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Circa Survivor update, World Series set, Monday Night Football recap, Matt Postins on the Big 12 & Eliot Clough from Iowa football media availability · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi good afternoon welcome Miller and Condon on a Tuesday the Iowa
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sports radio network Des Moines sports station one O 6.3 K XNO
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Trent Condon Ken Miller talking sports with you for the next
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couple of hours. Thank you for starting your
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afternoon here with us. Here's what's coming up on our
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program today. We're going to discuss the Big
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12 football with our buddy Matt Postons from Heartland College
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Sports. Maybe some basketball as well as
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basketball media days where the women are actually that's taking
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place as we speak them in tomorrow.
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So Matt Postons from Heartland College Sports coming up here in
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about 25 minutes and then Elliot Clough, his regular spot.
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Does the Hawkeyes have their weekly made media availability?
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Football wise, we'll talk to Elliot.
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He'll have spoken to some of the players and then they'll be
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waiting for Kirk Ference. We'll talk to Elliot about
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Hawkeye related topics at 12:45. At 1:00, Matt Snyder before he
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gets his passport in tow and off he goes to Toronto to cover game
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one of the world serial to cover all of them.
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But he'll be Criss crossing couple of countries between LA
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and TO. But Matt Snyder from
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CBSSports.com on MLB and then Vinny Iyer covers the NFL for
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The Sporting News. Here's our final guest here
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today. So we got a lot of big twelves
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covered. Hawkeyes are covered, MLB is
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covered and so is the NFL. Pretty good day.
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We missed the NBA. What were we thinking?
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We'll get to it April, get to it in April.
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Good point. Let me write that down as it
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gets underway here tonight. So that's what's coming up on
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our program. Trump, we'll make some picks
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before we slide out of here. Circa Sports sponsor those at
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about 1:50 or so and we'll turn things over to off the bench at
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that time. Lucas and Sean, how are you,
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Sir? I'm doing great late night.
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Last night got a little tickle in the throat.
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You OK? Probably be in the casino too
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late Sunday, right? Little tickle in the throat, but
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watching the Seahawks at times feel like they're trying to give
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the game away with my survivor ticket in tow.
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I hated that experience so much. That was not fun last night.
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You know it's supposed to be fun Sunday afternoon, no?
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It's supposed to be a sweat. Oh, it was a sweat.
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Sunday afternoon was fun and hopeful that all these teams are
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going to get kicked out. We're going to go into Monday
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with that. Last night was not an enjoyable
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experience because the Seahawks better.
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The Seahawks were the better side.
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I had the right, yet you're looking.
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What are they doing? What is?
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Throwing the ball. What?
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What's Darnold doing? What is happening here?
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Here they come. All of a sudden it's within a
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score. It get I It was not a fun
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experience until the final whistle blew and I was getting
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texts and I was getting tweets and I was getting people
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messaging me all night long. But we move on.
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Yeah, good. I mean, it's it's fantastic.
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You're in uncharted waters for at least the two of us.
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Yes, you are on the final week of the month of October.
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Do you know what that means? You're getting pretty close, but
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there's been a lot of folks survive at this point.
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I haven't seen the numbers, but I don't think too many fell by
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the wayside this week. And off you go the next week.
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And I hope you've got your plans.
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You said the Patriots, right? Is your target this week?
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That was what I was looking at until that performance out of
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Cleveland last week. I mean, that's why it didn't use
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New England this week because I was kind of peeking ahead at
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that one. Still, they're north of a
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touchdown. Drake Mace play incredibly well.
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Yep, He banged his head on the turf.
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I was what it was on red zone when he did that didn't came
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back into the game and and he's playing at a high level against
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his Cleveland def. I I think that's where I'm going
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to end up because got a better game, you got a better one.
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I've got a better game that I think, and I don't know if
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you've used this team or not, but I think they're an absolute
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cinch on Sunday. OK, it's Atlanta.
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Already used them. Darn it, already used them.
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Yeah, that's the tricky part about this.
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It's not just picking one. No, you have to.
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Use them. Once you use them, they're done
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for the well, then you're I'm just stuck with the Patriots.
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There aren't a lot of options of teams that I have available.
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Like I don't have the Colts, so I can't use them against the
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Titans this week. The Chiefs, I'm holding them.
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I'm not going to use them this week.
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Yes, Jake, it's about what? Are you going to use them?
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Neither Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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There's two options. They play Denver on Christmas.
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Who do they play on Thanksgiving?
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On Thanksgiving, they face the Cowboys.
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Cowboys offense is legit. It is.
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But in a. I feel I feel better about the
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chiefs of. Course would feel better, Yeah,
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Now when we get to that's in Caboville.
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Yes. Now I will have, hopefully the
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Lions still in my pocket. They'll host in a revenge game.
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The Packers. Why?
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They look good last night and. I'll still have the Eagles
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potentially at. Home against your bears on on
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Black Friday and. Then we get to Christmas as you
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mentioned. Yes, it is Denver.
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But Washington's got an easy Well, not maybe not, maybe not
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anymore. It's against the Cowboys, Yeah.
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And this Washington team. No, I was selling before the
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year. The Lions, well, if I use them
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on Thanksgiving, they go to Minnesota.
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I mean, could it come down to, I'm in Christmas, I got to use
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those stinking Vikings? Good God, it could.
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After all, all the words that we use throughout the course of the
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year and it gets down to it and there's only three games that
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you can use that week and it gets down to it after we yelled
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at each other back and forth about JJ McCarthy.
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And you got to root for. Him and I got.
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Suddenly it would be so poetic. I have hundreds of thousands, if
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not millions of dollars on the line on JJ Flippin McCarthy.
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Oh, would that be poetic that you got to wear, you got to get
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some gear. No, I we got plenty of it in the
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house. I know you do.
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So fun night last night of of football, the Lions looked
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really good. I thought, you know, I don't
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know what this means about this. What what happened 2 weeks ago?
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Was Kansas City that much better?
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They toyed with the Lions. We'll see.
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I want I want to and I know where you're going to go because
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you don't like Sam Darnold. I think I'm watching the team
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that's every bit alive to win a Super Bowl in in the Seattle
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Seahawks defense is without a doubt legit.
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They can run the football if you got the best punter in the game.
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They've got really good receiver and Smith, the Jigba.
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They've got a good tight end. I don't know what the deficiency
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is on that team. Same Darnold other than maybe
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the quarterback. But you know what?
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We've seen bad quarterbacks get to the promised land before, and
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he was really good through weeks one through 6, 16 last year and
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then it just all fell apart. I think the Seahawks are a
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threat in the NFCI really do. I think it's Philadelphia.
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I think it's Detroit. I think it's Detroit Gap.
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How do you have Philadelphia up there?
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I watched him play the Vikings. I did too this week.
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You were. Yeah, I was impressed.
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I thought. I thought.
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I thought it was a complete win. Well, maybe they're still, they
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still can't run the ball. No, but I was, I was impressed.
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The A.J. Brown research he.
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Was really good. That was impressive what he did
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put in the game away on on that throw up the left sideline.
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Hertz was terrific, Devante Smith was terrific in that
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football game. They got a good tight end and
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Goddard. Offensive line is still OK.
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Defensive line is really good. When Carter plays, kickers kind
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of get long in the tooth. And Elliot missed, another one
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missed. Another one he did.
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But that made it A2 score game. At the time it was something
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weird. But yeah, it was an important
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kick, and it wasn't a real long one either.
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No. And Jake Elliott whiffed.
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So we'll see. I think.
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I think they're in the hunt, though.
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I think maybe Atlanta's alive. I mean, a tear below Tampa Bay,
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their injuries, they're catching up to him again.
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I, I really like that team. Going into last night, I thought
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Detroit would win, but Tampa was on my list.
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I don't know. I can make a case for four or
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five of them, and I think the Seahawks are.
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I have to be in every one of my conversations at.
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Least I do 49ers cross. You know what?
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They're better than I thought. And the NFC West is good.
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We didn't mention the Rams. Did the 49ers found the
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quarterback? Is Brock Pretty getting his job
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back? Well.
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Yes, I think he is too. Yes, I think he is.
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But I don't think that they're going to be as hesitant if if
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he's struggling a little bit to pull the trigger.
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I mean, this is how many NFL prognosticators were begging
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Lynch and Shanahan. This is the guy you need to take
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out of Alabama. Take him.
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Take Mac Jones. He's the guy.
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No, we know. We know more than you.
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We're taking Trey Lance. And both of them.
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In the beginning, right? Because Mac Jones was in the
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wrong system. Mac Jones was for Belichick.
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And that first year was actually pretty decent for him for Mac.
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I don't recall yeah, I just remember screaming on the
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sidelines something about throw the damn ball coming off the
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field and was was PO D but anyways, so good night of
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football last night, good night of baseball.
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Last night I, I was texting you last night, you know, and then
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after I texted you after the three run over, which by the
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way, when Springer hits that and he's just kind of jogging and
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looking at it and then the celebration.
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Did you think off the bat that was going to be a lot further
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out than it turned out to? Be I'm with you, I thought he
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absolutely nailed it and it was like 3 rows back.
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It wasn't. It didn't hit the back of the
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wall. No, no.
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But yeah, no, it was. It didn't clear, but you know
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what cleared the wall? It did cleared the wall and
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cleared those guys certainly know.
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But boy, after I saw that I said hey, I thought it was going to
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be further. And what if that thing didn't
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have quite the oh boy with the well I love.
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The fact that he moved the runners over, they moved the
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runners also, They're going to get one, they're going to get a
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little bit closer. And the guy that, I mean, I've
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been killing Hoffman all year long, I mean, 3 strikeouts in,
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the ninth in and, you know, can't ask for much more than
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that, however. He gets that last pitch.
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He's going to linger with him all offseason.
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No, it is for sure. It is for sure.
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So good stuff. We get LA and Toronto.
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LA is going to be an overwhelming favorite of as they
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should be. It seems like it it's it's
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inevitable. And I'm a Blue Jays fan.
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I'm just not saying this to, you know, to make the wound any less
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painful that but that I see coming.
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I hope it's a great series, obviously for for sports fans
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out there. LA, I mean, how do you stop?
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How do you stop these these these these big three at the top
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of the rotation, right? Good luck.
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They're a different tier. They're a different tier.
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And we can complain about salary cap and the way that they spend
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and what they do and pushing salaries back and all the
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things, but the the just absolute depth of talent that
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they have. It is.
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It's incredible. And it seems, yes, there were
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long stretches this year where they looked below average.
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They were below. Average.
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But that's baseball. Too.
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I know it's a long season, Trent.
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You say it all the time. It's a long season.
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And you are Mr. Overreaction. I mean what do we game to game?
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You are about as overreaction area as anybody.
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Yes, but it's not just a baseball.
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Yeah, it's every. School yes all Rover react to a
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lot of stuff like that I I don't know how you're going to beat
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the big three right. Yamamoto was unbelievable.
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Obviously, Snell looks like us. You know, the Cy Young Award
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winner that he is. Ohtani.
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Oh, by the way, you're forced Tyler Glass now.
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Yes. I mean, my God.
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Good luck. You have told us that you are in
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great shape if the Dodgers win the World Series.
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Yes. You're going to.
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You're going to pay for your. I'll be able to bet futures for
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the next three years and not have to worry about a thing.
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You're going to be in great shape.
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Do you have anything at all on the Blue Jays?
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I The only thing I did preseason on the Blue Jays was I thought
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over 76 1/2 was a lock, and I said it a million times in
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March. I jumped on with that.
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And I cashed a number of tickets with that.
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I do not have any World Series until the World Series start,
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until the playoffs started. OK.
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And I opened my Circa app because it was brand new and I
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wanted to play around with it. Mm Hmm.
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And I bet Toronto over the Phillies.
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I bet Toronto over the Dodgers pretty significantly and and
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the, and the Brewers and the Brewers.
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So obviously I'm alive and I hope I throw away.
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I hope I RIP up all of my Dodger tickets.
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So right now it's Circa Dodgers to win the series -235 Blue Jays
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are two to one. Yeah.
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Now I also have a hedging opportunity.
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The story I told from the summer when I won all those free bets
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and I have a Dodgers one in there.
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Jay, we'll get to you in just a second.
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Hang in there. Do I look at hedging or just let
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it ride? It was a it was a free bet.
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And what's the price? It pays $1400.
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It's like plus 285 to win the World Series.
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It was a $500 free bet that I won miraculously on a comeback
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6th inning. You were part of that big group
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that you shared the DraftKings pot of gold.
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Like $1,000,000 and that was one of the future bets that I put in
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there. Do I do that?
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Do I? Even knowing that there's that
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much money on the end, if the Dodgers win, even just put 100
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bucks on the Blue Jays, you know you're gonna make something out
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of it. I mean, can you, can you bet how
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many games it'll go? That might be your play.
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Do do you really think that the Jays have a path?
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I don't and I I wish I was. I wish I could be optimistic.
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The fact that there's really cool, really cool.
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I remember in 1992 by myself in my apartment in Denver, watching
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a 12 inch black our our colored TV because I was dead broke.
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Denver's a little more expensive than and I didn't realize that
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when I moved, but just I mean by myself watching them finally win
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a World Series and they did it the next year.
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So, and it was really cool at the time because as a fan, that
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was my first championship. Denver hadn't won this Super
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Bowl yet. Oh, that's right, right.
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The Jets were the freaking Jets. There's no championship.
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There's no championships there and, and that was a really cool
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moment as far as feeling that you get right.
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And I've subsequently had it three other times with my
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Broncos. But anyways, we'll see.
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I hope it's a good series. I don't believe it will be.
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It's just one dude after another.
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Matt Snyder maybe can help us out with some facts.
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He'll join us. Absolutely.
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All right, let's get Jay. Jay joins us.
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He wants to talk about Survivor. Are you alive, Jay?
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Well, so no, I actually do not sports gamble.
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OK. More than a.
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Decade ago, downtown with bookies here in Des Moines, I
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lost over a couple grand one day on college football.
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You had enough. Good for you.
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That was it. But real quick for before
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Survivor, I did purchase a couple tickets for me and my
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buddy to go to the November 22nd Iowa Michigan State game.
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I did that right after the Penn State game.
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What's the chances in your guys's opinion that that's going
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to be a meaningful right game? Maybe not CFP, but where would
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you think that that game would rank and meaning that now?
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Did they beat Oregon? Probably not.
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I mean, at minimum, they got to win one of the two against
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Oregon or USC, and I still think the USC game is more difficult
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because it's on the road. Yeah.
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And it's on the West Coast. It's on the West Coast.
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I mean, Oregon coming here for whatever that kickoff is going
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to be in cold weather and slowing down.
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I. Hope it's at night well.
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I I don't think it can be. I think I was played their
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allotment. Oh, have they?
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Yes. Son of a guy.
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That thing's going to be big. Noon, 9:00 AM.
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Body clock game for the dogs. The way I would played against
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Indiana leads me. I believe there's.
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A shot, yes, I agree. There's a shot now when it comes
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to Survivor, once again, not a gambler.
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Let us talk about a lot. My biggest question is kind of
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how it works, but do you have to bet on per week A-Team to win or
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can you bet on a team to lose? No, you have to bet them to.
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Win. They have to win and a tie is a
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loss. So you don't bet every week,
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Jade. So the before the season starts,
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the Circus Survivor, it's $1000 entry fee.
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Plus you've got to team up with a proxy in Las Vegas because you
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can't. You have to make the wager.
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You have to make your play in the state of Nevada every week.
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So it's $1000 buy in and there were 18,455 I think people,
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there's $18,400,000 in the pool to start and you could only use
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a team once and the and you cannot use them again.
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So you've got to kind of map that out.
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And when it comes to Circa, it's a 20 week season because
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Thanksgiving, Black Friday is its own week in addition to the
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games on Sunday and then the three great games on Christmas
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Day, they're their own week in addition to the following
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Sunday, so. 20 week contest. It's a 20 week contest, but it
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but just the it's kind of like buy the lottery ticket, right?
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You know, you see, you put it in the back of your pocket.
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What I could do with the money when I win and you have more,
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you think anyways that you're empowered because hell, I know
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football. The hell with the ping pong
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numbers numbers coming out. I can pick one game a week.
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Point spread doesn't it's incredibly difficult.
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It's incredibly difficult. Team over the season.
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What's that? So you you can only use one
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team. No, no, no, no.
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You can only use the team. Once a week, yeah, you have to
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find another team for the following.
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So that's why last week I didn't want to use the Chiefs, even
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though they're a huge favorite, because once he used the Chiefs,
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you can't use them the rest of the way, OK?
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Yep, all. Right.
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Well, thank you for the information, gentlemen, and you
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guys have a great afternoon. Yeah, you do the same, Jay.
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Appreciate that. Here's Jeff.
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Jeff, welcome to the program. I knew the NBA season would
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smoke. His ears.
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Yeah. His ears perked up.
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Well, how are you? Doing well.
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First, I just want to give a shout out to this quarterback
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that number one has the best QBR in the NFL.
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In the last month he has thrown 0 Ints with 13 touchdowns.
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This guy has carried this offense to possibly the best
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offense in the NFL. Thirdly, turning away, you know,
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their best defensive asset. I think you can probably get
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where I'm going. They're trying to get Max
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Crosby. Did you see that?
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I did. Drop pass, actually 4 drop
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passes against the Eagles, they win that game.
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You, you know, you move on to tying Green Bay.
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This Dallas Cowboy team honestly could have one loss at this
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moment. The Bears beat them in Chicago.
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I don't want to go far off the tooth here, but Dak Prescott to
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me is the leading MVP candidate right now on October 21st.
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I my vote would be for Dak Prescott.
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But let's move to the NBA. It starts tonight, you know, can
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I like to kind of give you a couple of teams here.
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This this first team was 10th in the East last year, kind of
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right on the cusp. It's the Orlando Magic, you
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know, the players of Paulo and Wagner and Thugs.
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They got Desmond Bain, this team.
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I honestly think not. They can get to the Eastern
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Conference Finals. I think they can go to the
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Finals. But give me give me the 50 1/2
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over under the win. I love that play.
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That is my favorite play of the NBA is the Orlando Magic.
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Over 50 1/2 win the MVP slash NBA Finals.
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We talk about this every year. There's only about four or five
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teams, but we think this is the year not just for the Denver
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Nuggets, but now we're talking about we're getting into this
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rare air of one of the all time greats again, winning the MVP
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Yokich, but bringing the team back.
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Jamal Murray was hurt. They added some pieces around
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them to be better. This is the team where I think
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it's destiny, not just for like I said, Joker, but there's a lot
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of players that I think they're going to take that step and you
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got OK CI get that. That should be a great.
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Western Top. Stuff.
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Another one real quick. I like the Detroit Pistons.
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Why I like the Detroit Pistons? They're all young players and
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they fight hard in the regular season.
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You want to find these teams that may not win the
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championship, they may lose in the first round, but you want
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you. Want to as they did last year.
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Exactly what the next, which was a great series by the way, but
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you want to find these young teams, maybe the Atlanta Hawks,
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maybe the Portland Trail Blazers, where you get these
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teams that are right on the cusp of making the playoffs last year
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that take that step moving forward for this year.
20:03
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20:05
We have to move forward. Appreciate that.
20:07
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20:10
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20:13
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20:19
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20:57
heartland college sports covers basketball and football for that
21:01
Big 12 outlet and he's at the women's media day today min
21:05
tomorrow and he joins us Hello Matt Poston.
21:07
It's good to talk to you, appreciate the relationship and
21:10
having you on here again. So your mark, has he spoken yet?
21:14
If So, what did you glean from in the commish?
21:17
Is he met with the media? He is actually in the midst of
21:21
speaking right now. He's taking questions from the
21:23
media. Obviously a lot of prepared
21:25
remarks, talked a lot about different issues.
21:30
One thing he did, I think this would be the most important
21:32
note, at least for general fans out there, they haven't had
21:37
further conversations about the College Football Playoff in
21:39
terms of expansion at this point.
21:41
So they they haven't had any recent.
21:42
So right now, you know, it's still a 12 team playoff.
21:45
And I think Rick Clark recently said that if they don't have
21:48
anything, you know, done by early December that they're
21:51
going to stick with a 12 team for 2026.
21:53
So, you know, hearing that from Miramar today that they haven't
21:57
really had these substantive conversations means they're that
22:00
they want to expand. They're on the clock and they
22:01
got to get it done in a couple of months.
22:03
Is expansion a good thing for the Big 12 or is the number 12
22:07
better for them? We know that at least in the
22:09
past they said no to 16 with the 2 automatic bids that come along
22:12
with it. What is a better thing for Big
22:15
12 football as we know it, 12 or an expansion to 16 kind of,
22:18
regardless of how they figure out those bids?
22:21
Well, I think that's the trick right there.
22:23
You know, if it's 16, obviously that would be better for the Big
22:26
12, as long as they're not putting, you know, a fixed
22:30
number of bids toward each conference.
22:32
I mean, it seems like every arrangement that we've seen out
22:35
there from, especially from the Big 10 has been, yeah, we'll
22:38
expand to 16, but we want 4 bids.
22:40
Like that's not how this is supposed to work.
22:42
That's not how any supporters support is supposed to work.
22:45
You got to earn your way in. And your remarks are very clear
22:47
over the last few months. He wants the system where
22:49
everybody has to earn their way again.
22:51
So I think if you were to ask him, yeah, between 12 and 16,
22:55
but if it's sixteen, you have to sacrifice automatic bids to
22:59
other conferences. I think he'd rather stick A12,
23:01
and personally, I'd rather stick a 12.
23:03
At least that way, yes, your conference champions get in as
23:06
they should. And then the other eight, it's
23:09
really up to the committee. And you got to kind of hope the
23:11
committee gets it right most of the time.
23:13
Women's media day today. We'll get to the minute in just
23:16
a second, as they will. Their day is tomorrow in the Big
23:19
12. When it comes to Iowa State
23:21
family, she's got a sneaky good team this year.
23:22
I think maybe better, maybe not sneaky.
23:24
Maybe they're not going to surprise anybody.
23:27
Obviously Audie Crooks is. I don't know if she's the poster
23:30
child for this team, but she's certainly a heck of a player.
23:33
And she's not alone when it comes to the Big 12 women.
23:36
How do you see this conference as far as kind of the power at
23:38
the top? Does Iowa State belong there?
23:41
Yeah, I think they do. I mean, when you think about
23:43
Audie and Addie, he was going to play together now for two years
23:47
and Jada Williams is going to be a big differentiator for them.
23:50
You know, she comes in from Arizona.
23:52
She's going to have that ability to handle the basketball like
23:54
Emily did last year. But really, you know,
23:56
considering Addie Brown handled the ball so much during the time
24:01
Emily was away a couple of years ago, you've got 2 good ball
24:03
handlers on the floor. You got one of the best posts in
24:05
the conference. Sidney Harris is back and I
24:08
think she's a really underrated player across the country.
24:11
Her ability to shoot the three and defend.
24:13
I love their starting lap, the starting lineup that I have
24:16
projected for them, which will be out later today at Heartland
24:18
College Sports. I love what they have from the
24:21
starting standpoint. I think the question for them
24:22
is, are they going to have the depth to hang with teams like
24:26
TCU and Baylor and Oklahoma State?
24:29
You know, those teams that, you know, West Virginia, those teams
24:32
that got to the semifinals with Big 12 Tournament last year,
24:35
those teams have a lot of depth coming back.
24:37
They've got a lot of links coming back.
24:39
They can be really competitive with Iowa State.
24:41
See, that's the difference between whether or not Iowa
24:43
State's a top four team in the conference or say a top six or
24:47
seven team in the conference. But I absolutely think they have
24:49
the talent and the ability. To to be a player in this race.
24:53
Yuzon, Sharp, Duggler, all back for Houston.
24:58
They add even more to it. Of course, he got a coach and
25:01
Kelvin Sampson. That's incredible.
25:03
Houston I, I saw Purdue what pre season #1 in the AP poll.
25:07
Houston, though, doesn't feel like there's a big gap between
25:10
them and everybody else. Because it certainly does to me
25:12
in all of college basketball. Well, yeah, I mean when you
25:15
think about what they have coming back, but also.
25:19
They they didn't. Really have to tap into the poor
25:21
at all. They brought in one kid from Sam
25:23
Houston who's got a lot of length and can give them the
25:25
depth behind Joseph Tuckler. But generally speaking, Kelvin's
25:29
been able to keep his last two recruiting classes together.
25:32
And a lot of those guys are going to, you know, pick up
25:34
steam this year, Ramon. Walker.
25:37
Mercy Miller, guys like that, They've got a terrific freshman
25:40
class. They got two kids that I think
25:41
can play right away for them. And the beauty of what Kelvin's
25:45
able to do with his system is he can integrate a lot of different
25:48
guys into the system quickly. They buy into what he wants to
25:51
do from day one, which is play really tough defense and build
25:54
their offense off of that. And then when you consider you
25:56
got maybe the best bat court in the conference and who's on and
26:01
sharp, those two guys alone can keep them in any ball game.
26:05
So yeah, I think there is AII. If you if I had a vote, I would
26:09
have had the number one in the 80.
26:10
Poll. But you know, there's, I don't
26:14
want to say there's a huge gap between them and say Texas Tech
26:17
and Iowa State and those are the other schools, but there's a
26:20
gap. And those get that gap can be
26:22
bridged by those teams. But coming into the season, I
26:24
think they're clearly the best team in the conference on paper.
26:27
What about BYU? They're.
26:32
They, they had, they had the potential, I think to be the
26:35
most exciting team in the conference.
26:36
I mean, you, you're bringing back Richie Saunders, you got AJ
26:39
Debansta, who is the number one recruit in the country, a guy
26:42
who I think can be one of those guys like a, a Cooper flag type
26:47
who can come and play immediately make an impact, not
26:50
just on that program. And nationally, they're right
26:53
there in that conversation with Iowa State and with the other
26:56
teams that you, you know, you would expect to be competitive
26:59
with Houston. But you know, I just feel like
27:03
Houston with their ability to play defense, with their ability
27:06
to rebound and the depth that they have, I think that that's
27:09
what makes them a little bit different than everybody else.
27:12
Plus, you have a team for the last two years which has won the
27:16
regular season championship, has won one Big 12 tournament
27:20
championship and been to the final.
27:21
So they're they don't get scared in big moments.
27:24
They don't shy away from big moments.
27:25
And that that's a little bit of the differentiator between them
27:28
and everybody else in the league as well.
27:29
Did the bats really get 5 million?
27:32
I have no idea, but if he did, bully for him.
27:36
It'll be better than his first year of his rookie contract.
27:40
What a world, what a world. Hey, in the on the men's side,
27:43
is there a team maybe that's kind of in the middle that you
27:46
like as a dark horse not to win the conference?
27:48
I I don't think anybody out of that group can beat a Houston to
27:51
BYU, Arizona, anything like that.
27:52
But. Texas Tech's not in that hunt.
27:54
Oh yeah, they're, they're in there too in Kansas.
27:55
I'm talking about that next year.
27:57
The Cincinnati's, the Oklahoma State's, the West Virginia's TCS
28:01
out of that. But you know, next here a team
28:03
is there a team that you maybe like a little bit more than some
28:05
of the other prognosticators out there?
28:11
You know, I like, I like what Jamie Dixon did at TCU.
28:16
I don't know if they're necessarily A-Team that's going
28:18
to be feel like a, an upset king in this conference, but he has
28:23
enough continuity coming back. You know, guys like David Punch
28:26
who understand his system. And then he brought in enough
28:29
transfer portal guys that I think are really going to help
28:33
help them get to the next level in terms of just, you know,
28:35
maybe going from being like a, you know, 10th place team to
28:38
being a 7th place team in the conference.
28:40
And then, you know, Kansas State's gotten a lot of love and
28:43
obviously JJ Haggerty has a lot to do with that.
28:45
He's going to be a really good player for them this year.
28:47
He's going to be one of the best players in the conference.
28:50
But again, there's a lot of turn over there at Kansas State.
28:53
Jerome Tang has had a little trouble the last couple of years
28:56
in terms of building chemistry on the floor and getting what he
28:59
wants out of these guys. Having a guy like Haggerty is
29:01
going to help him a great deal because I guess the focal point
29:04
offensively, But at the same time, defenses are going to
29:06
focus on him and they're going to need a couple of guys to step
29:10
up. And I, I don't know if he has
29:12
those guys yet. That's the thing, you know,
29:14
right now it's October, you see everybody on paper and you, you
29:18
see the experience of some of these teams.
29:20
But you see the, you don't see the, the, the people, You don't
29:23
see the players that are potentially going to help these
29:25
teams in January as they build chemistry and as players develop
29:28
over the first couple of months. Of the season.
29:30
Kansas State and TC are two teams to me that yeah, they may
29:33
not look great on paper like in mid to late December, but maybe
29:37
mid to late January, maybe they're making some noise you
29:40
didn't expect. We've got like 2 minutes left
29:42
and I got to get two more questions.
29:44
I got to ask you about Iowa State, a top five team in
29:47
basketball, and then I want you to switch to football if you
29:50
would. I do not buy BYU, but there they
29:53
are, unbeaten. I did not think they'd beat
29:55
Utah. They killed him.
29:56
I didn't kill him, but they beat him.
29:57
They beat him handily. I was shocked that Texas Tech
30:00
went down. So how do you see the top of
30:02
football and where do you have Iowa State as far as men's
30:05
basketball? Well, I, you know, I was
30:08
actually talking to Kirby Hoka just a little while ago, the
30:11
athletic director of Texas Tech. I did not ask him a tortilla
30:13
question. That's been done to death.
30:16
But we were talking about the football race and you know, he,
30:18
you know, obviously they took that loss to Arizona State, but
30:21
that's not a bad loss for them because Arizona State's a good
30:23
team. I've been writing about this for
30:25
the last couple of weeks. Based on what happened last
30:27
year. If you have 0 losses or one loss
30:30
in conference, you still very much control your own destiny.
30:33
If you have two or more losses, then you're really dependent
30:36
upon other people to find a way in.
30:38
So Iowa State at this point with two conference losses, they're
30:41
dependent on A, winning out from here.
30:44
They they can't lose another game and B, they're going to
30:46
need some help because some of their tiebreakers are really
30:48
bad, like the tiebreaker to Cincinnati.
30:50
That's really bad to lose to a team like that on the road.
30:53
That doesn't help them from that standpoint.
30:55
They need Cincinnati basically to lose 3 games for them to have
30:58
a chance in a tiebreaker situation against them.
31:00
So, you know, that's where I see Iowa State right now.
31:03
They've got to win out. If they lose one more game, then
31:06
any realistic chance of making the Big 12 championship game
31:08
done. I think, you know, I worry about
31:11
the health of their team overall.
31:13
They've lost some guys that were really key for them.
31:15
I think that's going to make things difficult for them down
31:17
the stretch. As for the basketball team, I
31:19
was looking at that roster the other night.
31:21
I really like that roster. I love what TJS put together.
31:24
He's got just enough experience in scoring from last year to
31:27
give them continuity. He's got really good guys coming
31:30
in from the transfer portal. I think he has more depth, more
31:33
scoring depth inside than he's had in the last few years.
31:36
I think that's a big differentiator for them and I
31:38
think it's going to make them highly competitive in the
31:40
conference and and quite frankly highly competitive nationally.
31:43
Matt Poston's Heartland College Sports, he's in Kansas City for
31:46
women's media day. He'll have updates at Heartland
31:49
College Sports both today and tomorrow.
31:51
Matt, hopefully we'll have more time to recap it with you next
31:54
week if your schedule allows and do some football as well.
31:56
Thanks for popping on. Sorry to take you away from the
31:59
press conference. Thanks Matt Poston's appreciate
32:01
it. Thanks guys.
32:03
Appreciate. It good to talk to you Matt
32:04
Poston's heartland college sports Elliot Clef next on the
32:08
Hawkeyes as they meet the media today it's the Iowa sports radio
32:11
network. Hi Millory Condon, welcome back
32:15
Iowa Sports Radio Network, Des Moines Sports Station One O 6.3
32:19
KXNO and 1460 on the AM dial. Don't want to forget about that?
32:23
No. Hell no.
32:25
I started here. Let's get to Elliot Clef,
32:28
hawkeyeinsider.com, part of 24/7 Sports.
32:32
Hello, Elliot. Thank you as always for doing
32:34
this. Who did you meet with here
32:36
earlier today? And a take away or two.
32:40
I forgot to look at the media availability.
32:42
Did was Gronowski available today?
32:45
He was, Yep, spoke with him, spoke with Xavier Wampa and then
32:49
Kayden Wegen as well. Oh, pretty good trio.
32:51
Good trio. Well, let's start with the
32:53
quarterback and obviously it was really good to see.
32:58
I think Hawkeye fans needed that after the last couple of years.
33:02
Is still the the passing ability not quite where he wants it to
33:06
be. I'm sure the success, I guess
33:08
with the passing, the football. But boy, oh boy, it was good to
33:11
see him using his legs. How did he come out of the game?
33:15
Yeah, regarding the passing game, I think everybody's on the
33:19
same page that it's not where it needs to be.
33:22
But again, I don't know if you saw my my tweet either, you
33:24
guys, but Mark mentioned it today too.
33:26
He finished nine of 10 to finish the game, 9 of 10 for 56 yards,
33:31
only two passes in the second-half, which according to
33:35
the guys that we talked to and, and I mean, everybody could see
33:37
it with their eyes, the run game working pretty damn well in the
33:40
second-half. So, so really no need to go
33:42
through the air at that point. But Mark seems like he's
33:47
continuing to reject, you know, on a good trajectory going
33:49
forward health wise. I know you guys asked, it was
33:52
either last week or a couple weeks ago about where he's at
33:55
his health and if there's a possibility he's going to be
33:57
back at 100%. I did ask him that question
34:00
today and he said he's hoping he's back at 100% by the Oregon
34:04
game on November 8th. He didn't say the Oregon game,
34:06
but that that's where things are at.
34:08
Hoping that that bye week helps them continue to to rehab and
34:13
and get back at 100%. He said he has been moving
34:15
forward. He did say as well that he felt
34:18
like initially when the injury was happening, he wasn't able to
34:20
follow through quite as well on all of his Bros.
34:24
But now it's just about to be being on the same page with all
34:27
the all the receivers and such in the passing game and maybe
34:30
getting a little bit more comfortable early on.
34:32
And that goes for them as well. So a couple different things
34:35
from Mark there and hoping that he's healthy and then just
34:38
continuing to get on the same pages as receivers through the
34:40
air. Xavier Wampa maybe had his best
34:42
game at a Hawkeye uniform. Not only that, he was doing it
34:45
with blood coming out of his ear.
34:47
What stitches that got ripped off during the course of the
34:49
game? I saw the video that you had up
34:51
there LA that that doesn't look pretty on the year of Wampa.
34:55
No, no, He said he lost count on how many stitches that they put
34:58
in there after the game, too. So yeah, they're just in there
35:01
during the game trying to put padding on, extra padding on
35:03
there to stop the bleeding. And I guess they're going to
35:05
change his helmet to give him a little bit bigger of a helmet
35:08
and then tie down or like tighten down a screw or
35:11
something like that. He said had some things to
35:13
figure out equipment wise, but the staff's working on it.
35:16
He said he should be good to go from here, but I guess we'll see
35:19
because that's two games in a row where he had a RIP in his
35:22
ear after the game. I I was like, you just hitting
35:24
people too hard. And he goes, I guess.
35:26
So yeah, I guess they just got to got to figure out the
35:30
equipment stuff there for for and.
35:32
Kaden Wegen was also part of the media availability today.
35:36
He continues to move up the ranks, I think, as to where he
35:40
ranks in the in the Ference era amongst kick returners.
35:44
He's so darn gifted and I love the fact that Lester's now
35:47
incorporating him more in the offense.
35:50
Does he even want to get more involved?
35:52
It was up to him. Oh yeah, I'm sure he would want
35:55
the ball every play if it was up to him.
35:57
But yeah, I know getting the ball in the backfield is
36:01
basically a running back, a daddy, you know, speedy running
36:05
back in the backfield has been something that he's really
36:07
liked. It was a conversation he and and
36:10
and Lester had a few weeks ago. And, you know, they're they're
36:14
happy to keep it rolling. It's been working and and yeah,
36:18
I mean, we didn't actually said he played running back in high
36:20
school. So he said it's been sort of a
36:21
seamless transition. He's still, you know, he's still
36:24
that return man being the mid season watch list for the Jet
36:27
Award and winning it last year. That's still his specialty.
36:30
But yeah, I didn't know he played running back in high
36:32
school. Didn't know that until today.
36:33
And then, of course, became a receiver at Iowa Western and
36:36
then here at Iowa. But yeah, they're they're using
36:38
him a lot out of the backfield and they're happy to keep it
36:40
going. Mix things up too, Like when
36:42
you're running the ball that well, teams are going to figure
36:45
out a way to stop you, you know, load the box and such.
36:47
But his speed and ability to get to the outside really adds
36:51
another layer to this offense, especially when when they're not
36:54
passing the ball particularly well.
36:56
So this is really an intriguing addition, a new layer to this
37:00
offense that that Lester has figured out.
37:03
The battle for the Pig this week Minnesota and you saw the return
37:07
of Darius Taylor last week and as he goes, certainly this
37:10
Minnesota team goes. What did the guys have to say
37:13
about the Gophers matchup this week?
37:15
Playing for the Pig? Yeah, Expectations are that it's
37:19
going to be physical. You know, I actually had this
37:22
conversation with my fiance the other night about Darius Taylor
37:25
watching the Nebraska, Minnesota game, is that he's always really
37:28
good. And then they play Iowa and he's
37:30
not very good anymore. And I mean, seriously, like, go
37:33
back and look at the stats. I don't know that he's done much
37:35
of anything against Iowa in his career with Minnesota last year,
37:39
of course, the cable Johnson game.
37:41
But one thing that Logan Jones is that it and Xavier Wampa
37:45
said, for that matter, it's one of the more physical games that
37:48
they play all year. And I mean, they're playing in
37:49
the Big 10. So things are going to be
37:51
physical. But this is a rivalry.
37:53
This is a game where both teams want to come home with with the
37:56
trophy. And and yeah, they're not
37:58
they're not messing around. I mean, the history is there
38:01
with this this rivalry, especially going back two years
38:04
ago. And I'm sure that the Hawks went
38:05
avenge that game, especially in Kennick Stadium.
38:08
What did you think? We got like 30 seconds left.
38:10
What did you think of Drake Lindsay when you're watching the
38:13
football game? Well, I only got to watch like
38:16
one or two clips because I had to watch or head out and watch
38:20
watch some high school football for prep Redstone.
38:22
But I have heard some good things.
38:24
I haven't watched him too much extensively.
38:27
That'll be something I do a little bit more of this week.
38:29
What did you guys? I thought I was really
38:31
impressed. He's a big dude.
38:32
You know where he's going to be. He's going to be in the pocket.
38:34
He's not a threat to run, but he can sling it a little bit and
38:36
the trench, right, Like 6566. Kind of Nate Stanley.
38:40
Like, yeah, good. That's a good one.
38:42
That's good. Good stuff, Elliot.
38:43
We're out of time, buddy. Thanks for doing this, as
38:45
always. I just looked at your picture of
38:47
Wampke's ear, man. Oh, my God.
38:50
Nasty. Good stuff, Elliot.
38:52
Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it.
38:54
Absolutely. Thank Dad.
38:55
Yeah, talk to you next week, Elliot Cleff, 24/7 Sports,
38:58
hawkeyeinsider.com as he updates us on what's going on this
39:02
morning and I was sitting. He will meet with Cook Ferris,
39:05
as the rest of the media will, in about 50 minutes from now.
39:09
Conradi reading Bussy's transcript of Matt Campbell.
39:13
Looks like he's gonna play, yeah.
39:15
And Carson? And Carson Hansen as well.
39:18
So those are the positives coming up out of Iowa State's
39:21
meet availability. Baseball conversation kicks off
39:24
our two Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com, Miller and Condon
39:27
on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.