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NFL Week 8 thoughts, Alec Busse talks Cyclones & the Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus stops by · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon here
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  on a Wednesday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network flagship from Des
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  Moines Sports Station One O 6.3 KXNO.
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  Trent Condon, Ken Miller with you for the next couple of hours
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  as we get back to Iowa based programming for the next 6 hour
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  block is coming up at 2O clock off the bench with Lucas and
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  Sean. Here's what's coming up with
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  Trent and myself here this morning.
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  We head down to Kansas City in about 25 minutes.
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  Our colleague Alec Bussey will join us.
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  He's covering the Big 12 Media Days down in KC and we'll get
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  the latest from Alec. You'll join us 1225 live from
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  Kansas City. Big 12 Media Days, Day 2 for
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  that event going on down there. Women and the men.
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  Women yesterday, men today. Bussey coming up here at 12:25.
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  What are we doing after that? Trent?
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  I forget. Oh, it's it's our buddy Mitch
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  Holtis, the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Chiefs Monday Night Football, they'll take on the Commanders.
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  Boy, that game kind of lost a little bit of its luster with
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  the Jane Daniels news that it sounds like he's going to be the
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  very best. He's questionable.
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  I'd say that at the best, he's questionable.
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  So we will talk to Mitch Holtis. We'll go back to that Just
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  drubbing of the Raiders and take a look forward to the Commanders
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  coming up with Mitch at 12:45 off to Chicago.
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  They don't want to clock with her buddy Cappy.
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  Cappy will be here. Centurion Stone of Iowa sponsors
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  Cappy and then John Bowen camp on the Hawks and on the Dodgers.
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  Although do we? Avoid talking baseball.
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  Well, he'll want to. I know he'll he'll force it into
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  the conversation. He's the president of the Dodger
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  Fan Club Iowa Chapter. Yes.
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  Boy, that would ruffle his feathers if we didn't get to
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  that with. Thanks, John.
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  Click. Really.
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  Anyways, and then Trent will make some plays of the day and
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  we will wrap things up here at about 2:00.
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  So there were very little on sports, lots.
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  Did you watch in the NBA? I watched a ton.
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  You did, yeah. Did you see Michael Jordan
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  involved at? All I didn't.
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  I saw the clip and I never clicked on him.
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  I was going to and just ran out of time, but I didn't.
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  What it sounded like is what the him and Tariko probably taped a
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  thing and they're just going to play different parts of it
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  throughout. That's it.
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  Yeah, I thought, you know, because if you think he's the
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  greatest basketball player of all time, you're right, you are.
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  But many people don't, including a guy we both worked with and
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  Jimmy B. Right, who's not the sharpest
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  knife in the? Drawer.
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  No, but he's he's I I think his job in retirement is to to
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  defend Wilt Chamberlain on Twitter as he does Yeah, every
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  day. Every day he's fighting with
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  somebody that that wills the best.
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  SO point being is I'm trying to draw draw a line between the
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  greatest basketball player and the greatest hockey player.
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  And Gretzky's in periodically for TNT.
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  So I wondered if Jordan is going to be involved, you know, in
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  that respect. Maybe big nights, maybe playoffs
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  and maybe we'll get him in studio.
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  But I'm not so sure that we will.
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  But the games themselves, were they, I I didn't watch.
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  You know what I watched last night?
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  John Candy. I like me.
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  Uh huh. Phenomenal.
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  Was it phenomenal? I'm gonna put it on the list.
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  Do it, do it, absolutely do it now.
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  I remember when they started at cause SCTV was a thing in
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  Canada. Yes, absolutely.
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  And some of their names that were part of that.
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  This was back in the 70s prior to your time.
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  But it's really good. And then I went, I started,
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  'cause I had to wait for my wife to finish Netflix.
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  Because is it? Is that the same way at
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  everybody's house if one TV is watching Netflix and other one
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  can't? I think our there's multiple
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  tiers and you might have a tier where it's just only one stream
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  can be happening at a time. We have one where I think we can
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  have up to three at a time really.
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  Yeah. Did they all have to be in the
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  same house? No.
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  Huh. Well, I can't watch it if
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  Cindie's watching. Oh, really?
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  Which is kind of weird, but anyways.
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  So once she was, you know, casting her chips, then I went
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  to who killed the Expos because that debuted last night and that
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  had my attention to well, that was some good.
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  There were some good teams up in up in Montreal, but.
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  I heard it was more about the kind of the the actual financial
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  side. It was, yeah.
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  That's. True, it wasn't a ton of
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  baseball. There was some, but you're
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  right. And you can tell that a lot of
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  the people that were chronicled in it are speaking French.
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  Sure, yes. And you could see their mouths
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  not matching up with what's being said.
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  And that drove me crazy. Oh, I bet.
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  Yeah, but but you know, do the John Candy of the two do the
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  John Candy for sure. It's phenomenal.
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  It really is. So I kind of took a night off
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  sports, end of my night watching hockey, but I couldn't bring
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  myself to watch the NBA. So I didn't get into the NBA
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  until the fourth quarter of game one and then watch most of Game
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  2. Did you bet?
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  Is that why you did? No.
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  I was just intrigued. It was the NBC angle.
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  I just wanted to see, you know, And I was surprised because I
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  didn't look at the TV listings because we don't look at TV
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  Guides anymore. But I didn't look beforehand.
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  I just assumed that the second game was going to be in a
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  Peacock exclusive and I was shocked.
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  It was both of them on big NBC. They were both on NBC so.
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  Did they? Did the local NBC here get their
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  news in after so they had to wait till after 10:00?
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  Because game one went overtime. I mean, they didn't get to the
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  Lakers Warriors game until it was, I don't know, like 3634,
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  what time the game end. It was well after 10.
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  That's a 10. Yeah, I think.
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  Yeah, absolutely. So I was I just again with the
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  news pretty good lead in there with the defending champion
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  against Kevin Durant the Rockets that they go into the news No
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  NBC then had Game 2 hard to say no to the Warriors and the.
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  Lakers. No, It is.
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  It is. And when they put that together
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  as before, LeBron. Obviously, yeah.
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  Before is this going to be? Is this going to be a sad LeBron
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  year? You know, I wonder that Trent,
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  it's, it's funny you say that because he's 150 to 1 to win the
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  MVP. That says a lot there.
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  LeBron James is 150 to 1 to win the MVPI.
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  Hope he's not one of those guys that sticks around longer than
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  he should. I mean, it's hard to say you you
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  can't play anymore. One of the best players that's
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  certainly of this generation. Is that fair?
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  I mean, Curry's Curry, but Lebron's LeBron.
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  I mean, good luck trying to, you know, guard him through the lane
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  with a head of steam. He I just, I think a Larry Bird
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  laying on his back watching him late in his career.
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  I mean, he couldn't sit on the bench and you hear sciatica and
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  a back injury and a guy in his 40s.
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  I think it's more likely that he's playing a handful of games
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  as opposed to even getting over half of them.
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  If you had to put that prop bet now over under 41 1/2 games.
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  Oh. I take the under.
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  I think so too. Because if it's a back.
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  It's a back and we just that is the one thing in the body that
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  we still struggle to kind of figure out everything with.
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  So this is Don Chester's team. Yes, there's.
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  I mean, that's undeniable at this point.
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  But now we'll see. One of the greatest ever play
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  the game, clearly. And he did it for a long time.
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  And I'll never forget watching his high school game when they
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  made him cover up his tattoos on ESPN, too.
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  And it was appointment TV about hearing about this kid in one of
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  the suburbs of Cleveland, just how good he was.
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  And he's the next. And all right, you got me.
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  I'm watching this. And he comes up, He's got his
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  tattoos all taped over. And he was, and he has been up
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  until this year, an absolute dominant force in the game.
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  So no, I couldn't get, I couldn't get into the hoops last
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  night. ESPN has it tonight.
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  Now I'm going to watch that because I want to see how they
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  incorporate. At least I'm assuming that
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  Charles and company are going to be a part of this.
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  Good call. Now post game, they said they're
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  going to let him run. They said that they're going to
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  do it. Now you're going to be hitting
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  the pillow. Then I won't see it.
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  Well, before what about? Pregame or between the double
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  header? Because they've got a double dip
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  tonight, I'm pretty sure. I know that they've got the San
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  Antonio, Dallas game and they start with Cleveland.
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  Oh my God, Two of the best teams in the East, maybe the best
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  teams in the East. Cavs versus Knicks and finish up
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  with Spurs and The Mavericks. That's an 8:30 so we might get
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  in between games. If there's time like last night,
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  there wasn't time. Yeah, that'll be intriguing.
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  I have no idea what it's going to look.
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  Like I might have to rely on you.
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  Yes, but I will have it Owl. Yes, I will.
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  I will have it on and I'll flip it on and we will go from there
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  and see what this thing looks like.
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  And early on these first couple of times they're going to give
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  them leeway. What I'm wondering.
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  About though is they clip their wings.
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  Well, and certainly April, different conversation, right?
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  When we get to playoff time, that's different.
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  But during the regular season we get those wild clips and those
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  wild things that are happening on a random night, You know, in
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  January, well, we got to get we got College Football Playoff
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  coming up and we got to get to Sports Center.
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  We got to get to Van Pelt and and Van Pelt's awesome.
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  Van Pelt is so good. He's phenomenal.
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  I. Agree.
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  I mean, he is. He's your everyday guy.
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  Easy to root for, easy to listen to.
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  It's not just old Sports Center, it's with some personality with
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  his old radio show kind of mixed in there.
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  You got Stanford Steed, you got bad beats.
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  You got all fun elements too. You're just going to say I'm
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  sorry, Scott Van Pelt, we're we're not going to go to you
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  because we're only going to talk about the NBA.
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  Yeah, no, it's ESPN. It's ESPN.
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  It's not basketball piano. It's ESPN.
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  As much as sometimes maybe they forget that over there.
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  We got NFL playoff game. But you know what?
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  Let's just let those guys talk for an hour and. 1/2 yeah,
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  Fairpoints, Trent. Fairpoints can be interesting to
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  see how they do it. I agree with you, obviously,
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  April, May, June, a different animal because they'll just let
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  them go and they lose baseball. I mean, they're down to one game
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  a week after this year. Well, after now because
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  baseball's over for them as Fox has the exclusive when it comes
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  to that. So cool stuff there.
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  I clicked on something today that just blew me away.
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  Do you know which cornerback in the NFL?
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  This is a tricky question. The lowest completion percentage
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  of any cornerback to play that position in the NFL this year
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  is. Patrick's certain be a good
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  guess, right? It'd be a really good, but it's
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  wrong. It's wrong.
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  Is it his teammate? Yes, it is.
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  Rally boss. Isn't.
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  That, well, I mean, would you just pass interfere with people?
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  I guess it's all. Right.
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  That's true. And a lot of people pointed that
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  out that he does draw a lot of flags.
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  But you know what? He drives me crazy because of
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  those penalties. But he's who thought who in
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  their right mind? No one.
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  I'm not even sure his parents. I thought this was he was going
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  to reach this level. That it was going to be
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  opposite. One of the best to do it in the
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  last decade. I mean, were you Hawkeye fans,
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  you watched the Purdue game with your own two eyes?
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  We all did. Yeah.
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  He was one of, what, 4 guys that were pulled off, right?
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  The receiver of that game, right.
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  David Bell doing whatever he wanted.
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  The the French guy or the French captain?
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  I do, I do whatever his Dave was.
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  It was just time and time, I mean, Brahm just coaching
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  circles around Phil Parker time in the time, but that doesn't
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  happen often. Well, and the other component,
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  it's something, let's say the quiet part out loud, he's white
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  and we don't see that. We haven't seen that in decades.
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  Jason Sehorn. That was 20 years ago.
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  A long time ago. It was over 20 years and when
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  you looked at him, he said maybe he can catch on as a safety,
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  maybe a nickelback, you know, but he's starting every down
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  cornerback. No, Look at Cooper De.
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  Jean is doing too, by the way. Hasn't given up a touchdown in
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  his it's. Amazing.
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  You see that play he made was the Jefferson in the corner of
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  the end zone it. Was pulling out of.
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  His pull that out of his hand, Yeah.
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  And he didn't do that against, you know, some walk, No.
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  The maybe arguably Tim or his former college teammate Chase.
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  For my money, those two were at the head of the class, but
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  unbelievable. Riley Moss, Ankeny, IA, Ankeny
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  Centennial, coached by Jerry and Ryan Pozzetti and company.
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  Well done, well done. Riley Moss.
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  They got a test this weekend. Dallas and the Broncos.
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  Have you looked at the NFL slate of games this week?
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  I'm sure you did because you're live in Survivor.
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  Is it a good slate overall? I didn't think so.
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  I think there's some games that are interesting and we'll
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  probably get intrigued, but. Is Lamar Jackson back for your
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  Bears, by the way? He's going to play.
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  Everything I've read, I think it would be a surprise if he's not.
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  Out. Is he able to run like Lamar
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  Jackson or is he that's a different kind of thing, OK.
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  But he's going to be out. I mean, he has to, they, they're
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  back against the wall now and they have to have him out there.
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  But you know, the early window Bill's a Carolina.
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  No, Is that actually interesting?
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  No, Carolina's four and three. OK, Bill's are circling that.
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  Yeah, you know what? There's a little bit because of
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  that aspect, right? Bill's going the wrong way.
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  Carolina Arrow pointing up. The Texans have to win.
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  They're taking out a 49ers team Somehow, someway is five and
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  two. Trent I don't.
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  I thought Houston was going to be a lot better this year.
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  That offensive line is awful yeah watching them go to go
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  situations Raska like and just. By the way, he joins us tomorrow
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  at 1:30. Yes.
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  Stephen up simple will be with us.
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  That might be the most well listened to simple segment we've
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  done. I think so, yeah.
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  There's a lot of. Anticipation of SIP.
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  They can't run the ball inside the five yard line and I know
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  Fred Warner is not there and I know they're banged up, but they
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  have to win that football game. I think that's intriguing at
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  minimum. Here come the Giants off the
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  devastating loss. You know what?
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  Jackson darts for real. He's not going to make it
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  through the year. He's going to get hurt.
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  But he's AII. The Giants have their
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  quarterback. That interception, though late,
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  was. Well, he's he couldn't get any
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  weight behind because somebody had his foot.
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  There was a Bronco that had his foot.
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  You know what? It was Singleton, because he
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  went right through Scataboo, knocked him on his keister and
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  got tangled up in. Yeah, you can't make the throw.
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  I agree. I'm glad he did, of course,
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  Broncos fan, because that changed the whole game, right?
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  It did. It changed the whole game.
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  You go through these games and on the surface they feel like
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  blah, but you kind of dig deeper and I think it's every one of
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  these have more trick. Drake may getting all this buzz
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  for MVP. What he's doing now, he goes up
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  against the best defense in the other short of a price.
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  He's 8 1/2 to. One look at their schedule.
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  Look, don't they have to win the conference for him to be the
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  MVP? They have to be.
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  Or even do they have to win his division?
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  Yes. And they can.
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  The Patriots schedule is about as easy as you're going to.
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  Find you know what? Let me click on it.
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  Browns this week. Yeah, that's OK.
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  Home for Atlanta You believe in Atlanta going on the road.
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  November game in New England at Foxborough.
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  Atlanta's good, tough game. Atlanta's not winning that game
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  at the Bucks. Who knows how healthy the Bucks
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  are going. To be at that point, OK.
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  They get The Jets, yeah. And they get the Bengals.
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  Still no Joe Pearl. No, but they got Joe Flacco.
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  Then they get the Giants dart. Then they get their bye week
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  before. Their bye week is the second
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  week in December. Before they host the bills.
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  And they would. Get big spot.
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  They finish at the Ravens. Could be tough.
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  Yeah, at The Jets and home for the Dolphins.
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  Oh my God those last two are lay UPS.
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  This team might be 13 and 4. No.
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  What are they? What are they at now?
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  5:00 and 2:00 if they get in the playoffs, Jackson Darts going to
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  be a legit Drake. Yeah, pardon me, Drake May is
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  going to be an illegitimate MVP candidate.
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  Rabel, Coach of the Year I. Think that's already done?
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  I really do. It's.
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  Not already done. There's a lot of football.
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  I get it, but look at the trend he's on.
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  I mean you've just had them what you have them 13 and 4 frables
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  home free if that's the case. If they're 13 and four, yes,
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  that is an absolute luck for that award.
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  The schedule's easy. And because of that, yeah, Drake
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  May at plus 850, you know, oh, boy, that's short.
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  It's not mine. It's a quarterback award.
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  It's a quarterback award. There's no other.
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  There's no other position that's going to win it.
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  If Shaquan Taylor would have an hell of a if Shaquan, yes, Squan
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  Barkley couldn't win it last year.
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  No one's winning it other than a QB.
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  No offensive player of the year. That's a different category.
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  That's a different wager. I don't know.
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  I'm just not a Drake May he's great.
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  He might be the right now. Is he the leader of the class?
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  Oh yes, even over Daniels. He got so both years of mine.
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  Daniels has the big one. Playoff, Yep.
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  Playoff win, Yep. Brought his team to an NFC
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  championship. So because of that, he's got
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  him. He's.
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  Still the leader in the clubhouse, he's the leader, but
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  he had a comfortable lead and now that leads down to a stroke.
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  Yes, right. Yeah.
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  Yeah, cuz, cuz May's closing. May's closing.
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  He's been really good. Boy throws a nice pass.
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  Did you think coming out of North Carolina he was going to
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  be that guy? No, because the last North
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  Carolina quarterback was Mitchell Trubisky.
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  Yeah, yeah, he got some scar tissue there.
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  Yeah, yeah. Just a little bit, yeah.
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  In other games this week, Tampa, as banged up as they are now
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  without Evans, maybe for the rest of the year, go to that
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  plucky New Orleans team that can push you.
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  It's a divisional game. Weird things happen.
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  You mentioned Cowboys, Broncos, that I think that's an
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  excellent. That might be the game of the
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  week. Steelers and Aaron Rodgers host
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  the Packers. Other than prime time, I agree
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  that that that's a big spot. There is a lot more to it than
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  on the surface because all of them are just kind of weird
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  matchups, matchups you don't see very often but you dig a little
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  bit deeper. I think this is week.
• 17:08
  It's going to be a good one and it starts tomorrow night.
• 17:11
  With a really good game for both teams, I mean, this is not a
• 17:14
  must win, but this is a big spot for both teams because both
• 17:17
  teams feel as though their season is kind of teetering a
• 17:21
  little bit. Look at the look at the
• 17:22
  Chargers, they start out three and all wins in their division,
• 17:25
  right? Bing Bang boom took took care of
• 17:28
  the Chiefs week, won the Broncos Week 2 and then got the Raiders.
• 17:31
  Everybody's going to get the Raiders this year, but but
• 17:36
  they're not looking anywhere near what they once were.
• 17:39
  Here comes the Minnesota Vikings.
• 17:42
  Where are they at right now? 2 bad offensive lines.
• 17:45
  Two banged up offensive lines? Yeah, for sure.
• 17:47
  Good luck figuring that out. You can't.
• 17:50
  Chargers are what, four and three still?
• 17:52
  Yep, 4 and 3-4 and three, three and three for the Vikings.
• 17:55
  Yeah, interesting. All right, so Trent said kind of
• 17:58
  the deeper you look into it, the better the NFL slate looks of
• 18:01
  games this weekend. It starts tomorrow night.
• 18:04
  Now, we do not have Westwood ones coverage tomorrow night.
• 18:07
  We've got Paul Allen's call tomorrow night.
• 18:10
  The Vikings Radio Network will be a part of that one.
• 18:14
  So we'll join that one. I'm guessing right at 6:00,
• 18:17
  right? So when overtime Iowa comes to
• 18:19
  its conclusion, we will get right to the Sofi Stadium.
• 18:26
  Paul Allen and the Vikings Radio network is Vikings and the
• 18:29
  Chargers. Let's get Ben.
• 18:31
  He would like to chime in on the NFL.
• 18:33
  Hello Ben, How are you? Hey guys, how you doing?
• 18:37
  Good. Hey Ken, so you're a big Broncos
• 18:40
  fan. I'm a big Cowboys fan.
• 18:42
  Question for you. When was the last time the
• 18:43
  Cowboys beat the Broncos? I it's it's wrong.
• 18:49
  What do you do? You know what's off the top of
• 18:51
  your head. Yes, I do.
• 18:52
  I I. Do what?
• 18:53
  When was it? When was the last Cowboys?
• 18:56
  Super Bowl. Oh my God, that year, No way 19.
• 19:00
  95 that far back. Yep, Obviously they don't play
• 19:05
  every year, but yeah, I get it. Still, that seems like they
• 19:08
  would have put one in the win column between.
• 19:10
  Are you excited about your team, Ben?
• 19:12
  I the I I am. I'd like this Cowboys team.
• 19:15
  Williams with the Broncos cut is running the ball hard and he's
• 19:19
  not fumbling. It seems like he's catching on
• 19:22
  the receiver. CD lambs as good as theirs.
• 19:24
  What about your offensive line? Is that question mark?
• 19:28
  Yes, I think that. No, I think all this one is
• 19:30
  solid now. They're fully healthy except for
• 19:32
  this. I think the centre's still out.
• 19:35
  But I mean, we got we got Tyler Smith back, we got Tyler Booker,
• 19:39
  we got Tyler, we got the three Tylers.
• 19:43
  I mean, George Pickens has been just a huge light on the sky.
• 19:47
  You know, for us this year running game's been solid.
• 19:50
  Jake Ferguson's looking great at tight end back is, I mean, in my
• 19:54
  mind should be the front runner for that.
• 19:55
  He's in the conversation. Here's a question for both you
• 19:58
  and and Trent. Brandon Aubrey over under their
• 20:02
  Mile High. Yes.
• 20:03
  They're Mile High. Do you let him try from 70?
• 20:05
  Yes, I think you do. Yep, I wouldn't.
• 20:08
  I would too. I mean, the 67 yarders are no
• 20:10
  problem there, no problem. This might be one of the
• 20:12
  greatest kickers. Never kick a football in the
• 20:13
  NFL. That's not how long before?
• 20:17
  And how long before other NFL teams just going to find a man,
• 20:20
  land a misfit and the MLS players and see if they can do
• 20:23
  this stuff too? I mean, it's insane.
• 20:25
  He just goes up there. I haven't felt this way about a
• 20:27
  kicker since Dan Bailey. I'm like, sure he was good for a
• 20:31
  while, yeah. And we just walk away from the
• 20:34
  TV because you'll be making it. Yeah.
• 20:36
  Hey Ben, good luck to your team next week, man.
• 20:39
  You too. Yep, see you buddy.
• 20:40
  I'm at the following week. Aubrey 70 yards.
• 20:44
  Yes, no problem. I mean, you think of some of
• 20:47
  those deep ones too. Has there been any that just
• 20:49
  inched over the crossbar? There is always room.
• 20:52
  There's a couple yards I. Remember when I first started to
• 20:55
  hear about this Brandon Aubrey buzz?
• 20:57
  I tracked down Sean Roberts. Oh, yeah, he wasn't.
• 21:01
  He wasn't hosting then. And I said, tell me I don't
• 21:05
  remember him. Sean at Notre Dame.
• 21:07
  How did I miss this guy? What a weapon he must have been.
• 21:11
  He didn't kick there. Yep, but if you click on his
• 21:14
  bio, Notre Dame, Notre Dame. But yeah, he didn't kick.
• 21:19
  I'm looking at the box score from that Broncos, Cowboys game,
• 21:22
  1995. Yes, says the that the win
• 21:25
  streak's incredible in that game.
• 21:27
  You know Cowboys, Traikman, 196 yards, 2 touchdowns and a pick.
• 21:31
  Does it? Who does it say who?
• 21:32
  Caught them? Well, the receiving, yes, Jay
• 21:36
  Novacek, OK and Bruce Johnston, 94 yards receiving for Irvin.
• 21:41
  That team was ridiculous, as it really was.
• 21:43
  But for whatever reason in that game, John Elway did not finish.
• 21:48
  He's playing poorly. He's eleven 24152 yards, 2
• 21:51
  touchdowns and a pick I. Was cheating Cowboys?
• 21:53
  Sacked a couple of times and Hugh Millan.
• 21:56
  Was the backup that year Who was?
• 21:58
  What were the running back stats?
• 22:00
  Terrell Davis had 11 carries for 61.
• 22:03
  Wow. Rod Bernstein 5 for 19 into his
• 22:06
  career. And let's see who else was in
• 22:09
  there. Glenn Milburn.
• 22:12
  Yeah, he was a high draft pick. Rod Smith catches.
• 22:15
  Rod Smith did not have a catch in that game.
• 22:18
  Wow, who let them in? Who lead?
• 22:19
  Let the team. And receive another former
• 22:21
  Charger along with former Charger Bernstein, Anthony
• 22:24
  Miller. Anthony Miller, Yeah.
• 22:26
  And the kicker that year was who was it?
• 22:29
  Elam. Then might have been It was
• 22:30
  Elam. Yeah, it was Elam that was doing
• 22:33
  it, and Ruin was the punter. Yeah, Tom Ruin, he's married to
• 22:37
  an Olympian and she, is he in a wheelchair?
• 22:42
  She's in a wheelchair. Amy Van Dyke.
• 22:45
  Does that name ring a bell? It does not.
• 22:48
  She is a United States Olympian and and maybe it's a apparel if
• 22:54
  a Paralympian. Amy Van Dyken.
• 22:58
  Got me on that one. You've got the Google Machine
• 23:00
  right in front of you, man. Well, professional career I they
• 23:04
  I do not see a personal life ruin.
• 23:06
  Has been married to six time Olympic gold medal swimmer Amy
• 23:09
  Van Dyken since 2001. Bang nailed it.
• 23:13
  Did. Let's get to our first guest,
• 23:17
  That's Alec Bussey. We'll get to him in Kansas City
• 23:19
  next. Keyword this hour, Bills.
• 23:21
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• 23:29
  Miller and Condon joined by Alec Bussey.
• 23:30
  On the other side is the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 23:35
  I'm Hillary Condon. Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
• 23:38
  Network. Trenton.
• 23:39
  Ken with you until 2. Let's head down to Kansas City.
• 23:42
  Well, should stay there because Mitch Holt is going to join us
• 23:45
  when we come back from our next break.
• 23:47
  Right now, we're turning back the clock.
• 23:49
  Remember when Alec Bus used to join us a couple of times a
• 23:51
  week? I do very well.
• 23:52
  Indeed he. I can hear him five times and
• 23:54
  you can. Five times a week with our
• 23:57
  colleague Heather Burnside. The first quarter.
• 24:00
  Alec and Heather, how are you enjoying that?
• 24:02
  First of all, before we get into a Big 12 media days, you enjoy
• 24:05
  getting up in the morning. Are you having fun?
• 24:07
  Alec Bussey. No, for sure, I'm definitely
• 24:10
  having fun, but I don't know if anything's better than hopping
• 24:12
  on at 12/31/30 with the Miller and Condon show on a Monday or
• 24:16
  Wednesday. I mean, that's that's like the
• 24:18
  good old days. And what's that saying?
• 24:19
  And friends guys and Andy Bernard has a wish You knew you
• 24:22
  were living in the good old days when you're in the good old days
• 24:24
  or whatever. I feel like I'm back in the good
• 24:27
  old days talking with you boys. No, it was fun.
• 24:29
  We certainly appreciate what you're doing.
• 24:31
  We're glad you're part of our team now, Monday through Friday,
• 24:34
  as Trent said while you're down there, I like the way that the
• 24:36
  Big 12 is doing that. I remember in previous you'll be
• 24:40
  the coaches and then the players will be sequestered in in
• 24:43
  another room and I like the fact that they're all on the podium
• 24:47
  at the same time. Kind of a little Q&A.
• 24:50
  Is that a, is that relatively new or is that been, is that
• 24:53
  been the way it's been for a while, Alec?
• 24:56
  Yeah, the way they have it set up this year is more like Made
• 24:58
  for TVI think the Big 10 did something like this a year ago
• 25:03
  for their media days, which I usually in Chicago.
• 25:06
  And I think it went over pretty well from the conference side of
• 25:09
  thing, the network side of things to do it that way because
• 25:11
  media based have become such ATV show for the conference,
• 25:14
  television partners, broadcast partners.
• 25:17
  And I think the Big 12 kind of saw what the Big 10 did.
• 25:19
  They're adopted it and they they're brought it here this
• 25:22
  year. I can say from my personal
• 25:24
  perspective, I don't know how much of a positive development
• 25:26
  it is, but I don't know if it's much of a negative development
• 25:29
  either. For me personally.
• 25:31
  That podium that was up there with the the media
• 25:34
  representative and then TJ Alsenberger, along with the
• 25:36
  three Iowa State players, Tayman Lipsey, Joshua Jefferson, Emila
• 25:40
  Monkchila Beach, you know those guys.
• 25:43
  It was kind of more of just a casual thing.
• 25:44
  It wasn't anything that you're going to take quotes from and
• 25:47
  kind of plug into a story, but it was cool to kind of see them
• 25:50
  and hear them breakdown a couple film clips that were played, I
• 25:53
  mean, and explain what they saw there, explain where they
• 25:56
  developed that action from. So that was informative.
• 25:59
  And that's not something that you ever get to usually see or
• 26:01
  interact with players as they visually see something and break
• 26:05
  it down because usually, right, like we're just kind of talking
• 26:08
  back and forth in in an interview type of format, but
• 26:11
  certainly a different format for the Big 12 media days here in
• 26:14
  Kansas City. We were able to talk with TJ
• 26:15
  Alsenberger and each of I would say three players for between 5
• 26:18
  and 10 minutes this morning. And then they had their little
• 26:21
  side podiums, guys that I think went for about 20 minutes total
• 26:25
  between the the coach and the players.
• 26:26
  So it's been an informative day and I'm excited to continue to
• 26:30
  kind of bounce around as as well as work on some content and talk
• 26:32
  with a few more reporters and everything else of the like.
• 26:34
  Alec the top of the full story, certainly.
• 26:37
  Is the health of team and Lipsy important not just for the
• 26:39
  beginning of the year, but all season long going to come into
• 26:42
  the year? What can you tell us about the
• 26:44
  injury? Sounds like targeting, hoping to
• 26:46
  be back, not for the exhibition game, the next one, but the
• 26:48
  first regular season game. And and is this something could
• 26:51
  be debilitating, something that could be lingering throughout
• 26:54
  the course of the season? Yeah, it's a great two MCL spray
• 26:57
  and I believe it's in his right knee.
• 26:59
  It's a specific injury sustained that one of Iowa State's very
• 27:02
  early preseason practice as it may have been their first or
• 27:06
  second practice. I believe it happened in a
• 27:08
  rebounding drill was a roughly A4 to six week recovery timeline
• 27:12
  for Lipsy. He's actually right on time with
• 27:14
  that. He is not going to play on
• 27:16
  Sunday when Iowa State plays against Northwestern at Hilton
• 27:19
  Coliseum in their second final exhibition of the preseason, but
• 27:22
  he will play or at least they're hoping he's going to play.
• 27:25
  He's on track to potentially play against FDU fairly
• 27:29
  Dickinson on November 3rd, that first Monday of the season.
• 27:32
  So I think it's looking fairly positive that lips he's
• 27:35
  available when they play FDU on November 3rd and if not, I would
• 27:39
  definitely expect him to be in the lineup.
• 27:42
  I believe that following Monday, November 10th when they play
• 27:45
  Mississippi State up in Sioux Falls at the Pentagon.
• 27:48
  So he's not going to miss any significant time against any
• 27:51
  challenging opponents, it doesn't seem seem like.
• 27:54
  And there's a very good opportunity for him to be back
• 27:56
  against fairly Dickinson. And he would be obviously super
• 27:59
  important to get back, as you said, trying.
• 28:00
  I mean, he's he's a snake of their defense.
• 28:02
  He's ahead of their defense. And obviously he brings some
• 28:05
  things offensively with his ability to get the basketball in
• 28:08
  the pain, his ability to facilitate more than than
• 28:12
  Killian Toure is going to do for for Iowa State this year.
• 28:15
  And I think Taven Lips, he's going to have the basketball on
• 28:17
  his hands much more this season than he did a year ago when they
• 28:21
  kind of gave the ball more to Keyshawn Gilbert and Curtis
• 28:23
  Jones, as you saw with these usage rate go to a career low
• 28:26
  last season. Is it in your mind is, is
• 28:29
  Houston clearly head and shoulders the favorite going
• 28:32
  into this year? I mean, I know they're ranked
• 28:34
  two in the country, but there's a lot of love for PBYUI like
• 28:37
  Texas Tech, Arizona, Arizona's good Iowa State.
• 28:41
  Obviously Houston head and shoulders better than anybody in
• 28:45
  this conference or remains to be seen.
• 28:46
  How do you look at it? Yeah.
• 28:48
  So to me, there's a clear top six and within that top 6, I
• 28:52
  think there's a distinctive line between the top three and then
• 28:54
  four through 6. Amongst those top three.
• 28:57
  I do think that Houston is a team that I like the most.
• 29:00
  Kelvin Sampson is obviously one back-to-back Big 12 titles, has
• 29:04
  lost just four Big 12 regular season games last two years.
• 29:07
  They bring back, you know, three really good players from last
• 29:11
  year, 2 all Big 12 players, point guard Milos Huzan, along
• 29:14
  with Senator JoJo Tuggler, who might be one of the best
• 29:16
  defenders in all college basketball this season when you
• 29:19
  think about his length, his ability to protect the rim at
• 29:22
  the level that he does. But then Emmanuel Sharp also
• 29:24
  comes back as a respected shooter.
• 29:26
  They also have one of the nation's best high school
• 29:28
  recruiting classes coming in Houston does that's headlined by
• 29:31
  Christina, who is a five star prospect ranked inside of the
• 29:34
  top 10 nationally by 24/7 Sports.
• 29:36
  So I do think Houston is number 1.
• 29:38
  And then between 2:00 two and three, you have Texas Tech and
• 29:40
  BYUI think BYU is going to be a little bit more fun, a little
• 29:43
  bit more sexy when you think about AJ Debansa, the number 2
• 29:47
  prospect in the country coming in for for BYU.
• 29:50
  And then you compare that with the additions of of Rob Wright
• 29:53
  and Kennard Davis to transfer guards, right?
• 29:56
  Obviously comes in to BYU after a successful freshman season at
• 30:00
  Baylor. Kennard Davis comes over from
• 30:02
  Southern Illinois, Carbondale. That's a positive edition for
• 30:05
  BYU as well. But I think the return of Richie
• 30:07
  Saunders and Kate are are both valuable for head coach Kevin
• 30:11
  Young there and Provo. And then the third team for me,
• 30:14
  it is Texas Tech. I think you can put two and
• 30:16
  three in whatever order you'd like.
• 30:18
  Red Raiders, they return conference player of the year JT
• 30:21
  Toppen, Christian Anderson, point guard, I expect him to
• 30:23
  take a step forward. And they also bring in a
• 30:25
  transfer from Washington State, Lejean Watts, who's going to be
• 30:29
  a really good player for Texas Tech and Grant Mccaslin this
• 30:31
  year. And then I think that second
• 30:32
  tier it is probably Arizona, Iowa State and Kansas.
• 30:37
  Again, I think you can put it whatever order you'd like.
• 30:39
  I think Arizona I probably give a little bit of a tick to just
• 30:43
  because they're going to be so big, they're so big, they're so
• 30:45
  long, they're super athletic, really talented freshman group
• 30:49
  that's coming in for them. I do question what their
• 30:52
  inexperience could could cause for them.
• 30:54
  Does that lead to some struggles at different points?
• 30:56
  But I think Tommy Lloyd's got a really big, really long group
• 31:00
  and I think that's going to help them play like they did in his
• 31:03
  first couple seasons there in Tucson.
• 31:04
  And then I think Kansas. Kansas is really interesting to
• 31:07
  me. Darren Peterson might be the
• 31:09
  number one drastic this coming June.
• 31:11
  He's probably going to be a front runner for an All American
• 31:14
  type season for Kansas. You listen to Bill Self talk
• 31:17
  about Darren Peterson and he talks about him and a category
• 31:20
  that he talks about very few freshmen throughout his tenure
• 31:23
  at Kansas. And Darren Peterson's going to
• 31:24
  be an absolute superstar in this league.
• 31:26
  But the rest of their roster, I do have some questions about
• 31:29
  things. Florida Badanga, it's a little
• 31:31
  bit undersized on the interior, but he's a great rim protector.
• 31:33
  Somebody's going to run the floor, be a great lob threat,
• 31:36
  dunker kids go around the rim. But what kind of production do
• 31:40
  guys like Trey White or Jaden Dawson, Melvin Council, the kid
• 31:45
  Rosario give them? I think those are real question
• 31:47
  marks that could determine the feeling of the Kansas Jayhawks
• 31:50
  this season. Good stuff, Alec Bussey mornings
• 31:54
  here with Heather Burnside, 6 until nine the first quarter and
• 31:57
  of course, 24/7 Sports cyclonealert.com.
• 32:01
  Thanks for doing this, brother. Appreciate it.
• 32:03
  And you'll be back in up and Adam and on the radio tomorrow
• 32:07
  morning at 6:00 AM Alec. Thank you bud.
• 32:10
  Thank you guys so much for having me.
• 32:11
  I appreciate it and thank you so much.
• 32:12
  Yep, good to talk to you, Alec. Buses, we check in from Kansas
• 32:15
  City. We'll stay down in Kansas City.
• 32:18
  The voice of the Chiefs is Mitch Holtis.
• 32:19
  He joins us next. Miller and Condon talking sports
• 32:22
  with you on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 32:28
  I'm Miller Condon welcome back Des Moines sports station one O
• 32:31
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• 32:35
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• 32:37
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• 32:41
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• 32:43
  weekly basis with our buddy Mitch Holtz, the voice of the
• 32:47
  Kansas City Chiefs. Mitch Trenton Ken, thank you for
• 32:49
  doing this. I don't mean this to sound harsh
• 32:52
  when it comes to the Raiders, but that was that was
• 32:56
  embarrassing. I mean, three first downs.
• 32:58
  Did Kansas City dominate this team?
• 33:00
  As bad as the box score says that they did.
• 33:04
  Kind of worse. I, I don't want to pile on here,
• 33:07
  but I mean they had 30 plays that she said 30 points.
• 33:12
  I mean it was 31st downs 30 and then they shut it down that she
• 33:17
  shut it down basically in the third quarter, early third
• 33:20
  quarter and started going to a knee before the two-minute
• 33:22
  warning. I've never seen that.
• 33:25
  It's yeah, I mean, they're not having Jacoby Myers, not having
• 33:31
  Brock Bowers, but come on. But what?
• 33:33
  What what's going on there? So, yeah, I don't know.
• 33:37
  I don't know what that team will look like when we play them
• 33:39
  again in Week 18. Yeah, and you know who's going
• 33:42
  to be around at that point with the trade deadline all right
• 33:45
  around the corner? Well, this defense has been
• 33:47
  special, and they just kept finding the pieces.
• 33:50
  You got a clip for us today with Leo Chanel.
• 33:52
  Mitch set it up. Oh, he's so good.
• 33:55
  Well, every so excited about the offense and well they should be.
• 33:58
  You think about what they've done.
• 34:00
  I mean, they're averaging 30 points a game now and really
• 34:03
  since half time to the New York Giant game and now with
• 34:06
  everybody on deck, they're just so explosive in contact you 100
• 34:10
  ways. But let's don't overlook the
• 34:12
  defense. You always get to overlook
• 34:14
  seemingly and the fact that this defense now, the second-half of
• 34:17
  Jacksonville notwithstanding, let's just think about what
• 34:20
  they've done. The Ravens came in and they were
• 34:24
  on fire offensively and the Chiefs pretty much shut them
• 34:26
  down. And then the Lions came in
• 34:29
  threatening a 70 year NFL record and the Chiefs held him to 17
• 34:33
  points. And then it's Kansas.
• 34:35
  You know, the Chiefs obliterated the Raiders there.
• 34:38
  And so it's not just about the offense.
• 34:40
  But I did talk, talk to Leo today, actually, and ask him
• 34:44
  about, you know what, what this defense is doing now to keep
• 34:48
  pace with the offense. Yeah.
• 34:49
  I mean, we talked about it. We talked about it, you know,
• 34:51
  today too, and team meeting. We just got to find that
• 34:53
  consistency. Obviously we had we'd plays, you
• 34:57
  know, we wish we had back and crucial moments in those, those
• 34:59
  losses. But I just see a resilient team.
• 35:02
  You know, it's a lot of guys that have been in in the
• 35:04
  situations before. We're not doing well and we have
• 35:07
  a resilient team. I'm like, guys are humble enough
• 35:10
  to like, all right, what do we need to fix week to week?
• 35:12
  And guys are stepping up to the challenge.
• 35:15
  Yeah. We think of offense as getting
• 35:17
  into a rhythm. I think the defense now is
• 35:19
  starting to get into that rhythm.
• 35:20
  The Chiefs, I believe, are the only team in the NFL in the top
• 35:23
  five now in both offense and defense.
• 35:26
  Yeah, that, that'll that'll get thing And yet still they are not
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  in the playoffs if they started today, which is just.
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  Now we're right that we're not in.
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  Just mind boggling to me. The Monday night game.
• 35:36
  This was one of those couple of weeks ago.
• 35:38
  He started, you know, looking ahead to what's coming up and
• 35:40
  all of a sudden this Commanders in Chiefs game on Monday night.
• 35:43
  That looks like it certainly had some buzz.
• 35:45
  But if Daniels can't go and Mariota's a backup for a reason.
• 35:49
  He has his moments, but not enough of them.
• 35:51
  Kind of a little bit of luster off of this game.
• 35:54
  I know it's still Monday night. It's really important and
• 35:56
  everybody in the league is watching, but kind of
• 35:58
  unfortunate as a football fan that the Commanders won't go in
• 36:02
  there assumingly without their full complement and in
• 36:05
  particular their quarterback. Ken, it's really interesting.
• 36:08
  Last year they went 12 and five. You know that the magical season
• 36:11
  they were this year's Colts, the 25 Colts for the 24 Commanders.
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  Think about it. And then they went all in, man,
• 36:19
  in the offseason. They signed like over a dozen
• 36:21
  free agents. They just were signing guys.
• 36:23
  Only had five draft picks. They're trading picks.
• 36:25
  They go Laramie Tunsil because they know, hey, we can take out
• 36:29
  the Eagles. Well, here they are and they're
• 36:32
  looking up at everybody but the Giants right now.
• 36:34
  So it's it's some of its injuries, some of it is did they
• 36:38
  get away from what they were doing to try to build it.
• 36:41
  I think people get a little greedy and try to push it.
• 36:45
  But a minute Debo Samuel plays, that's dangerous.
• 36:48
  Don't know if McLaren will play. He's the most underrated guy in
• 36:51
  the league. I think at wide receiver least
• 36:53
  has been for six of the seven years.
• 36:55
  And and then Jacory Krosky, Merritt is pretty good.
• 36:59
  I mean, he's been a surprise defensively.
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  They're also beat up. But anyway, yeah, no, they're
• 37:04
  it's just, it just shows you, hey, you can go all in, but you
• 37:07
  better build the base that lasts for years.
• 37:10
  Mitch, last week I was in Iowa City, so just kind of conversed
• 37:14
  with you. But two weeks ago I brought up
• 37:16
  Rashard Smith and now I see Andy Reid's praising him, the passing
• 37:19
  game coordinators praising him. How big of an essential just for
• 37:23
  this year? You look at the future, a guy
• 37:24
  that hasn't been a running back for very long, we know that
• 37:27
  there's definitely upside there. But for this season, how
• 37:30
  important of a piece and how big of a role do you think he can
• 37:32
  have this year? Huge and bigger than you might
• 37:35
  think. And that's part of this.
• 37:38
  Coach Reed taught me 13 years ago about attacking
• 37:41
  geometrically. And I'm not giving out
• 37:43
  government secrets because it changes by the play.
• 37:46
  But you have you find the weak points in the in the structure
• 37:49
  of the defense or personnel and then you attack different
• 37:52
  points. You can attack the whole Galaxy
• 37:54
  if you've got enough weapons. And the chiefs do if that is
• 37:57
  your fourth option or fifth option on a play lookout,
• 38:01
  because this is a four three guy.
• 38:04
  And and we saw it with the screen game last week.
• 38:06
  We've seen it in the Sprint draw game.
• 38:08
  We've seen it even in on deep routes.
• 38:10
  He can run it. He was a wide receiver at the
• 38:12
  University of Miami. So he's the he's the sneaky 1
• 38:15
  here. Everybody talks about Rice and
• 38:17
  Brown and Worthy and Kelsey. But wait a minute.
• 38:21
  Brashard Smith has that level of speed and becomes a real weapon
• 38:25
  for this team, whether it's first, second or third down,
• 38:27
  maybe even 4th down. We'll get to Papa John's in just
• 38:30
  a second, But Speaking of food, do you have a favorite table at
• 38:33
  1587 Prime yet? Have you been to my home?
• 38:36
  Get in. I just I can't get in like I go,
• 38:39
  dude, I did his gala Monday night.
• 38:41
  I go, can I get in now? Can I get a place?
• 38:43
  Well, maybe you can get in the kitchen.
• 38:45
  You can sit back in the kitchen. Yeah, No, I want to get in
• 38:48
  there. So I know the guys that supplied
• 38:50
  the meat. It was they're really good
• 38:52
  friends and it's awesome food. I mean, it's, it'll be if we
• 38:56
  everything's settled down, we can get in at some point.
• 38:58
  Then people want to drive from Des Moines for it.
• 39:00
  It's. That good?
• 39:02
  That sounds good. We'll talk about some pizza in a
• 39:03
  moment here. It wasn't all sunshine and
• 39:05
  rainbows, though, as the Chiefs lost the guy for the year, Omar
• 39:09
  Norman Lot, their second rounder, goes down toward an
• 39:11
  ACL. I thought it was fitting seeing
• 39:13
  Mahomes being one of the guys that was helping him over to the
• 39:16
  sideline and just showing that leadership quality, but that's a
• 39:19
  blow. Does that lead to them sniffing
• 39:21
  around to the trade market for another defensive lineman?
• 39:25
  Well, Trent, I think that we're going to do that anyway.
• 39:27
  They're just they need a body and they're at the least to lose
• 39:30
  Mike Pannell to at the end of the cuts was it was a blow and
• 39:37
  Tillery's a little more slender. You need you need a guy that can
• 39:40
  be a 2 gap, you know, eat some snaps.
• 39:41
  That'd be good. You don't need Aaron Donald, You
• 39:44
  just need somebody who's a Mike Pannell type.
• 39:48
  And so and, and Norman Lot would be, he's an explosive player,
• 39:52
  but he doesn't play a lot of snaps.
• 39:53
  He didn't have Tennessee, didn't have Arizona State.
• 39:56
  He's an up the field, one gap guy, but you got to go find
• 39:58
  somebody that's you can't run Chris Jones into the ground.
• 40:03
  The pressure rate for the Chiefs when Chris Jones is on the field
• 40:05
  is 41.7. When he's off the field, it's
• 40:08
  24.3. Yep.
• 40:11
  So you got to figure out that. So Yep, for sure.
• 40:14
  Let's figure out dinner, Mitch. Well, does Trent, do you know
• 40:17
  Ken's new name? His new nickname?
• 40:19
  Yeah, you didn't hear this religion.
• 40:22
  Papa Dippa, OH. Yes.
• 40:24
  Yeah, Ben Miller is now Papa Dippa and like the Godfather.
• 40:29
  Yeah, you don't want the Godfather.
• 40:31
  So when Papa Dippa calls, this is it's this new Papa Dippa dip
• 40:36
  at Papa John's. It's from the lab in Johnston or
• 40:39
  the mobile lab that moves around town.
• 40:41
  But it's this four dip sauce. I mean, it's, it's incredible.
• 40:46
  So go online and find it, but you're going to want to find it
• 40:48
  when you find it. And I don't care what game
• 40:51
  you've got, you know, whether it's Des Moines Christian
• 40:53
  Defenders or Iowa, Iowa State, Drake, you and I or all the
• 40:56
  other college teams or, or the pros, find it.
• 40:59
  Papa Dippa, man, it's it'll change your life.
• 41:02
  You're sitting next to Papa. Love it.
• 41:05
  Talk to you next week, bitch. Thank you.
• 41:06
  Hour 2 coming up Miller in Convent on the Iowa Sports Radio
• 41:09
  Network.