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Packers roll, Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & Mike Palm from Circa Sports joins · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Right. Good afternoon.
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Welcome Miller and Condon on a football Friday.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network emanating from Des
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Moines sports station 106.3 KX and notes Trent Condon and Ken
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Miller to talk sports with you for the next couple of hours.
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And we appreciate you being with us wherever you're listening in
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the state of Iowa or anywhere on the I Heart app.
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Here's what's coming up with Trent and I In 20 minutes.
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We will have Tom Caker join us from hawkeyereport.com.
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The men's basketball non con schedule was released earlier
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this morning. Guessing that'll go over well
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with my Co host. It is.
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I I haven't complained about non conference scheduling in eight
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years. No, it's been only a couple.
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No, it's been more than that since they changed the debt
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system. When you play those tomato cans,
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when you have the BI games, it gets to hurt the RPI system.
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That was my push back. And when Freya McCaffrey would
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put out those garbage non conference schedules, it wasn't
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that. It was that you were playing the
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worst of the worst. And they are.
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And on top of it, those games hurt you when it came to
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strength the schedule when it changed to the net system where
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margin of victory and efficiency numbers are in there, that
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doesn't matter if you win those games by 3040 fifty points that
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is actually. Good for you.
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Well, it hurts the fan base. We'll put we'll leave it at that
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because it is AP, but I get what they're doing and it does make
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sense. But I used to like you and
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Canker getting into each other over that that topic here in the
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past anyways. And I was right.
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Maybe. Yeah, I agree with you.
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It was. It was awful.
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The year they got sent to Dayton that they would have played a
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better non conference schedule. If they would have played their
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by games were against decent teams, they wouldn't have been
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in Dayton that year. We'll talk to Tom Caker, then
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we'll talk to Mike Pommel, head up to Las Vegas, find out how
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these Thursday Night Football was for Circa as well as taking
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a look at some of the other numbers.
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By the way, if you are a Circa Iowa customer, you probably
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received the e-mail. If you did, make sure you open
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it because their app is about to change.
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We've been hearing that they've been upgrade this app and it
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sounds as though Iowa is maybe one of the 1st to go when it
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comes to this. So if you're a circuit customer,
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check that e-mail as it's going to require you to download the
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new app coming up here at the end of the month.
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But we'll pick Mike's brain on that when he joins us at 12:40.
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Bama, Bob, Trenton, I will go over a handful of college
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football games. We'll do that to kick off our
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number 2 and then we will make our picks before we vacate the
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premises and make way for off the bench with Sean Roberts and
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Lucas Strain football Friday night.
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Tonight the crew will be on the air at 6:00.
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I think they're covering 8 games in in central Iowa.
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Trent will be at Valley for Urbandale and Valley tonight.
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You can hear that game on the Bull 96.9 over on the FM dial,
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but if you're listening in Des Moines, you're already on the FM
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dial so just head down the dial. Old habits die hard.
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I do miss the 1460 I wonder if people still listen to.
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That they still do, yeah. They yeah, they're still.
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I know I would be there if I was a radio listener.
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You like the little extra static?
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Well. No, it's just old school.
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I guess you know where sports talk was for so many years.
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And but look at FM is the right thing.
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Anyways, I want to start with the Green Bay Packers because
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this team and in particular and syndicate Dave syndicate head
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cheese.com, he joins us talk Packers.
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He's our Packers guy talked about that defense yesterday and
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I don't recall seeing Jayden Daniels at any time, whether it
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be at LSU or since he got to here into the NFL two years ago
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being, I don't want to say taken out of the game, but he
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certainly and he threw a couple of touchdowns going to give him
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credit for that. But he didn't look like he was
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having his way with this particular defense last night.
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And Michael Parsons, he's a difference maker.
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And I and I thought it would the the reaction to the line was way
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over the top when it moved from 19 to 1 to 11 to one in the
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Super Bowl market. Boom, instantly being a non
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quarterback and you're going to see that big of a drop.
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But man, oh man, he's a difference maker on the field,
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whether he's getting to the quarterback or not.
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He was outstanding. Jordan Love has looked very
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solid. He.
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Really has. He looks like the guy we saw at
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the end of the year 2 years ago. And this defense is elite.
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And it's not just the Parsons part of it.
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There's a lot more that goes into it.
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The way those linebackers go. Daniels hasn't looked very good
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now two weeks in a row. And yeah.
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You saw him last week. I didn't against the Giants.
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We used to look at sophomore slumps and the like and you
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wonder. You're just left wondering week,
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week number. One the sophomore slumps, Drake
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may didn't look good right? Well, Knicks did not look good.
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McCarthy didn't look good. We didn't have a didn't have a
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freshman campaign, so to speak. We'll see where it goes.
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But I'm I'm anxious to see because this guy was setting the
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league on fire and was already being anointed as a top five
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quarterback in the league. We're two weeks into it.
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Washington came up against a real juggernaut last night.
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That's my take away on this that right Excuse me right now, the
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team from Wisconsin looks as though they're the best team in
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the North from what I've seen thus far.
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And it's them Eagles. Could you bet anybody else right
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now in the NFC that you'd feel comfortable with?
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It's those two, but I might sprinkle a little Buccaneer
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money in because I still, I'm still on Tampa, nobody out West.
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I wish I didn't have all those Rams tickets.
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I don't feel good about those. Obviously, the Niners worth
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their injuries. The Cardinals are going to mess
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around, win 9 or 10 football games and maybe sneak into the
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playoffs. But they'll draft 19th or 20th.
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Nobody else in the South. Well, we'll see Atlanta on on
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Sunday night against the Vikings.
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No, the answer is no, Trent. I think you're, I think you're
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right. Maybe I want to see a little
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more JJ McCarthy. I'll, I'll, I'll hold off on
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that, but it seems like right now it's the Eagles and it's the
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Packers. Yeah, right.
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And I can't say that in the AFC. I think there's a bunch of teams
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in the. AFC a lot more wide open it
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feels like over there. And yeah, that's a great start
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by Green Bay. It really is.
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Was impressed in Week 1, maybe even more impressed a Week 2
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short week, being able to do that against a Washington team.
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I think we both thought were going to hang around at minimum
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and they just completely took it out of it.
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So it's they got the running game with Jacobs.
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I think he got the pieces there. I, I think it was, I don't know
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if it was on the broadcast last night or if I heard of somebody
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else. The Packers don't have a #1
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receiver, but boy, they got a bunch of #2 and number.
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Three. They do.
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That's true. And the depth that they have
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there, they try to get Golden involved.
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Missed him on that. Deep shot by an inch.
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Just missed on that one. His speed is going to be a
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factor though this season as he can see them using and the
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floor. We're a good coach.
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Uh huh. And Jalen Reed is going to be up
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for how long now? Collarbone broken.
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Is that month six weeks? I don't know something.
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I'm just guessing. I'm just guessing.
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But yeah, if they can, if they can find a a receiver, maybe a
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cornerback, this team looks really, really good.
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And obviously health is going to play a big role into things.
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But man, oh man, it's it's it's great.
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Look, we've been fortunate for what we do.
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We've had, quote, one of our regional teams go a long way
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year after year after year. And maybe, if it's not the
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Chiefs this year, maybe it's the Green Bay Packers.
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Will keep the local quote. Local interest peaked right
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through the end. Or maybe they'll collide in the
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Super Bowl. You'd love that.
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No, I wouldn't because then I've been wrong again.
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This is a big spot for the Chiefs this week.
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You think so? I do.
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I do. Do you see them falling to Owen
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to? Evidently, you don't.
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No, I I think they do. You think they do?
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Yeah, I like the Eagles this week, but the Ravens started
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Owen two last year and they were fine and they were a Andrew's
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drop away but. What if the Eagles put it to
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him? I I can't, I can't get there.
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We've seen it before. We've seen slow starts out of
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this organization. I just believe too much in
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Patrick Mahomes to be hitting the panic button even if they
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get blown off the field. 3113 and something like that.
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Now last year in the Super Bowl, they weren't able to get any
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pressure at all against Jalen Hurts week one against Herbert,
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he was just sitting back there hopping in the pocket as Herbert
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does and firing whenever he wanted to.
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If that continued was that's where my concern is.
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It's not about the offensive side.
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It's not about Mahomes. It's defensive.
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No, no concern about Kelsey. No, no.
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I mean, I thought he looked fine on Friday night.
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It is. They're going to be OK there
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because they have 15. But the, I guess, secret formula
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is what Chris Jones and that defense has been able to do
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during the last eight years. And if they've taken a step
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back, coupled with the offense not as dynamic as it once was,
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that's when the concern starts to come in.
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We'll see. But I I think they're I think
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they're destined to be owned too.
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I really do. I think the Eagles are just a
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better football team and Jalen Carter's going to be on the
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field and he's a difference maker.
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Don't spit on anybody. Don't spit on anybody.
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I'm guessing he's been well coached.
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No, he hasn't. He's been coached for a long
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time and he's a knucklehead. No, he is.
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There's no doubt about that. Big, big game, obviously.
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And is that a Fox game? Good question.
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I think I heard that. It is a Fox game.
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Speaking of that, the maps are out over at Five O 6 Sports, so
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we can see what we're getting here.
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So Fox has the double dip, obviously.
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So game one CBS single header this week.
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OK, hang on a second. Yep, hang on a second.
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The whole state of Iowa's going to get this, so everyone's
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listening across the state, regardless of what market you're
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in, you're going to be given. So here are your choices.
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Jacksonville Cincy Charger, Tennessee New England Miami
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Buffalo Jets Cleave Bolt. That's the early window for CBS.
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They also have the Rams Tennessee game, though it is
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because, remember, we're dealing in a different world than we
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once did. But the the Rams, Tennessee
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game, they've got, too. Yes, they do.
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That's Iron Eagle and JJ Watt on the call for that one.
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I don't even see that game listed.
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It's there, they're playing it. Oh, Rams, Tennessee.
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There it is. I don't know, skipped right over
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it. We get Buffalo Jets.
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We do. Nance and Robo will be there for
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that one. So the whole state, you're going
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to get Buffalo Jets. Jets hang around against that
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crappy defense. Number six and a half, six big
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number and Oliver's out and Oliver's out and Oliver's out
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and he was phenomenal, I thought, against Baltimore.
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Yeah, I think they'll hang around.
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Hang around. Fields will make some plays, so.
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So what's late? There's CBS has a so it's so
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what's the Fox game? The Fox.
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Window is. Is Giants, Cowboys.
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Well, no. Fox has one game late.
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Everybody in the country is getting Philadelphia, Kansas.
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So who has the double header? The double header is for Fox, so
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the Fox early game is what we're talking about.
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Yeah, and that's what I'm going over.
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Giants, Dallas. Yes, and you can.
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Stop right there. It's bears.
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It's bears. Detroit, it has Bears, Detroit,
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everybody will get that across the upper Midwest and everybody
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in our market. So I put a easy week, no?
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It is an easy week. I agree with you.
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Yeah, it's an easy week. Television networks didn't have
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to twist themselves to make the wrong decision this week.
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Does it say who's doing the early Tampa Bay Houston?
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I mean where are Buck and Aikman I guess is my question.
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Let's go to let's see if we can find Monday night broadcast.
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Here we go. Early window, that is ESPNN,
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ABC6 O'clock kick off with Tampa at Houston.
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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will be there for that one.
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Your late team on ESPN for chargers or radars in Vegas, it
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will be Chris Fowler along with Dan Orlowski and Lewis Riddick.
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That's pretty good. Not bad.
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Yep, that's pretty good. I think.
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Fowler is good I think. Fowler is good, yes, very solid.
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He. Is he is and I was bitching and
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moaning when when he took over from.
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So you. Of Musburger, but Fowler very
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quickly made it believe. Look, he's had a great career.
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Didn't Chris Fowler start on ESPN with some high school show?
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He did, absolutely. Yeah, like back in the.
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Scholastic. Something something America,
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maybe That sounds about right. Yes, absolutely.
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When did? Was that a nine?
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It had to be 9. Because I was here.
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So I wouldn't have got an ESPN, man.
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No, it must have been Scholastic Sports America.
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And he did the show from Boulder.
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Didn't you grow up in Denver or Boulder went to Colorado or
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something? Anyways, well, good stuff.
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So that's your lineup for for the week and a pretty good
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lineup after that. So Tom Caker will join us on the
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other side of this. Did you struggle as far as
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coming up with your games to put in our pick contest?
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Do you like the picks? Do you like the games this week
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from a betting perspective? I got another 1520 games I'll be
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betting this weekend. It's it's not a problem about me
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finding 5, it's me paring down to five.
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That's always my issue. Your favorite 5.
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Yes, my favorite 5. What do you like better?
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This. What do you feel better at this
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week, College or NFL? I like them both.
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I like both cards I mentioned Week 2, my favorite in the NFL.
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Overreaction doesn't feel quite as immense this week.
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For whatever reason, it doesn't this.
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Chair. But I I got a ton of games and
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I'll be betting a lot this weekend and hopefully we'll be
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in the green. We'll see where it goes.
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I'm, I did not like the college slate from a betting
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perspective. I kind of like a couple of NFL
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games more than some of the others.
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We'll get to that coming up here at about oh, quarter or so
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before quarter before 2145 ish. We will make our picks.
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Do you know where we stand in the head to head midday show
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versus afternoon drive? Well, I finally helped out last
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week. I got a couple of wins, so I
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only got one. That was an improvement.
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So you had two? I had two.
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And I was lipping off and I went one and. 41 and 4.
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So between the two of us, we had three.
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Yes, we have combined now for what, 8 victories on the year
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out of 20 picks? Not going to make money.
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Do no and the and the and Shawn and Lucas had one after the
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first week. Right.
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So, but did between the two of them, did they come up with
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seven or no? I.
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Don't think so. I don't think they had a great.
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So we're still in. We're still in front.
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We're in control all. Right.
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He put three wins out of 10 picks and we're in control.
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Let's get to Mike. He's in Waterloo.
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This should be good. Hello, Mike, How are you?
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Oh, pretty good guys. You know that 11 and one record
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I predicted? Yeah, it seems so.
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You're still alive, baby. You're still alive.
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Hey, you know, I'd like to thank you and I for giving us these
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great assistant coaches. You know, we got Green and
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Crawford and basketball. We got that offensive line
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coach. Now we got Bryce Pop Pop and you
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noticed improvement from 1:00 to 3:00 on their defensive line and
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we thought that was going to be a weak spot.
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But I tell you by the end of the year, these guys are going to
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get 3 or 4 sacks the game and I think. 3 or 4, Mike, they have
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two all year. What they give the Iowa game?
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Did we get 3 or 4? Well, you got 2 on the final
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possession. Oh, that's.
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Right. Bryce Pop was one of the
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greatest. He's a phenomenal player.
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Yeah, he was. And it's just going to, he's
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going to coach these guys hard. And I think Campbell knows he's
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got a team that can go to the playoffs.
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I really do. And he's coaching them hard.
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And you know, those two wide receivers have been 500 meter
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guys and I think we're going to get about 3 or 480 yard pass
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plays this year. What do you guys think?
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I think maybe 5 or 6 the way these.
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Well, I will say to Kenny 11 to one look.
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No, Mike, you're looking great. You, you absolutely are.
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You look like you had a pretty good feel for this squad going
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into the year. You know what Who would you
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rather buy stock in next year? The White Sox or the Cubs?
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The Cubs. The Cubs.
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I tell you one thing, have you been watching those whites?
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I have not 5 rookies. You got the next Sammy.
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So while slamming salsa on the team now.
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They their arrow was pointing up, I'll give you that.
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Oh, big time, yeah. I don't disagree.
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Yep, and one more thing, when you get cap on, would you just
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get one question for the White Sox?
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Yeah, we want to keep an audience, Mike.
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All right. Well, thanks.
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Hey buddy, enjoy the game. Good to hear from you Mike in
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Waterloo. He's one of.
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One, he's one of one and we've grateful that he listens to us.
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We'll take a time out, we'll come back and we'll be joined by
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Tom Caker. Caker on the Hawks.
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What do they need expect to see coming in here tomorrow?
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Look forward to that. Miller and Condon underway on a
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football Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Murray Condon, welcome back,
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Iowa Sports Radio Network. Let's get to Tom Cacert,
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hawkeyereport.com. He joins the program.
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Hello, Tom. Trent and Ken's 6:30 or 6:00
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tomorrow night. Big 10 Network has the game
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can't be in front of your TV. It stares down the hall from us
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on News Radio 1040. WHO?
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All right, Tom, let's perfect world this one.
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What would be the best case scenario for the Hawks?
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Convincing win, Quarterback looks good, Backup quarterback
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some gets some time. What would appease the fan base
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if there is such a thing? I don't know if that's
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achievable because I think even if they do throw the ball around
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or. Oh no, we lost him.
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Lost him very quickly, went away.
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Yep, there you are. We lost your mid mid sentence
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there. Yep.
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OK, the, the, you know, the what'll happen is like mass.
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Oh, it's you, you know, that's so I, I think will make people
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happy as if they ball around a little bit, but I don't know
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that they'll be truly happy by it.
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Need to take some shots down the field.
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I think that would certainly be something.
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See that speed out there? Take us back to Tuesday and Kirk
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was asked about the wide receivers going short of the
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sticks and that kind of thing. He seemed frustrated and felt
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like with his wide receiver group did.
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Did you take it the same way? Yeah, I thought there was some
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frustration. I thought there was some
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frustration with special teams. I think there was some of that
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too. So I think there's just some
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general frustration from her, just that things aren't going as
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smoothly as I think he'd probably hoped that they would
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at this point in the year. But you know, they, they just
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had to find a way to do some things differently and get them
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get them better on offense because it's it's a slog right
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now. It just is.
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Then if it, if they come out tomorrow and the UMass game
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looks a lot like the Albany game.
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Oh, it's just, it's going to be Brute.
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It's going to be Brute. Just work.
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I mean, it's just they've got to do something in the first half
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and they've got a, you know, go to half time at like 28, nothing
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or something. People will be like, OK, that's
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good, that's positive. But if it's like, oh, we're
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sitting at, you know, 17/7, everybody's going to be like,
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oh, here we go again, you know? Yeah, I get Phillips involved,
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maybe get him a long pass or maybe Seth Anderson.
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So Tom, and I appreciate you doing this because I know
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nothing about UMass. I can't bring myself to look at
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this team because it's just seemingly when you get by beat
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by Bryant, I mean, help me, what?
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What does UMass do? Do Do well or average, I guess.
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What do they do that might give Iowa difficulty tomorrow?
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They haven't given up any rushing touchdowns this year.
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There you go. How about that?
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They haven't, but they've given up 9 touchdown passes in two
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games to Bryant and Temple. So you better be able.
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To there's there, yeah, you have to be.
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And they're giving up two, I think it was the 297 or 279.
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I can't remember if I'm transposed anyway, close to 300
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yards a game in the air to Temple and Bryant.
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So if I will can't throw the ball against us and they're beat
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up, their backup quarterback is going to be in there.
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A guy transferred from Yale, the best wide receiver, Ty Harding
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is out. So they've really got just one
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receiver. I think 2 of their their two
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starting corners are out too. I think they've got like 7 or 8
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starters that are out. So if Iowa can't # this team, I
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mean, you look at the Sagarin rankings and in the Sagarin
21:01
rankings, I think UMass is like 2 spots ahead of Drake.
21:07
Not in scholarship. Drake, yeah.
21:10
Yeah, give me Woodley's group go get it done.
21:12
Absolutely. So a question for you mention
21:14
the wide receivers, the tight end position, the strength is
21:16
going to be out for the season with the Achilles injury.
21:19
Zach Gortworth admitted that he's not a very good blocker on
21:21
Tuesday. OK, that's eye opening.
21:24
Thomas Meyer heard a lot about him in the recruiting.
21:26
I mean it, I would say it's not very often the Texas A&M and
21:29
Miami are making their way up to Clear Lake, right?
21:31
But they were there looking at him.
21:33
He was on the travel squad. It's a guy that is going to be
21:37
part of the plans eventually. I mean, is it time to take the
21:40
bubble wrap off and say let's see what we got here?
21:43
Ivana made the kid from Carroll Kemper.
21:44
That's another one that's been getting a little bit of buzz.
21:47
Take us into the tight end position.
21:50
Yeah, I would say Meyer is the one I'm intrigued with.
21:53
Also Michael Burt. We kind of just pass over
21:56
Michael Burt, but he was the guy, red shirt freshman.
21:59
He was also travelling this week.
22:01
But I think they've probably got it.
22:03
They were. They were clearly thinking about
22:07
playing Meyer already because he was on the travel roster and
22:11
he's been kind of in that you can kind of tell at the first
22:16
home game like which guys are like, hey, we're just going to
22:18
red shirt this guy probably. And guys that they're kind of
22:21
thinking about because Meyer was always around the huddle out
22:26
during timeouts where like Mason Woods and Eli Johnson, the other
22:31
two freshmen tight ends were on the sidelines, not near the hub.
22:36
So they're clearly kind of getting that guy ready to go.
22:39
And I think you just got to take the take the rap off of him, as
22:42
you said, and just let him play and see what he can do because I
22:45
think they really like him. You know, it's going to help the
22:49
offense too. And they eventually get
22:51
Vanderzee. I mean, Gronowski admitted that
22:54
Vanderzee was like one of his favorite guys to throw to.
22:57
And, you know, now he doesn't have him and, and Marmolton, the
23:02
top running backs been out. So I mean, there's there is some
23:05
extenuating circumstances, but they still should if, if this
23:11
thing's not if they don't cover the 35, something's wrong I
23:15
think. Over under 1 1/2 punts for
23:17
Dakin. He might get to.
23:21
You think so? I take the under.
23:23
I don't even. Know if he will or I Yeah, they
23:26
might be that bad though. This might be one of the worst
23:28
teams that's ever come in to camp.
23:29
Oh my God, that's pathetic. Let me so let's So let me ask
23:32
you about Moulton and Vanzi. What's what's the problem?
23:37
Any chance they play Friday at Rutgers?
23:40
Don't know they've Anderson. We saw him last week and he was
23:46
still in a boot. So that's one of the things
23:48
we're going to check on Saturday is if he's still in a boot and
23:51
if he's out of the boot, then maybe you got a chance to get
23:53
him ready. I think one of the interesting
23:56
things too this week is, you know, do they just with it's a
24:01
short turn around? I mean, you're playing a
24:03
Saturday night game and then you got to travel and you got a
24:06
Friday night game. So you got the wind.
24:08
It's not like you're playing at 11 AM.
24:10
You can get off your feet and be done by 2:30 and rest up on
24:13
Saturday. It's, you know, it's late until
24:15
the night, so I'm going to be curious if they start shoveling
24:20
in some guys fairly quickly. Kirk goes to the second unit
24:24
fairly quickly on Saturday if they can get a pretty
24:28
significant lead and just kind of cruise in to the finish line.
24:32
Iowa This is not very Iowa defense like they are sitting
24:36
with just two tax sacks on the season, 4 consecutive games
24:40
without an interception. First time since 2014 that has
24:43
been the case getting the. Count this weekend if they get.
24:46
One, it should because it's been a long time, but what's what's
24:50
happening with the deep? I mean, they look buttoned up,
24:52
they look solid and you know, holding Iowa State to those
24:54
early field goals. There were a lot of good things.
24:56
But those are really major parts of the Phil Parker defense,
25:00
getting the quarterback and getting some picks.
25:02
What's going on there? And yes, hopefully you get it
25:04
done this weekend. But any concern with you when
25:07
you hear those two numbers? Yeah, it is concerning that they
25:11
have not gotten but, but it was last year, the year before they
25:16
were just, they were sitting like 3 games in and had like one
25:19
or two sacks or something and and they end up with 30.
25:22
So it's like they always seem to find a way to get there, but
25:26
they have not gotten it yet. And I think this thing that's
25:28
concerning too is that they just have not created turnovers yet.
25:33
And they've got to in order for Iowa to be successful, they've
25:38
got to be able to create some turnover and get some
25:40
opportunities. And, and they haven't done a
25:43
whole lot on special teams. In fact, you know, Kirk was
25:45
pretty exasperated about the special teams play against Iowa
25:49
State. And, you know, it cost them.
25:52
It really did. I mean, the, the unsportsmanlike
25:54
conduct thing on Ouija and the, the, the, the, IT went by him
26:00
and, and, you know, and then he skated back and got it and lost
26:04
more yardage. I mean stuff like that that that
26:07
really makes it hard It they have to be good in those off 3
26:11
phases in order to win football games against seems like Iowa
26:13
State. And didn't do it on Saturday.
26:16
Tom will let you go on this. Iowa basketball has released
26:18
their non conference schedule. I know when I talked to McCullum
26:21
a couple weeks back, he said they were still struggling to
26:24
find that final game or maybe some frustration.
26:26
Do you know that they I can't tell?
26:28
I don't remember, it was one of the ones towards the end.
26:30
I think it was one of the December games, but kind of
26:32
difficult at that point. They put it together.
26:34
Give us a take away. Two on the men's hoop schedule.
26:38
Yeah, I know he they were struggling to find that one more
26:42
game and finally got it. So that's good that they've got
26:46
that done. I like it.
26:48
You know, they, they've got the the MTE thing and they're going
26:51
to play old Miss and maybe they'll play, you know, Utah,
26:55
you know, Grand Canyon still, I think a pretty solid program and
27:00
Xavier's a good, solid program and Richard Pitino there.
27:03
So, you know, he's going to put a good team out there on the on
27:06
the floor and and Iowa State on the road.
27:09
I mean, there's, there's some meat to it, at least some names
27:12
that we we recognize. At least it's not directional
27:16
school, state schools, South Carolina upstate not on the
27:20
schedule this year. So.
27:22
Good stuff. Tom Kegard Hot.
27:23
Guy here's a here's a fun here's a fun note for you guys.
27:26
Iowa hasn't. Iowa quarterback hasn't thrown
27:28
for over 200 yards in the game since Illinois State last year.
27:31
Good God. Have we watched them all?
27:35
Maybe will has to happen this? Week, if we can get that this
27:38
weekend. What a high ball.
27:40
This weekend. When do you leave for Rutgers,
27:42
Tom? Thursday.
27:44
Thursday. Good stuff.
27:45
Yeah, so I'll be out there Friday, so.
27:46
Awesome. We'll be good.
27:47
Good stuff. Talk to you then.
27:48
Thank you, Tom Caker. OK.
27:50
Yep. Thanks guys.
27:50
Tom Caker, hawkeyereport.com All right, Mike Palm is next off to
27:54
Las Vegas, by the way, the Chicago White Sox.
27:56
Mike in Waterloof, you're still listening.
27:58
Best record in baseball in September.
28:00
Wow. How about those White Sox errors
28:02
pointing up? I agree.
28:03
Mike Palm is next. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
28:05
Sports Radio Network. I'm Hillary convin welcome back
28:19
Iowa sports radio network with you until 2O clock let's head to
28:22
Las Vegas. Mike Palm is the vice president
28:25
of operations at circus sports and Iowa native born raised in
28:29
Dubuque and he joins us Mike Trenton Ken good to speak with
28:32
you. Where I want to start with you
28:34
is got an e-mail yesterday as a customer of Circus Sports Iowa.
28:40
Sounds as though the the app will be changing.
28:44
It's been rumoured for some time, but I we have to by
28:47
September 30th it will be live. And if you are a a circuit
28:51
customer in Iowa, have to go to the App Store, download the new
28:54
app and away we go. Changes are coming.
28:57
Mike Palm. Yeah, that's good.
28:59
It's a good thing. This is the the tech we've been
29:02
developing the last few years, which will have many of the
29:07
features that the other larger companies have such as same game
29:12
parlays and cash out options and much more end game offerings.
29:18
So we're excited to roll it out. I was the first state, will do
29:22
it in Colorado at the end of October and roll it out in
29:25
Missouri on December 1st. That'll be excellent.
29:28
A lot of different bells and whistles that are going to be a
29:31
part of it. How different does it make it
29:33
for your guys's operation behind the scenes for, you know, the
29:36
people that are working those live lines that you guys have
29:39
had now for a number of years, but kind of the other pieces,
29:41
they're more difficult. Is it going to take more
29:44
manpower? How different is you compared to
29:46
the behemoths that are out there and what they obviously have
29:49
kind of back behind the book? No, it's, it's more difficult
29:52
for us now because we're doing so much stuff manually and and
29:56
when we move a number, we have to move it manually in each
30:00
state. And so this automates a lot of
30:04
it. Although we won't have every
30:06
state on the new tech until Nevada is sometimes second
30:09
quarter next year, then it will really be smooth.
30:13
So for now, you're going to have some of the continuous end game
30:19
that's, you know, generated through algorithms, but you'll
30:23
also have us handbooking some of the games as well.
30:26
So you might see two different in game lines with different
30:30
limits obviously when you're betting live sports.
30:33
Before we get into the games, anxious to see how the Packers
30:37
were for you guys. Changes also coming to to
30:40
Fremont Street and Nevada's oldest hotel.
30:43
That's the Golden Gate, which is right out the front doors of
30:46
your Fremont Street entrance across the street.
30:49
Maybe 20 hearts to the not sure the direction to the to the
30:52
right when you would leave the building is the Golden Gate, the
30:55
oldest property in Nevada and what what a promotion you guys
31:00
are going to launch Mike with that, with that free hour from
31:03
six until 7. Why don't you tell us more about
31:07
that, because that should peak some people's interest.
31:10
Yeah. So we took out the table games,
31:13
looked at the reality is the rising cost of Labor with the
31:16
minimum wage going up 75% every year.
31:19
Nevada is not one of those states where you calculate the
31:21
tips into the minimum wage. So it goes up whether 80% of
31:25
your income is tips or not. And so we just moved that labor,
31:29
that table games labor to Circa and the D so nobody lost their
31:31
job but used it where you get a little more bang for the man
31:35
hour buck. So in place of the table games
31:39
will be electronic table games. We're also looking at expanding
31:42
the high limit slot area over there and be making a high limit
31:46
lounge where table games was. But every night from 6:00 to
31:49
7:00 PM starting and next Friday the 19th, every single night we
31:57
will have an open bar from 6:00 to 7:00 PM.
32:00
And yeah, you will be able to go to the Players Club and you'll
32:09
be able to go to Players Club and pick up an envelope.
32:11
And in that envelope will be from anywhere from 5 to $1000 in
32:15
pre play. Every night, drink free six to
32:18
seven. Yeah, that's right.
32:21
I can get my money's worth on that I.
32:23
Think a lot of people will. I think a lot of people will
32:25
start to start the night there. Mike, how about that?
32:29
We hope so, and that's what the name of the promotion is.
32:31
The night starts here, so we're hoping to get a lot of people to
32:35
come down. Sure.
32:36
Will there be some people just trying to beat us for free
32:38
drinks and free play? Yeah, but you could be able to
32:40
weed them out pretty quick. Let's get into the games this
32:43
weekend Mike, and talk some football with you.
32:45
Love the promotion, love the idea and I always make a stop.
32:47
For saying about the new app. Yes, no doubt, and we will be
32:51
talking about that here in the next coming weeks.
32:54
Let's get into the local front. Iowa State, tricky spot.
32:58
They make their way down to Jonesboro to take on Arkansas
33:01
State and then Iowa, a huge favorite at home against UMass.
33:05
What are you seeing in the betting market for the Hawkeyes
33:07
and Cyclones? Well, I was very interesting
33:10
because it's 35 and 44. So I mean, they're 36, you know,
33:17
42, you can't get there, right? I mean 38, 38 to 6, he doesn't
33:25
get there. And I mean, so the implied total
33:27
for you Mass is they're not going to get more than a field
33:29
goal, obviously. So I mean 2 field goals would go
33:32
over there. Implied total.
33:34
So there's not a lot of action on that game.
33:35
There's been some on Iowa State that number fluctuating a little
33:39
bit between 21 1/2 and 20 1/2. And right now we're at 21.
33:43
So some action there. It's kind of, you know,
33:46
obviously a let down spot to go to Arkansas State after the big
33:49
win in the end in the Seihawk game.
33:52
Want to go to switch to the NFL because you guys had a couple of
33:55
really major movement odds wise and in particular the first one
33:59
I saw was the Colts in Denver. There were still some 2 1/2's
34:02
out there. I think you guys were at one at
34:05
the time, but you guys were the first to move the Broncos and
34:08
the Colts to a pick em game. It's back up to now.
34:11
Denver favored but by one, but was that a significant bet that
34:15
caused that movement, Mike? A couple limit bets that we took
34:20
on the game on the Colts. I suspected I suspected Denver
34:25
will be 1 or 1 1/2 by the time they kick off.
34:29
Look, my big play last week was the Colts, but it was really
34:32
more about I thought Miami was a train wreck and I thought he'd
34:36
lost the team down there. The, the, the, the mad scientist
34:39
Daniel, which I think it was right.
34:42
I mean, Daniel Jones was looked OK, but they didn't do anything
34:45
particularly great. Miami was just totally inept.
34:49
And then you look at the other side of the coin.
34:50
I really like the this weekend because you know, people said
34:54
all Tennessee was right there with Denver, that the turnover
34:57
margin was 4 to 1. And I don't know if Ball Nicks
34:59
could have played any words. I don't know if Peyton could
35:02
have coached the game any worse and they still beat him by 8 and
35:05
I never really felt they were a threat even though they led in
35:07
the second-half. I think Tennessee is really
35:10
awful and I think the Rams front 4 obviously will pressure Cam
35:13
Ward and he doesn't have anybody that can catch the ball.
35:15
No, that's that's true. Interesting point.
35:17
The other game that's moved to a pick and this will be I have to
35:20
assume, despite the the prime time games, I mean eagles in the
35:24
and the chiefs doesn't get much bigger than that.
35:26
You guys are now at A at a Pick em on that one, Mike.
35:30
Yeah, that's what everybody told me.
35:31
This game would go to a that, you know, way.
35:33
Can the market tolerate the Chiefs being the dog?
35:36
I think they should be the dog. Seven of the last 10 times the
35:41
Super Bowl participants have met the team that won the Super
35:44
Bowl, won the game and covered over the team that lost the
35:47
Super Bowl. I think Philly has a rest edge.
35:50
They edge and rest. They didn't have all the travel,
35:52
although the travel isn't as impactful early in the year is
35:54
late. I don't know where the speed is
35:57
for the Chiefs to try to take the top off the defense.
36:00
Philadelphia dominated them in the Super Bowl.
36:02
I don't know why they're better. I get it.
36:04
Mahomes as a dog almost never loses.
36:06
But I like Philadelphia here. Circus Survivor, almost
36:11
everybody survived in week #1 we're waiting for that carnage,
36:15
that big week that knocks a lot of people out there is a huge
36:18
favorite on the board with Baltimore playing host to
36:20
Cleveland. A lot of people are going to be
36:23
on Arizona, I'm sure this week. Now, you can't tell us
36:25
selections at this point because they're not in.
36:27
But the anticipation, a lot of Ravens or because they have a
36:30
prime time game later in the year, you think people are going
36:33
to be saving them. I think people who didn't use
36:35
Arizona will use Arizona, and the people who used Arizona will
36:39
use the Ravens. I mean, I'm not speaking for
36:41
everyone, but I'm speaking for the majority.
36:44
That would be my theory on this game.
36:45
You would try to say Baltimore. Look, Cleveland's been lucky
36:48
with them, too. People don't like to use
36:50
division games. I know a lot of people probably
36:53
didn't watch Carolina because of that long lightning delay, but
36:56
that game was awful. They were awful.
36:59
Not that Arizona lit up the sky in New Orleans, but I think you
37:04
would feel very comfortable to be shocked if Kyler Murray in
37:06
Arizona lost this game at home. So I think that'll be the
37:10
majority pick. You might see some Rams at
37:13
Tennessee, possibly that that that could be one of the
37:16
selections. And I think you might see some
37:18
Cowboys. Yep.
37:19
If you're looking at them and say we're not going to use them
37:21
on Thanksgiving, when do you get a better spot than having the
37:24
Giants at home? Yeah, Fairpoint, we're going to
37:26
be both. Both our our picks are Ravens,
37:29
Mike, we've never done this before, gone all in with both of
37:32
our picks. But that's what we're doing,
37:34
right or wrong. And I know they play
37:35
Thanksgiving at night hosting Cincinnati, but I it's a
37:39
divisional game as well. We're going both with Baltimore.
37:42
Do you think that that will be the play?
37:45
I mean, overwhelmingly or no, You think the cards will be
37:48
close? I I think they'll be close.
37:50
Do you the Cardinals and the Ravens?
37:52
I do. Couple more on college games.
37:55
Want to see what you see You're alma mater.
37:57
Notre Dame. Huge spot for them.
37:59
Can't afford to go O and two. The rest of the schedule is
38:01
pretty easy. Notre Dame playing host to Texas
38:04
A&M. Yeah, I, I didn't play the game,
38:09
but I guess if I could get 7, I probably would take 7.
38:12
And this spot, look at Texas A&M had gotten any kind of
38:15
quarterback play last year in College Station, they'd have
38:17
beaten Notre Dame. Notre Dame just sort of wore
38:19
them down. They broke a few big runs late.
38:21
I thought A&M was probably the better team for most of that
38:23
game. Notre Dame has the week off to
38:26
prepare here, but I think this is a game that stays inside of 1
38:30
score. I'm not sure I'm still the
38:32
verdicts out for me. I thought Miami totally
38:34
dominated Notre Dame in the opener.
38:36
I don't think the game was as close as the score indicated so
38:39
and I'm really looking forward to Miami against South.
38:41
Florida lot of points, 17 1/2. We'll see where that one ends
38:46
up. What about?
38:46
What about? The game in the middle of the
38:49
day, Georgia, Tennessee. Mike, sounds like Georgia's got
38:52
some significant injury problems in their secondary.
38:55
What did you have any opinion on that game?
38:58
No, none. I don't know anything.
38:59
I never watched either team play Georgia spore.
39:03
I think it's a more of a reputation.
39:06
I mean, I'm a Leyva leaves Tennessee and UCLA is off.
39:09
I mean, we just you and LV just beat them.
39:11
I mean, the UCLA fans were very dejected here at that loss.
39:16
But I stay completely away from that game.
39:18
And that's supposedly like the feature game of the day, right?
39:20
But there are other games that I think are a lot more
39:22
interesting. I think Clemson, Georgia Tech is
39:25
a really interesting game. I think Vandy, South Carolina,
39:27
Arkansas, old mess, all of these games I would rate above that
39:30
Tennessee, Georgia game. The you mentioned that Clemson,
39:34
Georgia Tech, there's been a lot of steam coming in here on
39:36
Georgia Tech. I saw the in the market
39:39
somewhere earlier today moved down to 2 1/2.
39:41
Looks like you guys currently are sitting right at three, that
39:45
key number of three. How important is that in college
39:47
football compared to the NFL? That's just because pickers
39:52
aren't as effective in college, right?
39:54
Some of them are. The kid from Iowa State is
39:57
unbelievable. He might be the best that's been
40:01
in the state of Iowa. I know that's a lot to say, but
40:04
I'm hard pressed to think of somebody who's been better, so
40:09
I. It just isn't as much.
40:13
I think it's much more important in Pro Football when you expect
40:16
to make, you know, 95% of your kicks inside of 40 and and
40:21
probably 50% of them outside of 50.
40:24
So it is and it isn't, right? It is and it isn't.
40:28
Mike Bom, VP of Operation Circus Sports, that's going to do it
40:31
Musics playing the new app coming to Iowa September the
40:35
30th. For you existing and for you
40:37
customers that are still on the fence, Circus Sports new app
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coming September 30th. Mike, enjoy the enjoy the games.
40:43
We'll talk to you next Friday. Thank you.
40:46
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