Speaker 1: Ca fan, welcome some great shows to target Field this year.
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Speaker 3: Then, I know, I feel like I'm seeing you forever.
Speaker 4: I really do.
Speaker 5: Isn't it weird like that? I guess it was what
Speaker 5: almost a week I was with you guys last Monday?
Speaker 4: No, I was, No, you took Monday off, So I
Speaker 4: don't think we've seen you since the previous Thursday.
Speaker 2: It has been that long, and that's why it feels
Speaker 2: so long, it does. I do miss you, guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you're my friend.
Speaker 4: I know well, and you had a big week because
Speaker 4: you were gone, because you were driving your daughter, well,
Speaker 4: even though she flew, but you were driving your boys
Speaker 4: to Auburn to say goodbye Tonames.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, to say it like that, that makes it
Speaker 5: even worse. You know, I choose to like I'm moving.
Speaker 5: We moved her into college. It wasn't driving down just
Speaker 5: to say.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, temporary goodbye, good morning Justin guard by the way,
Speaker 4: to Justin Ben Ben Justin him?
Speaker 2: What's that dude?
Speaker 4: His head phone.
Speaker 6: He's probably been to Auburn. Have the Gophers played there? No,
Speaker 6: have not. We played Auburn in a bowl game.
Speaker 4: That's right there you go. It was fun the Outpack Bowl.
Speaker 4: All right. So let's start with the drive, right, You
Speaker 4: and the two boys drove down Ames and Abby flew down.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 6: I'm glad I have tissues for this, by the way,
Speaker 6: I was just gonna ask for some and I'm an
Speaker 6: emotional wreck because of Ver's Instagram.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I try.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try not to get emotional myself. So it's
Speaker 5: so we rented a car. We shipped her car down
Speaker 5: because she's gonna need a car just for like her
Speaker 5: Equestria and stuff and stuff like that. If crossed her fingers,
Speaker 5: she makes the team because that that that facility is
Speaker 5: a few miles off campus, so it's as easier for
Speaker 5: her to have a car as opposed to like bumming
Speaker 5: a ride every day. So we shipped her car down
Speaker 5: and then we rented a car, and then we just
Speaker 5: packed that sucker full of just all of her stuff.
Speaker 5: And so the boys and I drove down. And WIT's fifteen,
Speaker 5: so he kind of needs some hours behind the wheel.
Speaker 2: So I'm like Oh, this is great. We have like
Speaker 2: an eighteen hour drive.
Speaker 5: You can get a bunch of it, and it's a
Speaker 5: pretty much a straight shot, you know, once we get
Speaker 5: on some of the interstates. And so Monday night, right
Speaker 5: after Twin Cities Live, we they packed the car when
Speaker 5: I was at work, and then we left at like
Speaker 5: six five, you know, five forty five, six o'clock and
Speaker 5: we made it all the way down to Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
Speaker 5: which is you know, five ish hours, and Wit drove
Speaker 5: three hours of it, so sweet. I sat in the
Speaker 5: passenger seat just chilling, you know that it was. I
Speaker 5: told myself when he was driving that I shouldn't sleep
Speaker 5: right just because for sure, you know. Yeah, So it
Speaker 5: was relaxing. And then we stopped there on Monday, and
Speaker 5: then we had you know, thirteen hours on Tuesday, and
Speaker 5: we got down there about eight fifteen at night.
Speaker 4: Can I ask a question, Yeah, why go five and thirteen?
Speaker 4: Why not go like nine to nine?
Speaker 3: Late start?
Speaker 5: This is a late start, you know, getting on the
Speaker 5: road at six o'clock. And I was, you know, trying
Speaker 5: to be aware of I knew that because if we go,
Speaker 5: you know, if we if we drove till three in
Speaker 5: the morning, you know.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize like we could probably make it all
Speaker 5: the way to Saint Louis, the outskirts of Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: But then we check into a hotel or what am
Speaker 5: I going to do at you know, three or four
Speaker 5: in the morning. Then we do sleep for three hours
Speaker 5: and get up and you know, or five hours and
Speaker 5: then driving, so.
Speaker 4: Like high five Nelly and get the hell out of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, it's not an old morning, Lewis, you know,
Speaker 5: for the sake of the boys not being wrecked and
Speaker 5: and myself not being wrecked, I'm like, let's just do this.
Speaker 2: And we did it all, most of it on Tuesday.
Speaker 5: Anyway, We get down there and then Ames had an
Speaker 5: early movement on Wednesday morning at like nine am, so
Speaker 5: we basically just get up go to her place. Her
Speaker 5: two roommates were there as well with her her parents,
Speaker 5: and so it was just kind of a chaotic Wednesday
Speaker 5: of moving in and doing all the things. And then
Speaker 5: Thursday day morning, we walked campus because I'd never been
Speaker 5: down there, walked campus, went to her like her building
Speaker 5: where her black a lot of her classes are going
Speaker 5: to be walked in the football stadium, which was sweet.
Speaker 5: Went to the baseball STADIU, which is awesome because it's
Speaker 5: like right there, it's like right behind the football stadium.
Speaker 5: Everything's on campus, which is really really cool. And then
Speaker 5: it was we had to get on the road back
Speaker 5: to Atlanta to catch the flight at one thirty. And
Speaker 5: so that period of like going back to the hotel,
Speaker 5: gathering our.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that was rough.
Speaker 5: Like that was real rough, you know, because you're in
Speaker 5: the chaos of just the move and you just walk
Speaker 5: around campus and just enjoying every moment. And then there
Speaker 5: was a point where I was packing my stuff up
Speaker 5: and we were walking to the elevator and I just
Speaker 5: started getting emotional. Then, you know, I was walking down
Speaker 5: the hallway, just had my head down. I don't think
Speaker 5: anybody even knew that I was like starting to get
Speaker 5: teary eyed. And we get in the elevator and thankfully
Speaker 5: one of the boys asked me a question or something.
Speaker 5: Abby asked me a question, and it kind of snapped
Speaker 5: me out of it. But then once we got to
Speaker 5: the car, put my bags in the car, and like
Speaker 5: that walk back from the car to where they were
Speaker 5: standing because it was raining out, so they were just
Speaker 5: kind of under this under this little awning thing, and
Speaker 5: I just like it was over, like that's wraps, it
Speaker 5: was over. I was a hot mess, you know. Hugging
Speaker 5: her goodbye was tough. And the boys said, and I
Speaker 5: got in the car and you know, it was an
Speaker 5: hour and a half to Atlanta, and I don't think
Speaker 5: we spoke in the car for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's it.
Speaker 5: But it's been great, man. She's she was down there
Speaker 5: for Sorority Rush, and you know, we're in contact with her.
Speaker 5: I mean we're talking to me. We talked to her
Speaker 5: several times a day, you know. So it's it doesn't
Speaker 5: feel like super super real right now, but it's still difficult,
Speaker 5: you know, walking through a bedroom or past her bedroom
Speaker 5: and knowing that she's not going to be in there.
Speaker 2: It's it's tough, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I wish we could play forever young right now.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, it's not, let's not.
Speaker 7: You know what's crazy though, dude, it's like I cry
Speaker 7: all the time about everything, like you know, television commercials. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's even more I'm sure meaningful to your daughter and
Speaker 7: your family to see you break down like that because
Speaker 7: that's not something you normally do.
Speaker 3: Mass so good on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean it's of course.
Speaker 5: I mean I think that there's there's times that I
Speaker 5: think all of us guys and the way we're kind
Speaker 5: are raised, like you just hold your emotions back.
Speaker 2: But I definitely think that.
Speaker 5: I mean, I certainly more sentimental as I've gotten older,
Speaker 5: I'm definitely more comfortable about doing, you know, like just
Speaker 5: letting my emotions out. So I mean, listen, my kids
Speaker 5: have seen me pissed off.
Speaker 2: Sure, you know, they have seen me rage, they have
Speaker 2: seen me redline.
Speaker 5: So you know, I think it's okay for them to
Speaker 5: see the opposite of that. And yeah, I had no,
Speaker 5: I had no problems you know, doing that in front
Speaker 5: of the kids and you know, allowing them to understand
Speaker 5: that feelings are real and let it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah wow, man, cool, Well, good for her.
Speaker 7: You remember Corey, when I was doing the Christmas speech
Speaker 7: and you guys used to make fun of me, and
Speaker 7: and do you remember that one line in the one
Speaker 7: Christmas speech that where I said, uh, the only thing
Speaker 7: running down the hallway some Christmas morning is going to
Speaker 7: be the memories of your little ones.
Speaker 3: M I knew you guys would pay you sons of
Speaker 3: bitches over and over.
Speaker 7: But that's the danger of being the old guy on
Speaker 7: the show is I'm out there in front of everybody
Speaker 7: doing it first.
Speaker 3: But man, it's it's the worst.
Speaker 7: Than the best thing in the world, right, yeah, the
Speaker 7: best thing in the world, Kerzy, how far off are you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: Like six years? Yeah, got a sixth grader coming on.
Speaker 3: Corey's been through it once.
Speaker 4: That's crazy to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: My goal by then is to look as good in
Speaker 6: the college polo that my kid goes to as Lieber
Speaker 6: looked in that baby blue Auburn.
Speaker 4: Like that was just mad. That's actually what made me sadder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4: I'm liber looks good. And that bleeping blue shirt. How
Speaker 4: does he look good?
Speaker 5: You should have seen the undershirt and it was so
Speaker 5: swaltering sticky there and just like.
Speaker 4: Hey, so you were sweating through that shirt? Zach. Zach
Speaker 4: just texted me how do I crop out Leeber's family?
Speaker 4: He doesn't need your help. I've been.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'm sure I did at one point. Had you been
Speaker 7: to Auburn on campus before?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: No, is it as great as I think it is?
Speaker 7: Did you see the trees and all that jazz.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I gotta say the drive was long
Speaker 5: on Tuesday. But I'm gonna sucker for all this stuff too.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm just a sucker for you know, landscape
Speaker 5: and you know all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: So I looked forward to the drive.
Speaker 4: I tell you what.
Speaker 5: Once we got into let's just call it Tennessee. From
Speaker 5: Tennessee all the way through the southern part of Alabama.
Speaker 2: God, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 4: Oh really is it is.
Speaker 5: I know people are probably gonna get really mad about this,
Speaker 5: but I think it's prettier than northern Minnesota. It's prettier
Speaker 5: than driving the Northern minnesot which, which I mean I
Speaker 5: just wanted for context like that means a lot, because
Speaker 5: I think the drive in northern Minnesota is very pretty.
Speaker 5: But you know, down there, they just seem like they
Speaker 5: have more space and all of the divided highways, you know,
Speaker 5: it's the it's the highways where there's a grove of
Speaker 5: trees between. It's almost like there's a forest between the
Speaker 5: oncoming traffic. So it's just it's just a two lane highway,
Speaker 5: interstate and you're just going one direction and there are
Speaker 5: just trees everywhere, everywhere. So I just really got a
Speaker 5: kick out of I mean it was probably eight hours
Speaker 5: of just like gorgeous trees and drive.
Speaker 7: And it's really thick right now too because the humidity
Speaker 7: and stuff too right to I mean, it's just green
Speaker 7: as hell.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I learned through this whole process that I
Speaker 5: think Alabama and I don't know the exact number, it's
Speaker 5: something like it's top five states for most forest land
Speaker 5: or something like that, hanging a banner, I know, so
Speaker 5: you don't realize how kind of rural and country it is.
Speaker 5: And there's just trees everywhere. It's a it's a gorgeous area,
Speaker 5: but it's it is hot, it is it is sticky,
Speaker 5: and it is gross, and that's kind of weird. I
Speaker 5: didn't realize, you know, you think of Florida has like
Speaker 5: they have the daily kind of rainstorm that runs through
Speaker 5: that whole area of the country is the same way.
Speaker 5: It's like every day expect some sort of like quick
Speaker 5: shower and then it stops, but then that's just sticky.
Speaker 4: You are correct. Alabama is fifth for forest cover by state. Wow,
Speaker 4: at seventy point five seven percent. What states is eight?
Speaker 4: Number one eighty nine point four to six percent.
Speaker 5: Forest, Alaska, Oregon, Washington Road.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I could call no, Idaho, no.
Speaker 3: West Virginia.
Speaker 4: Somebody just I think somebody just said it Main Main. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there you go, because you got to think it's got
Speaker 4: to be a relatively small state rights and then it's
Speaker 4: got to be small and then mostly covered. And that's
Speaker 4: exactly what it is. Main's number one New Hampshire to
Speaker 4: West Virginia. Three Vermont for Alabama. Five there you go.
Speaker 4: Minnesota is so you know, wait on the list, we're
Speaker 4: thirty four point zero eight percent.
Speaker 2: So we got all them lags.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, ming good time for trees, No.
Speaker 7: Way, Ben, Yeah, can you imagine twos at all?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, I mean, of course, you know, I follow their
Speaker 5: football team on social media now, and so yeah, they're
Speaker 5: they're posting, you know, some guys in the cold tub
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, talking like trying to get away
Speaker 5: from the heat and all that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I can't I can imagine.
Speaker 3: I mean, cold tub's still ninety degrees.
Speaker 2: I know, it's like barely the ice in the cold tub.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I just all of those guys in the South, they
Speaker 5: have to adjust their practices. I think they're doing like
Speaker 5: early early, early morning practices before it gets super super hot,
Speaker 5: or like late at night. But like my buddy who
Speaker 5: played with the Dolphins back in the day, he said,
Speaker 5: he's like, we have to practice, we'd be on the field.
Speaker 5: I think it's seven thirty in the morning, just to
Speaker 5: avoid the heat.
Speaker 4: Thanks, all right, hang on a second before we move
Speaker 4: on from this. Now, I'm fascinated by forrest coverage. Also
Speaker 4: to help, what's dead last? One point seventy two percent
Speaker 4: of the state is covered by forests.
Speaker 2: Nevada.
Speaker 4: Nevada is fifteen point eighty nine percent dead last. Arizona Arizona, Nope,
Speaker 4: that's twenty five percent. New Mexico Nope.
Speaker 2: That's a good goal.
Speaker 4: It's not any of those huh nope. Texas Nope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's big state.
Speaker 4: How many have we named, like forty three states?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Rhode Island Nope. There's a reason I'm bringing it up. Wisconsin, No,
Speaker 6: that was good to be my thought too, obviously, I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 4: Iowa, Kansas, South Dakosta, South Dakota three point nine three percent,
Speaker 4: North Dakota one point seven two percent. North Dakota has
Speaker 4: the least forest coverage in the United States. Does that
Speaker 4: makes sense? One, Yeah, if you've driven through it is
Speaker 4: nothing but telephone poles, right, don't they say that that's
Speaker 4: a tree, and a tree in North Dakota counts as
Speaker 4: a telephone pole. There's nothing there really one point seven
Speaker 4: to two percent forest coverage. And it's not a super
Speaker 4: small state, right, Like, I mean, it's got some land,
Speaker 4: no trees none.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's that that's a hard drive.
Speaker 5: I thought that, you know, Nebraska driving, driving across Nebraska
Speaker 5: is rough, but I.
Speaker 4: Think Nebraska's second to last by the way, three point
Speaker 4: two percent, is it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Nebraska might be worse than because at least, at
Speaker 5: least in the western part of both South Dakota and
Speaker 5: North Dakota, you have some of the you know, you
Speaker 5: have the bad lands, and you have like the geography
Speaker 5: changes by Nebraska's awful. It's nothing but just flat, flat,
Speaker 5: flat the whole way.
Speaker 6: Hey, I feel like we're on the birdcade right now
Speaker 6: talking about Ohio's voliage.
Speaker 4: I need sauce for here. I need sauce for that one.
Speaker 4: What foliage gurdy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We play Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: There, Mississippi State, Yeah, back to back there?
Speaker 3: Do we go home?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 4: We go there next year? Oh good, Yeah, that would
Speaker 4: be fun. We go there next year. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know nothing about that college, but that'd be fun.
Speaker 3: City Oxford.
Speaker 4: That's Starkfield, veg Vegas family's from, is it really Yeah?
Speaker 4: What a Mississippi? Oh yeah, Well do.
Speaker 6: You want to come on the trip because Darryl Thompson
Speaker 6: has family like fifteen minutes from there, and we basically
Speaker 6: want to spend the entire week there. Yeah, we locked
Speaker 6: it all down in Chicago, Big ten media days.
Speaker 4: You're probably related. Let's go on.
Speaker 5: So I don't know where he is in the depth chart,
Speaker 5: but you know, Steve Hutchinson's son is a tight end
Speaker 5: for Mississippi State?
Speaker 4: Is that right? Do not know that he is? He
Speaker 4: as nice as Steve?
Speaker 2: I don't imagine.
Speaker 5: So I've met him only a couple of times, but
Speaker 5: you know, he was a he was a shy teenager
Speaker 5: when I.
Speaker 4: Tall kid though, Ye, he had massive neck.
Speaker 5: I believe that he he was under recruited because he
Speaker 5: was sort of a late bloomer, Like I don't think
Speaker 5: he really grew into it.
Speaker 2: He's like a sophomore junior.
Speaker 4: But if you had to guess, now, how big is
Speaker 4: Steve Hutchinson's kid.
Speaker 5: Let's go, let's go six foot three, two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty pounds.
Speaker 3: That's a huge bitch, oh man.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it's good to see you guys.
Speaker 4: Good for you. Bet it's tough.
Speaker 7: Happened for you, and I'm I hope it goes just
Speaker 7: swimmingly for her. I hope she's living it up right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. There's only a handful of times in life where
Speaker 4: the excitement for somebody and the devastation is simultaneously the
Speaker 4: same amount, right where, because otherwise you're if it's a death,
Speaker 4: you're devastated, You're not excited for any you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like, there's very few times where this is
Speaker 4: a true overlap of I'm so proud of her, so excited,
Speaker 4: but you're gutting me at the exact same town. You know.
Speaker 5: I feel like we used we use the ratio or
Speaker 5: the percentage of eighty a lot. I feel like this
Speaker 5: is one of the situations where eighty percent, I'm so
Speaker 5: excited and happy and you know, proud of her and
Speaker 5: all that stuff, but then the twenty percent was just.
Speaker 4: Like devastating, got wrenchy.
Speaker 2: It's like just rip your soul out twenty percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, crazy, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 5: But you know what's crazy about this too, is like
Speaker 5: because of our phones and because of media. I mean,
Speaker 5: there's not really a reason why we should ever feel
Speaker 5: that disconnected. I mean, think about back in the day
Speaker 5: when we didn't have some of this stuff Like that's
Speaker 5: that was even worse.
Speaker 4: I was. I went weeks without talking to my parents
Speaker 4: during college. Right now, that seems so foreign to me,
Speaker 4: Like now I call my dad twice a day, but
Speaker 4: in college, it was like, why would I reach out
Speaker 4: to my dad in college?
Speaker 2: Phone?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Don't you have something to be doing?
Speaker 4: No? Not yet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, why aren't you call me on a Friday?
Speaker 3: Friends?
Speaker 4: Man? Yeah? Okay, that's that's Low's classic line, get some
Speaker 4: hose He just walks around Chicago City, goes to the
Speaker 4: bait store, right and tell us everybody before you go
Speaker 4: on the boat all day, go get some hosts, boats
Speaker 4: and hosts, boasts and hose.
Speaker 6: Man, let's cory up to probably getting host probably getting
Speaker 6: host all right, told them.
Speaker 4: Normally sasta sports, what one of us will walk us
Speaker 4: through that in a second, and then more with Ben
Speaker 4: Lieber and then yes.
Speaker 7: Don't forget Saint Paul Saints. Tomorrow's the Field Dream game
Speaker 7: and then dream. We didn't do the news, but that
Speaker 7: was that was our top story. Was been heading on
Speaker 7: down south. But don't forget Field of Dreams game tomorrow
Speaker 7: for your Saint Paul Saints. They'll be back at hs
Speaker 7: Field on the twenty fifth of August A.
Speaker 4: LOUA Goose will be here in a second, Adre Martin,
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Speaker 4: initials at eight fifteen quarter Final number eight. Only two
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Speaker 7: I know that, Honey, Thanks, Thanks sactly So Gersey's here
Speaker 7: and Ben is here. We got a cast of thousands
Speaker 7: coming in as well. Who else playing the day a game?
Speaker 4: Lou Ragoose Li'll be and Andre Martin and a couple
Speaker 4: of them should be here in a second. Yeh been,
Speaker 4: Zach's obviously already hear so quarterfinal number eight at eight fifteen,
Speaker 4: and a caller gets a shot at one hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty one, five hundred dollars. Now, Ben, you, I believe you.
Speaker 4: You got three right? You're in this wildcard mess wild card.
Speaker 4: We don't know what we're doing because the maximum spots
Speaker 4: is six and we already have seven. So by definition,
Speaker 4: somebody's getting cut. Maybe multiple people are getting cut. We
Speaker 4: have no idea what we're going to do. In T
Speaker 4: shirt con theoretics, calm down, sounds like that was last
Speaker 4: week at Auburn. Anyway, it's that Yeah, So we have
Speaker 4: to quickly brainstorm and figure out how we're going to
Speaker 4: do this because there's too many people. We don't know
Speaker 4: what we're gonna do. Any ideas since you're in that
Speaker 4: mix's fair?
Speaker 6: Maybe ask Gabbott. I know he loves to participate and
Speaker 6: loves the game. Yes, and by the way, we probably
Speaker 6: have some good ideas if Chad is listening.
Speaker 4: Initials as at a fifteen and we will do a
Speaker 4: Vegas construction update sometime during vikings, Yes, so we will
Speaker 4: hit all this. Is there a construction constantly yeah, we'll
Speaker 4: give you an update.
Speaker 5: I feel like leg wrestling might be a part of it.
Speaker 5: Wrestling okay, Yeah, that's good social content, it really is. Yeah, Zach,
Speaker 5: you can get a lot of different angles.
Speaker 6: Now Zach is aiming for three today, Yes, and that
Speaker 6: three is just gonna lay out like seeing a lot
Speaker 6: of ideas.
Speaker 4: People say the wheel spin, just like we do for
Speaker 4: the golf, but wheel spin is in play playing games.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think play more.
Speaker 6: I think do like multiple playing games one on one
Speaker 6: and the winner advances to the next tournament. Make a
Speaker 6: new bracket so you could do every single day. At
Speaker 6: eight fifteen, I.
Speaker 2: Would love the Initials Invitational Invitational.
Speaker 4: Yes, you get invited to the invite in the tase sception.
Speaker 6: Have it going to Viking season two, you know, like Monday,
Speaker 6: like first week Vikings packers.
Speaker 4: On a Monday, right, yeah, which is on a Monday. Right. Well,
Speaker 4: we don't need to talk about it for three and
Speaker 4: a half hours. We can take forty minute break and
Speaker 4: the play into the play in. It's brilliant. At eight
Speaker 4: o'clock we'll do a Vegas construction update. Then eight to fifteen,
Speaker 4: then we play Initials. They got two and a half
Speaker 4: hours of Vikings sock before that. That's plenty stamp it.
Speaker 4: Let's do it a nice balance.
Speaker 7: Need's time for a fan five on the Power Trip,
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Speaker 4: Speaking of Vegas, Yeah, baby, sure did you hear we're going?
Speaker 4: I did hear your going only for five days though? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Just the eighteenth through the twenty thirty.
Speaker 6: Sure, it seems a little light for the twenty fifth,
Speaker 6: but I'm happy for you guys.
Speaker 4: But again, it's something that all three shows besides the
Speaker 4: Powership Trip, should shoot for. Is it twenty five years straight?
Speaker 4: Is a big deal. We're celebrating it and you've earned it.
Speaker 4: You guys will get there, I think, and maybe you
Speaker 4: guys go on a trip in Vegas seems likely for us. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it seems like the right Democrats, the two of us.
Speaker 4: We'll just head out to.
Speaker 2: Be the best man. You'll make it a road trip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, what is it twenty ish to Vegas?
Speaker 4: Something like construction?
Speaker 3: I'm ridding the bus there?
Speaker 4: Fair didn't like it? Hey, Ben? Uh? The Vikings start
Speaker 4: their preseason Saturday, right, there's a weird way to get
Speaker 4: to Vikings football because we are going to do Vikings
Speaker 4: news in the next segment anyway, when everybody else shows up.
Speaker 4: But let me ask you a question, and this can
Speaker 4: be a short answer because it's an immediate follow up question.
Speaker 4: Does preseason football matter?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: It does? Okay, then here's part B. If it does matter,
Speaker 4: there's a very small sample size. Have you seen that
Speaker 4: in Arizona? Because what Carson Beck did last week? Already
Speaker 4: they're saying should he art over the newly signed Jacoby
Speaker 4: Brissett one year? What fifteen twenty million whatever it was?
Speaker 4: And Gardner Minshew, there's already people are going, well, if
Speaker 4: the preseason matters, the kid light it up. Let's put
Speaker 4: Carson back as the starter, not Jacoby Brissett or Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on Cardinals quarterback controversy on the fan, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, if we're going off just the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 4: I guess he looked good. I didn't see a second.
Speaker 2: He did it really good. I didn't watch most of it.
Speaker 5: I mean I saw most of the highlights and stuff
Speaker 5: like that, but he did seem like he operated the
Speaker 5: offense seamlessly and kind of on time.
Speaker 2: He looked he looked great.
Speaker 5: But I think we all know that it's playing like
Speaker 5: third stringers, and I know that he has third string
Speaker 5: offense that he's operating with as well. But I think
Speaker 5: it's a little easier in that in that situation to
Speaker 5: shine and look good. I don't want to totally discredit
Speaker 5: his performance, but you know, to say that he's going
Speaker 5: to overtake the incumbent and the guy that held out
Speaker 5: and the guy that played really well last year, and
Speaker 5: he has a lot more experience, I think pumped the brakes.
Speaker 4: All right, So then how about Saturday game number one
Speaker 4: for the Vikings. Does KOs need to announce anything before
Speaker 4: Saturday or what do we need to see on Saturday
Speaker 4: out of Kyler or JJDA No, No.
Speaker 5: I still think that I still think that he's got
Speaker 5: he has time. I put the timeline still at you know,
Speaker 5: probably the end of the second preseason game, going in
Speaker 5: that third preseason game, I think we'll probably hear an announcement.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of what I'm thinking, to give these
Speaker 5: guys a lot of time to operate, you know, for
Speaker 5: a full half in each of the games. You know,
Speaker 5: because especially after last night's practice, Kyler didn't look like
Speaker 5: he feels one hundred percent comfortable yet in this offense,
Speaker 5: and things didn't seem to be coming easy. The processing
Speaker 5: part of it didn't seem to be easy. A lot
Speaker 5: of things seemed clunky. So even in a practice setting,
Speaker 5: I think he's not He's not running away from this competition.
Speaker 5: So I think they want to see these guys on
Speaker 5: how they handle a very small game plan. Pull everything
Speaker 5: back a little bit, just get back to the basics,
Speaker 5: and say, Okay, we're not going to overload you with
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of offensive formations and a whole bunch
Speaker 5: of plays. Let's just see what it looks like. Just
Speaker 5: go out there and play football. And if that passes
Speaker 5: the eye test and looks really good, that I think
Speaker 5: that's something to build on. And that's really for both
Speaker 5: of them.
Speaker 4: All right, random football question for the two rooms. Did
Speaker 4: anybody see the photos of the Bills stadium over the
Speaker 4: weekend go viral? Yeah, because problems will look like Because
Speaker 4: I this is the state of social media in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six. When I first started seeing those photos, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is just somebody trolling with AI. This can't be real.
Speaker 4: It's a brand new, bazillion dollars stadium. There's no way.
Speaker 4: The obstructive view is like all over the place in
Speaker 4: the upper deck. And then it turns out, no, that's legit.
Speaker 4: Everybody was like, this stadium is designed terribly and it
Speaker 4: was getting ripped like crazy. That's always fun. You roll
Speaker 4: out a new stadium and it's universally hated. The strains
Speaker 4: are too small, the views are terrible. What's going on
Speaker 4: in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: I don't see how that happens. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: It's almost impossible, almost impossible. That's why I thought it
Speaker 4: was ai. I'm like, I'm getting controlled. This isn't real.
Speaker 4: Those screens are like people were comparing it to Kris
Speaker 4: those Gazebo TV, people who don't even know who that is.
Speaker 6: You know, in a.
Speaker 5: World where it seems like every stadium in a world
Speaker 5: every stadium, every stadium is going gigantic with their their screens.
Speaker 5: I mean to the point where I mean, you have, well,
Speaker 5: the Cowboys teams are twenty years old. Now, I mean,
Speaker 5: that's that's crazy. That's wild. That's a that's a wild
Speaker 5: At the time, that was a wild sized screen. Even
Speaker 5: now it's like, that's that's craziness. But that's where everybody
Speaker 5: was going, and then the Bills build this billion dollar
Speaker 5: stadium and they have obstructive views in a lot of places,
Speaker 5: and you don't even spend the money on it.
Speaker 4: They got like Roku TVs from Walmart and just threw
Speaker 4: them up there and said check out the game here.
Speaker 4: And again, I just can't even believe the obstructive view seats.
Speaker 4: People were seeing so many shots of Look at my view,
Speaker 4: I can only see like two thirds of the field.
Speaker 4: What is going on in Buffalo?
Speaker 6: Isn't the problems with the roof too, like keeping the
Speaker 6: I think it was raining, like keeping the rain out.
Speaker 6: They have like some kind of roof that apparently was
Speaker 6: not doing its job either.
Speaker 4: Is the goal? That's the best drop right now on
Speaker 4: the station.
Speaker 6: I love that way, besides whatever Molly Ringwald about to
Speaker 6: come up with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the best. Ben.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the last time we were in Buffalo
Speaker 3: for a game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, comeback game.
Speaker 7: What a cool old stadium that was. It felt like
Speaker 7: a giant high school football stadium. For them to place
Speaker 7: it with this monstrosity is really something, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 5: I know, I mean, if there was ever a time
Speaker 5: to use AI, don't you think the architects probably could
Speaker 5: have tapped into some sort of AI program and said,
Speaker 5: let's let's make sure that we have everything, all the
Speaker 5: details done. Do we have any obstructive views? Do we
Speaker 5: have anything engineering wise?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 2: I feel like this is where AI should really really work.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And what I don't get is if you if you
Speaker 4: want to remodel your living room, you can go to
Speaker 4: like a furniture store and they have a program that
Speaker 4: can give you a virtual tour of your hypothetical living room.
Speaker 4: How does nobody take a tour of this and go
Speaker 4: every view in the upper deck sucks? Ass like that.
Speaker 4: We can't do this. I can't build it, but they didn't.
Speaker 4: Is there anything better? Can go in? Too? Furniture stores
Speaker 4: and they have free cookies. Is it's just me? That's
Speaker 4: just you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And double trees, double trees. You can't good call.
Speaker 3: You can't think.
Speaker 4: I have a pretty basic life. I'm looking for free
Speaker 4: cookies at furniture stores. Hi, Andre Martin, good morning, How
Speaker 4: are you?
Speaker 9: Good morning?
Speaker 4: How's it going good? How about you? You like cookies
Speaker 4: at furniture stores? Sure?
Speaker 9: I mean I like cookies, and I do like furniture stores.
Speaker 9: I just don't know if I've ever experienced getting a cookie.
Speaker 4: At a furniture store. Oh you haven't, that's the wrong places.
Speaker 7: Rogers. They got some good sure good cookies tkies. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: by their all time for lunch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know when they come out of the oven.
Speaker 3: They're like that poor guy comes in here for cooking
Speaker 3: cell time.
Speaker 4: I wonder how many people they have turned away, say like,
Speaker 4: you've been in your sixty times, you've never bought anything.
Speaker 4: You're just here for the cookies.
Speaker 3: You come in here, you lay in our bed cookies.
Speaker 4: Wonder.
Speaker 2: Oh well, all right, yeah, all.
Speaker 4: Right, let's take a break. Let's get on on on
Speaker 4: path here. Lou Ragose should be here in a second.
Speaker 4: Aud is already here, Gerdsey's already here. The goose is
Speaker 4: on his way. Yeah, little Bee should be here shortly
Speaker 4: at eight to fifteen. Will play initials one five hundred
Speaker 4: dollars potentially after grabs as well. The guy on Friday
Speaker 4: got one letter was kind of close sounding on the
Speaker 4: second thought, we had a chance for a split secondy
Speaker 4: one two fifty. Maybe somebody wins a ton of money today.
Speaker 4: Powered your morning. Joe back after this on the fan, Oh,
Speaker 4: out of all of us, look at you. It's working.
Speaker 2: Look at you, Lou, are in the game, man.
Speaker 4: Good to see you, dude. Yeah, how are you good
Speaker 4: to be here? After?
Speaker 8: You know, listening to all the prior rounds here, I'm
Speaker 8: ready to go showed up.
Speaker 7: He's wearing the same thing he's wearing last Thursday when
Speaker 7: I saw him down.
Speaker 3: A trading cap.
Speaker 4: That's probably not far off.
Speaker 7: That's actually very Yeah, and look at you, Lou you're
Speaker 7: the best looks good man.
Speaker 4: If you want the job, you get addressed for the job.
Speaker 3: What job is that?
Speaker 2: It is initials champion?
Speaker 4: You did hear Friday's game? Correct? Because it might be
Speaker 4: rick fields versus the field. I don't know if anybody's
Speaker 4: gonna be able to beat him.
Speaker 8: Everyone needs to be worried about getting out of this
Speaker 8: first round and then it's go after Rick time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to be a handful. He's a problem,
Speaker 4: but you guys can worry about that later. Gersey is
Speaker 4: the only person who has ever won not named daj Monsieur. Right,
Speaker 4: so Gersey has been to the top of the mountain.
Speaker 4: He's he's going to be tough to beat as well. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I listened back on a lot of those I listened
Speaker 8: to the last few tournaments, and so I've put.
Speaker 6: In the reps at the top of the mountain. It's
Speaker 6: a long time ago. Yeah, I think I played once
Speaker 6: since then, since I won the tournament. Yeah, unlike, like
Speaker 6: that's why you guys were all in off of Rick.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Rick clearly plays every single day. It's not
Speaker 6: that impressive. He should be boat racing everybody. He plays
Speaker 6: every day at every bar, with every version at.
Speaker 4: Initials game dot com. He should get seven.
Speaker 6: I shouldn't have gotten any of my car ahead of Rick,
Speaker 6: and I did so anyway, a few.
Speaker 4: Matches as well, So.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good man. Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm going for a tie of a record.
Speaker 1: I guess I've won three in a row, and if
Speaker 1: I win today, that's four in a row and that
Speaker 1: ties AJ and S.
Speaker 4: Nobody's ever won. Gonna happen.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of quick brains in here.
Speaker 4: I do think it's another even matchup, though, I do
Speaker 4: think all five can win, and that's always fun when
Speaker 4: it's pretty even.
Speaker 7: Before we do all that, though, while we have been here,
Speaker 7: can I get some Vikings news and real quickly?
Speaker 8: Mind, it's time for Vikings news on The Power Trip
Speaker 8: presented by.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: I listened to the podcast with you and.
Speaker 7: That was yeah, and I heard you, uh last night
Speaker 7: as I was driving home talking about uh, who you
Speaker 7: like to call Chuck d Yeah, and you you tempered
Speaker 7: expectations a little bit, but that said, how great does
Speaker 7: this kid look? And how much fun is he to
Speaker 7: just observe becoming a pro in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Man, He's so much fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, He's really fun to watch because he brings the
Speaker 5: attitude that you want.
Speaker 2: You know, he's just like fun loving.
Speaker 5: You know, you're hearing Josh Mittelis talk about him like
Speaker 5: that's he just bounces around with this this exuberance. He
Speaker 5: he has a lot of like little sayings that he
Speaker 5: has for everybody. And he's I don't know, he's he
Speaker 5: is like a he's a really refreshing personality and then
Speaker 5: he goes out there and kind of backs it up.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, watching watching his college film and
Speaker 5: then watching him at practice, it is it's really nice
Speaker 5: to see how everything is translated.
Speaker 2: We know that he's a freak of all freaks physically.
Speaker 5: I believe that he.
Speaker 2: Tested in the top was a tenth tenth in the.
Speaker 5: Relative athletics score out of like two thousand some defensive
Speaker 5: backs you know, in the in the in the last
Speaker 5: you know, several years. Anyway, he's got he's freakish explosiveness.
Speaker 5: He's a very patient, very patient player, which I think
Speaker 5: is very rare for a rookie, because you know, a
Speaker 5: lot of rookies just feel like your your hair's on fire,
Speaker 5: you're drinking out of the fire hose, you're doing all
Speaker 5: those all those things, and and you just feel like
Speaker 5: you're your head's on a swivel, trying to figure everything
Speaker 5: out and trying to see everything.
Speaker 2: And I think because he relies.
Speaker 5: On his athletic abilities so much, he's very patient with
Speaker 5: his footwork. He doesn't get a you know, over a
Speaker 5: skis at all. You know, he doesn't seem st when
Speaker 5: he's out there. He can just make plays and rely
Speaker 5: on that quickness, that short, airy quickness to break up plays.
Speaker 5: He he looks like a savvy vet already, which is
Speaker 5: really crazy to see. I don't think that he's going
Speaker 5: to crack the starting lineup by any means, but it's
Speaker 5: nice to see that we've we've got a guy, We've
Speaker 5: got a dude, right now that he keeps going like this,
Speaker 5: he's he's gonna make.
Speaker 2: A lot of plays for us.
Speaker 4: All right, speaking of not cracking the starting lineup, And
Speaker 4: maybe this is why I haven't heard of him at all.
Speaker 4: But uh ngourage, you've probably seen this guy play a bunch.
Speaker 4: I don't know much you watch him, but we'll see
Speaker 4: tackle tackle. Caleb Tiernan, the third rounder out of Northwestern
Speaker 4: or his meat saw says north Western. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 4: heard one thing about this kid now. Again, maybe it's
Speaker 4: because we have Brian o'nealan and Christian Darisa, so it's
Speaker 4: like he's not a factor, but he's a third rounder.
Speaker 4: My guess is they think highly of him for the future.
Speaker 4: Do you know anything about Tiernan yet? Through a handful
Speaker 4: of days, you know, I wish I did. I don't,
Speaker 4: And that's that's kind of par for the course. I mean,
Speaker 4: outside Donovan Jackson last year, I mean, nobody really watched
Speaker 4: the offensive line, and.
Speaker 2: We have so many other storylines to watch.
Speaker 5: I think most of their crowd last night was probably
Speaker 5: watching what the quarterbacks are doing at all times, even
Speaker 5: in some of the fundamental stuff. You know, I do
Speaker 5: like to watch the pass rushers, and you know, the
Speaker 5: offensive defensive lineman go at each other that's on one
Speaker 5: side of the field and the offenses on the other
Speaker 5: side of the field doing stuff. I bet you there's
Speaker 5: only a few eyeballs watching those guys. You Know who
Speaker 5: I was actually really impressed with, since we're talking about
Speaker 5: those guys, is the vandermart guy that we picked up.
Speaker 5: He's a Vet, but he plays left tackle. He is
Speaker 5: sort of like a spitting image of Brian O'Neil. He's big, tall,
Speaker 5: you know, six foot six, six foot seven, yes, exactly,
Speaker 5: very light on his feet, very athletic. He held down
Speaker 5: that left tackle spot with Darasol taking a break last night,
Speaker 5: and I was like, really, I was like, okay, all right,
Speaker 5: if Drisol goes down or you know, one of these guys,
Speaker 5: one of our tackles goes down, like I feel like
Speaker 5: we can trusts this guy, know because he's a Vet,
Speaker 5: but he this He looks very smooth out there and
Speaker 5: long arms.
Speaker 2: He's a big je.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I got kind of excited about him from.
Speaker 7: A from a backup perspective, speaking of big dudes. I
Speaker 7: didn't think it was possible. Eric Wilson looks bigger. He's
Speaker 7: the most studley person I've ever seen in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 7: what are your thoughts on Caleb Banks so far?
Speaker 2: You know, he took a break last night as well.
Speaker 5: But from everything that I've heard from like everybody that's
Speaker 5: at these practices, like he's he's the real deal, he's
Speaker 5: the real deal, he's healthy, he fits this scheme. I
Speaker 5: don't think that right now, there's there's nothing negative or
Speaker 5: concerning about his his development. So all all positive, all
Speaker 5: great things, great personality. Guys love him, staff loves him.
Speaker 5: So yeah, seems like right now like a home run pick.
Speaker 7: You guys spoke about somebody I brought up to these
Speaker 7: guys last week on your podcast, which is.
Speaker 5: Called Oh down the Horn. I thought you're going, yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah the horn? Yes, Sorry, wasn't falling along, Gavin Bartholomew. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So he's he's a tight end. He was hurt last
Speaker 5: year because of a back injury, and he's another one
Speaker 5: of these like big, big, physical, imposing guys six foot five,
Speaker 5: two d and fifty five pers and they're very excited
Speaker 5: what he can do. He's certainly pushing for that number
Speaker 5: three spot at the tight end area. They apparently he's
Speaker 5: he is catching everything great catch radius, soft hands, and
Speaker 5: then they're like, man, for a guy that's six foot five,
Speaker 5: he can bend, he's got he's got some softness to
Speaker 5: his lower body, he's got some swivel to him. So
Speaker 5: they're very excited about him as a pass catcher. And again,
Speaker 5: just add another weapon to this offense. I don't know
Speaker 5: where they going to put all these guys because Miles
Speaker 5: Price apparently is killing it as well.
Speaker 2: Nobody's talking about Miles Price.
Speaker 5: A lot of talk about ty Felton, which they should
Speaker 5: because he's made a lot of plays, but they said
Speaker 5: one of the more guardable guys in the passing situation
Speaker 5: the pass game is Miles Price, Like he is getting
Speaker 5: separation every time he's on the field. And so you
Speaker 5: add that short, quick underneath guy, that dynamic. You got
Speaker 5: ty Felton running down the field with his vertical speed,
Speaker 5: along with Addison and JJ and Juwan. I mean, there's
Speaker 5: only one football. It seems like we got a lot
Speaker 5: of offensive weapons right now.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna toss it to him?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I think everybody.
Speaker 5: I mean, as of last night, if you're just watching
Speaker 5: just the competition last night in a vacuum, you would
Speaker 5: say McCarthy won the whole battle. He had some he said,
Speaker 5: had some low spots I think in the second half
Speaker 5: of practice, but then he picked it up again. A
Speaker 5: great throw in the two minute drill down the right sideline,
Speaker 5: another great throw to the left side line, and then
Speaker 5: kind of sputtered out from there.
Speaker 2: They couldn't punch the ball in the end zone.
Speaker 5: But he was the most consistent player making I think
Speaker 5: the toughest and tightest throws. Last night, Kyler made a
Speaker 5: couple throws, made a couple of plays.
Speaker 2: I should say.
Speaker 5: He had a great touchdown strike to Addison in one
Speaker 5: of the team periods, but that was like a that
Speaker 5: wasn't even like a progression read. It was like, okay,
Speaker 5: Addison's on the backside of this formation. He ran a skinny,
Speaker 5: little slant post. He was clearly the number one read.
Speaker 5: He threw it in there touchdown, and then he scrambled
Speaker 5: for a rushing touchdown later on. That was about it.
Speaker 5: Everything else seemed clunky for Kyler. It just doesn't seem
Speaker 5: like a smooth operation for him yet. If it's an
Speaker 5: immediate read, yes he can make the throw. If he's
Speaker 5: going to run through a progression, especially against his defense
Speaker 5: right now. It just seems very hesitant and very like
Speaker 5: a reactionary thrower right now, which is not a great suit.
Speaker 3: Are you concerned?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I mean we're at a point in practice.
Speaker 5: I mean he's still half in the reps, so I
Speaker 5: understand that, and we're going against what I think is
Speaker 5: a top five defense. I mean, they looked fantastic last night,
Speaker 5: so I want to give him a little bit of grace,
Speaker 5: both he and JJ. But yeah, I am a little
Speaker 5: concerned just from the prom assessing speed for both of
Speaker 5: these guys.
Speaker 4: Well damn all right. That was Viking's News, presented by Radco.
Speaker 4: Radco also brings you Vegas construction updates and according to AI,
Speaker 4: twenty eight of the forty two stories have been finished
Speaker 4: for the hard Rock Hotel. So for Lou and Audren
Speaker 4: guarazing everybody listening, Yeah, twenty eight of the forty two
Speaker 4: apparently done. The target still remains opening in twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 4: the hard Rock Target they probably will probably, And it
Speaker 4: says the A's Ballpark is right on pace. Steel stud
Speaker 4: framing and roof trust preparations are moving swiftly and still
Speaker 4: on pace.
Speaker 3: Potarget business.
Speaker 4: I was trying to frame work. Still looking at a
Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight opening. So everything's on pace, same architect
Speaker 4: as the bills used, right, I believe. So, yes, they
Speaker 4: get the nice there's your Vegas construction update, Lou. You
Speaker 4: don't seem like a Vegas guy. I don't mean that
Speaker 4: in a mean way. I've only been a couple of times. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we got to change that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to get you out there and make
Speaker 3: some mistakes.
Speaker 4: But od Vegas. Yes, no, yes, okay, Yeah, welcome aboard, Lou.
Speaker 7: We're gonna take you out there and you're gonna have
Speaker 7: to do a documentary about yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How I was going to get what we have vanished
Speaker 4: in Venetia. Could have just done Vegas.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, he went at yeah right right, Audre. I
Speaker 7: didn't realize you were a sideline reported for the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4: Back in the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Who was there when you were doing that? Who was
Speaker 7: was it? Are we talking what this quarterbacks name?
Speaker 3: Helped me out there? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well my first year is Locker.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow.
Speaker 9: And then they drafted Marcus Mariota. I was there, so
Speaker 9: that was cool. That was a good time. But yeah,
Speaker 9: that was like the Ken Wizon hunt Era the good
Speaker 9: chunk of it. Yeah, so I'm trying to think that
Speaker 9: would have been my first year, would have been twenty twelve.
Speaker 9: I think I was.
Speaker 4: Gonna say, that's dangerous to guess it, Like, were you
Speaker 4: on the sidelines for Warren Moons? That's never good the
Speaker 4: guests my first year was Marriota.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 4: I wonder what Jake Locker is doing now because he's
Speaker 4: selling houses.
Speaker 9: He was just kind of relaxing from Washington, right. For
Speaker 9: some reason, somebody said that, you know, he has a
Speaker 9: lot of land out there, has some animals, just kind
Speaker 9: of relaxing. That was the last I heard.
Speaker 2: That's an early retirement man. Yeah, he was in the
Speaker 2: league very long.
Speaker 4: According to AI first round pick. Take that for what
Speaker 4: it's worth. He lives in Washington, where he co owns
Speaker 4: a local fitness center and focuses on his family. The
Speaker 4: Locker Room, Oh genius, is that right? Is that the
Speaker 4: actual name?
Speaker 3: I don't know, say it's really good.
Speaker 4: Yep, that's exactly what it's called. He the Locker Room
Speaker 4: Fitness center in Ferndale, Washington, along with a former NFL punter,
Speaker 4: Michael Conan. Canaan you know that who that has been
Speaker 4: k O E N E n. However he pronounced that.
Speaker 4: It's literally called the locker room fitness center.
Speaker 3: Well done.
Speaker 4: You have to Yeah, you kind of have to do.
Speaker 4: You kind of have to.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 6: Do you think he did like a weekly segment on
Speaker 6: kJ R there radio station, called the locker room, like
Speaker 6: every his whole life has been the locker room.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good for him. I think he made He was
Speaker 4: supposed to be like the next big thing, right that.
Speaker 4: The ceiling for Jake Locker was through the roof. It
Speaker 4: was supposed to be really hot.
Speaker 9: He ran into some tough injuries, and then we had
Speaker 9: Charlie Whitehurst.
Speaker 3: Remember your name, Jesse Jack.
Speaker 4: Menburger Mettenburger, Yeah you guy, right, yep?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow man, Holy NFL players come and go, don't they? Holy? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the Ponder draft Jake Locker,
Speaker 6: that's right.
Speaker 4: Twenty eleven. Yeah, first round pick. He made a lot
Speaker 4: of money. It looks like you just had the one
Speaker 4: deal though, right, four years, twelve point five million with
Speaker 4: the Titans. Seven point six I named enough for one
Speaker 4: locker room. I can't franchise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be better.
Speaker 8: Be successful if they're drafting high enough to get Mariota
Speaker 8: a couple of years later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're not good.
Speaker 5: Now they got a new stadium too, Let's see if
Speaker 5: they maybe hopefully they didn't use the bills architect man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still can't believe it.
Speaker 7: Ben, Yeah, do you have any idea, any feeling, any idea?
Speaker 7: I know, probably not this week get the Giants. But
Speaker 7: how much do you think the quarterbacks will play in
Speaker 7: these preseason games?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I hope a lot. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: got to be honest. I mean I don't think there's
Speaker 5: what do you have to lose? Really, I mean, you
Speaker 5: don't have a lot of money invested in Kyler. I
Speaker 5: would like to see them go out there with a
Speaker 5: not a huge game or a playbook, but maybe more
Speaker 5: than other years, Like give them a little something to
Speaker 5: chew on. And I know that they're not gonna have
Speaker 5: probably not gonna have Darris out there. Probably there's gonna
Speaker 5: be a handful of starters that aren't going to be playing.
Speaker 2: But I want to see what these guys do.
Speaker 5: I would love to see they each get a half
Speaker 5: in each one of these first two preseason games and
Speaker 5: then you know, especially the joint practices that are going
Speaker 5: to happen next week. I mean that's going to be huge.
Speaker 5: So how they perform and basically those three preseason games,
Speaker 5: I think that's that's what I'd like to see.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I said this a week ago, and I get my
Speaker 4: words don't have magical abilities. This is not manifesting. And
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, watch us go like months and months
Speaker 4: and months and months talking about these two fighting and
Speaker 4: how much time they should get in preseason games and
Speaker 4: snaps at practice and who's QB one? And he watch
Speaker 4: one of them get hurt and then the debate's just over.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you what the debate is going to
Speaker 7: be after the game on Saturday, is, uh, why isn't
Speaker 7: Carson wins the quarterback because you know he's going to
Speaker 7: get a bunch of play in this preseason some of
Speaker 7: these games.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I don't know, man, you don't think so really again,
Speaker 5: like going with my guns or what am I? I
Speaker 5: guess my hopes you don't have a gut. I don't
Speaker 5: know if Carson gets a lot of reps. I don't
Speaker 5: even know if he got much many reps.
Speaker 4: Last night, So until the battle is at least settled, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think they just want to win this battle well
Speaker 4: Kyler Kyler, I think.
Speaker 5: Every I think that's why it's slanted towards Kyler because
Speaker 5: you want to see what he looks like. You we've
Speaker 5: seen what JJ can look like. Now, whether it's fair
Speaker 5: unfair to move on from it, but you you have
Speaker 5: this dynamic quarterback that did a lot of special things
Speaker 5: in Arizona. Don't you want to see what it looks like,
Speaker 5: at least for us. So, like I think we all
Speaker 5: understand that it's going to be Kyler's job. It's just
Speaker 5: how much confidence do we have against the Packers with
Speaker 5: him as a starting quarterback based on how he plays
Speaker 5: in the preseason. I mean, if you asked me from
Speaker 5: last night, not a ton. I mean, didn't play that well.
Speaker 5: But he still has some time to figure it out.
Speaker 5: And like I said, you're you're running into a buzzsaw,
Speaker 5: especially early in camp going against this defense, and every
Speaker 5: and every team is going through the same thing. Defense
Speaker 5: always always has the advantage early in camp, so it's
Speaker 5: no surprise that some of these quarterbacks struggle.
Speaker 7: Then if you have your number, potentially number one quarterback
Speaker 7: playing a lot in the preseason Game one. By definition,
Speaker 7: do you have a lot of your starting offense playing
Speaker 7: in game one?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: I think you still have to be strategic about who
Speaker 5: you play out there. I mean, I would not imagine
Speaker 5: that Jefferson is going to play at all.
Speaker 7: Sure, but the offensive line, you I mean, you don't
Speaker 7: want them out there with a makeshift offensive line.
Speaker 2: No, you really you don't, You really don't.
Speaker 5: But that's why I feel pretty I feel pretty good
Speaker 5: about a lot of our backups. And you're not going
Speaker 5: to see You're not going to see Brian Burns. You're
Speaker 5: not going to see You're not going to see this
Speaker 5: rock star defensive front. I think for the Giants, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe for a series or two, because you know, they
Speaker 5: have a new new coaching staff. They want to break
Speaker 5: in some guys as well. They want to see what
Speaker 5: they what they've got. They got to set a tempo
Speaker 5: and all that stuff with their new coaching staff. So
Speaker 5: you might see a little bit of that, but you're
Speaker 5: not going to get the giants best you know, front seven,
Speaker 5: which is really good, So it'll be kind of bad.
Speaker 2: Ups on backups, got it all right?
Speaker 4: Ben? You out of here. Yeah, I'm out of here
Speaker 4: a right. Good to see you guys.
Speaker 2: Good luck to you guys, and see you on Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: see you guys are right.
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