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Speaker 2: He's boxing immortality, but I mean anybody who's able to

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Speaker 2: he's still the play by play voice for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 2: He was on yesterday and we mixed in some bird seed.

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Speaker 2: We chatted about some good, some bad, some ugly with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna start here, although I do

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Speaker 3: want to jump back. I think did you catch Meryl

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Speaker 3: Reese in a mood yesterday? Pa?

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Speaker 2: He was in the car so when we were negotiating times, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I would prefer to start at this time. Paul, the

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Speaker 2: perhaps we can do eleven o'clock your time, Paul, it

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Speaker 3: Because that in that interview he mentioned on in step

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Speaker 1: He still walks eighteen and that.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I've been doing it for forty nine years,

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: He just wanted to let Everyboddy you know, it ain't

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Speaker 3: over for Meryl Reese and those mink coats quite yet.

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Speaker 1: Crazy He went common on it.

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Speaker 2: I always loved that one, but nobody was suggesting that

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Speaker 2: Because I know, well, I didn't think he went to

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Speaker 2: the stadium as a dump. Okay, Well, so he eventually

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Speaker 2: all of our guests when we're done, Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: Left me on Red. I always love that one, Mayor.

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Speaker 3: So they're not getting to the QB. They're not getting

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Speaker 3: they're not affecting the pass game. Yeah, which leads you

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Speaker 3: All that investment into the trenches that has been their

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Speaker 1: Man. Teams lost too in a row.

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Speaker 3: You got Jackson Dart and freaking cam Scataboo clowning on

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Speaker 1: Are they capable of getting to that emotions? That's what

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Speaker 2: That's what You've made as much money as the most

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Speaker 2: Oh and I got this ring. Yeah, I'm good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they've now seen the top. But kind of

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Speaker 3: of course this is a get right game for Saquon.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe that. That is, if we were talking

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Speaker 2: You get a lead on these birds, the way they're

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Speaker 3: I don't think they can run. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: What do you think of this? All right?

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Speaker 2: So with the bird seed of negativity? Yeah, very well

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Speaker 2: laid out. I just wonder what has changed from September fourteenth,

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Speaker 2: Then they got the short week at Skataboo and Dart

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Speaker 2: I mean, if Eagles fans are looking for get right week,

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Speaker 2: A week after that they host the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Look ahead to the dark game.

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Speaker 2: I think anybody ever would have said that, So look

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Speaker 2: have that type of life change, inequity. Yeah, and now

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Speaker 1: You do when's the bye? I'm good, I'm cool man,

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Speaker 3: Sounds like Jalen Hurts might be that calm in presence

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Speaker 1: On that one.

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Speaker 3: But branding Graham, who was really i mean Lane Johnson

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Speaker 3: He's been there for all of it, right, he was

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Speaker 1: Brandon Graham walked into the locker room.

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Speaker 3: He's like the bleep enz, it's over, well, shut up

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Speaker 1: And then they would move forward from that.

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Speaker 3: I just again, the Eagles are their own worst enemy.

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Speaker 3: Most talented team in the league by my estimation, they

434
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Speaker 3: can still roll into US Bank Stadium on Sunday and

435
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Speaker 3: put forty on Flores. I know they can. However, no

436
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Speaker 3: they can't. You don't think so, not forty.

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Speaker 1: Well, but you get the they can. They can show

438
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Speaker 1: up and play, make it a high scoring game.

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Speaker 3: They are a high end team that is fractured, and

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00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 3: it's a fund and it's fundamentally fractured. It goes beyond

441
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Speaker 3: even whether or not Jalen Carter plays. There's something else

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Speaker 3: in the mix that is an issue. And that and

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Speaker 3: and if they can't again, if they can't run the

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Speaker 3: ball on Sunday, if they're gonna throw out three and

445
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Speaker 3: a half yards per carry, the Vikings are going to

446
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Speaker 3: be four and two.

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Speaker 1: That's just how it feels.

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Speaker 3: To me again on a Wednesday before a matinee Sunday game.

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Speaker 3: go on a Wednesday morning and I am going to

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Speaker 3: start here. How much time do you think Kevin O'Connell

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Speaker 3: with the buye. I mean, we're so wrapped up in

473
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Speaker 3: health certainly, but from a time standpoint, how much time

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Speaker 3: do you think Kevin O'Connell's spent during the bye week

475
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Speaker 3: the internal conversations in relation to penalties penalties for your

476
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Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings. There's seven flags against Cleveland, by the way,

477
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 3: that was actually the fewest of any game this season,

478
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Speaker 3: and it's been something that we've chronicled, whether it be

479
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 3: Vikings fanline and of course just in talkers throughout the year.

480
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 3: But the penalties the issue, and just if anything, the

481
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 3: core the head coach is going to lose sleepover, is

482
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 3: going to lose sleepover what's going on with the quarterback situation.

483
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: But these freaking penalties, man, you know, it's seven flags

484
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 3: in the Cleveland game. Otherwise it was eight, eight, eight

485
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 3: and thirteen in the other four respectively. Fourth most pre

486
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 3: snap flags in the NFL. I think that's probably the

487
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Speaker 3: most frustrating aspect of this that those pre snap penalties.

488
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Speaker 3: I think it's a twenty that's the most among teams

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Speaker 3: that have played in five games, but fourth most in

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Speaker 3: the NFL pre snap wise. I just wonder, Pa, you

491
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Speaker 3: know how much time among everything that Kevin O'Connell has

492
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Speaker 3: to organize out of the bye week and into this

493
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 3: game with Philly, just like the self inflicted bits, the

494
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 3: disciplined bits like quality team, talented team, we're loving break

495
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 3: Blake Brandell and what he did, we're loving justin Jefferson.

496
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Speaker 3: But regardless of all of that, the undisciplined aspect in

497
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 3: spots with this team has to be driving the coach.

498
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 3: It's crazy that has to be among the first few

499
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Speaker 3: nuggets on his clipboard that he's addressing out of the

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Speaker 3: buy into Philly.

501
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Speaker 2: Right above it or right behind it, And you could

502
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Speaker 2: kind of tell by the way he shared it with

503
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 2: X's and o's nine to noon yesterday. I think the

504
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 2: Mason and Xavier Scott fumbles really got to him. Oh now,

505
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 2: Mason fumbled in the Steelers game, I mean lucked out

506
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: though Vikings were very fortunate there touching that boundary that

507
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey didn't get to the house for six. So yes,

508
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 2: those things I think are getting to him. I think

509
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 2: the quarterback situation is working on him. I can't even

510
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 2: explain what way, because Kevin generally has such a hold

511
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Speaker 2: on things, which I believe they have and it will

512
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 2: get stronger, yeah, once players come back. But there's just

513
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,479
Speaker 2: been a lot and you know it's it's O'Connell. You know,

514
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 2: it's difficult speaking for other people having not talked to

515
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Speaker 2: him about it, but I'm going to take that lead

516
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 2: now with Kevin is when when you hear the phrase

517
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 2: to whom much is given, much is expected, Well, not

518
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 2: everybody takes that to a ten of ten level.

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Speaker 1: I think Kevin does.

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00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, so nobody knows exactly what he makes cheerly with

521
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 2: the extension who cares? Nobody exactly knows how many years

522
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: with the extension?

523
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Speaker 1: Who cares?

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00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 2: Okay, you're you're a fantastic head coach who continues to improve.

525
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Speaker 2: But you know, when you do win Coach of the year,

526
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Speaker 2: you come off fourteen wins, it not only comes to

527
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Speaker 2: a screeching halt, but I mean, you got you know,

528
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 2: you got your You're running into walls and trees with

529
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 2: that symbolic car at the end of it, and it

530
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: was bad. Yeah, and then you know off that he

531
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Speaker 2: wins Coach of the Year. Let's two quarters, two quarterbacks go.

532
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 2: And when I say let two quarterbacks go, they could

533
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Speaker 2: have signed they could have given Sam Darnold one hundred

534
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Speaker 2: million dollar deal, they could have beaten the Indian Appolis

535
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: Colts and what they were offering Daniel Jones and said,

536
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: you compete for the job and here's what we're going

537
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 2: to give you.

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Speaker 1: And and you know.

539
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Speaker 2: Maybe that would have made things different and a little

540
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Speaker 2: more calming, But nevertheless, he cares so much about how

541
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Speaker 2: things go with this team from a minotia standpoint, specifically

542
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 2: with those things you mentioned, Yeah, that it's something I

543
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Speaker 2: just I send something's eating at him and I kind

544
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: of sense it in London, and I think it's the

545
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Speaker 2: out of control, Like you get everything ready, you get

546
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 2: all these guys squared away, you're going to use the

547
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: undrafted Wisconsin guy left guard. You're going to put a

548
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 2: center in there who's never done it in his life

549
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 2: at any level. You're you're without O'Neill. You know, Darisol's

550
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: leaving the game. All that's frustrating, but most of it's working.

551
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 2: So you're getting it to work. It's when when you

552
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Speaker 2: have ring cred and you care about it the way

553
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 2: that man does, and the pre snap penalties and some

554
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: of the foolishness just does not stop. He's gonna take

555
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: it personally. Yeah, and out of the vibe. Chance to

556
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Speaker 2: turn all out of those rounds upside down bikes Bykees

557
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Speaker 2: bikes bites.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thousand Hills. How about this did Jonathan Grenard? So,

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Grenard, I think this podcast it's called Flag Flag

560
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 3: on the play and it's Trent. I'm going to butcher

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Speaker 3: the name mcgoffee mcgahey spell it mick mc g a

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Speaker 3: u g h e y. Yeah, it's either mcgae or mcgoffee.

563
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Speaker 3: I think I think it's McGee but but either way,

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Speaker 3: thank you to Trent. I think this is a Houston

565
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Speaker 3: area podcast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't even know who the guy is.

567
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 3: The former Texan probably connected with these guys during his

568
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: time in Houston, and he was on the podcast, and

569
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Speaker 3: people kind of looking at it was was this a

570
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Speaker 3: potential oopsie? Was this a potential lean from Jonathan Grenard?

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Speaker 1: Yesterday?

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Speaker 5: We've just like we still got to get everybody bad things.

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Speaker 5: He'll probably be bad with something like that. I think

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Speaker 5: I think you will. How about that?

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Speaker 1: I got to find right there the car, let's let's

576
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Speaker 1: hear that one more time. And if you can picture

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Speaker 1: so there's.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's Zapruder film, right, I mean just kind

579
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Speaker 3: of digging into combinations, not of the audio plus the

580
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Speaker 3: frame by frame, seeing his face as he says it

581
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Speaker 3: will listen to it one more time.

582
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Speaker 5: Not in Joe, We've just like we still have to

583
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Speaker 5: get aybody bad things. He'll probably be back this week

584
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Speaker 5: or something like that. I think think you will.

585
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Speaker 1: Was there a potential was there a potential.

586
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Speaker 3: Oopsie by our high end pass rusher as as he said,

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Speaker 3: you know.

588
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Speaker 1: JJ is gonna be a back up catches himself kind

589
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Speaker 1: of hooks his neck a little bit though. McCarthy.

590
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's until proven otherwise the BET's over

591
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: for me. I mean that's a that that right there.

592
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Speaker 2: Like when did he do the podcast within the last

593
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Speaker 2: two days?

594
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: Uh? This was yesterday, I believe.

595
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they practiced on Monday.

596
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Speaker 6: Oh I'm so happy he did that, even if he's wrong,

597
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 6: because the nine to noon tandem is getting beaten down

598
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 6: with this.

599
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: It hurts.

600
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 2: Here's why it should be McCarthy and there's no other side.

601
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 2: Here's why it should be Carson and there's no other side.

602
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 2: The broze mermania. Froze mermania. That's fun, and eventually he

603
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Speaker 2: may get a chance to play some quarterback.

604
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: But that's in a side.

605
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Speaker 2: It's just like last week when you know, after I've

606
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 2: been out for a little bit and in Europe and

607
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 2: stuff and was kind of in and out. When I

608
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: got back, you encouraged me. You said, look, this quarterback

609
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: talkback bit is hot. It is like, all right, let's

610
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: do it, and nobody's mad at the talkbackers or the

611
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: people offering the opinions. I could only hear three, and

612
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 2: I never wanted to hear him again. I know you

613
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: said simply because it's not everything has to be a

614
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Speaker 2: best or a worst. Ever, not everything has to be

615
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Speaker 2: a ten.

616
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Speaker 1: It's over or zero of ten, and I'm just gonna retreat.

617
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 2: Not everything has to be that in this world, or

618
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 2: certainly in football where you know, like I said earlier, hey,

619
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Speaker 2: if they deemed Carson Wentz the right quarterback for this game,

620
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 2: well that doesn't mean the future or the immediate future

621
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 2: for JJ McCarthy is in peril. It doesn't mean they

622
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: feel that they invested in bad goods. I don't know

623
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Speaker 2: if I use this example yesterday nine to noon, but

624
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 2: on that Sacramento radio station with Grant and Napier last

625
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 2: night at six o'clock when he was asking me about

626
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: some of these quarterbacks, I just kind of tripped down

627
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 2: this road and I'm like, Drake May, all right. When

628
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: I saw Drake May last year, wait, good to hear

629
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: Grant back in the mix. By the way, but Bob

630
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 2: Grant's awesome. You don't think I dropped day. And by

631
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: the way, as a Christian, all lives do matter. All right,

632
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: let's talk about blah blah blah. Go ahead and research him.

633
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: But anyway, three two, oh, yeah, So Drake May when

634
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: I saw him last year, I'm like, I mean, huh, okay,

635
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: but the coaching staff got fired, so now you got

636
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: new bits in there. So now we see him this

637
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: year up close and personally at twin Citi's Orthopedics Performance Center,

638
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 2: two days of joint practices. Yeah, getting blow me away.

639
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, I mean he yeah, he has

640
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: a nice arm. Yes he's fast. But still there was

641
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: when Flores wanted to shut that kid down on a Thursday.

642
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 2: There's nothing Drake May could do about it, no matter

643
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Speaker 2: what play they called.

644
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's not the first to face that that's true.

645
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, even in the preseason game in which he played.

646
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Speaker 1: He didn't want to play in that game.

647
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: No, So I'm like, there's nothing that's bowling me over

648
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Speaker 2: with Drake May.

649
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: So I'm spending a Sunday in Denver, Colorado after purchasing

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Speaker 2: this aggressive YouTube thing for more money than I wanted

652
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Speaker 2: to pay, so I could watch all the games at

653
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Speaker 2: my daughter's house and we sat around, made lunch watching

654
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 2: all the games, and everything in New England.

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Speaker 1: New Orleans actually was an entertaining game.

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Speaker 2: It was I'm watching Drake May after having seen him

657
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Speaker 2: play against Buffalo, and I'm like, bam bam, bam bam

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Speaker 2: oooh five step drop plant fire booty boundary, nice May dinging,

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Speaker 2: Uh huh seven step drop look left, swing back right

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Speaker 2: because that's you know, because you know the booty is

661
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Speaker 2: going to be there. Yeah, he finds the booty chains move.

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00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: Everybody's happy. CON's in his basement slapping that thing the base.

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Speaker 1: Once the lights go down.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, geez, Drake May in hand and in command,

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Speaker 2: what are we talking about?

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Speaker 1: Nine games?

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Speaker 2: Ten games maybe for Drake yeah, two off seasons, two

668
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: off seasons, and I don't know, twelve games whatever. But

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Speaker 2: that still is not a voluminous amount of games. No,

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Speaker 2: it's not with our kid. We're talking about two, talking

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Speaker 2: about eight quarters.

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Speaker 1: He's played in nineteen games.

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Speaker 3: As matter of fact, Drake has Okay, he played in them,

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Speaker 3: that's part he's uh, he.

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Speaker 1: Started eighteen of them.

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Speaker 2: I think you that's perfect because the age old adage

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Speaker 2: with me is with quarterbacks. I need twenty to twenty

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Speaker 2: five before I can start getting loud about him.

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Speaker 1: Either way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting loud about Drake May my man's arrived.

681
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: I mean he put Hunter Henry on a game three

682
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 2: games ago where I can't remember who they were playing.

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00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: They couldn't stop it, you know, and he was selling

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00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 2: stuff to get wait for Henry to get open. So

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00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 2: the old line obviously had to help. But there's the

686
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 2: example with McCarthy. So backtrack. This is your layering late leader.

687
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Speaker 2: So let's go to the baseline. Bernard slips nine to noon,

688
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: enthralled because McCarthy's the quarterback against the Eagles. Is it

689
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Speaker 2: right or is it wrong? We don't care. We just

690
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: don't have to think about all three options anymore until

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00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 2: proven wrong. Right, and the head coach Todd nexts layer

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Speaker 2: head coach nine to noon yesterday.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: This is not going to be some top secret mission

695
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: up to the game. I'll let the public know what

696
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Speaker 2: the quarterback is when I'm ready. Boom next layer. Drake

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Speaker 2: May problematic nineteen twenty into it, Drake May not problematic?

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Speaker 1: Problematic. You can win games with Drake May, Yes you can.

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Speaker 2: So that's casting the Gays the way of the future

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Speaker 2: for JJ McCarthy. But it doesn't mean our version of

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Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett might need to jump in there every so

702
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: often and compete and or win games. And that doesn't

703
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: make the GM or the head coach foolish. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: make the kid a bust. And it also doesn't make

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Speaker 2: the Brissette slash Wentz the future of the franchise.

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Speaker 1: This is perfect. I'm so glad you found that. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this then and then we'll pause.

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Speaker 3: Though, how do you think Kevin O'Connell will have to

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Speaker 3: balance the idea of Drake May in twenty twenty four

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Speaker 3: was three and nine as a starter and a team

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Speaker 3: ultimately that was able. I think they was a will campb.

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00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 3: They drafted the Fountain left tackle from LSU this year,

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Speaker 3: so they found their way to a high draft pick.

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Speaker 3: So it goes back to the conversation we've had before,

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Speaker 3: the roster built to win, now the team deciding to

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Speaker 3: go with McCarthy with a roster perceived off of fourteen

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Speaker 3: wins to be in the playoff mix. I don't think

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Speaker 3: anybody had delusions of grandeur in New England a year ago.

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Speaker 3: So how do you balance the mentality of giving McCarthy

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Speaker 3: those reps Like you're talking that the kid needs seasoning,

721
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: the kid needs opportunity like Drek made did Drake May

722
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Speaker 3: in some ways had the benefit of getting that seasoning

723
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Speaker 3: and getting those reps with a team that did not

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Speaker 3: expect was not coming off a season with fourteen wins,

725
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Speaker 3: and now new coach, some sweet drafting and a new

726
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: aura change has them in a good spot, battling in

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Speaker 3: an AFC East that we thought was a foregone conclusion.

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Speaker 2: And a group that believes in him of one percent, yeah,

729
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Speaker 2: a group that openly lets him know we love you, yes,

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Speaker 2: which I can't say the previous group in New England

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Speaker 2: didn't do. But the previous group in New England didn't

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Speaker 2: do enough for mister Kraft to not give somebody a

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Speaker 2: three year fat deal as the head coach. I think

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Speaker 2: it was three and then like at the end of one,

735
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Speaker 2: now I'm just gonna go ahead and pay the other two.

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Speaker 1: So you leave, you gonna move on. I'm just to lee.

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Speaker 3: But but the perception was is Drake May gets to

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Speaker 3: work as part of a rebuild. JJ McCarthy is walking

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Speaker 3: into a relow. Yeah, and I think those varying perceptions

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Speaker 3: have fan bases. Maybe looking at those growth curves that great.

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00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy through nineteen games could be every bit as

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Speaker 3: good as Drake May. But if you have to live

743
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Speaker 3: through some else you do, there's gonna be some problems. Okay, well,

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Speaker 3: the fan base perspective.

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Speaker 2: Guess what I'm you know what again, I'm not speaking

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Speaker 2: for the team or the coach, and I've never talked

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Speaker 2: to the coach about this.

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Speaker 1: Preach that to the head coach.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's preach that to Kevin O'Connell, Quasia doofa Menso West, Philip,

750
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Speaker 2: Josh McCown, Brian Angelico, everybody associated with the bid. Yes,

751
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 2: this is a reload. Yes, you love him, Yes, you

752
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 2: see good things in him that we have yet to see. Yes,

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00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 2: it's undeniable least twenty two years of age. It's undeniable.

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Speaker 2: He didn't face anything like this at the collegiate level

755
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 2: for very good teams. So yeah, all of that is factual,

756
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 2: and that's what makes the conversational jambalaya so intriguing for some.

757
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Speaker 2: But there are just two things good times bad times here.

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Speaker 2: The bad times were after you touted me on how

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Speaker 2: hot this was. You were absolutely right. I could tweet

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Speaker 2: about this thing all day if I wanted to. But

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Speaker 2: it's the thing that gets me. Is the thing that

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Speaker 2: gets me is that people don't leave opening It's not everybody.

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Speaker 2: People don't leave it open ended. There has to be

764
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Speaker 2: the gut shot that is hit. And that's just another

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Speaker 2: facet of a social media world where people get so

766
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Speaker 2: loud and so dumb on social media because in February

767
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Speaker 2: and March they start getting loud about who their favorite

768
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Speaker 2: team should take and they live it and then they

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Speaker 2: don't take that and then they get hit and they

770
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Speaker 2: can't handle it. So it's it's an open ender here.

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Speaker 2: If it's McCarthy, well, that doesn't mean Carson's gonna have

772
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Speaker 2: to amputate his left shoulder, It's true. If it's Wentce,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean McCarthy's a complete bust if it's Brosemer.

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Speaker 2: They got two quarterbacks who the establishment does not believe

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Speaker 2: are healthy enough to play. That those are the facts

776
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Speaker 2: that that's just that's the reality of the bit. So

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Speaker 2: that's the bad time. What are the good times? And

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Speaker 2: the good times and bad times? Grenard slipped Houston Podcast.

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Speaker 2: You know we're gonna get all these injuries and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know JJ's gonna come back time.

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Speaker 1: Man's at least I think he's gonna come back.

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm gonna give him a high five when I

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Wild lose five to two last night in Dallas.

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Speaker 3: It was a back to back. You get the cool

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Speaker 3: first place, but regardless, you get the late one at home.

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Speaker 3: You head down to Big d a team you struggle

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Speaker 3: to win anytime you're playing them, the Dallas Stars.

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Speaker 1: They stake to three nothing lead.

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Speaker 3: The Wild did not crawl their way back from the

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Speaker 3: other end of that particular scenario.

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Speaker 1: They lose five to two.

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Speaker 3: But interesting here, through four games now they have a

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Speaker 3: nearly it's forty seven percent PA. The Wild, howe are

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Speaker 3: on the power play forty freaking seven percent. Through four games,

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Speaker 3: they have ten power play goals.

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Speaker 1: Geez, ten power.

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Speaker 3: Play goals in particular, I think six of them are

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Speaker 3: specifically in the number one unit. The Caprice capriceoff did

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Speaker 3: have a goal, I think in a dime last night

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Speaker 3: as part of that loss. But we you know, for

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Speaker 3: years it's like, okay winning face offs. Appreciate that haven't

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Speaker 3: won a face off since Koebu retired.

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Speaker 1: And then hey, how about the special teams? Can we

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Speaker 1: be better?

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Speaker 3: You know, we need to, you know, can Brodziak come

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Speaker 3: out of retirement so we're better on the penalty kill?

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Speaker 3: Can we ever score on the power play with any consistency? Well,

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Speaker 3: ten goals in four games is pretty freaking nutty. And

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Speaker 3: they're off to a hot start and lead at least

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Speaker 3: in special teams. Maybe they can bring that to the

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Speaker 3: Capital City in a couple of days when they face

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Speaker 3: said Washington caps.

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Speaker 1: A couple of.

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Speaker 2: Things on that Quickly, the Wild are is on pace

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Speaker 2: for the greatest power play in NHL history, and you

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Speaker 2: can argue with the map. And secondly, some of the

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Speaker 2: most overrated Wild concerns right now include lack of five

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Speaker 2: on five goals.

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Speaker 1: In fact, that might be it.

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Speaker 2: They they're scoring goals overall eighth in the NHL and

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Speaker 2: goals per game, they're getting chances five on five they're creating.

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Speaker 2: Just like power plays will regress, five on five will

851
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,720
Speaker 2: ascend the other way. And their five on five play

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00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 2: is drawing penalties. So that thank you, Tennabe, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: X machine, just gravy train that from him. But it's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: It's not just something with which I choose to argue.

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