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College Hoops talk, What Iowa has to do to beat USC & Ferentz goes viral, NFL Week 10 thoughts, the Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hour number two, Millery Condon, welcome back.
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  It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  We're living listening in the state of I We are grateful that
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  you are. We'll take you until 2:00.
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  Kentucky USCI. We're coming up at the bottom of
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  the Arbor right now off to Chicago.
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  He's David Kaplan, ESPN 1000. Of course, CAPS YouTube channel
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  continues to get bigger and better.
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  Hello, Capper Trenton Ken, thanks for coming on.
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  How are you buddy? Trent and Ken, what's going on,
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  boys? How are all of your awesome
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  listeners? Oh, fantastic.
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  I'll speak for all of them. The Bears pulled one out.
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  Let's start there now having 1-6 of seven.
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  So kind of a pretty good string string going on.
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  Dabel did the Bears a huge favor by playing Russell Wilson, who's
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  just God awful and has now been replaced.
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  Both Dabel and and Wilson, but they pulled it out and you got
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  to give him credit for that cap. I didn't think it was going to
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  go their way. Caleb Williams made a couple of
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  plays late. Here they are at six and three.
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  Not sure what that means. Probably 10 to get into the
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  playoffs, but you got to be happy with that spot.
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  What was the consensus after they beat the Giants cap?
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  That Caleb is that dude that we have a franchise quarterback who
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  has ice water in his veins. You know, he had six passes
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  dropped. They gave him credit for six
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  drops. I mean, he threw a dime to
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  Olamide Zacchaeus in the right side of the end zone as he cut
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  across, and I mean right in the hands for a touchdown, dropped
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  it. He threw another one to him,
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  dropped it. He threw a third one to him,
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  dropped it. DJ Moore, they didn't give him
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  credit for a drop there because I'm not sure he would have been
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  able to catch it and get his feet down.
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  But same type of throw to Zacchaeus.
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  He dropped it in the end zone. Roma, Dunze, a long game dropped
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  it. What are we doing here?
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  This stuff cannot happen and I know it's difficult.
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  It's windy, it's cold. Got to catch the football man
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  when the guy puts it in your hands.
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  So on the game-winning touchdown, if you watch, first
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  of all, Darnell Wright was just magnificent in pass protection
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  and I'm run blocking. Phenomenal.
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  He's going to be an all pro. Darnell Wright, that's his edge
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  blocks Brian Burns. Caleb rolls left and Burden is
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  wide open on a crosser. I mean wide open.
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  And Caleb looks at him and just puts his head down and keeps
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  running. Like Nope.
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  Three times is a charm. Not throwing it to you.
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  Last two weeks he is the top rated quarterback from Pro
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  Football Focus. Really.
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  We have our back and forth with PFF.
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  I'm sure you do as well Cappy from time to time.
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  Still couple weeks stretch here big time.
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  Plays late in the game, situations.
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  Look, I got a little impatient. I got frustrated at the
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  beginning of the year. I'm sure I'm not alone amongst
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  Bears fans amongst this, but it feels like for the first time in
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  a long time, they have both the coach and the quarterback.
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  And though even if it doesn't happen this year, even a playoff
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  bid, the future looks a whole lot brighter than what we saw
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  those first couple of weeks of the year.
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  Yeah, completely agree. And I think I chastised you a
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  couple weeks. Ago I said I need it from time
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  to time. Just exactly.
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  Just. We all do.
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  Just chill. He's that dude.
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  And I told this story on the radio.
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  So Kevin Byard, who does his own show on my channel, he
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  interviewed Rome yesterday. And so you can find it on the
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  recap. It's to his shows called
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  Intercepted. It's all over my social.
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  And it's Kevin Byard interviewing a teammate.
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  And this week's guest was Roma Doonsay and they're talking
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  about Caleb, about the growth from a year ago to now.
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  And then Kevin was telling me, he said I left the facility.
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  Kevin gets to the facility like 6:30 in the morning.
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  He said I get there, I eat my breakfast, I go through my
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  whatever fan mail, I stretch, I get ready and then I have my
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  meetings and then we go to practice.
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  He said I finally leave at 5:00 to go home.
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  He goes long day tiring, you know, your body's banged up.
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  But he goes my job, it's what I got to do.
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  And so he is locked in on his process.
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  He said, I get home, I eat dinner and my wife said, hey, do
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  you have whatever it was he needed?
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  He's like, no, it's in my locker.
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  She's like, you got to go get it.
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  I need it tonight. So he said I live maybe 10
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  minutes from the facility. He drives back to the facility
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  and he said I pull into the player's parking lot and he said
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  every car is gone except two. He said there are two cars.
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  It's 7:00 at night, still parked in the lot.
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  And he said, I look up and I see a light on and I'm like, you've
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  got to be kidding me Because he said when he gets there at 6:30,
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  these two guys are already there and they're already meeting.
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  It's Caleb and Ben. He's like bro he said what a
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  difference a year makes. Like last year was a blank show.
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  This year he said he's getting challenged 24/7 by Ben and he is
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  completely bought in to the concept of coach whatever you
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  tell me I got to do, coach me hard.
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  And then said, OK, you're up for being coached hard, you're going
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  to be coached hard. And he said you can just see the
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  growth in this guy. He's making good throws, he's
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  making good decisions. Does that mean we couldn't get
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  blown out in the game and Caleb look horrible?
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  No, that's part of the deal. That is that goes on the whole
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  the NFL is week to week league. Josh Allen was terrible last
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  week. Terrible.
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  And they get blown out by a really lousy Miami Dolphins
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  team. Lousy.
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  But in the end, they lose to a bad Miami team and maybe that
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  will make them a better team going forward.
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  Same thing with the Bears. I think they're going to beat
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  Minnesota. Do I think they're going to walk
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  in and win their, what, remaining eight games?
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  No, probably, probably not. They're not good enough, but
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  they got a good team and it's one at a time.
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  Find a way to get to 7 and three, and if the Lions happen
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  to lose to the Eagles, you're alone in first in the division.
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  That's crazy. That's great.
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  You're right, cap. You're 1000% right.
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  Eight games left, six wins already in the bank.
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  If you go 500 down the stretch, that's gets you to 10.
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  That gets you in, doesn't it? Oh, I would think 10 and seven
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  gets you in. I absolutely believe that.
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  I told you guys at the start of the year, I'm not a huge fan of
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  the Packers team. Right, I knew there was.
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  I fandom, right? I'm talking about just my eval
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  was Jordan Love's OK, I said. He's pretty good kid.
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  Pretty good. Pretty good at 55,000,000.
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  No, no, I would not have given him that massive contract.
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  I would have tried to tag him for a year and then see how he
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  does. They've decided to take the
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  plunge for 200 and whatever $1,000,000 he's got coming.
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  Good luck. I don't think they're a great
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  team. And now they lost their starting
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  center, Elton Jenkins, to a broken leg.
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  He's gone maybe for the year, maybe he comes back and you
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  know, January if they make a run, I'm not convinced That's a
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  great. One who asked you about one of
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  the newbies on the defense? So they got a bunch because of
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  injuries. CJ Gardner Johnson, veteran
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  press. Now he's only 27.
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  He's been all over the league, New Orleans, Philly, Detroit,
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  back to Philly again, Houston, and now in Chicago.
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  A veteran presence, a guy that has been through the battles
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  before. It just feels like that impact,
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  that veteran kind of guy there. It's helped a ton.
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  Even if it's play hasn't been incredible.
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  Just having another veteran out there has gone a long way with
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  this defense and still has. Still warts, but definitely
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  seems to be improving. Yeah, look, CJ Gardner Johnson's
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  a really talented cat, but there's a reason he's sitting at
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  home. For two.
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  Months, as he put it, trying to get somebody to give him a
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  chance, and he wore out his welcome in Detroit, New Orleans
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  and Philadelphia. And he has ability.
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  So he's obviously warts to what he brings to a locker room.
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  So he's the guy that George Mccaskey, if you'll remember,
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  the Bears and the Saints got into it and they had had an
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  issue with CJ Gardner, Johnson and Javon Wims, our old
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  receiver. And then they were warned by
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  Matt Nagy, do not engage with that guy.
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  And of course, Anthony Miller gets into it with him, gets the
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  second man and always gets now gets a 15 yard unsportsmanlike
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  penalty for punching at CJ Gardner.
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  Johnson, who clearly started it when you watch the film and
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  George Mccask, he's like that kids a punk.
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  And everyone's like, wow, George showing some fire and now he's
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  on our team. But Ben Johnson vouched for him
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  from Detroit. And so we have the culture in
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  our building and in our room to now handle that.
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  That's why they didn't draft Jaylen Carter and took Darnell
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  right with the tray with the Eagles because they didn't have
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  that. The head coach held nobody
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  accountable. There was no alpha in the room.
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  All of a sudden, Kevin Byard and Joe Tooney, Darnell, right?
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  Like some of these dudes are alphas in that room, and that's
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  where we've needed to get to. It's the biggest match up in my
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  life because I grew up in North Iowa, I was one of the few Bears
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  fans up there and my whole family, including my wife, are
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  Vikings fans. This match up let it slip away
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  Monday night to open up the season.
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  What concerns you and what gives you excitement that in a
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  divisional game the Bears can go there and get a road victory?
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  I think they will get a road victory.
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  I do. And I like JJ McCarthy.
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  I think he's a good player and I think he's going to be better.
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  But right now he's had some issues trying to be accurate
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  with the football completion percentage is in the 50s.
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  You can't live in the 50s in the National Football League and
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  think you're going to be successful.
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  They just lost Jonathan Granard for he's a week to week injury.
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  So it does not sound like he's going to play against the Bears.
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  No Granard. J JS got some questions.
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  You would think, wow, big advantage.
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  Chicago, their offensive lines just OK, big advantage.
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  But if I told you that you're not going to have Tyler Gordon,
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  you're not going to have Jaylen Johnson, you may not have TJ
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  Edwards for another week. I don't know if he's going to be
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  able to go and all of a sudden there's a double move on to Sean
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  Wright or Nick McLeod or one of the backups playing for us.
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  We're probably down. I told you those two, Terrell
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  Smith got injured in pre season, done for the year.
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  I mean, you're missing three of your top four corners.
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  That's a problem. And all of a sudden there's a
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  double move from either Jordan Addison or Justin Jefferson or
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  there's no TJ Edwards. And guess what?
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  TJ Hawkinson, dragon across the middle can catch and run.
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  You give JJ McCarthy a little time, he may find some big time
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  targets and that's how you lose a football game.
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  But I do think the Bears will win.
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  It can. Be a great game can't we to
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  watch a cap Let's switch to baseball.
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  It's award season. We're starting to see some of
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  those obviously the gold gloves etcetera.
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  But I'm more fascinated by what the team is going to look like
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  next year. There are meetings going on
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  right now in Las Vegas owners meetings in LV not sure you know
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  what we can anticipate comes out of out of there used to be I
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  mean the hot Stovly used to be a thing.
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  Now it just lingers on and especially with 2027 and the
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  potential of work stoppage looming.
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  What are you hearing about the the Cubs?
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  Hoyer says all the right things. Do you believe them as far as
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  open for business or going to they're going to be active.
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  What do you what do you anticipate gap.
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  He has to say those things like I'm a Jed guy, you know that.
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  I like him very much. But he can only spend what Tom
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  Ricketts lets him spend. I mean, let's just be fair here.
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  He can say, hey, guess what? We could sign Kyle Tucker and we
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  could sign this guy and we could sign that guy.
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  But if Tom does a green light to spend, then they're not going to
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  be able to do it. So that's the problem.
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  I don't know. I believe Jed would like to sign
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  everybody, but Tom going to let him.
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  And I was told by somebody who would know yesterday, they said,
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  obviously the Dodgers don't want a salary cap.
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  They want to be able to spend whatever they can spend.
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  But they said there are three teams, let's see how good you
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  are. There are three teams that are
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  absolutely aligned with the smaller market teams that want
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  the salary cap and the spending restrictions 3.
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  So they're not. Talking about Oakland or Tampa
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  or Whiteside, I'm talking about 3 big market teams that are
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  aligning themselves with the teams that want spending
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  restrictions. Can you tell me who those three
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  teams are? None of them in the AFC East are
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  the the American League East, AL East.
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  None of them in the AL. East, yeah, there's, yeah,
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  there's two of them in there. Are you kidding me?
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  I'm not kidding you. The Yankees and the Red Sox.
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  Bingo, you got it. They both want salary cap and
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  spending restrictions. The Yankees?
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  Yep. Hal Steinbrenner reportedly
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  said. This is unsustainable.
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  We can't spend at this level. Wow.
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  Yeah, yeah. Comforted to nose, Not my Blue
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  Jays. Are real.
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  Yeah, well, but that's. Blue Jays, the Yankees, Red Sox
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  and Cubs. And the Cubs, The other one.
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  Oh my God. Which I think, look, I
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  understand Marquis is not the cash cow they thought it would
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  be. That's that's all well and fine.
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  They own half a freaking Wrigleyville.
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  And the Red Sox own on. Exactly.
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  Look what the Red Sox own around Fenway Park.
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  They've got it all. Correct.
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  Yeah, you know what if. You can't compete.
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  I'm not saying you got to spend 765,000,000 on soda or so, 700
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  on Otani. I'm not saying that.
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  What I am saying is if you're told that Framber Valdez wants
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  to sign with you for 180 million, you're like, now we
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  can't afford that. Well that's a joke then.
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  Sell the team, get out. Yeah, can't afford not to do
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  that. So give us a couple of names
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  that you're hearing cap anything.
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  Yeah, the Cubs are interested in Framber Valdez, but again,
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  because of this impending labor stoppage after next season, a
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  lot of teams are afraid to go long term.
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  They want to know what the rules are.
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  So I think you're going to be surprised.
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  I think you'll see Kyle Tucker will get his money.
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  I don't think it'll be from the Cubs, disappointing as that is,
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  but I don't think you're going to see as many long term deals.
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  You know, some reliever says, yeah, I'll do a three-year deal
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  at 7 million a year, which is nothing in today's game.
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  Yeah, those will get done. But the $400 million deals, I
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  don't think you're going to see very many guys flirt with what
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  they thought they were going to get.
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  So some news that I don't know, it struck me.
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  Kyle Hendricks. Retiring.
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  Yeah, what a. Yeah, the professor.
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  Chicago athlete I've ever dealt. With Is that right?
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  Friends with yes. Like I'm super tight with Tommy
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  Waddle, Olin Cruz and certain guys of guys who I wouldn't say
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  I'm friends with but I'm friendly with and I've done a
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  bunch of different shows with him.
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  He's my favorite athlete I've ever covered because he is the
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  most class human being I've ever dealt with.
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  Quite the career, obviously, remember for 2016 and just being
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  a part of that group and a guy, you know, just unassuming, easy
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  to root for and and even there at the end, Ken and I never.
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  Throw 100. No doesn't even throw 90 yet.
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  We were rooting for him all the way up to the bitter end.
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  He's I, I think forward and we still see what the 85 bears mean
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  in Chicago. Is the same thing going to
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  happen with that Cubs team that we're, well, hopefully there's
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  not going to be a drought like there's been with the Bears, but
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  that they are just going to be remembered in that kind of
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  rarefied air. And wherever they go, there's
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  going to be a free dinner, going to be a free drink waiting for
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  that group. Yes I mean it was 108 years.
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  You realize how ridiculous that sounds 108 like for the Bears,
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  they won it in 63. They won it in 85 OK, been 22
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  years. We did go to the Super Bowl in O
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  6 but lost to Peyton Manning and the Colts and we've had a record
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  run of futility. But the Cubs, it was 108 years
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  and they hadn't won. They didn't even play the World
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  Series game at Wrigley in 71 seasons till they finally won
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  Game 5 to get it back to Cleveland.
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  So that will be remembered. And I literally have said this.
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  If you told me the Cubs won the next 10 World Series, the Bears
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  won the next 10 Super Bowls, the Blackhawks won the next 10
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  Stanley Cups, and the Bulls won the next 10 NBA championships,
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  you could add it all together. Nothing will ever compare to
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  November 2nd, 2016. It's the coolest thing I could
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  possibly ever cover. Yeah.
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  Fascinating with that team. Sounds like Chris Bryant might
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  be done. How did you see that latest on
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  him? His back just not get allowed to
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  play. No, he's a great, great person.
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  It's just this market was too big for him.
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  Did he like baseball cap? Yeah, I think he liked the game.
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  I don't think he liked the business of the game.
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  And I think he wants to be a dad and be a husband and be with his
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  kids and which is awesome. Absolutely.
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  This market was, he was not built for this market.
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  He was built for Colorado, San Diego, places like that.
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  He was not built for the grind and the insanity that is Wrigley
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  5:00. Mark Mark Culkin locked on USC.
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  That's recovers the Trojans. It's the Trojans, it's the
• 20:26
  Hawkeyes. It's 2:30 our time.
• 20:28
  Traditional Big 10 battle. Love it, absolutely love it.
• 20:32
  Can't wait to watch it. And Mark joins us.
• 20:33
  Mark Trenton, Ken, thank you for coming on.
• 20:35
  How are you? Mark Culkin, good to meet you.
• 20:38
  Pleasure. It's my pleasure and thanks for
• 20:39
  having me on. Looking forward to this game big
• 20:41
  time. Yeah, absolutely.
• 20:43
  Both teams. I think I watched the
• 20:45
  Northwestern USC game on Friday night and Northwestern game a
• 20:50
  game for the first half, I thought.
• 20:52
  And then USC pulled away a little bit.
• 20:55
  Convincing win in the end. It's the skill guys that just
• 20:59
  jump off my television set when I watch USC, both the receivers,
• 21:03
  obviously King Miller running the football and he's got he's
• 21:06
  not alone. My Ave. is having a terrific
• 21:09
  year. Phil Parker's a really good
• 21:11
  defensive coordinator, as I'm sure you know, but he's got his
• 21:14
  work cut out because this, this offense for USC is absolutely
• 21:17
  loaded. Yeah, US CS often definitely
• 21:21
  have an opportunity or, you know, they they prevent
• 21:24
  challenges. They can be explosive.
• 21:25
  But that's without a doubt. The other day, USC sports
• 21:29
  information director Katie Ryan, she she blasted a post on X that
• 21:34
  USC is the only team in the country putting up 300 yards
• 21:37
  through the air and 200 yards on the ground.
• 21:40
  And just to kind of put that into context, the last time USC
• 21:44
  was doing something like that, that was back in 2005, and
• 21:47
  that's when you had Matt Leonard and Reggie Bush and Wendell
• 21:50
  White and Jarrett lining up on the opposite side of the ball.
• 21:54
  Ironically enough, this year for USC, they're doing it like
• 21:57
  MacGyver. Yes, Jaden Maiava has been a
• 22:00
  quarterback all year, but you brought up King Miller's name,
• 22:03
  the running back. He was actually like 4th on the
• 22:06
  depth chart, and he's a preferred walk on.
• 22:09
  So he's doing all this when US CS 1st 2 running backs went
• 22:13
  down, their third running back has been kind of dealing with
• 22:15
  turf toes throughout the season. And then you go up to very
• 22:18
  offensive line, 5 different starting offensive lines
• 22:22
  throughout the season so far, I think 13 different combinations
• 22:25
  all together during the games. So.
• 22:29
  But in my opinion, this is Lincoln Riley's best coaching
• 22:33
  job since he's been at USA just because of the pieces he has
• 22:37
  available to him. But by all means, Jacoby Lane,
• 22:40
  Makai Lemon on the outside, they are they cause problems.
• 22:45
  I mean, Makai Lemon, he gets more yards after the catch than
• 22:48
  he does at the point of the catch.
• 22:50
  And Jacoby Lane, if you throw it in his area with his jump
• 22:54
  radius, he just throws out that Velcro hand if he makes these
• 22:57
  incredible catches. So I'm looking forward to it.
• 23:00
  You mentioned Phil Parker, outstanding deep into
• 23:02
  coordinator. For me, that's what this game
• 23:05
  really comes down to, his X's and O's on defense versus
• 23:08
  Lincoln. Riley's X's and O's on offense.
• 23:10
  I couldn't agree. With you more, you know, there's
• 23:12
  a plenty of Hawkeye fans that have the hope all right, go out
• 23:15
  there to USC physically line up and and play just a turf battle
• 23:19
  against this Trojan team kind of pull them into the slop, if you
• 23:22
  will. Does sound like there's going to
• 23:23
  be rain. Maybe that would help out with
• 23:25
  the slop. We'll get to that in a moment.
• 23:27
  But what I keep going back to and I know it's just one game
• 23:30
  out of nine so far for USC. That performance against
• 23:33
  Michigan that I'm sure went in with the same blueprint and it
• 23:35
  didn't work. USC physically manhandled
• 23:38
  Michigan in that football game. I guess this isn't your older
• 23:41
  brother's USC team there. There's some toughness, it looks
• 23:44
  like to this group, Mark. Yeah, there's, there's a
• 23:48
  misconception out there that this team doesn't like to play a
• 23:51
  physical brand of football. They do.
• 23:53
  They they, they, they can go toe to toe with teams like Michigan
• 23:58
  and, you know, they proved it. They also proved that they can
• 24:01
  go out to places like Illinois and and, and, and not look that
• 24:04
  good on the deep side of the ball.
• 24:07
  And then, you know, the game that really stands out is what
• 24:10
  happened out in South Bend against Notre Dame.
• 24:14
  But again, USC at home, it's a different animal, Iowa on the
• 24:18
  road, different animal than what they are in in Kinnock Stadium.
• 24:22
  What I saw from Iowa that you're in it causes me some concern.
• 24:26
  And I get the games were in Iowa City, but you held Oregon and
• 24:29
  Indiana both below their their seasonal averages.
• 24:33
  Can they do that on the road and can they do that one week after
• 24:36
  suffering that gut punch law to Oregon last week?
• 24:40
  That's a really good question. Mark Kulkin joining us locked on
• 24:43
  USC trek since I knew you were coming on been anxious to ask
• 24:47
  you this because and you mentioned the Illinois game and
• 24:49
  if memory serves, that was an 11 AM central time kick.
• 24:53
  My question my question to you because Trent and I talk about
• 24:56
  it all the time when we're trying to find an edge when it
• 24:58
  comes to betting or or or picking a team in our head to
• 25:01
  head contest teams from former PAC 12 teams coming east and
• 25:06
  body clock is you know an 11:00 central 9:00 on their body
• 25:11
  clock. Is that a big factor or have a
• 25:14
  former PAC 12 school? Bob put it this way, PAC Pacific
• 25:17
  Time zone schools, have they figured out how to, you know, to
• 25:21
  get around that the yes kick off is 9 O clock their body clock
• 25:25
  time. Is that a big, big issue or does
• 25:27
  that get overblown by by media perhaps?
• 25:31
  I I think that gets overblown. Yeah, I know the coaches will
• 25:34
  bring it up on occasion, talking about the distance, the travel.
• 25:39
  I, I, I can't get on board with that.
• 25:41
  These guys are, look, these are athletes in the prime of their
• 25:45
  lives. They're it's not like they're
• 25:47
  flying Spirit Airlines and they're all sitting in the
• 25:49
  middle seat. Yeah, to me, I think it's
• 25:53
  overblown. It's just a matter of coming
• 25:56
  out, being prepared and just kind of dealing with a new, you
• 26:00
  know, a new environment. One of the things that UFC fans
• 26:04
  constantly bring up is how Lincoln Riley doesn't bring his
• 26:08
  team out there a day ahead of time to kind of get more
• 26:11
  acclimated, you know, do a walkthrough.
• 26:14
  How much that plays into it, I really don't know.
• 26:16
  But as as far as, you know, the media leaning into it, I think
• 26:20
  it's overblown. I really do.
• 26:22
  Mark mentioned the weather looks like it's going to be a rainy
• 26:24
  one now, rainy and 65, a little bit different than rainy and 32
• 26:28
  as I would dealt with a week ago.
• 26:30
  What can you tell us about the weather and how impactful will
• 26:33
  it be? Certainly to that passing game,
• 26:35
  it's getting the ball out quick and into Lemon in space, doing
• 26:38
  those kind of things. But if it is a range wrench kind
• 26:41
  of game, how much maybe does that close the gap a little bit
• 26:44
  for Iowa defensively and maybe slowing down the USC offense?
• 26:48
  I mean, I think it'll play a small role.
• 26:51
  I don't think it'll be a significant role.
• 26:52
  You know, US CS already dealt with the rain a couple times
• 26:55
  this year. You know, they had that whole
• 26:56
  weather delay at Purdue. So again, I don't think it'll
• 27:01
  play a big role. Will ball security play a big
• 27:04
  role? Absolutely, absolutely.
• 27:07
  One of the improvements that Jayden, I should say the USC
• 27:09
  quarterback position because last year was a combination of
• 27:13
  Miller Moss and Jayden Maiaba. Last year I think they threw
• 27:16
  combined 15 interceptions. So far this season, Dayton has
• 27:20
  only found 5 interceptions. With that being said, he's found
• 27:24
  an interception in the last five games in a row.
• 27:28
  So that does bother me because I know how good of a deep the
• 27:31
  coordinator Phil Parker is. And I know he's going to know
• 27:35
  you guys are going to bring your best team out here and do what
• 27:37
  you can to to ruin UFC's chance to to continue on the playoff
• 27:40
  Rd. I know last last week, you guys
• 27:43
  you know, possibly have been eliminated.
• 27:45
  I know mathematically you're still alive, but this is this is
• 27:49
  a playoff game and USC hopefully recognizes that they're playing
• 27:52
  at home because it sets up a huge, huge, huge matchup next
• 27:57
  week in Eugene, OR. No kidding that that's for
• 27:59
  certain. So along those lines about I
• 28:03
  want to ask you a couple of things because we don't talk to
• 28:05
  the former PAC 12 and I love the PAC 12.
• 28:07
  I wish it was still a part of existence.
• 28:09
  I really do not that we don't want you in the in the big 10.
• 28:12
  It's good too. But I just love that conference,
• 28:14
  always have. Understood.
• 28:15
  And I'm in my in my mid 60s, past my mid 60s and it's always.
• 28:20
  The Rose Bowl, too. There you go.
• 28:21
  Hell yeah. So two-part question, what's the
• 28:26
  Colosseum like? Because I've never been bit of
• 28:27
  the Rose Bowl, never made it to the Colosseum.
• 28:29
  What's it like for a fan to go out there?
• 28:31
  And then how much does UCLAUSC mean?
• 28:35
  It's the greatest uniform game of the entire season.
• 28:37
  No one will ever convince me otherwise of that.
• 28:40
  When UCLA wears their powder Blues and you guys do what you
• 28:43
  do, it's phenomenal. On TV, it looks great.
• 28:46
  So what's the Colosseum like and what does the rivalry UCLAUSC
• 28:50
  mean to that area? Sure.
• 28:53
  So to your first question, the Colosseum when it is filled and
• 28:57
  you know they reduced capacity when they did the redesign and
• 29:00
  now seats 77 five when it is filled up, it is loud.
• 29:05
  It's it's got that energy, it's got that vibe.
• 29:09
  It's it can be a difficult place to play if you're a visitor.
• 29:13
  With that said, general tend to be, you know, slow to arrive
• 29:19
  early to leave, but this type of game and can you kind of touched
• 29:24
  on a little bit, you know, it's one of those helmet types of
• 29:28
  games, those uniform types of games.
• 29:29
  I wouldn't be opposed if Iowa wore their home units at the
• 29:33
  Coliseum. It's a fun place when when the
• 29:38
  electricity is inside that stadium and Iowa travels well.
• 29:42
  You guys have a great fan base. So I anticipate it being being
• 29:46
  raucous. I'm looking forward to it big
• 29:48
  time now as far as USCUCLI, it it's a rivalry that, you know,
• 29:56
  the schools are separated by 12 miles.
• 29:59
  It I I love that they both wear their home, their home jerseys
• 30:03
  as well. That you that you pointed out.
• 30:04
  I wish that happened more across the country.
• 30:08
  What this rivalry has been missing, I'd say for the last 10
• 30:12
  years or so. And on any given Saturday, you
• 30:15
  know, doesn't matter. You show up for this game, but
• 30:19
  UCLA has been literally doing less than what USC has been
• 30:24
  doing in football. There was a time where USC and
• 30:27
  UCLA competed for the same recruit.
• 30:30
  It that doesn't really happen and I know a lot of it has to do
• 30:33
  with NIL and just the whole just the way college football, the
• 30:37
  landscape has been laid out recently.
• 30:41
  But that's that's what's missing is USC and UCLA being one of
• 30:44
  those teams are constantly in the top 15, you know, in the
• 30:47
  country where it generates that that national attention right
• 30:52
  now, it it grabs the attention of of Los Angeles and and cut in
• 30:55
  California. So that's what's been missing
• 30:57
  from this rivalry. And you know, USC, depending on
• 31:01
  who you ask as a fan, the number one rivalry is USC versus Notre
• 31:05
  Dame, then UCLA. Some people might even flip
• 31:08
  Stanford in there just because of if you want to go back to the
• 31:11
  whole John McKay era. Yeah, keep playing Notre Dame,
• 31:16
  USC. That has to happen. 100% and
• 31:20
  trust me, if that does not happen, I will be the I will be
• 31:24
  banging the drum the loudest. Trust on that.
• 31:26
  Hey, Mark, one final thing from me.
• 31:29
  Iowan controversy apparently lately has been a thing against
• 31:32
  you Left Coast schools because a clip from three years ago is
• 31:35
  making the rounds across social media when Kirk Ferris was
• 31:38
  talking about looks like they're going to actually invest in
• 31:42
  defense. You know, whatever, to
• 31:43
  paraphrase what he said over there, is this actually
• 31:45
  something inside the USC locker room?
• 31:47
  Is this something that that Lincoln's going to use as
• 31:50
  motivation because they did fire their defensive staff and they
• 31:54
  did do something about their defense?
• 31:56
  What is the USC angle I guess on this one?
• 32:00
  So I don't know if if Lincoln Riley will put it on the, you
• 32:04
  know, on the chalkboard. I think he'll use it as
• 32:06
  motivation to kind of just remind Kirk friends, you know,
• 32:09
  how good of a coach he can be. And now he's still developing as
• 32:12
  a head coach. And you brought up what what
• 32:15
  what Coach Friends said three years ago, which was kind of
• 32:19
  just out of left field, sort of. Thing.
• 32:22
  And so when I showed up to US CS first Big 10 Media Day, I asked
• 32:26
  coach friends about it when he was up there on the dais.
• 32:29
  And then this past Big 10 Media day, I brought it up again.
• 32:34
  I said, hey, did you notice any improvement?
• 32:37
  So it's, it's out there. It's in the cyber world ether.
• 32:40
  I I don't think it's going to play a huge role.
• 32:42
  As I said, I think Lincoln Riley might see how creative he can
• 32:46
  be. He might, you know, take a
• 32:47
  little personally as far as having to go against Phil
• 32:50
  Parker. But yeah, I, I wouldn't be
• 32:52
  surprised if Coach Riley wants to, you know, throw up 3540
• 32:56
  points. Will he get there?
• 32:58
  I don't know. Like I said, you guys bring out
• 33:00
  really solid defense. It's physical.
• 33:03
  They like to get punched in the mouth and they like to see if
• 33:04
  someone's willing to punch them back.
• 33:07
  Mark Culkin locked on USC. Mark, great to get to, to know
• 33:10
  you. Appreciate you coming on and
• 33:12
  we'll do it again. I appreciate it.
• 33:14
  Enjoy the game on Saturday. Thank you, Mark Culkin.
• 33:17
  Appreciate you having me on, Thanks.
• 33:18
  Again, Yeah, good to talk to you, Mark Culkin, as we check in
• 33:21
  on USC. And a little bit with Mark and
• 33:23
  myself coming up on Friday is locked on Hawkeyes.
• 33:26
  We'll have a crossover as we'll dive a little bit deeper into
• 33:29
  the match up. And I know.
• 33:31
  Help out with the pronunciations.
• 33:33
  That's on the To Do List already.
• 33:36
  It happens with parents every every new coach, every new city,
• 33:39
  every new team. Every time.
• 33:40
  And there's still national people that do it, you know?
• 33:42
  It's there was one this year on. Yeah, that is what it is.
• 33:47
  I'm sure it doesn't bother him. Nothing bothers the fan base
• 33:49
  more. It does.
• 33:52
  OK, we'll head to break. Here's what we're going to do.
• 33:54
  Before we do that, however, you want to go to Xavier in Iowa
• 33:57
  7:00 on Friday night. The caller number
• 34:00
  1-515-284-5966. Doctor Stephen Fuller's got 2
• 34:04
  tickets to give to you. You have to pick them up at the
• 34:07
  box office. Whoever his name is on the
• 34:09
  tickets, they have to show up and pick him up.
• 34:12
  If you want to go, If you can go, don't claim him.
• 34:14
  If you can't go, If you want to go, watch Xavier and Iowa Carver
• 34:18
  Hawkeye Friday night, 7:00 tip. And Speaking of Hawkeyes,
• 34:22
  Saturday against USC, game watch happening at Wyler.
• 34:25
  Rose Jefferson Dallas Clark with a meet and greet at Rose
• 34:28
  Jefferson from 11:00 to 1:00. There is also a big sports car
• 34:31
  to memorabilia show happening at Wild Rose.
• 34:33
  I will be there pregame and postgame podcast with locked on
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  Hawkeyes all at Wild Rose Jefferson stop on out game watch
• 34:41
  hang out with me, watch a game watch the Hawkeyes pull off the
• 34:44
  shocker. Let's hope.
• 34:45
  I don't feel good about it. Trent, I don't either.
• 34:47
  I don't either, but. Felt good about better about it
• 34:49
  on Monday. Dallas Clark, though, the big
• 34:51
  ticket item there, Wild Rose Jefferson 11 to 1, the meet and
• 34:54
  greet at Wild Rose and we'll get that color and Iowa Xavier on
• 35:00
  Friday night. Indeed, back up with Transplays
• 35:02
  of the day, their next Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports
• 35:04
  Radio Network. I'm Millery Condon, Welcome
• 35:07
  back. Our final segment here on a
• 35:09
  Wednesday. Thanks to Mark Culkin, David
• 35:11
  Kaplan, Mitch Holtis, who joined us early in the program.
• 35:16
  And our number one, you can listen to the podcast.
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  It'll be available both hours of the podcast will be up and there
• 35:23
  when it suits your schedule. All right.
• 35:25
  Did the Northern Lights get you last night?
• 35:27
  Did you go out of the day? I've seen them a million times,
• 35:29
  yeah. Yeah, you'd probably see him a
• 35:31
  little more often. That was his vibrant.
• 35:33
  So Jack finished up basketball last night.
• 35:35
  It was like 8:00, like my wife said.
• 35:38
  Let's take a peek. Yeah.
• 35:40
  So we headed South out of town because we're.
• 35:41
  You went. Out of town too much?
• 35:43
  Well, because we're already at the Rec Plex, which is on the
• 35:45
  way out of town, so just went down to the coming exit.
• 35:48
  I've never seen anything like that.
• 35:50
  It was above us, so close, so vibrant, without a, without a
• 35:54
  camera, right where it, Yeah, pops on that just by the naked
• 35:58
  eye. I've never seen anything.
• 35:59
  And it's back tonight. It is.
• 36:02
  I've been told we're we're we're watching them.
• 36:04
  Are you? Yeah, cuz I'm apparently my wife
• 36:06
  wasn't aware that last night that they were.
• 36:08
  It's one of those things that in the I don't care, you know what,
• 36:11
  I if I saw the pictures, but I didn't see it myself.
• 36:14
  Yeah, but you know what for the? Kids.
• 36:15
  Yes, Jack was mesmerized. Yeah, by it.
• 36:19
  So what? So what time is it?
• 36:20
  Seemingly it was about 8:39 clock somewhere now.
• 36:22
  Probably 830. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:25
  I hope she'll be asleep and she'll forget.
• 36:28
  Cuz you got matching. I've got matching tonight.
• 36:31
  Trent, you betting matching tonight?
• 36:33
  I am. Give me the RedHawks.
• 36:34
  I'm grabbing Miami of Ohio, plus the four and a half tonight
• 36:36
  against Toledo. It's a standard fate of Toledo
• 36:39
  in a favorite role. Yeah, Miami of Ohio.
• 36:40
  A couple of edges in the game. Specialty is probably the
• 36:42
  biggest one. I like Miami of Ohio plus the
• 36:45
  four and a half and two college basketball games.
• 36:47
  Gonna grab North Texas. I think this is a wrong team
• 36:49
  favorite. Now you're only getting 2 1/2
• 36:51
  out of Oregon State, but I'll do that with North Texas team I
• 36:53
  think is going to be pretty good this year in the American.
• 36:56
  And finally. Got to take Hawaii. 41 If you
• 37:00
  miss the beginning of the show, you can go back and get a deep
• 37:03
  dive into things as they face off against Mississippi Valley
• 37:06
  State. No, here's a chance to fade.
• 37:08
  Steve Alford. Give me the Salukis plus 11 1/2
• 37:11
  out in Reno tonight. Southern Illinois plus 11 1/2
• 37:14
  all. Right.
• 37:15
  Good stuff. You're seeing it better.
• 37:17
  You're the college hoops better of a slow start for you.
• 37:20
  Better than those first 2-3 days.
• 37:22
  Good God that was awful. Not much better.
• 37:24
  We're a little bit better, but I don't know, I this has normally
• 37:28
  been the sport that is by far figuring out the situational
• 37:33
  spots. But that's college football too.
• 37:34
  You know, I'm very much a situational spot guy.
• 37:36
  Fade A-Team off a big wit. It hasn't hit at the same kind
• 37:40
  of level these last couple of seasons.
• 37:42
  Matching tonight. Match.
• 37:44
  It'll get us back on the three. Games.
• 37:46
  It's at 6:00. CBS Sports has one.
• 37:49
  One's on EU and one's on the Deuce I think.
• 37:52
  Maybe bouncing around? Yeah, 'cause the basketball
• 37:53
  slate, the college basketball slate wasn't the best.
• 37:56
  I didn't. There's one game.
• 37:57
  Minnesota, Missouri. That's that's the network.
• 38:02
  No, Maybe watch some of Nico's squad.
• 38:04
  Yeah, at least for at least for a little bit.
• 38:06
  Half time I'm action. And then late night Hawaii.
• 38:09
  No, no, no. Delta Devils plus 41 and a.
• 38:14
  Half I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna check the box score tomorrow.
• 38:16
  Absolutely AM. Thanks for being with us.
• 38:18
  We'll be back tomorrow. Trent and I are here every
• 38:20
  Monday through Friday, noon to two, talking sports with you on
• 38:23
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Have a good rest of your day off
• 38:27
  the bench coming up next.