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Speaker 1: O PC Tuesday. Welcome to the nine to new radio

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Speaker 1: show at kf a N. It's Paul Allen with Mad

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Speaker 1: producer Eric Nordquist at Twin City's Orthopedic Performance Center our

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Speaker 1: Wednesday home. Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings,

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Speaker 1: joins us two hours from now for x'es and o's,

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Speaker 1: and we begin with Chris Cooper, fourth year offensive line

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Speaker 1: coach for the Minnesota Vikings. He is the president and

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Minnesota Moving Company. And Chris joins us. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's going on, Bud?

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Speaker 3: How you guys doing good?

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Speaker 1: Did you get some rest?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: A few days.

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Speaker 3: It was a great week. Yeah, some normal stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's Minnesota Moving Company. It's been the Minnesota Moving Parts

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Speaker 1: Company so far with fourteen different offensive line combinations through five,

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Speaker 1: Does or does it add hours to the week for you?

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Speaker 1: And like assistant Keith Carter, when getting so many reserves

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Speaker 5: Action, Yeah, you know, we try to spend on the

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Speaker 5: development portion of our of our group. We are fortunate

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Speaker 5: you have fourteen different lineups, you're gonna have to call

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Speaker 5: some guys up and practice squad. And Keith and Ben

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Speaker 5: you know, our folks, my focus primarily is on those

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Speaker 5: and you know, pulled out some wins with them.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And And during Chris's career, you you started

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Speaker 1: eighty games at guard for the Denver Broncos, including the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever have to play a full game at center?

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Speaker 3: I just never had to do it in the game.

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Speaker 1: Chris Cooper, offensive line coach for the Minnesota Vikings, joins

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Speaker 1: nine to noon to start Kevin O'Connell at eleven o'clock

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Speaker 1: and with what Blake Brendel did, Like after that Cleveland game,

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Speaker 1: I'm bouncing around the locker room doing these dry by

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Speaker 1: interviews that I do, and I must have spent eleven

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Speaker 1: is this is the a topic. Okay, quarterback with the

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Speaker 1: up being the man of the match. Okay, I understand

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Speaker 1: all that, but it ended up being four fifths of

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Speaker 1: And then you got underrafted Joe Hubert at left guard,

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Speaker 1: But then when when when School had to flip from

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Speaker 1: All right with up. So second year offensive lineman Walter Rowse,

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Speaker 5: So those are the things that we got to do

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Speaker 3: Those are the things we got to do to keep the.

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Speaker 1: Now. The Eagles the next opponent Sunday noon. KFAM coordinated

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Speaker 1: When when when you watch the Eagles or or you know,

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Speaker 5: I see there are some likeness in terms of how

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Speaker 5: I think they're different in terms of how they call

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Speaker 5: So I think that there's there's probably more similarities than

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Speaker 1: So as Chris is, your career is gone with with

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Speaker 3: And he's the one who taught me into coaching.

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Speaker 1: With with Donovan Jackson, the head coach announced yesterday Donova

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Speaker 1: Jackson through the early stages of his career. What are youking?

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Speaker 5: You know, all he wants to do is get better

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Speaker 3: And you know that's what we're here for.

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Speaker 1: A couple more for Chris Cooper, offensive line coach for

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Speaker 1: and and you know, with all of the the iterations

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Speaker 2: One of the first questions, I think it was Matthew Koller,

437
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 2: but I apologize if I'm wrong. Over the course of

438
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 2: the buy and after five games, how on earth does

439
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell or anybody actually evaluate the squad when both

440
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 2: sides of the ball have been ravaged by injuries and

441
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,479
Speaker 2: over the course not just of the show, but of

442
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 2: the week, and everybody's back at practice in earnest tomorrow,

443
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,640
Speaker 2: so we'll get to kind of get a feel.

444
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 1: In terms of reps here, reps there, availability, et cetera.

445
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: But still, even through the by I'm still trying to

446
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 2: wrap my head around what we have. Does that make

447
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 2: sense whether it was into the season. It's a roster

448
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 2: built to win now. And you love the tandem and

449
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 2: running back. We haven't had the tandem for four weeks

450
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 2: when fully healthy, Let's get the kid QB behind the

451
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: preferred five of the Minnesota Moving Company. Well, that's just

452
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 2: not freaking possible. We're talking about Brandell and we're talking

453
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 2: about Joe Huber and Justin School potentially playing at right

454
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 2: tackle on Sunday who had to move over to left

455
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago and won a one v one

456
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 2: rep against Miles Garrett that allowed Carson to hit Justin

457
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 2: Jefferson for thirty eight yards. So everything's freaking weird. The

458
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 2: run defense, what's going on in our two losses. The

459
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 2: team has been been just absolutely just crushed on the

460
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 2: ground by a gain well by a Bajan who went

461
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 2: for a buck seventy last night in the win over

462
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 2: the Bills. So it's like at every spot there there's

463
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 2: you can have that conversation about Ooh, I'm liking more

464
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 2: reps from Dallas Turner.

465
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Speaker 1: What about Van Kinkle?

466
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,239
Speaker 2: Oh, I like how splashy of times Eric Wilson has

467
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 2: been Well, he's put into that spot because Blake Cashman's

468
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 2: not there, and it's just it's I wonder how the

469
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 2: head coach has handled trying to truly evaluate what he

470
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: has through the first month in a game when everybody's

471
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 2: been hurting, everything's been discombobulated.

472
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there there were. There were facets of coach Kevin

473
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Speaker 1: O'Connell's personality that you know, in the latter stages of

474
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Speaker 1: the week and a half trip. I can't say that

475
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, and you know, some of them were public,

476
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Speaker 1: like at his Friday press conference before the Browns game.

477
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Speaker 1: I was surprised when you know, he was exasperate. He

478
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: was just exasperated, would be the right way to look

479
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: at it, because they they they work so much and

480
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: put in so many hours that they kind of live exhausted.

481
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: I think he was exhausted, but when he was like,

482
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, just too two more sleeps, thank god, I

483
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: was surprised he said that because he's not like that

484
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: you know, even if he's tired, even if there's weakness

485
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: within his mind or heart for whatever the reason, he

486
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: just it's it's the never let him see you sweat

487
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: mantrap that that helps with so many in the National

488
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: Football League. So, you know, I think everything you just

489
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: said and the wonderment that goes into certain facets of it,

490
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 1: where you know, medically, a group maybe looking at something

491
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 1: one way, the player may be looking at it a

492
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: different way. And then now you've got to mesh that. Okay,

493
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: well that can that can become mentally exhausting. Well, but

494
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,239
Speaker 1: then the Addison bit hits, so it's kind of like,

495
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: all right, well, Gank's neck, you know, I mean, we

496
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, we can't control what's happening in that neck.

497
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: We got top three left tackle guy on a pitch

498
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: count because it's best for him, the team and the recovery.

499
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: The kid quarterback's ankle is almost ready now, the veteran

500
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: has a bad shoulder, but he's going to go nine

501
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: to nine and win the game. So that's going to

502
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: be weird. And meanwhile, through all of it, where's Jordan.

503
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: I Mean, honestly, it's it's like the I just sensed

504
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: the hits just kept on coming. The way of that

505
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: man nearing the end of that trip and the bye

506
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: week I think was needed for him and for a

507
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: lot of people. But but that that plays into what

508
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: you said, there's just been so much And then you

509
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: know the self inflicted bit with Addison. You know that

510
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 1: that's just when you're as immersed in it as much

511
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 1: as a head coach, and you care about it that much,

512
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: and you're you're the one to whom much is given,

513
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: so much as expected, and then one of your best

514
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: players all of a sudden goes a wall like that. Yeah,

515
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 1: well you can control that, you know, the gank neck

516
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: and garis on knee and all that kind of stuff.

517
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: I mean that that's going to be a work in progress.

518
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: Not showing up for a walkthrough. That's a self inflicted wound.

519
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 1: I just sense nobody was ready for.

520
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: Well, and and throughout that time after it happened and

521
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: we heard about it, the kind of the reaction to it,

522
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 2: and maybe it's an overreaction, maybe it's not. Is you

523
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: have the you know, he's driving a buck sixty and

524
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: apparently there was a pet emergency. We still haven't gotten

525
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 2: an update on the dog.

526
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 1: Oh.

527
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 2: Then a year later you have the fallen asleep at

528
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 2: the wheel near Lax and then the the kind of that,

529
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 2: not the melodrama, but the waiting period up to how's

530
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: the league going to handle it? He gets suspended, We

531
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Speaker 2: miss him for three games after being maybe the best

532
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 2: player of anybody in camp.

533
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: Ye. Then he comes back in a couple of weeks

534
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: later he does this.

535
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Speaker 2: Is it an overreaction where people are truly starting to

536
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 2: talk about like his future as a Minnesota Viking where

537
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 2: the track record built now through a few seasons is

538
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 2: such that there are elements off the field. It doesn't

539
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: sound like massive criminal elements, like you know, nefarious activities

540
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: per se, but it's just a track record maybe where you.

541
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Speaker 1: Can't rely upon him.

542
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 2: Do you think it's an overreaction that people have Fans

543
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 2: have openly questioned and others as well, where it's like,

544
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 2: can we I mean, is this a guy that you

545
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: want to wait around and potentially re up, you know,

546
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: extend to pay a ton of cash to given the

547
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: track record through a few.

548
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: Seasons, he's in his third season, correct, I believe so? Yeah? Okay,

549
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: so he's a first round pick, so you have a

550
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: fifth year option. So this these are not things about

551
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: which you have to think you know at this stage

552
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: or maybe Addison's in a second year ten touchdowns last year,

553
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: I know that, but there this is his third season,

554
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: first got nineteen through two. Yeah, thank you. But from

555
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: a skill set standpoint, there are myriad teams around the

556
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: NFL who would want Jordan Addison on their team, knowing

557
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: everything you just laid out, because this is a game

558
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: where people a lot, you know, fair amount, not everybody

559
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: are kind of like, well, it doesn't matter what you

560
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: did or what you permitted to fail. Our culture doesn't

561
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: permit that, and he won't fail.

562
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 4: Right.

563
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: So the point being is is the NFL trading deadline

564
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: is quickly approaching. You know, if you're interested in moving him,

565
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 1: there would be suitors. But I don't. I don't. I

566
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: don't get the sense that they're to that point with

567
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: him because you know, last year when Jefferson was down,

568
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he produced really really well. Yeah, and he's

569
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: a fantastic player, and you don't want to let fantastic

570
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: players leave. You just need fantastic players to grow up. Spikes,

571
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: a couple of quickies for you before we pause. Bring

572
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,959
Speaker 1: in the box. How about Meryl Reese around the corners. Uh,

573
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: the gank, the gank, The gink is in peril. The

574
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: next thing we know about that. I did want to

575
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: hit on the defense a bit lack of takeaways. So lastly,

576
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: everybody but the gank yesterday he did.

577
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 2: Which I mean that kind of lends to the well

578
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 2: he kind of mentioned him, but I think it was

579
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: not ready to put similar to JJ McCarthy not willing

580
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: to put a timetable or what his workload's going to

581
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: look like as he is.

582
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: Hopefully it doesn't.

583
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 2: You know, the Mike Hughes Memorial Patches Field does not

584
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: become the Andrew Van Ginkel Memorial practice field.

585
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: So we will see.

586
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: Team was tied to top the NFL last year in takeaways. PA,

587
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 2: you get one apiece in each of the first two,

588
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: you blow up with five takes on Browning in the

589
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: Bengals Slash Bungals, but then dry the last two weeks

590
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: the international trip. He came back with one win but

591
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: no takeaways. On defense. The defense that statistically, despite the

592
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: rush defense situation, I think they're fifth in scoring, sixth

593
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: in yards. So you kind of like that ending product.

594
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 2: Your team's in a position to win these games. But

595
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 2: the lack of takeaways is it worriesome to you? I mean,

596
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 2: you want w's that means more than anything, of course,

597
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 2: but just the lack of the ball hawking thus far

598
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five just kind of thing.

599
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: Where are all the takes? Where did all the takeaways go? Yeah?

600
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: And where are the sacks? You know? And I'm gonna go,

601
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll get caught up on all this by

602
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: the Eagles game obviously, but the sacks, you know, the

603
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: way they put this together, all right, So we got

604
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen in here. Hargrave has two sacks.

605
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: They both took place in the first game. I think

606
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: Allen might have had one last game or a big

607
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: tackle for loss, so he's either at a one or

608
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: a zero. The point being here is, well, Cashman is

609
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: he's a better blitzer than Wilson and or Pace, So

610
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: you've lost that threat there. But I think Blake will

611
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: come back for the Philly game. No Van Ginkle, that's

612
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: the bit. Not having Andrew Van Ginkel means Grenard gets

613
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: more attention, so his sacks are going to be down

614
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: because he's doubled almost every single play, or they go

615
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: away from him. From a formation standpoint, they'll execute the

616
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: play opposite Grenard because he's the best defensive player on

617
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: this team. And when Van Ginkle plays, it's a heck

618
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: of a one in a one a, you know. So

619
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: therefore they with the sacks being somewhat down, that's going

620
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: to play into the turnovers being down.

621
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:15,479
Speaker 3: That's all.

622
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: I got.

623
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings, by the way, with thirteen sacks, they are

624
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 2: middle of the pack at the NFL right now, right,

625
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, we got teams already with You got

626
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: the Broncos with thirty sacks to six games.

627
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: I look at that they almost lost to Justin Fields

628
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: playing the worst game a quarterback I think I've ever

629
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: seen in the history of the NFL.

630
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 2: Well, we talked, we talked about that Browns Vikings game

631
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: like this, and.

632
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: Or at least I looked into it.

633
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, either either this thing is going to be

634
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: kind of similar to what it was twenty one to fourteen,

635
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: twenty one to seventeen, like that kind of game where

636
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 2: you have to grind it out, or it could be

637
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: one of the worst games we've ever seen, where Dylan

638
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 2: Gabriel is getting harassed by Flores the entire game, and

639
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: we're struggling against Miles Garrett, maybe even more so in

640
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 2: that defensive front and total more so than we actually

641
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 2: did that Broncos Jets game. I mean, that is a

642
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 2: travesty if you're trying to market your product overseas.

643
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: It was a seven thirty I was in Colorado over

644
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: the weekend seven thirty am Mountain time. So I get

645
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: up at six six thirty because I'm going to find

646
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: a Broncos you know, it's like I'm going to take

647
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: in this Broncos vibe as a fan, sit in the

648
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: back and just and and there were a lot of

649
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: places open and everything. But I mean, if you're trying

650
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: to stay awake at seven thirty seven forty seven forty

651
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: five eight in the morning and you're watching that snooze fast,

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Speaker 1: Holy col was that tough. We're we're out of time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Vikes Bits in Thousand Hills.

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Speaker 2: One thing I do want to bring up with you

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Speaker 2: and Gessling during the ten am hour is clues that

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Speaker 2: you'll be looking for to determine who's going to play

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Speaker 2: QB this weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Perfect Ilse. Merril Race is a forty nine year play

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Speaker 1: by play voice of the Philadelphia Eagles. The Elite Box

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Speaker 1: joins us next for an adversarial update on dem Birds.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFAM see the last year they have it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna last. I love this year.

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Speaker 6: Annie say you know what We're gonna Toush, push the

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Speaker 6: ball in so old and send a message to set

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Speaker 6: the tone as a line.

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Speaker 1: Right back up in the same formation. Here we go again,

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Speaker 1: full scrum, Toush push promb to one pooper, it's around

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Speaker 1: stop to hearts. He pushes bulward, he drives it.

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Speaker 4: Noon.

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Speaker 1: It's nine forty seven. The Minnesota Vikings host the reigning

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Speaker 1: world champion Sunday at noon. And here's one of nine

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Speaker 1: to Noon's all time favorite guests and play by play voices,

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Speaker 1: the venerable Meryl Reese. Forty nine years as the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Eagles vox and Merril joins us. Now, Merril, it's Paul Allen.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 4: I am Will? How are you?

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Speaker 1: Paul? Quite well? Thank you very much for doing this

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Speaker 1: today too. Sop second, I'm back to US Bank Stadium

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Speaker 1: for you. Since calling Super Bowl fifty two, and the

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Speaker 1: victory over New England. What was the Philly Special right

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Speaker 1: in front of you with Super Bowl fifty two?

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Speaker 4: Merrill, No, No, it was down the other ends. They

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Speaker 4: would have that on me, and I can't tell you. You know,

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Speaker 4: I had a great relationship with Doug Scobell, and it

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Speaker 4: was easy to work with and he really helped me

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Speaker 4: prepare for games by tipping me off during the week

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Speaker 4: of what to look for and when to see certain things.

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Speaker 4: Had an unbelievable relationship with him, But that week was

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Speaker 4: so busy we never got together and I never had

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Speaker 4: a chance to prepare for the so called Philly Special,

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Speaker 4: so I never saw it coming. But there it was.

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Speaker 1: There it was, and you called it in second and

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Speaker 1: onn fashion as you have done so many Eagles plays

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Speaker 1: for nearly a half century. And Merrill was, of course

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Speaker 1: with the Eagles when Carson Wentz spent his first half

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Speaker 1: decade in the league. Carson Wentz, Meryl, what do you

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Speaker 1: remember about him?

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Speaker 4: I remember when they drafted him, and I really wanted

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Speaker 4: them to draft him because it was going to either be.

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Speaker 4: Of course, the Rams were drafting first, and I was

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Speaker 4: hoping that the Rams would draft Jared Goff because to me,

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Speaker 4: the best quarterback in that draft was Carson Wentz. And

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Speaker 4: as a matter of fact, the Eagles offensive coordinator Frank

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Speaker 4: Wright told me that night, he said, we have just

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Speaker 4: drafted a generational talent. And I was thrilled, and I

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Speaker 4: was drilled with the way he played as a rookie,

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Speaker 4: and I was thrilled with the way that he played

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Speaker 4: in his second year. Don't forget when he went down

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Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. At that point he was a likely

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Speaker 4: MVP of the league, and when he went down, everybody said, well,

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Speaker 4: so it goes. There go the Eagles chances to even

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Speaker 4: get to the Super Bowl. And Nick Foles came in

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Speaker 4: and rallied them and did a great job. But Carson

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Speaker 4: Wentz had two great years with the Eagles, except New

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Speaker 4: Year's with the Eagles. And he was also a really

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Speaker 4: really good person and easy to get along with and

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Speaker 4: easy easy to root for him.

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Speaker 1: Merril Race nine to Noon, play by play voice for

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, a Sunday noon for the Boom Vikings

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Speaker 1: and Eagles kfam. Most recently in that game against the Giants, Merrill,

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Speaker 1: were you surprised the Birds lost to the New York Giants?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean absolutely yes. I mean it came after

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Speaker 4: a loss that shouldn't have been a loss. For at

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Speaker 4: one point they led the Broncos seventeen to three and

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Speaker 4: they blew that. But sooner they come back and they

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Speaker 4: take out their frustration of the Giants, and that did

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Speaker 4: not happen. They were terrible from the were for some reason.

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Speaker 4: They were flat and give the Giants credit sue because

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Speaker 4: their young quarterback Jackson Dart, really brought that team the life.

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Speaker 4: And things just got worse. Actually, the Beagles in the

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Speaker 4: second half were rolling a little bit and they had

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Speaker 4: a chance to get back in and possibly overtake the Giants,

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Speaker 4: and then there was a band interception. But basically I

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Speaker 4: was surprised. Everybody here was disappointed, but those things happened. Look,

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Speaker 4: I was also a surprise last night to see Atlanta

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Speaker 4: beat Buffalo. And it was also a surprise last night

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Speaker 4: to see the Bears win in Washington. So it's a

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Speaker 4: year of surprises. Who's I mean If I said to

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Speaker 4: usually after six or seven games, if you said to

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Speaker 4: me the likely too likeliest teams to end up as

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl matchup are, I'd give you an answer.

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Speaker 4: This year, I say, I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 4: who's gonna be good next week now.

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Speaker 1: Now, I mean, it was just a game, you know,

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Speaker 1: with against the Giants. But like these rookies Jackson Dart

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Speaker 1: and Cam Scataboo, you know, what did you think of

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Speaker 1: those guys? Did you think it was kind of a

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Speaker 1: like a one hit wonder type night or do you

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Speaker 1: think maybe the Giants might be onto a couple of

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Speaker 1: good ones?

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Speaker 4: Well, can I tell you, Paul, that I thought the

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Speaker 4: Giants were onto a really good quarterback about four or

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Speaker 4: five years ago, whether they drafted Daniel Jones out of Duke.

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Speaker 4: And they did too, because they gave him a pretty

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Speaker 4: good long term contract. And now he's he's been revitalized

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Speaker 4: in Indianapolis and he's playing well. But I like Jackson's

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Speaker 4: dark Dart when I saw him a little miss, I

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Speaker 4: watched a lot of college football, as you probably do,

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Speaker 4: and I thought he was a very good quarterback. And

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Speaker 4: I thought that when he got his chance for the Giants,

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Speaker 4: he has really given them a shot in the arm.

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Speaker 4: Now how long will a last, I don't know, But

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Speaker 4: to me, he looks like a he looks like a keeper,

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Speaker 4: and look at what happens to quarterbacks. The Browns invested

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Speaker 4: the number one pick in the entire draft on Baker

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Speaker 4: Mayfield and ended up getting rid of him and doing

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Speaker 4: all kinds of ridiculous things. And here's Baker Mayfield, after

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Speaker 4: he's been through three or four teams, looking like a

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Speaker 4: top five quarterback at least, if not a possible MVP

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Speaker 4: with the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Right. You know, last year when we chatted there, I

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Speaker 1: think the Eagles might have been on an eight game

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Speaker 1: winning streak, yet you had some locker room chatter that

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Speaker 1: that was popping up about lack of touches and things

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Speaker 1: like that. It's kind of happening now with the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: as you're very familiar with now. Now. Last year, Branding Graham,

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Speaker 1: all right, Branding Graham got a hold of the locker

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Speaker 1: room stuff that was going public and Philly won the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. How can they get this stuff to stop?

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Speaker 1: Or does it not matter? With this group?

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, Paul, And I'll tell you why. I've

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Speaker 4: seen locker rooms torn apart, going back in history. I

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Speaker 4: saw t O Terrell Owens come here and completely destroyed

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Speaker 4: the locker room in his second year, and that was

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Speaker 4: a mess. He took shots at Donovan McNabb, and there

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Speaker 4: was his faction and their faction with AJ Brown to

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Speaker 4: whom you're referring with AJ Brown, he gets frustrated in

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Speaker 4: the knee tweets something. But if you get to know

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Speaker 4: AJ Brown, he's one of the nicest guys you'd ever

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Speaker 4: want to meet. He's one of the guys who was

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Speaker 4: beloved in that locker room. He works hard, he plays hard.

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Speaker 4: He had a little sign last year for a year

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Speaker 4: over his locker that said I'm always open, but he

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Speaker 4: does not rip apart the team. Everybody likes him, and

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Speaker 4: yet they just say that's AJ Brown. Besides, how many

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Speaker 4: wide receivers have you ever met that don't have Deva

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Speaker 4: in them? I mean, the only I always hidn't say

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Speaker 4: the only wide receivers I met who weren't devis where

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Speaker 4: Harold Carmichael and Mike Quick. I mean have to say

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Speaker 4: that because Mike's my partner in the booth. But basically

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Speaker 4: that happens with what that happens with. Mike's the greatest

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Speaker 4: guy you ever want to meet, By the way, But

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, I don't know what Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 4: is like. I know he's a great great player. What's

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Speaker 4: he like as a person.

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Speaker 1: Well, uh, And it's interesting you say that because an

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Speaker 1: hour from now, every Tuesday, we do the radio show

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Speaker 1: from the Vikings facility and Kevin O'Connell joins for about

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes, so we're gonna have a half hour chat

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Speaker 1: with him on the radio about half about an hour

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Speaker 1: from now, one of the questions or comments is going

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Speaker 1: to be Jefferson, who's a natural leader, but he's kind

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Speaker 1: of elevated it this year, having to go through fourteen

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Speaker 1: different offensive line combinations, two quarterbacks, no Jordan Addison. Then

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Speaker 1: he comes back, then he gets up disciplined for a quarter.

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Speaker 1: So Justin's seen a lot this year, and there's been

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Speaker 1: no complaining behind the scenes or publicly about lack of

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Speaker 1: touches or which quarterback he prefers Justin. Justin has elevated

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Speaker 1: and he's always been a mature going kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: But I'm glad you asked that because he's elevated his

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Speaker 1: team leadership maturity this year. It's been quite impressive.

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Speaker 4: That's great, that's great. Well, the Eagles. The Eagles have

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Speaker 4: their leaders too, and Jalen Hurts is one of those guys.

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Speaker 4: He gives you everything that he has, and he's a

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Speaker 4: bright guy and he well, he was the Super Bowl

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Speaker 4: MVP and he did something. Paul I went to the

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Speaker 4: ring ceremony and of course got the ring for the

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Speaker 4: super Bowl Championship. And it may have been a lot

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Speaker 4: to me, but something happened the week later at training

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Speaker 4: camp the men even more. I was sitting in the

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Speaker 4: president after practice and somebody from the equipment room came

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Speaker 4: out and gave me a box and I said, this

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Speaker 4: is what's this? He said, this is for you? And

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Speaker 4: I opened up the box and lo and behold there

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Speaker 4: was a brand new pair of custom Air Jordan Eagles

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Speaker 4: cleats and on the white part of the cleat was

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Speaker 4: written to Emery's you saw when nobody else could love

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Speaker 4: Always Jalen hurts. Wow, I've never had anything like that happen.

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Speaker 1: And that that's spectatic.

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Speaker 4: Made my tears came out of my eyes. That's what

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Speaker 4: it meant to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've always appreciated and respected him from afar and

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Speaker 1: and the way he plays the game. Looking forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing him this weekend. Just a couple more here, Meryll

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Speaker 1: and both on defense. Cooper the Iowa Kid, How how's it.

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Speaker 1: How's Cooper de Jeane's second season going.

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Speaker 4: He's great. He's a great kid, and he's a great player.

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Speaker 4: He really is. He's he was shuffled into the corner

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Speaker 4: for a while last week. I mean, he's it's been

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Speaker 4: tough because they're not and Phil I'm not letting any

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Speaker 4: team secrets out. You guys watch the tape, and your

852
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 4: team knows the strengths and weaknesses of each opponent. Everybody

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00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 4: knows everything these days, there are no surprises. But the

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Speaker 4: Eagles have had They have a great corner in his

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Speaker 4: second year, Planion Mitchell is phenomenal. He's going to be

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Speaker 4: an All Pro for many, many years. But they no

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Speaker 4: longer have Darius Lay and you guys if Isaiah Rogers.

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Speaker 4: So it's been mixed and match at that other corner spot.

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Speaker 4: So Cooper's a gene last week, had to go back

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Speaker 4: and place the corner. But we'll see what happens. They

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Speaker 4: have a Dori Jackson, they have Pey Ringo, and neither

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Speaker 4: one has been the total answer so far.

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Speaker 1: Last one, Merrill, at this stage of your career, coming

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Speaker 1: up on fifty years, is the play by play voice

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Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Eagles. Do you still do every road trip,

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Speaker 1: or do you do? You call some road you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well you I mean Washington FedExField.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, even Washington the other But what I didn't take,

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Speaker 4: and we did it remotely, was a pre season game

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Speaker 4: in Miami two years ago, because that booth is so

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Speaker 4: bad that you can't see half the field. And I said,

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Speaker 4: it's only a preseason game. Let's stay home and do it.

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Speaker 4: And we did. We did it off the big screen

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Speaker 4: at the stadium, but you know, in the booth. But

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Speaker 4: but of course, listen, I still walk eighteen holes of golf.

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Speaker 4: I still play golf four days a week. I'm not

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Speaker 4: I'm not slowing down. And next year it may be

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Speaker 4: my fiftieth, but it's it's not my loss. I just

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Speaker 4: signed a new long term contract, so God willing, I'm

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Speaker 4: not going any place, and I have no plans to retire.

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Speaker 4: And as long as I'm doing this, I'm going where

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Speaker 4: they go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not even sure where the Commander's Play

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Speaker 1: is still called. FedExField probably has a different name. But

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Speaker 1: the reason I asked it was.

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Speaker 4: It's Northwest Stadium. It's a dump.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, the reason I asked, is I was listening

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Speaker 1: to our mutual friend Jeff Joniac called the Bears and

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Speaker 1: Commanders last night, and I could I just we know

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Speaker 1: what that corner tiny booth feels like with with the

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Speaker 1: league's replay group next to us, and it's very difficult

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Speaker 1: calling games there. And and I could tell, uh with

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Speaker 1: with Jeff the way he was calling the game last

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Speaker 1: night that that you know there are some struggles with

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Speaker 1: that spot. So I wasn't sure if you still went there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I still go there. But but you know what

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Speaker 4: Miami's worse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's It's very small, There's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 4: You know what else is terrible. I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 4: what else is terrible. I think I think diy fi

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Speaker 4: I call it so for a stadium where you're in

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Speaker 4: the upper deck of the end zone, that's terrible. Our

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Speaker 4: stadium in the Woods, it's a mess. From a broadcast standpoint.

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Speaker 1: Merril, You're fantastic. I always look forward to seeing you

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Speaker 1: this weekend, come up and say hello to you, you

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Speaker 1: and Mike as we want to do much respect from

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Speaker 1: us here in the court.

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Speaker 4: Are you on a different level, Are you on a

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Speaker 4: different level from us.

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Speaker 1: Depends on what you're talking about from a from a broadcast. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're we we are. They were nice enough when they

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Speaker 1: were developing US Bank Stadium. Former marketing boss Steve Lacroix

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Speaker 1: actually came to KFA in the flagship and and asked us,

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Speaker 1: you know where we would prefer to be. So we're

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Speaker 1: a level below you and at about the thirty yard

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Speaker 1: line behind the Vikings bench.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, and we're in the corner of the

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Speaker 4: end zone. You know what, when people asked me about

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Speaker 4: the final call of Super Bowl fifty two, I said

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Speaker 4: I was scared to death because it wasn't that I

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Speaker 4: was worried about the Eagles losing. I was worried that

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Speaker 4: I would be noticed the announcer who blew the end

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Speaker 4: of the Super Bowl because we were in the corner

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Speaker 4: of the end zone, one hundred and ten yards away

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Speaker 4: from that ball was going where where that ball was

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Speaker 4: going to come down. Fortunately, I got divine intervention and

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Speaker 4: I saw it like it was an NFL film in

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Speaker 4: slow motion, and I was able to able to mail us.

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Speaker 4: If I may be immodest, but the truth of the

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Speaker 4: matter is that that is a very difficult booth in

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Speaker 4: which to call game.

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Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful stadium, it's well lit. Maybe it'll

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Speaker 1: be warm enough to have the pivoting doors open opposite

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Speaker 1: where you're calling it. And we think you'll have a

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Speaker 1: good time this weekend, Meryll, and I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see you. I know I have a good time.

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Speaker 4: I know I'll have a good time ball And it's

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Speaker 4: always a good time to check in with you. And

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Speaker 4: thank you for coming up.

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Speaker 1: Safe travels, my friend, Thank you very much, Stay upon,

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Speaker 1: take care. Barril Reese, forty nine year play by play

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Speaker 1: voice for the Philadelphia Eagles, concludes our number one in

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Speaker 1: our number two the scribe courtesy of Standard heating and cooling.

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Speaker 1: That's next,