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David Kaplan talks Bears & Chicago sports, Matt Postins on the Big 12 & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two Miller and Cong and welcome back Des Moines
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Trent tonight with you until 2 battle on the bottom of the hour
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cap man. He joins us talk Chicago sports.
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He joins us each and every Wednesday at this time and he's
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back with us. How are you Capper?
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Doing awesome, how you doing? Doing well.
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I'm a Blue Jays fan doing really well.
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Oh, there you go, back to 22. Indeed it is.
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Let's start obviously with the Bears cap disappointing
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Baltimore without the quarterback Jackson with a
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really bad defence that have been struggling going in.
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I I thought that the Bears could obviously win that football
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game. They were on a bit of a they
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were on a nice run going into it.
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What went wrong? Cap was and what?
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Whatever went wrong? Is it fixable?
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It's definitely fixable. It's when you first two
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possessions, you go down the field, you get to the inside the
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10 and you have to settle for field goals.
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I said to my son at that point we're in trouble because you
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should have been up 14 nothing. You've got to put those away.
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Certainly 10 nothing. You got to get one and it's 6
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nothing. They score and they take the
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lead. And I thought we're in some
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trouble here. I didn't think Caleb was bad.
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I didn't think he was, you know, great thought he was, he was OK.
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He was good in spots. This throw to DJ Moore at the
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end, it's one of the most sensational throws I've ever
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watched. And if anyone didn't see it,
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just pull the tape up of that throw and find it all over
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Social. I mean, he got blasted and he
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put it right in his hands to throw to Rome that he dropped on
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the sideline #1 receivers catch that football.
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They just do to Mark Chase is catching that.
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But Rome has had his share of drops.
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He's got to be a whole lot better.
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And then that defense got better because they got rope on back.
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And that's the first team All Pro linebacker.
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So and then you let Tyler Huntley get comfortable.
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He made some good throws. He was able to beat you with his
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legs 53 yards on the ground. And in the end, he threw a
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terrible interception. So while I thought he played OK
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football, Caleb, that interception, that cannot happen
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ever. Stevenson is banged up.
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We'll see about his available this week.
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Obviously they've been playing without Javon Johnson for a long
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time, Jalen Johnson for a long time.
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You just go on and on this defensive backfield.
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They've been able to get interceptions for some
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turnovers, but overall that defensive backfield is
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struggling. Is a reality though that they
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can get healthy and at least get back to a competent level?
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Or is just this kind of their reality?
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They need to force turnovers to be even an OK defense.
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What are we without takeaways? What are we bad?
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Because when you get takeaways, you're a good football team.
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But without takeaways, you're missing your top four quarters.
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You're missing Jalen Tyler Gordon, Tyreke Stevenson and
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Terrell Smith, who got injured in the preseason Taurus patellar
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tendon. He's done for the year.
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So what are you without takeaways?
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They did make a roster move today.
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They signed like Dennis Rodman of the NFL.
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See Nick, CJ, Gardner, Johnson to a deal.
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So he's going to be with them. He's already on the active
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roster. We'll see that.
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You need bodies, experienced bodies back there.
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But they have got to get Kyler Gordon back off IR.
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This will be his second week. He misses.
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He'll miss two more, the Giants game and then I think the Viking
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game and then he'll be OK. So, so we'll see how this goes.
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They they're a good enough football team.
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They should beat Cincinnati this week.
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Yeah, and then the Giants, although the Giants are better
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with dart. No scataboo, obviously.
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Minnesota I think is circling the drain, and Pittsburgh
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doesn't look like they're great shakes before Black Friday at
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Philadelphia, which obviously would be tough.
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Cap, I know there's a lot of football left to be played, but
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does is the magic #10 to be comfortably into the playoffs as
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a wild card? 9 obviously.
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I guess yes, it could happen, but 10 probably gets you in in
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the NFC. 10 should get you in in the NFC.
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NFC is not great Now it's not. Is there one team you'd bet your
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paycheck? No, no, I don't think.
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Maybe. No, no, it's not.
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I watched. The Eagles aren't great.
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They're good football. Team Maybe it's Detroit.
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So maybe, maybe that's also the Detroit team that got rocked in
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Green Bay one. But I do think they're the best
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team in the NFC, maybe the best team in the NFL.
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So leave them to the side. Why can't you get a wild card
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spot? Why?
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Got to get work done and certainly got to start this
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week. Maybe without Flacco of four
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cents an hang. On a second, that's news to me
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without Flacco. Possibility of him?
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He's still banged up. Flacco's up in the air because
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he's got an AC joint sprain in his shoulder.
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He's got no mobility. If he can't throw, they're not
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going to put him out there. Back to Browning.
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Back to Browning, that would be the the way that that would play
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out cap. One of the things that is
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frustrating and there's a lot of frustrating things watching this
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team year after year, but this year has been their inability
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with the ball in the red zone to punch it in for touchdowns,
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settling for field goals. And a lot of part of it is too
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is the penalties inside the red zone, which is just bewildering.
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But this is also a very penalized team overall.
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Is there anything that you can point to, what these struggles
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are, why they're struggling so much to get into the end zone
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once they get to the red zone? Well, I don't think they trust
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Caleb in the red zone and not throw a pick, even though he
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doesn't turn it over a lot because they run the ball and
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believe the second most of any team in the NFL in the red zone.
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So it tells me they don't trust the quarterback enough to let
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him throw in the red zone. They're probably going to have
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to start too because the running game is not good enough and that
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all the penalties, they're second most penalized his team
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in the NFL. They've got 20 plus pre snap
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penalties, 4th most in the NFL. Those are unacceptable.
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Joe Toonies of two time all pro first team the last two years.
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He can't jump and false start. He just can't.
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And then the official is also got to be better because the
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biggest play of the game was the first down.
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It would turn into a first down, a catch by the Andre Hopkins
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late. He grabs the defensive back by
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the face man, drags him away so he can get space and even JJ
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Watt, who I thought did a really good he's really.
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Good. Yeah, he's really.
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Good. Yeah, he came back 2 plays later
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and said you got to see this, that's a penalty every time and
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they never called. It no, no, exactly what the play
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you're referring to cap. I don't bet props, but if I if I
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did going into it, I thought swift would have had a bigger
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day, especially with the Ravens. Their their defense had not been
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good. Swift was stacked up
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back-to-back 100 plus games. How did they shut him down?
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I was surprised by that. Yeah, they played well up front.
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You got to give them credit, they did.
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And getting Roquan back was a huge addition.
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Yeah, he's really good in the run game.
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Really good. The fire drill to get Cairo
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Santos out there for a long field goal attempt at the end of
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the half. He tries to be nuts and it's
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nothing personally against him. But when we see kicker after
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kicker after kicker in this league being able to bomb 60
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yarders with no problem, they got this little guy up there and
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and ducks snorting it from 48 yards.
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It just can't they fight a guy with a big leg.
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It drives me nuts. Well, they've got Jake Moody on
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the practice squad. He has a bigger leg, but he's
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nowhere near as accurate. Cairo Santos the last three
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seasons, 21 of 2650 and beyond. However, 55 and beyond, he's not
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very good. And the problem with that kick
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the other day, it's called a hurricane kick, is Caleb took a
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terrible intentional grounding penalty.
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Well, instead of it being a 48 yard kick, it's a 58 yard kick.
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And that was a problem. That's 1/2.
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He slid on his run and stayed in bounds and didn't get out of
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bounds. You have to use your final time
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out. And now the problem is you can't
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stop the clock. It's 4th down.
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You can't spike it. So you got to run everyone out
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there like a fire drill. Well, they did not have time to
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get the kicking ball. You're allowed to use your own
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kicking ball, which goes usually about on average 3 yards
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farther. They got to use the regular
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ball. They don't have time to really
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get set. You see, Cairo's not really
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measuring his steps, he's guesstimating and it came up 3
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yards short, so it was a perfect storm of crap against them.
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You mentioned earlier in our conversation, oh doomsday and
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he's got to make that catch as a wide receiver one.
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What kind of year is he having cap?
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Are they satisfied with his his progress from his rookie
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campaign number says trending in the Yeah, I was going to say go
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ahead. Yeah, Rome's making progress.
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He's a really good player. But every game he has one drop
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where you're like, dude, if you want to get paid as a number
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one, you got to catch that. Like Justin Jefferson before he
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got hurt, Malik Neighbors, Jamar Chase, those guys are catching
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Puka Nakua, Those guys are making those catches.
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Just about every time Rome has won a game where you look at him
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and go, dude, you got to catch the football.
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So I listened to you from time to time, you guys over in
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Chicago when it's Bears content and I know you guys got plenty
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of crazies. I mean, plenty of people to call
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in. What has been the discourse
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though this week? I mean, I hear these things
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about Beijing. It's time for Beijing.
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And, and I just can't believe it.
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Is there a growing contingent? I mean, is there a portion of
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the fan base, a significant portion of the fan base that's
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already ready to check out on Caleb Williams?
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No, it's just the they get frustrated with him, but then
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Ben Johnson comes out and says, I watched the tape.
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He was better than I thought he might have been in game.
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There were plays that were there to be made.
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There are also mistakes plenty that interception, like Olen
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Kreutz broke the tape down and said, I thought he played, you
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know, a pretty decent football game, But it's all wiped away by
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one terrible interception. And what concerned me is he goes
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to the podium and said, yeah, that was the right read.
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I just made a bad throw. And then the head coaches asked.
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He goes, no, you take the check down every time.
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Next question, like you have Kyle Manung got wide open check
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down. He could have literally crawled
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to the first down. He tries to fit it in between
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two guys. You're pit throwing 4 yards deep
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in your own end zone. You have to protect that like
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you're that's your child. You cannot turn the football
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over there. David Kaplan joining us.
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CAP We're a couple of weeks away from the hot, hot stove,
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starting to warm up at least a little bit.
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What are you hearing, Cap? Obviously a lot of Cubs fans in
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our market now throughout the state as we broadcast live in a
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number of affiliates. What are you hearing when it
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comes to the Cubs? Dylan C seems like he's on their
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radar. I don't know.
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Meaning when you watch CC, you get 4 innings start, three of
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them looks like Cy Young, the last just like can't get anybody
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out. What are you hearing as far as
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rumours? Who's who?
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Potentially who could wear a Cubs uniform next year and who
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might not? I mean, I keep hearing that
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they're they're not going to be heavy players for Kyle Tucker.
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We'll find out if that's true. But if you sign Tucker, what are
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you doing though? And Casey, you didn't want to
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train him at the deadline. So are you moving him?
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I think they'll probably move on from Tucker and then put that
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money into pitching, whether that's Dylan Cease for Amber
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Valdez. There's a kid out of Japan who's
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really good who's 27. They have got to get a #1
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starter. You cannot count that.
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Justin Steele's coming back from major arm surgery is going to be
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that guy. Cannot count on that.
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What do we know? If he comes back, that's great.
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We know you got a good one, a good young one in Kate Horton
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had the unfortunate injury at the end of the season.
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What do we know about his rehab and the anticipation of what
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he's going to be next season? Still a young guy.
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And do you go into the air expecting, hey, we're going to
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get 180 innings out of this dude?
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Yeah, he's healthy, he's ready to go.
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He would have pitched had they beaten the Brewers in the last
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game of the DS. He's good, he's good to go.
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He's the rookie of the year from Sporting News.
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We'll find out when the World Series over if he gets MLB one.
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But that guy will be able to throw.
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I would imagine 16170. He should be your number one
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guy. And then Jackson Wiggins coming
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from AAA. He should be in this rotation
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like Cave was last year mid-May. So you should add 1 starter.
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You should have a really good rotation.
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You mentioned Justin Steele, is mid-May a more realistic target
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for him? When?
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When are they thinking? mid-May.
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Late before the all? * in the cold, right?
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I'd be shocked, right, if he's back pitching when it's, you
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know, 37° at Wrigley in April. No shot.
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What about? I do think June, I think June 1
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is when he comes. Back in Managua with the team or
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not? Wow.
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If you tell me they're going to sign $180 million pitcher, I'm
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going to say no. OK, if they're not going to do
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that, I'll say yes. Fascinating stuff.
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Anything else on baseball wise, Trent?
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Petro Armstrong, is it an important year for him to see?
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Is there another level? He had that ridiculous right
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before the All Star break. He was as hot as anybody in
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baseball after a slow start to the season, ripped off 6-7 weeks
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of just incredible baseball. And then I don't regress, maybe
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back to the mean. Is this the year we're going to
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find out if this guy is super stardom or a really fun player
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to watch? And that's kind of what you get
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out of PCA. I think if he's who I think he
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is, and I know him, he's a great kid.
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He's going to make adjustments to the adjustments they made.
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Is he going to be a 30 Homer guy?
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Again, I can't tell you that. I think he's more of a 2223 home
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run guy, Gold Glove outfielder, 30 steals.
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That's who I think he is. They tried to sign him in the
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offseason cap. Are they going to try again
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during the season? They tried to sign him, I should
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say. They did they tried to get him
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for 75,000,000. Not all guaranteed.
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I think he he was he was smart and not take it.
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I think he gets a deal done in the one 25150 range.
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Last thing, Connor Bedard had a hat trick last night.
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Is he starting to? He did, yeah.
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Looked like the guy they thought he was going to be when they
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drafted him number one overall. Their team is a lot more fun to
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watch. All of a sudden.
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Super exciting and you know, people are buying in, people are
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enjoying watching them. Here's a question for you.
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Bears are four and three, Bulls are three and O play tonight and
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the Blackhawks are over 500. Which one would you bet on if I
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gave you a ticket in Vegas at the win to go to the playoffs?
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I'd want one at Circa because it pays a better price per starter.
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Yes, start there. OK, we'll go with Circa.
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I'll go with Derek Stevens. I don't think they're, I don't
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think the I would take the, I would take the Bears to win it
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all to no, to make the playoffs, to make the playoffs.
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Just to make the playoffs. To make the playoffs, I'm going
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with the Blackhawks just because it's hockey and weird things
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seem to happen more in hockey. Yeah, how about you, Cap?
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If I had to bet today, I would take the bears.
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But they'd go Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, in that order.
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Yep, I'm with. You 3 and O for the Bulls.
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Anything to get excited about or beat the Pistons, Magic, Hawks.
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Let's slow down. Yeah, they play tonight against
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the Kings. That's the Sacramento Bulls
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because they're bringing back Damar and Zach Levine.
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We'll see how it goes. Kapra, good stuff, buddy.
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Talk to you next week. Thank you, David Kaplan.
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You guys have a great Wednesday. Yep.
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See you buddy. Good to talk to you.
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second. TC is 10, your magic number I
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probably 10 and seven you're in maybe is A7.
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Why you envisioned? This I kind of want to, because
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here's their next Well, the Baltimore game should have been
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put in the wing column, in my opinion.
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Cincinnati Giants, Vikings and Steelers 3 and 1.
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The Chicago Bears. Those Bears.
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Are going to go 3 and 1. But the Giants are good, but
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Scataboo is gone. Sure.
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Still got Tyrone Tracy. He's solid.
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Yeah, I'd rather have scataboo. Sure.
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Tracy's nice. Yeah, Tracy's having I.
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Mean what's her running back worth 1/2 point?
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Maybe you know, and I did not know the Flacco news.
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So that that makes that win more likely at Minnesota.
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Minnesota's not good. Right, it's still Rd.
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Game and it's still it's, it's very tough.
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And Pittsburgh's kind of 6-7 sorry, by the way.
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You got to stop. I know I do, but let me just say
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so dictionary.com comes up with a word of the year. 6-7 is the
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word of the year. I deal with this with my 6 year
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old and now I deal with. Your 66.
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Year old Oh man. But the but the Steelers are
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kind of so so. They are, yes.
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So all right, let's play this game.
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To get to 10. They get to 3 and 1.
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In the stretch, so now there are seven wins and then it's Black
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Friday. Throttling.
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And then it's at Green Bay. Double throttle.
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And home to Cleveland. There's a win.
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There's 8 and home to Green Bay and at San Francisco and home to
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the Lions drafting 15th overall. Your Chicago Bears.
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Ken had to duck out a little early today.
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I got you covered taking it up to the top of the hour before
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the course of this season. And Matt, good to talk with you
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once again. Told you last week, I've been
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calling this thing Plinko as it pertains to football.
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It just you don't know what you're going to get week in and
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week out and I still don't think we know.
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Maybe the most impressive thing though, is the one that we saw
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right here in our state is BYU coming into Ames after the
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rivalry win against Utah and getting that one.
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I haven't been able to wrap my arms completely around this BYU
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team. I guess obviously we have to do
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it as they said, it ain't no right now.
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What did BYU do it and what do they continue to do to find ways
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to win week in and week out? Well, I think #1 they have found
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a really mature freshman quarterback and bareback, a
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Meyer. I, I never want to trust a true
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freshman quarterback at this level just because so many
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things can go wrong. But I think he's now up there
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among, you know, freshman quarterbacks like Jalen Hurts
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and there's a couple of others I think started their careers like
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7 and O or 8 and O. He's up at that level now.
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And it's just because they've they've put him in an offense
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where he has to make decisions. He makes good decisions.
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They've been able to lean on their run game quite a bit and
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they've played impressive defense.
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And that that really that's the part that didn't surprise me.
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I knew their defense is going to be good coming into the season.
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They've got a great coordinator there.
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They had a lot of good holdovers coming back.
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I wasn't concerned about their defense at all.
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Was their offense of the true freshman quarterback at the helm
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that I was really concerned about.
21:44
So far, they've answered every call.
21:45
Now, LJ Morton, if I understand correctly, will not be available
21:49
this week for their for I believe, their next game.
21:52
I think he's going to be out for the foreseeable future.
21:53
So that puts a Ding in the run game.
21:57
They've got a week off, I believe, until they play Texas
21:59
tax. They've got some time to heal
22:01
up. But you know, going into Ames,
22:03
especially after coming off a rivalry win and not letting down
22:07
the way a lot of teams do in that situation, very impressive
22:10
today. So BYU sits in a very good
22:13
position now. They're 4 remaining games in
22:15
November as they are off this week.
22:17
They go to Texas Tech, TCU, at home at Cincinnati, and then
22:21
they finish up against UCF. Still, they're not home free by
22:25
any means. All three of those first three
22:26
games incredibly difficult. What do you think is more likely
22:30
to happen that we get some carnage here and we're talking
22:32
about tiebreakers and trying to figure it out or a team like BYU
22:36
or even a Cincinnati or Houston or Texas Tech kind of some at
22:39
least one of the team separates. Or are we going to be going to
22:42
tiebreakers and figuring out like 6 different seven and two
22:45
teams? I, I, I have to lean toward
22:48
carnage in this case simply because, you know, if you look
22:52
at how everything is kind of shaking out right now, there's a
22:55
distinct possibility that the right teams win.
22:58
BYU, Cincinnati, Texas Tech and Houston could all finish eight,
23:01
one in conference play. That would require Tech to beat
23:04
BYU and BYU to beat Cincinnati and then everybody to win the
23:08
remaining games, including Houston.
23:11
Houston doesn't play BYU or Cincinnati and they're only
23:13
losses to Tech. So that would really put them at
23:15
a disadvantage from a tiebreaker standpoint because they just,
23:18
they're kind of in tiebreaker hell at that point.
23:20
But it's a possibility. I, I learn more toward, you
23:24
know, a couple of teams losing games down the stretch.
23:27
I mean, is this, this is the time of the year last year where
23:29
BYU was undefeated. They had their rivalry game with
23:32
Utah in early November. I was at that game.
23:35
They won that game by a hair and they lost the next two games.
23:38
I'm going to bet that some point down the line, BYU and
23:42
Cincinnati are both going to lose a game, and that's going to
23:45
have a distinct influence on who gets to Arlington, TX.
23:50
Tech, to me is still the best position because they have
23:53
tiebreakers over Houston and if they beat by BYU, they'll have a
23:57
tiebreaker over BYU. So even if they were to lose,
24:00
lose a game or stumble down the stretch, I think they'd still be
24:03
OK and say three team or 14 tiebreakers.
24:05
But I'm voting for chaos just because there's just, there's
24:09
too many opportunities for somebody to stumble here down
24:12
the stretch. And another team that has a
24:14
chance to help with that chaos is Kansas State.
24:16
You look at them, well they got 3 losses against conference
24:19
teams, one of them a non conference game though against
24:22
Arizona that was scheduled before Arizona joined the Big
24:24
12. So you have that part of it.
24:27
Would that be a bad thing though?
24:28
I mean Kansas State is one of the more recognizable football
24:31
brands left in this conference. However, with a loss to Army,
24:36
losing when a lot of people are watching the opening week of the
24:38
season, they'd be 8:00 and 4:00 to get there.
24:40
The Big 12 and a way rooting against Kansas State, getting
24:43
there just because you don't want a team that has some of the
24:46
warts that they have in your conference.
24:47
Championship game, Yeah, admittedly, I think if you're
24:51
thinking of it from a conference perspective, you're probably
24:53
rooting against that. I mean, any of the any of the
24:55
teams with two losses still have a chance, Utah, Arizona State,
24:59
Kansas State, TCU, but they all need some level of help from the
25:03
teams above them in order to have a chance.
25:05
And plus the tiebreakers have to go their way.
25:07
So they're kind of at everybody else's mercy at this point.
25:10
But if you're thinking of strictly from a perspective of,
25:13
hey, we'd like to get our conference champion in the
25:15
playoffs, plus one other team is not large.
25:19
What you're really need to see is you need to see two or three
25:22
of these teams that are, you know, undefeated or one loss in
25:24
conference get to at least ten wins overall.
25:27
Last year, 12 teams made the playoff.
25:30
One was Boise State. They went in as a Group of Five
25:33
team. If you look at the other 11
25:34
teams, those were all power conference teams.
25:37
They all had 10 or more wins. There was one team left out that
25:39
was Miami. But the committee sort of set a
25:42
precedent last year with the fact that, you know, they didn't
25:46
include Alabama at 9:00 and 3:00, but they took other teams
25:49
because they had 10 or 11 wins in a power conference.
25:52
I think that still matters to the committee.
25:54
So if you're if you're right, your mark and you want to get 2
25:56
or more teams in the playoffs, you're rooting for, you know,
25:59
CB, BYU or Cincinnati to get to 11 and one, Texas Tech to get to
26:03
11 and one, even Houston to get to 11 and 1 and make the
26:06
decisions very hard for the committee once he gets this
26:08
election Sunday. You know, and when we kind of go
26:10
down this road and say it is Kansas State and they win a
26:13
championship game on top of it, there's a likelihood that there
26:15
wouldn't be an automatic bid for the Big 12 because the American
26:19
champion very well would be ranked ahead of Kansas State.
26:21
I mean, that's nightmare scenario here.
26:24
You got K State in there. They win that conference
26:26
championship game, and then you might be on the outside looking
26:29
in, period. And not having a playoff team.
26:31
That would be the absolute worst of the worst.
26:34
That would be the worst of the worst, but it would require a
26:37
second. A Group of five conference seem
26:39
to be higher ranked. The American is clearly the best
26:42
group of five conference and I think that's by a wide margin.
26:45
Their champion is going to be in with no problem.
26:48
The question becomes is there a team in the Mount West or a team
26:52
in the neck or a team the Sunbelt that rises to that
26:55
level? And I really don't think there
26:57
is. So I think the Big 12 champion
26:58
is going to be safe. The question becomes if say it
27:01
is Kansas State, is that team that wins the American seated
27:05
higher than them in the in the pecking order than Kansas State.
27:09
But I think the Big 12 champion will get in no matter what.
27:12
And just to be clear, it's the five highest ranked conference
27:15
champions regardless of where they are, but usually the
27:19
powerful conferences and that one group of five conference
27:21
with the highest ranked champion is going to get in.
27:24
You know, the only team that potentially could maybe upset
27:27
that would be James Madison if they could do it.
27:29
But we're talking some crazy scenarios.
27:31
Let's come back to reality and let's come back to this week and
27:33
take a look at what we have in the Big 12.
27:35
Of course, Iowa State, they get Arizona State this week.
27:38
That is going to be an impactful game and it's going to be no Sam
27:41
Levitt out there. It'll be Sims that'll get the
27:43
start. Arizona State, just a completely
27:45
different team without Levitt out there.
27:48
They really are. And that's where I think Iowa
27:50
State can take advantage of that.
27:52
You know, we've we've seen, we have ample evidence of what
27:55
Arizona State is with Sam Levitt and without Stan Levitt.
27:58
And you're right, they are a much different team.
28:00
I think they'll play a little bit better this time around with
28:02
the with the new quarterback than they did the first time
28:05
around, just because they'll have a little bit more
28:07
experience, but you know, opportunity to take advantage of
28:10
that playing at home. It's November.
28:13
You know, things can sometimes get a little dicey weather wise
28:15
in Iowa in November. That's to your advantage.
28:18
And, and obviously for Iowa State, they need to win to get
28:20
to a ball game. So that's what you're playing
28:22
for right now. And I think with the the
28:25
quarterback change without Sam Levitt, it gives them a real
28:28
chance to kind of put their foot in the door and win that game.
28:30
Let's jump to well talked about K State.
28:33
I promise this is not AK State radio show, but they got Texas
28:36
Tech here. I love the Wildcats this week.
28:38
I think they're going to give them everything that they want.
28:41
Starting to peek at this time in Texas Tech with the injuries
28:44
hamming out. Wow for the year.
28:45
We wait to see what's going to be happening at the quarterback
28:48
spot as Morton has been banged up all season long.
28:51
Feels like a a tough spot for the Red Raiders.
28:55
I think it is, and you know, TCU, that's been a House of
28:58
horrors for them for years, going to Manhattan and I think
29:02
it's been like 8 or 9 years since they've won a game there.
29:04
It's just so hard to win there. I've covered games there before.
29:08
It's a great atmosphere. It's a great fan base.
29:10
They make things very difficult on the visiting team.
29:14
Tech has won big games in big Rd. environments.
29:17
Utah comes immediately to mind. That was a big, big Rd. game for
29:20
them. But, you know, Kansas State
29:22
played an extremely good game against Kansas last week, and I
29:26
can start seeing some things coming around, especially for
29:29
them on the offense instead of the football that leaving to
29:31
believe that, you know, they could really give Tech a run for
29:34
their money. I still think Tech wins the game
29:36
because I think they're just a tougher team than they've been
29:39
previously. But this is not going to be some
29:42
kind of a blowout game. This is going to be a last
29:43
possession at a football game. Want to talk about the game?
29:47
Cincinnati, Utah. And if you give the Bearcats a
29:49
shot, they're a 10 point underdog out there.
29:51
But maybe even a bigger piece. Game day being there and just
29:55
being part of it. You know, ESPN and college game
29:58
day has turned into SEC, you know, network programming week
30:01
after week after week. The importance of the Big 12 to
30:04
finally get the spotlight back on them and then talk a little
30:07
bit about the game. Yeah.
30:09
It is important. And I I think I hope that ESPN
30:13
starts to think about, you know, widening that out.
30:15
I think Reese Davis did an interview in Nashville last week
30:18
and he was talking about like the selection process for the
30:21
games. And, you know, that they don't
30:23
want to get 234 weeks out. They want to kind of make that
30:25
decision at the moment. He actually pitched the idea in
30:29
a few weeks of going to the Battle of the Ravine down there
30:31
in Arkansas. That is a game between Henderson
30:34
State and Washita Baptist. Those two campuses are actually
30:37
across the street from one another.
30:39
Their football stadiums are across the street from one
30:41
another and the visiting team walks from their locker room
30:44
over to the other stadium for the game, but actually covered a
30:46
game of Washita Baptist. It's really crazy.
30:48
It's one of the most interesting rivalries in Division Two.
30:52
But aside from that, there's a lot of cache that comes with
30:54
game day being on campus. I've covered Big 12 games that
30:57
have game day. I've done it for the the SEC.
30:59
It's just a different kind of feel.
31:01
I hate that this game's at like 9:15 central because it does
31:04
kind of SAP the day. It's great when game day bleeds
31:07
right into the game. They're on campus.
31:10
But it's a great opportunity for for both programs to showcase
31:13
themselves. And you know, I know Utah's the
31:16
the the favorite in this game, but I mean, Cincinnati has
31:21
played so well this season, especially on the defensive end,
31:24
that I give them a really good chance of winning this game.
31:27
Now, again, you know, like BYU, they're without their top
31:30
running back, Evan Prior is not going to play in this game.
31:32
And that puts them into a significant disadvantage.
31:34
You're going to put more of the load on their quarterback,
31:36
Brendan Soresby, and they're going to have to turn Utah over
31:38
a little bit in terms of, you know, creating a couple of
31:41
turnovers and getting a couple of extra possessions.
31:43
Those are your best friends when you play Rd. games like this.
31:45
But the biggest game Cincinnati has played since their days in
31:49
the American when they made the playoff in 2021 under Luke
31:52
Freckle. So I give them a chance.
31:54
It should be a really interesting game.
31:55
And the best part about it, you know, even though it doesn't
31:58
bleed in from game day, it's Big 12 after dark and anything can
32:00
happen. Talk with Matt Poston's
32:02
Heartland College Sports, a look around the Big 12 from football
32:06
to basketball as we are in that crossover season.
32:09
Games begin next week and I see there's already some point
32:11
spreads out there that are listed, including Big 12 teams.
32:15
Arizona, 3 1/2 point underdog against Florida on Monday.
32:18
Also, BYU laying 7 1/2 against Nova, Kansas and North Carolina
32:23
later in the week and The Jayhawks are 1 1/2 point dog in
32:26
that one. We know the top of the league,
32:28
Houston, TX, Tech, Arizona, Iowa State, BYU though after what
32:33
they did a season ago, I think surprising a lot of people,
32:36
Richie Saunders comes back and you couple him now with AJ
32:39
Debansta. It's going to be an exciting
32:41
year. BYU can can they hit the heights
32:45
though of some of those expectations?
32:46
This is a team, do you believe that is going to be a contender
32:49
for a regular season title that you know can make a run into
32:52
that final game into the weekend and maybe even a Final Four?
32:55
Is that too much hype for BYU or is it warranted at this time?
33:00
I think they can certainly be contenders in the Big 12 for the
33:03
regular season title and the tournament title, and I think
33:05
there are team capable of getting to the second weekend.
33:08
I think when we start talking about the Final Four, to me, I
33:11
want to see the team play a few games and get into like December
33:14
and January and see where they are, see who's injured, see
33:17
who's playing well, see how the chemistry's come together.
33:20
I think what's great about what they have is they have the right
33:23
mix of returning players that understand what Kevin Young
33:27
wants to do. From a system standpoint, you've
33:29
got one of the best young players in the country and to
33:31
dance there who's going to play immediately and could, you know,
33:33
really have a significant impact on what they want to do even
33:37
more than Demon had last year. I think a lot of folks thought
33:39
Igor Denham was going to make a big, big impact on that program
33:43
and he turned into a great facilitating guard, but he
33:46
really wasn't the offensive scorer that I think a lot of
33:48
people were expecting. Debanstah is going to be that
33:50
kind of player. I, I think he has the potential
33:52
to be one of the most dynamic players in the country.
33:55
And then you've got some good role players on that team
33:57
understand what Kevin Young wants and where they fit in.
34:01
I, I think they've got some of the best depth in the league.
34:03
I think they've got a terrific home environment obviously, and
34:07
I'm interested to see how they do in some of these road and
34:10
neutral site games up front. You know, you, you got to be
34:13
able to win those kinds of games when you get to the NCAA
34:15
tournament. That was a a bit of an issue for
34:19
them last year, at least early in the year.
34:21
But I I see them as a team that can get to the second weekend
34:24
right now and potentially a Final Four depending upon how
34:28
and and how they're playing at that point.
34:30
Matt Poston's. Find them on Twitter at Poston's
34:33
Postcard. He joins us here on Miller and
34:35
Condon. Matt is always good catching up
34:37
with you. Enjoy the games this weekend and
34:39
college hoops right around the corner.
34:41
Absolutely. Talk to you guys soon.
34:43
That's Matt Poston's Heartland College sports Big 12 fans, it
34:46
is a must stop for you each and every week diving in deep.
34:49
And of course, Cyclone fans, they got you covered over there
34:51
with Heartland College Sports. We'll take our final time out,
34:54
come back on the other side and I will give you my picks.
34:58
Yesterday it wasn't very good. Gave me a couple of props for
35:02
1/2 unit Mookie Betts, no home run.
35:04
We didn't have our best performance, 2, four and one.
35:07
We got to push with Otani under outs.
35:09
We got a win with Bieber over outs.
35:11
We got a win with the Blue Jays. But bets no.
35:14
Otani stolen base, no. And O and two in college
35:16
football. Well, as Ken likes to say,
35:19
they're singing the national anthem somewhere.
35:21
And I'll be betting my picks presented by Circus Sports.
35:23
They're next. It's Miller and Condon on the
35:25
Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trent kind of back with you one
35:28
final time. It's Miller and Condon on the
35:30
Iowa Sports Radio Network. Shawna Lucas waiting in the
35:34
wings. They got you covered until 5:00
35:36
before overtime. Iowa gets you home at 6:00.
35:40
Well, it's time for my picks of the day, presented each and
35:42
every day by Circa Sports as we go through.
35:45
Of course, we got baseball tonight as game 5A.
35:48
Pivotal game five. It's nothing of it's not
35:51
pivotal, right? When it's series, it's tied.
35:53
It's always that. I got 3, 4 picks in that game.
35:57
Two NBA picks tonight. Now, I looked at college
35:59
football. After last night's absolute
36:01
unmitigated disaster, I was going to go back to the well
36:03
again. Thank God I couldn't get there
36:05
because those games are brutal. So it will be a little NBA, but
36:09
mostly World Series on the television here tonight.
36:12
NBA. I'm grabbing the Celtics.
36:14
They have not shot the ball well.
36:16
They get Cleveland coming in. Something stinks about this
36:18
line. I'm going to grab the four with
36:20
the Celtics here and hope some of that three-point MBA variance
36:23
goes our way and they knock down some shorts, Grab the four with
36:26
these Celtics. Going to do the same with
36:28
Sacramento now. It's not a great shooting team.
36:31
He got to Mark DeRozan making his way in.
36:33
Weren't anything, as Cappy told us a little bit earlier, those
36:36
guys coming in from the Kings, former teammates making their
36:39
way back to Chicago. I think Sacramento plays well.
36:42
Still no Keegan as he works his way back from injury.
36:44
We're going to grab the points there also and take the
36:47
Sacramento Kings plus the five to the World Series.
36:51
We're taking the dodgers -190 lay the price.
36:54
And then three pitching props. You know I love my pitching
36:56
props #1 is Savage Under 12 1/2 outs?
37:01
That's plus one O 5. You can find out there in the
37:04
market. And then we're going to double
37:05
up here with Blake Snell. We're going to take Blake Snell
37:08
both over strikeouts. That's 6 1/2 the number
37:11
currently at Circa. You can get plus one O 5 / 6 1/2
37:15
strikeouts from Blake Snell. And over in his out total, 17
37:20
1/2 is what we're going to do. Laying some juice there -150
37:23
Blake Snell over 17 1/2 over strikeouts.
37:26
We're taking both of those, along with the Savage under 12
37:30
and A half outs and the dodgers -190 along with the two NBA
37:35
picks. There it is, my picks of the
37:37
day. Good, bad, normally bad or
37:40
indifferent, there they are here for you today.
37:43
We are out of time. Thanks to everybody, to
37:46
everybody out there for listening in and joining us here
37:48
today. We will be back with you.
37:50
Your midday show from noon to 2. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
37:54
Sports Radio Network off the bench with Shawn and Lucas comes
37:57
your way next. Thanks for being with us.
37:59
We'll talk to you again tomorrow.