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Speaker 1: three o'clock Central daylight time, we welcome you back. It

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Speaker 1: is a Tuesday edition of the Bumper to Bumper program

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Speaker 1: on a very crisp fall like weekday afternoon here in

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Speaker 1: the twin cities that we affectionately refer to as Many

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis and Saint Lewis Park. My name is Dan Burrero.

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Speaker 1: I host the program, guards he produces the show. He

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Speaker 1: is indeed back from his one day hiatus, and we

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Speaker 1: are delighted that you're long for today's full three and

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Speaker 1: one half hour tour. We're going all the way until

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Speaker 1: six thirty this very evening. Lou Nannie in studio, probably

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Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour. I'm guessing Ron Coomer our

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Speaker 1: first visit with kom Dog in Ages. He's going to

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Speaker 1: join by telephone at four point thirty, and Adam Field

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Speaker 1: is expected at the bottom of this hour if he's

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Speaker 1: gotten all the proper rest since returning from the one

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Speaker 1: and one Vikings road trip across the Pond. Timing might

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Speaker 1: not be great for Komdog twins, I should say, Cubs down,

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Speaker 1: yeah to zero to Cato Kalin's Milwaukee Brewers. People feeling

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Speaker 1: pretty good about the Cubs three run home run in

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Speaker 1: the top of the first by Suzuki. Then what Brewers

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Speaker 1: get their own three run dong three to three at

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Speaker 1: the end of one. And then Milwaukee they can't stop

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Speaker 1: scoring runs the first game, I think they had nineteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty. Second game they had seven. They end up

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Speaker 1: winning seven to three. So see what Kumdag feels regarding

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Speaker 1: the current delicate condition of the Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Cubs Talk baseball.

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Speaker 1: Just get caught up with him for the first time

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Speaker 1: in in quite some time.

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Speaker 3: You know what kum Dog has always told me? What's

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Speaker 3: that It's not a series until someone wins on the road.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was Flip. It might be kum Dog

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Speaker 3: I think said it too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, they haven't won yet on the road, No,

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Speaker 1: and they better get to winning at They better win

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Speaker 1: the next two at home, otherwise, well there won't be

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to win one on the road.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. Isn't this best of five?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I think this is the best of five, and they're

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Speaker 1: down two games to none. By the way, I didn't

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Speaker 1: get into this yesterday. Were you you probably you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna it's probably a stupid question to ask you,

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Speaker 1: but I'll ask anyway. Were you as? Were your sensibilities offended?

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Speaker 1: As much as apparently? Several locals were upset outraged at

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Speaker 1: an NFL Network statement from the host in the studio

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Speaker 1: referring to the Minnesota Vikings as the Minneapolis Vikings.

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Speaker 2: The Minneapolis Vikings again, Yeah, was it a slip up?

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Speaker 1: Yes? But are we is it really? Why does that

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Speaker 1: work us up so much? First of all, it might

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Speaker 1: be the Minnesota Vikings, but they play in Minneapolis. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how to break it to Saint Paul types,

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Speaker 1: but that's the truth. What about outstate, Well, you're on

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Speaker 1: your own too. I mean, I just, I just I'm

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Speaker 2: I knew it.

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Speaker 1: I heard it live and I said, I knew. I said,

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Speaker 1: she's toast. This host is dead beyond any meaning rational comprehension.

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Speaker 1: She's going to get obliterated over what I'm sure was

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Speaker 1: just a still slip of the tongue. Not that big

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Speaker 1: a deal. Doesn't mean do your homework you know, do

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Speaker 1: better NFL network. I don't think it was any of

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Speaker 1: those things. In fact, has she commented on it or

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Speaker 3: But later this is what actually bothered me more, because no,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna make a mistake. Would you like it to happen? No,

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Speaker 3: But I think she tried to double down later said

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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings, who also happened to play in Minneapolis. Like,

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Speaker 3: I realize I screwed it up, but I couldn't tell

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Speaker 1: I just like, because it's professional football, you should have

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Speaker 2: Bleep you If you honestly believe that it's.

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Speaker 1: Unprofessional to call them the Minneapolis Vikings, you don't even

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Speaker 2: We do the People Stadium? Just bizarre.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, where were we well, do we have? The question

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Speaker 3: I figured this is where you were going. I hopefulness

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Speaker 1: Well, I gotta tell you this will be I'm sure

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Speaker 1: a major topic of conversation with Luigi in the five

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour. But by now I think even casual hockey

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Speaker 1: fans have heard the news about your guy. You call

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Speaker 1: him the best player in hockey. I think Connor McDade,

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Speaker 1: Cony McDavid's pretty good. Also number ninety seven. I think

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Speaker 1: do you remember all summer that that's true? The summer

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Speaker 1: deal was, Well, maybe agents are kind of everybody's kind

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Speaker 1: of waiting it out because they don't want to be

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Speaker 1: you'd waited, the other domino, yeah, was going to get

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Speaker 1: You want the market set for you. Well, whatever market

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Speaker 1: caprice off set at seventeen million dollars a year. Connor

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Speaker 1: McDavid raised his hand and said, you know what I

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Speaker 1: I want to do everything you want to You want

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Speaker 1: as far as far as I've been told, he could

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Speaker 1: if if there's another player in the league getting seventeen

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Speaker 1: can be the max for Connor McDavid. He maybe he's

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Speaker 2: Who is the uh?

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Speaker 1: Who's the hockey insider who tweeted ninety seven could have

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Speaker 1: twelve point five million aa V of the expiring deal.

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Speaker 1: Wow. I mean, I gotta believe Garren choked on his

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Speaker 2: Does he have signers? Remorse? No, he had to sign him.

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Speaker 1: But my god, does that number not hit you right

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Speaker 3: He did yesterday when I saw it. Yes, I said

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Speaker 3: he signed for what what happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Good for him, I get it, I get it.

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Speaker 2: He can wait.

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Speaker 1: And get you know, the CAP's gonna keep going up

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Speaker 1: and eventually he'll get an even bigger payday.

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Speaker 2: That's not the point. All summer.

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Speaker 1: What the hockey people said is watch McDavid. That's that's

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Speaker 1: So good for him, good for his team and.

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Speaker 2: R ninety seven.

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Speaker 1: You're on the clock, man, I mean, you got what

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Speaker 1: you can get. That's what your agent's job is. But

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Speaker 1: that's a startling disparity in yearly yearly salary, right for

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Speaker 2: Who a lot of people think is the best.

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Speaker 1: Player in the game correct or on the verge of

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Speaker 1: and they've been to the finals back to back years now,

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Speaker 1: Devil's advocate. Yeah, he's a little younger than Caprisoff. True,

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Speaker 1: because that was the other thing. It was, do you

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Speaker 1: when it's going to be thirty five, thirty six, thirty

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Speaker 3: Yes, But are the Oilers even more on the clock

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Speaker 3: because when he's done with this, it's what he's thirty

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Speaker 3: an even more ridiculous deal. That's possible, But in the

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Speaker 3: intro and the short term, it's a great the short term,

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Speaker 3: it's a great deal for the team, and presumably it

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Speaker 3: does give them a little more flat. Look, we accepted

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Speaker 3: that our flexibility is going to be limited, but you

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Speaker 1: But I'm curious to know what other players and agents

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Speaker 1: there's a part of this that I respect that McDavid

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Speaker 1: is saying, I don't care what I'm supposed to sign

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Speaker 1: for I don't care that I'm supposed to know. You

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Speaker 1: can't get in the way of all the players, all

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Speaker 1: going to do it my way now again, he's going

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Speaker 1: to eventually get a payoff. But we're not talking about

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Speaker 1: down the road. We're talking about now. And there was

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Speaker 1: nobody in hockey, nobody who was predicting that this was

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Speaker 1: the way McDavid was going to go. So all this

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Speaker 1: stuff now ault strategy. Why didn't we hear about this

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Speaker 2: We didn't.

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Speaker 1: We heard, Well, who's gonna blink first in terms of,

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Speaker 1: you know, again setting the market. So it's a it's

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Speaker 1: an interesting little development and nugget that it's hard to avoid.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to miss given the obscene nature

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Speaker 1: of the contract awarded Corill Capriso. Even though, as you said,

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Speaker 1: we get it, they're different ages, they are at different

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Speaker 1: periods in their career. But this was not the way

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Speaker 1: we were hearing was going to go. I'll be very

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Speaker 1: curious to get Luigi's view on all of that as well,

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Speaker 1: because I know when Louis when we've talked to Louis

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Speaker 1: about McDavid.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he expected this either. Doesn't sound familiar.

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Speaker 3: Oh for sure, Fan, you want to give away money, Fan,

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Speaker 3: and two men and a junk truck want to help

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Speaker 3: with that.

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Speaker 2: It is bonus bucks.

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Speaker 3: Our first keyword in the National Cast contest today is grand.

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Speaker 3: Go to cafe in dot com and enter the keyword grand.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of good texts coming in from

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Speaker 1: the hockey community. That's one of the more sensitive in

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Speaker 1: all of town, as we've known for quite some time.

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Speaker 1: Statement six month, two guy rights. Get back to me

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Speaker 1: when you find out the Imam McDavid is being paid

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Speaker 1: to be the spokesman for Cosafina and his no show

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Speaker 2: Very very well played there.

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Speaker 1: People, I I I understand this is a sensitive issue

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Speaker 2: This is half the job, this is half the battle.

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Speaker 1: It will mean nothing if you don't do the other half,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. I don't know

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Speaker 3: I think that's what this is kind of a reminder of.

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Speaker 1: Well, I meanwhile, are we starting another season injury racked

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what Luigi thinks that maybe we're counting too

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Speaker 2: We did? So does that mean we don't like our

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Speaker 1: Well, I think we do, but I think we've decided

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Speaker 1: This one I didn't expect to see.

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Speaker 2: This is from MO out of Wrigleyville, Chicago.

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Speaker 2: That's where the Vikings play.

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Speaker 4: Well? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Would now would we be? Would Saint Paul be bitter.

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Speaker 1: If before the Wild's first game, the national announcer says,

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Speaker 2: Would embrace it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where we play, that's where the team plays.

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Speaker 1: One broadcaster once says Minneapolis Vikings, and we've lost our mind.

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Speaker 2: I actually thought it was kind of cute. I I

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we start calling them the Minneapolis Vikings. I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yourself technically true kind of Yeah, would we

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Speaker 3: I have no problems you start calling them the Arlington

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Speaker 2: It is a city.

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Speaker 1: So at I just don't think it should be that

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Speaker 1: Don't forget about an hour baseball conversation with our good friend,

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Speaker 1: How do how do you do in general on jet lag?

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Speaker 4: able to kind of, you know, adapt to whatever's going

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00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 4: on and figure it out.

441
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: So coffee, are you just old fashioned, hardcore coffee guy

442
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 1: or you foo food drink latte guy?

443
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 2: What's your coffee of choice?

444
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 4: No, sir, just black coffee. You give me a good

445
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 4: cup of hot black coffee, and and my day is

446
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 4: My day is good.

447
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 2: That's all it takes. So is that first thing in

448
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 2: the morning.

449
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 4: I'm I'm kind of more. I'm very scheduled of mine

450
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 4: because I know that if I started right away in

451
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 4: the morning, I'd have way too much fee and way

452
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 4: too much coffee. So I'm very routine. I make sure basically,

453
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,959
Speaker 4: my first cup of the day is usually the first meeting. Uh,

454
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 4: so I can handle the long, monotonous meetings that we

455
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 4: have on Wednesdays and Thursdays and uh And it's kind

456
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 4: of my way to keep my add in check while

457
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 4: in meetings. But yeah, usually usually a couple of cups

458
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 4: in the morning during meetings, and then you know, one

459
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 4: half for noon cup to get me going, either before

460
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 4: practiced or before I get home with the crazy kids.

461
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: No, no cream, no sugar, nothing, just a black coffee

462
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: every how far is that go back?

463
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 4: Well? Do you want to know the origin story of

464
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 4: my of my coffee drinking? Okay, well I can credit

465
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 4: it to Norv Turner because I had to sit in

466
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 4: his game plan meetings where he went through every single

467
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,959
Speaker 4: play that we had up that week, which was like

468
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 4: at times one hundred and sixty slides, where he went

469
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 4: through every little detail of every play. And at that

470
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 4: point I was like, all right, I need I need

471
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 4: something to get me through this. And if he focused

472
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 4: and locked in and turned to coffee.

473
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 1: That's too good. Did he ever have did you ever

474
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: reveal this to him? Did he have any inkling of

475
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,719
Speaker 1: that you were his inspiration?

476
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 4: No? But that's a good point. I should give him

477
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 4: a call and just thank him for opening my eyes

478
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 4: and uh and to the coffee world, which has been great, I.

479
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 2: Which I should say he was your inspiration to say

480
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 2: it better? All right?

481
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: You do come back with a victory, you get the

482
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: late drive that you needed. I I you know, I

483
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 1: gotta feel that that's one of those games where you

484
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: say you have to you sort of have to find

485
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: a way to win it.

486
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: How did you view it?

487
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think that was kind of my thing,

488
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 4: you know, in the locker room before the game, on

489
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 4: the sidelines during the game, is like, guys, we gotta

490
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 4: find a way, Like like I don't care what it

491
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 4: looks like, I don't care how it happens, but like

492
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 4: keep fighting because we got we got to win this game.

493
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 4: Like this game means so much more than anyone probably

494
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 4: knows or you know, we'll be able to look back

495
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 4: at at the end of the season and how important

496
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 4: that one game was. And they all are right. This

497
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 4: league is just there's no game that does that means

498
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 4: more than the other. But going into a bye week,

499
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 4: just from the momentum standpoint, just from the mental side

500
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 4: of things, it was so important to win that game, uh,

501
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 4: and so obviously thankful for that made the trip extremely

502
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 4: long trip nine hour flights back a lot better. So

503
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 4: I was. I think I stood up for the first

504
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 4: six hours of that flight before I fall fell asleep,

505
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 4: so I wouldn't fall asleep before that, but it made

506
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 4: it more enjoyable.

507
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: That's for sure.

508
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: The last drive, I believe Carson Wentz was nine for nine.

509
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: I thought he looked really good on that drive. I

510
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,360
Speaker 1: thought it was well called by your head coach Slash,

511
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, obviously play caller as well.

512
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: What did you what did you think? What did you

513
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 2: make of it?

514
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think just how that game went

515
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 4: of kind of how our offense was moving the ball

516
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 4: and things like that. You know, a lot of credit

517
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 4: to coach for his play calling and obviously the whole

518
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 4: coaching staff of kind of getting that information to him

519
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 4: to kind of figure out a way to move the

520
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 4: ball with out taking hits and keeping keeping Carson upright

521
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 4: and getting getting the ball in the playmaker's hands. And

522
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 4: I think I think it was obviously a great job

523
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 4: by the staff, but also as Carson and just getting

524
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 4: the ball out, finding finding guys, going to the guys

525
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 4: that you can count on in big situations, and then

526
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 4: and then the guys you know, I think, you know

527
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 4: TJ had a great catch and just got vertical and

528
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 4: and really you know, get the first down. That's huge.

529
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 4: Those those plays are huge that no one's going to

530
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 4: talk about. You know, I don't know how many yards

531
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 4: TJ had in the game, but those plays are huge

532
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 4: that no one's going to talk about. But to be

533
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 4: able to catch the ball, get vertical, get a first down,

534
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 4: just to keep the drive and momentum going and not

535
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 4: have to get to a third down or or second

536
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 4: and whatever. Those are little huge plays and really helped

537
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 4: us to be able to get down the field and

538
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 4: getting field goal range first, and then you get to

539
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 4: that field goal range and then it's like, all right,

540
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 4: let's go win this and not put this in the

541
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 4: two overtime's hands and go win it. So that was great.

542
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, I don't. I actually don't think Cleveland

543
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: would have ever scored again anyway. But you're right, you

544
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: have a chance to win it, you go ahead and

545
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: do it. You know, justin Jefferson very well, But you

546
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: were away from him for a little while, you know, elsewhere.

547
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 2: I'm wondering what you came back to.

548
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: What you saw that's different, if anything about JJ as

549
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: he is obviously grown in stature and experience in the.

550
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 4: League, I think just an even better teammate and obviously

551
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 4: everyone knows the type of player he is but just

552
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 4: the maturity that he's really he was mature when he

553
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 4: came into the league just for you know, being so

554
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 4: young and not a lot of experience, and he really

555
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 4: was ahead of his time as far as maturity wise.

556
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 4: But he's grown so much as a person. He's grown

557
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 4: so much as a leader. I wouldn't say that when

558
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 4: I was here last that he was like the strongest

559
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 4: leader in the world, but he didn't have to be.

560
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 4: And I think he's really taken ownership to be that

561
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 4: strong leader, to be a role model for the younger

562
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 4: guys and to help them grow on the field, but

563
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 4: also off the field. I heard some great comments from

564
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 4: him after the game talking about his role there with

565
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 4: with certain guys and and trying to be that for

566
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 4: them through his experiences. But yeah, I think I think

567
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 4: the biggest thing that sticks out to me is just

568
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 4: his being a teammate, right, Like, he's not a guy

569
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 4: that is gonna just you know, whine and be a

570
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 4: diva just because you know, he's going to be out

571
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 4: there to help this team win games and do it

572
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 4: as a leader.

573
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: You know. He brought up in fact after the game

574
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: and speaking of the leadership part of this that he

575
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: wants to take Jordan Addison under his wing a little more.

576
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: The head coach was very public about saying that the

577
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: reason Jordan didn't play in the first quarter was because

578
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: he'd missed a walkthrough and and it sounds like JJ's

579
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: saying I got to try to have a greater influence

580
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: on him. You've been around a long time too, So

581
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: is that something you try to get involved in. Do

582
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: you do it if the player wants it, you know,

583
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: your second time around with this team. I'm curious to

584
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: get your view because obviously the kid can play.

585
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: I mean, he made a great catch late.

586
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: He can be an important part of what this team does,

587
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: but he's had some issues. So is that something you

588
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: might get involved in as well, or do you back

589
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: away from that?

590
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: What do you think?

591
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 4: Well, I believe in building relationships. You know, That's something

592
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 4: I've really, really, really really enjoy and I think it's

593
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 4: it's part of you know, why I'm still playing this game.

594
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 4: It's to build those relationships, to have a friendship and

595
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 4: then be there where I need to be. And I

596
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: think when you build a friendship and you build a

597
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 4: relationship person and guys can trust you, then that's when

598
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 4: you can pour into them and you can help them

599
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 4: all in the field, off the field, what have you.

600
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 4: So that's kind of where I'm focused on, is making

601
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 4: sure that he really trusts me and that I can

602
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 4: be there for him when he needs me. And yeah,

603
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 4: I think I think that's a huge part of playing

604
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 4: in this league a long time. You know, God, God

605
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 4: has blessed me and given me this opportunity, and I

606
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 4: think it's more than just making plays. As much as

607
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 4: I love doing that and getting the ball in my hand,

608
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 4: but you know, I know there's bigger things than that.

609
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 4: So I say that all a long winded answer to

610
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: say that, yes, I'm very committed to building these relationships

611
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: with not just him but the entire team and trying

612
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 4: to be a resource where I can.

613
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: Well, it may have been a long winded answer, but

614
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: I thought it was an important answer because I can't

615
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: help but wonder and a lot of people have wondered

616
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: about this. You know, your snaps have gone down. I

617
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: think in the Browns game you had fourteen snaps against

618
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: them ten in the first quarter when Addison was sideline

619
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: and you were on the field. I think over seventy

620
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: percent on snaps the first three weeks. You're a guy

621
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: who still I know, feels he can contribute. You can

622
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: still catch the ball. I also know you do pride

623
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: yourself on doing other things, and I'm wondering if you

624
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: have you know, part of that philosophy is what helps

625
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: you through as a player who I'm assuming wants to

626
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: play more. How are you dealing with the way the

627
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: role has seemingly gone down since Addison came back? Adam,

628
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: did we lose him?

629
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 4: Oh?

630
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: It's gone all right, let's put let's put back on hole.

631
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 2: See you can get them back. Oh? Oh, I think

632
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 2: I heard him?

633
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: Did you, Adam? Did you hear we we lost you

634
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: for a minute there? Did Did you hear the question?

635
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 2: Long winded?

636
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 4: I heard the I heard the first part of it,

637
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 4: but my my phone must have cut out. But but yeah,

638
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 4: I think I think I got to. But yeah, I

639
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 4: think for me, you know, I said it in the

640
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 4: press conference when I first got here, It's like, I'm

641
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 4: not going to forget this, this feeling that I had

642
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 4: when I first got back in that building, and how

643
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 4: important that place is to me, how important the organization,

644
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,239
Speaker 4: you know, what it means to me, And I'm not

645
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 4: going to forget that through the ups and downs of

646
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 4: a season, whether we're winning or losing, whether personally I'm

647
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 4: having great games or not so great games, or playing

648
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 4: a bunch or not playing a bunch, It's like, I'm

649
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 4: gonna have the same attitude every single day I walk

650
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 4: in that building, and at the end of the day,

651
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 4: I have a lot of confidence myself. So when my

652
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 4: number is called and I need to play more or

653
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 4: I need to get more opportunity, like I'm ready and

654
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 4: I feel great. And again I'm very blessed to be

655
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 4: able to play this game still in year thirteen and

656
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 4: whatever whatever that looks like, I'm going to take to

657
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 4: full advantage and be positive and be the best leader

658
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 4: I can be. So again, I'm very excited to be

659
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 4: back in Minnesota and be back in this organization, and

660
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep that mindset through this year.

661
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: Well as you well know too, it's remarkable how much

662
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: things can change week to week, right, I mean, somebody

663
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: else could get hurt in two weeks. There could be

664
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: just a different set of circumstances where it opens the

665
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: door you mentioned it. I mean to this league changes

666
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: week to week, and obviously condition in terms of who's

667
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: out on there, what the circumstances are, whose number gets called.

668
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: We've certainly seen that change dramatically over the course of

669
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: a season many times.

670
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. And I think it's I think it's

671
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 4: important to be the same guy every single day, regardless

672
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 4: of circumstance. And that's not easy, don't don't get me wrong.

673
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 4: It's not like, uh, that's something that's that's easy to

674
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 4: do or that just just happens, right, Like, you really

675
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 4: have to make sure that every single day that you

676
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 4: wake up and you walk in that building, that like

677
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 4: that's your mindset, that you're coming in there to give

678
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 4: your best to do whatever you're supposed to you're told

679
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 4: to do, asked to do. And and again, I I

680
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: have so much faith and belief and and love for

681
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 4: this organization and this and this staff and this team.

682
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 4: And that's why I'm here, you know. And and uh,

683
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 4: if it was all about you know, the other things,

684
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 4: you know, maybe I mean I wouldn't be here. But again,

685
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 4: just very blessed to be here and and excited about

686
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 4: what that looks like. And and I want I want

687
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 4: to help this team win. Uh. And obviously you know

688
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 4: this this city or the state, and and this organization

689
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 4: or this fan base deserves to win, and that's that's

690
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 4: what we're trying to do, all right.

691
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: So now you get to buy h and you get

692
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: a little time to breathe, and perhaps the opportunity to

693
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: get a little bit healthier, because, as I said, even

694
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: though you've been around a long time, I can't remember

695
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: many times where the offensive line, for example, has had

696
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 1: to be shuffled to the degree it has this early

697
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: in the season.

698
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: And it was pretty wild.

699
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: Basically you had different people than the expected starters pretty

700
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: much playing every.

701
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 2: Position along the line. And again, you know it.

702
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody feels sorry for teams with injuries, but

703
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: this has been a pretty unusual circumstance so far, has

704
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: it not?

705
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 4: Absolutely? And I think that's another reason why that win

706
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 4: was so important on Sunday. It's like when you can

707
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 4: win some games with a lot of injuries and a

708
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 4: lot of missing pieces, I guess you could say, and

709
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 4: you can kind of get through a really tough stretch

710
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 4: and you can get some wins. Those things, those things

711
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 4: are going to pay off big time in the long run.

712
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 4: Just the experience that some guys are getting, the different

713
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 4: positions that they're playing that you never know when they're

714
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 4: gonna have to bounce back in there, or how many

715
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 4: games they're gonna have to play in there, Like those

716
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 4: are those are things that are only going to help us.

717
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 4: They're not going to hurt us in the long run.

718
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 4: So when you can sneak out victories and do it

719
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 4: through those circumstances, I think those are going to pay

720
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 4: big dividends in the long run.

721
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: The division is I thought before the season began, looked

722
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: really interesting and it still does to me and I

723
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: But yet I think it's kind of it's sort of

724
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 1: hard to get a handle on pretty much every team,

725
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: right because your your team started with the idea of

726
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is going to be the guy from the

727
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: start of the season. Maybe he will be prepared already

728
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: to come back for the the Eagles game.

729
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: The Bears have been up and down.

730
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: The Lions still look pretty good to me and the Packers,

731
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: I mean they lost to the Cleveland team that you

732
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: guys knocked off. What I will say is it looks

733
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: like there's great that I still feel like potentially there's

734
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: great depth in this division. Well, how do you size

735
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: up the division at this point? But almost you know,

736
00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: a quarter through the season.

737
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you said, your only way to

738
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 4: this and so there's still a little bit unknown. Uh

739
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 4: that's what this great game is so great, right, Teams

740
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 4: where maybe unbelievable last year, maybe aren't great this year

741
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 4: or vice versa. So you really just don't know what

742
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 4: teams are until week six, seven, eight. But at the

743
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 4: same time, yeah, this this division is is deep and

744
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 4: a lot of great teams, a lot of really great players, uh,

745
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 4: star players on each of those teams that can really

746
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 4: help you win games. So uh, it's it's uh, it's

747
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 4: it's gonna be interesting as we get into these battles.

748
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 4: I think I was talking to my wife about it

749
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 4: yesterday or today. It's like, these these teams in this

750
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 4: division are gonna start beating up on each other and

751
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 4: it's gonna be tough. But that's that's that only is

752
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 4: gonna make us better when you play good competition like

753
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 4: that twice a year, uh, with three different teams. It's

754
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 4: it's it's definitely only gonna make you better and and

755
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 4: make you ready for you know, if if you can

756
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 4: get into those playoffs and and it's only gonna make

757
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 4: you ready for those the playoff type caliber teams that

758
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 4: you're going to be facing at that point.

759
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: Last item, tell me how many days off you have

760
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: and what your plans are.

761
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 2: How do you or do you even try?

762
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: Is it even possible to sort of get away in

763
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: any sort of meaningful sense.

764
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 4: Well, I'm in the parking lot of an apple or

765
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 4: true right now. So that's step one. Is spend as

766
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 4: much family time as possible. But yeah, just spend time

767
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 4: with the family, get away from the building, get away

768
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 4: from football. Be able to watch a little football on

769
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 4: Saturday and Sunday, including one of my son's flag football games,

770
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 4: so that would be pretty pretty intense. But but yeah, no,

771
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 4: just spend as much time as a family. Really just

772
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 4: get back mentally physically. Ten days away in a different

773
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 4: two different countries is a long time to be away,

774
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 4: So just really try to make up some ground with

775
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 4: the family and and really just get re energized and

776
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 4: ready for a really tough stretch and a long second

777
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 4: half of the season.

778
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: For sure, be prepared. We probably are you. You've you've

779
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: been down this road before. I gotta believe there's gonna

780
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: be people coming up, recognizing you, coming up, but to

781
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: you and offering their vote on whether Carson should remain

782
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: his quarterback for the Eagles game or whether the team

783
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: should go back to JJ McCarthy.

784
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 2: You know how the quarterback stuff stirs the pot?

785
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 4: Man, Oh definitely, And thank the Lord that I'm not

786
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 4: in those positions to make those decisions, so I get

787
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 4: to just I get to just run the play that's

788
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 4: called and catch the football from whoever's throwing it. But yeah, no,

789
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 4: it's the NFL is a crazy game and a crazy business,

790
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of attention, and there's a lot

791
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 4: of what do they call him, armchair quarterbacks or whatever.

792
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of those out there for sure.

793
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: Thanks for giving us time, extended time on your day off, man,

794
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 1: much appreciated, and we'll get back on regular schedules soon.

795
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 2: Thanks again.

796
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 4: All right, thanks guys, I appreciate it.

797
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: Adam feeling from an apple orchard, he said, hanging out

798
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: with the family, yet still giving us a little time

799
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: on his day off.

800
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: Isn't that nice of Adam feeling? Well, he's one of us.

801
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 2: It's not surprising.

802
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if he let's be honest, I mean,

803
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: look up in the record books where Adam Theelen ranks

804
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: in receptions and yards among Minnesota Vikings, Minneapolis Vikings.

805
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 2: Minneapol Viking. Isn't he top five in both?

806
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,439
Speaker 1: I think he's want to say, third or fourth in both,

807
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: or at least one of the two, which I don't

808
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: even think a lot of people realize.

809
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 2: And you know, he.

810
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: Said it's it's his playing time's going down so right

811
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: now at least, and it's got to be hard. But

812
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: I think he's smart enough to know at this point

813
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: you got to sort of wade through it. He wants

814
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: to hold on to most importantly, he got back here

815
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: right and I think that's what he's trying to hold

816
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: on to.

817
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 2: And we'll see. I said, the season.

818
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: Takes some very strange twists and turns, and often injuries

819
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 1: end up opening doors once again. I still think Fling

820
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: might have a play where we look back in the

821
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: season and and there's a several big throws that we

822
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: can say he was indeed responsible for.

823
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 2: We will indeed see.

824
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: Matt and Saint Paul very unhappy, very unhappy, and not

825
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: from the hockey community. Really, there isn't a quarterback controversy

826
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: that's just you, well, well, what side of you that's

827
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: not true. But that's okay. If you if the word

828
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: controversy is fraud, don't use the word controversy, call it

829
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: a conundrum, situation. A decision will have to be made correct.

830
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: That's what I was reminded of yesterday. Man that the

831
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: the the Macobo's, they're they're not taking any of this well.

832
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: If there's any momentum to the idea of Wentz playing

833
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: against Philly, and by the way, as we said again yesterday,

834
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: injuries might well intercede there again, because the word is

835
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: the shoulder, the left shoulder that had you brimming over

836
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: with for the Brownstones, for the Brownstone Broser is apparently

837
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: not getting all that much better, and there's going to

838
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: be further examination of it. So I wouldn't be surprised

839
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: if they find, you know, something that makes the decision

840
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: clearer that even if the head coach wanted to give

841
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: Wentz another week, that it may have to be JJ

842
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: McCarthy or your guy Max Brosmer, who, as I said yesterday,

843
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: I never seen a kneel down that looked as professional

844
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: polished yep. As Brozemer at the end of the first

845
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: half in London.

846
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 3: I did like how they were like huddling up, and

847
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 3: he was looking over to the silence, like come on,

848
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 3: just get the ball and kneel down. Like even for me,

849
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 3: it's like, stop milkin it, guys, we know what you're

850
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 3: going to do here. I was devastating. Does it make

851
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 3: me a bad person? I was devastated. No, because you'd

852
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 3: predicted it was like a genius. I was just excited

853
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 3: to maybe see it happen. Yeah, because it wasn't going well.

854
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 3: We all watched it. It wasn't great. Now was awesome again.

855
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing, and we didn't even this wasn't

856
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: one of the talking points. You did a nice job

857
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: as always on the talking points which we ran yesterday.

858
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: But again Wentz was up and down right. I'll grant

859
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: the point. But he wasn't responsible for either turnover either.

860
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: You do have to factor that in a little bit.

861
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: There were a pair of there were the two running

862
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: backs had fumbles. Right committed fumble. Maybe he could have

863
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: handed it off cleaner. Well maybe maybe, I don't know.

864
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 2: It's in the pocket.

865
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: But in the end he had the drive of the game.

866
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 2: I mean, I just know this.

867
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: If McCarthy has goes nine for nine and doesn't settle

868
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: for three and gets a touchdown for the dagger and

869
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: regulation the mcgobos are demanding a lifetime caprice off like

870
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: contract for their guy JJ.

871
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 3: Well, you have to remember those They spent a lot

872
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 3: of money on their McCarthy mansions, and so they're looking

873
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 3: out the big bay window and then they seeay time

874
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 3: will come. But they see cousin Eddie in the wins

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Speaker 3: Winnebago out there, you know, with the host basically saying

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Speaker 3: it's full, and they don't like that.

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Speaker 2: They spend a lot of money on their McCarthy mansion.

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Speaker 3: They don't love the Winnebago just pulling up to the

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Speaker 3: neighborhood and ruining Christmas.

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Speaker 2: That's not what they're here.

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Speaker 1: I am on record as saying I would start Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz against Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: I would.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not the last word. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to agree with it. If he's healthy, I would start

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz against and not because of the angle, because

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Speaker 1: of it's his ex team. I don't care who I am. No,

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Speaker 1: I would extend it. I would play him. I'm that

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Speaker 1: and I admit maybe I'm too traumatized by what I

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Speaker 1: saw in Game two in McCarthy's second game. We got

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Speaker 1: some interesting analytics on that that we can get into

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Speaker 1: as well that are being kind of used against Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: But if you compare those same analytics to what JJ

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Speaker 1: McCarthy has done through two game, that's not even close.

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Speaker 2: But we'll save all of that top of the hour break.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned Ron Komer, in about a half hour,

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Speaker 1: Luigi is going to join in the five o'clock hour

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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, it's commed down to puck drop

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Speaker 1: on ESPN right now.

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Speaker 2: Oh, is that right? Opening Night?

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Speaker 4: Tonight?

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Speaker 1: Opening Night NHL on ESPN twenty four minutes in fact,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's Florida against the Chicago Blackhawks. If

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Speaker 1: I'm not mistake, Illinois Blackhawks, the Illinois Blackhawks. It's exactly it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sure we'll get Louis on all of that.

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Speaker 1: I got a number of other good texts to read

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Speaker 1: and a couple of other subjects controversy wants to discuss,

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Speaker 1: including a WNBA negotiations updates