Latest / The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon / Hawkeye talk with John Bohnenkamp, NFL Season Predictions & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports
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- 0:12Hour number two, welcome back, Miller and Condon.
- 0:16Iowa Sports Radio Network. We take you until 2:00.
- 0:19Thanks for joining us wherever you are in the state of Iowa.
- 0:22Grateful that you're with us at the top of the hour.
- 0:24Off the bench they come, Lucas Strange, Sean Roberts, they take
- 0:29you until 5:00 overtime. Iowa 5 until 6.
- 0:32Heather's back tomorrow. Heather and Alec get things
- 0:35going in the morning with the first quarter.
- 0:37They begin at six. John Bowencamp is between
- 0:41availabilities. The players they have met with
- 0:44the media. Kirk Ference will meet with the
- 0:46media in about 40 minutes. John takes time out to join us.
- 0:50Hello, John Bowencamp, How are you?
- 0:55Are you there, John? Yes, I'm here.
- 0:57Can you hear me? Nah, loud and clear.
- 0:59Good to hear from you. So what?
- 1:00All right, Yeah. What did you learn this morning?
- 1:02Listening to the players? I don't know how they can put a
- 1:08positive spin or or talk about how good Albany is, how well
- 1:12coached they are. We don't know who the coach is.
- 1:13Neither does the team. So I'm guessing that that took
- 1:17some creative, creative answers. What did you what did you hear
- 1:20this morning, John? I, I just think they're ready to
- 1:23play. I mean, I, I, I think, I don't
- 1:26think when you get to this point in, in, you know, where you've
- 1:28been through camp and all that, I think you just want to see
- 1:31something different. And I, and I think that's the
- 1:33way they're looking at this one is, is, I mean, again, there's a
- 1:36lot of there's a lot of new moving pieces in this, in this
- 1:40depth chart, as we saw yesterday.
- 1:41And then I just kind of want to see where everybody fits.
- 1:44And I mean, and I listened a lot to Mark Gronowski today and then
- 1:49he really is just ready to play and you can tell that.
- 1:53And so I think they want to see somebody new and they they know
- 1:56that it's Albany, it's an FCS team and you know, and it is
- 2:01what it is, but it's a game. And that's what I think they're
- 2:04working at it as so. We know that this running
- 2:07backroom is deep. There's maybe no Caleb Johnson
- 2:10in there, but have to be excited about the depth that they
- 2:12created. But at the top, well, the guy
- 2:14that we were talking about a year ago at this time was all
- 2:16Kumari Moulton all the time. And then Caleb Johnson came to
- 2:19the forefront. He was out there, sounds like
- 2:21he's healthy, ready to go. What you hear from Bolton and
- 2:24kind of your expectation as a whole, not just Bolton, but this
- 2:26running backroom in 2025? You know, I, I, I think it is
- 2:30going to be a lot like last year, but, and I think
- 2:32eventually by week 3, somebody steps up, I think there will be
- 2:37that #1 running back. But he's got a lot of options
- 2:41there. And I mean, there's a lot of,
- 2:43and it was something they talked about back in media day that,
- 2:46you know, all those guys can do something for them out of the
- 2:49backfield. And you've got a young, you
- 2:52know, a couple of young guys that we haven't seen a lot of.
- 2:55You've got some other guys we do know a little bit about.
- 2:57So I mean, again, I think you're going to steal all of them on
- 3:01Saturday. And I think then by the time we
- 3:05get to Big 10, I think there is going to be one that that kind
- 3:08of steps up just kind of like last year maybe.
- 3:11I mean, clearly not the production, I don't think, but
- 3:14somebody's going to step up and then take that job.
- 3:17I agree with you. It's going to be fascinating to
- 3:19see who that's going to be. Do you have an opinion?
- 3:21I mean, if you had to, you know, go on record as to, you know,
- 3:25name your guy. Do you, do you lean either way?
- 3:28Does you think Moulton is? This is his year.
- 3:31I think this is his year, but I, you know, I've always been a
- 3:34Jazz Patterson fan. I always have liked it.
- 3:36And and I know that that they have been really high on Terrell
- 3:39Washington too. So I mean, again, there's,
- 3:42there's a lot of options there. It's just kind of who, you know,
- 3:46that's why I think these these first couple of games.
- 3:48And then, and I mean, obviously next week, you're you're going
- 3:51to kind of see a different offense.
- 3:52But these, this this game in two weeks from now are going to be
- 3:55really kind of how that room shakes out.
- 3:58And then I think that's what we're going to see.
- 4:01Let's go to the other skill position, then the wide receiver
- 4:03room. And maybe the biggest surprise
- 4:04of that depth chart was at the top and he talked about two guys
- 4:08listed at the same position, but couldn't be more different.
- 4:105764. You got speedy guy Sam Phillips,
- 4:14who comes in from Chattanooga. You got the Iowa kid from
- 4:17northwest Iowa at six foot three.
- 4:19I think a little bit of an upset there.
- 4:21What can you tell us about Sam Phillips?
- 4:24I don't know a whole lot. I mean, I mean, like you said, I
- 4:26I mean obviously comes from a really good program, an
- 4:30experienced player, which I mean, again, this room, you
- 4:33know, when you think back to just a couple years ago, you had
- 4:36a lot of freshmen back there. And I and I think when when he
- 4:40came here, it was the idea of this is the guy that's cut a lot
- 4:42of passes. This is the guy that that's done
- 4:45a lot of really good things at the FCS level.
- 4:48Apparently now he has he has earned that job in training in
- 4:52camp. And so I again, again, I and
- 4:55I've talked about this too with other people about this room.
- 4:58This is just so much of A better room now than what it was, you
- 5:02know, a year ago, two years ago, so much experience there.
- 5:05Again, a lot of different options.
- 5:06And it was something that Tim Luster talked about back at
- 5:09media Day is that that you've got guys, but you can put them
- 5:12in different spots. And so I think he's he's really
- 5:16happy with that group. I mean, clearly, I mean, I
- 5:18thought Reese Vanders is good was going to be the.
- 5:21Guy you know. I just thought, I just thought,
- 5:23you know, the way he he kind of started last year and, you know,
- 5:27in the way everybody had talked about him in the spring and all
- 5:30that you thought that he was going to be.
- 5:32But clearly, you know, again, Sam Phills, I mean, obviously,
- 5:36you know, with the numbers he put up in his, you know, at
- 5:39Chattanooga, now he comes in here and obviously he's done
- 5:42something really well that that has impressed them.
- 5:45When when Kirk Ferren sat down with Revson and company in Las
- 5:49Vegas, he went out of his way to he wasn't asked about reuse
- 5:52Vanderzee, but he found a way to bring him into the conversation.
- 5:55So John, that's was shocking to me as well because as you said
- 5:59back in the spring, it was all Vanderzee, Vanderzee, Vanderzee
- 6:02even, you know, heading into the fall camp.
- 6:04So I'm anxious to see this Sam Phillips and and what he did and
- 6:07you know, obviously must be able to play a little bit because I,
- 6:10like you, thought it was a foregone conclusion.
- 6:12I want to ask you about Gronowski.
- 6:13The fact that you know, he comes from that FCS level and
- 6:17everybody's kind of poo poo in this game.
- 6:19It's Albany, and admittedly they're a bad team pick, 12th in
- 6:22their fourteen team conference. But I wonder if that Gronowski,
- 6:26not that he wouldn't take it seriously, just first start as a
- 6:28hot guy, but the fact that he was an FCS player, maybe there's
- 6:32something to that. I don't know.
- 6:35Somebody asked him about that today because I mean, I mean,
- 6:37he's played against Albany before and, you know, and and
- 6:41you know, he said, you know, he understands the level of
- 6:44football. He understands what FDS football
- 6:47is. And he said, I'm not taking them
- 6:49lightly at all. You know, they we, you know,
- 6:52it's it's you know, I think from listening to him today, I think
- 6:55he's just excited about getting a chance to get that first game
- 7:00in as an Iowa quarterback. And it's kind of funny to say it
- 7:03that way. But when you consider his resume
- 7:06and all he did at South Coast State, but he's looking at this
- 7:10little difference like, OK, this is now big time.
- 7:12This is this is, you know, this is a powerful conference team.
- 7:16This is a big, big 10 team. I want to go out there and play
- 7:19well. And you can tell he's ready to
- 7:21go and he obviously feels good. Yeah.
- 7:25You know, and I mean, and he I think he kind of shook some of
- 7:28the rust off, you know, that from not, you know, being going
- 7:31through spring practice and all that.
- 7:33So I I think he's really ready to play.
- 7:35And then again, I have when they got him, when he went into the
- 7:39portal, I said they should get him.
- 7:41I have really liked this guy from the beginning.
- 7:43And I mean, because you know me, I'm an CS guy.
- 7:46So I'm really, I'm really excited about I, I want to see
- 7:50how he does at this level and, and, and, and what he can do for
- 7:55this team. So over to the defensive line,
- 7:57and I know the question is going to pop up right away.
- 8:00And you know, knowing the opponent on Saturday, maybe
- 8:02you'll see Yose up, Anessa get a sack, and it's going to start up
- 8:05just like it did with AJ, what, 6-7 years ago?
- 8:08Why isn't he playing more? Why are these veterans in front
- 8:10of him? Have you heard much about Yosei
- 8:12in camp? It sounds like he is as
- 8:15anticipated. But another thing this defensive
- 8:18line feels, at least on paper, a lot deeper than when AJ showed
- 8:21up as a freshman. Oh, yeah.
- 8:23And I mean, you look at, you know, I've got the depth chart
- 8:25here in front of me and you look at senior, junior, graduate,
- 8:28junior, sophomore, I mean, these are all experienced guy.
- 8:32And so, you know, if he does, if he plays well enough in camp,
- 8:37he's going to be on the field. So Parker isn't isn't afraid to
- 8:40use somebody like that. But this defensive line group is
- 8:43probably a little bit better than what maybe we thought they
- 8:47were going to be in the spring. And but we would, because I
- 8:50think when you look at this, the experience they've got, I, I
- 8:54just think it it, they're going to do the same sort of deal into
- 8:57rotating guys in and out. Does he get into that rotation?
- 9:00Probably and maybe not right away, but, but maybe we do see
- 9:04him on Saturday. Maybe we see him in a couple
- 9:06weeks in 2 minutes. You're going to see him at some
- 9:09point because I know they have been really high on what he can
- 9:12do. Offensive line set with the
- 9:15exceptional left tackle. Is that kind of where we're at?
- 9:18Yeah, and I mean, I and and Gronowski was asked about that
- 9:22today and he didn't seem to have, you know, like a favorite
- 9:25among the two. You know, he talked up both of
- 9:27them. So I think you're going to see
- 9:29both of them on Saturday. Again, that's a position works
- 9:32itself out here eventually. But I again, I, you know, it's
- 9:37just a question of who kind of steps up here in the next couple
- 9:41weeks. And I guess because I think you
- 9:42see both of them. Do you think it's an advantage
- 9:45for the way the schedule sets up here?
- 9:47Albany, you know, they've taken on good FCS teams now I guess
- 9:49North Dakota State, it didn't go very well and they escaped
- 9:52against South Dakota State, this Albany team and though they were
- 9:55a semi finalist 2 years ago, it looks like this program is a lot
- 9:58different. If if you could, Jared.
- 10:00Verse was on that team, yes. Jared Verse was on that Albany
- 10:02team that helped lead them to the semi finals and then they
- 10:05got trounced by Mark Gronowski and South Dakota State in those
- 10:08semi finals. If you gave true serum to Kirk
- 10:11and he said you could have an FCS opponent, but one maybe a
- 10:15little bit better than Albany, you think he'd take it.
- 10:17Or because of the question marks, maybe he's happy having
- 10:20kind of this tomato can in front of him.
- 10:22I think in other years he would have probably liked the tougher
- 10:25game, but I'm I'm like you said, there's, there's there's so many
- 10:29positions that you still you have options, but you want to
- 10:32see what those options are. And that's what this, I mean,
- 10:35this game is going to feel an awful lot like an NFL preseason
- 10:39game, but you you're going to get you want to get guys in
- 10:42there. You want to do something just to
- 10:44get ready for what you got next week.
- 10:47And so I think I don't think he really cares right now.
- 10:50I mean, again, if this was if this was a really, really, you
- 10:53know, if you had, if you had, this was a very established Iowa
- 10:56team. Yeah, maybe he wants maybe a
- 10:58little bit of a better challenge.
- 11:00But I think right now it's just let's get him on the field.
- 11:02Let's see what these guys can do and and let's build toward Week
- 11:052. When you listen to Phil Parker
- 11:07over the years, as you have John and where I'm going is is his
- 11:10linebacker position. And you mentioned earlier all
- 11:13the the experience, a grad, grad, senior in those three
- 11:16spots and then Cash Loopman win the job, right?
- 11:19I think he did, yeah. And he's an underclassman, but
- 11:22experienced being there. Do do you think Parker is
- 11:26confident? Is he, is he in the back of his
- 11:28mind wondering how this is going to work out?
- 11:31I mean, they've had some great players over the last, you know,
- 11:331/2 decade at that, longer than that at that position.
- 11:36And they've been able to plug and play.
- 11:39Is this another example of plug and play once they, you know,
- 11:42the incumbent has moved on? Or is there still some questions
- 11:45in your mind? I don't think there's really, I
- 11:48don't think he has that many questions in his mind.
- 11:51I don't really have that many questions.
- 11:52I mean, my, my thing is like, you know, in looking at the
- 11:55depth chart, I mean, yeah, there's there's guys there that
- 11:57now have have earned their opportunity.
- 12:00You've got some guys behind them, some really young guys
- 12:03that red shirted last year that now all of a sudden may start
- 12:06pushing them for playing time. And I think he knows, hey, if,
- 12:10if, if, if what we've got out there now doesn't work.
- 12:13We've got these young guys, they're ready to go.
- 12:15But at the same time, I think he knows that this is just a really
- 12:18these guys have earned their opportunity and, and he's going
- 12:22to, he's going to roll with them.
- 12:23And from what everybody has said about them and what from what
- 12:27we've seen of them, they're pretty, I mean, this is a pretty
- 12:30good group. They just haven't had a chance
- 12:31to play. Now they're getting a chance to
- 12:33play. Talking season is over, John
- 12:37Bowencamp. Let's put it on record.
- 12:38No wishy washy. How are the Hawkeyes going to
- 12:41finish up the year? Because I was going to be a
- 12:46little wishing. No, you were.
- 12:48I'm just saying 9:00 and 3:00. 9:00 and 3:00.
- 12:51I'll say nine and three, nine and three.
- 12:53Yeah, not crazy. Fly over the window and I guess
- 12:55yeah. 9:00 and 9:00 and 3:00 and they get either Penn State or
- 13:00Oregon. They beat one of those two at
- 13:02home. Wow.
- 13:03Well, they are at home and that's the magic.
- 13:05I like them against the Ducks. You do, Trent.
- 13:07I do OK, OK. OK, so, so I'm I'm going to say
- 13:10nine and three and and they win one of those and one of their
- 13:13wins is against one of those two that.
- 13:15Would be a really good scalp to have, no doubt about it.
- 13:17Have you filed all your blue ribbon stuff?
- 13:19All your basketball? Oh God.
- 13:21Yes. How much?
- 13:22How many hours? That's a good how many words?
- 13:284545 thousand words because I had two, I had two top 25 teams.
- 13:36And so those were those are 4000 words or more.
- 13:42Yeah, I wrote 4000. I wish I wrote 4200 words on the
- 13:47Cyclones and about that many on BYU.
- 13:50Good stuff. Going to be fast.
- 13:51Yeah, boy, I'll tell you what, I was scrambling to get those last
- 13:54two or three coaches, but got them all.
- 13:57Good stuff. All right, well, we can't let
- 13:59you go without the getting to baseball with you as the Iowa
- 14:03president of the Iowa chapter, the Los Angeles Dodgers fan
- 14:06club. It's a hell of a race, these
- 14:08Padres and Dodgers. As a baseball fan, I'm loving
- 14:11this. I don't know how it's going to
- 14:12play out. I think the Dodgers will prevail
- 14:14in the regular season. They needed that game Sunday.
- 14:17They got it. It's as a baseball fan, John,
- 14:20I'm loving Padres, Dodgers. I don't 'cause I don't like
- 14:24them. I mean, you know, it's it's
- 14:26again, I don't like little brother.
- 14:28I like the little brother and but I mean they're up a game
- 14:33technically 2 because they have the tiebreaker.
- 14:37They, I think this is kind of the week maybe where they start
- 14:39that little distance here. Yeah, because the Mariners did
- 14:42you a favor last night, right? They came back and got the pods
- 14:45after that was Home Run Derby early in that game.
- 14:47That's where I started my last night viewing.
- 14:49And the Dodgers. The Dodgers had the Reds at home
- 14:52and the Diamondbacks at home, and let's start to get a little
- 14:56distance here. And they'll be.
- 14:58Fine, good stuff, John Bowen Camp.
- 15:00Congrats on the blue ribbon. We'll read you from the press
- 15:04box at Kinnock on Saturday and every Saturday and we'll talk to
- 15:06you throughout the year. Thank you, John.
- 15:08Appreciate you coming on. See you, buddy.
- 15:10Yep, Yep. John Bowen Camp Associated
- 15:12Press. So we catch up with Iowa.
- 15:14So he's going 9 and. 39 and 3. Optimistic, but you've got the
- 15:18beating Oregon. I do.
- 15:19That's one of the victories that I gave him when we did our game
- 15:22by game predictions that we had up last week, right?
- 15:25Well, you're you're on the right foot with the clones.
- 15:27Yes. You had K, you had them beating
- 15:29K State. Got that one, put that one in
- 15:31the back pocket and feeling good.
- 15:33I have Iowa 8 and 4. You have 7 and 5, seven and five
- 15:38for. Both schools.
- 15:38Seven and five for both. I had eight and four for both.
- 15:42I have upsetting Oregon and it's dumb.
- 15:45But there's one thing that's stuck in my mind more because a
- 15:48lot of people said, well, they're going to pull one of the
- 15:49two. Like John just said, right, Pull
- 15:50one of the two. Big upsets, Penn State.
- 15:54I just think they're a behemoth. I don't like Nacho flies.
- 15:57I keep going back to last year when Oregon went to camp Randall
- 16:01and they should have lost game brain lock was awful tight game
- 16:05in that game. They could have brought back a
- 16:08lot of Jim Sorgy and they win that game.
- 16:10Jim Sorgy, there's a name they, he was so bad in that game and
- 16:14they still almost beat Oregon, an Oregon team that went
- 16:17thirteen and oh, by the way. Had the number one overall.
- 16:20Seed and we know that Wisconsin team also lost 4210 Iowa
- 16:24Environment's going to be a factor.
- 16:26Maybe some cold weather because it's the first week in November
- 16:29it is yeah. Get that speed out there on a
- 16:31cold morning. Cold evening, whatever. 11:00
- 16:35kick. Off is what you're rooting.
- 16:36For something like. That all right, OK, we will make
- 16:40our NFL predictions next, but before we go to break and the
- 16:43phone lines are busy. So don't try and jump the gun
- 16:46and get in on on this going to give you two tickets to the
- 16:51Albany, Iowa game to call her number one.
- 16:53But I'm not going to unbusy the phone lines till I'm done saying
- 16:56what I have to talk yes, So I don't want you to try 'cause
- 16:58you're going to get a busy signal whoever calls in and we
- 17:02give these tickets to you actually have to go pick them up
- 17:06at the box office. You can't.
- 17:08You can't say billed ankle, which calls and and you can't
- 17:13give them to Dean Smith. You have to pick them up at the
- 17:17box office on Saturday. And if you can't do that, don't
- 17:20call. Don't call.
- 17:21Because you can't give them to somebody.
- 17:23You actually physically have to be in Iowa City to get these
- 17:27tickets from the box office on Saturday morning before the game
- 17:31or Saturday when the box office opens.
- 17:33Doctor Stephen Fuller's given us a full, full season ticket and
- 17:36he bought us one of the packages, the black package, I
- 17:39think. But regardless of that, and next
- 17:41week, we're gonna have Cyhawk tickets to give away.
- 17:43Nice. Because Doctor Fuller realizes
- 17:45that Cyclone fans need dental care too.
- 17:48Both. Both.
- 17:50But today, and I'm going to, there's about a 7 second delay,
- 17:54I'm going to unbusy the phones and caller #1 is going to win
- 17:56those tickets. But it's you.
- 17:58It's not your son, it's not your wife, it's not your neighbor.
- 18:00You have to be able to go and get these tickets because the
- 18:03box office is going to be waiting for the for the name
- 18:07that I provide them later on today.
- 18:09And a photo ID. With a yes.
- 18:10With a photo ID? Thank you.
- 18:12With your photo ID or they won't give them to you.
- 18:17Eddie, 515-284-5966 caller #1 If you want to go see the Hawks in
- 18:23Albany right now, if you get a ring, that means I'm not coming
- 18:27to you. But if you do get the if we do
- 18:32answer your phone, obviously you will get them.
- 18:34We've got our winner. We've got our winner.
- 18:35You can stop now. We'll come back.
- 18:38We'll go on record. I just put this dude on hold and
- 18:41he left. So I'm going to the next guy.
- 18:44Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
- 18:51Hi Mory Condon, welcome back high with sports radio network
- 18:54graduations. Matt Woodhouse going to see Iowa
- 18:58versus Albany again, doctor Steven Fuller, Fuller family,
- 19:01dentists couple of locations forgot to mention that should
- 19:05have E 29th St. 2822 E 29th St. also in Altoona five O 9 8th St.
- 19:11SE in Altoona. Doc Fuller has given us a full
- 19:14season ticket for Hawkeye football basketball as well.
- 19:17We'll get to that basketball season and one of the mini packs
- 19:20and he does have, we have 4 tickets for us for next week.
- 19:23We will give away to Si Hawk and we'll do that on Friday with one
- 19:26of our Twitter account, Miller and Condon Twitter account,
- 19:29total yards, blah, blah, blah. We'll do that.
- 19:33Be up there and you know what we're going to do?
- 19:34I think we're going to do total yards for both, Iowa State,
- 19:37South Dakota, Iowa, Albany, combine them all four teams.
- 19:42So we'll put that out. Friday.
- 19:44Friday. Is that OK with you?
- 19:45I know you're busy. You're headed to Fryfest.
- 19:47You got Valley Dowling. Yep.
- 19:49We'll make it happen. All right, good stuff.
- 19:51So be watching for that. And you don't have to follow
- 19:55Miller and Condon on Twitter, But I don't know why I wouldn't.
- 19:57No, no. What's happening every day?
- 19:59Yeah. You learn about Taylor Swift and
- 20:01Travis Kelsey getting together. Boy oh boy, it's wild.
- 20:04Gonna end in a ring? Yep, one way or the other.
- 20:07We'll get to that in a second because I think that's the only
- 20:09ring, Travis. Oh, have.
- 20:12I said that before. In the last few years, I believe
- 20:14the last seven years. All right, let's get to it.
- 20:17We are going to go on record again next week.
- 20:18So busy. By the way, all the shows are
- 20:20going to be on the air on Monday because it's Labor Day.
- 20:23We took an extra day off around the 4th of July with Cy Hawk
- 20:27being here. I never understood why we're off
- 20:29Monday that week. It just didn't make any sense.
- 20:31Too important. It's too important.
- 20:32Absolutely is so in the first quarter Lauren Condon and off
- 20:38the bench we'll all be on the air on Monday.
- 20:40Will you are laboring will be laboring while you're enjoying
- 20:44your your long weekend back to school.
- 20:46So back to school was when in West Des Moines.
- 20:48Are your kids back? Yeah, kindergarten for Jack.
- 20:51Yeah. Made the walk up there.
- 20:52No tears. No.
- 20:54Tears. That's great.
- 20:55Maybe a little misty for Dad. My.
- 20:56Dad was going to say yeah, no tears from Jack.
- 20:58Yep. He was all good.
- 20:59He was ready. It helped have an older sister
- 21:01there. Sure.
- 21:01So she took him under his wing and away they went.
- 21:05And that's awesome. Off and running.
- 21:07But early dismissal for kindergarten for these first
- 21:10couple days. First couple of days.
- 21:11Didn't school like to start there?
- 21:13Used to start like the middle of the week.
- 21:15Didn't used to be a couple of days.
- 21:16Yeah, like Thursday and get those two days.
- 21:19And it's a weekend and then boom, you're into the Monday
- 21:21through Friday. Well, back to school means back
- 21:24to football. That's right, Right.
- 21:26So let's get to it. We're going to go on record with
- 21:28how we see the divisions falling, the wild cards and then
- 21:32ultimately who's going to play play for a Super Bowl and who's
- 21:34going to win a Super Bowl. Do you have?
- 21:37Are you chalky when it comes to the Super Bowl?
- 21:40Pretty not overly chalky. In fact, I want to see if I can
- 21:44find matchups. Does Circa have the the matchups
- 21:46up right now team over T? Did yeah.
- 21:49Super Bowl exact is Super Bowl Exactly.
- 21:51I'm pretty sure they they. Championship exact.
- 21:53Yeah. All right, so I'm going to see
- 21:55I'm going to pull up what mine is going to be price wise
- 21:58because I think it's a decent price as I'm scrolling through
- 22:01how about 62 to one? That's good if mine.
- 22:04Hits. Yeah, that's that's good.
- 22:06All right, let's get into it. Start the AFC just like we're
- 22:10old, so we like to remember like the agate type in the newspaper
- 22:14and that's how we go through the divisions and then we'll do our
- 22:17wild card after that. Start in the American football.
- 22:20Conference. By the way, will you watch Hard
- 22:23Knocks tonight? Did you get through Hard Knocks
- 22:24episode 3? Now that you say that, I didn't.
- 22:27Yeah, I watched half of it. It's and it's the Bears 1
- 22:29though, right? It's the Bears 1 you.
- 22:31Know yeah, I got it. I I need to watch that one.
- 22:33'Cause it I don't. Is this the last episode or is
- 22:35there one more? That's what I thought.
- 22:37It just doesn't move the needle anymore.
- 22:39And because there's so many other any given Saturday for the
- 22:42SEC special America's team was really good.
- 22:46Maybe focus a little bit on Jerry Jones too much, but it's
- 22:48his team, yes. Right.
- 22:50It says it in the title. Yes, after America's Team, the
- 22:54Gambler and his Cowboys. But I enjoyed it.
- 22:58Yeah, I did too. And then the Kingdom, the story
- 23:00of the chiefs, which is pretty good in its own right.
- 23:02So yeah, there was definitely more options on the table.
- 23:05And then Thursday, we're going to get real football.
- 23:07And did you see that first game? It's like at 3:30 in the
- 23:10afternoon or 434-3430 our time. Boise's playing against South
- 23:14Florida on the road against the Bulls.
- 23:18Did Boise? Is Boise favored?
- 23:205 1/2 yes. And but it opened as a much
- 23:22bigger number. Right.
- 23:23Yeah, there has been big seams on South Florida, yes.
- 23:26Of all teams. But we'll get to see a little
- 23:29Boise. State suck is a cinch in the
- 23:31Mountain West, yeah. Yeah, a cinch.
- 23:33A cinch, I think. I can't get there.
- 23:37Oh I I mean UNLV almost got beat by Idaho State.
- 23:40Actually Lt. is getting his mail in Vegas.
- 23:42No, I know, I know, but there's a minion.
- 23:45I think the mountain was as bad. Anyways, we'll talk.
- 23:47We're talking NFL now. But yeah, 4:30 on on Thursday
- 23:50afternoon. Well, since we're here and then
- 23:535:00 Rutgers plays. Oh, by the way, I would get to
- 23:55them at the end of September. She's got to take a peek at
- 23:57that. Then we get into Buffalo, MN,
- 24:00got to take a peek at that. Then we see Wisconsin.
- 24:03Got to watch that. And Nebraska and Cincinnati are
- 24:06on both of our quote locals schedule.
- 24:09That's where I'm going to focus Trent on the late game.
- 24:11I I spend more time on Nebraska Cincy than the other.
- 24:15I think the Bearcats are live. You do, I do.
- 24:18Simple's going to join us at this time tomorrow, by the way.
- 24:20Great. 1:30 tomorrow. How many years in a Rose,
- 24:24Minnesota played on that Thursday night?
- 24:26I always play here. Yeah, I think it's.
- 24:28Does the fan base like that? No, they had big ones.
- 24:31Remember when they had a whole state?
- 24:32Oh yeah, they've had big ones. And they've also had some close
- 24:35calls. Maybe a loss in there too.
- 24:39Are you buying the Gophers I've heard?
- 24:41I Trent, it's unbelievable. The dark horse stuff.
- 24:43Falika, Chris. Falika the Bear bet them to make
- 24:47the College Football Playoff. I can't.
- 24:50I don't get it. They'll be 7 and five.
- 24:53Yeah. Six and six, yeah, maybe 8:00
- 24:58and 4:00, but that's the high water.
- 24:59Mark, I'm with you. I'm with you.
- 25:01They like that. Quarterback though, I guess,
- 25:03well, we'll see where they go. I'll take a peek at that for the
- 25:06first time like America will on Thursday night.
- 25:08Let's get into it. This is a free score.
- 25:10We don't have to go. Or or do you like somebody other
- 25:13than Buffalo? Nope, I'm taking Buffalo.
- 25:14Too bad. I can't convince you to take
- 25:16another tea. No, if there is, it's not
- 25:18Buffalo. Is there even?
- 25:19I mean, it's not Buffalo. Who New England you think it is?
- 25:22I do, man. I'm not.
- 25:23I liked what we saw from Drake May and they got an adult now
- 25:26running, yeah. I'll give you that.
- 25:28Defense can't be worse. I think that they're going to be
- 25:31improved enough to track down Buffalo though, no?
- 25:35Could the Dolphins finish second by default?
- 25:37Because everybody hates them. I'm I'm kind of almost back on
- 25:40when I was coming down to my final wild card pick we'll get
- 25:42to in a little bit. They were on my list because
- 25:46everybody, it feels like they're fading the Dolphins when
- 25:49everybody but. Even hates the head coach.
- 25:50When everybody's going one way, I know.
- 25:52Absolutely. Go the other.
- 25:53All right, let's go. We're all on Buffalo.
- 25:55We're both, all, both on Buffalo.
- 25:56Let's go to the north. This might be interesting.
- 26:00I I can't quit them. It's the Baltimore Ravens.
- 26:02In the same way. You're the same, OK.
- 26:04I'm the same. Do you get the Steelers?
- 26:06Love a little bit. There's a ton of it out there,
- 26:09Trent, a ton of it. They think Aaron Rodgers is the
- 26:12difference. Well, it's an improvement you
- 26:15would think. Just statistically, look at him
- 26:17last year. I know there were plenty of
- 26:19demerits, but you look at the statistical profile, it didn't
- 26:22fall off again. Another year removed from the
- 26:24Achilles. Yep, it's slow, not moving
- 26:27around anymore. It's not old Aaron Rodgers, but
- 26:29the dude can still sling it. Why don't we like the Bengals?
- 26:32Their defense? Is that exactly?
- 26:34Is that the start and stop there?
- 26:36Awful September's awful defense, yeah, but they're.
- 26:38Scheduled If they get off to a bad start in September, Taylor
- 26:42can't survive Losing to the Browns, losing to the Jags.
- 26:47Those are the first two games. Are you saying first coach
- 26:49fired? OK.
- 26:52See where you're going. All right, help me out with the
- 26:54South. So we've got favorite, favorite
- 26:56so far. I did not take the favorite
- 26:58here, which is the Houston Texans.
- 27:00I cannot get there with Jacksonville.
- 27:03I still curdle around a little bit.
- 27:05I liked what Liam Cohen did, but it's a different job.
- 27:09Trevor Lawrence cut the hair. I don't know.
- 27:11Something needs to happen. It just has not clicked with
- 27:14him. So you can't be going Tennessee?
- 27:16I, I, I sniffed, I really did. I peeked under the hood a little
- 27:20bit. I think there was a leaky oil
- 27:22though, that, that I had to stay away.
- 27:23So I, I ended up with the Colts. I don't love Daniel Jones.
- 27:27It's not that it just I like the talent on the roster.
- 27:31I think there's enough there. And if he can just be OK in a
- 27:35crappy division, yeah, the Colts can go nine and eight and win
- 27:38this thing. So I took Indianapolis.
- 27:40Well, I'm going to take the Texans.
- 27:42I don't like their offensive line.
- 27:44I'll watch the Texans more this year because of the three local
- 27:47clones. And you know the raving about
- 27:49Xavier Hutchinson. Oh, yeah.
- 27:51I started writing an article about him yesterday.
- 27:53I had a great camp. We'll see what what has that,
- 27:56What happens there? All right, let's go to the West.
- 27:59Well, it's of course the what, 8 time, 9 time defending division
- 28:03champion, the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 28:04This is Speaking of free squares.
- 28:06Not so fast. Oh boy.
- 28:09They're loaded, Trent. They're loaded.
- 28:12This is the Denver Broncos. I'm a Bronco fan.
- 28:17I love my team this year. I love my team this year.
- 28:20I think their offensive line is one of the top five in football.
- 28:23Not just me, Pro Football Focus. I think their defense might be
- 28:26the best in football. I'd like to they improve.
- 28:30They've got Bonex, a tight end he can play with.
- 28:33I like the running backroom. It's deeper this year than it
- 28:35was last year. I don't know what their weakness
- 28:39is. Unless Bonex takes a step back
- 28:41in Year 2, I don't know what it is.
- 28:44A year ago didn't they have a ridiculous record in one score
- 28:48games? I don't remember.
- 28:50I think they were one of the tops a year ago and we know that
- 28:52starts to for most teams that starts to even out.
- 28:55The other thing, you look at the composite of what they did and
- 28:58the teams that they beat a year ago weren't very good.
- 29:03But there's not like they're playing a murderer's role
- 29:05schedule this year. They no, I had it wrong.
- 29:09Broncos were bad actually in one score games last year.
- 29:11But when you look at the totality, that's the knock
- 29:14against them. They didn't beat anybody last
- 29:15year. The win against Kansas City?
- 29:18No. That doesn't count.
- 29:19That doesn't count. When you look at who they beat,
- 29:21that would be I guess the pushback that you would have.
- 29:24But the one point that I thought I had, there were bad one score
- 29:27games last year and that maybe will even out.
- 29:29I like Denver, in fact. Did they beat a playoff team
- 29:32last year? I'm looking it'd be Tampa.
- 29:34They are my top wild card team. OK, we'll get to that in a
- 29:37second. But so I'm taking Denver.
- 29:39Yep, you've taken Kansas City. Let's go to the to the NFC.
- 29:48Philly. Man, I don't.
- 29:53You know what's going to be better.
- 29:57I'm not picking them. You know what's going to be
- 29:58better? Who is that?
- 29:59Giants. Giants are going to be better.
- 30:02Giants are good. What's the total?
- 30:04I think Jackson Dart will be the start of halfway through the
- 30:06year. 6 1/2. Is it 6 1/2?
- 30:08Five. Is it 5?
- 30:09If it's 5 1/2, it's worth a bet. OK.
- 30:12I think the Giants are better. The Giants are better.
- 30:15Yep. Washington.
- 30:18Are they going to be better? No.
- 30:20OK, Dallas. No, they're.
- 30:23Going to be worse than they were last year.
- 30:25The the Cowboys, yeah, they'll be about the same.
- 30:27OK, it's probably it's the Eagles.
- 30:29I agree it's the Eagles. Both on Philly.
- 30:32Both on Philly. Let's go to the North.
- 30:35The Green Bay Packers will be your division champion.
- 30:37You know, why don't I like this team?
- 30:39I've got the finishing last in the division.
- 30:41I know you do and I can't. What am I missing?
- 30:44What do you why? Why do you love the Packers?
- 30:46Because of what we saw two years ago at the end of the year, last
- 30:51year, Jordan Love had a year from hell injury wise.
- 30:54The end of the year 2 years ago was phenomenal.
- 30:56He. Was great and the injuries that
- 30:58he started in Brazil last year, now he.
- 31:01Got hurt Wick one, you're right. Derailed the season.
- 31:03I love Josh Jacobs. I think he's going to have a
- 31:07monster year. OK, but who's Jordan Love going
- 31:09to throw the ball to they got. Your needle, they got 12 guys.
- 31:13You can find one find. 1. Yes, Golden's got wheels.
- 31:16He does, but he's a. Rookie Dobbs?
- 31:19Fine, Reed fine. Good tight end.
- 31:22You like Tucker? Craft.
- 31:23I do. I do.
- 31:24Yep, I do. I think Jordan Love is going to
- 31:27take the leap this. Year, you really do.
- 31:29I do not me. I'm going Detroit.
- 31:34I'm going back from give me more Lions.
- 31:36I'm going Lions, Vikings, Bears, Packers.
- 31:39So we're basically flipped around quite a bit.
- 31:42If I if I had to do that, I would go Packers, Lions, Bears,
- 31:46Vikings. You think the Vikings finished
- 31:48last? Yeah, because I know JJ
- 31:50McCarthy. All right, South.
- 31:52Atlanta. You think this is your SO you're
- 31:56a Pennex believer. I don't know, but it's more of a
- 32:00fate on Tampa. I I don't like.
- 32:03As good as that offensive line is, it's good with Tristan
- 32:05Werfs. He might be back.
- 32:07Well, it was week four and then it was maybe Week 2 and then
- 32:10it's back to Week 4. It I don't like the sounds of
- 32:13the way that that is going. And Baker Mayfield, we've seen
- 32:16it before. He can turn into a pumpkin.
- 32:18Pretty quickly he can. It's not going to happen this
- 32:20year. I've got them winning the South.
- 32:21Tampa. Taking Tampa and then this
- 32:25division. So is Matthew Stafford OK?
- 32:30No. I think he is.
- 32:33You do, you believe as I was watching the highlights Sunday
- 32:37night of him going through practice, I mean.
- 32:39Was that his first practice though?
- 32:41It was kind of like his first full reps I think is what it
- 32:43was. It was sometime over the weekend
- 32:46and he looked old. Well, he is old.
- 32:50He looked like a 70 year old man, not a 38 year old
- 32:54quarterback that is going to get hit in the NFL.
- 32:58And I know it was a clip. You know, that clip scared the
- 33:01crap out of me. I already got a Rams ticket to
- 33:03win the Super. Bowl and he's had what what are
- 33:04they called, what an epidural? Is that what he had?
- 33:07He had something that really hurts procedure.
- 33:12I don't know, but you buy the Seahawks.
- 33:16Kinda that they're going to be OK.
- 33:18Like maybe a playoff team fringes yeah, Niners schedule.
- 33:23That's what I'm taking. You're taking the Niners.
- 33:24I'm taking San Francisco to win the division.
- 33:26Because of the schedule. They're favored in 15 of 17
- 33:29games. Is the Rams game one of the ones
- 33:33that are not? Favorite.
- 33:33I believe so, yeah. I'm going to take the Rams.
- 33:35You're. Going with the Rams?
- 33:36Going with the Rams. You're believing in a back
- 33:39injury for a 38 year old? Yep.
- 33:42Good luck. The first ticket I bought this
- 33:45offseason was on the Rams. Same and I'm looking to buy out
- 33:49of it. Give you a cat wasn't enamouring
- 33:53it? All right, who's going to give
- 33:55me your three wild cards from the AFC?
- 33:57So I'd said Broncos, They are my top team.
- 34:00I got the Steelers in there and then I got to go off the board a
- 34:03little bit. I'm going with the New England
- 34:05Patriots. Oh, come on.
- 34:07The Patriots sneak in the back door at 10 and seven.
- 34:10Rabel gets the team into the playoffs.
- 34:11And then if he does, he's the coach of the year, he's the
- 34:14coach. So if you believe you truly
- 34:16believe that, and I believe you do, you better bet some variable
- 34:19coach of the Year tickets I'm going to go Chiefs, Chargers,
- 34:24Bengals. Lac what was the last one?
- 34:28Bengals. Go on with Cincinnati.
- 34:30I can't. I can't quit Joe Burrell.
- 34:32Well, you can still watch him. No, and I will.
- 34:35Watch him lose 3531 every week. But he's entertaining you.
- 34:39Watch all. Right.
- 34:40To the AFCNFCI got the Lions. I do have the Buccaneers getting
- 34:45in. Yep, and then I'm looking off
- 34:47the board. I came down to two the two teams
- 34:50that Emmett Smith played for. The Cardinals and the Cowboys.
- 34:54And I went back and forth and I put.
- 34:56Dallas, this isn't weird to see him as a Cardinal.
- 34:58He really was. I went with the Cowboys.
- 35:01Twelve wins, 3 consecutive years before last year and DAC in the
- 35:05injury. I think they bounced back.
- 35:07You do. Yep, they like the drama.
- 35:10Jerry likes the drama. They're going to find a way.
- 35:13This was a very good team for a couple years.
- 35:16I think they bounce back and find their way in.
- 35:18I will take the Vikings, I will take your Falcons, and I will
- 35:22take your Niners. All right, let's get to the big
- 35:25one. I didn't.
- 35:25Hear bears in there. No, they finished third.
- 35:28Finished third. Who do you have playing for the
- 35:31Super Bowl and who do you have winning?
- 35:33It, well, it was a matchup that we got when the lights went out.
- 35:36It was the Hardball Bowl. OK, that will not be the case
- 35:38anymore. Get me Baltimore again over the
- 35:4149 or 62 to one at surfing. Well, we're close because I have
- 35:45Baltimore winning and in doing so, beating the Los Angeles
- 35:50Rams. That's got to be close to 60 to
- 35:52one. Oh, I'm going to get 40
- 35:53something probably. You're probably going to get
- 35:55better than that, so. You got 62 to one. 62 to one.
- 35:59Ravens over Ninerville. And Ravens over Rams 68 to 1.
- 36:04Really. We got a couple of lottery
- 36:06tickets. I like it.
- 36:07I like it. Let's see if Trent's going to
- 36:08bet today. Circus Sports sponsors those.
- 36:10We are on record. We will grade our papers well
- 36:13sometime in February. Miller and Condon, we're talking
- 36:16sports with you. We're grateful that you're with
- 36:18us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
- 36:23Our final couple of minutes, Millerie Condon, welcome back.
- 36:25Iowa Sports Radio Network transplays the day Circus Sports
- 36:29will sponsor those full slate, I'm guessing coming up Thursday
- 36:33of college football games. Do you have a best bet of the
- 36:36week yet, regardless of day? No, no, not there yet.
- 36:40I mean, I got U.S. Open that I'm handicapping.
- 36:42I got baseball every day. I got the WNBA.
- 36:45By the way, when is the West? When will Caitlin Clark's
- 36:48sponsors be asking for make goods?
- 36:51I don't think that's how it works.
- 36:52Well, there's been a lot of money on her.
- 36:54Well, yeah, and she's not playing.
- 36:55Injuries happen. I get it.
- 36:57But here's the here's the thing. They're not going to play next
- 37:00year. You know, baseball in two years
- 37:01isn't going to play. They're going to lock out next
- 37:04year prior to the season and timing is everything.
- 37:07And Nikes, they just came up with their logo, which I like by
- 37:09the way, looks good. Like a year and a half.
- 37:13What are they waiting for exactly?
- 37:15Timing's everything. I think they swung and missed on
- 37:18the timing anyways. Is she going to play this year?
- 37:21There's what, like 3 weeks left in the regular season?
- 37:24Something like that, yeah. It's not much more than that and
- 37:26they're clinging to the last playoffs star.
- 37:29Including a team that I'm going to be playing trying to chase
- 37:31them down. Who's that?
- 37:32Los Angeles. Sparks, I'm going to grab 3 1/2
- 37:35tonight. Them and Seattle as I fade
- 37:39fading Indiana fever. So those are my 2 plays in the
- 37:41WNBA Blue Jays free square against the Twins.
- 37:44Who? Pitches tonight.
- 37:45Bassett against Bailey Over, coming back.
- 37:48Bailey over's awful great. Seattle gonna grab the banners
- 37:51tonight against Dylan Cease. It's a fate of Cease, and it's
- 37:54Castillo on the other side who's solid.
- 37:56I'm gonna play the Dodgers taking Kershaw, who's been solid
- 37:59against, you know, he. Really has, hasn't he?
- 38:01Just when you write him off. He's not October.
- 38:03He's fine. Yeah, yeah, boy, the Royals are
- 38:06picking the wrong time of the year to go on a little bit.
- 38:08But that's too bad, isn't it? They kind of got into it, teased
- 38:11everybody a little bit. Now they're how many games out
- 38:14today for God, there's still, I guess, No2 games over 500?
- 38:20I don't think so. I got one more for.
- 38:21You. Oh, you do.
- 38:22You're not done. This afternoon, in fact, we're
- 38:24just about 10 minutes away from the opening serve at the US
- 38:28Open. Give me Stefanos Cinepas against
- 38:32Alexandre Mueller. He's too.
- 38:35No against him. This year, what do you know
- 38:36about tennis? I enjoy it.
- 38:39But other than that. That they put a line out so I
- 38:42can fire at it. So who?
- 38:43You betting again? What's the guy?
- 38:44Cinepas? This is a guy.
- 38:45Yes, TSITSIPAS Stefanos. Cinepas.
- 38:52Cinepas. Well, I'll be watching that one
- 38:56not live. Put that one in the office while
- 38:58you're working this afternoon. And stuff off the bench.
- 39:01Come Sean and Lucas. They're coming up at the top of
- 39:03the hour. They'll take you until 5.
- 39:05Overtime, Iowa. After that, we're Millary,
- 39:07Condon, Trent and I talking sports with you Monday through
- 39:10Friday from noon until 2. Thank you for being with us on
- 39:13the Iowa Sports Radio Network.