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Audi Crooks big night, NFL thoughts, Iowa heads to USC, Lee Sterling's Weekly Picks & the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon welcome Miller and Condon on a Thursdays
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  the Iowa Sports Radio Network back to local programming here
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  for the next block of six hours. Glad you're starting it off with
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  myself and Trent Condon is we will talk sports with you Trent
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  We'll turn things over at that point off the bench comes Lucas
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  the football season while college football season.
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  Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports will join us.
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  We will get his plays. He'll pine on a few games before
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  he gives us his game of the week.
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  That coming up here at about 12:30.
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  hour of the show, NFL and College Topics with Dalton and
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  then Stephen M Sipple will join us.
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  The latest on the Huskers as they enter their bye week.
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  Sip joins us every Thursday at 12:30 during the college season
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  and today will be no different. Trent, we'll make some plays
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  before we get out of here. Circa Sports sponsor those about
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  two, 150 or thereabouts, and away we go.
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  We do have Thursday Night Football on air, our airwaves
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  tonight. You can't be in front of your
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  TV. Hockey gone wild.
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  Air's from 6:00 until 7:00 and then the Patriots and The Jets,
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  and that number's now up to 13 in some places, including Circa.
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  That's a lot of points for an NFL game.
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  Are you attempted? I am to.
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  Take or give well. Come on, you know me, I'd be
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  grabbing those points. You're taken.
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  It's coupled with the divisional game.
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  Yep. I just want to see New England.
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  You mentioned that earlier in the week and I think it's a
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  really good point because I've seen them, but it's on red zone,
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  it's not paying. Attention.
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  Yeah. It's not at the same level.
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  Me too, really digging into this team, seeing how good is it just
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  schedule base. But here's the other thing I
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  thought of this yesterday, and we love to talk a lot about, all
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  right, quality wins in college football.
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  Who's got the best win? Indiana's got the best win.
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  That road win against Oregon is as good as anybody, or what
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  Alabama did against Georgia. And you're kind of stacking
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  those up. Does anybody in the NFL have two
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  better Rd. victories than what the New England Patriots have
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  right now at? Buffalo.
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  What was the other one? And at Tampa?
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  Yeah, this week, past weekend. I mean those are two pretty and
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  not just wins. Road victories.
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  No, you're right. Tampa, the division leader,
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  Obviously the Bills the overwhelming.
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  Was there a a shorter price to win their division than the
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  Bills were to win the AFC East prior?
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  To the coming into the year coming.
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  There couldn't have been. No, I don't think so.
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  Because the AFC West people thought that the Chiefs were
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  catching up. Yep, absolutely.
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  Baltimore was still going to have Cincinnati because Borough
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  was around, right? I I it has.
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  To be Oh yeah, I I would guess it was pretty.
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  Significant. Maybe No, because the commanders
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  were a threat. Last year in Washington, yeah,
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  people thought we're going to have another step forward this
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  year. So yeah, probably, I would guess
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  significant, the gap between them and everybody else.
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  The Texans were the favorite in the South, but it wasn't that.
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  Significant. No, because the Colts were, you
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  know, a couple of points behind, but not significant.
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  I haven't. Gone through and looked at
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  everybody and who stacks up where, but I just I think a
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  little bit about New England. I was taking a peek at the game
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  and some numbers and when I did him, man, they got two really
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  nice Rd. victories. Probably nobody else has
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  anything like that, at least off the top of my.
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  Head, I bet a patriot yesterday you did.
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  Drake made to win the MVP. No, I did not.
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  I I'm not going to go there because I because I believe I'm
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  the Stafford. I don't say he's got it locked
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  up, but this is a big game for for him and Darnold this week.
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  I bet Trayvon Henderson to win the rookie of the year because
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  I'm all over Ibuka and I got him a 28 to 1 great shape.
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  Yeah, I feel that. But what, what if Henderson goes
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  bananas? He and as he did last week, he's
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  40 to 1. And now with the Jackson Dart
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  injury, the concussions, yeah, he's done.
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  Yeah, I. Thank you.
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  He's he's not going to play enough games and he's had a heck
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  of a rookie campaign. But I think it's right now Buca
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  is an overwhelming favorite, but he just wanted a little coverage
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  just in case. And I think Henderson now that
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  Stevenson is out and I'm not sure how long he's out for, but
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  how do you he's certainly going to get his opportunity.
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  So I'm anxious to watch it just for what you said, just to kind
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  of get a feel for this Patriots team.
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  I don't think that they're the record says that they should be
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  in the conversation amongst the best in the AFC.
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  We both feel, I don't think I'm putting words in your mouth that
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  the AFC is wide open that there's a handful of teams that
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  can win. And we went over them yesterday.
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  We left out the Colts at first blush, but they absolutely
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  belong. But do the Patriots and and and
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  again, we're not going to see them on their best night because
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  they're playing The Jets. So I don't know what we can
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  glean from it from what, but what I've seen from Drake, May I
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  watch the I watch the buff? Was that a prime timer?
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  It must have been 'cause I watched.
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  It wasn't. Yeah, it was Sunday night.
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  OK, and then that game hard to be not hard not to be impressed
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  by by what you've seen. So for that reason, get a good
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  look at the at the at this team tonight.
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  So normally about this time of year and since we're talking to
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  NFL, we thought about doing this on the way in today.
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  We usually at some point try and pick who's going to be in Sunday
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  Night Football a week 18 Fast forward too.
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  You know, we're double digit weeks into the into the season
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  now and try and come up with who NBC and who the NFL are going to
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  want to put on on Monday night, Sunday Night Football.
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  Because obviously you want the game to have playoff
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  implications. You want as many eyeballs as
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  this thing as they're possibly cancelled.
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  I'll, I won't run through all of them.
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  Detroit, Chicago got a chance. It I don't think it'll have a
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  chance for the division. No, but a chance for Detroit to
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  win the division, the Bears to get a playoff spot, yes, I think
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  that's in the conversation. Yep, got to put that one in the
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  mix of minimum. So I'm not, and the way I'm
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  doing, I think both teams have to matter.
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  That's usually what it is, right?
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  And we've seen a few times where they don't flex to that sunny.
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  Right. I think there's been one for
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  sure. I think there's been two Tesla,
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  OK, which is really disappointing.
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  Come on. Just put a game there.
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  I don't care, right? Charge.
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  Here's the Broncos. Absolutely, without a doubt.
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  I want to put the Rams in Arizona there, but I can't
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  because the Cardinals don't matter.
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  Here's 1 Green Bay, Minnesota. Will the Vikings matter?
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  I don't think so. I.
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  Don't think so. Either, but there is still a
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  path. There is a chance for the
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  Vikings schedule. What they still have is they sit
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  at 4:00 and 5:00 on the season. The Vikings still in front of
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  them. Obviously the Bears this week,
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  but then after that they go to Green Bay.
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  Not exactly a place that's easy to win, no.
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  And then they go to Seattle. Do we have for that?
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  Oh boy, They still have Rd. trips to the Commanders or
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  excuse me, home for the Commanders.
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  Road trip to Dallas. They can score at the Giants.
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  I don't feel good about that. Home Lions.
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  Home Packers. Yeah, I unfortunately, I just
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  don't think it's the Vikings year.
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  Heck of a run last year, not this year.
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  I can't put the Commanders and the Eagles there.
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  Washington Stakes. Here's one.
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  Baltimore at Pittsburgh does this.
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  Is this the? Does the winner of this game win
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  the division? I think this would be if I had
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  to come up with the clubhouse leader, I think this would be
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  the one that I put at the top of the list.
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  The most realistic scenario where this is going to matter.
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  For one, both of the teams division could be on the line
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  win and in loser out, which is always a good one too.
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  When we get that scenario, and I think that could be the case
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  here, two teams come in, both 8 and 8.
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  Winner gets denied and eight gets the division.
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  Loser goes home. Starts doing their draft.
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  Work there is your betting favorite right there, Steelers
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  and the Ravens, and you know it's going to be a three-point
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  game. Yeah, yeah.
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  And we'll see the and we'll see the game on Thanksgiving night
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  with Burrell coming back. NBCS got to be doing cartwheels.
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  And because they're, they've got, they've got Thursday Night
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  Football on Thanksgiving. I can't.
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  Well, maybe we should Seattle at San Francisco.
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  It could be a playoff bid for San Francisco on the line so you
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  can't cross them out. I don't think it'll have
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  division implications, but it could have playoff implications.
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  That one has to be on the list. I think the same thing for the
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  Broncos and Chargers. I don't think the Chargers are
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  going to get there, but could it be clinching the division for
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  Denver? Could it be for a playoff bid
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  for the Chargers? I think that's there.
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  I don't even think you can cross off the Chiefs and the Raiders.
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  And here's why, really. Because the Chiefs might be
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  playing to get in. And yes, the Raiders will have
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  nothing. They want, they want them.
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  You know any opportunity to put Kansas City in prime time?
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  The chances that happens. Decent.
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  Good. I mean, if they're nine and
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  seven, they put that game there if there isn't anything with
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  bigger implications. Just because the people are, are
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  the is this it for the Chiefs? Are they?
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  Are the Raiders the team that's going to throw the final punch?
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  It's a road trip so it's and I love what they've done here
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  these last few years. All divisional games week 18.
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  All Yeah, no, it's the way it should be.
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  I agree. Tennessee, Jacksonville means
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  nothing. And the Colts at Houston, Here's
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  the sneaky one. This might be for the South,
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  yes. And we've seen kind of some
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  weird ones, knowing the NFC West was really down.
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  We have the Rams in Seattle, both losing records, trying to
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  play their way in a one season. So there's been some goofy ones
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  there. Yeah, that's not exactly the
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  most enticing national match. Yeah, I agree with you.
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  If there's two others and, and this one's as meaningful as the
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  other, this one's going to finish third.
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  Yes, Yeah, right. Yeah.
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  Because let's face it, where? Where do the Chiefs, or where do
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  the Texans rather play their first playoff game, 12:00 on
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  Saturday? He got.
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  Mark Good and penned. It's the early window.
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  It's the early window. It's the 3rd, 3:30.
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  Well, 3:30. Yeah, you're right.
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  The first game, though, that's how we kick things off with the
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  Texans. If they're involved.
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  We've seen that a lot of times. We do.
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  All right, I'll get back to the NFL in the one O clock hour.
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  I want to get to Audie Crooks because what a what a
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  performance out of her last night.
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  Here's the crazy part about it. As many as as well as she played
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  as many points as she poured in a 43 of them, by the way, which
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  is remarkable on 18 of 23 shooting.
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  I think here's the most remarkable stat of the night for
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  Audie Crooks. OK, she did it in 20 minutes,
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  right? She did it in 20 minutes, scored
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  43 and that is a school record. And there's been some talented
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  women, women that have played there before.
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  Look, I don't mean to know the history of them.
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  I, I'm not going to try and fool you that I do.
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  I absolutely do not. But there's certainly be some
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  names that even resonate with me.
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  But what this, this woman did yesterday, my God, I'm guess,
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  I'm guessing Valpo's not going to contend in the Valley, right?
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  But 43 points in 20 minutes the it's crazy.
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  The box score, the 18 to 23. Yeah, just hit it inside, dump
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  it in, easy turn to finish. Yeah, I'm guessing there were a
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  lot of them inside 5 feet, right?
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  And when you see her, you know, I go back to two years ago and
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  that match up against Stanford, that was absolutely loaded.
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  And they were right there. And now upperclassmen, her and
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  Brown taking that step forward. Williams is a different kind of
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  point guard than what they've had with her speed, her
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  athleticism, this team. You said it earlier, and I
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  wasn't so sure I was. Let's pump the brakes a little
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  bit. This one does have a chance.
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  I think it's going to be Fenley's best team.
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  I'm anxious to ask him that. Let the season play out a little
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  bit before we reach out to him and get him on.
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  But I think I think it's got a chance.
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  And she had to have had multiple opportunities to leave Ames.
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  Oh, absolutely. You know the you don't think LSU
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  is making a call? Of course.
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  Yeah, of course some of the blue bloods had to come calling for
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  Audie Crooks and I, I see her on fairway commercials.
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  Yes. I don't know what else she's
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  got. I remember when Portnoy was in
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  town for for the what? What game was it?
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  I was stating who? Whatever football game earlier
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  this year he ran out to, he ran into her.
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  He was looking for her. The pizza place and names were
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  so famous, it put honey on the crust grains.
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  God, I've been there a few times.
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  I have not, so you're missed. Missed me on this one.
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  Anyways, got great publicity there and with with Portnoy and
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  her doing a little piece of what the Hell's the name of it?
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  It'll come to me, but not nonetheless.
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  Well done, Audie Crooks. Glad that you stayed.
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  She's just a junior got another year left.
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  You mentioned Jack Williams rather what a great addition to
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  the team and obviously Addie Brown, which she brings and
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  we'll we'll see where this team goes.
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  Which leads me to Cyhawk. Great Plains.
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  Great Plains. Thank you.
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  There you go. No.
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  Who who texted you? I.
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  I just googled. It did you honey on the crust.
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  Yeah. Great Plains.
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  Yeah. It's good.
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  It's good anyways, side Hawk. It's going to be really good for
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  men. I think for men's game is going
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  to be fun to watch, right? So is the women's, Yes.
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  So is the women's. It's going to be outstanding and
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  we'll get a look at Iowa tonight, actually on BTN, not
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  BTN Plus. Oh, really?
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  Against Drake? Oh, you know, I saw that.
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  Now, no. Kate Dennebir has.
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  She has graduated and exhausted her eligibility.
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  But she's on the bench. Did I see that?
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  I thought that she was maybe. Grat Assistant.
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  Did grat assistant working their way into the coach I I saw a
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  piece on her earlier. New look they lost to Creighton
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  last over the weekend. Drake did by 9.
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  But still just an opportunity to see this Iowa team against
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  competition, a BIG4 match up the way it should be men, Otts,
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  McCallum. I just, I think us as fans would
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  prefer to see that I would. I get the argument, I understand
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  it, but I just don't like. It but who loses?
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  The fans. The fans this from my buddy
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  Holdy. I'm not sure that Audie Crooks
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  wants this out there, but I did. They know.
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  Apparently she threw up pregame. Oh, really?
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  And also in the first quarter and still poured in.
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  So with this, remember the Jordan game when out in Utah
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  when he was six in the Yeah, 43 points in 20 minutes.
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  Audie Crooks, well done for for you.
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  Good stuff. All right, Cyhawk going to be
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  fascinating. By the way, Doctor Stephen
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  Fuller has acquired some Drake Iowa State woman's tickets.
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  Oh, nice for next week because I guess the family takes brings
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  his team rather to the nap center.
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  So early next week, I'm thinking probably Monday, will give you
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  an opportunity to win those courtesy of our buddy Doctor
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  Steven Fuller, fullerdental.net two locations.
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  He's 29th in Des Moines and 8th St.
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  SE in Altoona. That one is a week away.
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  That'll be next. Thursday night, right?
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  6:00 Tip off for that one with the clones and.
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  The and tickets, I guess all you could get was general admission,
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  but it's the nap center. Is there a bad seat in the nap
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  center? No, not at all.
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  Right, You're going to be fine. You're going to be absolutely
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  fine. Good stuff.
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  All right, I want to ask you this because we talked, we
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  talked about it all summer long and now we're going to find out
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  the answer to this question tonight.
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  The ALMVP in baseball is going to be announced tonight.
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  Big dumper got a chance. He's got a chance.
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  Has he got a chance? A legitimate chance.
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  Getting there were a few things that had to happen and when you
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  look back at the regular season, and we also have to put that
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  this is just a regular season award, though Aaron Judge had a
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  great playoff compared to his past performances.
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  That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that the
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  Mariners got to the ALCS for what, just the second time ever
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  that doesn't. These votes were in before the
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  playoffs began. Right, which is probably why
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  John Snyder didn't win the AL manager of the.
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  Year. Oh, absolutely right.
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  Yeah. I still think he should have,
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  but. And Manager of the Year, is it
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  that one that they should wait? Shouldn't the playoffs be a part
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  of manager of the year? Or do you just get prisoner at
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  the moment? And then it's just whoever makes
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  the run or even wins the playoff series?
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  And you get Rocco Bodelli a couple years ago and they, you
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  know, won for the first time ever for for first time in 20
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  years that they won a playoff series.
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  And maybe you get that. Cal Raleigh switch hitter, 60
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  bombs and he's a catcher. And he's a catcher, and he
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  caught a ton. And he caught a ton.
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  And he played a ton. I know that there's many
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  metrics. WAR is the easiest one, wins
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  above replacement that people use, and the gap between Aaron
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  Judge and Raleigh is huge. It's significant.
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  Yeah. It might be too much, Trent.
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  I think it probably is. OPS plus a lot of the analytical
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  numbers will say that this is an easy decision, but.
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  This Cal Raleigh was a full time first baseman.
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  It's an easy to. See.
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  Oh, absolutely right. But the catcher component he
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  also stole double digit. No, didn't realize, didn't
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  realize they had big big. Dumper this year, what do you
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  have for steals? I'm pulling it up, sure.
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  I did 14 steals this year. I would have never guessed that
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  in a million. Years caught stealing four
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  times. How about that for the big man
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  lumbering and Berlin his way into second base?
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  This is though not most outstanding player.
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  This is not best statistical profile.
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  This is Most Valuable Player and this is argument I made for
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  years and years and years. The value component to it.
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  You take care and judge off. The Yankees are going to
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  struggle. Are they still a playoff team on
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  the fringes? On the if they would have had
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  the full complement of pitchers, probably yes.
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  But they didn't. I still think at minimum,
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  they're in the race. Yeah, to be a playoff team.
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  Sure, they're the Yankees. I mean, you talk about the then
• 17:41
  you look at you take Cal Rally out of that lineup that
• 17:44
  struggled for a long time and the lineup that you saw in
• 17:46
  October and even September was a lot different than what they had
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  first five months. You're 100.
• 17:51
  Percent huge, huge issues what they want they spent money and
• 17:54
  got Suarez. They did some things to augment
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  things. However, before that he was
• 18:01
  keeping. Them afloat?
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  Yeah, because Julio Rodriguez did not have a good year by his
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  standards, right? It was a slow start and he
• 18:07
  turned it on, too. Just the depth of that lineup
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  coupled with value, I use that word hugely important to me.
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  And without Cal Rally, I don't believe they win their division.
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  And because of that, that's why for me, Cal Rally's the MVP.
• 18:29
  I agree with you wholeheartedly. We're going to be wrong.
• 18:34
  It's going to be Aaron George. I hate to say it because I think
• 18:37
  this is one year and this isn't Karl Malone over Jordan.
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  We got it. We can't give it to Jordan
• 18:42
  every. Year.
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  Well, you could. Yes, you should have.
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  Should have in hindsight. Right.
• 18:45
  And I but if they do give it to Raleigh, I don't think that this
• 18:48
  is we look back at this 10 years from now and not a judge.
• 18:52
  You should have given it to him in 2025.
• 18:55
  Cal Raleigh deserves it. He had 60.
• 18:57
  Yes. He had sixty home runs.
• 19:00
  That to me was the when he got past that and I don't have a
• 19:03
  ticket this I don't have there. It got nothing in the game on
• 19:05
  this in this market, MVALMVP market, but I think it's going
• 19:10
  to probably be judge. We shall see.
• 19:12
  What? What time is that tonight?
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  6 on MLB Network. MLB Network, yeah.
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  Thinking through a little bit what we got going up this
• 19:20
  evening. Possibility, yeah.
• 19:22
  Skeens was the Cy Young winner unanimously.
• 19:25
  How about Skeens in school? Between the two of them, they
• 19:27
  had three offers out of high school, three offers.
• 19:31
  He's a lefty and a righty. Just a unbelievable, both of
• 19:33
  these dudes. All right, Jets and the Patriots
• 19:38
  tonight, again, you can hear the game here.
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  I win USC, you know when we had our buddy Mark Colbrick, yes, on
• 19:47
  Culkin. Culkin from locked on Trojans,
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  locked on USC, part of lock spell network and I forgot to
• 19:55
  ask him about the controversy from last week against
• 19:57
  Northwestern, the number controversy with the with the
• 20:01
  punter in the in the backup quarterback, the backup
• 20:04
  quarterback wearing the punter's number and pulling that one off
• 20:07
  and. I mean, is is is Lincoln Riley
• 20:10
  got any more of these up his sleeve for this Saturday
• 20:13
  afternoon at 2:30? I, I got a kick out of this
• 20:16
  comment. I heard Stanford, Steve of ESPN
• 20:18
  mention this. He said when he heard the story
• 20:21
  because they were out Friday night getting ready for game day
• 20:24
  and probably having a couple of drinks beforehand and he said so
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  he didn't see it. But then when he first heard the
• 20:29
  story, he said he didn't have to tell me what coach it was.
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  He knew it was Lincoln Riley. Really, I was watching it live
• 20:35
  and they didn't know the commentators and it was he's a
• 20:38
  left-hander and it was an absolute perfect pass.
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  Probably, I don't know, 20 yards in the air.
• 20:43
  I'm thinking wow, for a puncher it's.
• 20:45
  Pretty good. It's pretty good.
• 20:47
  This is something that we saw last year in a bowl game.
• 20:49
  The difference in that one was they changed the quarterback's
• 20:53
  number to number 18 and the putter was 19, or vice versa.
• 20:57
  Change it to yeah, one of those two.
• 20:59
  So it was similar numbers. But not identical numbers.
• 21:02
  And not only that, an 80, yes, right.
• 21:05
  You know where it's just it's a weird number where it works
• 21:09
  incredibly well. By the way, that kid that made
• 21:11
  that pass you were, that was a guy that Iowa was looking at in
• 21:14
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  And so was he at USC, and he didn't.
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  Transfer, he was somewhere else. Was he OK?
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  And then ended up there cuz he's bounced around a bunch of
• 21:24
  different places. But that aside, what I saw his
• 21:27
  name was like, yeah, I remember this kid.
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  Interesting. They know that they we're making
• 21:32
  a mistake, even regardless of what they said, they knew that
• 21:35
  they were bending the rules. Of course they did.
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  They did it the week before in order to get that in the
• 21:39
  previous week's notes that number 80 was whatever this
• 21:43
  kid's name is. Did you see though that on top
• 21:47
  of it what US ES official football Twitter account did?
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  No. Well, they put together a little
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  80s making their way up to get a coffee.
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  Now check that out during the break.
• 22:00
  Interesting. They're they're not backing down
• 22:02
  at all. They're they're they're
• 22:03
  relishing this. The other news college football
• 22:06
  wise, I don't know what it means.
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  Obviously macros were talking about the AD at Baylor, who is
• 22:11
  the chairman of the College Football Playoff committee.
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  He has left his post at Baylor and obviously he has left his
• 22:18
  post with the College Football Playoff committee.
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  It's a, it's an embarrassing look for Mac Rhodes.
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  But at the end of the day, I mean, it, it's it's
• 22:31
  embarrassing, right? For your, for your chairman to
• 22:33
  have to walk away. And apparently, I mean, he's had
• 22:36
  some physical altercations with players that's been admitted by
• 22:40
  both sides, including Rhodes. Bad luck, but nothing more.
• 22:45
  Where? Where are you with this story?
• 22:46
  Well, it's odd. And then you couple it with they
• 22:52
  have something else going on too with another committee member.
• 22:54
  Is it Randall McDaniel that had to take a leave and they just
• 22:58
  said personal reasons? I don't know.
• 23:01
  There's just something odd going around it.
• 23:04
  This committee thing. I like that they have football
• 23:06
  people on there. Yeah, I do too.
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  I think that's important. I would like to have them see
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  also somebody more analytical, not just football guys, but
• 23:15
  somebody and not betting just in a little a Bill Connolly, you
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  know, a a person like that, that Jeff Sagarin, somebody that is
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  more numbers driven. But that aside, a weird story.
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  I think that's probably where it ends, right?
• 23:29
  The other thing about it is, is the Big 12 has come out now and
• 23:32
  they are recommending that his place on the playoff committee,
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  not as the chair but his spot on the playoff committee goes to
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  the AD from Utah. A Big 12?
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  I don't understand that. I do, but I don't think it
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  should be the AD from Utah. They're #13.
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  It should be. Oklahoma State, Yeah.
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  Jamie Pollard's guy or Jamie Pollard or just somebody that
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  that doesn't I, that kind of has a bad look to it, doesn't it?
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  Absolutely, yeah. Somebody that is involved, I
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  think you're right, yes, we want more, another Big 12.
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  Representative, but not a guy who's on the precipice of the
• 24:09
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• 24:11
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  OK, Good stuff. Another big week, some great
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  college, some phenomenal NFL. You want to start it off, Trent?
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  Yeah, let's kick it off in a huge one in the 11 O clock
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  window and Notre Dame has to win out to get that playoff bid at
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  10 and two, maybe their most difficult game, probably their
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  most difficult game here against Pittsburgh.
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  The Irish car has been incredible this year.
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  They have ripped off win after win after that O win.
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  Two start laying a big number here though.
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  Irish -11 in the hook. How many years would you would
• 27:32
  you guess that Patton Arduzzi's been a pit bumped up your head,
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  boy? Nine, I was going.
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  To say dozen. Right there, 11th this 11th
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  year, Jeez, I'm this, you guys might think I'm crazy here.
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  He's got a tough, tough schedule to end this season.
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  So they're sitting at 7:00 and 2:00 now.
• 27:52
  They got to play Notre Dame here, then they got to play at
• 27:56
  Georgia Tech and then they got to play Miami.
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  He loses all three and I think teams been playing great.
• 28:02
  Obviously they've won five straight games, found a true
• 28:06
  freshman quarterback that's amazing here in May financial.
• 28:10
  But if he loses all three, I think he's going to be out.
• 28:12
  I think they're tired of mediocrity.
• 28:13
  I think he's setting himself up and realizes that no name is
• 28:17
  that good. Notre Dame beating the last six
• 28:21
  opponents by an average of 26 points per game.
• 28:23
  Couple of the opponents at the time, Boise State, well thought
• 28:27
  of USC, Stillman, the College Football Playoff hunt beat them
• 28:30
  by double digits here. Their quarterback car, 23
• 28:34
  combined touchdowns, throwing and running.
• 28:36
  Think Love's going to go in the first round through the top
• 28:38
  running back. They're just that solid.
• 28:41
  Very few weaknesses here. I think they're going to lay one
• 28:44
  on PIT. If pit was on the road, I'd lay
• 28:46
  17 and take Notre Dame. But I think that they're going
• 28:49
  to pull away way late. I think they win this game 3520.
• 28:52
  Yeah, there's a lot of Pittsburgh love and I'm with you
• 28:54
  on this one, Lee. I think the Irish are destined
• 28:57
  Alabama and Oklahoma. Another big one.
• 29:00
  Let's get to this one. Alabama 6 point favorite over
• 29:03
  the Sooners. All right, So you would never
• 29:07
  think that Alabama would overlook LSU, but I think there
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  was kind of like a Workman like job last week by their team
• 29:16
  played, you know, hard. But I think this is the game
• 29:19
  they want maybe even more because they were embarrassed
• 29:22
  last year, 24 to 3 in Norman, a different quarterback, Jalen
• 29:25
  Melrose was at the helm. I mean, what were they thinking?
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  Not putting Ty Simpson in, but Oklahoma?
• 29:33
  I had them a couple weeks ago against Tennessee and I looked
• 29:36
  at my friends at the end of the game and they beat Tennessee and
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  I said, you know what, they were not the better team.
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  Just got lucky. You got to be honest with
• 29:42
  yourself sometimes here. And John Mateer before the hand
• 29:46
  injury, 303 yards passing per game, now 183 since the injury.
• 29:52
  I, I think the revenge is going to be huge here.
• 29:55
  And I think that Alabama, I mean, they're going to let it
• 29:58
  all hang out 3117 over Oklahoma. Yeah, Georgia and Texas, big
• 30:03
  spot. Texas still has Texas A&M coming
• 30:06
  up on Black Friday. This is a big spot.
• 30:08
  Georgia 6 1/2. Nice defense.
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  Not as good as previous years, I don't think.
• 30:13
  Anxious to get your take on this one.
• 30:16
  So I love rematch games. Last year, one of the few times
• 30:20
  where you go, wow, I, I was on it.
• 30:23
  I thought Georgia was going to come in and lay it on Texas and
• 30:27
  they did. No one thought they were going
• 30:29
  to win that game last year. Everyone loved Texas.
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  I think the team that the Longhorns were overconfident and
• 30:35
  the 3015 final score is not indicative of how much they
• 30:39
  dominated. Now all of a sudden shoes on the
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  other foot. Longhorns are a desperate team
• 30:45
  given a little chance of pulling off the upset.
• 30:47
  Georgia I I saw one area who has them as a 91% chance of making
• 30:53
  the college football playoffs. So it's not like it is a must
• 30:56
  win game. They'll have to either win this
• 30:58
  game or Georgia Tech to make to the playoffs.
• 31:01
  Gunner Stocks is playing great. I mean since that last second
• 31:04
  drive at half against Auburn, he's looked flawless.
• 31:07
  Mike Bobo, who I think his play calling is usually less than
• 31:11
  than average, has been better. Improved, should I say?
• 31:16
  But here's the kicker. Texas has two weeks to prepare.
• 31:19
  I was Texas. I would pull apart and look at
• 31:22
  every single play that Gunner Stockton's played as a starter.
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  I think you can find some spots where he's confused and you can
• 31:28
  scheme up some things. And on an offense, look what
• 31:31
  Louisville did against Miami. Came up with 25 new plays.
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  They're even running the Wildcat.
• 31:36
  You got to let it all hang out here.
• 31:39
  I think they're desperate, and I think Arch Manning found some
• 31:41
  success recently. I have Texas winning straight up
• 31:46
  30. I love that I've been on Texas
• 31:48
  all week long and I got the worst of the number.
• 31:50
  As the Longhorns getting more and more as a week continues,
• 31:53
  let's go out to LA, Iowa on the West Coast place that has not
• 31:56
  been very good to them throughout the years.
• 31:59
  USC rain in the forecast up to two inches during game time in
• 32:05
  this one. Going to be wet at the Coliseum,
• 32:07
  where the Trojans are favored by 6 1/2.
• 32:10
  Yeah, I loved it a lot more before this, but it's going to
• 32:14
  certainly help Iowa if that's the case, might go from a play
• 32:18
  for my clients potentially to nothing at all.
• 32:21
  So if it does clear, you would think that USC, I mean, got a
• 32:27
  clear edge here. I mean, they still got a path to
• 32:29
  the college football playoffs that they went out there.
• 32:31
  They would be having like something like a 95% chance of
• 32:33
  getting in Jade my I mean 17 touchdown passes, 6 running is 2
• 32:40
  top running backs. King Miller, you don't think of
• 32:42
  them as a running team, but Miller and Jordan have a
• 32:45
  combined 1200 rushing yards, 10 touchdowns and they average 7.9
• 32:50
  and 6.5 yards per carry. Difference here is defense for
• 32:53
  USC past years. Last year 21 sacks, this year
• 32:57
  almost 3 sacks per game. So far they're averaging 1
• 33:02
  interception per game. And Iowa.
• 33:05
  Where are they mentally? I mean, they're done.
• 33:07
  I mean, the season's over pretty much in USC at home, 5 and O
• 33:11
  straight up four and one against the spread.
• 33:12
  The only non cover was a backdoor bomb of 75 yards with
• 33:16
  two minutes remaining for Michigan State, or else they'd
• 33:20
  be a perfect five and O against the spread.
• 33:22
  If the if the weather clears up, lay it and I'll play it USC
• 33:27
  3120. If not, we're going to lay off.
• 33:30
  I'm hoping deep down inside that you have another wrong team is
• 33:33
  favored. The Chiefs are favored 3 1/2
• 33:35
  over the Denver Broncos. Yeah.
• 33:38
  All right. So the Chiefs have the better
• 33:40
  offense. We obviously know that, no
• 33:41
  question about it. And I don't think we've ever
• 33:44
  seen a team talked about as having so many problems on one
• 33:50
  side of the ball and have this kind of record crazy.
• 33:52
  It's been a long time, but Patrick certain the second looks
• 33:57
  like could be back coming back from injury and if he's back
• 34:01
  that makes the defense which is already very good into great
• 34:04
  maybe the best in the NFL. Think that they're going to be
• 34:10
  able to find some holes in and have your quarterback moving the
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  pocket will help against the Chiefs pass rush.
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  They've always had trouble with a mobile quarterback also and
• 34:19
  Denver's pass rush. If they can limit Patrick
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  Mahomes, which I think they might be able to with that pass
• 34:23
  rush and tight coverage. I, I think this is A1
• 34:27
  possession, maybe a one or two point game here.
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  So I'm taking Denver 3 1/2 points.
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  I mean, for some places, even if they're behind by 7, 810 points,
• 34:40
  you can get a backdoor touchdown and cover here.
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  But I think it's going to come down to one play and one drive
• 34:45
  at the end. I have never won in this game.
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  Pulling off the upset 1716 over the Chiefs, It's the.
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  in West Des Moines. 60th and Ashworth in West Des Moines.
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  Dave, Tyson, Adam and Derek. Dave is up first.
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  Dave, how are you? Good.
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  Patriots 12 1/2 point favorite tonight over The Jets.
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  Patriots USC gives the Hawkeyes 6 1/2 on Saturday.
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  UFC Sunday Night Football Eagles, A 2 1/2 point favorite
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  over the Lions. Lions Chiefs a 3 1/2 point
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  favorite at Denver Bears. Vikings total points closes
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  without going over 47. Thanks, Dave.
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  Appreciate it. Thank you.
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  Tyson is next. Hi, Tyson.
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  Hello. Patriots, a 12 1/2 point
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  favorite over The Jets. USC gives 6 1/2 to the Hawks.
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  Hawks, Eagles 2 1/2 over the Lions.
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  Chiefs 3 1/2 point favorite over the Broncos.
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  Broncos total points. Bears, Vikings closest without
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  going over 41. Thanks, Tyson.
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  Thank you. Adam is next.
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  Hi, Adam. Hello.
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  Patriots are 12 1/2 point favorite over The Jets. 6 1/2 is
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  what USC will give the Hawkeyes. USC.
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  Eagles 2 1/2 to the Lions. Lions.
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  Chiefs, a 3 1/2 point favorite over the Bronx.
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  Broncos. Bears Vikings total points
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  closest without going over 43. Thanks, Adam.
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  Thank you. Yes, Sir.
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  And Derek is next. Hi, Derek.
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  How you doing bud? Good Patriots, A 12 1/2 point
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  favorite over The Jets. Adrian, USC 6 1/2 to the
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  Hawkeyes. USC.
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  Eagles 2 1/2 to the Lions. Where's that at?
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  It's at. Eagleville.
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  Eagles. Chiefs 3 1/2 to the Broncos.
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  Chiefs. Bears Vikings total points
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  closest without going over. 44. Thanks, Derek.
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  Good to hear from you. Thank you, bud.
• 39:43
  Yep, take care and thank you to the chicken coop.
• 39:46
  We do it each and every week, usually Thursdays at this time.
• 39:49
  Don Wasserman writes for profootballfocus.com.
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  We'll do NFL in college with Mr. Wasserman.
• 39:55
  Stephen M Simple covers the Huskers, his regular spot coming
• 39:58
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