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Speaker 1: There, Welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 2: Nine to Fox.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Joining us now Chris Finch, head coach of

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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Timberwolves. This happens thanks to prize picks and

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Speaker 3: Chris joins us now from Utah coach. Good morning, and

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Speaker 3: I'm assuming you probably didn't ski yesterday at Park City

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Speaker 3: because of the knee, right, Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, skiing's never really been something that I've done

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Speaker 4: a lot, you know, going up playing basketball was not

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Speaker 4: encouraged to go skiing.

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Speaker 3: And back in our day, speaking of scheing, Jim McKay,

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Speaker 3: remember Jim McKay narrating ABC's Wide World of Sports and

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Speaker 3: the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat and

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Speaker 3: then the ski jump guy who just got waxed. I

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Speaker 3: mean that that that kind of that kind of soured

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Speaker 3: me on the slopes at a young age.

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Speaker 4: What about you, Yeah, I can see, yeah, I remember

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Speaker 4: that very well.

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Speaker 3: Actually, and Chris Schenkel doing bowling for dollars remember that?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, well I'm older than you with

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Speaker 3: uh with with your conference. It's it's I mean maybe

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Speaker 3: for you because you're right in this battle.

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Speaker 2: It's been like this for quite some time.

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Speaker 3: But it's kind of starting to feel like the West

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Speaker 3: has some bloodbath to it. I mean you guys Houston,

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Speaker 3: San Antonio, Denver, okc Uh, Phoenix. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: if Phoenix may not be as good as the the

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Speaker 3: aforementioned five, but what a what a physical tough team

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Speaker 3: that is.

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Speaker 2: It's up.

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Speaker 3: It's just a tough quintet there in the West. Wouldn't

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Speaker 3: you say, oh, yeah, we knew it was going to

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Speaker 3: be like this.

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Speaker 4: It's it's seemingly harder and deeper every year, you know,

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Speaker 4: And I think, you know, we we're seeing it play

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Speaker 4: out on a nightly basis, you know, and great games,

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Speaker 4: hard fought games, close games. You know, anybody can beat anybody,

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Speaker 4: you know, kind of just pustling around with each other

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Speaker 4: right now, and I think whoever is going to be

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Speaker 4: able to catch a little bit of a rhythm. But

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Speaker 4: it's you know, I don't see anyone really separating themselves

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Speaker 4: like throughout the course of the rest of the season.

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Speaker 4: I just think it's going to be like one game.

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Speaker 3: Margins is is this like a normal part of the

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Speaker 3: season or you know, midway point, approaching All Star break,

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Speaker 3: approaching trade deadline. I mean, are like conversations and like attitudes,

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Speaker 3: different bodies and minds a little tired, Oh, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of kind of a lot of factors

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Speaker 4: here at this point in the season. You do have

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're halfway through the season or a little

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Speaker 4: bit more in from the games played, but we have

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Speaker 4: another I don't know, ten games or so before the

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Speaker 4: All Star break. You know, you got the trade deadline

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Speaker 4: coming up, as you mentioned that certainly will play with

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Speaker 4: players minds, and some people are more affected by that

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Speaker 4: a lot mid season funkiness. There's a lot of a

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Speaker 4: lot of things that you know, we've got to fight

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Speaker 4: through right now. We've we've circled this month as a

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Speaker 4: big one just because of you know, our scheduled tough

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Speaker 4: ins and you know, we need we need to start

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Speaker 4: playing better basketball, which we we definitely have and and

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Speaker 4: you know, we just we looked at this as kind

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Speaker 4: of the month that would set us up for what

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Speaker 4: happens after All Star break. And you know, so far

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Speaker 4: we feel like we're on track, and we all lost

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Speaker 4: a couple of tough ones over the weekend. But you know,

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Speaker 4: those were kind of typical games that you were referencing

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Speaker 4: here in the West.

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Speaker 3: Did with with the players who you know, just may

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Speaker 3: have some anxiety thinking that, hey, you know, I may

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Speaker 2: It did Do you have you noticed.

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Speaker 3: Over the years risk that that that's generated more by

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Speaker 4: No doubt it's coming from outside sources and influences such

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Speaker 4: conversations that we know for a fact have never happened,

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Speaker 3: Do do you do you ever have to put out

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Speaker 4: I mean mostly we just encourage it going in one

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Speaker 4: there's conversation that Tim does a very good job being

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Speaker 4: transparent with our guys about you know, what might be

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Speaker 4: around them, which largely you know, these things, uh, there's

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Speaker 4: there really isn't much substance to them that That doesn't

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Speaker 4: mean that every team is not talking to every other

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Speaker 4: team and they're talking about players and whatnot, but it's

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Speaker 4: most of them it's just kind of exploratory or just

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Speaker 4: it's it's certainly not highly transactional at that at that phase.

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Speaker 4: But the but Tim does a really good job of

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Speaker 4: being honest with these guys. I think that really kind

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Speaker 4: that at the last moment, and and so it's hard

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Speaker 4: to make any certain assurances, you know, but uh, but

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Speaker 4: that's just the reality of the business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and and and obviously the reporters or or

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Speaker 3: those who are putting it out there, you know, you

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Speaker 3: people will have relationships with them, so they'll know, you know,

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Speaker 3: whether whether the level of the lid the tea or

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Speaker 3: lack thereof, and what I'm getting that for instance, it's like,

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Speaker 3: you know MLK Day, you just can you have basketball

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Speaker 3: from eleven thirty in the morning all the way basically

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Speaker 3: close to midnight. So it's a wonderful day to watch

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Speaker 3: the league. And you know, I'm watching Dallas. I mean

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Speaker 3: So you know, after the game, not much pops. But

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Speaker 3: then like this morning, you know, in one of the tabloids,

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Speaker 3: nick Nicks may be trading Karl Anthony Towns. Sources indicate

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Speaker 3: here are five teams that are interested. So I mean,

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Speaker 3: you don't second guess, you don't say the guys lying,

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Speaker 3: But nevertheless, that's the stuff that happens after games, like

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Speaker 3: when you get blown out and it gets a little wonky, right.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sure. I mean, and you know, some organizations

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Speaker 4: you know use the media as a way to kind

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Speaker 4: of test the market at times. Great, I'm not saying

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Speaker 4: that's what's happening in this situation. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not there, And that's a good point.

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Speaker 4: The nature of the discussions, but you know, it's that's

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Speaker 4: other teams will use, you know, will make up stories

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Speaker 4: about other players and other trades that might be possible

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Speaker 4: to try to, you know, flesh out what someone's intention

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Speaker 4: might be. You know. So there's a lot of kind

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Speaker 4: of weaponizing the media right now, which is makes it

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Speaker 4: extra hard on the player, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 5: What a whorld.

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Speaker 3: Chris Finch, coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves Weekly nine to

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Speaker 3: now thanks to prize pick second Harvest Heartland and two

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Speaker 3: Harvest dot Org the Jazz tonight, this this Keyante George

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Speaker 3: is an underrated offensive player because he's trapped in Utah.

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering what you think of him because his field

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Speaker 3: goal percentage and free throw attempts have gone way up

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Speaker 2: He just seems like he's a stone cold score.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he is, he is. He's really, he's really come on.

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Speaker 4: Will Hardy and his staff hasnt done an outstanding job

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Speaker 4: here in their development with some of their young players.

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Speaker 4: You can see him starting to really round into shape.

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Speaker 4: I think they're on the I think they're on the

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Speaker 4: on on the edge of being really competitive and good

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Speaker 4: moving forward. I think you know they're going to most

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Speaker 4: likely end up with another pretty good pick this year.

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Speaker 4: Keep adding to the young, to the young core. But

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Speaker 4: you know, you know, when you go through these rebuilds,

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Speaker 4: build out the rest of your roster through trade or

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Speaker 4: free agency with guys you know around it, more experienced guys,

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Speaker 4: and it looks like, you know, it looks like they've

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Speaker 4: that happens. You know, it's just it's it's kind of

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Speaker 4: the normal things. Come in to the league so young

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Speaker 3: You You guys are a little more banged up than

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Speaker 3: usual right now, aren't you? With Nas and Rudy and

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Speaker 3: those games. Anthony missed a little little nicked up right now,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we are, we're going through it a bit. You know,

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Speaker 4: we're generally one of that's been one of the healthier

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Speaker 4: all credit to our like performance staff and our guys

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Speaker 4: good fortune. So hope that continues. But yeah, we're going

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Speaker 4: they they're not they don't seem to be anything of

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Speaker 4: the long term variety.

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Speaker 2: Excellent.

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Speaker 3: What when when Anthony doesn't play? What what's different with

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Speaker 3: your team's ball movement when the Alpha doesn't play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's just it's just normal students. With

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Speaker 4: and then that you know, opens up kickout opportunities. But

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Speaker 4: do that, so pace picks up ball, movement picks up

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Speaker 4: it's just, yeah, I think it's just kind of it's normal.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: We we are pretty can be at times a pretty

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Speaker 4: IO heavy team with both Aunt and Julius, they're very

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Speaker 4: good at it. You know, we try to have a

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Speaker 4: good balance of ISO and movements. But when you're you know,

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Speaker 4: missing one of your better ISO players and you know,

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Speaker 4: you got to lean on the other things that you

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Speaker 4: do well.

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Speaker 3: Chris in that Spurs game, despite his elite countryman Wembin

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Speaker 3: Yama going for thirty nine all week out. With that

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Speaker 3: thirty nine too, Baron Jay had to give you twenty

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Speaker 2: How did he do.

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Speaker 4: Outstanding? He was excellent. Wow, he's been really good in

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Speaker 3: things to really like and respect about Kevin Stefanski. One

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Speaker 3: for me that is super high is he's the last guy.

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Speaker 3: In fact, it's a zero percenter that he's going to

437
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Speaker 3: contact an agent when things are really bad, or contact

438
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Speaker 3: a member of the media that is and be like, hey, hey,

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Haslam. And I don't know this to be true,

440
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Speaker 3: but like Jimmy Haslam forced Deshaun Watson on us, So

441
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Speaker 3: how am I supposed to win with this?

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Speaker 2: And then like people go with it and stuff. He's

443
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Speaker 2: just not that guy, you know, he's not.

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Speaker 8: I think a lot of it has to do with

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Speaker 8: his upbringing. You know, his dad, who I knew, I

446
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Speaker 8: actually his dad. I played basketball, went up against his

447
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Speaker 8: dad in high school. That's I mean, not as a

448
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Speaker 8: his dad was a coach. So you know, I just remember,

449
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Speaker 8: you know Ed Stefanski, you know, who was the former

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Speaker 8: vice president of you know a number of the basketball teams,

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Speaker 8: including the Memphis Grizzlies and I think the Raptors and Sixers. Anyway,

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Speaker 8: you know, I just think he grew up in a

453
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Speaker 8: in a family where you know, coaching and doing the

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Speaker 8: right thing and and you know, I mean all the

455
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Speaker 8: colleges and tintenduals he looked for and good people. I

456
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Speaker 8: think Kevin has that. I think Kevin cares about his staff.

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Speaker 8: I think he cares about his players. I think the

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Speaker 8: players know that and play hard for him. I think

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Speaker 8: he was a situation in Cleveland in the last couple

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Speaker 8: of years. They didn't have the quarterback. They're trying to

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Speaker 8: develop two young quarterbacks. Look how hard that defense played

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Speaker 8: last year for them, And you know it's tough. You know,

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Speaker 8: this is a we just fired. This is the crazy number.

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Speaker 8: And pe I know you're aware of this. Forty six

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Speaker 8: coaches in six seasons, that's how many we have fired.

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Speaker 8: In the NFL. We've just whacked ten this year, and

467
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Speaker 8: they're all getting fired for mostly the same reason. If

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Speaker 8: you don't have the trigger, if you don't have production

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Speaker 8: consistency at the quarterback position, you're you're gonna get fired.

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Speaker 8: And these owners are less and less patient. And that's

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Speaker 8: just the way it is. And I think Kevin's very

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Speaker 8: aware of that. I think he goes to a situation

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Speaker 8: where he's got to get the quarterback situation figured out.

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Speaker 8: It's a very winnable division.

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Speaker 4: I think that. I think the future is bright for Kevin.

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Speaker 4: Stefanski is the head coach in our game.

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Speaker 3: Well, then then you get the Buffalo situation with McDermott.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not you know, it's when when you

479
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Speaker 3: lose that much in the postseason and you can't get

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Speaker 3: over a certain hump. Yeah, they have the right to

481
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Speaker 3: move on, for sure. But when you see the general

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Speaker 3: manager get elevated with his job and like get more

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Speaker 3: power than the coaches out that that just, yeah, it

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Speaker 3: gets a little gets a little seed because he has

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Speaker 3: the quarterback man in Josh Allen, so I guess that one.

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Speaker 8: So they've had two Pro Bowl players since they drafted

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Speaker 8: Josh Allen and just just another quick tibot on Sew McDermot, who,

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Speaker 8: by the way, is another Philly guy, went to Wells

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Speaker 8: Out High School. Think about this, ninety eight wins and

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Speaker 8: nine seasons. His last seven seasons, he's had ten or

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Speaker 8: more wins. I mean in that last seven seasons, he's

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Speaker 8: had three thirteen win seasons. He's got a twelve win season,

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Speaker 8: he's had two eleven one seasons. You had a ten

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Speaker 8: win season. I mean they've dominated the AFC East and

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Speaker 8: you know, you look the postseason record eight and eight,

496
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Speaker 8: but the four losses to Kansas City, and they too

497
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Speaker 8: won the championship round two in the divisional round of course,

498
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Speaker 8: losing to Denver. I mean, your quarter I love Josh Allen,

499
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Speaker 8: you know what I feel about this guy, but you

500
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Speaker 8: know he turned it over four times. They put the

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Speaker 8: ball on the ground five times in that game, and

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Speaker 8: you know we fired the head coach. That's just a crazy,

503
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Speaker 8: crazy part of our business right now.

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Speaker 2: MVP's firing bullets.

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Speaker 3: Rich Gannon, former Vikings quarterback NFL MVP with Denver and Skidam.

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Speaker 3: How did they make sure players and coaches don't freak

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Speaker 3: out all week or early in the game because there's

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Speaker 3: not the regular guy.

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Speaker 8: I would suggest that the Broncos won't lose this game

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Speaker 8: because the Jareds did him. They may not win it

511
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Speaker 8: because of him either, if that makes any sense. I

512
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Speaker 8: think he's going to be fine. Look, I've known the guy.

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Speaker 8: He spent a year with the Raiders and so I

514
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Speaker 8: got a chance to do all the preseason games and

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Speaker 8: get to know him little bit. He spent a couple

516
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Speaker 8: of seasons in Knowy, England. Josh McDaniels brought him to

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Speaker 8: the Raiders.

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Speaker 4: That's how much. That's how highly he thought about him.

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Speaker 8: And then three years ago Sean Payton actually traded for him.

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Speaker 8: People don't they traded for him. He did the research

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Speaker 8: on him. Sean really liked to come out of Auburn.

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Speaker 8: You know, he's been with the organization for three years.

523
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Speaker 8: He knows the system. He's played well in the preseason.

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Speaker 8: He's only got four career starts, he's played in twenty games.

525
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Speaker 8: But I suspect to go out there, the game plan

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Speaker 8: up change a little bit. He doesn't have the creativity

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Speaker 8: and the ability to kind of, you know, make plays

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Speaker 8: with his legs as much as Bo Nicks. And so

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Speaker 8: I think some of the schedule throw as you won't see.

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Speaker 8: But I think Sean's gonna build a game plan around

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Speaker 8: what he does, what he does well, and they'll they'll

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Speaker 8: they'll take their chances.

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Speaker 3: Is excuse me, Is Sean Payton considered one of the

534
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Speaker 3: great offensive minds in the history of the game, not recently,

535
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Speaker 3: but like in the history of the game. Or has

536
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Speaker 3: his cheating and sometimes arrogant approach to things hampered your opinion.

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Speaker 8: It's not. It's not everybody's cup of tea. I will

538
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Speaker 8: say that he is really really good at what he does,

539
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Speaker 8: not only as a as a head coach and as

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Speaker 8: a play caller. But I just think it is messaging

541
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Speaker 8: to the football team. And people don't always like his

542
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Speaker 8: press conferences. He can come off kind of brash and

543
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Speaker 8: but once you get to know Sean, he's all in.

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Speaker 8: He's a very likable guy and he's done an amazing job.

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Speaker 8: Think about this. He made the decision and the organization

546
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Speaker 8: to move on from Russell Wilson. At the time, people

547
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Speaker 8: wasn't a very popular decision. This season alone, Russell Wilson

548
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Speaker 8: is a on for twelve over twelve percent of their

549
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 8: salary cap, more than any player on the team. But

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Speaker 8: they made the decision, and they they took bow knicks

551
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Speaker 8: and they liked them. And he's won twenty four games

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Speaker 8: in his first two seasons in Denver and let him

553
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Speaker 8: to the playoffs in each of the last two seasons.

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Speaker 8: I just think John's done a great job. He's a

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Speaker 8: really really good coach and maybe even.

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Speaker 4: Better play color.

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Speaker 3: What's the coldest outdoor game you ever played in?

558
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Speaker 2: And how did it go?

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Speaker 8: So the tough roll game wasn't really bad because you know,

560
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Speaker 8: when you get snow, it's not normally you know, sub

561
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Speaker 8: zero type temperatures. You know, it wasn't that bad as

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Speaker 8: windy the quarterbacks to win, that could affect them even

563
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Speaker 8: more than the snow, I would suggest. And again I

564
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Speaker 8: didn't really play in this game. I remember when I

565
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Speaker 8: was with the Vikings, we played in Cleveland, the old

566
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Speaker 8: Cleveland Stadium. I think Wade was playing. It was Wade Wilson.

567
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Speaker 8: I mean, Tommy was still not playing. But I just

568
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Speaker 8: remember my rookie year. I believe and I stood there

569
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Speaker 8: on the sidelines and I absolutely froze. I mean, he

570
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Speaker 8: was about the cold most had ever been. I remember

571
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Speaker 8: Hostan Jones got a bite in his in his toe.

572
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Speaker 8: He was really bad. It was really bad, so that

573
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Speaker 8: that would probably be the worst. But you know, you

574
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Speaker 8: just got to find a way to do it. You know,

575
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Speaker 8: you got to find a way to put the right

576
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Speaker 8: the right clothing on and go out there and cover

577
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Speaker 8: your you know, cover yourself up where you can and

578
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Speaker 8: keep your hands warm. And the problem is the ball

579
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Speaker 8: gets the ball could be like it can be as

580
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Speaker 8: fart as a rock. I mean, that was the big

581
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Speaker 8: reason why Brady let them ariaut of the ball, because

582
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Speaker 8: you could you could, you know, you could grip it

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Speaker 8: a little bit better.

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Speaker 4: So I wish I would have thought.

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Speaker 2: Of that, right.

586
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Speaker 3: Rich spent the first six years of his career here

587
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Speaker 3: with the Minnesota Vikings, then went to Washington when the

588
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Speaker 3: Vikes went to Jim McMahon. Now, now, Rich, MVP, you'd

589
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Speaker 3: only played Minnesota one time the final eleven years of

590
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Speaker 3: your career. That was in ninety nine at Metrodome and

591
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Speaker 3: you and the Raiders won the game.

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Speaker 2: So like at that stage, did.

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Speaker 3: You still want Did you still want to stick it

594
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Speaker 3: to the team to let you go even though it

595
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Speaker 3: was like a half decade plus later.

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Speaker 4: Oh for sure, because I.

597
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Speaker 8: Looked over there, I saw Danny Green and who you know,

598
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 8: wasn't the kindest to me. So I mean, yeah, And

599
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Speaker 8: I think anytime you play against your former team, whether

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Speaker 8: you left on good terms or bad terms, it doesn't

601
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Speaker 8: really matter. It's your former team. If you feel in

602
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Speaker 8: your heart of hearts that you know they didn't want you,

603
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Speaker 8: they didn't keep you, They like somebody better. And I

604
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Speaker 8: just think that you know you want to. I just know,

605
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Speaker 8: not just myself, but other players. When you get a

606
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Speaker 8: chance to go against your former team, it's a different week.

607
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Speaker 8: It's got a different feeling to it, you know. I mean,

608
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Speaker 8: it's like it's almost like a homecoming.

609
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Speaker 4: Game for you.

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Speaker 8: And and typically we see players play play their best

611
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Speaker 8: in those type of situations.

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Speaker 3: Back to the Bills in the Broncos for a second,

613
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Speaker 3: excuse me, the the Broncos and the AFC title game.

614
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Speaker 3: They the Bills ran really well on that Denver defense,

615
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 3: and that could be big for New England right.

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Speaker 4: Well, it could be.

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Speaker 8: And I just think, you know, you look at you

618
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Speaker 8: look at this Denver defense and they led the league

619
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Speaker 8: in sacks, the leg and pressures and quarterback hits they

620
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 8: get after you haven't been as good when it comes

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Speaker 8: to the run. I think when you look at the

622
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Speaker 8: Patriots that they've got two backs that are very talented

623
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Speaker 8: that can slam the ball downhill. And they're a little

624
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Speaker 8: bit different.

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Speaker 4: You know.

626
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Speaker 8: You look at Anderson's a little more speed de bounce runs.

627
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Speaker 8: You look at Stevenson, he's the bigger, more physical between

628
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 8: the tackles. Fact, both are really good in the passing game.

629
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Speaker 8: And I would throw in there to Drake May. I mean,

630
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Speaker 8: Drake May can hurt you with his legs as well.

631
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Speaker 8: So this is going to be a good challenge.

632
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Speaker 4: Mike.

633
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Speaker 8: Mike Vrabel has done an amazing job getting that they won.

634
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Speaker 8: They were a four win team a year ago and

635
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 8: you look at the success this year, thirteen wins. I

636
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 8: think Mike Rabel will most likely be the NFL Coach

637
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Speaker 8: of the Year.

638
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me. A couple more here for

639
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 3: Rich Cannon, former NFL MVP. The Rams better be careful.

640
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to be a tough NFC title game,

641
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 3: but don't you think the Seattle defense, I mean it's

642
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 3: dramatically better than Chicago's, right, Oh for sure.

643
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 8: Look you look at everyone's talked last couple of weeks

644
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 8: anyway about the Houston defense. We look at the Seattle defense.

645
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Speaker 8: I mean they're the number one scoring defense in the

646
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Speaker 8: league right now. I mean they have been dominant. I

647
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Speaker 8: think when you look at the job that the general manager,

648
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Speaker 8: John Schneider is down with player acquisition, whether it's trades,

649
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Speaker 8: whether it's free agency, whether it's the draft. I mean,

650
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Speaker 8: this is a really good defense. They come downhill, they

651
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Speaker 8: can rush the passer, they can stop the run. They've

652
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Speaker 8: got good speed, good good team speed defensively, and you know,

653
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Speaker 8: you got what I love is you got the number

654
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 8: one scoring offense in the NFL, the Rams at thirty

655
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 8: and a half points a game. In the Sea off

656
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Speaker 8: at the number one scoring defense, you get seventeen point

657
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 8: two points a game. Something's got to give on Sunday, all.

658
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Speaker 2: Right, Kala Williams.

659
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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Clearly a huge step for the young man rich this year,

661
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 3: but still some key stuff to improve, right, No question.

662
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Speaker 8: I think when you first of all, youve go back

663
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Speaker 8: to last year. I was impressed by a couple of things. First,

664
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Speaker 8: the kid took He got sacked sixty eight times, more

665
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Speaker 8: than any quarterback in Lake last year, and he played

666
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Speaker 8: in every game, So that showed me some toughness. And

667
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Speaker 8: then the other thing is he didn't really turn it

668
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Speaker 8: over much as first I think he had six six interceptions,

669
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Speaker 8: So he took care of the football. He held onto

670
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 8: it way too long. Ben Johnson comes in. They got

671
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 8: that part of it correct.

672
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Speaker 2: He got rid of the ball.

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Speaker 8: He did a little bit better. The one thing that

674
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Speaker 8: he still they stuff to work on. It'll be a

675
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 8: big point of emphasis in the off season program. His

676
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 8: completion percentage was the worst among the thirty three qualified

677
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 8: quarterbacks in the NFL. And even if you look at

678
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Speaker 8: the game against the Rams, you know he missed it.

679
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 8: He goes twenty three or forty two Pa. There's there's

680
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 8: eight or nine throws where he's throwing the ball downfield

681
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 8: on first and ten five seven yards over the intended

682
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Speaker 8: receiver and he's got a back or a tight end

683
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 8: right there in the flash for a five or seven

684
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 8: yard game. And you know, Jerry Burns used always say

685
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 8: you never go broke taking profit. Not every not every

686
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 8: meal has to be you know, he he doesn't have to.

687
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Speaker 4: Be the buffet.

688
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 8: We can you know, we can, we can, we can

689
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Speaker 8: be a little bit more discipline. I think that's the

690
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 8: big thing with him. He's got a big appetite for

691
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 8: the big play. Yeah, and he has to understand that

692
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 8: every play, you know, every play matters in the NFL.

693
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 8: He's wasted way too many plays. And you go back

694
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 8: and look at his body work this year. A lot

695
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 8: of improvement, a lot of good things to like in

696
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 8: his game, but the completion percentage not in anywhere where it.

697
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 4: Needs to be.

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00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 3: Last lad Donald and that o'blake only had to throw

699
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 3: twelve times against the Niners. How long from what you know,

700
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 3: how long does it take for a nobleak to properly heal?

701
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Speaker 2: And what does MVP think about all that?

702
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 8: See, it could take several weeks. It depends upon the

703
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 8: severity of the strain. I thought he went out there

704
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 8: last week. I thought they were smart and what they

705
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 8: did with him during the week. He didn't have to

706
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 8: do much against the forty Niners. They dominated the forty

707
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 8: Niners the last few times they've played them. Look, I

708
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 8: think he's going to be fine. I think there's a

709
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Speaker 8: number of examples on tape where you see him moving

710
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 8: around a little bit to his right, to his left

711
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 8: throwing the football. He's a tough guy, you know that

712
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 8: about him. I'm so happy for Sam Donald Pa. You know,

713
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 8: here's a guy who's kicked to the curb not once,

714
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 8: but two or three times, and you know it, gets

715
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,919
Speaker 8: a chance to play for the Vikings last year. Now

716
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 8: he leaves a team to fourteen wins. This year, he's

717
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 8: got a chance to play for a trip to the

718
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Speaker 8: super Bowl this Sunday.

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Speaker 2: MVP, you're the best. Thanks for the time. Have a

720
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 2: great brother.

721
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 3: Yep, love you too, Call you soon. See you about

722
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: Rich Cannon, former MVP of the NFL, former Vikings quarterback.

723
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 2: Let's uh.

724
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 3: Let's head over to uh the other in the fish

725
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 3: Bowl of Ultimate team games. UH hockey in the Minnesota Wild.

726
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: It's time to drop the pot.

727
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: Just blasted Austin Matthews and Toronto last night. We're gonna

728
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 3: go on north of the Border and chat with Radio

729
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 3: Joe after that.

730
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 6: Frank Ruby mayp Leef's head coach, Yanking Hildeby, who came

731
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 6: in to play this third period, hasn't been beaten yet

732
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 6: by the while Toronto, the only two goals in the third,

733
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Speaker 6: sturbing his own Spotify Sarah say, another chance of the

734
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 6: empty nettle hit the red light clods in the Filino.

735
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Speaker 2: He's got an empty kg for the hat trick.

736
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Speaker 7: He's gone what two thirty eight to go in Toronto?

737
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: Marcus Felino with the hat trick? Hello, Wild, I have

738
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 2: a six to three league.

739
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 3: Hey fucks Joe o'donald on the call last evening, he

740
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 3: joins us. Now they called the Wilds thrashing of the

741
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 3: Toronto maple Leafs last night on KFAM at Wild Joe

742
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 3: Radio for his tweets and the morning's skate minute, which

743
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: undoubtedly comes up later today. Previewing tonight on the Fan

744
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 3: against Maulray aw and Radio, Joe joins us, Now, Joe,

745
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 3: would you prefer I call you Joe O'Donnell Joe Radio

746
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 3: Radio Joe or maybe Budsy?

747
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: Can you be Budsy for the for the balance of

748
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: this interview?

749
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 5: Oh man, whatever whatever works, PA, appreciate you having me on. Well,

750
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 5: as long as it's half respectful.

751
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 4: I'll be fine with it.

752
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 3: But you know, recently I was texting with Alex Staylock

753
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 3: and yeah, that's worse. That's where Budsy comes from, all right, Yeah,

754
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 3: Marcus Felino speaking of old guys, Alex Staylock, Marcus Fellino.

755
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 3: When the old guys who who stick up for everybody

756
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 3: on the ice accomplish something unique, I mean, that just

757
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 3: seems so extra special. And Fellino earned the first hat

758
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 3: trick of his career last night in his nine hundred

759
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 3: and fifteenth game.

760
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: That just that must have been so fun to call.

761
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was pretty cool. And you know, as you

762
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 5: know he puts it into the empty net, I start

763
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 5: rifling through the game notes because I'm like, this might

764
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 5: be his first, you know, and I meant to look

765
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Speaker 5: it up a few minutes prior. So that's on me

766
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 5: for not having been a touch more prepared for that.

767
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 5: But it's pretty cool, man. I know he's you know,

768
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 5: he's a fan favor for a lot of reasons. And

769
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 5: inside that locker room, I know what that guy means

770
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 5: to that group. And you know, you look at just

771
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 5: the other night, you know, the other day in Buffalo,

772
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 5: Quid Hughes got wrapped up with kessel Rig of the Sabers,

773
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Speaker 5: and you know, Felino comes right over defend him. They

774
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 5: get unsportunate penalties, had two minutes expired and they drop

775
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 5: the gloves. And that's the type of guy he is.

776
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 5: He doesn't need to fight every night, but when he does,

777
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 5: you know it's going to be a heavyweight bout. You know,

778
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 5: he's not going to push around out there. And so

779
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 5: some nights, you know, Fellino's a guy that might just

780
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 5: have six hits in a shot on goal, kill some penalties,

781
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 5: and some nights he's gonna do what he did last night,

782
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 5: which gets the front of the net and just be

783
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 5: an absolute menace for the Toronto make beliefs, and so

784
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 5: good for him. One of the best guys you'll come across,

785
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 5: not only in this lineup, but I think across the NHL.

786
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 5: He's so well respected. Obviously, his brother Nick in Chicago

787
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 5: is pretty much cut from that same cloth. And to

788
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 5: have his dad there last night, uh, and to have

789
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 5: this road trip start in his hometown of Buffalo and

790
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 5: then move on just north to the were there in

791
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Speaker 5: Toronto and them score four goals in two games and

792
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 5: this team win both of them, pretty cool stuff.

793
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Speaker 3: I mean, his dad has to make the Montreal game tonight, right,

794
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 3: I hope. So yeah, he's having a great time, those

795
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 3: family photos and everything they're putting on social media. Radio Joe, Well,

796
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 3: it's a road game and Moose has the hat trick.

797
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Speaker 3: Were there any hats on the ice after the empty night?

798
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, there were a handful of which is pretty special too.

799
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Speaker 5: And I will say this, and it's not gonna be

800
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 5: a shock to many of the people listening to Great

801
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 5: State of Hockey, but every single time we're on the road,

802
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 5: it's amazing to me the amount of Wild fans to travel.

803
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 5: I don't know if some are kind of local, right,

804
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 5: they are Wild fans for a different reason, or maybe

805
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 5: they moved from Minnesota to where the Wild happened to

806
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 5: be playing that night, or they're just traveling hardcore fans.

807
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 5: I bumped at this of a Damon Hunts family last

808
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 5: night on the concourse. That was a little bit of

809
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,760
Speaker 5: a debt giveaway. Pa. You know, two Damon Hunt jerseys

810
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 5: in Toronto and the concourse. I'm like, all right, this

811
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 5: has got to be family. No offense to Damon Hunt,

812
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 5: but he's only got a handful of NHL games, right,

813
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,959
Speaker 5: So that was pretty cool to catch up with them,

814
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 5: including one family member that flew in from Calgary on

815
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 5: a red eye to get there. You know, there are

816
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 5: a couple Ontario boys and Ben Jones and Hunter Hate

817
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 5: on the wild roster that haven't played a ton in

818
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 5: the NHL and they had a chance to play in

819
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 5: their home province. And I'm sure tonight Montreal will be

820
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 5: you know, it's wild sweaters all over the building and

821
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 5: it's really cool to see.

822
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 2: And pretty cool.

823
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 3: Tarasenko also was sitting on a hat trick and he

824
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 3: passed to Marcus for his first. It's it's it's the

825
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: little things. I mean, not only in life or sports,

826
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Speaker 3: but especially hockey. Man, it's just the little things that

827
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 3: that stand out, Right, I think.

828
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Speaker 5: It tells you a lot about taras Ango. It's twice

829
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 5: now this season he's done that. He gave up an

830
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 5: empty netter from Nico Sturm to get a goal a

831
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Speaker 5: handful of weeks back, and I thought Tarasenko last night

832
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 5: maybe had, you know, if not his best game in

833
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 5: a wild sweater, a second or third best game. It

834
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 5: just felt like he had a little extra step, a

835
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 5: little extra juice in the tank. We don't always see

836
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 5: that from the thirty four year old. Right, He's at

837
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 5: a stage in his career where not that he ever

838
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 5: blazed up and down the ice, but he's not often

839
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 5: pushing the play offensively. You know, he's a shooter. He's

840
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 5: a sniper. He's a good two hundred foot player. John

841
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 5: Hines has talked about that all year long, like, you

842
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 5: don't have to worry about it. Cheat. He gave defensively

843
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 5: no matter where he's at in his career, so he

844
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 5: does bring a lot to the table. I thought that

845
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 5: was really cool and he didn't realize it was Fellino's

846
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 5: first hat trick. When I had him all the post

847
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 5: game show in Kfan and the Wild Radio Network, I.

848
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 4: Brought it up to him.

849
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 5: I said, hey, that was pretty unselfish. Vy. He tried

850
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 5: it the first time for the Redline, he missed the net,

851
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 5: so you know, he kind of laughed like a first

852
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 5: time I missed. The second time, I figured I'd give

853
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 5: it to him, but he had no idea that was

854
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 5: Felino's first hat trick in nine hundred plus games. So

855
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 5: just this of Taraseko to what a dish to park

856
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 5: to Moose and for Moose to just be able to

857
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 5: tap that thing in and wild skate away with a

858
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 5: doubling up of a really good Toronto team, that's pretty impressive.

859
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 3: Joe O'Donnell, the play by play voice for the Wild

860
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 3: on the radio, Fuck I loved Budsy at Wild Joe Radio.

861
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:25,280
Speaker 3: The social medium the Wild r is like skating fire

862
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 3: extinguishers right now. I mean they cooled out Buffalo, which

863
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 3: you won fifteen to seventeen, and Toronto was on a

864
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 3: nine to one and three run and just got smashed. So, like,

865
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: what change since that Thursday night we saw each other

866
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 3: against Winnipeg.

867
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 5: I just think sometimes the team needs to get a

868
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 5: little bit of a reset, you know, And you'll hear

869
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 5: coaches talk about a PA like you might be on

870
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 5: a five game winning streak, but at the tail end

871
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 5: of that your game's got perfect, you might be losing

872
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 5: four or five in a row. You need to bottom out.

873
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 5: And not that either of those things necessarily happened with

874
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 5: the Wild, but it just felt like gave up too

875
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 5: many goals in that home stand, situational play, goals against

876
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 5: the final shift of a period, goals coming off of

877
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 5: face offs, maybe took a penalty or two they shouldn't have,

878
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 5: and some of that situational stuff is one area that

879
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 5: I know John Hines is still hoping this team improves

880
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 5: on like what makes you from a good team into

881
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 5: a championship caliber team, and some of those small details

882
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 5: within the game, they weren't really there on that home stand.

883
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 5: And sometimes when you lose players, can you get a

884
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 5: little bit of a reality check, like, Hey, if we

885
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 5: don't go back to playing the right way, if we

886
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 5: don't check up ice properly, if we're not dialed into

887
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 5: the system, playing the structure, we're gonna have a tough

888
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 5: road trip, right because you look on paper, Wild are

889
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 5: missing three of their top four scorers, five of their

890
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 5: best players. It's like, Okay, it's kind to buckle up here,

891
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 5: or this could be a long trip. And I feel

892
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 5: like the Wild have had that approach. They've caught a

893
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 5: couple of teams probably looking on paper, gone, oh, this

894
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 5: will be an easy night. Minnesota's without some of their stars.

895
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 5: And when you check the right way in this league,

896
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 5: when you get contributions up and down the line up,

897
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 5: mixing a good saver to a timely saver or two

898
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 5: and do the little things, well, you've got a chance

899
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 5: to beat anybody. And I think that's what the Wild

900
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 5: done the first two games they've really played solid, They've

901
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 5: gotten pucks in the net, They've got bodies in the net.

902
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 5: I know those are cliches, but just look at the tape.

903
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 5: That's what they're doing right now. Last night they made

904
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 5: the Maple Leaves defend a ton. You know, Austin Matthews

905
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 5: did not have a huge impact on that game. And

906
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 5: when you can play like that on the road, play

907
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 5: that greasy game, you're gonna give yourself a chance.

908
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 3: Faber and Hughes, they're just becoming so amazing together. I mean, yeah,

909
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 3: each had two assists last night and we're on the

910
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 3: ice for almost all of the six calls. I think

911
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 3: Hughes four, Fabor five. What would you deduce that those

912
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 3: two are going to play together a bunch for the

913
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 3: USA at the Olympics, I mean, because that would be sweet.

914
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:52,919
Speaker 4: Yeah.

915
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 5: I think they I think they almost have to. I mean,

916
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 5: I know John Hines is ass last night by one

917
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 5: of the Toronto reporters about and of course he has

918
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,959
Speaker 5: defer to Mike Sullivan, the head coach of Team USA.

919
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 5: Heines will be on the bench. But I think they'd

920
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 5: be crazy to do anything else.

921
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 4: Now.

922
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 5: With that said, last year in the Four Nations brought

923
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 5: Faber played with Jacob Slavin of the Carolina Hurricanes and

924
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 5: they were rock stars. I think it speaks a favor

925
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 5: and really, when you're at a tournament setting like that

926
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 5: with great players playing with great players like you could

927
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 5: probably find almost anybody to pair up well. But I'd

928
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,760
Speaker 5: be stunned if game one, if they're both healthy in Milan,

929
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 5: that it's not favor and huge. They just they compliment

930
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 5: each other so well. They both play with such extreme confidence.

931
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 5: What Quinn Hughes has done for this hockey team, it's

932
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 5: hard to put in the words. It's it has been

933
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 5: a jolt of energy that seems to have affected everybody.

934
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 5: If he makes a mistake, he quickly recovers and usually

935
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 5: will go out the next shift and just make them

936
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 5: an even more dynamic play. And as you said, they're

937
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 5: playing almost half the game and last night first half

938
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 5: of back to back. Their minutes, by their standards, are

939
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 5: pretty manageable. Usually Hughes is twenty nine to thirty minutes

940
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 5: a game, favors of twenty eight something. I think they're

941
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 5: both in like the twenty five or twenty sixth rage

942
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 5: And I know it's not a huge drop off of

943
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 5: the eating in the third the while we're able to,

944
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 5: you know, get him an extra shift or two and

945
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 5: playing him back to back, which a while will be

946
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 5: doing tonight. Hopefully that helps him out.

947
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Montreal tonight on KFA and at six o'clock

948
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 3: the the wild of beating the Canadians nine consecutive and

949
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 3: seventeen to the last eighteen?

950
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: Are are you?

951
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 3: I mean it's a back to back and you're shorthanded

952
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 3: with the injuries. Are you expecting a victory tonight?

953
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be surprised. I think it'll come down you know,

954
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 5: probably one thing, and that's yes for falsetead. You know,

955
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 5: all anticipation would be he gets to start in a

956
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 5: second of back to back. He is he has struggled

957
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 5: a little bit by that lofty bar he kind of

958
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 5: set for himself over that six week run, knowing yes,

959
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 5: for the way he competes, the way he practices, the

960
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 5: way he prepares. He's gotten a couple of days off

961
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 5: now some time on the ice with Freddie schabat the

962
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 5: goaltending coach. I'm thinking he'll be as jacked up as

963
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 5: possible for a game, his first ever start at Bell Center.

964
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 5: I really think it'll come down to if he plays well,

965
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 5: he'll give the chance. The while the chance and Douay

966
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 5: Minnesota's been scoring goals, I'd expect it to be a

967
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 5: little bit of a higher scoring affair because Montreal can

968
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 5: certainly fill it up. I think they're fourth to the

969
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 5: late and goal scored, so it should be a fun one.

970
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 5: In The crowd in Montreal is always buzzing. They respect

971
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 5: the game, they know the game so well. They cheer

972
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 5: the little things like the fans of Minnesota, which I

973
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 5: always appreciate. And I think it should be a fun game.

974
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 5: And I think the Wild if all Stead's ready, certainly

975
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 5: have a chance to.

976
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 3: Sweep the trip Toronto and Montreal is is there a

977
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 3: different feel in the building when calling games at Original

978
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 3: six destinations?

979
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought you were actually gonna maybe differ the

980
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 5: two and like last night Toronto and you've heard this,

981
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 5: I'm sure, Like I don't want to say it's a

982
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 5: corporate field because they can get loud, but you know

983
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 5: those aren't cheap tickets. Those are you know, the restaurant

984
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 5: downstairs costs you a pretty penny to access. I mean there,

985
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 5: it's kind of high end in Toronto, right and and

986
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 5: in Montreal, it feels like in my experience there that

987
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 5: you know that they are they are. The crowd rises

988
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 5: when there's a run, like when Lane Hudson has to

989
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 5: palk tonight. If he goes and kind of a Quinn

990
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 5: Hughes type rush up the ice, that place will be buzzing,

991
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 5: like the electricity is kind of palpable. Toronto, And to

992
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 5: your point, all these original six buildings, they are into

993
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 5: the game. The boo birds won't hesitate to come out.

994
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 5: They're on the officials. You see the banners hanging in

995
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 5: these arenas, the retired numbers, the championships won. It's it's

996
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 5: definitely always a different vibe, the crowds there early. So

997
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 5: that kind of goes for all those Canadian venues if

998
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 5: I'm being honest, but U there is a little difference

999
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 5: between Montreal and Toronto. And I think a lot of

1000
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 5: players would tell you in the staff members like Montreal

1001
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 5: might be the coolest building in the most excitable road

1002
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,760
Speaker 5: building to go to, especially up in cana just because

1003
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 5: of the history and just how engaged the crowd of me.

1004
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 5: If it's not number one, it's definitely top five.

1005
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 3: Have you time for a couple more have have you

1006
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 3: had on this trip? Toronto and malrel Oh Buffalo too,

1007
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 3: So therefore it's been a quasi extended trip. Have you

1008
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 3: had any new personal low rounds of Golden Team on.

1009
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 2: This road trip?

1010
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 5: I love how you do your homework.

1011
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1012
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 5: I did not have success like I would have liked

1013
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 5: in Toronto, didn't get in one in Buffalo. Played fairly

1014
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 5: well in Toronto, but some of the staff here, of

1015
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 5: course the morning after will remind me that I may

1016
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 5: not have been the leader on the leader board.

1017
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 3: Is there a Golden Tee tour where like in the

1018
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 3: off season, you can actually make money at this?

1019
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:54,439
Speaker 5: Well, so here's the deal.

1020
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 4: This is.

1021
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 5: This has just been a this year's thing as far

1022
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 5: as the traveling party, the digital team, social media, TV crew,

1023
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 5: whoever happens to be out. It's set establishment, you know,

1024
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 5: having a burger and drinking water and the Golden Tee

1025
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 5: just it started the first game in Saint Louis, well

1026
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 5: the night before the first game obviously, and pretty much

1027
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 5: since then. Like if we're in a city and we've

1028
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 5: got a group out, we'll try to find a Golden

1029
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 5: Team play eighteen and there's an all time leaderboard I'm

1030
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 5: probably somewhere in the mix, but I have just one

1031
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 5: win under my belt, sadly, and geez, I will cherish

1032
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 5: that moment.

1033
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 2: Hey, what's kg Kevin Gorg?

1034
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 5: What is it?

1035
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 3: What's Gorge like on the trip with his Broncos hosting

1036
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 3: the AFC Championship game.

1037
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 5: Well, he's an emotional mess most times when it comes

1038
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 5: to anything that he has a rooting interest in. Yes,

1039
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 5: writing them off. You know, second drive of the game

1040
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 5: the other night is were on the airplane heading to Toronto.

1041
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 5: They have a thirteen point leady not confidence, you know,

1042
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 5: Josh Allen's done this before, the whole nine yards. Then

1043
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 5: they win the guys through the roof in his Broncos hat,

1044
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 5: and then he finds out his quarterback broke his ankle.

1045
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:17,479
Speaker 5: So the sun came up for Kevin Gorg. Yep, he'll

1046
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 5: be working the Frost game on Sunday, so he won't

1047
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 5: have to sweat as much over as Broncos and Jared Stidham.

1048
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 5: But jeez, I think he did PA, and you might

1049
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 5: confirm this with him. I think he watched a few

1050
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 5: either YouTube highlights or a cutup of Jared's did him

1051
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 5: at some point of the sixth NFL passes he's thrown

1052
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 5: over the last five years. But I think he's he's

1053
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 5: talking himself into the Broncos at least hanging around on Sunday.

1054
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think he in Toronto. He may

1055
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 3: have purchased blue and Orange Calligorafy pens pens to to

1056
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 3: like write out of Jared's didham bio, just to be

1057
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 3: ready for it for this weekend.

1058
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1059
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 5: And by the way, well, hey, I was just going

1060
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 5: to say he appreciated the tweet by the great Nick

1061
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 5: Foles taking a shot at the Patriots, and I as

1062
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 5: well obviously appreciated that one.

1063
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 3: All right, And I know you know this, but Heinzy

1064
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 3: the coach John is a Pats van So I wonder

1065
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 3: if I wonder if KG and the head coach are

1066
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 3: going to do any trash talking before that game Sunday.

1067
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 5: Well, I think they will because heines. He's kind of

1068
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 5: sneaky like that, Like you know, I don't know how

1069
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 5: he found out. I'm sure I could guess, like he

1070
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 5: knows that I root for the Eagles, and so I'm

1071
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 5: sure he's on the gork radar there with the Broncos thing.

1072
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 5: So I think today when we get our little broadcast

1073
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 5: huddle up in a few hours. I might stir the

1074
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 5: pop there and get that going a little bit.

1075
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 3: All right, Budzy, great job on the radio last night, man,

1076
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 3: that sounded like a fun one. And we'll be listening

1077
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 3: tonight on KFAM.

1078
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Joe, all right, thanks too.

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