbers like
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  during the draft, because I know you guys put a lot of resources
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  into? We had probably, I think at our
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  peak we had 2000 people at it for virtually each show.
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  We did live Thursday, live Friday and all day Saturday.
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  So we did bell to bell pick the pick till the end and yeah, we
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  had about 6-7 thousand people, so it was pretty great.
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  That's an heavy lift. Good stuff.
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  Nick Athan, thanks for jumping on.
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  We'll talk to you down the road. Yep.
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  See buddy. Chief splits.com.
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  See ya. Chief splits.com for Nick.
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  So Chiefs will be favoured to come out of the AFC West.
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  I wonder if they if anybody in the division has closed the gap.
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  I mean, it's not the Raiders yet, I don't think have the
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  Chargers. Are the Broncos at least close
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  the gap where they'll make the AFC West a race?
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  This year, well, the Chiefs aren't going to go 15 and 2
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  again, are they? No.
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  Well, I hope not. We went through this a lot last
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  season and the. Season before and the scene
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  before. Close the gap in terms of.
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  Will will someone knock them off at the top of the division?
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  I don't think the Chargers are going to be better than 11 and
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  six, do you? No, I.
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  Don't know if the Broncos are going to be much better than 10
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  and seven. Yeah, the Chiefs are maybe
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  taking a step back. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  We'll see. All right, we'll get to Dave
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  Synekin here. Coming up, zonecoverage.com,
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  zonecoverage.com for Dave Synekin.
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  We'll take a look at what the Green Bay Packers have done as
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  their draft is behind us. Almost don't want to get his
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  take on on just how Green Bay did by all accounts, a lot of
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  people very high on how the Green Bay residents, the Green
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  Bay community came together as the what the population swelled
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  from 100,000 it doubled. It was crazy.
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  Dave Sinican joins us. Dave Trenton can the draft
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  itself in a minute. But just Green Bay, you know,
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  every city wants to outdo itself and you know you're compared to
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  the city that held the draft last year.
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  Boy, I'm seeing a lot of positive reviews on Green Bay,
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  WI and the weekend that they put on.
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  Are you seeing the same thing, Dave Sinican?
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  Yeah, yeah, I think it's gotten a nice review from a lot of the
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  first time visitors and a lot of a lot of Packer fans that maybe
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  haven't been to Green Bay because it's obviously hard to
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  get a ticket. Gave them a chance to really get
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  a sense for the stadium, the Hall of Fame there, the whole
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  title town district. Yeah.
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  I mean, let's not kid ourselves. I don't know that we'll see it
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  happen again in our lifetime, you know, but but the seat over
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  200,000 people there on Saturday on a nice crisp late April
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  Saturday afternoon in Green Bay, to see that place filled up,
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  that was a bit of a surprise to me.
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  I mean, a lot of people head home, wherever they came from,
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  they've seen enough. But there was still so many fans
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  out there that, yeah, I think people kind of got the quaint,
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  good western, old time feel of Green Bay.
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  And yeah, I thought it was really well received.
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  So, so help me out with this one, Dave.
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  I've never been all the NFL, 32 NFL teams converging over some.
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  I know they do it most of their at their headquarters now, but
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  all of the NFL personnel that were there, all of the
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  television people that were there from the networks covering
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  it. Where do these people stay?
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  Is there enough room for everybody in Green Bay?
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  Would you have to kind of spread out around Wisconsin a little
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  bit? No, there's absolutely not
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  enough room for everybody. I'm sure that the teams in the
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  NFL scooped up most of the rooms in Green Bay or Appleton.
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  You know, you've got these little towns within 40 miles,
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  whether it's Appleton, Neenah, Oshkosh, the whole Fox Valley is
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  filled with little towns that that do have some good business,
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  some corporate business where there are some hotels.
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  But I, I know that there were tons of buses heading up from
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  Milwaukee every day. You Madison, I mean, that's
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  still a few hours away, but you they had to the average fan, I'm
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  quite certain, if they weren't willing to spend a ton of money,
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  probably had to drive a couple hours to get to the draft each
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  day. Do the teams, the opposing teams
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  stay in Appleton? Is that what I'm led to believe
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  or does it vary? Yeah, they typically stay in
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  Appleton. I forget the Fox Valley Hilton,
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  I forget the Lombardi Steak Houses in that hotel.
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  But yeah, it's about a 35 minute drive to the Lambo from
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  Appleton. So as we make our way through,
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  plenty of beers were consumed, a lot of Packer fans waiting and
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  when it was announced for the first time since 2002, we knew
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  it was going to be wide receiver Matthew Golden.
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  He's got speed. Also took a little while for him
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  to get acclimated there to Texas after he transferred in.
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  Your thoughts on the number one pick?
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  Yeah, obviously every Packer fan is thrilled that they they got a
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  bright, shiny, fast weapon for Jordan Love.
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  I mean, that's what you wanted this offense to give him.
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  Is is more weapons, some talent that maybe wasn't currently on
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  the roster. And when Watson injured his
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  knee, we knew speed was going to be an issue.
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  So as the draft process went out these last few weeks, I think a
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  lot of Packer fans were kind of tossing their fingers that maybe
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  Dallas would pass on on Matthew Golden.
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  He was a popular landing spot for Dallas.
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  And there were a couple other teams, even Ken Steam, I saw
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  might have some interest in Matthew Golden.
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  But when he was on the clock, I think most Packer fans figure
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  this has to be it. They're going to make this thick
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  in front of all these fans and the the drama can't be, you
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  can't make it up. But yeah, I think what when you
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  look at the film, I thought I found it really instructive to
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  go back to his years in Houston where he had a quarterback with
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  more of a an arm like Quinn Ewers.
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  You know, he doesn't throw the the biggest fastball.
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  He had to wait a lot for the balls to get to him, which made
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  you understand that Bolden's got talented adjusting for the ball
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  and and locating it, which is great.
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  But he didn't have a real strong arm.
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  Quarterback in Quinn Ewers is Houston tape will really impress
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  you. And I just think the Sky's the
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  limit. He's a little shorter than what
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  Packers typically like it 511. But I think we all saw what the
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  Longhorns did the last few games of the season and how Golden
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  stepped up in the biggest moments.
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  And, you know, it seems like he was brought up right.
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  He's so excited and humble for this moment.
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  And I think he understands the opportunity in front of him with
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  a a playoff caliber team and a really good top ten quarterback
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  that really needs his skill set. So yeah, it all came together.
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  And I, you know, Packer fans are completely optimistic about what
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  might happen. But you know, as you guys know
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  about first round wide receivers, a 5050 thing we had
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  mentioned this last week with the last two guys picked at #23
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  were Jordan Addison and Brian Thomas Junior.
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  So the trifecta sounds good to me.
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  Maybe the Packers did that a third straight there.
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  Yeah, I love this interaction with Packer fans too, as well
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  after the pick. Well, let's get to the news of
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  the day when it comes to the Packers away from the draft.
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  And it sounds like a guy that they, you know, spent a lot of
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  draft capital on back in the day, their first round pick and
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  was 18 or 1918, right? Jai Alexander, who seemingly was
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  on his way out of town, maybe not so fast.
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  What's behind this? Who I guess who blinked first
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  Dave to make this potentially Jai Alexander re signing with
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  the Green Bay Packers. Well, you have to make it.
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  It sounds like it's got to be Jair who blinked because he he
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  went through the draft to wait and see what teams that maybe he
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  was interested in or had shown interest, how they addressed
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  that position. And I'm thinking he's looking at
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  what's left and what teams might covet a wide receiver that
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  you're going to have to pay $17 million to this year.
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  And he didn't see a long list and a lot of reporting about
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  this whole situation the last few weeks that there have been
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  trades out there. But Jair was not amenable to
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  restructure butchering his deal. So things that never went
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  anywhere. He wants the money he's due.
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  And and so I think he did finally probably blink.
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  That doesn't mean he's going to be on with the Packers.
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  But man, the reporting a week ago was like, it's done.
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  It's a 1% chance that the sides could reconcile.
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  I think he looked at the end of the day, he's was paid the
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  highest paid corner not that long ago by this organization.
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  And I don't think they really appreciated the way he treated
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  last season and the injury when the the medical staff reportedly
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  thought he was good to go and he was not ready to go.
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  And that happened over several weeks.
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  And he's been kind of a problem in the locker room with that
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  attitude, as you guys know, making himself a captain and
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  going out to midfield in Carolina a couple years ago.
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  He's an odd dude. He's a he's a different cat.
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  But we know when he's healthy, he's great.
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  The problem is 3 of the last Four Seasons, he's only played
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  up to seven games at the most. So he has not been available.
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  It makes it kind of a tough sell.
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  And I certainly speak for most Packer fans.
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  I want him back on the roster. That's the position I thought
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  they were going to really address last week and once again
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  they didn't until the 7th round. So I they need talent and they
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  can sure use him. You know, PA was our first guest
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  looking at our regional teams, and he actually brought up Jai,
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  you're going out to the coin toss and asked us to remind you
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  about that, but you brought it up on your own.
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  So I love the Packers Vikings rivalry.
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  You two guys getting after it still?
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  We have fun. We have.
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  Fun. Absolutely.
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  Anything You mentioned Robinson there in the seventh round, the
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  cornerback out of Tulane, all those defensive guys kind of
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  middle late. Anybody jump off the page that
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  you really liked? Well, the kid from Texas,
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  Sorrell, who was at the draft and has his name called and got
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  that was cool commissioner. Everything I've read about him,
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  he's a really impressive young man and comes from a really good
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  family who's worked really hard. You know, he's not typically the
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  size the Packers look for as an edge rusher, but he gets to go
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  up with his his teammate Matthew Golden, get situated in Green
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  Bay with a guy he knows. And I think there's a real
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  opportunity for him. I think his skill set fits what
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  Jeff Haffley wants. I think that was a nice pick in
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  the fourth round where I was just desperately hoping Jeff
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  Haffley hadn't pissed somebody off because they were picking
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  anybody on the defense until Saturday.
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  He jumps out to me in the big defensive tackle from Georgia
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  who was kind of a A spot starter.
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  Duty loves himself some Bulldog defenders, so he really can't go
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  a draft without him. He might have a chance to be a
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  backup nose tackle. Kenny Clark.
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  This might be his last year with the Pack, so if he can impress,
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  that's a guy with upside. But you know, day three, you
• 18:44
  just kind of hope maybe a couple of these guys can hit.
• 18:47
  Those two guys stood out to me this year.
• 18:49
  Yeah, I. Love the fact that Goodell was
• 18:51
  able to be meet him on the stage and give Sorrell his moment.
• 18:54
  That was really cool. Dave sinicanzonecoverage.com
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  zonecoverage.com for Dave Sinican appreciate.
• 19:02
  Yeah, just want to get your thoughts, 31.
• 19:05
  It's Minnesota sports, though. I guess that's where my concern
• 19:08
  lies. Boy, they've looked good in this
• 19:09
  series though. Yeah, they have.
• 19:11
  And you're right, Wolves fans, Minnesota fans are conditioned,
• 19:14
  but Lebron's down 31, so we don't think that's over just
• 19:17
  yet. But yeah, to hold serve over the
• 19:20
  weekend, maybe two of the most electric atmospheres that that
• 19:23
  have we've seen at Target Center.
• 19:26
  Just the biggest question, I mean, talked about it with you
• 19:29
  guys last week was the Wolves have been really bad in crunch
• 19:31
  time this year. They've lost so many games in
• 19:33
  the final few minutes. I thought that'd be a real
• 19:36
  problem against the Lakers team with two of the games, great
• 19:39
  closers. But these last two games in
• 19:41
  Minneapolis, it was the Wolves that did the close and stepping
• 19:44
  up and seeing Julius Randle and Jane McDaniels really step up is
• 19:49
  the two and three guys to take care of business.
• 19:52
  And obviously Naz Reed with the big threes.
• 19:54
  It's always fun. But yeah, it's it's exciting to
• 19:56
  be three one for this organization and they understand
• 20:00
  though, that if they lose tomorrow night, the pressure
• 20:02
  comes back to them on Friday night and they have to take care
• 20:05
  of business. They don't want to go back to LA
• 20:07
  on Sunday for a Game 7. But yeah, it's it's really nice
• 20:10
  to see this team grow. It's such a young team, a very
• 20:13
  close team that they really get along well.
• 20:15
  It's something you don't always see.
• 20:17
  And to McDaniels and Nas are like the Three Stooges, they
• 20:20
  they're really tight and you're sort of you can see it on the
• 20:22
  court. They have great chemistry.
• 20:23
  So yeah, a very exciting times up here.
• 20:26
  That'll be up. On a team that most expected to
• 20:28
  dispatch of the Wolves, it's nice to see the Wolves show what
• 20:31
  they got it. Really has been.
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  Dave Sinican, thank you. Anytime guys see you.
• 20:46
  Good to talk to you, Dave Sinican, as we check in on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller and Condon.
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  Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Coming up, Trent's plays of the day, circus sports available
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  here in the state of Iowa. If you're listening across the
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  started at circus Sloan. Paiva writes about sports
• 21:38
  wagering, follows the NBA very closely and we like to pick his
• 21:42
  brain on that. Also get his Derby horses.
• 21:44
  They'll be running for the roses about 6:00 central on Saturday
• 21:48
  and Sloan joins us. Sloan Trenton, Ken, thanks for
• 21:50
  coming on. How are you?
• 21:52
  Hey guys, always a pleasure. How's it going?
• 21:54
  Doing well and enjoying these, both the Stanley Cup and the NBA
• 21:58
  playoffs. I guess we'll start with the
• 22:00
  team closest to us and that's the team that seemingly has
• 22:04
  caught the attention of the NBA and that's those Minnesota
• 22:06
  Timberwolves. LeBron is on the brink.
• 22:10
  Here comes this young T Wolves team, for the most part with a
• 22:14
  bona fide superstar in Ant. What do you make of this series
• 22:18
  3 one. Is it over for the Lakers,
• 22:20
  Sloane? Boy, it sure seems like it might
• 22:24
  be. I was just talking to a couple
• 22:26
  of my colleagues, Bill McGregor, Steph, now couple of great NBA
• 22:30
  writers, and they each gave about a 1015% chance of the
• 22:35
  Lakers pulling this out. It's a really, really tough hill
• 22:40
  to climb at this point. You know, you look back at, you
• 22:43
  know, history of best of sevens. And in the first round when
• 22:47
  teams go down 3 to 1, they've only there's only been 3 faces
• 22:52
  out of 85, which they rebounded from that deficit and advanced
• 22:56
  to the second round. But that being said, it is we're
• 22:59
  talking about LeBron James and Luka Doncic here.
• 23:02
  So I have a bet that involves the Knicks, Warriors, and Lakers
• 23:08
  All in all advancing. And if all three advance, I make
• 23:13
  about 3:30. If even one of those teams
• 23:17
  doesn't advance, of course I make nothing.
• 23:18
  So I have an option to cash out of that bet and make 50 bucks
• 23:22
  and just recoup some of my losses.
• 23:26
  But I'm probably going to just let it stand because it's it's
• 23:29
  LeBron, and that would make for quite the fun story.
• 23:31
  No doubt about it. And but it's Minnesota sports.
• 23:35
  And for us Minnesota sports fans, we know there's no sure
• 23:39
  thing. Certainly on that aspect.
• 23:42
  Last night it was domination as Cleveland closes out Miami,
• 23:47
  there was a lot of scuttlebutt about this might have been the
• 23:49
  worst playoff series in NBA history.
• 23:52
  Did you see it that way? And he culture something's
• 23:54
  broken because that that was a lot of quit.
• 23:58
  Oh, yeah, I mean, that was pretty brutal.
• 24:00
  I there was a lot of sports on last night, so luckily I didn't
• 24:03
  have to pay as much attention to that game.
• 24:06
  I was watching some hockey as well.
• 24:08
  I was watching some baseball. But yeah, I just don't think
• 24:11
  that that that Miami Heat team has it as currently constituted.
• 24:15
  I don't think Tyler Hero is a number one in the in the
• 24:17
  playoffs. He's probably the worst number
• 24:21
  one in the NBA. You know, you guys got Anthony
• 24:23
  Edwards in your neck of the woods.
• 24:25
  That's that's a true number one. I mean, that's a guy that can go
• 24:28
  out and just kill any team. The Lakers are pretty good
• 24:30
  defense most of the time, but when when Anthony Edwards is on,
• 24:34
  he just takes over. So, you know, you just don't
• 24:37
  have that kind of faith and it's either hero.
• 24:40
  I just wonder about the future of that team.
• 24:43
  And I think they've they've swung and missed on a couple of
• 24:46
  different players trying to get their big three, you know, their
• 24:50
  newest version of a big three in order and and they've failed
• 24:53
  miserably there. So it's troubling times for
• 24:56
  South Beach sport. Let's talk about the main event
• 24:59
  tonight, Clippers and the Nuggets.
• 25:02
  That's the late game on TNT. Series is all tied up at 2
• 25:05
  apiece. Others are three games.
• 25:07
  Other three series rather they will play tonight.
• 25:09
  They're all three ones. So let's go Clippers and
• 25:13
  Nuggets. I think the Clippers, you might
• 25:15
  disagree with me, have been the better team in this series so
• 25:18
  far. We're down to a best of three.
• 25:20
  How do you see this series going forward?
• 25:22
  Sloan? Yeah, I think I agree with you.
• 25:25
  I think the Clippers have a better overall team.
• 25:28
  I think Jokic doesn't have enough help in Denver right now.
• 25:32
  I think he got a wild card in Russell Westbrook.
• 25:35
  And you never quite know. I, I joke around with some of my
• 25:38
  colleagues about how he's the grim Reaper of, of playoff teams
• 25:41
  because he comes and, and just knocks on the door and, and
• 25:44
  there you go there. That team is completely done
• 25:47
  for. But I, I just think Kawhi
• 25:50
  Leonard, when he's healthy, is one of the top three best
• 25:54
  players in the NBAI don't think we talked about it enough
• 25:57
  because he's had so many injury issues.
• 25:59
  And then you still got James Harden as a number two option.
• 26:02
  He's one of the best scorers of all time.
• 26:03
  So that said, it's Nikola Yokich.
• 26:07
  He's, he's able to completely take over games.
• 26:10
  He's he's capable of doing, you know, putting up a 4020 and 20
• 26:14
  game and we wouldn't even bat an eye at the point and, and
• 26:16
  somebody would find a way to downplay it.
• 26:18
  But you know, that's just, that's just how that's the life
• 26:22
  we're living at this point. I do have a, a fun little alt
• 26:26
  prop parlay for this game. I've got a Nikola Yokich 45 plus
• 26:31
  points, rebounds and assists and Kawhi 33 plus points and
• 26:36
  rebounds. You can get that plus 120 on
• 26:39
  most books. All right.
• 26:40
  Check it out, see if it's on Circa.
• 26:43
  Definitely take a look at that one, put those one together and
• 26:45
  definitely like that part of it. So I want to go to the Knicks
• 26:48
  and the Pistons. Yeah, the Knicks are up three
• 26:50
  one, I can make an argument it should be 3-1 the other way.
• 26:54
  Go back to obviously game 4, the non foul in the corner.
• 26:57
  Go back to that fourth quarter in game one and a lot of
• 27:00
  different moments in game 3. The Pistons have been right
• 27:03
  there, but it's now back to Madison Square Garden game five.
• 27:08
  Do we get a close out tonight or does this plucky Pistons group
• 27:11
  get it back to Detroit for a Game 6?
• 27:14
  Plucky is a good adjective. I like that.
• 27:16
  Yeah, the Pistons have a lot of heart.
• 27:18
  They're very, very feisty. I would not put many pesos on
• 27:22
  the on the Knicks. I just, I can't seem to trust
• 27:26
  them. So that said, it's probably
• 27:29
  going to be really fun game and and I think it'll go down to the
• 27:32
  wire. So I'd probably go for the
• 27:35
  Pistons plus the points. I think they're getting five and
• 27:38
  a half, 6 1/2. So that's that's pretty
• 27:41
  intriguing for me. Like you said, the Pistons were
• 27:43
  right in that last game. They're going to be pissed off
• 27:45
  after not getting that foul that should have won them the game
• 27:49
  and equalized the series. So I'll definitely be watching
• 27:53
  that one closely. I've got tickets, my friends and
• 27:56
  I have tickets to game one of the Celtics second round series.
• 28:00
  Knock on wood that they get there.
• 28:01
  I'm pretty sure that they'll get there, but it's kind of just a
• 28:05
  matter of who the opponent's going to be and when it's going
• 28:08
  to be. It might be on Thursday if the
• 28:10
  Knicks and the Celtics both close out tonight.
• 28:12
  Let me pick your baseball brain for a second, Sloan.
• 28:15
  I've tried to make this case to Trent yesterday.
• 28:17
  Wasn't buying for a second. The Mets are off to a phenomenal
• 28:21
  start, being the best record in baseball, right?
• 28:23
  We thought maybe a New York team would.
• 28:24
  Not this one. The Phillies are the second
• 28:28
  choice. The Braves are the third choice
• 28:30
  in the National League East. They've still got their, you
• 28:32
  know, the 13 games against one another still to be played.
• 28:37
  Is it crazy to think that the Braves have an outside chance?
• 28:41
  You know what? Plus 330 might be worth the
• 28:44
  might be worth the, you know, a small investment to run down
• 28:48
  both the Phillies and the Mets and come away as National League
• 28:51
  East champions. Could you buy that?
• 28:54
  I can buy that, absolutely. I, I love this Atlanta team and
• 28:57
  I think people are starting to to talk about their demise a
• 29:01
  little too quickly. It's still got a really, really
• 29:04
  ridiculously good core rotation with Chris Sale, reigning Cy
• 29:09
  Young winner. You've got Spencer
• 29:12
  Schwellenbach, who I think could be a Cy Young candidate in the
• 29:16
  future, and Grant Holmes. He's got that gritty, gritty
• 29:19
  look to him. I think he can he can absolutely
• 29:22
  do well for them right now. Ronaldo Lopez on the IL, if he
• 29:26
  comes back at some point, Spencer Strider comes back
• 29:29
  healthy. That's a very, very good
• 29:31
  rotation. And then you've also got a
• 29:34
  really good line up with Pop. If everybody could get back
• 29:37
  healthy. Don't forget about Ronald
• 29:38
  Lacuna. You know, he's an MVP and once
• 29:40
  they get him back, they could go on an absolute tear.
• 29:44
  So yeah, definitely don't count them out yet.
• 29:46
  If you can get some value like plus 330I would consider rolling
• 29:49
  on that. I mean, the Phillies are pretty
• 29:51
  good, the Mets are pretty good, but we've seen both of those
• 29:54
  teams breakdown at the end of seasons before.
• 29:56
  So I would I would take the value where you can get it
• 29:59
  there. Outside of the Yankees, who do
• 30:02
  you like in the American League to win the Pennant?
• 30:04
  I wouldn't even the whole thing because we know the National
• 30:06
  League looks to be an absolute bear and of course the Dodgers
• 30:08
  at the forefront of that. But if you take the Yankees
• 30:11
  away, who do you like in the American League?
• 30:14
  I'll tell you what, I'm not going to sleep on the Seattle
• 30:17
  Mariners at this point. I've, I've been, you know, very
• 30:20
  critical of their clutch hitting in the past.
• 30:23
  And you've probably seen some of my tweets where I'm like, why
• 30:26
  aren't they giving any of these pitchers run support?
• 30:28
  Well, they're finally giving their pitchers run support and
• 30:31
  they're hitting, you know, they're, they're already at 42
• 30:33
  home runs this year. So the Mariners with Jorge
• 30:36
  Polanco playing like an All Star with a Rose Arena, that and the
• 30:40
  way he bat and that pitching staff that they have, nobody's
• 30:44
  going to want to play that team in September and October.
• 30:47
  The Mariners can absolutely make some noise.
• 30:49
  If they can pick somebody up maybe to bolster that line up a
• 30:52
  little bit and get some more power in the in the, you know,
• 30:56
  lower third of that batting order.
• 30:58
  They're going to be a real real, you know, tough force to face in
• 31:03
  the playoffs. So I would take some value on on
• 31:06
  Seattle. I also think there's a little
• 31:07
  bit of value in Baltimore right now because they got off to a
• 31:10
  tough start and I never count out the Guardians.
• 31:14
  I just think they consistently have good leadership.
• 31:17
  I think their pitching is going to get a lot better and Jose
• 31:20
  Ramirez is one of my favorite players in the league.
• 31:23
  He's just The Ultimate Warrior, one of the one of the best non
• 31:27
  MVPS in baseball history in my eyes.
• 31:30
  Yeah, Cal Raleigh with the Mariners, one of the best power
• 31:32
  hitting catchers that nobody knows about, quite frankly.
• 31:36
  We'll see. I don't even know why I.
• 31:37
  Didn't mention him, yeah. I'm guilty of the same thing.
• 31:41
  You just. Said And look at Kirby hasn't
• 31:43
  pitched. I don't think he's pitched a
• 31:44
  year. He got hurt and he'll come back
• 31:47
  at some time and Gilbert's down. I'm I'm with you on on this
• 31:50
  Mariners team. All right.
• 31:51
  Who's your Derby horse, Sloan? Oh, I got to go with journalism.
• 31:55
  He's taking a favorite. You know, out of the eighth, out
• 31:58
  of the 8th gate and just the the speed profile, the tactical
• 32:03
  speed that this horse has that that's just the behemoth of a
• 32:06
  horse. I mean, and this is this is kind
• 32:08
  of a a close race in in the sense that there's a lot of 20
• 32:12
  to one, a lot of 30 to 1. You don't have any real long
• 32:15
  shots. So I think the best horse is
• 32:17
  going to win. And I got to go with
• 32:19
  journalists. You got a great draw on Saturday
• 32:22
  and I'm sticking with the sticking with the chalk.
• 32:28
  It's kind of boring, but it's made me some money so far.
• 32:31
  Good stuff, Sloan, thanks for jumping on.
• 32:33
  We will bother you again. Here's the playoffs in the NBA
• 32:37
  and NHL unfold. Thanks, Sloan for jumping on.
• 32:39
  Appreciate it, sportingnews.com. All right, look forward to it.
• 32:42
  Thank you, buddy. Yeah, good to talk to you, Sloan
• 32:43
  Pive. As we talk sports wagering and
• 32:46
  NBA with Sloan, the only thing about journalism and he's a
• 32:48
  favorite and he really looks good.
• 32:50
  He beats 5 horse fields in California.
• 32:53
  That that will not be the case on.
• 32:54
  Saturday. No, no, there'll be 15, 15.
• 32:57
  Well be 15. More than what he's accustomed
• 32:59
  to racing against. You got to play him.
• 33:04
  Not for me. Not for you.
• 33:06
  I got 1. You've got a.
• 33:08
  Horse. I got a horse.
• 33:08
  Already. Who is it?
• 33:10
  Flying Mohawk. He's got no shot.
• 33:14
  I I just I. Just run fast enough to scatter
• 33:17
  his own. You know what That's my grandpa
• 33:19
  used to say. That's a good life.
• 33:21
  Yeah, he had some good ones. You like the four Grandpa you're
• 33:25
  talking about? He couldn't run fast enough to
• 33:26
  scatter his own. I've come to the last race.
• 33:31
  Digs deep in his pocket. Well, son, it's time to get
• 33:34
  even. Or even worse.
• 33:37
  Those were the days. 145, Miller and Condon.
• 33:40
  I was. What year was this?
• 33:41
  Do you have any idea? 01970. 4.
• 33:47
  Oh my goodness, I was going to say the exact same.
• 33:49
  Were you really? Yes, I'll look it up.
• 33:52
  Yeah, Sometimes we got the when we play the music.
• 33:55
  Sometimes we got the number by it.
• 33:57
  Not on this one. So Ramblin Man.
• 33:59
  Yeah. By The Allman Brothers.
• 34:01
  Yeah. Came out in 1973.
• 34:05
  Missed it by an inch. Not too bad, I'll give it to
• 34:08
  ourselves. Couple old guys.
• 34:09
  Couple old guys, one older than the other.
• 34:12
  We final segment is upon a Circa Sports sponsors NBA slate
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  say this Indiana Milwaukee love the fact that tips at 5 that
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  gets a little bit of an early start on NBATV.
• 34:29
  By the way, did you hear Halliburton his press conference
• 34:33
  following the following the last game I.
• 34:36
  Didn't I heard plenty of chance? While when Dane got hurt and
• 34:40
  tore his Achilles essentially, and I'm paraphrasing Halliburton
• 34:44
  sat down at the press table and said, before you ask me any
• 34:47
  questions, I just want to say this and went into, you know,
• 34:50
  express his condolences, the injury and say what you guys see
• 34:53
  is 2 guys bat. I just thought it was first
• 34:55
  class. I'm not surprised by that, not
• 34:57
  at all. But you know, for him to do it
• 35:00
  because there, it's been pretty well chronicled of the back and
• 35:03
  forth between these two prior to this.
• 35:06
  So well done you. Honestly, here's one of the
• 35:09
  offseason things that we won't move our needle because we're
• 35:11
  not NBA offseason guys. But you know, I hope he stays in
• 35:14
  Milwaukee. Small market quote, small
• 35:16
  market. You just wonder though, this
• 35:19
  franchise since they've won their championship.
• 35:22
  They're terrible, they're bad, and it's doesn't look like it's
• 35:25
  getting worse kind of in salary cap hell.
• 35:28
  It it's that time in the NBA where you RIP off the Band-Aid.
• 35:33
  But it's also Milwaukee. I mean, don't have a whole lot.
• 35:37
  It's not like free agents are fleeing to make their way up to
• 35:41
  to southeast Wisconsin. It's a tough draw, but what do
• 35:48
  you do? Tear it down to hopefully build
• 35:50
  it back up? Don't know has.
• 35:53
  To be the right hall, right? Yeah, absolutely.
• 35:54
  All right. What are you playing tonight,
• 35:55
  Trent? We got baseball and we have
• 35:58
  basketball. No hockey tonight.
• 36:01
  The one that I was closest to pulling the trigger is the
• 36:03
  Kings. I hated the way Sunday night
• 36:06
  ended and I'm already invested. In this series by mile.
• 36:09
  And I'm already invested in the Kings, so I'm just going to sit
• 36:12
  out. Just going to sit out.
• 36:14
  Don't need to add any more fuel to that one.
• 36:16
  Baseball. Tonight we're taking the look at
• 36:19
  the lefties going up against lefties.
• 36:21
  Yankees, they kill Yankees. Looks like they're going to get
• 36:25
  a lefty tonight -150 for the Yankees.
• 36:27
  Cubs kill lefties. They're going up against Andrew
• 36:30
  Heaney tonight. Who's been OK?
• 36:32
  He's been OK. I'll lay the -137 though in that
• 36:36
  one. Another team that kills lefties,
• 36:37
  your Blue Jays against Crochet. We'll take the plus money, plus
• 36:41
  again, my affinity with Bowden Francis, plus 1/22 at Circa,
• 36:48
  other shops, you go shopping, you want to play the Blue Jays
• 36:50
  and get plus 110. Are you going to take the plus
• 36:53
  1/22? What a difference at Circa.
• 36:55
  And we will do just that One more in baseball again.
• 36:59
  Smith Char is going to start for the Braves against Marquez who
• 37:02
  is awful -190 is all. What am I missing here?
• 37:08
  The the Rockies are now 4 and 24.
• 37:10
  I know it's betting baseball. They're not going to make money
• 37:13
  long term betting big favorites. However, give me the Braves
• 37:17
  minus the 190 again to basketball Clippers.
• 37:20
  Lay the 1 1/2 Pistons. You know this is an automatic
• 37:24
  play, right? Plus 5 1/2.
• 37:26
  And I've gone back to the well again with my first quarter bet
• 37:28
  on the Pistons. Plus 133 for the Pistons to win
• 37:33
  the first quarter. We'll go back at that one again.
• 37:36
  Pistons could easily won the series.
• 37:38
  I'm not going to. Yeah, I don't think it is
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  either. I don't think it is.
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  I think some series are going to be ending and some players will
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  hitting. Where does Chuck like to send
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  the the dregs of the end to Galveston?
• 37:50
  Boy, watching Shaq breakdown when that segment, I know they
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  replay it from time to time. Boy, that's good TV.
• 37:56
  Yes, it is such good TV even when you put it up against the
• 37:59
  NBA. Why do they even bother?
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  I know they're not going to next year, but man oh man.
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  ESPN, don't ruin it, don't ruin it.
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  Totally agree, leave it. Alone, let them have final say.
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  That's the way it should be. That's what the NBA fans have
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  supported for decades. That will do it for us.
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  The drive is coming up next. Heather Lucas will take you
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  until 5 overtime, Iowa 5 to 6. Trent and I are back tomorrow
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  noon to twos when we talk sports with you every Monday through
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