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Weekend Preview including Iowa/Indiana & Iowa State/Arizona, Eugene Rapay talks Cyclones & Mike Palm from Circa on the betting weekend · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome.
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  Noreen Condon. Yeah, Iowa Sports Radio Network
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  flagshipped right here out of Des Moines sports station one O
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  6.3 KX&O in lovely downtown Des Moines.
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  Trent Condon, Kendall are with you for the next couple of hours
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  to talk a whole lot of sports with you and we appreciate you
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  starting your afternoon. Here's with with us.
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  Here's what's coming up on our program.
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  Eugene Repay is going to join us.
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  He covers Iowa State he will join us about 12:20.
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  We'll take a look ahead to the Arizona game.
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  Sell out sign was hung at the box office yesterday, a
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  whiteout. Arizona pays a visit and we'll
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  talk about that with Eugene Repay.
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  Probably sprinkle in a little basketball as well as since
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  we've last spoken with Eugene, the Big 12 released their
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  basketball schedule and focusing obviously on Iowa State with
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  Eugene and in particular the month of February.
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  The more I look at it, the tougher it gets, but the more
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  fun as a fan it's going to be to watch those games unfold.
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  So Eugene repay is up first, then we'll head to Las Vegas.
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  We'll catch up with her friend Mike Palm, the vice president of
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  operations at Circus Sports. Find out how Thursday Night
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  Football went for the property or did the betters get them
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  yesterday? Obviously, I want to find out
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  how the Ryder Cup is going. It's not going well for the
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  Americans. How how it's doing from a
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  betting perspective. Mike Palm coming up here at
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  12:40. At 1:00, Tom Caicord on the
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  Hawks. They've got a date with the
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  Hoosiers tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, if you don't have Peacock,
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  turn on your radio, turn the clock back, listen to 1040 WHO
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  or wherever the Hawkeye affiliate is where you're
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  listening. That's coming up at 2:30.
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  So we'll talk to you, Tom Kaker to kick off hour number two and
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  then Dalton Wasserman, he covers the NFL for Pro Football Focus.
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  No Bama today. Bama's he's got a family
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  commitment so he is not going to be available today.
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  Bama will join us on Monday to recap the weekend.
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  But Dalton Wasserman, then we will make our picks before we
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  get on out of here at 2:00. And you go where tonight.
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  I'm going to be being neighbors with you again.
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  Well, no, I'm in Altoona. Tonight.
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  Oh that's right, you're also working this evening.
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  I will be in Ankeny though as undefeated Sioux City E comes to
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  town. Sioux City EA year ago a huge
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  surprise. They push valley remember that
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  valley too got on the way. I was absolutely shocked.
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  They return a ton. They're undefeated.
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  This is going to be their first major test of the year.
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  Want to get my eyes on the Black Raiders because there's people
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  believe we talk about the central stranglehold in
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  football, but maybe there's a team not out east, out West that
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  can upset the Apple Car. Now of course last year it was
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  Iowa City Liberty that was that team out east that surprised and
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  made it all the way to the championship game.
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  So we're going to get a look westward with.
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  The Black Raiders, of course, we've got a an affiliate out
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  there as well. Absolutely hope you're
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  listening, Know some of you are and we appreciate it because we
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  see the feedback and we're grateful wherever you're
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  listening on whatever affiliate you are in the state of Iowa,
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  you know. Pep in your step over there.
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  I'm excited about tonight. I'm excited about the final
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  weekend of the Major League Baseball.
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  What a weekend. Fascinating.
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  What a great weekend of sports. Closing weekend, Prairie Meadows
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  live racing. So I'm going to be out there for
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  a couple of nights. Normally I'd be kind of edge of
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  my seat. Why am I doing this?
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  But if there's a, there's a sports book on the 4th floor at
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  Prairie. So, and with all of those good,
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  I'm guessing, although I don't know for a fact, but I would be
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  shocked if Arizona and Iowa State do not get the big screen
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  treatment at the Caesar Sport book at PRM and if I have
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  anything to say about it. I'm.
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  I'm going to see if I can. I don't think I'll have to.
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  I don't think I'll have to, but there's other good games going
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  on. So Speaking of that, do you like
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  the slate this week? From a betting perspective, I
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  like the NFL better than college.
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  How do you feel? I am completely flipped to that.
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  I love the betting slate. It's another one of those slates
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  that I'm going to have way too many games and boring couple.
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  You can I can give you a big list of them.
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  It starts tonight. I love Virginia tonight.
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  You do. They're celebrating their team
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  that upset Florida State for the first ever ACC loss.
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  They're going to be there, really charged up atmosphere.
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  They're off to a really good start.
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  And yeah, this Virginia team and it's.
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  That's. Interesting.
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  You know, when you think of decent Virginia teams here over
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  the last, I don't know, a couple of decades, you think of, I
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  think of Al Grove, Al Grove, right slow plotting kind of
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  that's not the case this year. They're they're putting points
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  up on the board and they got a quarterback that you probably
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  remember. Chandler Morris.
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  Yes, Chandler Morris is the the quarterback there.
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  Oklahoma, TCU and now he threw for 380 yards last time.
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  For the state of a quarterback. Absolutely.
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  What's the number? Get the touchdown.
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  You're getting a touchdown at home Friday night. 6 1/2
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  starting to pop in the market. This is one of my first bets of
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  the week. I got it.
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  Really. Yeah.
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  So the games I like tonight is TCU.
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  Three 3 1/2 starting to show a little bit on Arizona State.
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  I lean your way with TCU on this one.
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  I'm just struggling to get my arms wrapped around Arizona
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  State with. You and I love Hoover.
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  You do too. Absolutely.
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  You don't. It almost feels like, and I know
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  Tyson's an absolute stud, so you get it.
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  And it feels like they're almost targeting too much.
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  Yeah. Maybe.
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  Like they're that Levitt's just trying to press every single
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  thing to him and you got to get some other guys involved and,
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  and maybe that's what. Last year they didn't have to
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  get anybody involved. And maybe you're kind of falling
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  back and it won't happen, you know, from what it was a season
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  ago. But Levitt's had a nice year,
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  but not a great year. I agree.
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  Yep, I agree with you. He's probably, I don't know,
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  middle of the pack when it comes to Big 12 quarterbacks.
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  There's a lot of Big 12 quarterbacks on that list.
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  They really are. Rocco, you can make an argument
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  towards the top of that list, if not at the top of the list, with
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  the winds also coupled in. There still like Hoover better.
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  But you go through and you you just look at these guys and the
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  there's a bunch of conferences, absolutely ridiculous.
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  We'll see another one tonight with Houston and what we've seen
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  from kind of Wakeman, what he's been able to do, he's been a
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  runner, he's been excellent. It just goes on and on this
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  conference. At the quarterback position, you
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  can make arguments about the teams and maybe at the national
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  level where they kind of rank with everybody, but in terms of
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  quarterback play, they don't play second fiddle to anybody.
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  No, you're 1000% right. There may be some disappointing
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  news coming out when it comes to Iowa State and their secondary.
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  So I saw this yesterday from student reporter with the Iowa
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  State Daily. You know what I want to I want
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  to get this kids name because I want you.
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  Do I want to give him credit for what?
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  Zander White. Zander White.
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  I want to have Zander White on the radio and pat him on the
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  back publicly next. Week.
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  That would be a great thing, absolutely.
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  Because he broke the story he did, and he was willing to break
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  the story, which even goes further in my book.
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  At 3:10 PM yesterday, this is what Xander White had to say.
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  I'm hearing talks from sources around Cyclone Athletics that
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  Jeremiah Cooper is officially ruled out for the rest of the
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  season. The injury allegedly happened in
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  a one-on-one drill in practice that resulted in Cooper's torn
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  ACL. He continues next week.
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  Reports Working earlier this evening by an employee of
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  Cyclone Football who saw it happen.
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  Cooper's injury is also confirmed to be a torn ACL.
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  That from Zander White. Well done, young man.
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  Yes, for sure you're on the right path.
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  Don't, don't give up. Continue even if even though
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  it's not might not be easy and they may not be very pleased
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  with you. Zander White in some of the some
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  of the spaces over in Ames when it comes to the athletic
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  department, you did the right thing and we'll we'll see.
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  But he was on the injury report, not Sander Cooper yesterday.
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  He was not on it Wednesday. He was added to it yesterday.
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  So it seems as though some bad news coming Iowa states away
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  when it comes to the secondary. Obviously there'll be another
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  injury report tonight. Does it go a step further
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  tonight and then tomorrow and when we get the final,
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  obviously, but we'll just wait, wait to find out for sure.
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  But I believe Xander White. How about that?
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  I am right there with you. I mean, that's when put your
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  neck out on the line. And there's other rumblings this
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  message board says social media that is.
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  But. He was first.
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  And he was first credit where credit is due.
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  So that means you got Jontez on one side, Yep, who's
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  outstanding, Yep. On the other, Trey Bell.
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  Who I like. Who looks solid?
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  Yep. And then.
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  Mm. Hmm, yeah, that'll be a question
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  for Eugene Repay as who becomes that third guy.
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  And you know, if you're looking for a nickel corner type of guy,
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  who is that dude? You had three.
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  You felt really good about him. But there was a reason also that
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  they moved Jeremiah Cooper. There's two reasons.
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  First, because they're so deep in safety.
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  Yep, every sneaking year talked about yesterday with with John.
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  I mean, Neil might be the best player on that defense.
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  Could be he's playing at that level.
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  And Orange is a draft pick. Jamison Patton is off to a good
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  start. They love Cummings, Coleman.
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  Yep. I mean, that guy.
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  We're here in the bus going back to the spring and he being
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  denter, he talks a little bit too much for my liking because
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  he never shuts his mouth. Yeah, but he's gonna be a
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  player. He's still just a red shirt.
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  Freshman Sergius. I mean, they're so deep.
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  Back there, Sergius missed a significant amount of time last
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  year, however. Cornerback.
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  Yeah. I mean, is it Betty Nagoya time?
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  Oh, it hasn't been as of yet. He's been banged up, though.
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  Has he? I think for some reason that
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  that sticks in my mind that he's been dealing with something out
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  here in the early portions of the season.
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  Maybe it's Lamos, maybe it's Taylor, we'll see, But that's
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  definitely one to keep an eye on against Nofafida.
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  Speaking of good quarterbacks, here comes another one from
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  Arizona. No, the good news is McMillan is
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  used up his eligibility. He's a Carolina Panther and he
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  was absolutely gifted. So we'll see where that goes
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  before he gets into Iowa and Indiana.
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  We'll do that in a second. Just back the last night quickly
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  because I I want to spend a little bit of time with it.
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  It we we talked about the end of the show yesterday that that
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  Marvin Harrison Junior like, what is wrong with this guy,
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  right? That he makes that catch.
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  And then when he put but he was awful early in the game, he had
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  a. Couple of just terrible drops,
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  the whole team look lethargic. They're not good, Trent.
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  They got back into it. I'll give him credit for that.
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  But I want to give Harrison Junior credit 'cause he made a
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  hell of a catch in the end zone for a touchdown.
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  And it wasn't, I mean, everybody was it's, you know, noticing
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  that this guy was supposed to be a star.
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  He was a can't miss, right? And he's been swinging to miss
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  up until the last point, the second-half of that game last
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  night. What did you think of Seattle, I
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  guess is my main point. Are they a legitimate threat in
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  the NFC? To win it no, I can't get there
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  I. Can't either.
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  Not that way, Arnold. Yeah, he's fine.
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  You know, but we saw what he turned into last year when they
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  got to the playoffs. The the pressure, when you get
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  pressure on him, he's a bad quarterback.
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  It's difficult to do. And I think that Seattle
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  offensive line certainly improved Walker in the ball
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  well. He's good.
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  Charbonnay got a little bit out of him.
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  I love the running game, Smith and Jig but didn't have a
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  monster game. Nope.
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  But boy, he certainly not in the first half.
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  Yeah, and a big one late. Then set up that field goal to
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  get it done. Now, overall, I like them.
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  They're a playoff team. Yeah, absolutely.
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  But a team that even can get to an NFC Championship.
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  Where? Did they rank in the NFC West?
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  Well, that's the problem, right? Ahead of Arizona.
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  Yeah. Are they the second best team?
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  I think. I think the Niners are fool's
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  gold. I do so many injury.
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  I know who have they beaten. Give me their give me their
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  slim. I'll get it.
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  I can find it. 49ers and their three and O start.
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  This is who they beat the Seahawks.
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  They beat the Seahawks on the road in Week 1.
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  Then they beat the Saints. Back-to-back roadies.
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  And then they beat the Cardinals and.
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  They survived. You know, Purdy is close to
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  getting back. You're right, there are a lot of
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  injuries. Weird spot with Jacksonville
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  this week. Got my eye on that one.
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  Do you? That might be coming up at 1:50.
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  OK, yeah, well, we'll see. All right, let's get to let's
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  get to Indiana and Iowa. And boy, there's a lot of people
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  that handicap these games for a living that really like Iowa in
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  this spot. I'm hearing more and more of
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  them as the week has gone on. Well, it's a simple numbers
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  play. You look at any power ranking
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  system that is available out there and it shows you that,
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  yes, this should be what the opening line was.
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  Indiana favor by 3 1/2 Four. You couple it with the Kinect
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  Stadium factor. You know, it's such an
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  interesting part. We've talked so many times over
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  the last three years about ranked games.
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  I will owe in 10 of their last 10 ranked games.
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  You know, many of those have been at Kinect Stadium.
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  How many? One.
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  That's it. Yeah.
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  So when we go down and we talk about these conversations, maybe
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  the O intent should be to the side because they haven't been
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  in Kinnick and we know what a difference maker that stadium
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  can be. It's one of the few stadiums in
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  college football that is a 4 1/2 point stadium in most betting
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  systems that are out there getting White.
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  Among them, he has Kinnick as a 4 1/2 point stadium.
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  There's a couple of fives out there, but it's rare and it also
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  has to be situational spot to get right to those kind of
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  numbers. Night games at night, yes, those
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  are different ones. A white out, that's a 5 point
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  state and that's what it's going to be coming up on Saturday
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  night. So Kiddix Stadium is a big
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  factor. I'm not surprised by it.
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  And look, if you took away the uniforms, you just everything
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  that we saw beginning of the season, Team X against team Y, I
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  would be the exact same way. I would absolutely be on team Y,
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  the team getting the points here because we've seen this happen
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  too many times before. Everybody in the country I was
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  watching, I love inside college football on CBS Sports Network.
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  I I think they do a great job. You got a bunch of old timers
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  that are on there and Randy Cross is the old time.
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  OK, Yeah, Randy Cross is an old timer, right?
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  Yeah, he is. And they do, I just think a
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  tremendous job and they have like a 7-8 minute clip talking
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  just about this game and it just Indiana, what we saw last week,
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  Ken. It's just it's too often that we
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  see in the momentum of being react.
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  They played perfectly, absolutely perfectly on
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  Saturday. Now they're going to do it in
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  their first Rd. game of the season in Kinnock.
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  Wish it was at night. I think it's going to be a tight
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  game. Ryder Cup real quick.
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  Oh God, are the Americans sunk? There was.
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  So I had it on and doing a ton of things this morning, but I
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  just looked up at one point and it was right as things were
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  starting to dwindle down. It was before the European team
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  got their first official point and won.
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  But it was a cut to I think it was JT and somebody else.
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  And they're kind of bickering at each other, look like who
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  whoever his teammate was this morning.
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  And then they cut over to the EUR shoulder by shoulder.
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  He was where he was with the with the.
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  Yes, yeah. And and Thomas just looked
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  pissed off. And then they cut to the Euro
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  team and they're shoulder to shoulder.
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  Ron was playing right. And they're shoulder to shoulder
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  and just smiling, just smirking as they walked up the fairway
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  together just. And it was a perfect embodiment
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  for me of what this is, what this competition is every two
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  years is all the bad things, all the cliches about Americans as
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  opposed to Europe. I mean, it shows up on this golf
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  event all the time. It it was, I mean it was a 5
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  second clip, but I thought it was perfect of exactly what was
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  happening at that time as they jump out early.
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  Yeah, it kind of sums it up, does it not?
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  Well, we'll see where it goes. They're under way with the with
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  the afternoon boy. Big spot obviously for the red,
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  white and blue. If they're going to try and
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  remain in this thing to to put some points on the board and
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  hold those EUR off. I just, you know what I want, I
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  wanted to, I want Sunday to roll around and Rory's going up
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  against the Shambo and there's something meaningful because I
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  really think that there's a kind of a hate between these two
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  dudes. Right.
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  I think the tiger and it was, it was going to be Sergio, it was
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  going to be Phil, it was going to be, you know, they tried to
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  find a rival and it really never caught him out.
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  And maybe I'll give you the Mickelson tiger thing, but this
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  the Shambo Rory thing, I believe it's real.
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  All right, let's get Thunder Joe in here, then we'll take a
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  break. We'll get our buddy Eugene Repay
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  from the Des Moines Register to talk about what he thinks is
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  going to happen tomorrow. Hello, Thunder Joe, how are you?
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  Hey, Greg, good afternoon. Real quick on this, I thought
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  when I looked at the Ryder Cup matchups today, I mean, I'm an
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  armchair coach, but I thought they were stupid matchups.
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  You can't. They're going to put.
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  Rory and Fleetwood together, you got to hit them back with your
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  bullhorns, man. You got to so Steffler and
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  somebody else, because that's just a layup.
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  Rory and Fleetwood on. Nobody's beat them on the
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  course. And also, when you look at it,
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  here's a visual on Kyler Murray, though somebody told me a while
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  ago, when he's running, you won't be able to get this out of
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  your head. Now when he's running, he looks
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  like your toddler stole something from you and you're
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  trying to chase him down. To get it back, those little
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  babies. He's got those little arms.
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  Yes, yes, absolutely. That's pretty good.
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  He'll hold it out and then he'll tuck it back in and understand,
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  yeah, you will not be able to get that of your head.
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  Thank you, Thunder Joe. Appreciate it.
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  Enjoy your weekend. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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  All right, take time out. Eugene Repay is coming up next.
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  We'll get his thoughts on what he expects to see tomorrow.
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  Trice Stadium. Miller and Condon, we're
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  Moines sports station one O 6.3 KX&O statewide on the Iowa
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  Sports Radio Network. Welcome to the program.
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  Mike Palm coming up in 15 minutes.
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  We'll head out to Las Vegas with the VP of operations at Circus
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  Sports. But right now the beat writer
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  beat reporter for the Iowa State Cyclones for
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  desmoinesregister.com he is Eugene repay Eugene Trenton can
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  as always thank you for coming on Arizona pays a visit tomorrow
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  up both of these schools coming off a bye week and away we go
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  again. Eugene good to talk to you.
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  How are you? I'm good, I'm good.
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  We come back from the bye week and all of a sudden we have news
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  on the basketball, football front and it's a it's a fun time
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  to be a Cyclone again. Absolutely.
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  Well, let's get to the the cycle of the news, Jeremiah Cooper.
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  Boy, it sure seems like there's way more smoke for that for
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  there not to be any fire. The news that potentially this
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  might be a season ender seemingly that's so we're going
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  to find that out here sometime either tonight or tomorrow.
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  What are you hearing when it comes to Jeremiah Cooper,
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  Eugene? Yeah, the rumors are the rumor
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  mill is definitely turning all across the board.
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  I mean from the Internet, social media and everywhere.
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  Some of it right now, a lot of it is unconfirmed.
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  But what we do know is that he's quote UN quote questionable for
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  the availability report and just him being on there definitely
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  raised a ton of eyebrows. From what I've heard, he was
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  spotted with a knee brace. I feel like anything saying
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  anything after than that would be a bit irresponsible at this
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  point. But you know, definite concerns
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  from social media fans that this might be a very serious injury.
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  The initial rumors are ACL, but right now nothing has been
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  confirmed. There's been no statements made
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  and nothing yet other than that he's quote UN quote questionable
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  for Saturday. Well, let's play that.
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  It is something like that ACL out for the season and let's go
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  next. Jeremiah Cooper slide over from
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  safety, did it because of depth. These irresponsible Trey Bell is
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  going to be the starter. Then opposite John Tez Williams,
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  however, who becomes that third quarterback who is the next guy
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  in line? And then Nagoya is kind of that
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  next project, that big tall guy like they did before, and it
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  worked out so incredibly well. What about Nagoya?
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  Any other names at the cornerback spot that would make
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  sense for you? Yeah, Benny Nagoya is definitely
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  one of the one of the guys to watch.
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  He hasn't really played too much I felt like.
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  But Quinton Taylor Junior is another cornerback to keep an
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  eye on. I know David Coffey was another
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  guy that they were high on as well in that quarterback room.
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  But really it's it's a big drop off either way.
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  I mean, Trey Bell especially just him coming off the Arkansas
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  State game is huge. He had a great game against the
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  Red Wolves and had that pick as well.
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  But after that, it's looking pretty thin, that cornerback.
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  But Benny Nagoya and Quinton Taylor Junior would probably be
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  my top. Two names to watch it at corner.
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  When the schedule came out, we saw that Arizona is going to be
• 20:23
  the first Big 12 opponent, at least we call it the mainland.
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  And they we thought, well, there's a win, right?
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  Everybody just because based on last year, this was not a good
• 20:34
  football team. Last year they had some parts,
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  but for whatever reason we're unable to put it together.
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  That's not the case this year. Eugene, this looks like a pretty
• 20:43
  competent group. What do you expect from Arizona
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  tomorrow? But much more improved team and
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  you could just see they had the home and home with Kansas State.
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  Last year they got blown out by Kansas State 31 to 7 and again,
• 20:55
  they barely did anything. They come back this year, they
• 20:58
  went at 23 to 17. And while K State isn't exactly
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  hasn't been doing too hard and they only have one win this
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  year. That's a pretty good barometer,
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  pretty good measuring stick, especially considering how close
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  I would think it Iowa State's game was against Kansas State.
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  Arizona just looks a lot more competent this year.
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  They've rebuilt their whole coaching staff, new offensive
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  coordinator, new defensive coordinator, shift some guys
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  around. Their defense is older, wiser
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  and has been playing well up to this point.
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  Noah Fafida is a talented dual third quarterback that's played
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  turnover free football. So I'm expecting a much better
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  showing out of the Wildcats this year.
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  Will it actually culminate into anything?
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  We'll see. Last year they actually started
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  out three and one and then they finished four and eight.
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  So, so far they've taken care of business but their first two
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  games relatively unproven. They'll get a big test and and a
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  possibly a big opportunity to make a statement against the
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  Cyclones. One thing that jumped out,
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  watched a lot of the Kansas State Arizona game is that
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  defense. They've improved so much on that
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  side of the football. What kind of issues do you see
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  there, Fafita? He's playing outstanding and
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  when we know what he can do, but would he go through that defense
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  and and some of the things that they can do to maybe upset Rocco
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  and company? Yeah, just the way that they
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  approached the game this year is a lot more different.
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  And that's something that Taylor Mauser was super complimentary
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  of. And like you said, when you look
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  at their play so far this season, there's just so much
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  more aggressive, the way that they blitz, the way that they're
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  able to put pressure on the quarterback.
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  I think they have 8 different guys that have had a hand in at
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  least one sack this season or 1/2 or assisted on a sack.
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  So a lot of different guys getting active and involved.
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  Their secondary has been playing pretty well up to this point as
• 22:33
  well. They've been winning the
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  turnover battle eight to two over these last three games.
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  So this is just overall a much more aggressive, much more
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  assertive defensive unit. They've impressed everyone so
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  far. I mean, they're outscoring
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  opponents 111 to 26 and we'll see how that translates to big
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  twelves play, but much better this year.
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  Last year they were 13th out of 16th and points allowed and
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  offensive yards per game allowed.
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  And so far, it's been a much improved season for them.
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  Basketball in just a second, Berkel and Flora back in the
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  lineup by in all likelihood, do we expect Berkel to be 100% full
• 23:08
  going to pick up right where he left off?
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  Because I mean, he showed us last year he was really error
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  was pointing up. It looks like he's going to be
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  make it at that position this year.
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  He even looks better. Is Berkeley going to be 100% do
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  you think tomorrow? I personally believe that he'll
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  be close to that just because he traveled with the team, the
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  Arkansas State, him being out seemed like a very more like a
• 23:31
  precautionary move, like it was like a last minute bump and
• 23:33
  bruise. According to Matt Campbell and
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  some other members of the coaching staff, it was a he got
• 23:38
  dinged up in the Thursday before the Arkansas State game.
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  Felt like maybe they could have trotted him out, but they
• 23:43
  decided, you know, hey, it's Arkansas State, we got the bye
• 23:45
  coming up, might as well rest them.
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  So I, I think that he'll be in better position or close to
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  100%. He should be in pretty good
• 23:52
  shape for tomorrow. Good stuff there.
• 23:55
  Eugene Rappain joining us as we take a look at Iowa State and
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  Arizona on the gridiron and we're talking about the Big 12
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  and the quarterback play. Rocco amongst the the top in the
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  league this bye week, though, getting the the guy's health,
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  getting some other reps You know, one question I had cut him
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  overly, you know, he was banged up and that was the reason that
• 24:13
  we saw Alex Mansky listed in that backup spot for him.
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  Any update on his availability that injury or if it's just
• 24:20
  going to be Mansky as a backup going forward?
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  I think that he is in better shape.
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  I think it was after, I'm trying to remember if it was after the
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  Cyhawk game or after the South Dakota game.
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  But Campbell had just mentioned that Moberly was the start of
• 24:35
  return to practice. So it's not necessarily that
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  Mansky is, you know, that guy or the backup.
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  It was just more so that Moberly was unavailable, but that he was
• 24:42
  back practicing again. So I feel here we are three
• 24:45
  weeks later, 2-3 weeks later, you know, it's he should be in
• 24:48
  better shape now. And I'm sure he's still in the
• 24:50
  picture. According to Campbell.
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  After I think it was a South Dakota game because that was
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  when we saw Mansky out there. But he said that wasn't exactly
• 24:58
  an indictment on Moberly or a statement on Mansky.
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  It was just more so that was the availability.
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  Now with Moberly Deck practicing, got a few weeks
• 25:05
  under his belt. Maybe he's back there in the in
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  the depth charter in the pictures.
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  Tame and Lipsy, obviously some disappointing news for his sake
• 25:14
  that he's going to miss miss a little bit of time.
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  What do you think Eugene is? Is there a rush to get him back?
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  For obviously you want to have when you head to Las Vegas in a
• 25:23
  in a perfect world, he's ready and he's good to go by then.
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  But is there a chance that this lingers into the early portion
• 25:29
  of the schedule? You've got to think that it does
• 25:32
  and to what degree. Well, we'll see.
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  But definitely disappointing, heartbreaking, just all the
• 25:37
  things. I mean, for taming lips.
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  He with all the injuries that he's dealt with throughout his
• 25:40
  career, you finally hear how he's the healthy he's been.
• 25:43
  He puts all the other stuff behind the shoulder, the groin,
• 25:46
  the finger. Coming into his senior year, you
• 25:48
  just wanted the guy to be healthy and kind of go out on
• 25:51
  his terms. I think that it might limit him
• 25:54
  in the in the beginning parts of the season.
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  I'm curious to see how he responds to it and, and you know
• 25:59
  how this will affect him going into the season.
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  But one thing that that is worth noting is last year that they
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  were throughout practice, they were kind of, they had to hold
• 26:07
  Tim Lipsy back. Like Tim Lipsy as we know, this
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  guy will go 1000% if he can walk, if he can move, he can put
• 26:15
  his jersey on. He's going to do it for this
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  team and they actually had to limit him in practice at points
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  like have them sit out in a in a way of like load management just
• 26:23
  to keep them in good shape for games.
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  I'm curious to see, you know, how to what degree that they do
• 26:28
  that again this year. But MCL injury is definitely no
• 26:32
  fun. Four to six weeks right now.
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  It's looking like a late October return.
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  So maybe around like the preseason exhibitions or just
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  kind of the early parts of the season, but should be
• 26:43
  interesting for sure. And of course, that play, the
• 26:45
  point guard playmaker depth is we're not really there this
• 26:48
  year, so I'm curious to see how Iowa State handles it.
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  Good stuff Eugene, as always, we appreciate you coming on.
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  We will speak with you next week if your schedule allows.
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  Thank you, Eugene. Appreciate it.
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  Thanks guys. Have a good one.
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  Yeah, good to talk to Eugene Repay and Travis Hines.
• 27:02
  They have Cyclone Insider Thursday night for you Cyclone
• 27:05
  fans out there on Des Moines Sports Station, 106.3 kicks and
• 27:09
  off from six until 7. All right, we'll take your time
• 27:11
  out. We'll come back.
• 27:13
  We will head to Las Vegas, catch up with our friend Mike Palm, VP
• 27:16
  of operations at Circa Sports. He's next, Miller and Condon on
• 27:19
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Hi, Miller and Condon, Welcome
• 27:31
  back, Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trenton, Ken with you until just
• 27:34
  before 2. At that time, off the bench,
• 27:38
  come Lucas and Sean. They're at the rally House in
• 27:41
  Ames for their program today from 2:00 until 5.
• 27:44
  Let's head to Las Vegas. He's the VP of operations at
• 27:47
  Circa Sports. He's Mike, Paul, Mike Trenton.
• 27:49
  Ken got a I'll tell you during the first commercial break,
• 27:52
  somebody called in and asked about the artist talking about
• 27:54
  the Golden Gate and the promotion.
• 27:57
  He's taking his grandson to Vegas for his 21st birthday and
• 28:01
  asked if that is, you know, what nights of the week of that does
• 28:04
  that taking place. I said every night of the week
• 28:06
  for the for the next year. So.
• 28:08
  So it's working. How's it going over in Las
• 28:10
  Vegas? The night starts at Golden Gate
• 28:12
  six to seven with an open bar. So we're averaging, we've done
• 28:18
  one full week, right. We started last Friday and we
• 28:20
  did through Thursday last night and we're averaging just under
• 28:24
  400 redemptions a night. And it's not like it was just
• 28:27
  Friday, Saturday that the highest night was last night was
• 28:30
  440. So it's pretty amazing folks are
• 28:33
  coming in and you know, and not necessarily just leaving at
• 28:37
  7:00, but open bar from six to seven and you draw an envelope.
• 28:41
  The envelope has anywhere from 5 to $1000 in it.
• 28:45
  There's some 5 hundreds and two 50s, a bunch of hundreds and 50s
• 28:48
  and 20 fives. So folks seem to really like it
• 28:51
  so far. So Speaking of the Golden Gate,
• 28:53
  you also have some changes there as it pertains to the table
• 28:56
  games. Explain that a little bit more
• 28:59
  in the casino down there, changing the way that you go
• 29:02
  about, you know me, I like to roll the dice and play some
• 29:04
  craps there. So the changes in the casino
• 29:06
  games that you see at the Golden Gate.
• 29:09
  Yeah. So we took out all the live
• 29:10
  table games and and that center there next to the bar
• 29:14
  prohibition is replaced with all electronic table games.
• 29:18
  So it's not as if you can't play table games, they just won't be
• 29:20
  with a live dealer. The reality is with the
• 29:23
  increasing cost of the minimum wage every year, it's a very
• 29:28
  labor intensive business table games and we don't have enough
• 29:31
  staff or can't maintain enough staff to fill to open up all the
• 29:35
  games at the three properties. So we made a decision to take
• 29:39
  those dealers and supervisors and move them to circuit and the
• 29:42
  D to be able to offer more table hours at those properties where
• 29:47
  they're frankly busier, right, You get more revenue per labor
• 29:51
  hour worked. So but nobody lost their job.
• 29:53
  Everybody was retained that wanted to a couple couple
• 29:57
  retired, but but otherwise all those folks you saw at Golden
• 30:02
  Gate are either at the D or Circa now.
• 30:04
  And if you like history, this is the oldest hotel in Nevada,
• 30:07
  correct? Yeah, the address is 1 Tremont
• 30:12
  St. and the telephone number was one.
• 30:14
  It was the first phone in the phone in Nevada, the first hotel
• 30:17
  in Nevada. One that is incredible.
• 30:20
  Good stuff. I want to ask about the Ryder
• 30:22
  Cup to start, Mike, obviously the EUR got off early this
• 30:25
  morning. They have the lead, although it
• 30:27
  looks like the Americans are pushing back a little bit in
• 30:30
  current play. Speaking of play, what kind of
• 30:32
  play do you guys, what kind of right do you guys get on an
• 30:34
  event like the Ryder Cup every other year?
• 30:40
  It does about what a non major tournament would do just right
• 30:46
  around there. So you know, it's kind of hard
• 30:49
  because the betting options are more limited than a normal
• 30:52
  tournament. You do have matchups that you
• 30:54
  can bet each day, but you're betting team play instead of,
• 30:58
  you know, top five, top two people love the bet top five,
• 31:01
  top ten, top 20 will or not make the cut.
• 31:03
  These things aren't available really in the Ryder Cup.
• 31:06
  So I would say a normal 2nd to 3rd tier tournament is about
• 31:11
  what the right is. Wow.
• 31:15
  All right, I got a couple of things off of golf and into
• 31:19
  football. In fact, I want to start on the
• 31:21
  local front because if this was anybody other than the Iowa
• 31:23
  Hawkeyes, I know I would be locked and loaded on the Hawks
• 31:26
  this week or that team after Indiana's performance last week.
• 31:30
  What power number? Say what?
• 31:31
  You guys open this number. Indiana -4 now north of a
• 31:35
  touchdown in a bunch of different places.
• 31:37
  Take us into the betting side of Iowa, Indiana, what you guys are
• 31:41
  seeing because this feels like it's setting up very much to be
• 31:44
  a pros versus Joe's type of play.
• 31:46
  Absolutely, especially once the number got to seven.
• 31:50
  But the public is remembers what they saw.
• 31:53
  And what they saw was Indiana's dismantling of Illinois and what
• 31:57
  was one of the feature games last week.
• 31:59
  I don't know, maybe Fox wants to sue Brett Bielema for taking all
• 32:02
  the luster up at 9:00 AM our time.
• 32:04
  Big noon, they call it, right? USC at Illinois, Well, giving up
• 32:07
  seventy kind of take some of the shine off that.
• 32:11
  And so the, you know, look, I didn't know that.
• 32:15
  I didn't think I would necessarily deserve to be a road
• 32:17
  favorite last Friday night at Rutgers, but the offense is
• 32:23
  playing better now. The Rutgers is not a top tier
• 32:26
  Big 10 defense, but the offense at least look competent.
• 32:30
  Special teams obviously gave them a boost.
• 32:34
  Every year somebody goes into Kennick and loses.
• 32:36
  That's a top ten team, right? Top five a lot of the times.
• 32:39
  Usually it's in late October or November.
• 32:42
  Could it be in late September that we see it this year that
• 32:45
  the Hawkeyes told the upset? I wouldn't be shocked if it
• 32:48
  happened. If Indiana goes in there and
• 32:50
  wins by 21, then I think they're a legitimate threat to the top
• 32:55
  tier teams in the big. Ten yeah, I do too.
• 32:57
  Meanwhile, starting at six O clock in Ames, we've got Arizona
• 33:01
  paying a visit to Iowa State, but he's also got a couple of, I
• 33:04
  mean, just mammoth games, Alabama and Georgia and of
• 33:08
  course, Oregon at Penn State. I think the book is going to be
• 33:11
  very busy tomorrow night. Overall, what's college football
• 33:14
  been like? You've told us over the last few
• 33:16
  years that it's slowly building up.
• 33:18
  It'll never, I don't think, catch Sunday.
• 33:21
  But is it still trending in a positive direction as far as
• 33:23
  people in the book and people betting on these games?
• 33:29
  For that question, no, It's been very like this year.
• 33:32
  Saturdays have not been great, especially Saturday daytime.
• 33:36
  It was a ghost town for Utah. Texas Tech at 9:00 AM last week,
• 33:41
  which we've never seen in the last three years.
• 33:45
  The crowd just didn't really pick up till about four in the
• 33:47
  afternoon. You know, a lot of the 12:30
• 33:50
  matchups haven't been greater. 230 your time.
• 33:53
  Yeah, they just haven't been compelling this year.
• 33:56
  It's a shame. Georgia, Alabama and Penn State,
• 33:58
  Oregon's at the same time. And of course, Iowa State right
• 34:01
  up against that. Stormies and Ames, by the way.
• 34:04
  Yeah, to cover the game for ESPN.
• 34:07
  So let me. If the crowd isn't, if we're not
• 34:11
  packed this Saturday with this lineup, then we definitely have
• 34:13
  a problem. Now, the handle is only slightly
• 34:16
  off. I think we're down about 3% in
• 34:18
  college football as compared to the last two years averaged
• 34:21
  together. But definitely the, the number
• 34:24
  of people at stadium swim and, and the book particularly.
• 34:27
  And I was at Bar Canada last Saturday and it was, I mean,
• 34:30
  when the the, when the Utah game kicked, there might not have
• 34:33
  been 15 people there. It is.
• 34:36
  I'm surprised. Well, this week you also get
• 34:39
  Notre Dame in their early windows.
• 34:40
  They go to Arkansas in a weird spot there.
• 34:42
  There's been a lot of steam early on, the Razorbacks and
• 34:45
  that one Notre Dame. Defensive injuries are probably
• 34:47
  a part of that. Notre Dame for you guys, Is that
• 34:51
  where you see a bump? Notre Dame's playing in one of
• 34:53
  the windows that a lot of Irish fans make their way over to the
• 34:57
  sports book. Notre Dame, not the biggest, but
• 35:01
  they definitely have a national following.
• 35:02
  So you you see people, but Texas is big when Texas plays,
• 35:08
  Oklahoma's big when Oklahoma plays, obviously Michigan, the
• 35:11
  Big 10 schools, because that's where a lot of our customers
• 35:15
  come from. If Notre Dame's into like a
• 35:17
  Notre Dame Miami or Notre Dame USC where it's two national
• 35:20
  teams, you'll really you'll really feel it there.
• 35:22
  It's a tricky spot. This is Arkansas Super Bowl.
• 35:24
  It's you know, you say they play in the SEC, but they're not
• 35:27
  going to win the SEC. They played awfully well to lose
• 35:31
  that game in Memphis last week. I thought they were the better
• 35:33
  team. This Taylan Green I think will
• 35:35
  play on Sundays. He's he's special, their
• 35:37
  quarterback. And Notre Dame really hasn't
• 35:39
  been able to get people off the field.
• 35:41
  There's the concern there. I mean, the look ahead in the
• 35:43
  games of the year. This was 10 and now we're seeing
• 35:45
  it down at 4 1/2 and 4. We'll get to the NFLI don't want
• 35:49
  to just forget about baseball because it's been so good all
• 35:52
  year long. And here we are in the final
• 35:54
  weekend of the regular season. There's so much to play for.
• 35:57
  The Tigers may not even make the playoffs are having after having
• 36:01
  an insurmountable lead. Seemingly Blue Jays and Yankees
• 36:04
  are tied. What's going to happen?
• 36:06
  Is Cincinnati going to get a wild card to the Mets fallout?
• 36:09
  They're so it. Can Houston get in?
• 36:11
  Mike, this is a great weekend of baseball on top of everything
• 36:14
  else that we've got going on. It's interesting, I had a friend
• 36:18
  say to me the other day, why isn't baseball in their regular
• 36:21
  season on a Wednesday, start the wild card and start the wild
• 36:25
  cards Friday, Saturday and do the wild card series Friday,
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  Saturday, Sunday. It would be actually incredible
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  because everybody would be watching Monday, Tuesday,
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  Wednesday, right? The final days of the year, the
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  last two days of the year will get lost in the football.
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  So I thought it was an interesting thought, but yeah,
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  there's so many different angles and I was almost concerned the
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  Cubs were going to play their way out of the four seed and
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  have to go on the road and in the in the wild card round.
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  Hopefully that won't happen. I think you're probably rooting
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  for cold, cooler weather with San Diego coming in, if you can
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  get that for the Cubs. But yeah, a lot of intriguing.
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  Maybe the American League, first of all, is up for grabs anyhow,
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  whoever gets in has a chance. And we don't even know.
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  I mean, if Detroit somehow misses the playoffs, do they
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  even bring Hench back? I don't know.
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  I tend to thank the team in the American League that has value
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  right now is actually the Yankees.
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  I think there's some problems in Toronto, not only with injuries,
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  but with obviously there's some dissension.
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  Jose. Yeah, they're they're How about
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  the Reds? The Reds are holding the bat so
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  tight it's unbelievable. But how about with moving
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  Barrios to the bullpen and all the problems there?
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  I mean, who's going to be your starter for for Toronto in the
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  playoffs? Scouseman.
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  I guess. You can't start Scherzer.
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  No, I'm it's, it's a patchwork. So it's interesting.
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  Seattle, maybe, maybe they're the one that's poised to to make
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  it this year. I don't know.
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  But it'll certainly be a very interesting playoff by 30 to 1.
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  Brewers ticket. You know, my big concern for the
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  Brewers is the Dodgers, though. I mean, you can you can go out
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  there and throw Yamamoto, who's been dominant six straight
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  starts, and Gaussman and Snell and use Otani and Sasaki in the
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  bullpen. As bad as their bullpen has
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  been, you still have two quality starters.
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  You saw Sasaki and Kershaw pitch in that game Wednesday night.
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  And relief. So as as all the injuries the
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  Dodgers have had, as much as we said they failed to meet all the
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  expectations, I still think they're really dangerous right
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  now. Wide open American League.
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  Wrapping things up with me, Mike, over to Circa Survivor,
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  the Bills, the free square for a lot of people this week.
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  I used them last week. A lot of people love the Broncos
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  on Monday night against that banged up Bengals team.
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  I used Denver in Week 1. I might have to hold my nose
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  this week. I might have to take the
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  Patriots, the Texans, something like that and win this contest.
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  He got to get to the end. And I guess that's the way that
• 38:53
  I'm kind of looking at it. But how many people do you think
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  are going to be using Buffalo this week?
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  Denver said the all time nominal number of selections in Week 1
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  was 7000. Of course it's because we had
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  18,000 people. I think that'll be exceeded.
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  I think they'll be be 8000 or more on.
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  But it's just, it is really just a free square.
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  And I hate to say professional teams are tanking, but boy, you
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  watch the same play. It's it's, it's hard to believe
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  players don't tank, but organizations certainly can.
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  Yeah. So you don't, you don't have
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  those two free squares. It's very interesting, isn't it?
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  It is I. I I think this is the time to
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  use the Texans, although I don't I don't that I don't even hate
• 39:40
  Packers, actually. That's what we're doing.
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  We're using the Packers and the Broncos and we have the Bills
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  and are saving the Bills and I'm hoping for the impossible.
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  We shall see, Mike. October.
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  Right. We got a minute left, and I
• 39:54
  meant to bring this up last week, and I know it's somewhat
• 39:56
  not old news, but you had a chance to talk to Christine
• 39:59
  Brennan for one of your shows over in Illinois.
• 40:03
  How did it go, Mike? Obviously she wrote a book on
• 40:05
  Caitlin Clark. I'm guessing that was a big part
• 40:07
  of the conversation. Got like 30.
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  Yeah, I think the thing that I took from her was just how badly
• 40:16
  managed the WNBA is. And it isn't necessarily
• 40:19
  anything against Caitlin Clark. It's just they they didn't know
• 40:22
  how to handle her stardom in the way a David Stern could have
• 40:26
  handled Magic and and Bird and then Jordan coming into the
• 40:29
  league and just used it to catapult it.
• 40:32
  Instead, they really muted what could have been tremendous
• 40:35
  results. The app coming up September
• 40:38
  30th, you're going to have to download it if you're a circuit
• 40:41
  customer. If you're not, what a perfect
• 40:42
  time to get involved. Still looking at that date,
• 40:44
  Mike? Yeah, we're hopeful.
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  I mean, if you ask me in 2 hours I'll give you a different date,
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  but we're keeping our fingers crossed.
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  And we'll keep our audience notified.
• 40:52
  Thank you, Mike Palm, you have a great, great afternoon.
• 40:55
  Good weekend. Thanks buddy.
• 40:56
  Yeah, good luck to the Cyclones and Hawkeyes this weekend.
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  Hour 2 coming up next, Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network.