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24 Team CFP? NBA Playoffs Heat up, Cubs win again, Jeff Hughes talks Bears Draft · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  Wednesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Trent Condon and Ken Miller for the next couple of hours to talk
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  sports with you. Appreciate you starting your
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  afternoon with us. If you're listening on Des
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  Moines Sports station, one O 6.3 kicks and no any of the
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  affiliates throughout the state of Iowa anywhere, anytime on the
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  I Heart app. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program. We are going to devote a bunch
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  of time today to the NFL draft and we are going to get the
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  involvement of our regional teams, yes, including the
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  Packers. You Packer fans, I know that
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  you're sitting out the first round, but we'll talk to Dave
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  Sinican. I, I hope it's dunker.
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  I think he's a Packer. He feels, doesn't he feel like a
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  Packer in the second round, maybe the third, But we'll talk
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  to syndicate about the Packers. Obviously, we're going to start
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  with the Bears and our buddy the Bears blog, Jeff Hughes will
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  join us. Dane Mazzutani, a variety of
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  topics with Dane, mostly the Vikings, but we'll dip our toe
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  into the wild waters. I'll do some Twins as they had a
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  nice win last night. Come from behind, win boy.
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  The Mets fans, my God, they're apoplectic.
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  Are they not booing? It's unbelievable.
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  Something has to give, something has to be done there. 12 in a
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  row. My God, you can't
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  recover@chiefsblitz.com. Nick Athan and then Dave
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  Sinekin. So that's what's on tap during
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  our program. Kind of got a little bit and
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  wanted to do it tomorrow. But with Cappy having to push
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  back his weekly appearance, David Kaplan, who joins us
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  normally every Wednesday, couldn't make today work.
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  I had a commitment. So he'll join us tomorrow at
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  1:00. So we'll do Chicago sports with
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  Cappy. Centurion Stone of Iowa sponsors
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  him on a weekly basis when he'll join us tomorrow at 1:00.
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  So therefore, we'll get in front of the draft, which gets
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  underway here tomorrow night. 7:00, I think is the first pick
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  of the of the draft for those of you so inclined.
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  Are you? Oh yeah, I'll be there.
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  Pick one. Well, I'd have to look at our
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  calendar as you know. Yeah, right.
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  You got kids. And and I will tell you this.
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  Baseball. Is the worst time of year.
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  Right. What?
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  So what a baseball? What all collides?
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  So we have piano lessons on Monday.
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  After piano lessons? Both for both, yes, they go
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  back-to-back after that. What days?
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  You'll thank you. Oh well, I hope so.
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  I wish I would have, yes. I do too.
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  I never did anything and I have no clue.
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  And when they're doing piano lessons and if they're
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  struggling and they're, you know, doing their practice, I'm,
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  I really have no, I do not know how to read music at all.
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  I have no clue. I didn't play an instrument in
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  4th grade when everybody else did.
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  It was me. You guys have to do the God
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  forsaken recorders. I don't even remember doing
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  that. I remember recorders, but yeah,
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  yeah, yeah. Oh.
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  My God, what an awful sound it it.
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  Absolutely is. But Jack, he's in kindergarten,
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  he knows how to read music like he's good, he's thriving, he's
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  doing very well and he wants to play the drums.
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  When he gets up into 4th grade, he gets his opportunity to do
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  that. So we got piano so.
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  Those will end up under the tree.
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  Oh, absolutely. Yes, you know how that goes.
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  Yeah, then I got to take Jack to wrestling right afterwards.
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  So sometimes Tara will put contrast now piano to wrestling.
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  Those two don't really marry together.
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  It's kind of like me watching the Masters during Monster Jam
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  with the monster trucks doubting the Casey Center.
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  Then Ella now has Wreck. No, she has tournament travel
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  ball practice on Monday, so we got to divide and conquer on
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  Monday evening after piano lessons finish up.
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  We go right from picking him up to school, right to piano, right
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  to wrestling or softball for them.
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  We have also the convergence of both travel ball and wreck ball.
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  Have to play both in the West Des Moines system.
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  So she's got that practice a week there, couple of practices
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  with the travel team, couple of games every week and then of
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  course our tournament schedule that's in front of us.
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  Jack also does does a ninja class, so that's on Wednesday.
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  So we do off that. It's all over the place.
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  Baseball is starting now for Jack, that'll be on Tuesdays and
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  Saturdays. It is just one thing after
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  another and you know what? I couldn't love him.
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  More Yeah, absolutely. I I wish I was in your shoes.
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  I'll turn the clock back and get those shoes again.
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  For me it was Ferrell's on in Beaverdale.
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  But that and that was fine. I've enjoyed the hell out of it
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  anyways. Enjoy it.
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  Yes, I will. But I understand about your.
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  Schedule so Cup Thursday evening.
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  It's still TBD what what things are going to look like and I'll
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  I'll have an earbud in if necessary.
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  I'll maybe be in the car and be listening that way.
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  That's usually the way a lot of this stuff plays out and then
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  everybody gets to bed and then dad can watch sports.
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  Yeah, I'm not. I mean, maybe it's the top ten
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  pick. I'm not even sure I'll turn it
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  on. I mean, the hockey's been
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  unbelievable, the NBA and boy, by the way, the NBA, what a
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  significant change in these playoffs as of last night.
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  Wembignon is like a tree falling in the forest, and that's a long
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  way down for him. And when he hit his head, boy,
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  oh, boy. Obviously the level of concern
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  among San Antonio Spurs fans, coaches, players has to be
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  through the roof at this point because concussion protocol.
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  He hit his head hard and Trent, you saw the result.
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  What happened once he's out of the He played 12 minutes, play
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  12 minutes. Different, different team.
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  Portland can win this series now or no without him.
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  Win. The series, I think that they'll
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  adjust. I mean, they went to the game
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  last night thinking he's going to be there.
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  Now game #3 when the series shifts to Portland, they'll know
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  in all likelihood that they're not going to have him.
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  That's why I don't think it's as maybe as dire as some NBA fans
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  think it will be because they'll be, you know, break prepping for
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  not having him on the floor. If they get that Scoot Henderson
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  that we saw last night, he was. Unbelievable.
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  So I didn't know anything about him.
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  Yeah, I I tried to. What did that?
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  How did I I keep my mind? Am I losing it?
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  I don't remember him in college. He's.
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  A G Leaguer, yes. And he came in with a lot of
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  fanfare. There were a lot of people that
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  kind of hitched their wagon that he was going to be, he was going
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  to be a stud. And I didn't believe it because
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  the shooting in the G League wasn't great.
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  He hasn't been up until this to maybe last night, right?
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  That has been still an issue for him.
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  Not a great shooter from the field.
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  You know, 3435% from three, which in today's NBA isn't very
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  good. And he put it all together last
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  night. Did they get that Scoop is
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  likely not going. Down.
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  I don't think so, no. Win the series.
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  I'll still say no. What is the most likely return
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  for Wembe? I mean, I haven't heard that was
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  significant. He's not playing Game 3.
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  No, I would be shocked. He shouldn't.
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  Game four. We also have to remember how
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  stretched out these are, so let me take a peek here at this
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  schedule. We will get Game 3 coming up on
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  Friday night, then we go to quicker turn around Sunday for
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  Game 4. Oh, that's an afternoon affair.
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  I see it. I thought I didn't see it when I
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  first looked Till. Yeah, that is.
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  So a week away would be Game 5 back in San Antonio for game
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  five, maybe facing elimination. Maybe, yeah, but perhaps.
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  Concussions of football I get are different, but Wenby, even
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  though he's feels like a foot taller than everybody.
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  Else well, he is he still. He still takes a beating, Yeah,
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  and there's still contact that can happen to your head even if
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  you are 7 foot 4. So, boy, that that maybe even.
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  Feels more likely. He's body sore today for sure,
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  even though as much contacts as he takes during the regular
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  seasons 'cause I can say that's a long way for anybody to fall.
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  Well, and suddenly we go from that Timber Wolves path, there
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  is no shot you're going to go through Denver, through San
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  Antonio. I'm with you.
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  Well, suddenly maybe things are looking a little bit different
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  and we're changing the conversation because
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  Timberwolves played poorly, I thought in game one and.
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  They did. They did.
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  And they played great in the fourth quarter defensively and
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  they stole game two. You win that series.
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  Maybe things are starting to change and we could get
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  back-to-back to back in the Western Conference.
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  Would that be something I don't? Like them again.
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  So OK, see if they get that again.
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  No, but still, yes, another run out of the Timberwolves.
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  That would be good here. We got, of course, the G League
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  team here in Des Moines and just, well, the Bulls have been
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  terrible for 30 years now. Yeah.
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  How many Bulls fans are left outside of people that are older
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  like a. That that gravitated that that
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  time in the 90s. I wonder if the kids who are so
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  impressionable at that point that we're Bulls fans because
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  that's what was on TV all the time.
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  I wonder if they've given up. Right, absolutely.
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  And then their kids. Well, I was a Bulls fan back in
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  the 90s, but I don't watch it. And then they pick the Thunder,
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  they pick. They just pick a Steph.
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  Curry and a Golden State fan, or you're a LeBron fan and as many
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  stops along the way, Pick a team.
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  Yeah, we'll see. We'll see where it goes.
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  But that was a scary incident last night, to say the least.
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  Stayed up again late last night to watch the West Coast game.
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  I just, I love the playoffs in these late games and watching
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  the Lakers once again do it, I thought, all right, they got a
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  game at home. How did Durant look?
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  Awful? Did he?
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  He was absolutely body Marcus Smart, who's like a foot
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  shorter, just absolutely bullied him in the fourth quarter and
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  really threw out the game and he could see Durant.
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  He's not 100%. He's not even close to it.
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  And yet they're running so much stuff through what what are the
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  I don't know what the Rockets are doing and you're not going
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  to fire a coach in the middle of a series.
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  But if there's ever a time, I mean, jeez Louise, Now, both
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  those games were in LA, to be fair.
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  We'll see. But Canard has been tremendous.
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  I did not have that on my bingo card that that was going to be
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  something happening in this playoffs.
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  And LeBron, I'm sure you did. You see the highlight this
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  morning. Just the highlights.
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  His reverse dunk, yes, still got it.
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  He's 41 years old. I know it's not.
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  Fair. This is stupid.
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  I know it is. In a way, are we?
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  I get it turns into the MJ LeBron debate and it's guys 40
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  plus against people in their 30s and 20s and down, and it just
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  turns into that and evolves to something that it shouldn't be
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  because they're both great, they're both incredible players.
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  But the longevity Michael Jordan, we saw him at.
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  The Wizards, he was brutal. 3839 at that point, and that lift was
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  there anymore. It was completely gone.
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  And Lebron's not the same Dynamo he was, but he's still got to
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  be. I mean, if you could put
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  percentiles in athleticism. As to what he's at now and what
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  he was in his prime. He was number 1.
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  He was in the top 1%. Yep, for 15 years.
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  He's not there anymore. He's still in the top 10%.
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  Yeah, close. He's 4141, Yeah, and a game
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  where guys, but. All of a sudden, because he
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  can't outrun for the time, all of a sudden he just gets you.
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  And I'm not saying he's going to get him in this playoffs, but
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  enjoy it because he's not good if if you're a basketball fan,
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  if we like greatness. And that's what we've seen his
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  entire career. I mean, when he first set foot
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  on the on the big stage after ESPN 2 made him cover his
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  tattoos when he played in that high school basketball, I'll
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  never forget it. Never forget.
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  We'll let him go on because he had tattoos in a high school
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  game and they did not want to show that.
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  And I'm, I'm guessing, I mean, I don't know for sure.
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  There was nothing offensive underneath them.
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  Just couldn't have tattoos. That's right.
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  Not on our watch. Anyways.
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  I watched a lot of Cubs last night, a lot of Puck last night.
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  This Nico Horner story. You know, I meant to do this
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  before the show, darn it. And I purposely stayed away from
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  it last night because I know what I would have done.
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  You would have bet, yeah. What's his MVP price?
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  I mean, it's obviously it's Otani, right?
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  By Otani is a is the shortest of short shots.
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  And the only way you can get there is an Otani injury.
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  Yes, that's the only path. Even if it's an arm injury and
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  he can still hit, he's still going to win the MVP.
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  And we saw that. Well, all right, I can't pitch
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  you this year. I'm just going to go out there
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  and steal 50 some bases. And Oh yeah, Speaking of gifted
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  athletes, another next level guy, Nico Horner, to win
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  nationally. National League MVP.
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  I would guess right now I'm. Going to DraftKings, I'm going
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  to see if I can find this bad boy.
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  I would anticipate it is something in the range of.
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  They don't have awards list of Trent.
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  They don't. You know, I'm surprised.
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  Is there a game underway? Yes, that's why.
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  The the Cardinals are playing, yes.
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  Yep, there's a game Cardinals are getting.
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  Beaten Reds Rays just opened up Astros Guardian so.
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  Son of a gun. I wish I would have looked at
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  that earlier. 50 to 1, yeah, My guess was 40 last night.
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  So we're kind of in the same ballpark.
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  But at that price, you take a flyer, right?
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  Yes. And you're betting on a guy to
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  get hurt. Right.
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  Which, you know, but for that type of price and injuries are
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  part of sports. He's having a phenomenal year.
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  He's having a phenomenal year. The power, I don't know how he's
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  found it. You know, he how he was with
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  with his glove in his hand. He's he's good in the batter's
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  box. Obviously he's a very smart
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  player. He can run the bases.
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  But now that he's incorporating power into his game, my gosh,
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  what a player he's become. It's unthinkable.
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  It is. That you'd have this guy.
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  Light hitting is the term that we used to use for a guy like
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  that. Contact specialist.
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  Now you throw pop into it. What's his high watermark?
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  How many homers can he get to? Can he get to?
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  His high career wise 10. It's not very many.
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  It's not Nico Horner, Baseball Reference.
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  Here we go. In his career, he's got forty
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  home runs. And high watermark one year was.
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  What, 10? He nailed it. 2022 had 9 the
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  year after IN237 back-to-back years double it to 20.
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  If he can get there, I'm not even.
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  I mean, maybe that. Seems like a.
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  Lot that does seem like a lot, but we're in April.
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  I don't know I'm just trying to make a case and trying to find a
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  price. But and maybe so circus got
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  theirs taken down. The only other app that's
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  happened is Bet Rivers and my guess is they don't have
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  anything either because they're very quick to take theirs down I
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  think normally. Yes, I'm looking futures at
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  FanDuel also say, oh, they do have awards.
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  Oh, here we go. Where?
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  Oh, you bet, Rivers does too. How about that?
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  This is from FanDuel so as I'm scrolling through here and I am
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  still scrolling and still. Scrolling Jesus.
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  Oh my. And still scrolling, I found
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  him. Hang on, let me find him on.
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  On what? What app are you on?
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  You're. I'm on FanDuel.
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  I'm on FanDuel, this is what we talk about, shopping for prices.
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  I I found him you're 50 to 1 was right kinda.
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  You forgot that one in front of it.
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  Same at FanDuel 100. Rivers.
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  He's 150 to 1. Along with Pete Crow Armstrong.
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  CJ Abrams, Saya Suzuki who finally got a home run last
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  night, finally made some contact which is good to see.
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  Michael Bush. Wow.
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  And and Otani's price is what he's minus. $4 -, 350 That's
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  crazy, but is it? If he doesn't give up a run all
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  year, I think he's gonna win it. True.
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  Yeah, that's true. But it's crazy if you if that's
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  all, you're gonna bet. You right.
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  Right. I mean, if you want to stack up
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  a couple of other things, then maybe you can get a palatable
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  price. But my God, minus $4 -, 3 1/2 at
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  FanDuel, Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
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  Anyways, if you're so inclined and if you're a you'd like to
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  follow the Cubs and you want to take a flyer 150 to 1, there's
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  worse places to spend your 10 bucks.
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  Boy, that'd be a nice return at the end of the year.
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  Anyways, a couple of other topics wanted to touch on the
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  College Football Playoff. It.
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  Does it sound to you like the SEC and the Big 10 are now on
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  the same page when it comes to expanding to 24?
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  We're getting there. It seems like it's very, it's
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  closer than it's ever been, right?
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  And I think a part of this is Sake and the SEC, we're heading
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  there. We all know we're heading there.
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  They don't want to be the team, the conference that is looked
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  at. We got that one wrong.
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  We were wrong at. But it's the big 10 is the is
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  the mover and shaker. Behind, absolutely, but they
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  know that the seas everywhere is pushing this direction now.
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  There's going to be concessions. Group of Five is going to want
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  at minimum 2 beds. I'm fine with that.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Sure, top two teams that are
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  ranked or top 2 conference champions, however you want to
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  determine it absolutely in a 24/2 in field those other
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  conferences absolutely deserve I think a minimum of two bids.
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  I'm fine with that part. Is it come down to rankings?
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  Is it going to be automatic qualifiers?
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  And that's the one with the Big 10 came up with.
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  You had what was it the? They want what they want 5.
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  It was. Was it 5?
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  Is that what it was? 5 automatic bids?
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  But then the Big 10 can determine it in whatever
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  fashion, so they could have. Well, in collaboration with the
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  SEC, right? Because aren't they married if
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  they get this through? Well, the third place team plays
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  the 8th place team, whatever, and they get an automatic bid.
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  And if the 3rd place team is still good enough to still get
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  in the field as at large, that's OK.
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  So the if we go to 24 the top 8 seeds get a buy correct?
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  The first two rounds of the playoff are played on campus.
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  Let's push that back. How many you want?
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  All the way through the quarterfinals, OK.
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  Yes, OK. All the way through the
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  quarters. Well, wouldn't that wouldn't
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  that get to the corners because the semis then go to the College
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  Football Playoff? Bowls, you'd have the round of
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  24, the round of 16 at home. The round of eight, which is a
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  quarterfinals would not be no, you're right.
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  That's what I want to see. So you want to add 1 more?
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  Yes, absolutely. Get that opportunity.
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  You can host twice. You know, games are better on
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  campus. I know you love bowl games.
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  Yeah, I do. And if you lose the first one,
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  are you still bowl eligible or is your season over?
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  Season over, I mean, how many guys are going to play in that?
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  Well, true, yeah, good point, good point.
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  There are, yeah, not very many. The roster would be decimated as
• 17:14
  it's, you know, a lot of them are already are.
• 17:17
  So the bowl games they would. Get what's leftover.
• 17:21
  Reduce of them would be a reduction of how many are
• 17:25
  currently offered. But if we get 23 playoff games
• 17:28
  is what we'd get in a 2014 bracket, coupled with another 20
• 17:32
  bowl games for the remaining. That's good.
• 17:34
  And what would it be over in your mind first weekend in
• 17:37
  January? Pretty early in January, we've
• 17:39
  seen. Because the Rose Bowl is going
• 17:41
  to want a semi at the very least.
• 17:43
  Give them something that's just static, was going to be there
• 17:47
  every single year and tell him to shut up.
• 17:49
  Well, I think they're getting to that point, honestly.
• 17:51
  It's time. Yeah.
• 17:53
  It's long past time, you know. The PAC 12's gone.
• 17:55
  That the the Rose Bowl is dictating everything that
• 17:57
  happens for the betterment of the sport because of a stupid
• 17:59
  parade. And I love the parade.
• 18:01
  I went to the parade. Still, it's a stupid parade.
• 18:03
  Did. You go to the parade till when
• 18:05
  we were out there. We went and saw well all the
• 18:07
  floats afterwards. That's what he did.
• 18:09
  That's what you did. I had tailgating too.
• 18:10
  I didn't have time for flipping parade put a praise with my
• 18:14
  kids. Don't need to be doing that at a
• 18:16
  Rose Bowl. But it was really cool actually,
• 18:19
  the full and you could get up close to him and see and like
• 18:22
  every flower, you know, every tiny flower because that's all
• 18:25
  it's made out of. And a little decision that had
• 18:28
  water in it. It was incredible to see it up
• 18:30
  close and how cool that was. But not cool enough to go to
• 18:33
  actual parade, no. I'm with you.
• 18:35
  Speaking of, incredible to see up close as we move from the
• 18:38
  College Football Playoff to the Kansas City Royals.
• 18:41
  Have you seen the renderings of their new downtown stadium?
• 18:44
  I have in the past. There's new ones.
• 18:46
  There's new. Ones that came out they they're
• 18:48
  announced it. What do they call the comp the
• 18:51
  Truman complex? Is that what it is now where
• 18:54
  they play, where the Chiefs play and and the Royals play.
• 18:57
  That's a whole bunch of land that's going to have.
• 18:58
  I don't know what they're going to do with it, but it's moving
• 19:01
  downtown. The stadium is going to be built
• 19:03
  downtown at this and I don't know Kansas City at all.
• 19:08
  Apparently the of all businesses that that had their headquarters
• 19:12
  there Hallmark cards. Are you aware of that?
• 19:16
  I saw that in this little release here Hallmark.
• 19:19
  Cards has their headquarters and that is going to be, I guess,
• 19:23
  repurposed or developed, and that's where the stadium is
• 19:26
  going to be. I mean, if it gets anywhere
• 19:29
  close to the drawings that we saw today, man, I hate to use a
• 19:32
  baseball term, but that's a home run.
• 19:35
  I absolutely love Kaufman too. I do too, Trent.
• 19:38
  I wish they built it on wheels. You know, they can just push it
• 19:40
  down there. Just put drag it down.
• 19:42
  There, but it's also in Major League Baseball comparison.
• 19:44
  It's in a tiny ballpark, yeah, but now, are there fountains?
• 19:48
  They're not the ones I've seen, no.
• 19:52
  I want to see some. No, I didn't.
• 19:53
  See it I didn't see I saw it from like a drone shot from
• 19:56
  above in the in the in the drawing that I saw Now maybe
• 20:01
  there's something you know, if you're sitting behind a home
• 20:02
  plate and you're looking at the outfield, maybe that's there,
• 20:05
  but in left field, you know, Petco Park has those.
• 20:08
  I don't know if it's a some kind of warehouse building that
• 20:11
  they've made apartment, but there's left field.
• 20:13
  It looks like there's apartments and they're now they're they're
• 20:15
  all suites. That's what it looks like he's
• 20:18
  going to go with this new Royal Stadium.
• 20:19
  So I see in center field one of the endings I just took.
• 20:22
  A does have the fountains. There's good.
• 20:24
  Well, I don't know if there are fountains that go all the time
• 20:27
  or if it's just like a water feature that like after a home
• 20:30
  run, water splashes up. You have to have something
• 20:33
  because that's kind of a trademark of that ballpoint,
• 20:35
  right? Got to have some kind of some
• 20:38
  kind of homage to that and looks like they have at minimum
• 20:41
  something there. But cool area.
• 20:43
  It really is. Hung out there for the draft.
• 20:45
  What was that for you? So that was.
• 20:46
  Kind of, yeah, because it. Didn't you?
• 20:48
  Say you were close to the World War 1 monument, and that's like
• 20:52
  a couple of blocks from where this building's going to be or
• 20:55
  where the stadium is going to be built.
• 20:56
  So we'll get more into that with Nick Athan.
• 20:59
  Yeah, we'll pick his brain when he joins us at 1:25.
• 21:02
  But we'll also obviously talk about the the news that came out
• 21:06
  today that the Royals are they're moving and they're going
• 21:10
  to I guess expedite this So and it's going to stay in Missouri,
• 21:13
  which should keep the residents of that state very, very pleased
• 21:19
  with that. All right, we'll take a call
• 21:21
  here before we go to break. When we come back, we're going
• 21:23
  to talk to Jeff Hughes on De Bears De Bears blog.
• 21:27
  What he is hearing, if anything, there perhaps some Intel on the
• 21:31
  new statement of Cappy Cappy's dying on this hill.
• 21:34
  It's Arlington Heights and he'll join us tomorrow at 1:00.
• 21:37
  Not today if you're joining us late.
• 21:39
  Cappy had to switch his day, so he'll be with us tomorrow.
• 21:42
  Let's head to Waterloo, shall we?
• 21:45
  Mike, did you guys, did you, did you get the storms that passed
• 21:48
  through the area last weekend? Was it as bad as I as I heard?
• 21:52
  Oh yeah, we got a lot of hail down here, all right.
• 21:55
  Cars got hail damage. Yeah, I bet, I bet.
• 21:58
  All right. Good stuff.
• 21:59
  Well, not good stuff, but glad you got through.
• 22:02
  What's the what's going on with you?
• 22:03
  You know what? You know that Murakami for the
• 22:06
  White Sox? Yeah.
• 22:07
  I have never seen a guy hit the ball so far.
• 22:10
  Did you see that home run? He hitting Sacramento over that
• 22:13
  60 foot wall. I did not.
• 22:16
  I'll take your word for it. But yeah, he's off to a pretty
• 22:19
  good start. 32 feet. Yeah, they short changes. 450 or
• 22:23
  460 last night he had another home run and they were they
• 22:28
  brought in a regular player and he was throwing lob balls to
• 22:32
  him. He hit 3 so far.
• 22:34
  I couldn't believe it. They were foul and I got one
• 22:37
  more thing. And he's up to 9 now, right?
• 22:39
  Yeah, he's up to 9. He's a superstar.
• 22:41
  I didn't know he was so tall. He's about 6-2 really put
• 22:44
  together. I mean, what's he weigh about
• 22:46
  2:30 or 40? Big dude.
• 22:48
  Yeah, Massive. Swing.
• 22:49
  And then, you know, people been criticizing Audie Crook.
• 22:53
  And you know what? It ain't her fault that she was
• 22:56
  left with two players left on the team.
• 22:58
  That's the coach's fault. And anybody, you know, Sean was
• 23:02
  kind of criticizing her, you know, for 1.4.
• 23:05
  Million go, go. Hey, I take that money and run
• 23:08
  because I I don't even think I made that money in my lifetime,
• 23:13
  so I'm Flash. Hey, I'm going to watch every
• 23:15
  Oklahoma State game because she's fun to watch and I hear
• 23:18
  she's really getting into shape, so I hope the best of her good
• 23:21
  stuff hang up and listen. Yep, guys.
• 23:23
  Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it, Mike.
• 23:24
  Yeah, I I don't get the Audi crooks push back.
• 23:26
  Yeah, I don't. Either I don't I don't get the
• 23:28
  Rocco back push back that he knew how long we was going, So
• 23:30
  what? Yeah, we'll So what?
• 23:33
  I think we could connect the dots on the right.
• 23:35
  Now, should Matt Campbell be slapped on the wrist like Kirk
• 23:37
  Ference was? It wasn't the portal.
• 23:40
  He was making contact. Yeah, but that's impermissible.
• 23:42
  It is, but Matt Campbell was wise.
• 23:44
  He didn't self report. Don't do that, right?
• 23:48
  God forbid you actually play by the rules.
• 23:51
  Yeah, and actually report what you just say.
• 23:53
  Not a ference. I mean, this is everyone's doing
• 23:56
  it. Let's not be naive.
• 23:58
  It's a self report. It's not even just a sports
• 24:01
  thing, is it just in general? And it's one of the things I
• 24:04
  drive home to my kids, just tell the truth.
• 24:07
  Just. Beg for forgiveness?
• 24:09
  Don't. Yes, right.
• 24:13
  I, I, I despise societally what this has turned into.
• 24:18
  Never admit mistakes, never admit a mistake, just on and on
• 24:22
  and on. And it is has permeated
• 24:24
  everywhere, not just sports, but everywhere.
• 24:26
  And we see a perfect example back at our sports world.
• 24:29
  Kurt Ferentz made a mistake, owned up to it, gave himself A1
• 24:33
  game suspension. Not enough, Not enough.
• 24:36
  Dropped the hammer. Other people and we know
• 24:39
  everywhere this is happening, of course, but don't self report.
• 24:42
  That's what we learned out of it.
• 24:43
  Look. McCullum did it.
• 24:45
  Yep. Koch admitted it on the on the
• 24:46
  podcast. Absolutely.
• 24:48
  Speaking of podcasts, do you do you know Matt Randazzo at all?
• 24:51
  I do, yes. And then it does a nice job.
• 24:53
  Yes, he does. It does a really nice job.
• 24:54
  Really good guess. Have you OK?
• 24:56
  He gets really good guess. And if you're listening over in
• 24:59
  the eastern part of the state, you absolutely know who I'm
• 25:01
  talking about. TV guy, right?
• 25:02
  Yes, He had Owen Freeman on yesterday.
• 25:06
  He's based out of the Quad City, so it makes sense.
• 25:10
  What a waste. Yeah, talent's there.
• 25:14
  I don't know if the drive is there.
• 25:15
  Well, obviously wasn't. He admitted it last year.
• 25:17
  There wasn't there? Yeah, oh boy, oh boy, boy if I'm
• 25:21
  a Creighton fan or a Creighton booster.
• 25:23
  And what a waste of money. Hopefully he gets it.
• 25:25
  Together, where's he going to Auburn, right, he's going to
• 25:27
  Auburn, going to Auburn and Matt Cadence is there that's the
• 25:30
  connection we'll see if he can get his because.
• 25:32
  To the leads, right? Exactly.
• 25:33
  Maybe third time's a charm. From Fran.
• 25:35
  He quit on them. To McDermott, who's now left the
• 25:39
  sport, Yeah, well, it happened to you.
• 25:41
  Connect those dots. Little Steven Pearl, because if
• 25:44
  they don't make the tournament this year, yeah, I think Steven
• 25:47
  Pearl's going to be out. He should be.
• 25:49
  Yeah, he should be. I think that's why Pops was
• 25:51
  politicking so damn hard. Yeah, but Matt Randazzo, if
• 25:54
  anybody knows him, you know, 2 thumbs up from these guys in Des
• 25:57
  Moines from noon to two. He does a nice job and gets some
• 26:00
  really good guests. I think I saw anger on with him
• 26:02
  earlier. One final note, as Audie Crooks
• 26:05
  came up, you saw Coach Steyer leaving out the state.
• 26:09
  Yeah, yeah, 24 years, good for her.
• 26:11
  That's a long run. Glad you mentioned that, Trent.
• 26:13
  Glad you mentioned that. I mean longevity obviously a big
• 26:17
  part of that program and retirement well earned and well
• 26:21
  deserved. And big shoes to fill now and
• 26:23
  that coaching staff as they look to fill out their roster and
• 26:26
  find those final pieces to make come together.
• 26:29
  We mentioned this yesterday. I think it's gone better for
• 26:31
  sure that I thought it was. I anticipated you're.
• 26:34
  Going to get the leftovers is why when I thought he was going
• 26:37
  to get and. It's been better than that, so
• 26:39
  we'll see. He did it four years ago or he's
• 26:41
  going to have to try to do it again and we'll see.
• 26:43
  The freshman class is coming in, what they're going to be able to
• 26:45
  build along with some of the players that they got out of the
• 26:48
  portal. But yeah, Coach Steyer, hearing
• 26:50
  her so many times here on KX and O and we had the coaches show
• 26:53
  and she'd, you know, fill in for coach friendly.
• 26:56
  Just always enjoyed hearing her talk about the sport and women's
• 26:59
  sports in general. Great career and.
• 27:02
  Good luck. Absolutely.
• 27:04
  Well learned. We'll take a time out.
• 27:05
  We'll come back, we'll talk NFL. We're going to spend a lot of
• 27:07
  time on the regional teams here today.
• 27:10
  Plan to do it tomorrow. But plans change and we will do
• 27:13
  that here today. Vikings kick off our number 2
• 27:17
  Chiefs and Packers in there as well.
• 27:19
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 27:25
  I'm Millery Condon, Welcome back.
• 27:27
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Glad you're with us.
• 27:29
  Trent and I until 2 Jeff Hughes momentarily the Bears blog.com I
• 27:34
  will talk about the Bears second hour of the show.
• 27:37
  Start with the Vikings, get the Chiefs, the little Packers as
• 27:40
  they wait until a Friday before they make their pick.
• 27:43
  Assuming that they don't get involved.
• 27:45
  Let's get the Jeff Hughes the Bears blog.com Jeff Trenton Ken,
• 27:49
  good to speak with you. Are you excited about this
• 27:52
  draft? Jeff?
• 27:52
  Are you excited about Thursday night or where are you?
• 27:56
  I think you guys talked to me for long enough to realize that
• 27:59
  I don't ever get excited about any draft.
• 28:02
  This one in particular. I mean I hate to rain on
• 28:06
  everybody's parade, but everyone I talked to around this league
• 28:10
  tells me the same thing. There are 7 or 8 guys in this
• 28:14
  draft they view as blue chip style players and the rest of it
• 28:18
  is role players and they don't see this draft as any more than
• 28:22
  10 or 12 deep. And then it's can you make the
• 28:25
  right choices from then on out. If you're looking for a high
• 28:29
  quality, productive starter at the back end of round one, right
• 28:32
  now they're not there or certainly the guarantees aren't
• 28:37
  there. So it's that kind of a draft
• 28:41
  which is coming on the heels of what is reportedly going to be
• 28:43
  one of the best drafts in the years next year.
• 28:45
  So I don't know if this is the impact of NIL money and players
• 28:51
  moving around and stockpiling talent on individual college
• 28:54
  rosters, but this is not a great draft.
• 28:57
  But it doesn't mean great players can't come out of it.
• 28:59
  And we've seen that plenty of times in the past.
• 29:01
  There's going to be guys that pop, the guys that come out of
• 29:03
  nowhere, and it happens every single year.
• 29:05
  At 25, the Bears will have a choice likely if they don't
• 29:11
  trade up or trade down in the first round.
• 29:13
  What is a more likely scenario? I know it's dependent on what
• 29:16
  happens the night of the draft and what's going on, but what's
• 29:19
  more likely? What you're hearing right now?
• 29:20
  The Bears move up from 25, try to get a better pick or moving
• 29:23
  down from that 2520 fifth choice.
• 29:26
  I think everybody from 15 down wants out of the first round.
• 29:32
  I think if you can somehow parlay your pick this year into
• 29:37
  a pick next year, that is what the front offices are looking to
• 29:40
  do right now. But even still, there's that big
• 29:44
  of a difference right now between pick 25 and pick 35 S.
• 29:49
  But I think I think you're going to see a lot of teams in the
• 29:52
  back half of the first round desperately trying to accumulate
• 29:56
  more picks because this is the kind of draft where more picks
• 29:59
  matter. You want to take ten shots as A5
• 30:03
  shots and hope you can find a couple of quality starters in
• 30:06
  that group. I would be surprised if anybody
• 30:10
  trades up though outside of maybe the top 10 picks in the
• 30:15
  draft. Or if somebody panics and has to
• 30:18
  have Simpson a quarterback, maybe.
• 30:20
  But I'm with you, Jeff, you know, and I think that'd be a
• 30:23
  huge mistake, by the way, but. I don't mean to, I don't mean
• 30:26
  to, I don't mean to bemoan the kid, but like, how many years do
• 30:29
  we have to see this happen? Like every year, teams fall in
• 30:34
  love with a quarterback who's just not that good.
• 30:36
  Yeah, they lose their minds. Not to say Ty Simpson can't be a
• 30:39
  a decent player down the road, but if you're staking, I mean,
• 30:42
  I've heard the Arizona Cardinals, that is a new regime
• 30:45
  taking over and they're going to stake their future on Ty
• 30:48
  Simpson. The best thing that can happen
• 30:50
  to Ty Simpson is he goes the third round where he should go,
• 30:54
  gets a couple of years in a good system and finds his way to to
• 30:58
  the starting role. This is the kind of thing when
• 31:01
  people start overdrafting the Christian Ponders and the Josh
• 31:05
  Rosen's and the Ty Simpson's. When you start overdrafting
• 31:08
  these kids, that's when their careers get get derailed because
• 31:13
  now the expectations rise and they shouldn't.
• 31:16
  Nope, I agree with you. So if the Bears keep the pick or
• 31:19
  whether wherever they drive, don't you think if they do
• 31:22
  anything other than offensive line or edge rusher in
• 31:25
  particular on that D line, don't you think that's where Chicago
• 31:28
  should be focusing their attention as far as their first
• 31:31
  round pick? Oh, absolutely.
• 31:33
  And I and I think I would be surprised if it's not a lineman
• 31:36
  with the first round pick and I'd be surprised if it's not
• 31:38
  another lineman in one of with one of the second round picks.
• 31:41
  I think they know where their deficiencies are.
• 31:44
  The Aussie Torpeo injury has really come at a bad time.
• 31:49
  They do not know the status. They will not know his status
• 31:52
  probably till the middle of next season.
• 31:55
  They've got Braxton Jones, they've got Willis, they've got
• 31:57
  people who can fill that role. But if you if you identify a
• 32:01
  tackle at the end of this round, we do think can start day one,
• 32:06
  I'd be surprised that's not the pick.
• 32:07
  And I'd also say this about the Bears.
• 32:09
  They are not looking right now explicitly at 2026.
• 32:15
  They are not. They are building a program for
• 32:18
  the long haul and they have two aging guards on this roster.
• 32:22
  So if someone like a Chase Pezantis catches their eye, I
• 32:26
  would not be surprised. They they go and say we're going
• 32:29
  to find the guy who's going to take over for Joe to in a year
• 32:32
  or Jonah Jackson in a year. And as far as defensive line
• 32:36
  goes, it's unlikely at 25 you're going to find that edge rusher
• 32:40
  that's really going to make a difference.
• 32:42
  But I think if if one of the defensive tackles catches their
• 32:46
  eye, that just seems like a natural spot for it.
• 32:49
  Absolutely does. What do you want to see them not
• 32:52
  do? They're we have heard Ryan
• 32:54
  polls, we have heard Ben Johnson both say best player available.
• 32:57
  They're that's kind of their the philosophy that they have.
• 32:59
  What do you want to see? What would make you grumble?
• 33:02
  Maybe not even a 25, but even some of those second round picks
• 33:04
  like don't do that. You know, I don't really have
• 33:10
  the one thing I don't want to see them do is trade up and get
• 33:12
  rid of picks. I just don't see this draft as
• 33:16
  having the kinds of guys that are going to make that big a
• 33:19
  difference. You know, there's two edge
• 33:21
  rushers that are going to go in the top five picks tonight.
• 33:23
  Are the Bears really going to try to get up and get one of
• 33:25
  them? No, you'd have to give up picks
• 33:27
  next year. I have to give up too much.
• 33:29
  I like what I'm hearing from inside the building.
• 33:32
  They're not overreacting to what was a thrilling 2025.
• 33:36
  They're not doing with the Command did a year ago and
• 33:38
  saying we had our great year, let's load up and go for next
• 33:42
  year. They are building this thing
• 33:44
  exactly the same way this offseason as they started
• 33:47
  building it last offseason. So I like the idea of just stay
• 33:51
  where you are, accumulate picks, take who you can take and hope
• 33:56
  the guys are productive. But again, if you're expecting
• 33:58
  25 in these second rounders to come in immediately and make a
• 34:01
  big difference, the things I'm hearing are is that that's just
• 34:05
  not the kind of draft this is. Where are they going to be
• 34:07
  playing their home games in the future?
• 34:09
  Cappy's dying on the Arlington Heights hill.
• 34:11
  He is convinced it's going to be Arlington Heights.
• 34:14
  He won't listen to anybody that says Indiana.
• 34:16
  What are you hearing? I, I've been, I've thought it
• 34:19
  was Arlington Heights now for two years and I just would not.
• 34:23
  Now if you, I don't know if you guys are following it today,
• 34:26
  long 380 page document came out of the Illinois State
• 34:30
  legislature today about Arlington Heights.
• 34:33
  I would be lying to your audience if I told them that I
• 34:35
  sat down and read that document. If you've ever read a government
• 34:38
  document and that would take me a week to read.
• 34:41
  I just don't see the team leaving Illinois.
• 34:44
  But I will say this and I've said this, there's a meant to my
• 34:47
  readers. This has been so badly handled
• 34:50
  by both the state of Illinois and the Chicago Bears.
• 34:53
  Kevin Warren has been such a disappointment as a team
• 34:57
  president. He was brought in to get this
• 35:00
  building built. That is what he did in
• 35:02
  Minnesota. That is what he's here for.
• 35:05
  And we were supposed to break ground, if you remember, by the
• 35:08
  end of 2025. Well, we, we are not, we did not
• 35:11
  achieve that goal. But I do think Arlington High
• 35:14
  School will eventually be the destination when I have no idea.
• 35:19
  Jeff, you mentioned a little bit earlier obviously the true
• 35:21
  pillow injury and and sounds just about as devastating as you
• 35:24
  could think. It's not not even conversations
• 35:26
  about will he play the season and what his career looks like
• 35:29
  going forward. They had so many injuries
• 35:31
  defensively also though last season, Jaylen Johnson, Kyler,
• 35:34
  Gordon Stevenson, they had a ton of them over there.
• 35:38
  What have you heard about the veterans coming back in their
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  health as they work their way towards next football season?
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  Well, then, this is the argument I was making about the defense
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  all offseason is that we were judging this defense last year
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  without their two best players in their secondary.
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  Austin Booker didn't play essentially the first three
• 35:54
  months of the season on the edge, as you saw when he came
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  back, the difference he made. They were injured at defensive
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  tackle. Brady Jackson wasn't Grady
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  Jackson. Grady Jarrett wasn't really
• 36:06
  healthy until like middle of the season.
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  They were really banged up on defense.
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  They're going to be better defensively just by having Tyler
• 36:14
  Gordon and Jaylen Johnson on the field.
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  So I don't think this is going to be a bad defense, but they
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  certainly need more talent. They've added in this offseason
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  and this is a word I keep hearing about.
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  Ben Johnson, bad speed, Kobe Bryant fast.
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  The new linebackers are fast. They are, they are not.
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  They do not want to see the Christian Watson slant route go
• 36:40
  for 80 yards every time the Packers completed.
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  And that is what they have added.
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  So they they intend to be a faster team on the defensive
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  side of the ball. That's what Dennis Allen wants.
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  And I think if they're healthy this year on that side, they're
• 36:53
  just going to be better by default.
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  How important is this year for Romo Doonese?
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  They don't have to commit to him until next year.
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  They can picking up his fifth year option.
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  Obviously I think this is critical.
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  Like I think he's a hell of a player.
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  I do. Injuries cost him a significant
• 37:08
  amount of time last year. But it nonetheless my feelings
• 37:11
  aren't going to matter when it comes to the Bears decision.
• 37:13
  Your thoughts on the importance this year of a Doonese?
• 37:16
  I said this to someone the other day.
• 37:18
  I would watch this draft this weekend.
• 37:20
  If the Bears take a wide receiver in those first couple
• 37:23
  of picks. I think it's giving us a hint of
• 37:26
  what Ben Johnson and the staff think of Roman Doom say.
• 37:29
  I think they like him. I think at the start of last
• 37:32
  year, he certainly looks like a star on the field.
• 37:35
  Again, injuries derailed that. He was not the same player the
• 37:38
  last few months of the year, but they were very comfortable
• 37:40
  getting rid of DJ Moore. They love what they're getting
• 37:43
  from Luther Burden. Roman Doom, say, is the key to
• 37:45
  this. They're going to be a superstar
• 37:47
  offense or you know, top ten, very good productive offense.
• 37:51
  But if you see them target wide receiver with one of those first
• 37:55
  3 picks, I think the reading of that should be to light a fire
• 37:59
  under Roma Dunesday because they want more from their top
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  receiver. One of the more under the radar
• 38:05
  signings that they made was Khalif Raymond, who is a slot
• 38:09
  guy. You know, he's kind of a gadget
• 38:10
  type of guy, but what his returnability, his punt
• 38:13
  returnability, I think it's a game chair.
• 38:15
  I get he's getting up there. He's 30, he's going to be 32
• 38:17
  when the season begins. But for something that didn't
• 38:20
  cost a whole lot is going to be both your kick returner and your
• 38:22
  punt returner most likely. I really like that signing and a
• 38:25
  veteran going in there with those two youngsters with
• 38:28
  burning a doomsday. I think this is going to help
• 38:30
  out a lot more than maybe people on the surface we're getting
• 38:32
  credit for. What are your thoughts on
• 38:34
  Raymond? Well, think of how involved
• 38:36
  Zacchaeus was last year essentially in that role
• 38:40
  dropping past is the first three months of the year non-stop.
• 38:43
  That's the Raymond role now, because we're on Iowa radio
• 38:47
  taking the opportunity. I want this wet Gen. character.
• 38:52
  Regen. Yep.
• 38:54
  Was it Regen like Norwegian? Three days ago and I started
• 38:58
  watching highlights and I said I don't whatever, reach for him
• 39:03
  fourth round. Grab this kid because he looks
• 39:06
  like the prototypical great special teamer that we have
• 39:10
  simply seen for decades in this league.
• 39:13
  He just looks the part, like that guy.
• 39:16
  That guy is going to be a great retirement and a gunner.
• 39:19
  So if if we're staying Iowa specific, I hope Ryan Polls is
• 39:23
  listening to this show because that kid is going to make some
• 39:26
  special teams coach a lot of money moving forward.
• 39:30
  He is that good a return man. He is that steady a presence on
• 39:33
  specials. But I think a good comparison
• 39:36
  for him might be Khalif, because with the speed and just the
• 39:40
  awareness, having a reliable force, I think it's going to be
• 39:45
  a very I, I think this this office is going to be very good
• 39:47
  this year. Yeah, Ouijan, the only, the only
• 39:49
  thing I would say tap the brakes on they they've reached for an
• 39:52
  Iowa player in the fourth round before and the fan base went
• 39:55
  out. Now, granted, it was a punter,
• 39:58
  but it seemed like a stretch to go for.
• 40:00
  But Ouijan's a different player now.
• 40:01
  Going to get me to criticize going for punter.
• 40:03
  No, I love Taylor. I love Tori Taylor.
• 40:05
  He's been good. Yeah.
• 40:06
  It's so remember when you talk about Ouijan and Norwegian,
• 40:09
  that's essentially how I, you know, committed it to memory.
• 40:12
  That's that's that's interesting.
• 40:13
  Yeah, I, I literally, I studied the draft for one week.
• 40:16
  That's my rule. I don't start till last
• 40:19
  Thursday. He jumped off the screen to me
• 40:21
  on Friday and I said I'm going to promote this guy because
• 40:24
  this, this is an NFL return man and an NFL special teamer for a
• 40:27
  decade. The Bears Blog, the Bears Blog
• 40:29
  for Jeff Hughes and all the Bears content.
• 40:31
  Jeff, thanks for jumping on. Appreciate the contribution as
• 40:34
  always. Jeff Hughes, thank you all.
• 40:36
  Right. Take care guys.
• 40:37
  Yeah, good to talk to Jeff Hughes.
• 40:39
  The Bears blog.com found a good one.
• 40:41
  Yes, absolutely in. Region he's got his vision is
• 40:44
  running a year for him. His vision is incredible.
• 40:47
  His awareness, I thought that was a really.
• 40:48
  Good word awareness, just understanding setting up blocks,
• 40:51
  so good at it. And then just.
• 40:54
  Angles, you know. Because he's not the absolute
• 40:57
  fat. Tim Dwight was faster.
• 40:58
  It felt like on a football field.
• 40:59
  It doesn't. You're right.
• 41:00
  He he was, he did. But it's it's the football
• 41:03
  speed, right? That's whatever that means, but
• 41:05
  it's it's. Shouldn't they run 40s in pads?
• 41:08
  Yes you don't. You don't like the shorts and
• 41:10
  T-shirt? Right, because guess what?
• 41:13
  They're not going to get to you. They're going to get killed.
• 41:15
  If that's how you take the field, we'll take a time out.
• 41:17
  We'll come back. We missed the keyword earlier.
• 41:19
  I'm guessing it's, well, I don't know, Head to KX and o.com if
• 41:23
  it's not too late. The keyword for this hour was
• 41:26
  cash. Cash at KX and o.com.
• 41:28
  Promise I'll get to next hours on time, but it was cash at KX
• 41:32
  and o.com. Miller and Condon back after
• 41:34
  these messages. I'millery Condon, welcome back.
• 41:37
  I was sports rec Radio Network Trenton Ken with you until 2:00.
• 41:42
  We'll continue talking draft with our regional teams,
• 41:45
  Vikings, Chiefs and Packers in that order in our number 2.
• 41:49
  Although with the Vikings and Dane in particular, we'll branch
• 41:52
  out with the Wild tied up at 1 apiece.
• 41:54
  I think they was a game three night got to be.
• 41:56
  Right it is. Tonight to Saint Paul, so we'll
• 42:00
  talk about that. We'll do the Twins a little bit
• 42:02
  as their come from behind victory last night over the Mets
• 42:05
  who've now blown her lost 12 straight.
• 42:07
  Hey, just real quick, some Vegas news from yesterday and I think
• 42:10
  it's pretty big news with the Super book being because a lot
• 42:14
  of folks love the Super. Book I love.
• 42:16
  The Super book, it's really cool.
• 42:17
  It's a nice property. It was the first big sport.
• 42:19
  It was. That I'd ever been to.
• 42:21
  Yep, it wasn't just, you know, put it in the corner, right?
• 42:23
  This was actually a full blown sports book.
• 42:26
  They've been purchased by Caesar's, which is bad for
• 42:30
  betters because it's one less line.
• 42:33
  You know, there's the stations, there's MGM, there's Caesars
• 42:39
  South Point. And circa.
• 42:42
  Yeah. Am I missing anybody?
• 42:43
  I. Don't, yeah, because like
• 42:45
  Peppermill is that's that's under a different umbrella now
• 42:48
  I'm trying to think of the other smaller ones that are out there,
• 42:50
  I think stations. Well, you know what, Joe Asher,
• 42:52
  who started William Hill, he's got Boomers.
• 42:55
  So maybe that's got Yeah, that's just open.
• 42:57
  He's just. I was.
• 42:58
  Gonna say I don't think I'd heard of that, no.
• 42:59
  It's Brandon's pretty much, you know, within the last six
• 43:01
  months. But yeah, I know a lot of folks
• 43:03
  that listen to us go to Vegas or have been to Vegas over the
• 43:06
  years, and the Super book prior to Circa was, you know, if you
• 43:10
  like go to watch sports, that was the book to watch a minute
• 43:14
  and I know a lot of people did. I partook in the Super Book
• 43:17
  College contest. Did you this year?
• 43:19
  Yeah, that was fun. Where we picked, I think it was
• 43:21
  six games, seven games like that a week did.
• 43:24
  You get a because there wasn't many people in it.
• 43:25
  I don't. Think no, no, we were had an
• 43:27
  opportunity for maybe a top 100 finish.
• 43:29
  I had two different entries, one with Chris Williams, the other
• 43:32
  one with a group of buddies. And we, I had that little
• 43:35
  moment. I think it was beginning in
• 43:37
  November. But you remember November was
• 43:38
  when the downturn started for me.
• 43:40
  Yeah. My my 4 month ugly ugly Betty.
• 43:44
  Too bad Chris wasn't in this thing that year.
• 43:46
  He was. Remember that year that Oh my
• 43:48
  God, on fire? It was like 80, well, 70
• 43:50
  something percent. That was you two years ago.
• 43:52
  Two Yeah, 2. But those years when they
• 43:56
  happened and then you start to overthink it.
• 43:58
  What was I doing? You have a bad week the next
• 44:01
  year. What was I doing then?
• 44:02
  Nothing. Yeah, it just was going it.
• 44:04
  Just went our way. Yeah.
• 44:05
  All right, hour number two coming up next.
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