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Vikings preview with Dane Mizutani, Dave Sinykin on the Packers, Steven M. Sipple on the Huskers disaster & Trent's Pick presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi welcome back hour number two Miller in Condon Iowa sports
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  ever listening in the state of Iowa anywhere on the iheart app.
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  We are grateful that you are. We take you until 2O clock still
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  to come 15 minutes out probably 10-12 minutes.
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  Dave Sinican from zonecoverage.com also works at
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  KFAN on the weekends with Packer preview.
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  He'll join us, take a look at Sunday Night Football, Steelers
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  and the Green Bay Packers. Dane Mazatani's in Los Angeles,
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  Sofi Stadium, the scene it is the Vikings and the Chargers
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  tonight. Dane, thank you as always for
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  doing this. Saint Paul Pioneer Press for
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  Dane, feels like a really big spot for both teams.
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  Dane, does that seem like that to you as well?
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  Yeah, I think so. I think it's fair to call this a
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  must win for both the Vikings and the Chargers.
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  And while I won't go as far to say whoever loses this game
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  should pack their bags because the season's over, sure feels
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  like it could be kind of the first domino in that process
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  because he dropped below 500 tonight.
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  If you lose, looking at the Vikings specifically, they just
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  they need some good vibes back. I think everything feels a
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  little heavy right now. And I think it's probably the
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  same thing with the Chargers, like both teams dealing with
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  injuries. Both teams probably thought
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  they'd be in a different situation when these two teams
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  were meeting up to play each other and all of a sudden now
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  we're sitting here in October saying both teams better win
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  this game. So I think we'll see two
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  desperate teams tonight, see who comes out on top.
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  So the quarterback spot, it has not gone great for Carson Wentz
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  went up against his former team last week and the same kind of
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  same old, same old. Here's JJ McCarthy with an ankle
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  injury. It just feels odd.
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  He was good enough to be the emergency third quarterback last
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  week, but not good enough to play.
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  Are they protecting him? I know you're hearing all the
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  questions. I know you guys are asking all
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  the questions up there. What can you tell us the latest
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  on the quarterback front for the Vikings?
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  Yeah. I think what Carson Wentz has
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  proved over the last month is that Carson Wentz is a backup.
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  And I think we've known that, but I think there was maybe an
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  inclination or a hope within the fan base that he could be the
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  next Case Keenum, He could be the next Sam Darnold like Kevin
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  O'Connell can fix them. He is what he is and what he is
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  is a backup who's gone two and two and done the job for the
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  most part, but hasn't done enough to create a real
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  quarterback controversy in Minnesota.
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  So when JJ McCarthy is ready to go, he will be the starter.
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  I think that is if you're the Vikings and trying to look at
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  this with the glass half full mentality, it's that you don't
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  have to go through all of those conversations.
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  It's just plain to see right in front of you.
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  JJ McCarthy is your guy Now the injury, I know some people have
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  been skeptical about it. I I wish it's a real injury.
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  He's hurt. And I think what the what the
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  Vikings are doing right now is like they're making sure that
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  when he's back, he has every opportunity within him to
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  succeed. And I know people push.
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  Well, you know. Patching Mahomes play with its
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  high ankle sprain in the Super Bowl?
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  Yes, that's Patrick Mahomes. That's one of the greatest ever.
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  Do it. Maybe the greatest ever do it,
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  not a guy who's coming off a rough second game in the NFL
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  with only two games of experience under his belt.
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  So the Vikings are doing right by by their investment by their
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  their young franchise quarterback.
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  They're not going to throw them out there until he's ready.
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  And I think right now they don't feel he's ready to go.
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  Like he can't protect himself if he has to.
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  He can't do all the necessary movements in the pocket that are
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  required of an NFL quarterback. He's getting close.
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  I've seen him. He's in good spirits.
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  I think Detroit is a possibility, but we'll have to
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  see. I think he's going to have to
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  log full participation for an entire week before the Vikings
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  even entertain the idea of him and going back under center.
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  And the question is just get louder and I think is based on
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  the following things. Daniel Jones looks great with
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  the Colts. Sam Darnold is off to a great
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  start. We've seen that before until
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  Week 16 and then the 17 rather than the wild card game on that
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  Monday night. And Aaron Rodgers, yes,
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  sometimes he looks old, but sometimes he looks really good.
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  If those three Q BS were falling on their face this year, maybe,
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  maybe the outcry wouldn't be as loud.
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  Dane. Yeah, I think so.
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  And that's totally fair to look at it that way.
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  I mean, Sam Darnold's been by some metrics, the best
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  quarterback in the NFL. Daniel Jones is leading what
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  some people feel is the best team in the NFL, and Aaron
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  Rodgers at times has looked like Aaron Rodgers.
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  So the fact that in some way, shape or form, you could say
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  that those three were all available to you at your
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  disposal and you passed on all of those guys to move forward
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  with JJ McCarthy. Like, it's easy to kind of say,
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  well, do they regret their decision?
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  I don't know. I don't think so.
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  Because like, if everybody, like, if they knew Sam Darnold
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  was going to continue to play at that level, yeah, they probably
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  would just tag them. But I think it's context is
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  really important here. And it's easy to kind of stay
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  hindsight. They should have done it.
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  Tim Darnold had an opportunity to prove himself.
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  He had an opportunity to solidify himself as the guy last
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  season and he fell flat on his face in the final two games of
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  the year. And while that shouldn't be a
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  referendum on his turn around of his career, I do think it's
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  reasonable for the Vikings to say, all right, let's give the
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  number 10 pick in the draft a shot So the story is not played
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  out. I think we probably owe it to
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  just logic in general, but also to JJ McCarthy to give him more
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  than just two games to decide whether the Vikings made the
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  worst mistake in in the history of the NFL.
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  So I think that's the reaction right now.
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  But a lot has to play out still. And and they still believe in
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  the kid. And then I do too.
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  No Van Ginkle this week injury wise and makes sense, right?
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  He's maybe close to returning, but you get kind of the mini bye
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  week here with the Thursday and we'll see.
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  Dallas Turner is going to have to step up.
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  What else can you tell us on the injury front?
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  Offensive line with Kelly and Darasaw?
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  That's always a question. And Aaron Jones back in
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  practice. What are they expecting out of
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  him this week? Yeah, So only guys that ever
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  have been ruled out aside from Ryan Kelly, he's on injury
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  reserve. You, you mentioned it, Andrew
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  Van Ginkle and CJ Ham. Those guys won't play.
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  I think if it's a regular week, maybe they they're both ready
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  for Sunday short week. Everybody hates them for a
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  reason. Not only does it create kind of
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  clunky football games, I think it's really hard for players to
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  turn over and and 72 hours basically going through a car
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  crash every Sunday. So those two are out.
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  An interesting part of the injury report or something that
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  that piqued my interest was Christian Dare saw popping up
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  yesterday as a limited as a questionable with an injury
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  designation. I think when you look at the
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  amount of snaps he played last week, there is a chance that
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  they want to just give him the week based on how his knee feels
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  pregame. And I think that's why he's he's
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  popping up his questionable. I think they'll give him a shot
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  pregame, see what he what he can do and from there kind of make
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  that determination. But he's certainly somebody to
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  keep an eye on pregame. Something I will be keeping an
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  eye on pregame game goes for Brian O'Neil.
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  Now, if Kirsten Dare saw Brian O'Neil can't play tonight,
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  obviously the Vikings are going to feel pretty bad going into
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  the game because those are your book and tackles.
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  What they can feel good about is, you know, reports are that
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  Aaron Jones will make his return tonight.
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  So that will buoy the offense. It will provide, I think, a shot
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  of life to the passing game, maybe even more than the running
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  game. Aaron Jones as an effective
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  option out of the backfield is something I think this offense
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  has been missing, you know, with the quick game and things of
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  that nature. So injuries all over the place,
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  but this is what you expect when, when you when you make
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  guys play on on 72 hours rest. The charges Will they wear the
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  Savannah banana uniforms? Those were hideous.
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  My God. I don't think so.
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  I think I think they're blue tonight.
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  But yeah, I agree with you. Just if you have the baby Blues,
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  like watch. Spread those other times, yes.
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  My question, Dave, for you, you've been to Sofi, obviously
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  you're there, Wild card Monday night.
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  I, I'd love that. Not the result obviously, but
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  just having a wild card game on Monday night.
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  What's Sofi like? It looks spectacular on
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  television. I've driven by it and never been
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  into it. And obviously it's on the side
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  of the old Hollywood Park racetrack, not far from LAX at
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  all. What's it like as a stadium day?
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  And you've been to multiple, many of them, if not all of the
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  NFL stops along the way. Where's Sofi rank?
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  What's it like? It's, it looks like a spaceship.
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  That's the only way I would describe it like it, it looks so
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  futuristic, like it couldn't possibly have been built in the
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  year 2023 or 4. Whenever it opened, it looks
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  like it was straight out of the year 3000.
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  So it's, it's something that, you know, I feel fortunate to be
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  able to go to all these stadiums, but at a certain point
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  some of them start to look the same.
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  So Sofi Stadium does not. Sofi Stadium looks wholly
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  different than than any stadium I've ever been in that we were
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  joking with the writers last year.
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  We actually got lost because we don't exit, you know, ground
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  floor. You would assume the ground
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  floor is the one you exit on. Well, no.
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  So far it's built kind of like it's a bunker.
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  She actually exit on like the fifth floor.
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  So intuitively it doesn't make sense.
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  We ended up in the basement last year looking up at the street.
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  How do we get up there? So it's really cool and yeah,
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  cool stadium. I don't think many can compare
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  to U.S. bank Stadium. I get to go there every week
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  basically. But Sofi Stadium can certainly
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  rival it. And it's open air, right?
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  Yeah, it is open air, but also like they've managed to somehow
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  make it closed in some area. Like it's just so modern.
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  You got to really experience it to be able to kind of fully
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  appreciate it. I know it pops on TV, but I
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  remember going there last year. It was.
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  It's quite the spectacle. Prediction time.
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  Dane, what do you think? How does this one play out
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  tonight? What are we going to see and
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  what are you going to be writing out at the writing about at the
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  Pioneer Press? All right, don't hate me.
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  I picked them to lose. And the Pioneer Press and I my
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  explanation or my analysis in the paper was sometimes analysis
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  doesn't have to be overly advanced.
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  It can just be something as simple as Justin Herbert plays
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  quarterback for the Chargers and Carson Wentz is going to be
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  playing quarterback for the Vikings.
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  I think one guy is obviously better than the other guy, and I
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  think one guy understands, you know, my the fate of my
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  franchise kind of rest on on the shoulders of me having a good
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  game tonight. I think Justin Herbert just
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  simply will do more than Carson Wentzville tonight, and I think
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  that'll be the difference. Good.
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  Stuff Dane was the Tony Saint Paul Pioneer Press
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  twincities.com for Dane. Dane, as always, thank you for
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  doing this for us. Appreciate it and enjoy your
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  weekend off. If if nothing else, thank you,
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  Dane. Yeah, anytime, guys.
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  Yeah, good to talk to you, Dane Mizutani, as we check in on the
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  Vikings and the Chargers. I agree with them.
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  I think the Vikings are in a tough spot tonight.
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  Justin Herbert and company. I'm so glad they're not wearing
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  those. Those were hideous.
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  Yeah. Savannah banana uniforms and
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  don't they usually? I'm surprised actually.
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  We don't aren't subjected to that tonight, 'cause isn't
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  Thursday night colour rush night.
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  Didn't they call it that at one point?
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  They did for a couple of years, but yeah, that hasn't been the
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  case, the case the last few. Did you see those uniforms last
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  week, Davidson? The charges, what they wore.
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  Yeah, I'm not a fan either. Not good.
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  Speaking of awful alternate uniforms, the Packers year after
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  year have to have I. Like.
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  Those ones which one the. Old ones, the old throwback.
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  Those things are hideous. I like they're all hideous.
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  Though you guys want to see, you want to see hideous, the
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  Steelers everywhere in their throwback.
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  Oh, yeah, Sunday night. It's the first game in like 50
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  years where both teams have yellow helmets, so that's
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  something. Oh.
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  Wow, this is a big game. I'm looking forward to.
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  I'm looking forward to tonight and I'm looking forward to
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  Sunday night just because I I want to see where the Steelers
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  team is and I want to see where the Packer team is.
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  This got this game's got some juice, Dave.
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  Yeah, there's a quarterback of the Steelers that might make
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  folks want to pay attention to. Yeah, no, it's, it's the game
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  Packer fan circle. The schedule came out, obviously
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  the first game against Aaron Rodgers, and I think it's a it's
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  a tough spot for Green Bay to face the Pittsburgh team off of
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  embarrassing loss with extra rest.
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  Mike Tomlin tends to be a tough guy to beat when he's an
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  underdog at home, and the Packers have been underwhelming
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  on the road. So I just, I think it's a tough
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  time to face a Pittsburgh team, especially a defense that wants
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  to show, oh, they weren't as bad as they were last Thursday
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  night. I can't think of the right
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  adjective, but you're listening both locally, watching with my
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  own eyes and and hearing on the national side, it feels like
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  there's nobody that has a feel for this Packers team.
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  There's a number one seed right now in the NFC, yet it doesn't
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  feel like anybody's wrapping their arms around them.
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  Is it the inconsistency what they've done on the road?
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  What what is it? Because normally you'd think
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  A-Team that's 41 and 1 and in control right now what they did
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  in week one against the Lions, that everybody be in love with
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  them and it's difficult to find that right now.
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  Yeah, I think that's true. I think nobody really knows
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  because they haven't looked really good for 60 minutes
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  against competition. That just isn't great.
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  And the schedule is going to get a whole lot tougher in the
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  middle of November, and we'll know a lot more, you know, about
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  this team. But I also think, you know,
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  every team deals with injuries. Green Day has been dealing with
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  injuries at a couple spots that caused them to really have to go
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  deeper on the depth chart. And I think they might get
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  Devante Wyatt back, which is huge for the middle of that
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  defense. He's missed the last few games
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  and they haven't looked the same since he went out.
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  And you know, the offense has been dealing with an offensive
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  line that's been revolving door receivers that can't stay
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  healthy. So I just, I don't think we've
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  seen since week one or two, you know, this Packer team the way
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  that the the organization envisioned them looking.
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  And I understand that's what happens in football.
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  Guys get hurt. But I just think against
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  middling competition, Green Bay's been scuffling along.
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  And I think that's why, rightfully so, nobody really
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  knows what this team is just yet.
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  The Packers envision Michael Parsons having the game, the hip
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  drop tackle notwithstanding, that he did when they acquired
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  him by far his best game last weekend against their in
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  Arizona. Yeah, I mean, he's never had a
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  three set game, obviously. Well, he hasn't.
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  I didn't for the Cowboys either. Wow.
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  No, no. And then the three sacks he did
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  have all came at just critical moments.
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  First one was a third and goal that made him settle for a field
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  goal. The last two were in the fourth
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  quarter that again, we're in key spots.
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  So he this timing was great. You know, they they chose not to
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  double and triple and spend a ton of attention on him.
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  He got a lot more one on ones that he's used to and obviously
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  that tends to be a mismatch. So, yeah, a bit of a coming out
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  party, you know, he's full go. He's playing all the snaps now.
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  He's feeling more comfortable within this defense and then
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  moving them around a little bit and letting him have some fun.
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  So yeah, that was that was exactly what Packer fans hope to
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  see when they traded for Micah Parsons.
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  And it just gives you a taste for, I think, what might be to
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  come. Aaron Rodgers said this
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  yesterday, quote, I don't have any animosity towards the
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  organization. This is not a revenge game for
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  me. UN quote.
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  Do we believe him, Dave? To a degree, I actually do I
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  mean, I think everyone wants to paint the the revenge because
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  that's who he is, right. Chip on the shoulder.
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  He got run out of Green Bay. But you know, I'm one of those
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  guys that that, you know, listens to what his team mates
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  have always said about him. And he he was a great teammate.
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  And Jordan Love gives him so much credit for the quarterback
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  he is. He was classy, you know, when
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  all that went down, Unlike Brett Favre when when Rodgers got
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  drafted. I really do respect the way
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  Rodgers handled his business. I mean, he's we know he's an odd
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  duck and eccentric and he's weird and all that stuff.
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  But I don't think he feels like I got to get these guys.
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  I mean, believe it or not, there's only seven players on
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  this roster that were on the last Packer team with Aaron
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  Rodgers in 2022. They turned over this entire
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  roster. So it's not like he's going to
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  be going at these guys. I mean, he's got some friends
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  still on this team. But but yeah, I mean, deep down,
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  yet to see wannabe Green Bay on Sunday Night Football in a home
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  game in prime time and show his best.
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  Of course he does. And I expect him to have a
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  productive night. You know, he does tend to play
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  well again, zone defense, which Green Bay tends to play mostly.
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  And he's going to get rid of the ball really quickly.
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  That's what it takes to beat this pass rush.
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  And that's why I really think if Devante, why it's back in the
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  middle of that defense, two of us to provide that pass rush
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  that they don't really get without him out there.
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  It's it's a big check mark in the Packers favor.
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  If he can't play, I don't give the defense a lot of chances of
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  slowing Rogers down. It's going to be a fun chess
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  match. And yeah, there's a revenge
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  factor, but I don't think it's something he's just circled and
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  and waiting for for this game to happen.
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  Last thing for me, Dave, I watched the team last week.
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  Thankfully the backup kicker stunk as they as Denver escaped.
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  You guys have had a backup kicker and you've been Brandon
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  McManus, pretty decorated kicker throughout his career.
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  I mean, the Jacksonville thing, obviously that didn't end well
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  there. But he's got a Super Bowl ring
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  and he's been hurt. And I did not know.
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  And I don't even know if I can say Havarisus Havarisic.
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  Is that how we say his name? But the guy they brought in to
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  replace McManus, he's been really good In an era where you
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  don't find backup kickers all the time that are really good.
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  They got a decision to make when McManus is healthy.
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  Maybe. Yeah, it's a big talker in
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  Packer Nation this week. Lucas Haversick, who did have a
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  cup of coffee with the Rams a couple years ago, was getting
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  his license to be a substitute teacher in Creed a few weeks ago
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  when Green Bay made the call. And you know that that really
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  did turn the game last week when Green Bay gets the ball back
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  with 7 seconds left in the half and decides to try to run a
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  play, get 22 yards to dodge and suddenly you try Haversick out
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  for a 61 yard field goal and he knocks it in to cut the lead to
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  seven and provide a bit of momentum.
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  He's been out, Danny, he hasn't missed a kick.
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  He's 26. They've paid McManus the money.
• 18:12
  I mean, it's I would hang on to McManus because he's proven in a
• 18:16
  long career to be a guy you could trust in the playoffs.
• 18:19
  But boy, oh boy, there's talk about maybe they keep both these
• 18:22
  guys on the roster. I don't know if McManus is going
• 18:25
  to play this week. He was not out of practice
• 18:27
  Wednesday. Lafleur thought he'd be out
• 18:29
  kicking today, but they haven't practiced yet.
• 18:32
  It's an interesting talker. Maybe they spent a trade to get
• 18:36
  a 6th or 7th rounder from a desperate team and get something
• 18:39
  for him, but he's been a revelation.
• 18:41
  And yeah, that is something that Packer Nation's kicking around
• 18:44
  this week. What do you do with Brandon
• 18:46
  McManus? Because average has been money
• 18:48
  so far, Matthew. Golden Finally, the Packers went
• 18:51
  out and got a shiny object for their quarterback out of Texas,
• 18:54
  the speedster still without a touchdown.
• 18:56
  He's been relatively productive, though certainly hasn't turned
• 19:00
  into a star right away in his career.
• 19:02
  We're what, six games into this one?
• 19:04
  But where do we look at Matthew Golden right now?
• 19:07
  And what kind of upside is still there for him, at least for the
• 19:10
  rest of this season? Yeah, you've touched on a hot
• 19:12
  spot with me, Trent. I'm annoyed by the lack of
• 19:15
  targets to Matthew Golden, 4 targets last Sunday, 3 came in
• 19:20
  the opening drive. He caught all four of those
• 19:22
  targets, by the way. It's not just the speed and the
• 19:25
  route running. He's got great hands and love,
• 19:27
  obviously. Trust him.
• 19:28
  He's gone to him this season. Key 4th down situations.
• 19:32
  This is a game where the Packers will not have Dantavion Wix
• 19:36
  Christian Watson says he wants to play.
• 19:38
  I'd be shocked if Green Bay puts him on that playing surface in
• 19:42
  Pittsburgh where Jordy Nelson tore his ACL.
• 19:46
  I just think they're going to be so thin a wide receiver Sunday.
• 19:49
  It's a time to start feeding the ball to Matthew Golden.
• 19:51
  I understand why Dobbs and Tucker Kraft are going to get
• 19:54
  the most targets, but you've got a shiny toy that does things
• 19:58
  that nobody else on your roster could do it.
• 20:00
  I don't think 4 targets is enough.
• 20:02
  I think if he was getting targeted more, you'd be hearing
• 20:04
  about him just like you are at Buca and some of the.
• 20:07
  Other productive rookie receivers.
• 20:09
  I think Golden's going to be a star in this league.
• 20:11
  I don't think rebate likes to feature wide receivers that
• 20:13
  much. It's more about just buying the
• 20:15
  open guy. They haven't had a talent like
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  him. He needs to be targeted more
• 20:19
  often and I will be stunned if he doesn't get at least 7-8
• 20:22
  targets this Sunday night in light of the.
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  Health of that wide. Receiver room right now.
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  AM. You have a feel.
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  For the game. Packers favored field goal,
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  roughly. Yeah, I like Green Bay.
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  I just it's because I don't like Pittsburgh.
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  Yeah, don't trust Pittsburgh. No, not at all.
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  Not at all. Cincinnati win the division?
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  Maybe no. Too much Baltimore?
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  The favorite to do so? Or if they're not, they're right
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  behind Pittsburgh. It's.
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  Just wild. It truly is.
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  It's time for SIP. Stephen M Simple talks with
• 22:01
  myself and Ken on Nebraska. Football.
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  I mean, I have a radio show, we have callers.
• 22:05
  I pay attention to my Twitter notifications and all that.
• 22:09
  There's definitely some frustration.
• 22:11
  We talk Cornhuskers, and you never know what else is going to
• 22:14
  come up with 30 years on the Nebraska beat.
• 22:20
  Here's Steven M Simple. As long as they're paying me to
• 22:22
  talk, I'm just going to keep doing it.
• 22:25
  I'm Lori Condon. Welcome back.
• 22:26
  It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 22:28
  Des Moines Sports Station One O 6.3 KX&O.
• 22:31
  Well, I've talked to SIP for 30 years now during the football
• 22:35
  seasons, once a week for 30 years.
• 22:38
  I'm not sure there's been a more anticipated simple segment than
• 22:41
  this one we're about to embark on.
• 22:43
  And away we go. Hello, Steven M Simple.
• 22:45
  How are you? I'm doing good.
• 22:48
  How are you guys? Doing doing OK, Trent, go ahead.
• 22:51
  All right, zip. So last week, your parting shot
• 22:56
  as you're making your way through God's country, N Iowa,
• 22:58
  you're hanging out in Clear Lake and stop by the Surf Ballroom.
• 23:01
  But before that, you tell us that Braska's going to win this
• 23:04
  14213. I tried to warn you.
• 23:07
  That's. Why I I, I tried to help you
• 23:09
  pump your brakes a little bit, said it was a good match up.
• 23:12
  And then we see the way that it lays out, you know, sip one
• 23:16
  thing that I give you a hard time from time to time is your
• 23:19
  brethren in the media and those expectations that sometimes
• 23:23
  maybe feel like they swell the take the fan base along with
• 23:26
  them and expectations that aren't realistic.
• 23:28
  And I I thought it was another example to say that they could
• 23:31
  go up there and win the game. Sure, but a team you lost four
• 23:34
  straight. It's a blueprint that's worked
• 23:36
  against Nebraska. It just, it felt like another
• 23:38
  one of those when people here, certainly in the state of Iowa,
• 23:42
  look at Nebraska and say what are they thinking?
• 23:45
  That was another example to me last week.
• 23:48
  All right. I hope they don't use me as the
• 23:52
  acid test. I mean, that would be, I was
• 23:55
  reckless on that prediction. It was, it was reckless.
• 23:59
  It was, I just got off the phone with a parent of one of the
• 24:02
  players and it was early. I, I'm not making excuses here.
• 24:05
  I did it early in the week after I'd looked at Minnesota closely
• 24:10
  and I thought they don't have. They're not very athletic in the
• 24:13
  back end. They're not running the ball at
• 24:17
  all. They hadn't been.
• 24:20
  They're not. I wasn't too worried about the
• 24:23
  pass rush and I just thought Nebraska be able to run and
• 24:27
  throw. That's what I told you guys.
• 24:28
  I thought they'd be able to run and throw well.
• 24:31
  They really didn't do either very well.
• 24:33
  They ran a little bit, 14 carries for 63.
• 24:37
  Yards. For Emma Johnson.
• 24:40
  But the pocket collapsed in an alarming rate in a passing game.
• 24:45
  So that was reckless. And you're right, it's I'm not.
• 24:52
  Now, hardly anybody here predicted predicted Minnesota to
• 24:57
  win. I don't know that anybody in our
• 24:58
  media corps did now, but I want to be clear, I was the outlier
• 25:04
  in predicting that kind of score.
• 25:06
  The other, the other scores were responsible.
• 25:09
  Mine was irresponsible. What's SIP?
• 25:13
  I don't know how they fixed the offensive line.
• 25:15
  I mean, 9 sacks this past week against the Minnesota outfit
• 25:18
  that hadn't been getting to the quarterback.
• 25:20
  I mean, there's games where you give up 546 I the offensive
• 25:25
  line, it's no better than it was when they were in the Big 12.
• 25:28
  I don't think SIP, I think that's fair to say that this
• 25:31
  unit is grossly underachieving and I don't know how you can fix
• 25:36
  it seven games into the season. You know what they are and it's
• 25:42
  a pretty now you don't want to put too much into one game as it
• 25:49
  as it relates to the entire team.
• 25:52
  The SAC issue isn't just one game.
• 25:56
  They, I mean, people forget they gave up three sacks against
• 25:59
  Cincinnati, then Michigan got 7 sacks, Michigan State got 5.
• 26:06
  And and then now they, they held off Maryland, Maryland only had
• 26:10
  one. But then then everything went
• 26:13
  wrong against Minnesota and there were nine and ruled that
• 26:19
  and it's Monday, press office said this was maybe the
• 26:23
  statement that got me more than anything, he said.
• 26:26
  It was a memorable Monday press conference, he said to Dylan.
• 26:33
  SIP, You broke up. SIP.
• 26:36
  Hello. Uh oh.
• 26:39
  Phone lines got him. I get his sip.
• 26:42
  Can you hear us? We'll try him back.
• 26:45
  Let's try him back. I want to hear what Matt Rule
• 26:47
  said. They got sip a little hot under
• 26:49
  the collar. Sip does these every Thursday.
• 26:53
  Seemingly he's in a different part of Nebraska speaking to a a
• 26:57
  club. I don't know if it's a Husker
• 26:58
  club or Lions group or whatever. You know, they have the the
• 27:01
  luncheon, the Turkey here, the the the pot roast and the
• 27:05
  potatoes and gets up and does a little talk on the team and he's
• 27:09
  driving back through rural Nebraska where apparently the
• 27:11
  phone service not quite up the par.
• 27:14
  All right, Sip Sir, you're about to say Monday press conference.
• 27:17
  Matt Rules said what that got under your skin.
• 27:20
  That's where you broke up. Just no, not under my skin.
• 27:24
  It was just very revealing. He said that, you know, Nebraska
• 27:27
  gave up nine sacks. He said it could have been four
• 27:29
  or five more. But Dylan Rayola alluded 4 or
• 27:33
  five more. And that's when I said to him,
• 27:36
  like, wait a second. He gave up nine, and it could
• 27:39
  have been like 12 or 13. And what I was saying is it
• 27:46
  wasn't like Nebraska had a lot of plays.
• 27:48
  I think they ran 50 to. Like. 5055 plays.
• 27:53
  So think, think about the ratio. You know they weren't Yeah, it
• 27:57
  was a disaster. Now here's what I'd say too.
• 28:00
  The company line here has been it's not just an O line issue
• 28:06
  and I believe that I I believe the company line.
• 28:09
  Emmett Johnson was responsible for three of the sacks, just
• 28:13
  missed assignments, got beat one on his one-on-one blocking one
• 28:17
  time. Dylan held the ball two or three
• 28:23
  times. I so I'd say 4 of the sacks were
• 28:30
  on the line and the rest were just other issues.
• 28:34
  So it is I believe their company line now gets Michigan.
• 28:39
  It was on the tackle, the offensive tackle, they were the
• 28:43
  problem. Michigan State, Dylan was
• 28:45
  holding the ball too much. They're trying to throw it down
• 28:48
  field. He held the ball too much.
• 28:51
  In this case, it was everything like everything went wrong.
• 28:55
  So bad deal. Bad deal for Nebraska.
• 28:58
  Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln, you
• 29:01
  mentioned Rayola and holding the ball too long.
• 29:04
  It just, you watch him throughout the course of 60
• 29:06
  minutes and they'll have those wild plays.
• 29:08
  He had two of them against Minnesota.
• 29:09
  Just absolute eye opening. There's few guys in college
• 29:12
  football that can make it and then there's another dozen
• 29:15
  plays. What in God's name is he
• 29:16
  thinking? What is he trying to do?
• 29:18
  Why is it that he's always trying to be spectacular, that
• 29:22
  he just for whatever reason, it's not in him yet, just to
• 29:26
  make the makeables? Because there's just too many
• 29:28
  times he's way too inconsistent. Take us a little bit deeper into
• 29:31
  the Nebraska QB. I.
• 29:34
  I mean, that's the nature of the conversations around here.
• 29:39
  I think largely he's affected by this pass rush conversation.
• 29:45
  It's not a one game thing, as I detailed.
• 29:49
  And it's not just that he's it's not just the fact he's under
• 29:53
  constant duress. What they don't.
• 29:56
  I mean, if I was going to critique him, I love to play the
• 29:59
  coach thing, right? If I was coaching, I'd I love
• 30:02
  doing this. I would see.
• 30:04
  I took the issue with something Dana Holger said.
• 30:08
  He's the play caller. He said I have to find ways to
• 30:12
  get Dylan comfortable because when he's comfortable, he's one
• 30:15
  of the best quarterbacks in America.
• 30:17
  If I if Dana was riding with me in the truck right here, I'd say
• 30:22
  Dana, you know quarterbacks aren't, they don't, they don't.
• 30:25
  There's not many plays where they drop back three-step drop,
• 30:29
  five step drop, whatever it is and encounter just pure
• 30:33
  cleanliness. I would emphasize you have to
• 30:37
  operate uncomfortable uncomfortably.
• 30:40
  You have to be able to do that. I was joking on our show here
• 30:44
  that if I it was me, I would do crazy things in practice to make
• 30:49
  him feel uncomfortable. I'd throw stuff at him, I'd hit
• 30:52
  him with a broom. I'd do whatever.
• 30:55
  I just got to make him feel incredibly uncomfortable and
• 30:59
  still be able to deliver. I see it all the time in both
• 31:02
  the NFL and college. The best guys can operate.
• 31:07
  When it's all collapsed and it doesn't, it doesn't look right,
• 31:11
  but they still they still can operate.
• 31:14
  Dylan has a hard time with that for whatever reason.
• 31:17
  So how big is this game against Northwestern this week?
• 31:19
  When you match up Bronze and rules records, they're almost
• 31:23
  identical. 17 and 15 this far. Bronze got one more win in the
• 31:28
  Big 10 than rule does. How important is this game?
• 31:32
  In my mind, it's really important because here's why.
• 31:35
  What? You know, we we do this thing,
• 31:37
  you guys do it. I'm sure everybody does it.
• 31:39
  College football is all about overreacting, right?
• 31:41
  That's what Hell yeah. Fun.
• 31:43
  Yeah, it's fun to react. Nebraska won two straight games
• 31:47
  and a lot of talk around here just going into the Minnesota
• 31:50
  game was wow, this program's making progress.
• 31:54
  It it, it looks good. I mean, this is they're winning
• 31:57
  close games now that they that they lost for so many years.
• 32:01
  And there's there's a lot that looks pretty good.
• 32:03
  They have a couple edge rushers that are good.
• 32:06
  The secondary is real good. The special teams is ranked
• 32:10
  second in the nation and in the overall analytics on PFF.
• 32:15
  So there's a lot going well now why?
• 32:18
  What's the importance of this game?
• 32:20
  Just is Minnesota an aberration? Was it just a bad day at the
• 32:24
  office? Was it just wasn't didn't show
• 32:28
  up. Now, if if they come back and
• 32:31
  beat Northwestern, I mean just beat them.
• 32:34
  You know, I'm not expecting South Point.
• 32:36
  Then you say, well, they're six and two.
• 32:39
  They're bowl eligible. They have winnable games ahead
• 32:42
  of them as long as they play this one.
• 32:43
  Well, that's what it means to me.
• 32:45
  Now, if they lose and it looks anything like Minnesota, then
• 32:50
  you start really questioning whether rules getting it done
• 32:53
  here, right? It does.
• 32:56
  You wonder, right. So that's what it means to me.
• 32:59
  Sip I had so much fun. I'm wrapping up my broadcast on
• 33:04
  Friday night calling high school football and the tweets we're
• 33:06
  rolling in, the texts we're rolling in.
• 33:09
  And then this is one thing that I also forgot SIP is you told us
• 33:12
  before the season began, it wasn't just your 4213 prediction
• 33:16
  against the gulfs. It was that you said that
• 33:18
  Nebraska is going to have a better efforts aligned in Iowa.
• 33:21
  How's that going for the Huskers I?
• 33:24
  Don't know I told you off there. I watch one series of Iowa, Penn
• 33:28
  State and thought, oh God, Iowa's offensive line looks like
• 33:32
  it could ball Nebraska right. One series.
• 33:34
  I was like, oh geez, terrible. No, that was I've made some
• 33:39
  incredibly bad prognostications this fall that I'm dialing it
• 33:43
  back. One of them that doesn't doesn't
• 33:45
  even register with you guys. You don't care.
• 33:47
  But I, I said on my show, Kansas looks like they have an SEC
• 33:51
  level defense. They've given a 600 yard squat.
• 33:56
  I mean, I just got to and yeah, I did say multiple times, I
• 34:00
  think the offensive line, I didn't say it was the strength
• 34:03
  of Nebraska's team, but I said it could be a strength and it's
• 34:07
  yeah, it's been terrible. So I don't I'm dialing back on
• 34:10
  predictions. There's nothing worse than an
• 34:13
  audience member with a memory as you.
• 34:16
  We we don't do so. Yeah, good stuff, Steven.
• 34:18
  I'm great stuff, pal. Thanks for doing this, as
• 34:20
  always. We will speak with you next
• 34:23
  week. What do you got next week?
• 34:25
  Tough one next week. Oh, USC.
• 34:26
  Hello. Yeah, that'll be fun.
• 34:30
  USC here tonight, Game 630. Game.
• 34:32
  Oh, that's the NBC special, right?
• 34:35
  Yeah, yeah, Good stuff. So thank you, bud.
• 34:37
  Appreciate you coming on. All right.
• 34:39
  Thanks. Guys, Yep, good to talk to
• 34:41
  Stephen M Simple Husker illustrated part of On three
• 34:44
  Media on three Media for SIP is he takes a look back at 42 to
• 34:49
  13. I bought it.
• 34:50
  I know you did in. Our picks.
• 34:51
  I didn't say 4213, but I thought Sip's got a pretty good read.
• 34:56
  Yeah, not so much. That's.
• 34:57
  So much, not so much. And sip good-natured about it.
• 35:01
  He is of. Course he is.
• 35:02
  Took his medicine, Yeah. Sounds like he's taking quite a
• 35:04
  bit of medicine this season. All right, it's 145.
• 35:08
  Our plays, our trench plays of the day, Circus sports sponsor
• 35:11
  those. Is it a coincidence that this
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  gambling story broke this morning and Shohei Otani left
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  the country? Oh, no, no, no, no.
• 35:19
  Saw that on Twitter, that's pretty good.
• 35:22
  Is right. That's not what baseball needs
• 35:24
  right now. No, I know that's the last thing
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  of these, but I thought, you know, whoever came up with that?
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  There's a pretty witty 145. Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network. I'm Millory Condon.
• 35:34
  Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio Network Trenton, Ken with you.
• 35:37
  Our final segment here on a Thursday off the bench, top of
• 35:40
  the hour, Lucas Strange, Sean Roberts, 2 until 5 overtime Iowa
• 35:45
  tonight at 5:00. Well, we do have, of course, the
• 35:49
  Thursday Night Football, but is not Westwood ones call tonight.
• 35:53
  It's our relationship with the Vikings.
• 35:55
  Paul Allen and the Viking Radio Network will bring you the call
• 35:58
  tonight, the Vikings and Chargers.
• 36:00
  The pregame show starts right at 6:00, so right the conclusion of
• 36:04
  overtime. Iowa.
• 36:05
  Off we go to Sofi Stadium and PA and company will take you until
• 36:10
  the end of that game. 3 1/2 is the numbers.
• 36:13
  Are you playing that? What are you watch?
• 36:15
  What are you watching and wagering on this evening?
• 36:17
  So we have undefeated now in the NBA.
• 36:21
  We are three and O against the NBA.
• 36:22
  Yeah, you. Quit while you're ahead.
• 36:24
  Well. Probably I'll I'll get to it
• 36:25
  again in April. Now there'll be some other
• 36:27
  moments, but college basketball right around the corner.
• 36:29
  But I couldn't find anything tonight.
• 36:30
  Only two games. I'm one and O in hockey hit last
• 36:34
  night. What'd you play the Devils
• 36:35
  against the Wild? That was a good one.
• 36:37
  And that came both with a backup goalie.
• 36:41
  And that's I think why I got the good price on that one.
• 36:43
  Only -122 in jersey. But nothing there, nothing in
• 36:47
  the NBA. There is a college football game
• 36:49
  tonight. It is one in six South Alabama
• 36:53
  against one in six. Georgia State didn't find an
• 36:56
  angle in that one. So I'm just playing the
• 36:58
  Chargers. I laid the Midas 120 and grabbed
• 37:01
  the three. There are three and a halfs in
• 37:02
  the market, but I laid the extra juice and just laid the fee.
• 37:05
  The three with the Chargers? Short week, Yep.
• 37:09
  Carson Wentz? Yep.
• 37:10
  Versus Justin Herbert must. Win for both sides.
• 37:14
  Yeah, I'll take the team at home on the short week.
• 37:16
  Now. There'll be a ton of Vikings
• 37:17
  fans out there. Sure.
• 37:19
  This is going to be another one of those trips, Minnesota.
• 37:22
  What are those? Every charger home games.
• 37:24
  But the Vikings are always one of those sneaky fan bases.
• 37:27
  Travels even better, I think then maybe the national
• 37:30
  reputation is. Spend the weekend out in LA
• 37:32
  Little. California action reputation is
• 37:35
  there. They will not be happy with the
• 37:37
  result of this one. Chargers.
• 37:38
  Will be there. I'm with you trying to think
• 37:40
  you're on the right side. We'll see how it goes.
• 37:42
  Obviously I'd love the Vikings to make a playoff.
• 37:44
  It's better for business here for us.
• 37:46
  The more the regional teams that qualify for post season, the
• 37:49
  better. Last time they in that stadium,
• 37:52
  although against a different Los Angeles team, certainly did not
• 37:55
  go well as their season ended on that wild card Monday.
• 38:00
  Good stuff. Didn't mention the World Series
• 38:03
  today. We'll get into it a little bit
• 38:05
  tomorrow, I'm assuming. Any.
• 38:07
  Any feel any better about the American League champion?
• 38:09
  No, no, not even didn't. Didn't even hesitate.
• 38:13
  I've only been trying to tell you for six months.
• 38:14
  The Dodgers, as John Bowen Camp famously says, they'll be fine.
• 38:18
  They'll be fine. We'll, we'll talk to you
• 38:21
  tomorrow. We appreciate you being with us.
• 38:23
  Trent and I are here Monday through Friday.
• 38:24
  Miller and Condon noon to two on Des Moines Sports Station One O
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  6.3 KX&O on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.