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Hawkeye talk with Tom Kakert, Heather Burnside live from Ireland on the Cyclones & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two, welcome back Miller and Condon.
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Iowa Sports Radio Network Trent Condon, Ken Miller Our final
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hour of the week, Your final Friday night off.
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That's right, you. Got plans with Tara?
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Yes, good birthday party. Oh, there you go.
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Jack turns 6. That's those are wonderful
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plans. Absolutely good stuff.
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And then you'll be out on the high school scene next week and
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we'll talk about that. We'll have Joe Stacy and at some
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point next week talk about his football Friday nights.
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You'll be doing games over on the FM band on the bull each and
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every Friday right through championship Friday night in
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November. Tom Caker joins the program on
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three media hawkeyereport.com Tom as he's Tom is one of our
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Friday guest * and we appreciate him a being willing to join us
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every Friday and he's with us again today.
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How are you Tom Cakert last week for you to have a week a Friday
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or Saturday rather off for some time.
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How are you? Yeah.
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It's it's going to get busy here real quick.
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So yeah, I got to get my yard work done, is what I was told.
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So well, absolutely put that goodwill in the bank because
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it'll be drained by the end of football season.
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Tom, let's let's ground to cover with you.
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Obviously, Kirk Ference met the media yesterday.
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I want to start with something that and I'm anxious to get to
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hear how you see this because I see somewhat of a groundswell
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and I don't mean to come across as anyone is pushing Kirk
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Ference on. I don't, I don't, I don't.
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I hope he stays until he's ready to go.
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But when the Pat Fitzgerald news broke yesterday, I've seen more
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Twitter, I've seen more feedback, I've seen more message
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board chatter about Fitzgerald and the possibilities of him
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being at some point the heir apparent to the head coach at at
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the University of Iowa. Now, timelines may not match up.
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I'm not saying Ference is done after this year.
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I think Fitz wants to get back sooner rather than later later.
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But have you noticed the buzz, the Fitzgerald replacing Kirk
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Ference buzz, and it's seemingly, for the most part, is
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all positive. Yeah, it's really interesting
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that I I thought it was. It was it was really interesting
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that, you know, of course, Ryan Fitzgerald, Pat Sun is a walk on
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this year for the Iowa football team playing quarterback.
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So you have that element that just stirs the pot even more
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because, and truth be told, I spy the fits in the stands at
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Kinnick Stadium at Kids Day wearing an Iowa shirt.
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Though the plot. Thickens yeah, so but I think he
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was there just in fact I talked to Ryan the day before media day
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and he said yeah, he'll be there he's just a supportive dad.
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You know, it's nothing, nothing nefarious going on.
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So it's you know, I, I think now that things are settled now Pat
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can start looking at what is next act is going to be and I
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don't I always just kind of envisioned he's probably going
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to have to start at like the Mac level or something if he wants
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to be a head coach. I didn't I didn't really
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envision him like, okay, here's the big 10 job Pat get back to
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work. You know, I just I didn't
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envision that. So but you know, he got
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completely exonerated and that's one thing.
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I mean, then and and Northwestern had to come out and
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say, hey, basically we screwed up.
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We're sorry. You know, the the interesting
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thing I thought about was was, you know, bronze on the hot seat
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this year. What if they just went back to
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fit? How about that?
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They said hat in hand and just, you know, they're opening up
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that thing, that new stadium next year.
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And you can just say, you know what, we screwed up.
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We shouldn't have ever let this happen.
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Welcome back, Fitz. And you know, because at some
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point, aren't they going to have like a a statue of Fitz as a
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coach or something outside of that stadium?
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Yes, they have to, right? And I mean, it's just, it just
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seems like a natural thing. Just tuzzle.
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That's an interesting door Thompson just opened.
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That's very, that's very good. And you just don't know his
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background. Now you know.
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Is he? Bitter.
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Yes, to embolden that he's not going to do it.
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He would not do it. But that's what we don't know.
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It's certainly an interesting conversation.
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Well, there was more to Kurt Ference yesterday, including I
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think a quote that I took one way, but I think some of the fan
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base maybe takes another. That's the left tackle position.
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One of the biggest topics that we've had all the way back to
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spring. Bryce George looks like he's
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going to be more of an inside guy making that transition from
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D2 felt like Lock almost had a lock on the position.
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And then he brings up Jack Dotesler maybe having the best
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camp of anybody. So is this job actually close or
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is this more like Jack Dotesler is likely going to be the right
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tackle next season after Jennings Dunker moves on?
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Let's keep Dotesler happy. But Lau Kazuge, how do you read
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it? That's kind of the way I read it
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was Jack, we're, we're making you.
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We're we're really happy with your play.
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We want you to stay around. So we're going to shower you
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with praise. That was what I kind of felt
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like when the two deeps came out in the spring and it had Jack
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Dosler as the starter. I thought that was like more
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experience and what have you, you know, so much of stuff that
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goes on today. And I'm not saying Iowa is doing
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this or nor are they above it because they should be, but he's
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doing this now. Is is listing guys on depth
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charts different? I mean, that's why Kirk didn't
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put out the depth charts this year because he just doesn't
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want guys disgruntled, you know, like, yeah.
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Because, you know, in the spring, if Dozer sees like, oh,
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well, Laos already passed me, he could just dive right in the
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portal, You know, And part of this is just kind of this, this
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show that you have to put on for for players now to keep them
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from entering the portal. And this is probably part of it.
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I think it makes sense, absolutely.
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What about the comment on Gronowski that he's been getting
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more comfortable? No, gaining more comfort, I
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think is how he put it. And I think is he, is he kind
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of, I guess reaffirming some of the chatter they've been out
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there that he hadn't had like every day didn't go perfectly,
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that there were some some lows or some highs or some lows, a
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little bit of both. But when he said gaining more
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comfort, how did you take that? Yeah, just that he's I I think
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he's he's growing with the position and he's getting
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better, he admitted. I mean, I think after the kids
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they practice yeah, he's been rusty and I think there's been
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everybody kind of gets anxious and, and rightfully so.
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I mean, I will fans have been through it with the quarterback
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position last like 4 years, right?
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You know, it's just been a, it's been a carnival of, of not great
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and every turn is just not good. So it's you, you understand why
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there's some scar tissue for Iowa fans when they see a, you
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know, a guy come in and he's supposed to be great and then he
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struggles and they're like, oh, here we go again.
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And I think we're now he's going to be fine.
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I really do. I wrote something this week.
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I'm like, hey, let's just give him a few weeks.
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And if at the end of like the Indiana game, if there's just
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you just can't stomach it anymore, then boy, that then you
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probably have an alarm bell if he's really struggling after
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four games. But I think he's going to get
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out there and just and play continue to grow as a
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quarterback. So we get from Kirk yesterday,
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this is a very healthy team. And of course, knock on wood.
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But some of the guys we wonder about, TJ Hall, he's back out
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there practicing. Kamari Moulton, TJ Washington,
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those guys are back out there. Is it just kind of a fluky, hey,
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they made it through camp pretty good.
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Or do you think there's something more here with Raymond
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Braithwaite and what he's doing strength and conditioning wise?
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Because I can't remember a year quite like this that they're
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this healthy before game #1. And that's legit too.
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I was talking to somebody earlier in the week about it and
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I did the program and they're like, can't believe.
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And I, I was just like, this is going to be the kiss of death.
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They're going to just start. There's going to be guys
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dropping like flies against Albany.
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You know, it's just how it's going to be.
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That's just the minute you bring that up, it's just inviting.
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But that's just my 6th sense of, of, of the way the world works
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sometimes more than anything else.
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But yeah, I they're, they're really healthy.
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And, you know, now they got Kamari back doing some stuff.
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I'm really, really, really curious about what happens at
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running back in this first game. I think they're, I think Omar
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Young's going to try to get a bunch of guys out there and say,
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OK, somebody go out and win this job like Caleb Johnson did last
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year in the against Illinois State.
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And. That till the second-half
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because. He was suspended second-half.
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Yeah. And who is going to win it, Tom,
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if you had to bet? But you know who everybody the
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the favorite right now is, is Danton McNeil.
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I mean, he's. He's a freshman all right now.
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Yeah. And the true freshman I'm, I
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kind of lean that way a little bit.
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I just think the kid is just, you just see it and you know, I
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use the term whatever it is, he has it.
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It's just there's something about this dude that's just he's
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different. And but I just worry like Kamari
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battling this hamstring thing. It's like Lashawn Williams last
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year. And we'll get to see Lashawn
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Williams play what, tomorrow afternoon or whatever it is
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against Fresno down with Kansas. I mean, Lashawn was out of there
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by October. You know, he was he and he was
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out of the program, you know, in the portal by October because
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Caleb Johnson just went out and won the job and was getting 25
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carries a game and there was no room for him anymore.
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And so he just said, you know what, I'm just going to going to
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bounce and ends up at after a brief stop at Memphis, I believe
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now he's at Kansas. Yeah, that was a weird one too.
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And Speaking of Memphis, you want to have fun time?
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I brought this up to Ken a week or so ago.
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Take a look at Memphis is Too Deep over at our lads, they have
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something like 40 transfers into that program.
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It is all yellow. That's what transfers are listed
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down there. It's the most incredible thing
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you'll take a look at. Speaking of the Tigers, hey, I
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got one thing at the wide receiver position for you.
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So it really does feel like Seth Anderson, it's finally
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happening. Speaking of health, he's
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healthy. We know Vanderzee looked very
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good as a freshman. He takes a step forward.
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Gil. Solid, dependable, really,
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really good. But then after that, you got all
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these candidates. So if you had to make your
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prediction, who's going to be #4 and five?
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Leave those top three guys to the side.
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Give me #4 and #5 out of that deep group of what, four or five
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guys? Yeah, I was wrong about that.
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Just kind of one final look at the fall camp and, and for this
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morning and the receivers and and I kind of wonder if Weijin's
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name has come up too much to for me to ignore.
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It is kind of just talking to people around the program,
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talking to Tim Lester this summer and he just kept bringing
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up Weijin. And I'm like, OK, they're going
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to do something with Weijin this year.
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And after that boy, I, I would guess Phillips, OK, probably
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because you just don't they're gonna give him a shot And and
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you know, he started the he was out there with the ones for the,
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the, the kids day practice. So maybe that's an indication of
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what they think of him. And he's one of the guys that
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went on that trip too. But but you got to throw KJ
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Parker in there too. KJ Parker's going to play and
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he's going to play a lot. So they've really got like 6
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guys. And then after that you, that's
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kind of where I concluded is you can probably shuttle in six guys
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and give them significant rest. But then if you're Dayton Howard
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or Jared Bowie, well, you're going to be scraps.
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You know, you're kind of out of the mix a little bit.
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So. But yeah, Andersy's had a really
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good camp and Anderson has been terrific.
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And just, you know, now Iowa fans, knock on wood that Seth
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Anderson stays healthy. Yeah, because he hasn't been
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able to. I want to go back to Nathan
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McMillan because that kind of strikes me a little bit of if
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you, McNeil, McNeil, beg your pardon.
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Yeah, not McMillan. Nathan McNeil.
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What's? The how?
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What was his recruitment like? Tom, who was after him?
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How did I would get him? Or was he one of those guys that
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somehow nobody was aware of that just kind of fell into their
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lap? Help me out with McNeil.
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There's a there's a little bit of that to it was in fact, in
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October of last year. They had kind of quote air
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quotes offered him, but he but they didn't bring him up on an
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official until later. And he and his dad came up for
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for a visit just on their own dime to kind of check it out.
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And it was Liddell bats guy that, you know, he was working
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in Florida and really liked him and thought that the kid would
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be a good fit, But I don't think anybody thought it would be as
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good as he's been. And and he's just he's
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unnatural. I mean, it's just, it's Akram
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Wadley with more size. I mean, Kirk's brought it up.
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He's like he's £200 because that was Kirk's gripe with Akram for
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a lot of his career was he was 175 most of the time.
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And just I wish he'd put on some weight and everything.
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And, and now this kids, you know, he's a salad 200 lbs and,
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and he just, he glides. He just moves differently than
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than other backs. And and yeah, he was, I think it
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was like Florida Atlantic, some of those schools.
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I mean, it wasn't like he had a voodoo of schools.
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Yeah, I if memory serves, it was down to Rhode Island, Arkansas
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State, and then he got the outlaw.
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Come on. Yeah, and.
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He's crazy. And Liddell bets, How about that
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for a parting gift as he goes out the door?
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Basically, his last recruit very well could be this guy as he's
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off to the NFL. All right, Tom, we know you like
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betting, and I'm going to throw a wager out to you.
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There's going to be even money, all right, across the board.
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It's a prop bet. I got 3 defense alignment who
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finished this year with more tackles for loss, not sacks,
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tackles for loss. Brian Allen.
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Yosei Upanessa or Kenneth Merriweather?
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I think all those guys are going to play.
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Not sure how many snaps any of them are going to play, but
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they're going to be part of the rotation.
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Who do you like, Alan Merriweather or Ebenessa?
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I'm going to say Brian Allen because I know he's going to be
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in there on those the special packages for 3rd down where
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where he's going to be in there as like a deep tackle.
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So I'm going to go with Brian Allen.
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I I'm AI am I've been driving the Brian Allen bandwagon for a
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couple years. I think he's a super talented
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young guy and but you know, USA is USA has impressed people.
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I'll say that. And I boy, I'm interested, but
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USA does this year because I think he's going to help him at
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some point in the season. But they that defensive end
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position is really deep and talented.
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I mean, you know, Chima Chikay was really good in the spring
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too, and he's another defensive and he was hurt kids day thing.
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But yeah, he's another really talented kid too.
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Where, where's Jeremiah Pittman on his recovery, coming back
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from that knee surgery? Is he anticipated by next
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Saturday being out there and you know, can give him 2530 snaps if
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necessary? Yeah, I'm not sure if he's going
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to give him that much. I think he'll be back out there
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and then be in uniform. But I think they're going to
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take it pretty easy with him out of the gate because he was
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coming back from the knee surgery.
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So hopefully they can get him back out there because they but
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they like the the Hubert kid that's, you know, to walk on
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that. It's really stuck out.
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I mean, he's been very good and Devin Kennedy has come along too
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at defensive tackle, you know, his dad, good buddy, hence they
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play the NFL guy and you know Jimmy Kennedy.
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So I mean, he's a guy that he's got the frame, he looks the part
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and he's coming along. So that's another guy to watch
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too. Get the yard work done tomorrow,
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Tom. You're out of Saturdays.
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This is it, my friend. No.
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Tom, thank you. I got to watch the cyclones.
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Hell yeah, right off the bat. No question about it. 11:00
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tomorrow morning, you guys. The Hawks will see them in Week
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2 with Jack Trice. Thanks, Tom.
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Talk to you next week. Appreciate it as always.
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Have a good week, Tom. See ya.
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Take care. Yeah.
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Bye, Tom. Cacord, hawkeyereport.com.
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So what's younger Epineza? Older Epineza?
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This part go back to when AJ was a freshman, yes, I mean, he
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certainly looked the part. Yes, he.
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Did he? And he'll say he does too.
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He does too, so. I think if I remember Calvin
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Bell back at media day a couple weeks ago, he mentioned, without
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saying it outright, this defensive line is a lot better
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shape than that defensive line was.
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AJ had to play because they just didn't have the same amount of
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bodies. We just talked about the depth
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of this defensive line and I don't know if there's a star.
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I like Herket, I like Llewellyn. Those guys are are good.
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Graves, he had a good season last year.
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He had 6 1/2 sacks from the defensive tackle position.
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That doesn't happen for Iowa defensive tackles very often.
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And then you talk about all those young guys that we were
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talking about. I don't know.
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Numbers wise, he's not going to have the same kind of snaps at
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AJ, but people have said developmentally he's further
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ahead of where AJ was when he showed up.
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Well, that's kind of why I was asking so that that's.
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But it's just he's not going to have snaps, you know, because of
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that. And what do you do?
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This is also a different environment.
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People freaked out because AJ wasn't a starter and you could
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see the talent right away. Well, now are people going to be
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freaking out when he's only playing, you know, a dozen snaps
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a game? Probably realistic, 10 to 15 a
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game. Good.
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Problem to have in somebody in front of them like that.
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All right, here's another problem.
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At least maybe we can solve this problem.
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If you want to tailgate tomorrow with Iowa State playing, how
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about our friends at Berkshire Farms?
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They put together this bundle for this coming weekend only for
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WAG Shire patties, for two packages of brats for in each
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package, a tenderloin. If that's not enough, a rack of
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Saint Louis ribs, all for $50. It's at Berkshire Farms.
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They're on 14th St. It's just I guess South of
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Ankeny if you want to put it that way.
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Here's their address. Their physical address. 656615
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NE 14th, 6615 NE 14th. That is 1 hell of a deal.
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All for 50 bucks for white Shire patties, couple of brat
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packages, foreign package, a tenderloin and a rack of Saint
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Louis ribs. That is a tremendous tailgate
19:30
package and need to be picking one of those up because tailgate
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season begins for me. Not this week, next week, but
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this week. I'm going to be watching the
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game, not with the tailgate. You're going to be out.
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At the Corner Tap in West Des Moines it is the West Des Moines
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Valley Booster Club event, $10 tickets get you a free food and
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a drink ticket for the Iowa State Kansas State game starts
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at 10:30 at the Corner Tap goes till 3:00 until after the game.
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There's going to be a lot of raffle prizes that are going to
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be available. So if you're in the West Des
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Moines community, want to celebrate with the Tigers and
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watch a little Iowa State K State Corner Tap in West Des
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Moines just off a grand. Just off.
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Is it in the the Hyvee mall there?
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Yes, I know where it is. Yes, the old chicken coop was
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there. The original The original
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chicken. Coop yes from that.
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Soccer bar was there, remember? Limey's.
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Limey's. Yes, Slimey.
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'S it's now Grand Junction Bazin.
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Yeah. And I believe the same guy owns
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both of those. Is that right?
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Memory. I think that's what it is, but
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should be fun. Corner Tap Tomorrow Tap What
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time are you getting there? 1030 ready to go gonna be doing
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some MC ING giving away a few door prizes having some good
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time and I'm excited to see this game so much.
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I I bet on Iowa State as you know for a few weeks.
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I haven't got anything yet that has compelled me to move off it,
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but you've been the other way and I haven't been able.
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To talk to me in Iowa State, I I'm.
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Getting close, huh? It's.
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Just a toss up game. It is.
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It's a complete toss up. I'm just I I was take on him
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last year, so I'll take K state this.
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Year I had one final. I was trying to find a different
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angle, something again, maybe to change my mind.
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One thing that jumped out last year, Avery Johnson, I was just
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going through his game log. Against Iowa State or.
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Just in general, overall, when Kansas State lost football games
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almost to AT, those are the games that he didn't run the
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football very well. He didn't.
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He didn't he. In fact, his only game that they
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lost, that he ran the ball decent was against Iowa State a
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year ago. It's as simple as that.
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You got a key on him. The problem is because.
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Edwards is going to get his. He averages 7 yards a carry.
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He'll give the ball to you, Avery Johnson did a year ago.
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I'm just. I got to see a pop for him
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before I really believe. I was so disappointed in him.
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I. Couldn't agree with you more.
21:46
I couldn't. Will Howard left?
21:47
Yes. But they ran him off, yes, And
21:49
he went to win a national championship in Ohio State, So
21:52
it worked there, OK. Yes, he was a happy happy with
21:54
it, yeah. Right.
21:55
But we just expected this kid to just be through the roof, right?
21:59
Wasn't he was good? He was good but he wasn't great
22:02
and we just maybe we bought too much a Klein and sinker.
22:06
Let's go to Dublin. When we come back.
22:08
Our colleague Heather Burnside will join us next.
22:10
She's been there all week long. The Iowa State pep rally, I
22:14
think it just wrapped up or is in the process of doing so.
22:17
Heather joins us next. Kind of set the scene for
22:20
tomorrow. Miller and Condon, glad you're
22:22
with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
22:29
I'm Hillary Condon. Welcome back just past 130 on a
22:32
football Friday top of the hour off the bench, Lucas and Sean
22:36
take you until 5:00. Trends, plays of the day still
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22:42
But let's head over to Ireland, catch up with our colleague
22:45
Heather Burnside. She's been there all week
22:47
gallivanting around the country. Good stuff we're following on
22:52
social media or social has been outstanding following your week.
22:55
So was it all that you expected Heather?
22:58
Have you been surprised in a pleasant way?
23:00
What's the experience been like? It has been really incredible
23:05
and I, I've run into a lot of people that have said I, I think
23:09
I let, I brought the wrong clothes.
23:11
I thought it was going to be a little colder, a little more
23:13
rainy. We haven't had any rain.
23:16
The temperatures have been in the upper 60s to about 70.
23:19
It was sunny most of the day here until about the last hour
23:22
or so. I just left the Iowa State rally
23:26
where, let's see, John Walters obviously spoke.
23:30
The the pep bands were there, dance squad, cheerleaders.
23:35
Jamie Pollard spoke. Matt Campbell, Rocco Beck, Caleb
23:39
Bacon, we're on stage now. We saw an entire bus, couple of
23:44
buses of Kansas State players leaving their pep rally a couple
23:48
of hours ago. So I'm not 100% clear if all of
23:52
their players showed up at the pep rally.
23:54
But Matt Campbell chose to bring two of his leaders, 2 of his
23:58
captains. They spoke for a couple of
24:00
minutes and then they immediately took off.
24:02
I'm sure to probably go back to whatever it is that they're
24:05
doing to get ready for the game. I didn't see Rocco's parents at
24:09
the pep rally along with, I don't know, thousands and
24:12
thousands of other Iowa State fans.
24:13
Crazy here. So it's so interesting because
24:16
you're having a great time. We can see that at social media.
24:19
We know the Cyclone fans that are there are having such a
24:21
great time. And then you have the actual
24:24
team, the people that you're there to cheer for and root on.
24:26
And this is very much a business trip.
24:28
From what Matt Campbell's told us throughout the summer, making
24:31
the conversations, talking to, you know, all kinds of NFL teams
24:34
and college teams in the past of how they did it.
24:37
This is very much a business trip.
24:38
Are you surprised at all that this was not something, hey
24:42
let's take the team over a little bit early and and see
24:44
some sights and sounds maybe earlier in the week Instead?
24:47
This is a football only trip early for these guys.
24:51
Honestly, the only reason why I thought maybe it would be
24:55
prudent for them to come over just a day or two, maybe earlier
24:58
than they already did, is, at least for me, it took a while to
25:02
adjust to the time change. It's past 7:30 at night here
25:06
right now. Now granted, I started the day
25:09
at 10 in the morning with a beer from Guinness Storehouse, so
25:12
sure, that's probably another reason why it seems like it's
25:15
been a really long day. But, you know, it takes a while
25:19
to get used to the new time change.
25:21
But again, I also haven't done months worth of prep to try to
25:25
figure out the best way, as you know, college slash professional
25:29
athletes to to adjust to the time change.
25:31
So I'm going to leave it at the Matt Campbell that he's doing
25:35
the right thing for his team and what he's learned.
25:37
So I I saw you had Guinness early, the one you just referred
25:40
to. Did you drink Guinness before
25:42
you went to Ireland? And if so, is it the same
25:45
Guinness here as you can get theirs different?
25:49
Well, I'll, I'll, I'm going to just clarify all of this by
25:52
saying Guinness has never been my favorite.
25:55
I I like it. I will say this, having a
25:58
Guinness at the Guinness Storehouse, that was the best
26:01
Guinness I've ever had, right? Takes it up and it should be.
26:04
It's literally made right there. That's that's good.
26:08
So the game itself, what what are you hearing?
26:11
Obviously you're, you know, surrounded by cyclones.
26:14
So I'm sure they're a pretty optimistic bunch.
26:16
As you look at this thing. I Trent, can make a case.
26:19
I can make a case. It's K state, it's Iowa State.
26:22
This is a complete toss up to me.
26:24
Heather, how do you see it? I see it as I'm nervous to tell
26:29
because I don't know what's going to happen either.
26:31
And we do have a handful of K State fans that have been
26:34
traveling with us all week. They're quieter bunch.
26:36
They're not the kind that's going to sit there and put it in
26:39
our face, hey, we're going to win Saturday.
26:40
At least not yet. Granted, I mean, game day is
26:44
tomorrow. We'll see if we're all getting
26:45
along Kumbaya like we have been all week.
26:47
But as far as what I've seen on the streets, we were in the area
26:52
when the K State pep rally got out from this park.
26:55
And I feel like there's lots more Iowa State fans here, lots
27:01
more. We'll see what happens tomorrow
27:03
when we get to the stadium. You know, it's so interesting
27:06
and and Heather, you as a long time fan and alum, knowing this
27:09
series history, we were talking just yesterday about that long
27:13
stretch from Kansas State and that run that they had of just
27:16
dominating this series, winning every game, Iowa State blowing.
27:20
Really weird. Oh.
27:21
Yes, The Big Lead at the half the the game that they couldn't
27:24
kneel on, yes, there's so many of them, but that has flipped.
27:28
I mean, is it, is it a little bit odd as a long time Iowa
27:31
State fan that Iowa State's won four out of five in this?
27:34
And in a way, Matt Campbell, he kind of owns Chris Kleiman.
27:39
Yeah, and I I would like to think that that is OK
27:42
everybody's going nuts because side just walked by what's up
27:45
side anyway, Yeah, it's been nuts.
27:50
I I feel like again, if if any fan comes up to me, whether
27:55
they're Kansas State, Iowa State and says I know what's going to
27:58
happen tomorrow. Well, you're you don't.
28:00
Nobody does. Yes, history would say that Matt
28:03
Campbell and the Cyclones are going to have an edge.
28:06
We'll see what we shall see. Heather, last thing from you, I
28:10
read some Cyclone fans had a travel nightmare with their
28:14
travel company getting. Sage Rosenfeld.
28:16
How about that? Sage good.
28:19
I'm alive on the radio if you want to come over.
28:21
He's like, Nope, I'm still walking.
28:24
There was some fans that had an awful experience getting there.
28:27
Why don't you take a minute and and give some flowers to your
28:31
travel company. By the sounds of things, it's
28:33
totally buttoned up. Everything that was promised has
28:36
been delivered. Yeah, and I saw that story about
28:40
the the people that went with a different travel company and had
28:43
some flights canceled. Obviously that happened.
28:45
But when you choose holiday vacations, your tour director is
28:50
with you. So if your flight gets canceled
28:53
or you have to change plans, there is somebody right there.
28:56
You don't even have to call. They are there to start
28:59
troubleshooting for you. And and I, when I saw that they
29:02
basically paid the same amount as what this trip was.
29:05
There's four people that ended up having to book their own
29:07
flights after they got delayed and then missed like 3 days of
29:11
their vacation. I felt really bad for them.
29:13
Yeah, no doubt we're living vicariously through you,
29:16
Heather. Have fun.
29:18
When do you guys get back? When's your flight back home?
29:20
Do you leave Sunday or Monday? Gotta leave Sunday, right?
29:24
No, we're leaving Monday morning because, you know, then we we're
29:30
going to end up, it takes, obviously it's a long flight.
29:33
It's even longer when you're going West because you don't
29:35
have the tailwind. But we will get back at like
29:37
9:30 at night on on Monday night.
29:40
Good stuff Heather and Joy and again, well done over there with
29:44
all the socials etcetera. Enjoy the game tomorrow,
29:47
Heather. Thank you.
29:49
Thanks. I'm going to go back to the sin
29:51
bin. No joke.
29:52
That is the name of the bar that we're at right now.
29:54
Nice. Well, well chosen.
29:55
Have fun, take care. Thanks.
29:57
Yep, see ya Heather Burnside, our colleagues when she checks
30:00
in from Dublin. Sounds like a blast.
30:01
I do have a little envy. As much as I hate to get out of
30:04
Ankeny, I do have a little envy. That would be.
30:07
It's just all the the architecture, all the old stuff,
30:09
right? The old bars, the brick.
30:13
Yeah, it'd be fun, The castles. Yes, yeah, that part.
30:16
The cliffs, you know, what body of water is that below, do you
30:20
know? No, No, I don't either.
30:24
A sea. It's probably a sea.
30:26
I'm going to guess, yeah, you know.
30:27
What? I bet it is a sea.
30:28
Yes, Now which sea? Well, I, I, I can't help you out
30:32
there because there that would. Be the Black Sea.
30:36
One sea. What do we got here?
30:37
You go across that is the the well, that's the Irish Sea.
30:41
There's such a thing as the. Irish Sea.
30:42
The Irish Sea. Yeah, we nailed it.
30:44
Weed all over that one. So people wonder why we don't
30:47
like to stray very way away from sports.
30:50
Here's example #497. It's the Irish Sea, Ken.
30:54
It's the Irish Sea. The Irish Sea had you.
30:56
Heard of it until right now. I had.
30:58
I hadn't. But if you go I've.
31:00
Heard of 1C, the Black Sea. The Black Sea?
31:02
You never heard of the Baltic Sea?
31:04
I've heard of two CS. Yes, yeah.
31:07
Dead. See the Mediterranean?
31:08
Oh, the Mediterranean. I I've been in the
31:10
Mediterranean. Have you?
31:11
I have just. Flaunting our geographical
31:14
knowledge look. At US Can we get back to sports?
31:16
OK, Miller and Condon back after this on the Iowa Sports Radio
31:19
Network. Hillary Condon, welcome back
31:21
Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller.
31:24
Our final segment of the week. Trends, plays of the day, Circus
31:28
sports sponsor. Those.
31:29
You know, at this time of year, I always feel bad for baseball.
31:32
We. Talked about baseball every day,
31:34
every hour. Yes.
31:36
From opening day essentially until yesterday, we did.
31:40
Tuesdays and Wednesdays are for. Baseball, I know once you get to
31:43
football, that's kind of the way it is, isn't it?
31:46
It's just, it's just bananas that we both love it.
31:50
It's not like we don't all of a sudden we just give up our
31:53
affinity for the game. But just football just Trump's
31:56
everything. Get out.
31:57
Get out of the way, baseball. I got so mad at myself the other
32:00
night for what I was doing some work down in the basement, had
32:04
the computer up and had the TV on and it was on the Twins game.
32:07
I got bad at myself for watching.
32:08
Well, yeah, let's knock it off. Go back to the Cubs.
32:12
Brewers don't even have it there because it was stuck there and
32:14
it was there for like 20 minutes.
32:15
I'm like, no, no, no, stop, stop having it on there.
32:19
The team sucks. Just pull the Band-Aid off and
32:22
stop going to 660. 8-3-3, wherever it is.
32:27
By the way, Lee Corso special tonight on ESPNI think it's 8:00
32:31
Jay Scott. So if you can't watch it, record
32:33
it. This is going to be a big week
32:35
of tributes for him. As we said yesterday, at some
32:38
point in the program, it's his final week next week, his final
32:41
game day appearance next week and you're going to see a lot of
32:44
these. There's the piece in the
32:45
Athletic was phenomenal. Did you get around to reading
32:47
it? Just the beginning.
32:49
All the tributes. From all the people that he
32:51
worked with, how they remember him, some of the quirky stuff
32:54
that he did. He would bring a briefcase to
32:56
the meetings and he'd go to the snack table and he'd load up two
33:00
or three of everything, put him in his briefcase.
33:02
He wouldn't go out for dinner. He'd eat out of his his brief
33:06
potato chips and candy bars and whatever can of pop was
33:11
available. So just so much, so much cool
33:13
stuff about him stuff some of the stuff we know, some of the
33:16
stuff we don't know. But I'm going to make sure that
33:19
at the very minimum record that tonight.
33:21
Is there baseball in your future tonight?
33:24
I know for me, Shane Bieber's pitching for the Jays.
33:26
So I'm going to watch that and and cross my fingers that he's
33:29
OK. Cubs are out in LA, not take on
33:32
the Dodgers. The Angels.
33:33
Dodgers have a date with the Padres as the Padres tried to
33:37
save a little face after they got swept No versus Darvish.
33:41
And you touched down a couple of games.
33:43
I'll be betting here this evening, my picks of the day
33:46
presented by Circa Sports. We're going to open things up
33:49
and yes, by. The way.
33:50
Nice pick on the Giants. Yesterday.
33:52
Oh, that wasn't that. Easy.
33:53
It was a cinch. And even after they closed it up
33:55
right before half, I mean, it's just the depth of the
33:57
quarterback position. Speaking of that, I have not
34:00
touched anything yet. NFL wasn't able to get around to
34:04
it, so I might add something to the card, but as of now,
34:06
nothing. What are the?
34:08
What are the? What's?
34:09
The line in the Chiefs game, it's Chiefs are favored by 1.
34:12
So Mitch Wednesday, yeah, because Thursday yesterday was
34:17
on tape. So he kind of tipped his hand.
34:20
Not that he has the final say. The Chiefs are now 3 1/2
34:25
Courtney ESPN, but that Mahomes going to play.
34:30
Remember when he said that, yes, he expects them to to see action
34:34
in this week. So that's a little nugget
34:36
perhaps if you're so inclined and you have to pet.
34:39
I'm looking at season. Football, I'm looking at the
34:41
board right now. Chiefs is anywhere from 1 1/2 to
34:44
pick them. I think a DK so yeah, Slate
34:49
tight line, yeah. Don't have anything on that one,
34:51
though. This is what I got.
34:52
I am fading Shane Bieber. As good as he's been in the
34:54
minors, he's been outstanding. I picked yes.
34:56
I picked him up one of my fantasy leagues a couple weeks
34:58
ago. Good move.
34:59
Yes, but you're betting against him tonight.
35:01
Plus 148, The kid on the other side, Gusto, he's been okay.
35:07
The ERA South of five. I think like two of his last
35:09
four, he's gone more than 5 innings.
35:11
So we're going to take a stab at him 7 to 4 record for him at a
35:14
good price of plus 148 against a guy that hasn't pitched in Major
35:17
League game in a long, long time.
35:19
Other baseball tonight. Speaking of the God forsaken
35:21
Minnesota Twins, give me the White Sox tonight.
35:24
Plus 1/20. What the curveball specialist of
35:27
volley? Well, Zebie Matthews on the
35:29
other side, yuck and yuck. Give me plus money there.
35:32
Two more in baseball, Padres, yes, plus 111 tonight with you,
35:36
Darvish, against Blake Snell in that matchup.
35:39
And I'm going to grab the Reds tonight.
35:41
Zach Littell gets the ball for them against the Diamondbacks.
35:44
The Reds still in contention and you're getting plus 1/15.
35:47
And then one more in the WNBAI will take the suddenly resurgent
35:52
Dallas Wings against Seattle tonight.
35:54
We'll grab the 8 1/2. Yeah, I I'm here in I saw Sophie
35:58
Cunningham on a like a one minute ex vignette.
36:01
She was asked about Caitlin Clark.
36:04
I'm not sure she's going to play this year.
36:06
Would you fall off your chair? I.
36:08
Wouldn't and it's a groin injury.
36:11
Well, there was, I mean, it was clear that when she when she
36:13
tore it the last time and then as some, as my neighbor said to
36:17
me, he's watching the other night and she got up the cheer
36:20
and she was, she grabbed her groin like maybe she got up too
36:22
far. Obviously there there's
36:24
something there. So that app that you were just
36:27
on that lists pitchers. The reason I'm asking this is
36:31
because I'm looking, I'm on ESPN.com and it didn't list who
36:34
is pitching for the Marlins. So I want to ask you about the
36:37
Cubs because it says undecided for the Cubs against Tyler
36:40
Anderson. Does your app have a listed
36:44
starter for the Cubs? It's not an official listed,
36:46
it's a projected. 10 projected. One, yes, and it's Ben Brown
36:49
that they have. Projected.
36:50
They hinted at that. Boog and JD hinted at that
36:56
yesterday afternoon, I guess. So maybe that will be the case.
36:59
Well, we shall see. All right.
37:00
Football tomorrow, obviously, you'd love to see would love to
37:05
see Iowa State win. They certainly can Token K
37:08
state. That's how I see this thing.
37:11
I think it's a complete coin flip.
37:13
Avery Johnson taking another step forward worries me, yes.
37:17
That's a fair one. Edwards, they're going to run
37:19
the football. They got really good skill guys.
37:21
One of their linebackers #45 is absolutely legit.
37:25
This dude's going to make a million tackles.
37:27
Roman Romaine. Romaine I think is how you say
37:30
his last name. He's a, is an NFL player,
37:33
linebacker, middle linebacker for K State.
37:35
Romaine #45 I'm guessing you'll see him make get in a lot of
37:39
plays so. But we know what Iowa State's
37:42
roster looks like. We shall see.
37:43
I'm expecting Ben Bramer not only have a big game but a big
37:47
season if else, if all things go according to plant health wise.
37:50
And Cyclone fans, if you want your team on the money line, the
37:53
best place you're going to find the circus sports.
37:56
Where are you tomorrow? Watching the game one more.
37:58
Time Corner Tap in West Des Moines just off of Grand Ave.
38:02
I'll be out there starting at 10:30.
38:04
Prizes, givesaways for the West Des Moines Valley booster.
38:06
Club. All right, good stuff.
38:09
Enjoy football tomorrow, we'll recap it on.
38:12
Monday. OK, right, that's going to do it
38:15
for us. Appreciate you being with us all
38:16
week. By the way, coming up next is
38:18
Off the Bench with Lucas and Sean Miller and Condom Talk
38:23
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38:26
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38:28
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