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Iowa women roll Oregon, Previewing Iowa/IU & Iowa State/Cincy, Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & Bama Bob on the National Championship · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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I'm Hillary Condon, welcome to a Football Friday edition here on
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the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Nothing would make me happier,
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by the way, than the next 25. So onward and upward the station
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goes. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. We will start in 25 minutes or
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thereabouts with our friend Tom Kecker.
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He covers Iowa transfer portal closes up today.
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We'll get the latest on that. Obviously, Iowa big game on the
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hardwood tomorrow. They're in Bloomington to take
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on Indiana. The ladies got a nice win last
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night. Stalky, what a line.
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Didn't see any of it but her boy or box score today.
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Looks like she must have played a heck of a basketball game.
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So we'll get into that. There's a lot of topics with Tom
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Kecker. Look forward to talking with him
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in about 25 minutes. We're all off on Monday, all of
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us, meaning all three of the local shows are off on Monday.
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So Bama, Bob, Trent and I will preview the National
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championship at 12:45. Travis Hines will join us at One
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O Clock. Eugene Repay is on an airplane
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headed to Cincinnati. Travis Hines on Iowa State
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topics coming up at One O Clock. And then off we'll go to Las
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Vegas and catch up with a friend, Mike Palm, VP of
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Operations at Circus Sports, what he's seeing on these 4
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divisional games as well as the national championship.
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We'll talk to Mike about those topics and more when he joins us
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coming up here at 1:30. I'm kind of feeling like you
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today. I hate baseball and I'm starting
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to really get pissed off at this.
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Sport way away. You were a pitch away from a
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World Series. Oh man, it must be crappy to be
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a Blue Jay fan. Well, it's I'm not going to shed
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any tears. Here's the here's the lineup.
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Just just let it run this by it. I mean they're going for three
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in a row. Otani leads off, then Bets, then
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Freeman, then Tucker, then Will Smith, Max Muncie, T Oscar
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Hernandez. Paw has who hit 30 real bat 8th
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Tommy Edmund starting pitching, Yamamamoto Snello, Tani Glass,
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Sasaki and out of the bulk the bullpen comes the Mets closer
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Edwin Diaz, who's now a Dodger. It's just wins enough, enough.
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We reached a tipping point. I've said for years it's a dumb
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sport. It's stupid.
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Yeah, now thankfully you're finally catching up with me.
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But I've been saying this for years and it's not a real sport.
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It is it when you can have one team that has this much it's.
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Ridiculous. This is what Alabama was in
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college football when they were. Getting even more than.
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That and it's taken it two yes, absolutely a new level.
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It is not enjoyable, not fun and on top of it, OK, so they'll go
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through the regular season. There'll be some point in Bay.
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I don't think they're going to do it this year.
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And then I'll hear it again in June.
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And then unfortunately, I'll have to get the text messages
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from you in July and August and September and October.
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But you're going to try to sell yourself about it.
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I'm going to say don't. They'll be fine, as John Bowen
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Camp tells us all the time, and they are always fine.
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It's unbelievable, $60 million a year for Kyle Tucker.
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Just crazy. Not very good.
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He's, I agree with you. He's not that.
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He's I'm, he's a nice player. I didn't want the Cubs to get
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him. I thought it was going to
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handcuff them financially too much.
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Yeah, I. Didn't want it from the get go.
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We saw him this year. We saw the ACT.
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Mm hmm. No, this is a lot of games.
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He spends a lot of time on the the injured list, so we'll see.
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But Cubs? Fancy dodged a bullet.
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I think they did, yeah, I think they did in a lot, in a lot of
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ways. Well, he's a Dodger now and
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anyways, lots of ground to cover.
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Didn't want to start with baseball, but I just, I was
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good. And then I saw a Bichette sign
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with the Mets. So that just, you know, took, I
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got my rage meter up again. Let's let's talk some football,
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let's talk some basketball. But let's start with the ladies.
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I didn't watch it. As I said yesterday, I'm going
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to sit down, put my feet up and watch my Winnipeg Jets in the
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Minnesota Wild. And that's what I did.
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It was a selfish night for me because I can't, it's been a
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long time since I just watched start to finish, right?
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And I'm 67. I'm going to do those more often
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so, but by the sounds of things the Lace had pretty good game,
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and Stalky in particular. She was, she was good.
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I thought this story was adding deal.
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Though, Yeah, yeah. And with a.
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Stakow said that too. I think it is peace.
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Yeah, now Stalky hitting a couple of jumpers, that was.
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Oh, did she? That's what took it a step
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further, I think for Stalky instead of we know Stalky, we've
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seen her for four years. She's a great rim runner.
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She is elite. She is one of the best in the
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country year after year with her athleticism, her speed, with her
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size, getting down the floor, get that run out.
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She is incredible at that. The unfortunate part is Hannah
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Stokie hasn't added a whole lot of other dimensions to her game.
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She's not a back to the basket post type of player.
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That is not her strength. Ball handling hasn't improved.
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And the other part, the reason we saw last year, she had to
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morph back into the center because she hasn't really
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generated a great jump shot. Not a consistent one.
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We should put it that way. And it showed up last night, a
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sign of things to come because with hide in the middle her at
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the four, you're feeling great. Obviously chitchat running the
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show, what she can do. And now if you throw Addie deal
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into the mix. Who was seven of nine?
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I see Trent. She was knocked.
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Out for four from three. And a couple of those were deep
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threes. Were they?
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They were like logo threes. Not that far, OK, but they were
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deep. I think we have to just set her
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on the side. But they were.
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There were a couple of 23 footers in there that she was
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ready to go. It's taken a while.
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It's taken her a while to acclimate to the speed of the
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game to not everybody can be Caitlin Clark, but you're seeing
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the reason that she was a five star.
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She had to play a couple of games ago.
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She made a bit spin move in the paint.
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I think she only finished with five points, but both of her
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buckets were really but maybe but the Indiana game.
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But regardless, she is the type of player though that you can
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see all right, It's starting to catch up with her.
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She's starting to figure out the college game, the speed, the
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physicality, all those different things.
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And it's not that she's going to score 18 a game going no that
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that's unrealistic. But if she could be this year,
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but a minimal, just an option off the bench because obviously
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her upside is incredible compared to Taylor McCabe.
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Like we don't Taylor McCabe, right?
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Really good shooter, not an elite athlete by any means,
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Deal. Better athlete, better size, the
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kind of things that you put her in a Sweet 16 match up against a
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really good team. You feel more confident maybe
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pulling an upset in a game like that.
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So I was for box defense yesterday.
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She was outstanding again and you know it really started to
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click with her. It felt like defensively a gear
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ago. You can see her on as a non ball
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defender and her importance and what she can do.
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You go back to the Indiana game also for her and what she did on
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the ball, what she did against Oregon's best player last night
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and this team is. There's six of no trend in
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conference play. And you think about it outside
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of the veterans, McCabe, Stalky and Fierbach, who all are
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important, everybody else is not just they're all underclassmen.
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I. Like.
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That that's that's really, really good.
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I mean, you're talking about still in average, a very young
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basketball team that's going to learn together.
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Chitchat sophomore, Hayden sophomore, Deal freshman and
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Stremmelow sophomore. You got a bunch of players that
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can do a lot of different things.
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You're still adding to that mix. Jan Jensen, she's getting this.
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And one thing that I really like just over all about this squad
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is they're a lot better defensively than they were under
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Ballooner even before Caitlin Clark, who was as we don't, not
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a great defender by Eddie means. Even before that though, that
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was always the teams that we saw out of blue.
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They were going to be fun, they were going to get up and down
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the floor, they were going to score with anybody in the
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country, but couldn't always get those stops and certainly
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against some of the elite level teams.
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Not that this Iowa defense is elite, but it's better than an
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average women's basketball team over the last 20 years and I
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think that adds a little bit more excited about what could be
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and what they can be going forward.
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All right, let's, let's get to the men's tomorrow.
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Indiana for Iowa, Cincinnati for Iowa State.
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Iowa State struggled somewhat against Oklahoma State, although
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we both came away thinking, I mean, the Cowboys are better
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than I think that we thought. And then obviously they get beat
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by Kansas. So by the way, there's a Friday
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night Big 12 game tonight. Is that big fox Baylor at Kansas
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good? Yes, absolutely.
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But to Iowa State, Cincinnati tomorrow.
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How important is this game? It is just kind of calming the
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nerves, right? Because kind of how I look at
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it. I think we could sense that with
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these slow starts and just the pressure of that undefeated run.
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All right, that's the side now we move on and it was obviously
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awful in Lawrence, but just move past it.
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But even if you struggle, let's say they play kind of like
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Houston did when they were over in Cincinnati a couple weeks
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ago. You play like that, you pull out
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of victory, but it's it's tighter than you want.
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Houston won by 7. And they were down pretty big in
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that game before they came back and ultimately got the cover on
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top of it, which was nice. If it it's like that, though, I
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think some of those kind of nervous feelings that's
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happening right now with Cyclonation, I think it
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continues. I really do.
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I believe that you're going to have the questions and what we
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saw a year ago, what we've seen with this squad, a lot of those
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questions are going to start to kind of build upon themselves.
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If you lose to a Cincinnati team that has Jizzle James back,
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Jizzle James can beat a lot of teams.
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He can also shoot a team out of a game pretty quickly, as we've
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seen throughout the course of his career.
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You should win. It shouldn't be a difficult one.
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But Cincinnati's going to be ready for this one.
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This is the opportunity for them and Wes Miller, their coach.
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He's coaching for his job now. He's got a ton of work to do to
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get this team in the NCAA tournament, but a desperate
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team. Big spot, big moment.
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Got to be ready to go. And let's be ready to go from
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the opening 10. Wouldn't that be something?
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Yeah. Wouldn't that be fun?
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I'm trying to find the number. I see I was getting a point and
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1/2 on the road. The Cincinnati Iowa State game
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is not. It's got to be, I just must not
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be able to find it was I scroll through all of these damn games.
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There is a lot of totally macro I do.
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Are you on wager talk? I'm doing the exact same thing.
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I don't. Even see where Cincinnati and
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Iowa states. Listed well, let me use the.
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You know there's a fine tool. Is there?
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No, I did not know. Oh, I see it.
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Iowa State is 6 1/2 point favor to DraftKings.
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FanDuel. They are 7 1/2.
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Just right where Cincinnati are we?
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Houston was when they went to Cincinnati.
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By the way, Cincinnati gets Iowa State tomorrow and then on
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Wednesday, Arizona, yeah, that'll be a fun back to backers
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for them. But who cares about Cincinnati?
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Let's get Iowa State the win, put it in the win column and
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feel pretty good about this squad again.
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And as you said, let's see if they can, you know, get out to a
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quick, quick start. All right, Indiana, Iowa.
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Indiana's a point and a half favorite, I think.
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And maybe this is based on what we saw in West Lafayette this
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past. Was it Wednesday or Tuesday,
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whatever early in the week? The Purdue game I'm referencing
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because of what we saw and how well they played on the road and
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how if it would have, should have, maybe I'm too confident I
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was going to win this game tomorrow.
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Yeah, I wouldn't put it in a confidence scale, but Indiana's
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no great shakes. You know, this is not a great
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team by any means. And some of the things that they
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do well, the way that they play, I think fit very well.
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This is one of those winnable games.
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This will in the end be a quad one victory.
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And as we talked about, that resume looks very good with the
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Ken Palms of the world and the net rankings.
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But the other markets, what you've actually done, your
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resume is not very good. This would be a resume building
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win. Both teams come in with losing
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streaks, 2 in a row for Indiana, three in a row for the Hawk
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guys. Speaking of desperate teams, as
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we talked about with Cincinnati, 2 desperate teams here, I think
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this is going to be a really fun game that's going to come down
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to the wire. But I mean, if you can play like
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that against Purdue, you can certainly go into Assembly Hall
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and give yourself a chance. Now, soft rims in the first
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half, I mean, three of those 3 pointers probably don't follow
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the Assembly Hall, right? And also, it goes without
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saying, Bennett Sturtz needs to be a lot better.
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He has to be a lot better. The three-point shooting has
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been awful. Well, especially at clutch time.
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Yes, down the stretch he did it against Illinois, he did it
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twice again against. Forcing shots, it's almost, he
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almost feels like if it's not, if I don't lead this team, we're
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not going to win. So he's shooting, then maybe he
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should be getting more of his teammates involved.
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He's at 63 pointers during this three-game losing streak.
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The problem? It took 27 shots to get there. 6
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of 27 from three. That's too much.
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Get to the rim. Yep, he had that and one, those
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are the plays he needs to make. Yeah, he did have one against
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Purdue. You're right.
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You're 100% right. All right, let's move on.
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Let's get to a football divisional round coming up
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tomorrow of the four games and the point spread reflects it The
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the Seattle's favoured by 7. Sam Darnold has an oblique.
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Drew lock is the backup in Seattle.
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I think the one that could get one get away is that one.
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I just when I when I look at this Niners, I mean, Brock Purdy
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has so much to do if his if this team is going to beat Seattle,
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this is a really good defense with a really good secondary.
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They're, they're solid all over the place.
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I think. I think Seattle might be the
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Seattle. San Francisco might be the game
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that, you know, kind of not a lot of drama.
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Then we're not in the, you know, the final 10-5 minutes of the
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football game thing. Boy, they need to play here.
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This game could go either way. I think Seattle's going to beat
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them convincingly. I'm not surprised.
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I didn't know that you had that much love for Drew.
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Lock. I do like Drew Lock.
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Of course you know that Drew Lock was my guy in Denver.
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He's the next. Well, some days and then there's
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some days he come in and say this is the worst quarterback
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I've ever seen. Yeah, we see.
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We've heard the highs and lows from you with Drew.
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Lock. So you think it's going to be
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locked? No, but when we show up for a
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team coming off a bye week on Thursday and.
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All of a sudden, this is. That middle of the afternoon
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that came out yes, yes and all and I I saw it on NFL live and I
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had the TV on. Oh, I was cleaning the houses.
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We got the in laws coming to town.
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So I was I was cleaning the basement.
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So I I was running and I was like, is this a replay?
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Is it like I couldn't wrap my mind around it?
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How did I just miss it? Had there been anything leading
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up to? This nothing, nothing.
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And young Kubiak, what's his name?
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Clint. Yeah, he he mentioned that, you
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know, Darnold been getting all the the this snaps with the ones
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you're in practice until yesterday.
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So. Well, here, let me ask it this
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way, Mr. Sam Darnold Hater, is that that big of a drop off in
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your mind? Darnold to Drew lock?
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I don't think it's is it an upgrade to go to Drew?
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No. No, I'm not going to go that
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direction. But I mean point spread wise,
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I'm going to ask this, this is on my list for Mike Palm.
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What is we find out tomorrow afternoon that it's it's going
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to be lock. We know quarterbacks, great
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quarterbacks, 7 to 10 points you're talking about depending
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on who the backup is, how good that guy is, how important they
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are to the offense. But seven to 10 points is what a
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quarterback compared to a backup at the elite level.
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What is it with Sam Darnold? Drew Lock 2 1/2?
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Well, I'm. Thinking it's a half because
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there was a bunch of seven and a halfs in the market yesterday.
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It's seven everywhere today, so maybe.
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It's been a but that's just what the question, right?
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That's not official. That's not the official that's.
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Fair. That's fair.
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That's what I want to find out is if it does that and it's at 7
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now, does it go to 5 1/2 right away and we kind of see where it
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goes? Do you drop it that
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significantly? You'll worry about getting
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middle benefit? Do you like the Niners in this?
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Oh, absolutely. You really do.
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And here's another component. Why though?
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Here's an angle away from the football field, OK, Something
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that I think motivationally, we're talking about NFL teams,
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we're talking about good football teams.
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I know the Niners are banked up is the component.
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Very easily, 49ers could have had normal rest.
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Very easily they could have put this game on Sunday and the NFL
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instead of doing the right thing.
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Player safety, you know, is not real.
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Those the suits don't care about.
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And it would have been an expense of the Bears game
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because the Houston's not played.
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Houston played Monday. They're not coming to play out
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on Saturday. They cared more about going out
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and getting the best ratings than actual player safety.
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And now that motivational edge, they don't want us there.
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We know the power of those kind of messaging in any sport, that
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kind of messaging, nobody believes in us, they don't want
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us those kind of things. I think the motivational edge is
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significantly in the 49ers advantage with that Trent
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Williamson play when they played a couple weeks ago.
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Now he's going to be out there. How different that's going to be
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for that offense now time to prepare a team that they know
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incredibly. Well, just playing 13 days ago.
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It was one thing to go up against Victoria's defense and
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what he did last week against Philadelphia in a short turn
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around and getting that game plan together.
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He knows what it takes against McDonald and the rest of that
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crew on the defensive side. They know the game plan that is
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necessary. Ricky Pearsall is going to try
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to go. That's going to help out
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immensely at the wide receivers, but if he can give him something
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there, you know, the backup tight end, I kind of like him.
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Yeah, I do too. He's not George Kin.
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No, I get it. He's.
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Not, but he's OK. But he's not brutal, right?
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Yeah, he's OK. Yeah.
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He's AC plus B minus. He's OK at that spot.
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Offensive line's gonna be better.
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He's still got Mcnabry. His name starts with the T.
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Tonga, Tonga. Tonga Tanjay TONGESI.
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Think Tanjay Robert. Yeah.
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RT RT Yeah. I love the 49ers and the spot,
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Jake. I think they can win this
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football game. It's not just that they can
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cover. I think the 49ers can go into
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Seattle. Really.
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Do how many plays Brock? Pretty gonna have to make, I
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think. Because aren't you going to take
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Christy McCaffrey away? You're going to try if you can,
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right? What kind of damage has he done
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in the previous game? Let me let me look this up here
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real quick. McCaffrey.
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Against Seattle. Well, he only had eight carries
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in that Saturday night game, 8 for 23.
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And in Week 1, he had 69 yards. How many carries did he have in
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that one? They play.
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They bookended the schedule Week 1.
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And 22 carries, 69 yards. Also had 10 targets.
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How many receptions? 9 catches, 73 yards in that one.
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Probably a lot of that, right? Lot of swing routes, get them
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out in space. Use them a myriad of different
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ways. That is the way.
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Get the Caffrey going. 49ers can win.
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Have I? I can't convince you.
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I get it. I'm not going to.
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I'm not going to come. Off soon you're digging in your
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heels. I am, and I'm digging in my
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heels that I think the Rams are going to beat your Bears.
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I can't push back much on that. I went back and I looked at the
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weather in Philadelphia in the divisional round last year when
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when they gave us, we both, not just us as most believe, we've
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watched the game, watched last year.
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Remember the playoffs, the one, the one time that the Eagles
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were pushed in the playoffs were by the Los Angeles Rams.
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And it was, it wasn't as cold, but there was snow and there was
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snow squalls and there was rain and there was mist and there was
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fog. It was nasty.
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And that Rams team played in that in a pretty hostile
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environment in Philadelphia. I don't know.
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I don't know. What's it take for the bears?
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Is it? Is it the same blueprint?
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Yeah, but they can't keep it up. I know.
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I say it every. Week, right?
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But if you keep saying it every week and it keeps happening, we
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said this back in October when they were finding ways to win
18:49
like, oh, they're doing. This crap, Throw the football on
18:52
the Rams you can. Caleb needs to be good for four
18:56
quarters, though. Opening drive last week, that's
18:58
fine. They took 7 minutes off the
18:59
clock, almost 8 minutes off the clock, drove down, got a field
19:02
goal, That's OK. But then after that, they went
19:04
into a shell again and there was absolutely nothing the rest of
19:06
the half. They couldn't get anything
19:08
going. You rely a little bit more on
19:10
the running game early on. That opening drive was elite.
19:13
That was excellent. No, it just ended in a field
19:15
goal. That was a really good one
19:16
there. But we've seen this too often.
19:18
I would they, the Bears dig this kind of hole.
19:23
I don't think there's a comeback against the Rams.
19:24
Now the Rams had to happen to him last week, looked like they
19:27
were going to put in cruise control and make their way in
19:30
and maybe some guys get some early flights back.
19:32
I mean, that's where we were trying in the first quarter and
19:34
a half against Carolina, you know, and, and it didn't and
19:37
they weren't able to put that one away.
19:39
I don't believe though that the Bears can do.
19:40
They can't dig A2013 hole against this.
19:42
Rams, no. And, and the thing that I that I
19:44
think the Rams have going for him is a thicker kicker.
19:46
And Brandon McManus was terrible.
19:48
Yeah. And Mevis has Mevis has been
19:50
really, he's been really good since he got his opportunity
19:54
there. It's a coin flip.
19:56
I these, these games, all of them.
19:58
I think Denver and the Bills is a coin flip.
20:00
I think Houston and the Patriots is a coin flip.
20:03
The one that I think could get away.
20:05
Trent sees it differently. I I think Seattle's got a
20:07
legitimate chance to to open to open up a can on these Niners.
20:12
And I wouldn't say that if if Kittle was able to play because.
20:15
And Pearsall, how effective is he going to be when he gets back
20:18
into the lineup? You just, you just you don't
20:21
know. All right, Tom Keikert is coming
20:23
up. We'll talk to Tom some Hawkeye
20:25
related topics with Tom Keikert. Bama, Bob, Trent and I will take
20:29
a spin around Monday's championship game.
20:32
Look forward to doing that. Our number 2 Travis Hines on
20:35
Iowa State and then Mike Palm, we'll head out to Las Vegas.
20:39
Let's go to Clear Lake. AJ's listening and calling the
20:42
program. How are you, Sir?
20:45
Hi gentlemen. I just had a couple quick
20:47
Nuggets. Kylie Pierbach.
20:49
I'm a Pierbach and so she is my cousin and we're super proud of
20:52
her. Her grandpa and my grandpa were
20:55
brothers. Her grandfather, Orland
20:58
Pierbach, played on the first ever championship basketball
21:02
team at Iowa State in the 40s, became a vet and her uncle Al
21:07
Fierbach was a Olympic shot footer and held the world record
21:12
for a little while early 70s and won the bronze medal.
21:16
Pretty good bloodlines there. AJ, what's going on with you?
21:19
What's? Really.
21:19
Yeah. I I didn't get any of that
21:22
athleticism. Her mother is an accomplished
21:26
pianist and would go into Chicago Trent and play the piano
21:31
for Virginia Murkowski. There you go.
21:35
That's. Great.
21:35
I just thought you'd like those quick Nuggets.
21:37
Those are awesome. Thanks, AJ.
21:39
Go Bears. Bear down, you got it.
21:41
Come baby. Thanks, AJ.
21:43
Good to hear from you. Speaking of Sunday night, did
21:45
you see who's singing the national anthem?
21:46
No, they bring it to half too, You know, That's worth the
21:49
point. That's worth the point.
21:51
Jim Cornelius is worth the. Point maybe a good start from.
21:53
The Bears Why didn't? Did they save him for this game?
21:56
Maybe I mean, they had to be great.
21:59
He's so good. He's so good.
22:01
There was no I'm I'm getting terrible on my on the back of my
22:04
neck. Stand up just.
22:05
Thinking from a Canadian. Yes, it's not my anthem, but
22:08
when he sings it before Blackhawk games and those runs
22:11
at the the last decade, what did they win, 2012?
22:14
Thirteen or 10:13 and whatever it was 15.
22:17
They won three of them. Yeah.
22:19
Jim Cornell, Listen. Wow.
22:21
Good stuff. All right, we'll take your time
22:22
out. Come back we joined by Tom cake
22:25
hurt Bama Bob this hour as well. Miller in Condon.
22:28
It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network right?
22:31
1230 Welcome back Miller in Condon in the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network with you until 2O clock Bama Bob 15 minutes on the
22:37
national championship right now. Tom Cake hurt hawkeyereport.com
22:42
Guessing he's looking forward to the transfer port closing up.
22:44
Although it brings a lot of people to your site.
22:46
It's great for business Tom, if nothing else.
22:48
Yes, it certainly keeps you guys on your toes over there, but
22:53
gets the folks over to your terrific site, hawkeyereport.com
22:56
part of on three media. Good to talk to you, Tom.
22:59
Before we get into football, let's just recap last night the
23:01
women moved to six and O in in big 10 conference play.
23:05
Terrific start a terrific game out of a couple of a couple of
23:09
Jensen's gal Stalky was terrific last night and as Trent
23:13
mentioned, Addie deal, maybe her best game as a Hawkeye so far.
23:16
How about those, Tom? Yeah, Hannah really looks solid,
23:21
I thought. And and the big thing was Andy
23:25
deal and everybody's been waiting for, you know, five star
23:29
and everything to to kind of have one of those games.
23:33
And you know, I think most Iowa fans remember last year Ava
23:37
Haydn, who's arguably, I don't even know if arguably he's been
23:40
their best player this year, most consistent player, I think
23:44
would probably be fair. She really struggled last year
23:49
as a true freshman and then kind of caught fire right around the
23:53
Big 10 tournament and and then went on to have a couple of, you
23:57
know, good a good Big 10 tournament and performed on the
24:01
NCAA. So everybody kind of develops
24:05
differently. I think everybody was a lot, I
24:08
shouldn't say everybody. A lot of people were thinking
24:09
maybe she was going to be like Caitlin and just come in and
24:12
light the world on fire. And there's different players
24:15
and she's but, but she's coming along really well and, and I
24:21
think we'll see more games like that moving forward.
24:25
This squad feels like they have a lot of upside, very young in a
24:29
lot of spots. You look kind of at this season,
24:33
how far can they go? I mean, when you're talking
24:34
about upside and we know there's an elite level, right?
24:36
And even if you get a top four seed and you get to host the
24:39
first couple of rounds, a Sweet 16 match up against the Yukon,
24:42
against the South Carolina, against the Texas, that that's a
24:45
different kind of animal. What do you look at upside wise
24:47
with this women's team? Yeah, I think I think the goal
24:52
for them should be to be a top 16 seed and be able to host the
24:56
first two games at Garber Hawkeye.
24:59
I think if they can do that and then make it to the the Sweet
25:04
16, then I think that is that would be a really good season
25:09
for this team, I think and and a good achievement for them.
25:13
You know, anything beyond that, maybe get into an Elite 8 would
25:18
be even better. But right now, sitting six and O
25:21
and arguably the deepest conference in the country is is
25:25
pretty good. But but they're going to be
25:27
running the gauntlet here in the next 7-8 games for sure.
25:31
Let's go over the men, watch them battle Purdue and they did
25:36
back and forth, everybody making one shot after another.
25:39
So who was going to blink? Who was going to miss first?
25:42
It was I when it seemingly I know Purdue was able to build on
25:45
that and and ultimately hold, but it's a winnable game
25:48
tomorrow, Tom as the team heads to Bloomington to take on
25:51
Indiana point spreads about a point and a half Indiana slight
25:55
favored in this one. This feels like this is a really
25:58
good opportunity for Iowa to find that quad one that's eluded
26:01
them. It really does.
26:04
And and you know, hopefully don't be too bad because you
26:07
know, it's just like every time, you know, like the UCLA game, it
26:10
was a quad one until they beat the UCLA and then it wasn't a
26:14
quad one anymore. But Indiana I think will stay in
26:18
there obviously as a as a quad one when if it's on, you know,
26:22
being on the road. The big thing with Indiana is
26:25
that that Iowa has had to contend with the last two games
26:28
that Indiana doesn't. They don't have a lot of size.
26:32
They're kind of like Iowa and, and they've got kind of smaller
26:37
guards. Tucker Debris is a really good
26:40
player and he's going to be a handful for them to, to, to
26:44
guard. I I think Avion Banks probably
26:47
going to have to end up on Tucker, but they and the
26:52
Wilkerson kid he's. The only good.
26:55
He's a good shooter. He's he's streaky though.
26:58
He'll get going and he can really cook quick, but he can
27:02
also miss a lot of shots. So that's the but they just
27:07
don't have any post guys in the last two games.
27:09
That's really given Iowa. Trouble is those big post
27:11
players. We wouldn't have to worry about
27:13
that against the Hoosiers down the stretch.
27:16
Again, watch the video that you had up at hawkeyereport.com and
27:19
the McCullum post game press conference.
27:21
You brought it up again. I think the question was
27:24
something along the lines of, you know, how do you kind of get
27:26
these guys over the hump? Basically said maybe teach them
27:29
to foul less and get fouled more.
27:32
It's been a week and a half now where he's been talking about
27:34
it. He's been talking about it
27:35
enough. What?
27:36
When does it get to the point of trying to figure out the Big 10
27:39
to just whine it about it every single time out?
27:44
Yeah, the the, the, the statistics on the foul shooting
27:48
in the Big 10 between Iowa and everybody else in Iowa.
27:54
Iowa's opponents have made more free throws than Iowa has shot
27:58
in the Big 10. And that's something, you know,
28:02
that back in the Doctor Tom Davis days, Iowa would always
28:05
double up their opponents on a just an annual basis.
28:09
So even even France teams got to the line more than their
28:13
opponents. And I don't know if it's just
28:17
lack of respect towards Iowa, towards McCollum.
28:22
Are they playing a style of basketball that doesn't?
28:26
It creates following situations. I I don't know, but it's just
28:31
it, it is weird right now. They went to the line 6 times in
28:34
that Purdue game and there were two phantom calls, I believe
28:39
both by the same referee. Who who who the a couple of
28:44
older players complained about over the years not liking Iowa
28:50
won't name any names, but but you know, we're Bennett Sturtz
28:54
got kind of rolled into by Britain Smith and knocked out of
28:57
bounds and and there's like no call out of bounds.
29:01
Here you go. And then Cooper cots trying to
29:04
block out a guy so he couldn't so he couldn't get to the ball,
29:07
which is completely legal, by the way.
29:10
And it's not like he threw him or or extended his arm to like
29:15
Shuck him to the side. He just tried to prevent him
29:17
from getting to the ball and it's called for a foul and it's
29:20
just same referee. And it's how how he called that
29:24
foul, Tom. I mean, it was emphatic going
29:26
the other way. Yeah, it was.
29:30
It was weird. It's I don't, I, I, you know, I
29:35
asked, I asked Ben after the Minneapolis game, the Minnesota
29:38
game. I just like, hey, do you need to
29:40
work the refs differently? And he's, he just ran off the
29:43
all the other stuff. He I, I think he does, I think
29:46
he needs to just just take one and just to kind of send a
29:51
message that, hey, you guys aren't going to be able to push
29:53
me around all season. That's how this is going to
29:56
work. And my guys are out there
29:58
playing hard and they're getting fouled.
30:00
I'll guarantee you Bennett Sturtz is getting fouled a lot
30:03
coming off the screens and everything else.
30:05
And this is not getting called. And it's, you know, it's hard to
30:11
win and it's hard enough to win in the Big 10.
30:13
But when you're, when you, you're, you've your opponents
30:17
are, are, are making more free throws than you've been shot,
30:21
that's a that's a problem. It's hard to win that way.
30:23
You can't win. Paul Schultz is the guy's name.
30:26
I'll say it for you, Tom, but we we know who it is.
30:29
And I believe he grew up a Badger fan, if memory serves.
30:31
But that aside, yes, that was the guy that and it wasn't just
30:35
the wider Mccaffrey's that were This also goes back toward, but
30:38
he hadn't had the same thing to say.
30:40
And I was also not the only Big 10 program I've seen fan bases
30:44
that have some questions about Paul.
30:45
But that aside. So this match up I think is just
30:48
so intriguing too, because how many fans wanted Darren Devries
30:52
to be the coach? Looked like maybe for a couple
30:54
moments he was going to be the Iowa coach went a different
30:57
direction. There's plenty of Indiana fans
30:59
that would have preferred McCollum and I've seen plenty of
31:01
Adam Pigs in the Indiana message boards going back to April.
31:04
So this is kind of going to be a weird one too.
31:07
And you just wonder if I would does find a way to go in their
31:10
hand, Indiana, their third straight loss.
31:12
What things are going to be from the Hoosier perspective if
31:15
McCollum and year number one walks in there and gets a
31:17
victory? Yeah, by the way, Ben McCollum,
31:20
first time he's lost three games in a row since 2013.
31:24
February of 2013, he lost twice to Fort Hayes State.
31:28
I have to look it up because I was curious.
31:31
Lost by two points and then one point to Fort Fort Hayes State
31:33
in between their loss to Washburn.
31:36
And that was that was this three-game losing streak.
31:38
He doesn't remember it. I asked him today about it and
31:42
he does not remember it. But yeah, this is just, this is
31:46
a huge game for both teams because Iowa lost three in a row
31:49
and they're spiraling. And I think if Indiana wants to
31:53
make the NCAA Tournament, they need to win like this.
31:57
And after, especially after blowing that Nebraska game, I
32:00
couldn't believe that I I kind of walked away from that
32:03
Nebraska game because if Indiana was up by like 11 and it was in
32:08
the second-half and I was like, I got some stuff to do, I'll
32:10
just, And then I little later I'm like, what in the world
32:13
happened? Got beat by almost double
32:15
figures. I don't understand what
32:17
happened, what happened here. And but yeah, they're they're
32:21
just, I don't know that they're very good.
32:23
They just don't have the amount of talent.
32:27
I wonder how how many Indiana fans are going to be there are
32:29
all of the Indiana fans in my. Great point, never thought of
32:34
that. You're yes.
32:35
Free free tickets for friends and family for people that are
32:38
all going to be. Or there'll be people there that
32:40
normally wouldn't have the opportunity to go.
32:42
That's a good. Point and yeah, to answer your
32:44
question, what happened both a 13 nothing run and a 16 to one
32:47
run out of the Huskers during the second-half.
32:50
Yeah, that's how you come back down like they were what was it
32:53
by 16? I think at 1.2 runs in the
32:55
second-half like that. Hey Tom, football question for
32:58
you. Iowa portal closing today.
33:00
That just means that guys can still make it done.
33:03
They're still doing a little bit of work.
33:05
Any names, any position groups that they're still trying to
33:08
figure out and no punter hasn't been announced yet.
33:10
Feels like they have a pretty good angle on that is a
33:12
defensive tackle they're still searching for.
33:14
Yeah, that kid from that that committed to that, committed to
33:20
UConn, that actually was Bryce Hawthorne's high school
33:24
teammate, which is kind of crazy.
33:27
It's a good defensive. Line together, yeah, defensive
33:30
lineman from is that North Dakota Emmanuel Ojibade.
33:35
I think it's how you say his last name and he is he's on
33:40
campus. I think he's going to pretty
33:42
sure he's going to commit and then they've got that Lance
33:46
Sheedy. I think it is the other kid, the
33:49
wide receiver from they'd be a preferred walk on from SMU that
33:52
it was a walk on there. So walk on wide receiver would
33:57
would have an opportunity and you know how they do the walk
33:59
ONS now for a lot of the when they call them preferred walk
34:02
ONS, that just means that the school's going to pay for your
34:05
tuition. That's what it means.
34:07
Not these days is we'll we'll take care of your bills, but you
34:12
don't get like extra money. We're just going to take care of
34:15
everything for you. It's essentially almost like
34:17
scholarship. Yeah, Tom, right of time,
34:21
brother. Thanks for doing this.
34:22
Appreciate it. I will talk to you next Friday.
34:25
Trent's off. I will reach out.
34:26
Thanks. Tom Caker, hawkeyereport.com.
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35:11
Final segment of the first hour of our program.
35:13
Let's get right to Bama Bob Couple of minutes late, but only
35:17
one game to Opine as we're all off on Monday.
35:19
So we'll take a look at the championship game here and do so
35:22
right now with our guy Bama Bob, who joins us every Friday during
35:26
the college football season. Bama Trenton can as always.
35:30
Well, let's turn it over to you. Make a case that we're deep in
35:33
the fourth quarter and this game could go either way.
35:37
Is that too big of a? Is that too big of an ask?
35:40
Well, you would think not with Miami playing at home.
35:44
But I mean, Indiana has just spoiled me every time I try to,
35:50
you know, find a crack in them, right?
35:52
I mean, they've just, they've just run roughshod, especially
35:55
the last few weeks. I didn't know if they could do
35:57
this, you know, beating Ohio State in the Big 10 championship
36:01
game. Now they've just they've just
36:03
run over Alabama and Oregon and those are those are good teams.
36:07
OK, This is not this is the three the best three-game week
36:10
or three-game stretch they've had.
36:12
But I think it's just going to come down to in can Miami with
36:18
that great defensive line affect Mendoza?
36:24
Can they get him off the spot? Can they hit him?
36:27
Can they make him uncomfortable? Because nobody's been able to do
36:30
that yet. And anytime somebody's tried,
36:33
you know, maybe it's for one down or whatever, maybe even a
36:36
series. And then they, they adjust and
36:38
they come back. But I think that's the big
36:40
thing. And then just a physicality.
36:43
I think Indiana is the most physical team.
36:46
I don't think I know they are that I've seen all season.
36:49
And that's really on both sides of the line of scrimmage,
36:52
offensive line, defensive line. They can cover.
36:55
They'll hit. They're fast, they're big.
36:58
You know, you think of athletes, right?
37:00
I think 510 years ago, who would have thought Indiana would have
37:04
the better athletes? Maybe over Miami, But buddy,
37:08
yeah, over anybody, right? If even if they're not better,
37:13
they're they're they're certainly on the part.
37:15
And I think the line reflects that.
37:17
You guys would know this better than me.
37:19
Has there ever been a championship game with 8 1/2
37:21
point spread? I mean, that's what I'm looking
37:24
at now. They just opened it over a
37:26
touchdown and it's gone up a point from what I'm just what
37:29
I'm looking at. I can't remember a championship
37:31
game. Usually it's within a field
37:32
goal, you know, maybe 3 1/2, something like that.
37:35
But this is this again, with Miami playing at home.
37:37
I think there's going to be a lot of Indiana fans.
37:40
Yeah, there are. They're trying to get there.
37:43
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, some they'll, they'll
37:47
do whatever they have to do, I think to get there.
37:50
I can make a case for it. But it's all going to really
37:52
start, I think, up front and can they make Mendoza?
37:55
Can they force him into a couple of turnovers that he hasn't had
37:59
so far? Can they make him uncomfortable?
38:02
Can they can they rattle him? You know, if they hit him a
38:04
couple times early, is he going to get happy feet and that type
38:07
of thing? But but other than that, I just
38:09
don't know. I think Miami is going to put up
38:10
some points, but I don't know how they're going to stop
38:15
Indiana unless Indiana helps them.
38:17
Maybe you got to go all the way back to last year, the last time
38:20
we saw a point spread this what was Ohio State was favored by 8
38:23
1/2 against Notre. Dame Same deals last year.
38:25
Wow, really? Oh, I didn't.
38:26
I wouldn't have thought that. I thought that would have been,
38:28
you know, under a touchdown, but.
38:31
Michigan was five and a half. Oh, Georgia against TCU was 13
38:35
1/2. So they have that big recently.
38:37
Yeah, Georgia, TCU, that makes sense.
38:39
I forgot about that one. That one certainly makes sense,
38:41
and that one lived up to it. Yeah, what about Malachi, Tony?
38:46
How big of a factor can he be, Trent?
38:48
Not like special teams minds, just the whole thing.
38:52
You know, I I think it's maybe something like that.
38:54
You know, something has to pop and gadget play special teams,
38:57
something like that, just strictly as a receiver idioms
39:00
just so good at finding there's a match up.
39:03
All right, they have an opinion chair.
39:04
We're going to take that away. So I don't think him as a
39:06
receiver is going to be maybe one big one, but I I would that
39:10
would be the angle that I'd look at as a gadget play doing
39:12
something like that. I would have mentioned something
39:15
though, with Mendoza. We saw two games here, Bama,
39:19
where Mendoza wasn't at this best one was in Iowa City.
39:24
And after they got a interception on the first play
39:26
of the game, got a touchdown right after that.
39:28
He wasn't very good. He did not play well at Kiddick
39:30
Stadium. Then the Penn State game, and
39:34
there was one thing that both Iowa and Penn State did
39:36
defensively. They blitzed the crap out of
39:38
them. Phil Parker dialed up more
39:40
pressure than I have ever seen Phil Parker in a game plan.
39:44
Miami, your ears back, you got a great defensive line, but it's
39:48
not just that, you know, those young linebackers, they have
39:50
concerns with those young safeties, You know, what can
39:53
they hold up? Well, here's the thing, you're
39:55
going one-on-one and for the Miami guys, I kind of like that.
39:57
I think that's got to be the game playing here.
39:59
We're not going to sit back and just hope that our defensive
40:02
line is going to get there. We're going to apply pressure
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all throughout the game because I think that's the only hope
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against Indiana and. We got like a minute left, so go
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ahead. Right.
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Yeah, However they do it, you know, whether it's, do you think
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they would start with, you know, with Bane and and those guys up
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front? But yeah, you're right.
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It's the same philosophy. Just how are you going to do it?
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How are you, how are you going to get him off the spot, make
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him uncomfortable? And if you have to bring
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pressure, obviously you're opening yourself up more.
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I don't know, they'll start with pressure.
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Maybe they will. Maybe they'll look at the Iowa
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film and go, you know what, you know, to heck with it.
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We're just we're just going to go from the get go and make him
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uncomfortable. That leaves you open as, you
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know, in the back end. And I think they've got to keep
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it close because you do not want to be playing catch up in this
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situation. So whatever you've got to do to
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try to keep it close. That's what you do on Tony.
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I think it, I think I think what Trent is saying they're either
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special teams or you know, slip screen or something where he
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busts 1506070 yards, something like that.
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But I don't see him as a, you know, catching 10 passes for 140
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yards or something like that. He's just not doesn't seem that
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type of receiver yet. He may get there, but he's a
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weapon and any of us going to be aware of him, like you said,
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they're they're going to scheme it up.
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They're going to try to take away any advantage that Miami
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has, but it's tough to make a case against Indiana.
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But we've been surprised before over the years, you know, Penn
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State and the Fiesta Bowl and go going down the line, so it'll be
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fun to watch. And we'll talk about a Tuesday
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morning. Just you and I Trent's on
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vacation next week. Bam.
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I'll talk to you over the weekend.
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Thank you bud all. Right.
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Take care guys. Thanks.
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Hour 2 coming up next, Travis Hines covers Iowa State.
41:33
He'll kick things off and then we'll head to Vegas.
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