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Iowa & ISU women wins, Football Friday Preview, Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon on a
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Football Friday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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We're glad you're starting your afternoon here with us.
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller, we will talk sports with you right
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up until 2:00. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. At the bottom of the hour, we
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will be joined by Tom Keikert. A lot of news with Keikert.
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We will recap the Iowa women from last night, the Iowa men
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from last night, obviously take a look ahead to the senior day
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at Kennick Stadium. Michigan State on the other side
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of the field, final home football game of the year for
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the Hawkeyes. We'll talk to Tom Keikert about
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that at 12:30. At 1:00, Eugene Repay is here
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from the Des Moines Register. He covers Iowa State final home
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game at Jack Trice Stadium. So we'll do that.
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We'll do the Iowa State women Iowa statement.
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I think Eugene is headed to Vegas.
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Are you aware? Of that, you mentioned that
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earlier in the week. He is lucky Duck, Yeah.
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It's going to be fun and he's a hoops guy and he's there's
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plenty of hoops on display that weekend, no doubt about that.
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So we'll talk to Eugene, Eugene repay on Iowa State topics to
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kick off our number 2 and then Mike Palm off to Vegas.
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We will go. Vegas is a busy, busy place as
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it normally is. But this weekend going to be
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bananas with the Grand Prix on the Strip.
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The Neon City Festival on downtown is the downtown Las
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Vegas. Hotels get together and try to
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come up with something to compete with the Grand Prix.
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And they've done well. They've got a great bunch of
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free concerts on Fremont Street. God, I love Fremont Street.
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Isn't it so fun? Trent and folks, Circa is our
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primary sponsor. I want to get that out there.
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We love it, absolutely, and I've stayed.
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I think I counted 2624 properties.
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You got a lot more than I do. Right.
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And and for the longest time till we formed our relationship
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with Circa, I never stayed downtown.
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Wouldn't stay anywhere else. Wouldn't stay anywhere else.
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So much fun anyway. So Mike Palm will make our pick.
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Circa Sports also sponsors those.
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We will do that about 10 minutes before 2.
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Who won the week last night or last week?
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Did I beat you by 1? No, I went three and two.
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You went two and I. Was two and three.
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You were three and two. OK, so it's your tee box this
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week. Tightened it up a little bit.
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You're 3326 and one. Yeah. 8:00 and 4:00 with your
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best bets. Yeah, I am 3128 and 1, seven and
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five with my best bets. So A2 game lead for you.
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And I think we put another game or two on the boys in the
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afternoon and I think we might be up 7 in that.
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Head to head, still a long ways to go.
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No, I know, I know. We're out of football still in
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front of us with you. Don't be counting the
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championship. Nope, nose to the grindstone boy
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was just watching this play last night.
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This Will Anderson dude. Oh, absolutely.
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He doesn't get enough credit. He enough when people are
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talking about the best defensive players.
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And it's maybe it's because he plays for Houston.
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You know, I'm, I'm sure that's part of it because there's some
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really good ones, but this guy belongs in any conversation.
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For my money, he's a freak. And that Houston defence as a
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whole, they're physical. They're tough, This Houston team
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as a whole. Am I going over the?
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But the FC. Is wide open.
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Give me that wide open for Houston, though.
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Why not? Why not?
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We haven't seen Houston. You haven't seen CJ Stroud be
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able to pile up the three consecutive games.
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And we haven't seen him, but you know where we're headed for.
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Have you seen the 4-5 potential matchups?
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I mean, if it's the Steelers or if it's the Ravens, they'll be
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the four seed and they would get the highest wild card, which
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might be the Chiefs, might be the Texans, might be the Bills.
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I mean, one of those teams are going to have to pay maybe the
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Ravens. What we'll see.
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This Houston team got my attention last night just
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because of the fact that the AFCI don't think that there's a
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clear cut. There's no Eagles, there's no
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Rams. There's a bunch of good teams,
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but I don't think that there's one that's significantly better
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than the other Broncos right now.
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The one seed, will they be after this weekend?
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I doubt it. The Patriots have a layup.
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The Colts aren't going anywhere. They played the Chiefs.
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What a massive game this weekend.
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And and there's a couple of them, couple of massive games
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this weekend. So we will get to that coming up
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here. Did you watch much hoops last
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night? So I tried to watch the Iowa
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State women on ESPN. Plus it was a throttle.
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What a disaster. Well, the game itself was a
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disaster, but trying to tune into ESP.
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And I don't think it was just me.
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I don't think it was because it, what do you call it?
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Just logged out, just knocked you off.
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There was nothing nothing. They got to the game late.
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You know supposed to start at the six first time we saw it was
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like, I don't know six O 5 and then just technical difficulties
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one after as if enough enough is enough to heck with it.
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So anyways, but that was I I wonder if Finley called off the
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I don't want to call them dogs, just says, you know what, let's
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take it easy on them because they were absolutely destroying
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this team it. Was 5218 at the half?
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5218 at the half. There you go. 25 Five after the
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first quarter, right Knew there was a rebuilding job for Drake.
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Didn't know. It was quite the.
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Same because we both believe that this I have state team
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pretty damn good. Yes, they are.
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Yes, and Addie Brown, another tremendous performance. 12:15 at
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7:00. And he stopped inside.
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I mean, Audie Crooks has gone to another level of just her
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understanding now of the game as an upperclassman, how good she
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is. But the difference I I keep
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going back to what they have in the back court with Jada
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Williams. And she didn't shoot it well
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yesterday. She is just a completely
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different kind of point guard than they've ever had before
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with the speed that she plays at, her quickness.
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They haven't had a player quite like this.
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And that's why I think the upside of this team, they're
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good. They're good most years.
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Yep. The upside though, when they get
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into that tough match up in a Sweet 16, when you get to an
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Elite 8, that there are those kind of athletes that can push
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you over the edge. Did you see much of the Iowa
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women? I did too much of it.
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That was awful, awful, awful, awful basketball.
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That was some of the worst basketball I have ever seen.
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Emily Rodriguez is talented. She doesn't know how to play
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basketball. They have.
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They have a lot of coaching to do.
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So they're up. They're up two possessions.
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I remember 5-6, what it was. She gets the ball, 35 seconds
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left kind of out on her own. There's two defenders back, spin
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move, another spin move, stumbles, chucks it up.
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You have 5, pull it out. But that was how much time left.
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35 seconds in the first half, 4 consecutive possessions.
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She gets the ball, isolates, goes, gets the swatted, isolate
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goes, turns it over, isolate goes, gets the swatted again.
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Four straight possessions. Just awful, awful, bad.
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She's talented and they need that kind of.
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Players She does know how to play basketball.
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There's a lot of coaching still that needs to and a lot of bad
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habits. I'm sure that formed on a bad
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UCF team a year ago. There is a lot of coaching
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because talent wise, she's there.
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She's got a lot of talent. She's tough.
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They need that kind of physicality.
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I think that's good. And still the first thing you
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talk about is how ugly that game was being a top ten team.
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I think Baylor, actually. Has it in their first loss.
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And analytically, Baylor was 27th at Bartorvic going in.
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So the analytics did not agree with their ranking.
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They got to win against Duke right away, first game of the
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season That I think elevated them.
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And we found out Duke's not very good either this year.
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Still, you're not going to apologize for it?
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And it looks like chitchat, right?
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Not going to play against Miami. They play them tomorrow in that
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tournament down there. She will not play against.
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It so I saw some Twitter because I was I was watching football at
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that point. Stunky got hurt.
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She did, but came back. She must have come back in.
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She played 36 minutes. Yeah.
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It was later. It was in the 4th.
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Quarter. Oh, it was.
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Yes, that she came down and and came down kind of funky on her
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left leg as she was fading to the left and got fouled.
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She exit a game before the free throws.
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So really the story of the game I thought was a was a behind
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again. She's going to be tremendous
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still just a sophomore. Maybe should have played her a
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little bit more last year in comparison, but you know, with
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her and Stolky inside, you're ahead of so many teams and what
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they can do. I like chitchat.
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There's going to be games. I mean, she's 54, she's Lil, and
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there's going to be games that she's going to get beat up.
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And that, I think, is the concern with her.
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Voice, I hawk back-to-back. It's going to be fast.
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It's going to be great. It really is.
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They don't apologize for beating a ranked top ten team.
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I don't think that's going to hold up throughout the course of
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the year. Still no court victory against a
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minimum good opponent. They have now Miami.
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Play Miami on Saturday. That's a 7:00 tip off for that
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one. Good stuff.
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All right, let's get Mike in Waterloo.
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Then I want to talk about another Mike Moe for a few
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moments. Hello, Mike in Waterloo.
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How are you? Hey, pretty good, you guys.
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You know, if you're a wide receiver, please go to Iowa
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State because you're going to end up in the pros.
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You remember last year and you said Hutchinson wouldn't keep
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around to stay with the team, but you know what?
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He's a darn good player. Higgins is going to be All Pro.
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Yeah, he's going to be good. Yeah, he's going to be a really
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good. Addition All pros Tough to do,
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Mike. Yeah, there's only, there's only
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two of them, yeah. I know, but he had that fastest
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guy in the draft last year. He had him beat that guy.
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The quarterback unders threw him.
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I did. He had a couple of plays that if
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he could have just got his feet, footwork down, he would have
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been able to tap both toes. But they were tough throws, more
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tough throw. Look, I'm with you.
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I think Higgins is going to make a lot of money, going to have a
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nice career in the NFL. Think Jalen Nolas as well.
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I thought maybe the odd man out was going to be Hutchinson
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because, I mean, they got some receivers over there.
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Nico Collins is still. Around and Nico Collins is still
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around. Kirk is still around.
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I mean, they got some dudes, but those Iowa State guys got a spot
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on that roster. They get the quarterback back.
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Mike. I think this Houston team's a
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sneaky AFC contender. They can't run the ball, though.
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They can't run the ball. But you know what?
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That kid that's running the ball?
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Yeah. What's his story?
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He's been a fantasy guy. He's on a couple of my teams
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deep on the bench, but he, yeah, he's been kind of beat out.
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Nick Chubb. Yeah, Nick Chubb's washed.
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Is he washed? He's old.
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But that offense go back to it was a prime time game, maybe a
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Monday night game from earlier this season.
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Remember when they couldn't run the ball inside the five yard
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line and they kept trying and they just kept running there?
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The the offensive line's not good enough and that's what I
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keep coming back to. They were good enough against
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that ball. Defense might be the best in the
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league. It might be, yes.
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It might be the best defense in the league with a bad offensive
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line, though. You want a bad offensive line in
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January? I'm trying to talk you off
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ledge. Don't.
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Don't waste money putting Texans futures in there, too.
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Late. Oh geez.
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Anything else, Mike? Oh well, you know what?
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I was kind of off on my prediction for Iowa State.
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Just a touch. The quarterback got hurt.
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I he's hurt and I hope they, if he can't throw tomorrow, I hope
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they put in one of those freshmen see if they can throw
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because that hurts our game when his passes are all over the
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field. What do you guys?
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Think Are you ready to turn the page, Mike?
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Are you ready for Manske to go in there and upsert Roccobeck?
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I tell you one thing, all I hear about Manske when he was a buddy
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of mine saw him practicing up. And where is he from, Mason?
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Algona. Algona saw him practicing.
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He was. He was awed by him because he
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said he'd go right and left, throw it on a dime, 50 yards and
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he's A4540. What is HE63228?
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Why don't you give him a chance to throw the?
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Ball, he's going to get his chance before it's all said and
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done. All right, guys, Happy
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Thanksgiving, Mike. Yeah, same to you guys.
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Thank you buddy. Stop by and see Mike tonight on
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my way up to the you. Should, yeah, we should have
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made arrangements for that to happen.
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Maybe next time. Maybe next time.
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So you've got Liberty tonight. North North Liberty's Liberty
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High School against Dowling. I hope it's a good game.
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I really do. You know, you got this Dowling
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team, they're behemoth. They're built like they normally
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are, huge offensive line. You got Carter Baird, a
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sophomore. He's got offers from everybody
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in the country already, a good offensive line besides him.
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A loaded running back. Coach Pollock's done a great job
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again with that young Group A running back and Ian Middleton.
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He's little in terms of height but not in terms of width.
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He is thick. He is strong.
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He's a tough guy dude to tackle. And then he got Liberty on the
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other side. They're little.
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They're small in comparison. They don't look like what we
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traditional traditionally. See here at the 5A level.
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It's going to look like a 5A4A game. 05 A3 A5A3A Rhys Redding
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is one of my favorite players to watch in high school football
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over the last decade. He is incredible.
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He's 5 foot eight. He runs around, he makes plays.
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He got really banged up here a couple weeks ago.
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He looked outstanding last week against Northwest and didn't
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look like he had any any worse for the wear that he had with
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that injury. They do so many different
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things. Scott Chandler, their head
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coach, the former Hawkeye tight end, is tremendous.
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I mean to take this group to go up against the had.
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An underrated NFL. He did, yeah.
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He stuck around for a while and they are completely different
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than anything that you will see, certainly at the 5A level.
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Yeah, a lot of almost everybody spreads it out now.
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Works out of the shotgun. The way that they go about
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things, though, it's different. Can they do it against Dowling,
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though? I have my reservations.
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I would think that Dowling would win this game and relatively
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comfortably. But I thought last week we were
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going to get a shootout and that Liberty defense completely
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slowed down. Northwest, You know, Northwest
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quarterback had thrown an interception all year.
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I mean, he was complete and 80% of his passes going into that
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one. And their offense looked like
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they didn't have a clue against a defensive line that they
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outweighed by probably an average 40 lbs, you know, across
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the line. And these Liberty kids, they
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just fought. That's awesome.
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And they're going to be ready to go.
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So I'm with you. I hope at minimum we get an
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entertaining game tonight and we'll have it right here on KXO.
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Love it, love it, love it. Back to Chandler for just a
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second. I mean, is is how much credit
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does he get for this? A ton just watching at the helm.
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He's been there a couple years now.
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Yeah. I'm not sure exactly how many
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years it's been, but just it'll be on tonight.
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I will IPTV and great work out of the boys association now
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getting all these guys. Well, you know what?
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Halftime's tough though, Is it? Oh God, it's tough.
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Yeah, well, regardless, you're right.
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What's most important? Go find something to do during
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halftime because it's tough. What you want is to have these
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kids to have an opportunity to be on and for years and years we
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had that. Then it went away and then he
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had to have Comcast Chicago. And for people on the West side
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of the state, you don't get that.
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Well, I watched it on Marquee Network last week.
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And it was on there, yes, but now these are available,
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available and that is a great thing.
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And to have all the championship events now available over the
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air in today's environment, no huge good work out of the boys
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and Boone, great work out of IPTV, a place where funding is
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being cut all over the place. This is not a huge money maker
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by any means to make this happen.
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Great work out of both of those entities.
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Yeah, Speaking of money being cut, and the Cedar Rapids
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Gazette, as we said earlier in the week, was purchased by, I
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don't know, private equity, a hedge fund.
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So in our in our studio here, we've got we've got a few
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things, not not a ton of stuff on the wall.
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We've got the perfection poster when I went went 12 and O and
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it's the it's the front page of all of those sports sections.
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There's twelve of them. We talked about this at one
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point earlier this year, just how spoiled for me.
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I know not everybody's a newspaper guy.
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The that the readers subscribers of The Gazette were when you had
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Mark Morehouse, Scott Doctorman and Michael Loss on the Hawkeye
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Beat. Yes, think about that.
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At a small city newspaper. Mall sitting and they're all
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gone. And as of yesterday, Michael Ox
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with Michael Loss was handed his walking papers.
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Tomorrow will be his last day covering Iowa football at
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Kinnick. His last day is the 30th of
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November and he was let go after 40 something years.
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I get it. It's it's the media environment
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that we live in. Doesn't mean we have to like it
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and we don't. At least I don't.
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But the Cedar Rapids Gazette had Halas, Morehouse and Dock think
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about that roster. That's heavy hitters.
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Heavy hitters. 3 completely different personalities.
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Absolutely, Mark. I mean, yes. 3 tremendous
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writers though, but did it completely differently without
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it without a doubt that's why it worked.
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Another reason I'm concerned about this is the Cedar Rapids
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Gazette has done a tremendous job of what I do high school,
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school wise. They still cover high schools
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like they used to be covered. And you worry people, yes,
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people are at the games. Jeff Johnson, JJ, you know, JJ,
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big hockey guy and he's all over the place and I see him at state
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tournaments all the time. And what they've done on the
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wrestling side with Pilcher, their editor who used to be on
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the beat, and Jr. Ogden, another guy that is been
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told I. Think he was like, Oh yeah.
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Jr. for the wrestling community, as good as you're going to find,
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him and Pilcher both do a great job at that.
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KJ Pilcher's incredibly disappointing.
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Frustrating, but you said it too.
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This is our new reality. Yeah, it's, it's brutal.
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So I lost a hell of a career. Obviously, really unfortunate
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that you didn't get to, you didn't get to end it when you
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wanted to on your own terms, but sadly, very few of us do in this
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business, whether you're in radio or in television or in
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print. God, you just wonder where this
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is going, Right? All right, Chuck Reid's going to
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stop by. In fact, he's walking through
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the door right now. Chuck is the voice of the Drake
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Football Bulldogs and they've got a, well, final home game
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coming up tomorrow at Drake Stadium and they've got an
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event, a food drive. Chuck put on those headphones,
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take a seat and let's let's get everybody up to speed on what's
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going on. Obviously, I and Iowa State are
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both home, which doesn't, you know, work in your favour.
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But is he, is he turned on? There you are.
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You're turned on Joe Woodley. What a job.
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Great job. I mean, I'm not surprised he's
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he brought the pedigree with them right from Grandview where
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they went year after year after year.
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What about this team? Before the season started, did
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you think that this was the team that could repeat?
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Yes. Yes, I did.
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You did. I actually thought, you know
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what, the transfer portal, it changes everything, sure.
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And when you bring in a really good receiver from Kansas State
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and a Titan from Northern Illinois and another utility
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guy, he started the year at cornerback.
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He's now playing wide receiver for us.
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But Zay came from Northern Illinois as well.
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And when you start getting guys like that, you go to practice,
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you notice these guys are a little different, you know, and
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they they've got a little more juice to them.
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And I actually thought going into the year we could be really
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good. Now I didn't plan our four
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string quarterback being probably the second best
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freshman offensive player in the league, trailing only a freshman
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running back who was running like fourth team, didn't even
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play the first game, came into the second game.
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And now seven weeks into the conference season, he's the
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conference's leading rusher and so had some really good young
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guys step up. The transfers have worked out
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for the most part. The one thing that worried me
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going into the season was we had a fifth year quarterback who was
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our spring ball quarterback and then he decided in the summer
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that he didn't want to play football anymore.
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So we we had a transfer in young man Chase Spellman from
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Tennessee State and he looked great.
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He was fantastic. Well, he gets hurt in the first
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game, right? So we put in the fourth year guy
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and he plays 9 plays before he gets hurt.
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Now all of a sudden you've lost your spring quarterback and all
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of a sudden here comes his freshman kid from Georgia, Logan
20:04
in Ogawa. And he's been absolutely
20:06
fantastic, completing over 70% of his passes.
20:09
I think he's our third leading rusher.
20:12
And we went up to South Dakota State second game of the year.
20:15
And after the game, I'm walking out of the press box, some guy
20:17
from South Dakota State comes up, he goes, who was your
20:20
quarterback? I mean, who's?
20:22
Stepping around already. Well, you know, exactly, exactly
20:25
that guy's a player and on his number and like, hands off, pal,
20:29
you know. But no, it it, I knew we were
20:33
going to be pretty good. Joe and his staff have been
20:36
terrific. You know a lot of the names
20:38
people know Kyle Kemp, offense coordinator.
20:41
Kyle's had one bad game. That's it.
20:44
Joe Evans, the the Vine coach, Yeah, Joe's fantastic.
20:49
Those guys would run through a brick wall for Joe.
20:51
We're trying to get Joe to put the pads on one more time, but
20:54
he won't do it. But.
20:56
It must have been a low when we play for McCartney.
20:58
I'm trying to. That was the bull year.
21:00
That was their bull win. Woodley.
21:02
Woodley was on McCartney's team. Oh yeah, and the team that beat
21:06
Pitt 2002 thousand in the inside bowl.
21:10
Did he play in that? He scored a big touchdown
21:12
against? I win Cyhawk.
21:14
That year 1 yard run, he'll tell you is that what it was?
21:16
Anytime you ask him, he'll tell you all about it.
21:18
Well, here's what you need to do for me.
21:20
Tell him hi 'cause I'm a big fan of the Woodley family his dad,
21:23
Mike used to call. Him.
21:23
Well, Andy, Andy's I, I don't know Andy's exact title, but
21:28
he's at practice and all the games, so he's kind of a
21:31
consultant, I guess you'd say it.
21:32
Well, his pops used to call into me and Dire all the time on the
21:36
jock, so I took a liking to him then.
21:38
All right, let's talk about the food drive in our final couple
21:40
of minutes here so you can get free admission of the game
21:42
tomorrow. Here here's the deal.
21:44
All you have to do is bring one non perishable food item and all
21:50
the food donated is going to the Des Moines Area Religious
21:54
Council Food Pantry, the Demark Food Pantry.
21:58
And the way we were joking about it yesterday was OK.
22:02
Say you go to a store. Whatever.
22:06
Costco, whatever. OK, you buy a case of green
22:09
beans. Yeah.
22:12
What's that cost you, I don't know, 8 bucks, 8 bucks maybe.
22:16
Well, it gets 24 people into the game.
22:18
So, you know, it's one of those deals.
22:20
But I, I got a memo today and they're looking for dried and
22:23
canned beans, canned vegetables, canned fruit, peanut butter,
22:26
canned meat, whole grain cereal, pasta sauce, all the non
22:30
perishable items. They're looking for those.
22:32
And at this time of year, that's really important.
22:34
With Thanksgiving coming up in the the Christmas season, a lot
22:38
of people need some help right now.
22:40
And this is an easy way to go watch a football game where.
22:43
And the sun's going to be out tomorrow.
22:44
It's going to be 58° beautiful and that's fine with me.
22:50
I wish I had that last week, but because last week we had to
22:53
broadcast outside 40 mile an hour wind.
22:57
I'm still recovering but no kick off is at noon.
23:02
I know the other guys are playing, unfortunately for us,
23:05
but hey, it's the only game you're going to see where the
23:09
home team, your team, Drake's hometown, Des Moines, hometown
23:12
teams can win a championship and it'll be our third straight and
23:17
they'll all be solos, no ties, no Co champions.
23:21
It would be outright champion, outright champion to win
23:24
tomorrow, outright champion. So it's going to be a special
23:27
afternoon. Lot of fun.
23:29
It costs you a can of whatever. Green beans.
23:32
Whatever canned fruit, whatever to come to the game, Chairmans.
23:37
And not even with the soup French.
23:41
Onion. There's nothing worse.
23:42
Green beans in the can just disgust me anyways.
23:45
I'm a big fan. Enjoy, Thanks for popping in.
23:49
Tell the Woodleys Hi. Congrats on the success of the
23:51
team this year. Cool story about the four
23:53
Stringer. And then playoff bid.
23:55
And then the playoffs. That'll be Sunday morning.
23:57
And you'll find out Sunday morning.
23:58
Correct. The playoff selection show
24:01
Sunday morning, I think it's ESPN, 11:00 in the morning.
24:05
We're going to gather as a team if we're fortunate enough to to
24:09
be the one and, and I'm 90% sure we are.
24:12
But yeah, that'll be Sunday morning, 11:00.
24:15
But tomorrow noon, kick off Morehead State teams on four in
24:18
a row. They've come on here late.
24:20
If there was a point spread, who would be favored in this game?
24:23
Drake would be, I would guess, somewhere around a touchdown.
24:27
There'll be a spread tomorrow. They're well Morehead States won
24:30
four in a row. Yes.
24:32
And they're they're playing really well and they're
24:33
talented. The only team in our conference,
24:35
it really takes a significant number of JUCO players and so
24:40
they're not bad and it's going to be a battle.
24:43
But we've had a great week of practice and I really look
24:45
forward to tomorrow. Good stuff.
24:47
I hope that a lot of folks can get out there and support that.
24:50
There was very. Worth last chance.
24:51
That's it. This is it.
24:53
Curtain comes down. Thank you, Chuck Reed.
24:55
We'll be back. Tom Caker joins us next.
24:57
Miller and Condon underway. It's a football Friday on the
24:59
Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller Condon welcome back
25:13
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Our plays of the week coming up as well.
25:27
Let's get Tom Cacard in here. Hawkeyereport.com Tom Trenton,
25:32
Ken, thanks for coming on. Before we get into football and
25:34
Hawkeye related topics, a good buddy, yours guy spent many
25:38
shared many press boxes with over the years.
25:40
Michael lost just the latest to be shown the door, for lack of a
25:45
better term, not for anything he did.
25:48
Just got caught up in in financial matters.
25:52
So we've seen in the past, you know, when a long time beat
25:57
writer, somebody on the beat, this is their last day.
26:00
Usually one of the coaches recognizes him at a press
26:03
conference. I would be shocked if Coach
26:05
Ference after the game tomorrow doesn't say anything's to Halas,
26:09
don't you think? Yeah, Mike's going to finish
26:13
out, though. I mean, he'll be going to
26:14
Nebraska too, so, but this will be the last game he'll cover at
26:18
Kinnick, but he's going to, you know, finish up and cover, cover
26:22
the game Nebraska next Friday. So he will be there, but it
26:28
sucks. I mean.
26:29
It really does. Company.
26:31
Company buys, company buys them and they announce it to all the
26:37
people who work at The Gazette, quote UN quote, family owned
26:40
company. And 15 minutes later, my
26:44
colossus told his services will no longer be needed on December
26:47
1st. Jr.
26:48
Ogden, same thing. It's crazy, brutal, crazy.
26:54
You know, guys, guys worked there for over 40 years.
26:57
He's a pillar of the community and that's the way you treat
27:01
them. I mean, that tells you all you
27:04
need to know about that, that company that bought The Gazette.
27:07
Yep, hedge funds, private equity firms, Just brutal.
27:10
Definitely is. Well, we turn to what you and
27:15
Halas and the rest of the crew will see at Kinnock Stadium
27:18
tomorrow as Michigan State comes to town.
27:20
Boy, just going through the numbers.
27:22
I thought they were going to make a leap this year.
27:24
I thought there was a big step forward and it just has not been
27:27
the case. Awful on both lines.
27:29
That offensive line, as bad as you're going to find in the Big
27:31
10. Aiden Childs has regressed A
27:33
coupled maybe with that offensive line.
27:35
It's just it's bad all over the place.
27:37
Does this thing have blowout written all over you?
27:39
I know you like to be a little more tepid as I do.
27:41
I'm usually not the most optimistic Hawkeye fan out
27:43
there. This thing seems like it is
27:46
going to be a bludgeoning. Trend isn't the most optimistic.
27:51
She made some news here today. Breaking news.
27:59
I heard some stuff like last night that maybe they're both
28:04
her top 2 quarterbacks might not be able to go.
28:08
Yeah, yeah, was some some, I don't know if there's anything
28:12
to it and I haven't checked with our Michigan State guys at all,
28:16
but it was just something floating around that the Alessio
28:21
and I'm going to. Butcher.
28:21
Yeah. I have no idea how you say his
28:23
name. Either Melosa Bitch or something
28:24
like that. I don't know how, yeah, I don't
28:26
know how Dolph's going to do that.
28:27
But maybe that's maybe that's why they're keeping him out, so
28:30
Dolph doesn't have to pronounce his name and.
28:34
Of course, child's being the other.
28:36
And he's banged up. Was Child's greatest moment so
28:40
far as a Spartan. The Iowa game.
28:42
Oh. Absolutely yes.
28:45
Best I've seen him play right. That was there was ABC game too
28:49
where he was really good. Well, that was early in the
28:52
year, right? Week two, yeah.
28:55
Yeah. And that's that's about it.
28:58
And he has regressed. And it was that was the bat.
29:03
You know, when you took Jonathan Smith, you're bringing this this
29:06
hotshot quarterback that was going to be really good and, you
29:10
know, be one of the best quarterbacks in the Big 10.
29:12
And everybody was all excited about him and he has just turned
29:16
out to be a dud. And yeah, I, I'm wondering if
29:21
Smith's going to. How would you like to be in
29:23
Michigan State? You could have had Kurt
29:24
Signetti, probably. Yeah, that's a swing and a miss.
29:28
Yeah, that that's a little remorseful, is it not?
29:31
Because if you're if you're Signetti, that was the same
29:34
time, yeah, you're going to take the Michigan State.
29:37
Job, right? Yes.
29:38
Absolutely not a dud, right? Yes.
29:40
And, and they just went for, you know, Jonathan Smith and.
29:44
D'antonio had that team in Rose Bowls.
29:47
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's there's no question
29:51
that's not isn't that something? So Trent and I were speaking
29:54
earlier in the week. Well, Trent brought it up.
29:56
I I had no idea it had been that long since I was had a 200 yard
30:00
passer in a game. Does this one feel like maybe
30:05
there's a chance that that streak gets broken?
30:07
I mean, I, I don't know you've, I'm not sure you ventured over
30:11
the other side of the river and taking a look at some of those,
30:14
some of those props that are available.
30:17
But I, I, I don't think it would be anywhere near 200.
30:19
But might this be it, regardless if you've looked at it or not,
30:22
Tom? Yeah, I think this is the game.
30:25
I do. I, I told, I told a friend of
30:28
mine that last night at the basketball game, I was like,
30:31
this seems like the let's just air it out, let's have some fun,
30:37
let's score some points, leave forever, you know, just air out
30:41
some frustrations, if you will, from the last couple weeks.
30:45
And yeah, try and make a try and, you know, do something big
30:51
in this final game of the regular season at home.
30:55
And I, I, I could see Granowski going over 200 pretty easily.
31:01
And yeah, I, I've not ventured over there yet.
31:06
So I I that's one of the things I need to do this afternoon.
31:09
I got a little snapshot here for you.
31:11
This is from FanDuel 137 1/2. That's the number there for
31:15
Granowski passing yards. So just file that one away,
31:18
maybe for later or for our friends.
31:20
Smells like an over. Smells like an over.
31:23
So Tom, let's say I will finish the deal.
31:26
They bounce back, get a big win this week.
31:27
They beat Nebraska on Black Friday.
31:29
Is it Tampa? Is that the bold destination?
31:32
It's been a while. Which every single year.
31:34
Is it Tampa? And selfishly, would Vegas be
31:37
off the table? Yeah, I think.
31:42
I think it would be Tampa if they if they went out, if they
31:46
went out. Now if Nebraska beats Iowa, I
31:53
think, I think Tampa would be more than happy to take
31:56
Nebraska, OK? I do I because.
31:59
I think they know that, that the Nebraska fans would show up,
32:02
yeah. Yeah, they would.
32:04
Yeah, they would want them for sure.
32:06
And that probably bring. They probably bring.
32:08
You know, 2530 thousand. Yeah, but they would, yeah.
32:11
And. Most of them would drive.
32:14
Yeah, they're they're. Just one of those.
32:16
Fanbait not there's anything wrong with that.
32:19
No, they're just probably. Going to so we'll.
32:22
Talk to you on Wednesday if you're scheduled out.
32:23
So I don't want to get ahead of myself to that game, but Latif
32:28
gives him a chance, I think right to be.
32:30
I was. I've got to tell you, I was
32:31
really impressed. I get it was UCLA and I want to
32:34
see how he plays tomorrow against Penn State.
32:36
And we're getting ahead of ourselves to talking about
32:39
Nebraska game next week. But Latif impressed me.
32:41
Tom, I don't know if you had a chance to see him or not.
32:43
Yeah, I did. Did you?
32:45
I did. And I thought I.
32:46
Saw when he came in the the USC game too, and I thought he was
32:49
he was really good dare I say maybe.
32:54
And then then baby Mahomes, you know, is so I, I'm, I'm actually
33:02
a little more worried about that game because he's going to play
33:06
and I was with with Rayola. And I wonder if the Rayola
33:12
family's wondering about that after his brother decommits from
33:16
his commitment. He was supposed to sign with
33:18
Nebraska here shortly and he is not signing now.
33:21
And I wonder if that's what you know so that the.
33:26
And the Taylor. Kid in the class in the 27 class
33:29
he was really good too so that they've got committed already.
33:32
So I'm wondering if there's some some thoughts to be connected.
33:39
We're gonna. Maybe we'll see some movement.
33:42
We'll see. It's gonna be interesting to see
33:43
what happens with the rail. There's there's been some like
33:46
rumblings that maybe the the uncle who's the align coach
33:49
might be in some trouble. So mm, hmm.
33:52
But a good unit. What do you jump into?
33:56
A little basketball before we run out of time next week
33:58
Tuesday. Huge match up against old Miss.
34:01
Going to really learn more about this team. 2 easy wins this
34:04
week. Shot the ball incredibly well.
34:06
This offense has been historically efficient.
34:09
One of the tops in the country. Adjusted offensive efficiency
34:12
that they're playing at, adjusted field goal percentage,
34:14
all the different things. Against four tomato cans, Xavier
34:17
proved not to be very good. How optimistic.
34:21
How, How ready? Maybe that is the right term.
34:24
How ready is Iowa to step up in competition and face old Miss on
34:28
TV? You know the fan base is ready.
34:30
I I. I think we're all.
34:32
I I, you know, talking to some of the guys last night, they're
34:35
kind of excited about they're like, hey, I'm going to go up
34:39
against somebody here and find out how good we are.
34:42
And they're pretty excited. I was talking to Tavion Banks
34:45
about that last night after the game and he was, he's like got a
34:49
big smile on his face. So I think they're pretty
34:51
excited about going on. I'm anxious to see what they
34:55
look like against Ole Miss because, you know, Chris Beard's
34:58
going to have a bunch of junkyard dogs and he's going to
35:02
have some guys that can play. But they got the well traveled
35:05
AJ store on that team. They got a guard from France.
35:09
He is really interesting yeah, AJ stores there now.
35:12
He's the well travelled. Yes he is.
35:14
You know, Ben, America's guest in the transfer portal made a
35:18
lot of money. I'm.
35:20
I'm actually. Headed out there to the to to
35:22
cover those games. Are you really nice?
35:25
Yeah. Yeah.
35:26
Going to go out there and then, you know, fly back Thanksgiving
35:30
Day so we can go out to Lincoln too.
35:31
So. So I'll be talking to you guys
35:34
Wednesday from beautiful Palm Springs.
35:36
You know worse places to be than that, no?
35:38
Doubt about it, Tom. Great stuff, buddy.
35:40
Thank you. I'll text you.
35:41
Thank you, give you time for Wednesday, but we sure
35:43
appreciate what you do for us, Tom.
35:45
Thank you, bud. Yep, love it.
35:47
Yep. See.
35:47
You good to talk to you, Tom. Cacard hawkeyereport.com Part of
35:50
On Three Media On Three Media for Tom, that sounds like a
35:54
pretty good gig. Not bad at all.
35:55
Absolutely. Palm Springs Ever been?
35:58
Yes. The airport.
36:01
It's an outdoor airport. Oh nice, it really is.
36:04
There's no roof. It's so cool.
36:07
Yeah, really nice, really cool place.
36:08
Anyways, take your time out, come back and we'll finish up
36:12
our #1 Eugene Repay covers Iowa State.
36:15
He'll be our first guest in our number 2M.
36:17
Palm is going to join us as well.
36:19
And then our Pick Circus sports sponsor those Miller and Condon
36:22
on Des Moines Sports Station 106.3 KXO I'm Miller conjure
36:27
final segment of our first hour of our program.
36:29
We've got another one to go. By the way, Bama, Bob had a
36:33
previous commitment, so he will not be able to join us today.
36:37
He'll be back Monday and then we'll catch up with him next
36:39
Wednesday, etcetera, etcetera. But no Bama today to preview the
36:43
college slate as we normally do. To kick off our second hour,
36:47
Eugene Repay will be there and said let me ask you about a
36:49
couple of NFL games because and one in particular the the NFC
36:53
East battle with the Eagles and the Cowboys.
36:56
There are so many people that are on this Cowboys bandwagon
36:59
after what we saw on on Monday night, the Eagles and the
37:03
Cowboys, they played in Week 1. Did they play week 1?
37:06
I think it was and that was when Carter spit remember and got
37:09
kicked out of the game. It was the Thursday night game.
37:11
It kicked off the. Season.
37:13
It was Thursday night. Football, the defending champs.
37:16
That's exactly right. Yeah, you're right.
37:19
Where do you have an opinion on this game?
37:21
Not really. I would.
37:23
Be surprised if Dallas wins the game.
37:26
I'm with you now. I like the.
37:27
I like what the. Cowboys did.
37:29
They're a better team than they were a couple of weeks ago
37:32
because they got more pieces on defense.
37:34
They're still not a very good team, no.
37:35
But I think I mean. I'm looking really for looking
37:37
forward to Thursday actually, but the, the number of people
37:41
that are picking the Cowboys to flat out knock off the the
37:46
Eagles is kind of surprising to me.
37:48
Maybe there's people out there that have the.
37:50
Same infliction that I had that I finally got over last weekend
37:53
as the Eagles are just so boring.
37:54
It's not fun to watch them. And that's why you, you maybe
37:57
don't think they're as good as they are.
37:59
They're so good defensively, Oh my God, And you know that
38:01
they're going. To get it even though they.
38:02
Didn't get it twice. They're going to get the short
38:03
yardage situations and it just it slows the game down, closes
38:07
the gap. It you have to beat them both
38:10
physically and just play well on top of it.
38:13
It's tough to do I I still think Dallas too, and it's one thing
38:17
to do it against the Raiders. Right, right is a Nepta.
38:20
Team is Speaking of that boy, there are a couple of stinkers,
38:23
including Cleveland at the Raiders, but how would you like
38:26
to be? You're breaking into broadcast.
38:29
You got an NFL assignment. Yes, right.
38:32
You got the you got your opportunity to call a game and
38:34
Trent, we're sending you to New Orleans and Atlanta.
38:38
I'm in. I mean, I get it, there's only
38:42
16 games a weekend right at best, but my God, what a stinker
38:46
that is. Let me ask you about one more
38:47
game. Colts.
38:49
Chiefs. I'm kinda at the point where the
38:53
Chiefs need to obviously stack up wins.
38:56
I mean, that's not going very far in a limb.
38:59
Will they beat the Colts this week?
39:01
Are we sure? The Colts.
39:02
Are still good. Why would you say?
39:04
They aren't. Are they turning into a pumpkin?
39:07
In what respect? They lose.
39:10
To the Steelers a couple of weeks ago.
39:12
What's not a very good Steelers no I.
39:13
Agree, I think I think your. Bears will beat them.
39:15
You snuck. By crossed the pond against an
39:18
Atlanta team that's broke. That was really bad, yes.
39:21
If maybe they're not that they're a.
39:22
Poor team that they're a bad team.
39:24
They're just regressing to what they actually are more of that
39:27
eleven and six type of team and because of that now you go to
39:31
Kansas City, even off a by Kansas City pissed off ton to
39:36
play for that we get an incredible effort.
39:39
Would you be shocked if you look and it's 3114?
39:41
No, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't, Not for one minute.
39:44
Now we're waiting, so we're getting back up.
39:45
Against the wall, wounded. Animal, all those cliches, Yes,
39:49
Kansas City, we're waiting for. Them to flip that switch it
39:52
needs to happen but I'm not going to be surprised one iota
39:55
if we see that Sunday at noon yeah I'm not either I like.
39:58
The Chiefs because Indianapolis. It's.
40:00
Good. They're fine football team,
40:01
They're playoff team. They're not elite.
40:03
No Bronco fans are in a different.
40:05
Difficult spot. We have to cheer.
40:06
We have to cheer for the Chiefs. Well, not in this one.
40:10
Yes, because the Colts are. Fighting with Denver for the one
40:12
seat right, But there's a lot of football I.
40:14
Get it if you're get a root. Don't wait.
40:16
Don't root now. Wait a while to root.
40:19
You think I should? Yeah, that makes.
40:21
It better 'cause I, I, I couldn't bring myself to.
40:23
I mean, if you're a Cincinnati fan.
40:24
This week against the Patriots, that would make a little bit
40:27
more sense. Well, I am a Cincinnati fan.
40:29
You. Know how I how I feel about Joe
40:30
Burrow? He's my girl gonna go I.
40:33
Doubt it. I.
40:33
Think they save him for Thanksgiving cause it plays
40:37
Sunday and Thursday. We shall see.
40:40
We shall talk about the Iowa State Cyclones when we come back
40:44
with Eugene Rappe covers them for the Des Moines Register.
40:47
Also, Mike Palm, he'll join us about 1:30.
40:50
Mike Palm from Circus Sports, Miller and Condon on the Iowa
40:53
Sports Radio Network.