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Speaker 3: in with Shane in Minneapolis. Shane, welcome to Vikings fan line.

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Speaker 4: And there, how's it going.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful day, my friend? What do you got?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, beautiful day, School of Vikes winning the last game

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Speaker 4: of the year, and I don't care about uh us

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Speaker 4: maybe dropping in the draft. I want to end the

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Speaker 4: season on a good note, especially for our boys Arres

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Speaker 4: and Smith and c j M. Yeah, but more importantly

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Speaker 4: or stannpoint, I guess question for you guys. I was

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Speaker 4: just listening to Koc his little post game interview and

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Speaker 4: not gonna lie, he kind of dodged the question about

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Speaker 4: the commentators there on k Fan kind of say that too.

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Speaker 4: But I guess just my question would be, if you

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Speaker 4: guys they're just what are you guys thoughts on JJ

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Speaker 4: McCarthy in the quarterback position as a whole, because uh,

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Speaker 4: we got some moves we've gotta make, and I'm not

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Speaker 4: gonna sit here and hate on KOC and Quacy and

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Speaker 4: all them, but we did kind of go into the

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Speaker 4: we were kind of sloppy in terms of backup quarterback

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Speaker 4: position until the very end when we got Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 4: So I've been saying it for a little while now.

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Speaker 4: He definitely need to have the quality backup quarterback. For example,

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Speaker 4: I love me some Sean Hill back in the day,

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Speaker 4: but like he's not. He was in the he was

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Speaker 4: in a top tier backup quarterback, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, not only be Yeah, so we gotta we

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Speaker 4: gotta have a quality quarterback. But I'm definitely not on

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Speaker 4: the bandwagon of Jaj McCarthy being a bus and whatnot.

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Speaker 4: I think, I mean, he's only played ten started ten

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 3: Shane entering the fold now Fox Nine's finest go for

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Speaker 3: as Shane was was kind of asking, and I don't

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Speaker 3: know how much of the KO presser you heard while

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Speaker 3: you were simultaneously doing Fox nine work, but the question was,

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Speaker 3: I mean, clearly it's a question to answer and or

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Speaker 3: pondering around bouncing in our heads throughout the offseason.

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Speaker 2: What up with JJ? Right and year one, it's the knee.

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Speaker 3: Year two, three different sustained injuries, leaving the lost time.

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Speaker 3: He even leaves today's game a little early, so still

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Speaker 3: in his hand, and he was a KAO, was asked about,

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Speaker 3: you know, is JJ your starter? And of obviously he's

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Speaker 3: kind of moved on talking about you know, JJ's progression

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Speaker 2: It's consolation seasons. So we're loving CJ.

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Speaker 3: Ham getting into the end zone, loving Justin Jefferson, third

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Speaker 2: But what does that look like?

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Speaker 3: Where's your head at with all of that as we

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if it was Peyton Manning, Drew Brees,

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Speaker 6: you name the list, right, they acts, this's your starting

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Speaker 6: the answer is not yes. So what is the answer.

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Speaker 6: It's everything he said. I think without saying it, he's

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Speaker 2: Has some stuff to work on.

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Speaker 6: Justin Jefferson said, he I think what Friday I think

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Speaker 6: when he talked to the media, you know, he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: of course I want to have a better season. Of

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Speaker 6: course I love for JJ to be the quarterback, but

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Speaker 6: right even today, you know, Jordan Adison wide open on

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Speaker 2: The end zone.

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Speaker 6: He threw it on time, he just threw it too

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Speaker 6: hard Like that same throw timing wise was great. Now

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Speaker 6: he's going to watch back on tape because there was

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Speaker 6: no reason to throw a fastball there. But again that's

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Speaker 6: answer is, no, he's not the starting quarterback, but he's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's it's difficult too just looking.

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Speaker 3: At this where Okay, so what does raising the level

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kirk Cousins could come back.

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Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, things like that, And there's there's much time

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Speaker 3: Just at this stage, it doesn't look like the right name,

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Speaker 3: potentially the guaranteed name. If you're thinking veteran competitor that's

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Speaker 3: temper those expectations. We'll continue the JJ conversation here with

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Speaker 3: Jerry and Chicago Lakes. Jerry, Welcome to Vikings fan line.

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Speaker 7: Hey, how you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing wonderful, Jerry.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just finishing up the ice fishy day, drinking

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Speaker 7: a couple of golden lights. Just watch the Vikings just

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Speaker 7: pissed on the guys from up up in Green Bay.

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Speaker 7: Nothing better at school, Vikes, skull Vikes.

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Speaker 2: What do you got?

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Speaker 7: I'm just curious about JJ. I know you guys were

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Speaker 7: just chatting about him, but what do you think How

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Speaker 7: long do you think you give the guy? I mean,

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Speaker 7: he's a young guy, but do you think there's any

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Speaker 7: future with him or the team? I think you kind

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Speaker 7: of gotta maybe start moving some pieces around if you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate the question. Jerry twenty twenty six. What

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Speaker 3: do you think, Ron? I mean, I just feel like

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Speaker 3: at this stage, I know he's young, and that's been

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Speaker 3: part of the ongoing conversation is just remember he's twenty two,

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Speaker 3: and there's there's credence to that.

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Speaker 2: I truly believe that.

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Speaker 3: But in the same sense, sometimes players might have more

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Speaker 2: And that's actually that's a talker I've.

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Speaker 3: Seen kind of bandied about a bit, and I tend

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Speaker 3: to agree with that from the idea that it's JJ's

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Speaker 3: career is still very young and he has the right

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Speaker 3: team a year ago who many had written off, has

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Speaker 3: to jump around to a couple places, wins a fair

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Speaker 3: number of games with us. A year ago, he just

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Speaker 3: secured the one seed out West. Yeah, I'm sure there

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Speaker 3: are a number of people three four years ago like Donald.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I remember again Paul Charchion's emotional diet tribe,

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Speaker 2: Charge I have to say about that, since you know

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Speaker 3: You know, moments are fleeting, he probably forgot that had

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Speaker 3: the right to grow and evolve. But in terms of

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Speaker 3: And so I guess just I'm shooting from the lip

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Speaker 2: As we end the season, it feels.

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Speaker 3: Like next year kid has to show absolute progress. Kid

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Speaker 3: has to show just almost as important as his ability,

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Speaker 2: Like this is a massive, massive year for McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So I'm going to go back to on my soapbox

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Speaker 6: about quarterbacks period. Young quarterbacks in the NFL some struggle

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Speaker 6: based off their college, right, because colleges oftentimes try to

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Speaker 6: make it so easy on the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: The quarterbacks never grow.

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Speaker 6: They win and they get you to the national Championship,

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Speaker 6: they win big to en championship, they win SEC championships.

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Speaker 6: But that whole like Florida thing, right, the check with

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Speaker 6: me is at Florida, they're all checking with their coach.

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Speaker 2: The entire team. Quarterback's not doing anything.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: You look at Northwestern, they used to do that, Oregon

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Speaker 2: used to do that.

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Speaker 6: Now college football is allowing quarterback to have a microphone

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Speaker 6: in a headset. So now it's more NFL style. I

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Speaker 6: think that had to change. You had to give the

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Speaker 6: you know, drinking from a fire hose when they get

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Speaker 6: to the NFL. The problem is Jaj McCarthy was in

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Speaker 6: a program that helped him.

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Speaker 2: Out a ton.

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Speaker 6: Conner stallions, but they did help him out a ton. Right,

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Speaker 6: So now when you're when you have to do it

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Speaker 3: I just think it's very difficult, And I think if

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if you think about a thirty percent increase, one,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking a lot, aren't I He's still on this stage.

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Speaker 6: You've got twelve interceptions in there. You got to cut

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Speaker 6: You just thought he should be three thousand yards. Could

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Speaker 6: But what does that look like? Is that twenty interceptions

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Speaker 2: I just don't know how much time he would have.

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Speaker 3: But I'm pretty sure that was a conversation like, hey man,

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Speaker 3: Ron Johnson's here on Nordo. This is Minnesota Vikings Football.

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Speaker 2: Is the radio home of the Minnesota Vikings. Boom F

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Vikings fan Line.

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Speaker 3: Vikings wins sixteen to three over the visiting Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 3: And after the game, I believe Ben Lieber got the

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Speaker 3: He got to his thousand yards receiving I believe Mike Evans,

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Speaker 8: Thanks, a lot of you guys were down in the

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Speaker 5: And you accomplished it.

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Speaker 9: It was a goal that I wanted to achieve, and

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Speaker 8: and you're playing against him and you see the nuance

443
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Speaker 8: of his game. What has he taught you both on

444
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Speaker 8: and off the field about this game?

445
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Speaker 5: Sure, it's so much.

446
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Speaker 9: You know, he's not really a guy that really talks much,

447
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,880
Speaker 9: but he leads by example. You know, he leads by

448
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 9: going out there and just going what he needed to

449
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,040
Speaker 9: do to get the job done. And to play fourteen

450
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Speaker 9: seasons at his position for one team is very hard

451
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Speaker 9: to do. So it's definitely kudos to him for leading

452
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Speaker 9: this organization, leading this team, uh to too many wins,

453
00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 9: many turnovers that he has gotten. But I mean it's

454
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Speaker 9: respect as always, respect and love towards him.

455
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Speaker 5: And what he has done for us.

456
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Speaker 8: Well, it's that respect and love that I think everybody showed.

457
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 8: All the fans and the people in the stadium showed

458
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Speaker 8: him today along with CJ. Ham I mean, it was

459
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 8: a pretty special moment that they both had an opportunity

460
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,640
Speaker 8: to get that love from the fans. When you think

461
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 8: about C. J. Hamm and what he means to this organization,

462
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,560
Speaker 8: what do you think about he.

463
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Speaker 9: Means more than than what people really think, you know,

464
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 9: just his journey, his story of how he got here,

465
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Speaker 9: how he's been in this on his team, in the mix.

466
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Speaker 10: Uh.

467
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Speaker 9: You know, it's not too many football fullbacks that's in

468
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,920
Speaker 9: the league uh nowadays. But for for him to still

469
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 9: be in a mix getting a touchdown today, Uh, that

470
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 9: that that means a lot. I know, it means a

471
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Speaker 9: lot to him as well. Uh for his family, you know,

472
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Speaker 9: for for for his uh, for his people, it means

473
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Speaker 9: a lot. So I'm just happy to be a part

474
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Speaker 9: of it, happy to to know him, happy to you know,

475
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Speaker 9: be friends with them and have a relationship with him.

476
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Speaker 5: Uh. But love brother always.

477
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Speaker 9: But Uh, he's definitely a guy that you know, I

478
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Speaker 9: gotta keep you know, on close.

479
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Speaker 1: Uh.

480
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Speaker 5: Fans fans doll.

481
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Speaker 9: So Uh, I mean he's he's a great human being,

482
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 9: he's a great player. Uh, and I'm honest to play

483
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Speaker 9: with him.

484
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Speaker 8: You guys, like you mentioned, finished the season five straight

485
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Speaker 8: run wins. You guys have a lot of injuries, a

486
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Speaker 8: lot of offensive line issues, a quarterback situation that was

487
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 8: a carousel as well, and you guys managed to come

488
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Speaker 8: out here with a winning record. What does it potentially

489
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Speaker 8: say about the free agents that will probably come in

490
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Speaker 8: here and take a look at the Minnesota Vikings, the

491
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Speaker 8: draft picks that will inevitably get picked up by the

492
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Speaker 8: Minnesota Vikings. Like, what does that say today about what

493
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Speaker 8: they're going to experience here in a couple of months.

494
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Speaker 5: Oh, it means a lot.

495
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Speaker 9: It means that this fight is I mean this this

496
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 9: team doesn't give up easily. You know, we fighting to

497
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Speaker 9: the last go around, you know, And just what we've

498
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 9: been putting on tape for the last five weeks, we

499
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Speaker 9: got a lot of potential, a lot of things.

500
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Speaker 5: That it's good to look at. But the work needs

501
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Speaker 5: to continue, you know.

502
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Speaker 9: Of course, teaming up with JJ and off season team,

503
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 9: teaming up with a couple of these receivers in the

504
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 9: off season, getting the connection down, of course, growing the relationship.

505
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Speaker 9: But you know, there's a lot to get done for

506
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Speaker 9: this upcoming year. I'm excited. I'm excited to go to

507
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Speaker 9: work and see what we do this upcoming season.

508
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Speaker 8: All right, last question for you. What beach are your

509
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Speaker 8: toes going to be in here in about a week

510
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Speaker 8: or two?

511
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 9: Sure is any beach I can find with some sunshine,

512
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 9: with some sunshine, some good weather.

513
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Speaker 5: I'm definitely looking forward to it.

514
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Speaker 9: It's been a long season emotionally, physically, so I'm definitely

515
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Speaker 9: ready to get to it.

516
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Speaker 8: Hey man, congratulations on everything this year, the thousand yards

517
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 8: being the most impressive team leader that this team needed.

518
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 8: In those moments. It showed, I think to everybody how

519
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 8: much you've matured and where you've come with your growth.

520
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 8: So I think everybody just wants to say thank you

521
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Speaker 8: for being the man that you are, for being the

522
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Speaker 8: superstar that you are, and being the humble superstar that

523
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Speaker 8: you are.

524
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Speaker 5: Man, have a great offseason. Thank you all much respect.

525
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Speaker 3: That's Ben Leber with Justin Jefferson and actually we're just

526
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Speaker 3: going to jump right into the phone lines here and

527
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 3: continue Vikings fan line. Vikings Victorious sixteen to three, balancing

528
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 3: the leadership plus the production getting over the thousand yard

529
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 3: humped today in some ways it's silver lining season for

530
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Speaker 3: your nine to eight non playoff bound Vikings. But Justin

531
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Speaker 3: Jefferson with Ben Lieber leads us to Garland in Cannon Falls, Garland.

532
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Speaker 3: Welcome to Vikings fan line.

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Speaker 7: Hey, how are you guys?

534
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Speaker 2: Wonderful? Thank you.

535
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Speaker 11: I got kind of a two parter. First one to

536
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Speaker 11: start out by saying how appreciative as a fan I

537
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Speaker 11: am of Justin Jefferson in a game that doesn't matter

538
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 11: at all to go out there and play like that.

539
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Speaker 11: But at the second time or second point, I guess,

540
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Speaker 11: is McCarthy, do you think that the Wilfs are gonna

541
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Speaker 11: tell KOC the show us some film that says what

542
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Speaker 11: we have coming for us next year, because it's hard

543
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Speaker 11: to have too much hope going into twenty twenty six,

544
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Speaker 11: that's for sure. I'll hang up and listen to you guys,

545
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Speaker 11: and thanks.

546
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Speaker 5: For the year.

547
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, I appreciate it.

548
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder how I mean the Wolfs by my

549
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 3: recollection and by my experience. Have you know part of

550
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Speaker 3: I think why most coaches have appreciated working for the

551
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 3: Wolfs is Mark and Ziggy for the most part, have

552
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 3: been hands off. Now they're aware, they're present, whether it's

553
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Speaker 3: weekly meetings and conversations.

554
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Speaker 2: Always up to date on things.

555
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Speaker 3: But as far as I can remember, I've I've never

556
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Speaker 3: heard about, you know, behind the scenes, just a darkness

557
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 3: like Ziggy or Mark getting on the phone with XYZ

558
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: coach and making mandates or digging too deeply into.

559
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Speaker 2: The football side of things.

560
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 3: But this again the importance of what twenty twenty six means,

561
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Speaker 3: not just for Kevin O'Connell, Quasia del Famenza and the

562
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Speaker 3: decision makers with this squad, but for McCarthy's career and

563
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 3: having to see you know again, beauty's in the eye

564
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 3: of the beholder. I suppose I felt really good about

565
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Speaker 3: some things that I saw more recently from the kid QB,

566
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Speaker 3: but still so much ambiguity and unknown with what we

567
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Speaker 3: can expect as a new standard, what we can expect

568
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Speaker 3: on a week by week basis.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine that the.

570
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Speaker 3: Wilson are going to be involved very much so in

571
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Speaker 3: conversations this offseason, not necessarily about mandates and swinging gavels,

572
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Speaker 3: but they're going to be apprized of every decision that

573
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Speaker 3: comes forth out of the those that make said decisions

574
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Speaker 3: in Egan.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean even you know, you look at you know,

576
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Speaker 6: Jim Irsey's daughter, you know what she's doing now. Like

577
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Speaker 6: I think more our owners are trying to figure out,

578
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 6: Like Jerry. I don't think anybody's gonna go full on

579
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 6: Jerry Jones, you know, just take over the GM role

580
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 6: and say this is my team. But I think when

581
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Speaker 6: you talk about billions of dollars, you know, these new

582
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Speaker 6: collective bargaining agreements that are coming soon, the new TV

583
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Speaker 6: deals that are coming soon with all the you know,

584
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Speaker 6: because there's so many new streams, like Netflix is all

585
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Speaker 6: much streaming games now, and what that dollar might look

586
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 6: like to the NFL owners, you want to put a

587
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 6: product out there.

588
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 2: So you can get that money, yeah, you know. And

589
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 2: that's the big thing.

590
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Speaker 6: I think when Netflix picked the Vikings for Christmas, they

591
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 6: were expecting, you know, a McCarthy you know versus you know,

592
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 6: golf type of day, you know, with playoff implications, and

593
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Speaker 6: it wasn't. I mean, the Vikings still came out and won,

594
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 6: and you know, the Lions stunk.

595
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Speaker 3: Up the joint, but that wasn't the game they were

596
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Speaker 3: rooting no, that wasn't what they were hoping to string

597
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 3: Cowboys commanders was.

598
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.

599
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Speaker 6: I don't think when they told Snoop Dogg to come

600
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Speaker 6: in Minneapolis, I don't think that's what they thought he

601
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Speaker 6: was going to get.

602
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Speaker 3: He probably tried to cancel. He doesn't even remember. Probably

603
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Speaker 3: now at this point, you.

604
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Speaker 2: Know, I think he's case regardless.

605
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Speaker 6: Yes, when you look at the owners, I think at

606
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 6: the end of the day, you can't change who you are.

607
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 6: I don't think they want to get too involved in

608
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 6: the football side of it, but they definitely want to know, like,

609
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 6: what's the plan, who's the who's the quarterback coming in?

610
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: What are we going to do?

611
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Speaker 6: You know, we drafted this kid, you know, really high.

612
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 6: Is this going to work out? You know, because they

613
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 6: know Kevin O'Connell has a heart for quarterbacks to say,

614
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 6: I don't want to just throw them to the Wolves

615
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 6: just yet. Let me see what I can do. But

616
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 6: Kevin O'Connell also has to say, well, this is my job,

617
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 6: this is my family as well. At some point, you know,

618
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 6: if something's weighing you down, you got to cut the

619
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Speaker 6: anchor and move on and we'll see what that looks like,

620
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 6: you know, if Jaj McCarthy comes back early and gets

621
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Speaker 6: hurt early this year, like this fall or even you know,

622
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 6: this summer, I think they're done. I think I can't

623
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Speaker 6: see them do it dealing with another injury riddled season,

624
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Speaker 6: you know, in year three with this guy with multiple

625
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 6: you know, it kind of becomes like, Okay, this is

626
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Speaker 6: what he is.

627
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I tend to agree with you.

628
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Speaker 3: I think part of those part of whether it was

629
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Speaker 3: Darling's question, whether it was his intent or not, just

630
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: kind of reading through it and I see it via

631
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Speaker 3: text and just do nine to noon. Throughout the year,

632
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 3: I've seen a ton of it. Fans want accountability, right,

633
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 3: Fans want accountability from going back in time and saying,

634
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: who made the decision that we were actually going to

635
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 3: put all the chips in the middle after a fourteen

636
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: win season?

637
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: On the kid?

638
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 3: How did you not know that maybe the floor wasn't

639
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: as high as you thought it was for the kid?

640
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 3: Why isn't Darnald here as he is now vining for

641
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 3: the one seed with another team out west? What about

642
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers? What did those conversations look like in that room?

643
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 3: And so fans and the guy fans are the people

644
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 3: that buy the tickets and they sit in the stand,

645
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: so they're looking for accountability. So they're calling for the

646
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: general manager's head. They want to know who made every

647
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 3: single decision and they want all that information.

648
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Speaker 6: Didn't want to be here, So I think that's what

649
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,239
Speaker 6: fans have to remember too, is not on the vib

650
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Speaker 6: I mean, they didn't offer him a big enough deal,

651
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 6: but he didn't want to be here.

652
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Speaker 2: If they wanted a three year deal, if they had

653
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: offered him the same contract three.

654
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Speaker 6: Years, for sure, but like, would you have wanted to

655
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Speaker 6: offer Sam Donald, like because you don't know the fourteen

656
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 6: is coming again?

657
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: Would you have like?

658
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Speaker 6: I don't think people if they had made an announcement

659
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 6: Sam Darnold three years, one hundred million dollars charge would

660
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 6: have probably jumped out the window.

661
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 3: Well, people would like he would have been frustrated at

662
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 3: that time because the most recent taste in their mouth

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Speaker 3: was the finale against Detroit and the playoff game in

664
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Speaker 3: the nine sacks. And people are still tweeting about that,

665
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Speaker 3: like is he gonna shut down after this buy? Like

666
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Speaker 3: he's going to get a chance to come after the

667
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Speaker 3: wild card? Is he going to screw it up again,

668
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Speaker 3: or is it going to the Super Bowl? Anything short

669
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Speaker 3: of hoisting the Lombardi. There will be those that have questions,

670
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 3: when is he going to turn into a pumpkin which

671
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Speaker 3: would match his hair color?

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Speaker 2: I suppose, But to.

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Speaker 3: That end, whether it's who made the decisions, wanting accountability

674
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Speaker 3: and we want to you know, you want to head

675
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Speaker 3: on a stick or you want you want to see

676
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Speaker 3: that And I think in the end this offseason, Vikings

677
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Speaker 3: fans are going to be disappointed in the regard that interior.

678
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Speaker 3: I think internally there are going to be a lot

679
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Speaker 3: of tough conversations this offseason in terms of with the

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Speaker 3: advantage of hindsight saying actually going backwards, this is one

681
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Speaker 3: of the more puzzling quarterback decisions that we've seen in

682
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Speaker 3: the NFL in a long time. It's east to sit

683
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Speaker 3: here at nine and eight consolation in silver lining season.

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Speaker 2: You can go back in.

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Speaker 3: Time now and say, oh, this actually doesn't make that

686
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Speaker 3: much sense, and you wonder you say Darnold didn't want

687
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Speaker 3: to be here.

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Speaker 2: I think you would have been here for the right deal,

689
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Speaker 2: for the.

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Speaker 3: Right deal, correct, But in the same way that they

691
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Speaker 3: handled Daniel Jones, it kind of sounded like, all right,

692
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Speaker 3: we're out against having you back, would love it, in fact, but.

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Speaker 2: This is JJ's team.

694
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Speaker 3: We're pushing as a franchise everything that we can towards

695
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Speaker 3: making him the focal point of Vikings football. And so,

696
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Speaker 3: if you're Daniel Jones, you chose Indianapolis because even took

697
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Speaker 3: five hundred thousand fewer dollars because you thought there might

698
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Speaker 3: be a real opportunity in Indy.

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Speaker 2: Turns out he was right.

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Speaker 3: And if you're Sam, the opportunity he's been gifted and

701
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Speaker 3: given in not gifted, he earned it given in Seattle,

702
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Speaker 3: and now he's taken advantage of it. Right, we're all

703
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 3: sitting here wanting accountability. What is up with JJ? What

704
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: is the next plan? Hey, I'm looking at the free

705
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: agent list. Oh, I bet we can get Daniel Jones

706
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 3: back with the Achilles. Oh that's fantastic. Gardner Minshew, is

707
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 3: he available? Can we trade for mac Jones? There's there's

708
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Speaker 3: a lot of frustrating and that's the name Mac Jones.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's a name that's come up where people

710
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 6: are like, do you go get you another one of

711
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 6: those Shanahan guys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Like I wanna work with Donald he did, and

713
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Speaker 2: he fixed Donald.

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Speaker 3: That is the chicken order again with shanahead first, correct,

715
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 3: he and he gave Shanahan a lot of credit coming

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Speaker 3: to Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, like DoD Shanahan, get him going, watching

718
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Speaker 6: him operate with back party and how he calls the

719
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Speaker 6: plays and how he sees the field and Koc just

720
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 6: kind of took on that responsibility and grew it to

721
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Speaker 6: fourteen wins? Could he do that with mac Jones? Mac

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Speaker 6: Jones has learned? Could he come here and push JJ

723
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Speaker 6: McCarthy to the limits of like, hey, I'm the guy

724
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Speaker 6: like mac Jones becomes the next brought party here for

725
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Speaker 6: the Minnesota Vikings, JJ maybe as a backup for a

726
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Speaker 6: couple of years, and he gets to play, you know,

727
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 6: he pulls the air the Jordan love you sit back

728
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 6: for a little bit more like learn it. Let's get

729
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 6: these feet fixed, let's get these eyes and arms fixed.

730
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 6: You know, let's let that hand heel up. You know,

731
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Speaker 6: let's let's watch how it should be and then you're

732
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Speaker 6: gonna get to play after that. You know, I just

733
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Speaker 6: don't know what the answer is, but I will say,

734
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Speaker 6: you look at Sam Darnold. We still have to see

735
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Speaker 6: playoff football, you know, like because we know Dani Jones

736
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 6: got hurt, so you can move on from that. But

737
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Speaker 6: Sam Donald playoff football now again. If he wins the

738
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Speaker 6: Super Bowl, I think everybody's gonna be sad. Everybody's gonna

739
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 6: be Okay, that could have been our super Bowl because

740
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Speaker 6: he has you know, you got Jackson Smith and Jig,

741
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 6: but you got Cooper Cup. You know that's the same

742
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 6: as Jordan As and Justin Jefferson. You know, I'm rooting

743
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 6: for Sam. Their offensive line is pretty good. If he

744
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 6: did it, yeah, he could win it. Though, to look

745
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 6: at the AFC to.

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Speaker 3: Learn from last year and to come back now, he

747
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 3: didn't turn the ball over it all the other night.

748
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 3: Running for one hundred and eighty yards on the Niners

749
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 3: defense certainly did not hurt him. He had that opening

750
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 3: possession in the red zone in which he was dreadful.

751
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 3: It was almost an absolute mirror image of a year

752
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 3: ago where he had Charbonne first and goal with the

753
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: one looks off the wide open TD and ended up

754
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 3: taking a sack for like a loss of fifteen. So

755
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: he wasn't perfect that night, but he was efficient, got

756
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: it done. He's gonna get a bye week, everything goes

757
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: through Seattle in the NFC, Like that'd be cool to

758
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 3: learn from the tough moments a year ago, given the

759
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Speaker 3: growth that he already showed in such a short period

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Speaker 3: of time, and then even take another step the very

761
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Speaker 3: next year. He's won what twenty seven games, twenty eight

762
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Speaker 3: games now in the last two seasons.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, he's that's for their weather late season and

764
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Speaker 6: dealing with that run game out there. I think that's

765
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 6: the key too, is now teams are gonna have to

766
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 6: deal with what they're used to. You know, some of

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00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 6: these teams that maybe don't travel as well to go

768
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 6: out there. It's it comes down there. But the Bears,

769
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 6: you know, say that they could be Chicago for Seattle.

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Speaker 6: You know, who knows what's gonna end. I mean, we

771
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 6: don't know where everybody's gonna hash out right now with this.

772
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 6: You know, Packers, could it be the Packers Bears playing

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Speaker 6: each other and then you know, three and four and

774
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 6: you know or sorry whatever, three and four make it

775
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Speaker 6: out and then Seattle has to end up playing what probably.

776
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Speaker 2: The Panthers maybe, I mean, who knows what's going to

777
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: look like? This is such a weird year.

778
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Speaker 3: Well, the consistency of some of these teams, as we've

779
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 3: been talking about, you know what the consistency is.

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Speaker 2: They're all really good at running the ball. Ron Yeah,

781
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 2: they're all really good bears, eager running the ball. Even

782
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: mc vey likes to run. Yeah, I think their top

783
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Speaker 2: ten in rushing. You don't think about that.

784
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 3: You think about Stafford and MVP and it's Puka, Pooka,

785
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 3: pooka till you're satisfied they're a top ten run operation.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, you got it there, Just interesting.

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Speaker 3: That's Vikings Vikings Fan Line continues on those of you

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Speaker 3: on hold. I got an interview I believe with Harrison

790
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Speaker 3: Smith around the corner, and we're going to continue to

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Speaker 3: take calls, texts and talkbacks Vikings Fan Line. Viking season

792
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 3: is over, sadly, but they get to a winning record.

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Speaker 3: Five consecutive victories put the Vikings from four and eight

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Speaker 3: to nine and eight as they close the book on

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five season. More of your takes and

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Speaker 3: talkers when we return. It's Kfan and the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 3: Audio Network.

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Speaker 11: Minnesota Sports Station FM one hundred point three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks in Minneapolis, Paula, the sports.

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Speaker 3: Leader, Vikings Fan line continues the third segment of Vikings

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Speaker 3: Fan Line Kfan Minnesota Vikings Audio Network Nordo here from

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Speaker 3: nine to noon, Ron Johnson with me Vikings win sixteen

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Speaker 3: to three, and just a reminder truncated Ish fan line

804
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Speaker 3: as we're out towards the end of this hour here

805
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Speaker 3: because the Minnesota Timberwolves are taking on the Washington Wizards,

806
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Speaker 3: and you're gonna get to hear that on your home,

807
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 3: not just for Vikings football, not just for wild hockey,

808
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 3: but also Timberwolves basketball as well. Let's go to the

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00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 3: phone lines here while Ron Johnson figures out the volume

810
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Speaker 3: on his tablet. Jackie slash Jacqueline in Minneapolis, Welcome to

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Speaker 3: Vikings Fan Line.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Hey there, can you hear me?

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Speaker 5: I can, yes.

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Speaker 12: I just want to express I just want to express

815
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Speaker 12: my love for Harrison Smith for the last fourteen years.

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00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 12: My husband and I have had season tickets since his

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Speaker 12: rookie season and he's been my favorite player since then,

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Speaker 12: and today was so sad to see his potential last game.

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Speaker 2: I am totally with you.

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00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 3: I appreciate that call and your support of the team.

821
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 3: Longtime season ticket holders, Harrison Smith, fourteen freaking years for

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Speaker 3: this cat Ron and I was I was hoping. I mean,

823
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 3: it's a throwaway game, silver lining season as it is.

824
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 3: Can we get can we get Hitman one more pick?

825
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 3: Put him in the forty twenty club forty picks, twenty sacks.

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00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 3: I think it's re Rendez Barber and Charles Woodson the

827
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 3: only other two players in NFL history to achieve that

828
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 3: didn't get done as part of the border battle today.

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Speaker 3: But Harrison Smith and if you caught you were listening

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Speaker 3: to justin Jefferson's interview, he kind of spoke about it

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Speaker 3: was cool to see Harry for one last time, CJ

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Speaker 3: Ham for one last time, know well with either one

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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 2: CJ Ham as well, I mean just in the backstory

835
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Speaker 2: on CJ.

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 3: Ham and finding his way to the NFL, finding a

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Speaker 3: way to stick what through through Zimmer and just kind

838
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: of a change in the offense new regime.

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Speaker 2: He becomes kind of special.

840
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: Teams captain guy, just a badass special teamer and his

841
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 3: work in spots instants less than maybe anybody would like,

842
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 3: or at least him for sure the offensive side of

843
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 3: the ball. But Harrison Smith another one between CJ and Harry,

844
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 3: the idea of seeing them play their last games.

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00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 2: It kind of stinks. Yeah, and nobody knows. Like I said,

846
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:36,479
Speaker 2: nobody knows.

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00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 6: You know, I guess I got a chance to be

848
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 6: on the field and you know, talk to you know,

849
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 6: Xavier Rhoads and Andrewson djo Is down to Anthony Barr.

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00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 6: You know, we were all standing around and you know

851
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 6: then Brian Flores came over, Keenan mccardeal, Josh McCown quacy

852
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 6: came over there.

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00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: You know, like everybody doesn't know. It's just one of

854
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 2: those like if this is it.

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00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 6: Like Harrison's wife for the first time ever, got to

856
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 6: stand on the field and watch her husband come out

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Speaker 6: the tunnel. You know, normally she's up in the seats

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00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 6: and she's like, I'm gonna stay down here for this one,

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00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 6: you know, because it could be it.

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00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 2: But the word could be it, you know, like that's

861
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 2: what they were using. It wasn't this is it.

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00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 6: It could be right, And so we know Kevin O'Connell's

863
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 6: going to do is just do and let Harrison Smith

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00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 6: have his offseason and then at the end of the day,

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Speaker 6: like I said, September might roll around.

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Speaker 2: Training camp's done.

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Speaker 6: The seven million dollars is sitting on the table and

868
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 6: they found some space and carved it out, and they're like,

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00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 6: hey man, we got to seven meal for you come

870
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 6: out here and play safety. You got to practice once

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00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 6: a week and you get to do what you did

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00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 6: last year. And our defense is still here, flooris is

873
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 6: still here. Our quarter our kid quarterback is way better.

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00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 4: Now.

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00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 6: You know, we're gonna win some games with the offense,

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00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 6: not just the defense. It's a lot of money. There's

877
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 6: a lot of money, and so he might decide that

878
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 6: this is not the end. Like the Vikings have a chance.

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00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 6: And if the Lions are on the down tick and

880
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 6: the Packers look like you know, they're going to be

881
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 6: steady right there, and the Bears are the new Kings

882
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 6: of the North.

883
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: The Vikings are right there.

884
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 6: You know, they were one game away potentially from beating

885
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 6: the Bears and being NFC North champs.

886
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 3: It's not far off. If you keep the offensive line

887
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 3: healthy and run the ball. What an odd year. It's

888
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 3: tough again, you win five straight. We're all those teams

889
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: totally in it. I mean, you beat up on Washington,

890
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 3: non playoff team. Cowboys needed that game. I look at

891
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 3: that as being an impressive victory in Dallas.

892
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 2: The tie got the Packers in the playoffs. The tie

893
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 2: an did, didn't they? Yeah, both would be nine and

894
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: eight right now. Now have the tie break now, Jordan,

895
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 2: they don't sit everybody.

896
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 5: They don't sit.

897
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 6: Everybody, but they still today's lawyers with a still went

898
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 6: off on him. All right, okay, but we'd have Max

899
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 6: browseman're probably heading into the playoffs.

900
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't like any of what we

901
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 2: just discussed, to be honest, I mean, we don't know

902
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: what the hand like Jaj McCarthy.

903
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 6: I'm seeing videos on here and I'm watching the you know,

904
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 6: the refs talk and it looks like Jaj McCarthy saying, hey, sorry,

905
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 6: I tried to go or so I don't know what

906
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 6: he's mouth into his teammates as they come up, but

907
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 6: he's not shaking hands with the right hand.

908
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: He's shaking with the left hand.

909
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

910
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 2: So I just need twenty twenty six to be here

911
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: for that kid.

912
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 3: I root for JJ the The the domino effect of

913
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: that thing not out at all is catastrophic for this

914
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 3: team and a massive setback when your tenth overall selection

915
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 3: doesn't materialize.

916
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,280
Speaker 2: That's why you have to have a really good quarterback

917
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: behind them.

918
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 3: But I'm just done with twenty twenty five in terms

919
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 3: of I don't know when this injury was concerned or

920
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 3: was even incurred. Will he play? Won't he play? We're

921
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 3: gonna get a full week of reps and just see

922
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 3: what happens. I'm so exhausted by that.

923
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: Yeah it was a Giants throw. That throw he threw it.

924
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 2: You can see his hand hit the guy's helmet. Yeah,

925
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 2: that was it.

926
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 3: And I just I don't want to wish away seasons,

927
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 3: don't want to wish away games, want my team to

928
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 3: win every one of them. But having a little bit

929
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 3: of time to not converse about the injuries to the quarterback,

930
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 3: I'm on that. I'm also on Harrison Smith. Maybe we

931
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 3: can just do all the cart like Ron's talking about.

932
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 3: Let's find this some extra coins, some nickels and dimes

933
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 3: and couch cushions and egan and find a way for

934
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 3: two to two to come back in twenty twenty six.

935
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: For the moment, we'll settle with a conversation you had

936
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 3: with Ben Lieber in the locker room after the w All.

937
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 8: Right, thanks a lot of guys. Yeah, we're down here

938
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 8: with the man of the hour. And the man of

939
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 8: the year really Harrison Smith, Harry, can you just take us?

940
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 8: I know this is probably a tough question because emotionally,

941
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 8: I'm sure you're all over the place, But like from

942
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 8: the second that you got your name announced at the

943
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 8: start of the game to the very end when you're

944
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 8: in in your interview and half the team's waiting for you, Like,

945
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 8: what were the emotions like from start to finish?

946
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 13: I'm just trying to hold it together, to be honest,

947
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 13: It's a It means a lot, all the friendships and

948
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 13: relationships and ups and downs and.

949
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 5: Just every everything that goes into it.

950
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 13: You can sometimes forget along the journey and you see

951
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 13: it at the end and it's it's pretty specful.

952
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 3: You know.

953
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 2: What's it mean?

954
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 8: I know that you know, we we do play this

955
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 8: game for the respect of teammates and peers, and you know,

956
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 8: to have the Packers players come over and dap you

957
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 8: up as well, like above everything else as far as

958
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 8: media and fans, Like, what's it mean to have sort

959
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 8: of this love and adoration from even the opposing players.

960
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it's.

961
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 13: Like you said, Yeah, like that kind of means the

962
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 13: most to me because I've always played the game for

963
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 13: the game. So when the teams you compete against the

964
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 13: most have respect for you, it means you did something right,

965
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 13: you know.

966
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 2: I know you still have a lot to think about it.

967
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know if anybody's really willing to

968
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 8: close the door on anything just yet, as you're kind

969
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 8: of agreeing with me with that. So, like you went

970
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 8: through this a little bit last year, can you take

971
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 8: us through the process of what the next maybe a

972
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 8: couple of days, a couple of weeks, maybe the months

973
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 8: look like before you make maybe make a final decision.

974
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's kind of different every year. I would

975
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 13: say days is not long enough. But you know, I

976
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 13: think when you kind of get send off a sendoff

977
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 13: like this, like might man, I don't really have a

978
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 13: choice now, It's like, you know, so I don't I

979
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 13: don't want to say anything really yet, but you know,

980
00:42:53,520 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 13: obviously leaning leaning towards you know, that potentially being it. Yeah,

981
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 13: but I'm not I'm not willing to say anything too

982
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 13: too definitive at the time. But you know that's obviously

983
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 13: where yeah, you know, things are kind of it's kind

984
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 13: of where I'm at and kind of where I started

985
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 13: going into the season and wish it would have gone

986
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 13: you know, just a just a little bit differently, just

987
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 13: so we could keep playing, because I think we were

988
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 13: kind of starting to figure some things out late in

989
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 13: the year. I think that's kind of the one thing

990
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 13: that that sings a little bit. But at the same time,

991
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 13: like I don't think like if there's an option to play, like,

992
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 13: I don't.

993
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 5: It's not really in.

994
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 13: Like most guys nature that I've even talked to that

995
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 13: are are forty five fifty retired and I could still

996
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 13: give you a couple of reps.

997
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: Like, so it's just it's, yeah, it's interesting.

998
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 8: Have you talked to Kendricks Kendricks, Yeah, if you talk

999
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 8: to Eric Hendricks about about his situation, you know, he

1000
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 8: was He's out there, you know, posting about his cars

1001
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 8: and his life and still don't work outs at U c.

1002
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 2: L A.

1003
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 8: And now he's starting linebacker for the forty nine ers

1004
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 8: going to the playoffs. Like you feel like that's maybe

1005
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 8: a possibility for you next year.

1006
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna rule anything out. I think.

1007
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 13: That era of guys that I was with, you know,

1008
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 13: Eric being being one of them. Obviously, there is a

1009
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 13: lot of a lot of guys that knew ball and

1010
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 13: know how to play, and like he could, he can

1011
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 13: still do it. You know, even when he's working on

1012
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 13: his cars, I know he's like, I wish I was

1013
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 13: out there. So yeah, there's it's just it's it's tough.

1014
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 13: It's tough to.

1015
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 5: It's tough to.

1016
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 13: It's tough for any for any athlete, Guys who come

1017
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 13: out of college and think they're gonna make it and

1018
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 13: hold on for a couple of years just working out.

1019
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 13: You got Andrew d'paala, he was working out for like

1020
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,959
Speaker 13: three years, working at best Buy, no like, no shot,

1021
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 13: no chance, and then all of a sudden he's here,

1022
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 13: like thirty eight years old, three time pro bowler. It's

1023
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 13: you know, it's just like kind of a kid's mindset.

1024
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 13: But there's something about this game that there's just the

1025
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 13: people who play it have so much drive. It's it's

1026
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 13: hard to not give up on it, but like to

1027
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 13: maybe let it go and focus it on something else,

1028
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 13: which is a good thing as well.

1029
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:31,919
Speaker 1: So we'll see.

1030
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 8: You know, you're you mentioned the kids part of it,

1031
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 8: and you played this game with this this childlike enthusiasm

1032
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 8: out there, and now you have a family of your own,

1033
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 8: and if this is it if this is the final

1034
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 8: chapter and this is your career as your kids get

1035
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 8: older and they're kind of learning what daddy did and

1036
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 8: what he you know, what he's known for. Like what

1037
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 8: do you what do you hope that they take away

1038
00:45:53,040 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 8: from your career? I know it's it's difficult, you know,

1039
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 8: it's funny. I'll share this little anecdote with myself. My

1040
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 8: my kids didn't My oldest, my daughter didn't know I

1041
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 8: played football until she was in first grade and uh,

1042
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 8: her her classmates actually brought it up to her and

1043
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,959
Speaker 8: she's like, my dad did what And she came home

1044
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 8: from school and she asked, She's like, what did you

1045
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 8: did You actually play like football? And so I had

1046
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 8: to explain to her what it meant. And you know,

1047
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 8: for her first gradeer, she still didn't really understand. But

1048
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 8: you know it was it was a fun moment and

1049
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 8: actually something that I think worked out the way I

1050
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 8: wanted to that I didn't want her to know me

1051
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 8: as just a football player. So is that something you

1052
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 8: feel like it is going to be uh maybe in

1053
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 8: the cards for you as you as your kids sort

1054
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 8: of learn who you are.

1055
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the same sentiment.

1056
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 13: My my son's too, and he's he's already he already

1057
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 13: knows the skull chant and PC's football on TV.

1058
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 2: He says, Data, it's.

1059
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 13: The football and the fandom and you know, all the

1060
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 13: support and everything is great, but I think it's.

1061
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: The work that I want my kids to know about. Yeah, well,

1062
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 2: you are a consummate pro.

1063
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 8: You always showed us the love and respect for the

1064
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 8: game and the way that you approached the game and

1065
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 8: the way you played. So I know we were talking

1066
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 8: about this last year in the same situation, but you know,

1067
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 8: I appreciate the man that you are and the player

1068
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 8: that you are.

1069
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: Man. Thank you.

1070
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 5: Likewise, thank you.

1071
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 3: Ben Lieber, The hit man, Harrison Smith talking about not

1072
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 3: just what it means to be a member of this team,

1073
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 3: but long the long road traveled and speculation and decision.

1074
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 3: What's up in the air moving forward for number twenty two.

1075
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 3: Tremendous interview. Ben Lieber there with Harrison Smith. We're gonna pause, continue,

1076
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 3: jump back into the phone calls, talkbacks, Free, iHeartRadio, app

1077
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,680
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1079
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1081
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:06,760
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1082
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 2: So for vikingstar f one hundred point three.

1083
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:22,439
Speaker 14: Kfan, Welcome back Vikings fan line.

1084
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 3: Vikings victorious sixteen to three in the Border Battle. I

1085
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 3: believe it's number one thirty one. The Vikings improving. If

1086
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 3: you're keeping track at home, they're seven and three in

1087
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 3: the US Bank Stadium era at home against the Pack,

1088
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 3: sixteen to three. Sands a late, going to take a

1089
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 3: time out with one second left, you're not going to

1090
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 3: shut us out and you get the late field goal

1091
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 3: from McManus. I was yet another I mean it was

1092
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 3: Clayton tuone. So what am I trying to do here? Okay,

1093
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 3: it was Clayton tune.

1094
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 5: I get it.

1095
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 3: But the Vikings nearly shut out their second opponent of

1096
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 3: the season, and they finished the season nine and eight.

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Speaker 3: Off that Off that interview, last segment with Ben Lieber

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Speaker 3: and Harrison Smith. This is going to be the final

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Speaker 3: segment here on the Vikings Kfan and the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 3: Audio Network. We're going to continue this Vikings fan line

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Speaker 3: Timberwolves Wizards, your Home for Wolves, Hoops the Fan. But

1104
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 3: off of that chat, the Brian Flores steam ron, we've

1105
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 3: kind of framed it up nine to noon, just kind

1106
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 3: of why your thoughts. Brian Flores, if he is back,

1107
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 3: that infinitely increases the odds that Harrison Smith if he's

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Speaker 3: going to return, he would return if Flores is here.

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00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 3: If Flores was to leave and find himself a head

1110
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 3: coaching job, and Harrison Smith would be returning to potentially

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00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,760
Speaker 3: a new defense, Harry may ride off into the sunset.

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00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: There's some sort of.

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00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 3: Kinship and connectivity there. Harrison loves playing in Flores's defense.

1114
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 3: That relationship is super strong. I think in some ways

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00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 3: Smith's returning. You can't talk about that without talking about

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00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 3: Brian Flores returning.

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00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 2: Oh one hundred percent.

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00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 6: And also it's like you already have the answer to

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00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 6: the test, Like I don't have to study because I

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Speaker 6: know the test.

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Speaker 2: I know everything on his test.

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00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 6: A new coach, he's going to have new terminology, new

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00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 6: thought processes, new things you can do.

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Speaker 2: And can't do. Within my defense, yeah, he knows what

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00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 2: Flora's like.

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00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 6: He could go to sleep, wake up and say, yup,

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00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 6: I know what I'm supposed to do here when I

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00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 6: see three receivers of this side motion out because you

1129
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 6: saw it during the game today. Like there's a lot

1130
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 6: of times when he line up outside guy motions, he

1131
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 6: kick in, tight end, sets back, he goes back because

1132
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 6: they're like, all right, we got to get out of this.

1133
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 6: Whatever we were in, get out of it. Let's go

1134
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Speaker 6: back to cover two. Brian Floyes is a big reason

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00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 6: why Harrison Smith can.

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Speaker 5: Do all that.

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00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 2: If you switch it up and not say you want

1138
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 2: to switch it up.

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00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 6: If he like you said I, if somebody's willing to

1140
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 6: take a chance on him and you know, the Raiders

1141
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 6: or whoever, then yeah, Harris Smith could say, I don't

1142
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 6: really want to come back and play for a brand

1143
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 6: new coach and have to learn everything all over again.

1144
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 6: Flora's already hold me, I don't have to practice as much.

1145
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 6: Floor has already told me what I can and can't do.

1146
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 6: Like that could be a part of it. But again

1147
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 6: I go back to at the end of the day,

1148
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 6: head coach is Kevin O'Connell. So whether he finds a

1149
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 6: guy that fits Brian Floyd's schemes, hey you got to

1150
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 6: come in and do this because there are some Brian

1151
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 6: Flores like minions out there from like the Miami days

1152
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 6: and so and so forth that he could.

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00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 2: Probably go find.

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00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 6: I just don't know that that the chances of that

1155
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 6: are what five percent that he finds somebody that can

1156
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 6: do what Flores does and gets hers a smith to

1157
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 6: stay well.

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00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 3: And it kind of seems unreasonable too if I'm hiring

1159
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 3: a defensive coordinator supposedly based on his merit, and then

1160
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 3: given that Ko is so focused on the offense, there's

1161
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 3: a fair amount of autonomy that you're going to give

1162
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,959
Speaker 3: that defensive coordinator to give him that autonomy to hire

1163
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 3: him based on what you believe his merit, and then say,

1164
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 3: but you're kind of gonna do what the previous guy did,

1165
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 3: like you just gotta be that'd be there certainly when

1166
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 3: you're looking for promotions and the next step on the

1167
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 3: career ladder. I mean, there's there's a lot maybe that

1168
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 3: you would concede in the efforts of getting that big chance.

1169
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 3: But hey, now, terrific work, yes, absolutely, But see this

1170
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 3: previous guy. Can you just like copy everything that, please?

1171
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 3: Can you beat can you effectively be him?

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00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 6: Can you come up with Frankenstein type of defenses, coverages

1173
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 6: that don't make sense, but you end up covering cover two,

1174
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 6: cover four, cover three. But get to it all kinds

1175
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 6: of crazy ways and make sure your players.

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00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: Know what they're doing. Yeah, that's a lot to ask.

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Speaker 3: Oh and by the way, uh, welcome to Minnesota. I

1178
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,479
Speaker 3: don't think we've drafted a defensive starter since like twenty

1179
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 3: twenty one, So we're just gonna give you a bunch

1180
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 3: of players and.

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00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 2: You figure it out.

1182
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 3: Dallas started to look good today though, Dallas Turner. Yeah,

1183
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 3: I think he had eight s He leads the team.

1184
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 3: He led the team in sacks this year. He looked

1185
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 3: really good today. His evolution very important as part of

1186
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six Vikings and beyond. Let's grab let's

1187
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 3: grab a phone call here, Brian and Cannon falls. Brian,

1188
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 3: Welcome to Vikings fan line.

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00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: Hey, how are we doing?

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00:52:58,920 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 2: Wonderful?

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00:52:59,400 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: Man?

1192
00:52:59,560 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 3: How are you.

1193
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 5: Good?

1194
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 15: Thanks for taking my call? What do you got Hey,

1195
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 15: I'm just wondering about I'm just wondering about. You know,

1196
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 15: everyone has sold down on JJ McCarthy and things like that,

1197
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,320
Speaker 15: but I'm wondering how about our offensive line?

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00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 2: Coach?

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Speaker 15: You know we've been through a million offensive linemen, but

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00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 15: it just doesn't seem like our offensive linemen are always clicking.

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00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate the call.

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00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 6: Brian, what like sixteen different seventeen different combinations this year.

1203
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 3: I think we were in the twenties. I think we

1204
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 3: were in the twenties. I will say this, And while

1205
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 3: you know, if you listen to nine to noon, you're

1206
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 3: never gonna hear us. You know, here's who's jobs on

1207
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 3: the line. Here, here's who might get fired at the

1208
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 3: end of a season. In terms of listeners, In terms

1209
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 3: of just the aura around this team, GM's getting a.

1210
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 5: Lot of heat.

1211
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 2: Probably don't even need to tell you that.

1212
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 3: But the special teams coordinators, some frustrations around just whether

1213
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 3: it was so penalty laden earlier in the season, some turnover,

1214
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 3: some mishaps. Devin Duverne and the Bears game or Ravens

1215
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 3: game rather no Bears game. Excuse me, used to play

1216
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 3: for the Ravens, by the way, Devin DuVernay before he

1217
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 3: went to Chicago. Uh, and then and then the O

1218
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 3: line coach that's been that's been a popular talker. And

1219
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 3: as we were discussing earlier on just kind of as

1220
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 3: fans when the season doesn't go the right way. And

1221
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 3: this is all fair by the way these people buy

1222
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 3: the tickets, they go to the games.

1223
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 2: Hey, this was a disaster. It needs to be fixed.

1224
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 3: A lot of time that that comes out in the

1225
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,720
Speaker 3: form of there's a coach that needs to be fired

1226
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 3: because of it, and I'm just I'm never going to

1227
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 3: root for that to happen, but there is there's a

1228
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 3: lot of heat around a team and a fan base

1229
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 3: looking for accountability when it's well, why did we what?

1230
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 2: What did we see in Oryan Kelly? What did we

1231
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 2: see in this?

1232
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,280
Speaker 3: Think about from a depth standpoint, You trade away Vederi

1233
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 3: and Low, you draft him a few years ago. Now

1234
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 3: he's starting games. Uh, while is it Will Campbell the

1235
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 3: high end? Is it Will Campbell or Will Johnson? The

1236
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 3: high end left tackle for the Patriots? But Viderian Low,

1237
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 3: former Viking now making plays out there. You think about

1238
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 3: moving on from Garrett Bradberry and just sadly the concussions,

1239
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 3: not that they can be predicted, but this happens to

1240
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 3: be a person in Ryan Kelly that has a history

1241
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 3: of them. And then we saw that manifest itself in

1242
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, how they handled the return and just

1243
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 3: I mean, what a freaking I mean in a season

1244
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 3: of roller coasters at the team level, how about the

1245
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 3: roller coaster of a year for Christian dearisaw And so

1246
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 3: just all of those things going in a lot of

1247
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 3: frustration around the O line.

1248
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 2: We're watching the Bears team right now at eleven and five.

1249
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 3: They're down thirteen to nothing, so they might just be

1250
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 3: looking towards potentially mailing this thing in and finding their

1251
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 3: way healthy into the postseason. But whereas that team regenerates

1252
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 3: the interior of their offensive line with Joe Tooney Wiley

1253
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 3: veteran the left guard, they get Drew Dahlman free agency,

1254
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 3: the highest paid center I believe during the free agent period,

1255
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 3: and then Jonah Jackson, his kind of career journeyman may

1256
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 3: have been with the Lions before the Rams that worked,

1257
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 3: And that's kind of just like the small margin of

1258
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 3: between what looks great and what's awful. Right, Yeah, the

1259
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 3: same thing about Ingram the interior side. Yeah, net Ingram

1260
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 3: now he's protecting he's protecting CJ. Stroud for a playoff

1261
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 3: bound Houston Texans team. Just a lot of frustration around

1262
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 3: how that went, a lot of injuries can't be predicted,

1263
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 3: but the connectivity and trying to keep all that together

1264
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 3: is is drawing the ire of many.

1265
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder how Garrett Bradberry would have done with

1266
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 6: those four. You know, you put Donovan Jackson, Fries O'Neil,

1267
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 6: and Darri saw injuries aside. If those five are healthy,

1268
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 6: does Garrett Bradbury look like the guy that we thought

1269
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 6: he should look like here he's looking like it now,

1270
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 6: you know. And then Campbell, you know, the rookie with

1271
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 6: the pages who got hurt. You know he's back, but

1272
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 6: you just think about drafting offensive rush.

1273
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 2: Will Campbell by the way, Okay, yeah, not sorry.

1274
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 6: You look at the offensive lineman drafting them and I

1275
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 6: forgot who I was talking to, but oh, random McDaniel,

1276
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 6: and he was saying that offensive guard is tough for

1277
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 6: a young guy.

1278
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: You know, it takes a while before you understand it.

1279
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 2: And I got to trust the Hall of Famer.

1280
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 6: You know, maybe we gave up too quick on them,

1281
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 6: you know, like I said, like it's or was it

1282
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 6: the coaches that were coaching them?

1283
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 2: And that's that's what you got to figure that out.

1284
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: That's not up to me, that's not up to you. Know,

1285
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 2: the fans.

1286
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 6: That's up to the staff and the GM and whoever

1287
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 6: to say, how are these guys moving on and being productive?

1288
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 6: How are these guys moving on and getting you know, again,

1289
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 6: is it the scheme is? What are we asking our

1290
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 6: guys to do? That might be too much on the

1291
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 6: offensive line?

1292
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 3: You know, you got to go through all that this

1293
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 3: offseason and kind of figure out if you're simplifying it

1294
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 3: for your quarterback pre snap, could you simplify it for

1295
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 3: your offensive line?

1296
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 5: You know?

1297
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 2: And maybe that's the key, like maybe they're being actud

1298
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 2: to do too much.

1299
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm not again, accountability matters. I don't think

1300
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 3: you're going to get paid off in the offseason. If

1301
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 3: you're a Vikings fan and you're saying, I got a list,

1302
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 3: should change, These guys got to pay. I don't think

1303
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 3: you're gonna get paid off in the public square for that.

1304
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be a lot of it

1305
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 3: dealt with internally. I don't know if that you know

1306
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 3: what kind of changes that means. I'm not going to

1307
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 3: speculate at this particular moment, but I will say, in

1308
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 3: relation to this singular season, how on earth can you

1309
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 3: have the I mean, even even if this team they've

1310
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 3: drafted so poorly the last half decade plus, even prior

1311
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 3: to Quasi and company, this is a team that was feed.

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Speaker 2: They used to feast.

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Speaker 3: Now they handle undrafted cats and just overpay and and

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Speaker 3: get the right guys that they love. They used to

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Speaker 3: just take seven seventh rounders every single year. Remember the

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Speaker 3: four third rounders. I think we talked about the four

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Speaker 3: of the four greatest third round picks in the history

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Speaker 3: of Rick.

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Speaker 5: Vl Kel.

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Speaker 3: Was Kellen mond Wyatt, Davis Chas Uratt? Was he in

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Speaker 3: that I think Chas Surratt and maybe Pat Pat Jones.

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Speaker 3: So the But to that end, even if this team

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00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 3: hadn't been drafting so poor, how do you apply that depth?

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Speaker 3: I mean, my goodness with with justin School coming in,

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00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 3: you have you have Blake Brandle playing maybe four of

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00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 3: the five positions this year, Michael Jurgens, and just Walter Rouse.

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Speaker 2: Making an appearance.

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Speaker 3: Nothing's gonna go right if you have to put potentially

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00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 3: ten or eleven offensive linemen on the field over the

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Speaker 3: course of a season. And so that's something to weigh

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00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 3: as well. The things you couldn't predict, the injuries.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna pause and say we're gonna bit a doo.

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Speaker 3: The Greater Vikings Audio Network Vikings Win Order Battle one

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Speaker 3: thirty one.

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Speaker 2: At us Bank Stadium. They improved to nine and eight.

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Speaker 3: Sadly they're seasons over, which means that our time together

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Speaker 3: on the Greater Audio Network is over as well. Thank

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Speaker 3: you so much to all of our great affiliates, all

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Speaker 3: those that listen and support for Max Fuller's work producing,

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00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 3: for Ron Johnson sitting here and answering all of my

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00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 3: dumb questions on Nordo from nine to noon. The season

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00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 3: ends at nine night on the back of a five

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Speaker 3: game win streak. We're going to continue this conversation on

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Speaker 3: the flagship one hundred point three FM, the Fan Free

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01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app live and local tomorrow with the Power Trip

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01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 3: Morning Show of course nine to noon.

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Speaker 2: Brian McKnight. One last cry, but.

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Speaker 3: A few more segments leading you up to Wolves, Hoops,

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Speaker 3: Wolves and the Wizards at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 3: But thank you so much for listening to Vikings football

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Speaker 3: over the twenty twenty five season. This has been Vikings

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Speaker 3: Fan Line on Kfan and the Minnesota Vikings Audio Network.

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Speaker 2: And the Fan.

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Speaker 1: Vikings Fan Line now continues on FM one hundred point

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Speaker 1: Now continuing to take your talkbacks, direct messages and calls.

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Speaker 1: This is Vikings fan Line with Ron Johnson and kfans

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Speaker 1: Eric norton Quist.

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Speaker 5: What up?

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Speaker 3: Vikings wins sixteen to three over the Green Bay Packers

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01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 3: US Banks Stadium, and the Vikings finished the regular season

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Speaker 3: their entire season in fact, at nine to eight, a

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Speaker 3: five game win streak to finish the season campaign and

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Speaker 3: the Packers already locked into the seventh seed.

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Speaker 2: That's why we saw a lot of Clayton tune today.

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Speaker 3: What a thrilling affair was Ron Johnson's with me Nordo

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Speaker 3: Max Fuller producing to the talkback machine free iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 3: Let's listen to a.

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Speaker 2: Few Jake from Woodbury. Thanks, guys, I really love the show.

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Speaker 10: There's just certain quarterbacks in this NFL league that don't

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01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 10: see me have the ability to really move the ball

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Speaker 10: down the field. But the other thing is can they

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Speaker 10: throw a deep ball and make a connection one or

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01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 10: maybe two in a game. Darnold could do it. I

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01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 10: watched Riley Leonard with the Colts do it today. But

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01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 10: then there's other guys like the Tune Kid, Frankly McCarthy

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Speaker 10: and Brosemer, and they have no chance of doing it.

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Speaker 10: There's something to this.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that talkback machine. Hit that hit that microphone.

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Speaker 3: Give us up to your best thirty seconds. Yeah, the

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01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 3: lack of explosion in this Vikings offense is saw let

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Speaker 3: me find this just kind of made me laugh just

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01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 3: reading a transcript. Ah, remember the GOODA days when Cousins just.

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Speaker 11: To routinely throw for thirty touchdowns.

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Speaker 14: Now we're not even at or even at fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Boy, just we just can't have nice things. Thirty touchdowns.

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Speaker 12: Oh man, that was so awesome.

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Speaker 3: Well, have you know, sir, we have eighteen passing touchdowns

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01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five eighteen ron we have eighteen yeah,

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01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 3: in every count you know, other than will he won't,

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Speaker 3: he is in Brian Flores returning to the team. And

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Speaker 3: then whether it's nostalgic or just materially, what this defense

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01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 3: would look like without a Harrison Smith CJ.

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Speaker 9: Hamm.

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Speaker 3: There's some nostalgia peace associated with then just high end

1404
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 3: special teams play and leadership, both of them certainly leaders

1405
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 3: on and off the field, but all roads lead to

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Speaker 3: that conversation this offseason, are you prepared for it Ron

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Speaker 3: to spend four to five months talking about the quarterback position?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I am.

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Speaker 6: I'm ready for ready, I'm ready. I got my popcorn, ready,

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Speaker 6: I got my notes, I'm already like doing. I got

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Speaker 6: stats from the end of this So I'm only going

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Speaker 6: on five weeks, right, That's all I'm going to talk about.

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Speaker 6: I don't I'm not going to talk about the whole season, Okay,

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Speaker 6: I'm just talking about the last five weeks of Viking.

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Speaker 6: Last five weeks, last five weeks of Vikings defense. Offense, right, defense,

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01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 6: great offense blah.

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01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's because we can't keep saying Jajon McCarthy X

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Speaker 3: y Z.

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Speaker 2: Here's the stats. Hundred and whatever, sixteen hundred yards X

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Speaker 2: what like, what.

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Speaker 6: What did the not high end you know that? What

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Speaker 6: did the last taste of jaj McCarthy feel like to you?

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Speaker 3: If you had to look at this game, it was

1425
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Speaker 3: him shaking his hand and walking off the field, right,

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Speaker 3: Would you want to eat more of that?

1427
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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 2: Would you put that on your plate for sixteen more weeks?

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Speaker 2: Seventeen more weeks?

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Speaker 3: I'm general my diet has been fairly indiscriminate over the

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Speaker 3: course of time.

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Speaker 5: So I would not it.

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Speaker 6: Okay, No, And that's That's what I'm concerned with, is

1434
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Speaker 6: like we keep hearing all this, fix this, fix this,

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Speaker 6: fix this. What is that going to look like? What

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Speaker 6: does fix this actually look like? What is I mean

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Speaker 6: they're not going to say exacts. I mean, I know

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Speaker 6: some stuff I'm not going to say on air, but like,

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Speaker 6: can you fix it? That's the question, Like it's you

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Speaker 6: can say it, but can you do it? That's That's

1441
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Speaker 6: all I'm wondering, is like, yeah, we can keep saying

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01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 6: keep Sandy keeps saying it, but eventually there's a reason

1443
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 6: why coaches move on from certain players quarterbacks, X, Y,

1444
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 6: and Z, like they just can't get it done. I'm

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01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 6: not saying he's that guy. If it's very simple and

1446
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 6: it can be fixed, I think he can be a

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01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 6: really good quarterback. We saw the fastball today. He has

1448
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Speaker 6: the armstring. That's not a question. Question is does he

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Speaker 6: know when to use it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 2: And and what's between those two years?

1452
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 3: Let's pause again. It's we are leading you up to

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01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 3: Wolves and Wizards. Hoops on the fan, Alan Horton, everybody involved.

1454
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 3: Let's go howl and when we return, we'll hit you

1455
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 3: with our local Chevy Dealers drive of the game. Hint

1456
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 3: is the only touchdown in the game, but we're going

1457
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 3: to play that and continue this conversation, getting closer to

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Speaker 3: Wolve's hoop, Vikings fan line sixteen to three, the final

1459
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 3: Vikings ending the season nine to eight. More around the corner,

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Speaker 3: it's the fan Wolves Vikings fan line, Vikings win sixteen

1461
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 3: to three.

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01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 2: And nine to noon.

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Speaker 3: We'll be live and local with the Power Trip at

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Speaker 3: five thirty am. We'll wake up in good morning, wake

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Speaker 3: up with the Power Trip. How about that nine to noon,

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01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 3: whether it's PA's postgame drive.

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01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 2: By chats in the locker room.

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01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 3: A lot to dig into that they can't be covered

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01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 3: just in fan line or just even in a Monday

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Speaker 3: nine to noon as the Vikings will begin their off

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Speaker 3: season a nine to eight team team with a winning record,

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Speaker 3: team that's not going to the playoffs. Big thanks over

1473
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 3: the course of this season to our local Chevy Dealers,

1474
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 3: by the way, for supporting Vikings fan line offering the

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Speaker 3: local Chevy Dealers Drive of the game, and we do

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01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:52,160
Speaker 3: it each.

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Speaker 2: And every week and one second here there we go.

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Speaker 3: Vikings win sixteen to three that included one touchdown to

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Speaker 3: see a little bit of Riker today, a couple few

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01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 3: goals in an extra point. We appreciate that, but to

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01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 3: that end, it was a singular drive that ended in

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01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 3: a touchdown in the first half. Nine plays, fifty nine yards.

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01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 3: Clock was ticking down on the first half. Gotta go,

1484
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 3: gotta go, Vikings did and it ended with this twenty

1485
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 3: five seconds to go in the first half. Second and

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Speaker 3: goal from.

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Speaker 11: The one straight I behind JJ CJ hamm in front

1488
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 11: of ty Chandler Ben Simson motion to the left.

1489
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 2: Hand off CJ. Ham plows up the middle, touchdown.

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01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 14: Vikings.

1491
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 5: Well done.

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01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 13: CJ.

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01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 2: Ham and the Minnesota Vikings have taken a twelve serial lead.

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01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 3: Beautiful thing that did make it after the extra point

1495
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Speaker 3: from Riker to that made it thirteen to nothing at

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Speaker 3: the break.

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Speaker 2: Sixteen to three is the final? Again, just the thriller

1498
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 2: that it was in the end.

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Speaker 3: You want to beat the Packers, right, I mean you

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Speaker 3: weren't in college Ron saying yeah, geez it really just

1501
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Speaker 3: not interested in this game because Wisconsin has X y

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01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 3: Z big time are out right, I guess.

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01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 2: We'll just people were upset about the thirteen and a

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Speaker 2: half cover.

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01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 6: I wonder about that, Yeah, that he called time out

1506
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 6: with one second left and kicked a field goal.

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Speaker 3: See, that's why you always want to shock the lines.

1508
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 3: I had seen it at twelve and a half for

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01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 3: the most and I think via DraftKings it was thirteen

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01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 3: and a half, So that means some people took some

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01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 3: l's today. You kicked the field go yeah. And frankly,

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01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 3: given the scenarios in terms of who was going to play,

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01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 3: who wasn't going to play, Vikings lay in the points

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01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 3: made a lot of sense. So I wonder who who

1515
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 3: won a couple bucks or yeah, And again just like

1516
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 3: that's the way that like sports gambling, there are a

1517
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 3: lot of bad things that can come from that. The

1518
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 3: Packers bet on themselves some but some good things that

1519
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 3: can come from. It is just taking a game that

1520
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 3: otherwise maybe there's no interest in, and you're finding angles.

1521
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 3: It can be a fun hobby, right, but uh, taking

1522
01:08:58,600 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 3: an l in a meaningless border back.

1523
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 2: One of the packers got some actual players that bet

1524
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:07,719
Speaker 2: on themselves to cover, like Bo Melton, Trayvon Diggs doubling

1525
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 2: up his one game salary. How about that they they

1526
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 2: roll in. I think Trayvon Diggs, Yeah, made four hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty summer. It's like four and fifty thousan dollars

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01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 2: just to suit up for one game. Good for him,

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Speaker 2: get the percent engineer.

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Speaker 3: The Cowboys offered him the contract, So you can't blame

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Speaker 3: Digsie for that one.

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Speaker 5: But CJ.

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Speaker 3: Ham, and that's been one of the talkers here is

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Speaker 3: just will he stay, will he go? He is a

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Speaker 3: free agent, as is Harrison Smith. Some other names that

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01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 3: might be bandied about here. Let's let's try to find them.

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01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 3: I had it in front of me at one point,

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Speaker 3: Harrison Smith, Ham Eric Wilson's going to be a talker

1539
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:46,519
Speaker 3: Ron into this offseason. The year that he had, he

1540
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 3: just straight up went and stole a kid's lunch money.

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01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 3: He took Ivan Pace's job. Okuda. Sadly, it just we

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01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,600
Speaker 3: I this was a reclamation project, a redemption tour. It

1543
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 3: didn't work out Tavi or Thomas other than special teams

1544
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:02,240
Speaker 3: penalties very just not of note a season for Tavier

1545
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 3: justin school, Rondell Moore leg injury and all of that.

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01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 2: Ryan Right, the punter.

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01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 3: Punter was pretty good this year. I like Ryan Right

1548
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 3: and see if the plus size punter will be back.

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01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 3: The Paula long snapper. Does he still have it in him?

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01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 3: Can he do it at thirty nine? But but you

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01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 3: need to Jalen Naylor is probably going to be as

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01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 3: I'm just reading down the line that was listed based

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01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 3: on their respective salaries.

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Speaker 2: But I would say a Jalen Naylor is a talker

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Speaker 2: in terms of what his future will be. I mean,

1556
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 2: and you got to put him. I just think he's gone.

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Speaker 6: I just think he's going to kJ Osborne, Right, same

1558
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 6: thought process he left. It didn't really work out at

1559
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 6: the next stops, right. That's what Jalen Naylor has to

1560
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 6: kind of like think about, like this offense is built

1561
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 6: for what he does from a from a.

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Speaker 2: Speed standpoint, From a I don't have a lot.

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01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 3: I get single coverage a lot right in this offense,

1564
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 3: how much did he benefit from having eighteen or a.

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01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 2: Three on field?

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Speaker 6: You know, you become the number two, but now all

1567
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:59,120
Speaker 6: of a sudden, your number one is not a not

1568
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 6: a name like rings Bells, you know, like like Ted.

1569
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:04,680
Speaker 6: You know, you know he's young, right, you know, so

1570
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 6: is he really getting double coverage just yet?

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Speaker 2: Not yet?

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01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 6: So you end up going to the Panthers to be

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01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 6: a speedy guy for them. But now it doesn't like

1574
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 6: you're not wide open, you're not getting single man coverage.

1575
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 6: So that's what you have to kind of figure out,

1576
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,639
Speaker 6: is is it a value? Like how much more money

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01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 6: is it worth it? Where the Vikings might say, hey,

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01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 6: we're gonna match whatever offer sheet you get. Is he

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01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 6: willing to stay for that match or does he want

1580
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:30,600
Speaker 6: to move on and get out of the shadow of

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01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:31,799
Speaker 6: Addison and Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: I saw some people trying to use like Christian Kirk

1583
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:38,719
Speaker 3: as an example, and I don't think that's a good example.

1584
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:43,719
Speaker 3: I think even like Christian Kirk very very modest output

1585
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 3: with Arizona before he got eighteen million dollars a year

1586
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 3: to go to Jacksonville and actually earned his money for

1587
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Speaker 3: the most part, until some injuries kind of caught up

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Speaker 3: with him eighteen minutes. Like I look at Jalen Naylor

1589
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you're gonna get like five or six somewhere.

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Speaker 2: And but he's earned it. I think, well, see, that's

1591
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 2: a tough thing. And if they cut TJ. Hockinson, the

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01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 2: money's there.

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Speaker 3: He's been he's been reliable in spots. And well, here's

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01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do. We're gonna pause, We're gonna come

1595
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 3: back and put a rap on this thing. But the

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01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 3: free agent conversation certainly hot. As part of Vikings fan

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01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 3: Line on the Fan, ye welcome back just a little

1598
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 3: over a minute to go, because we're gonna transition to

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01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:26,679
Speaker 3: the Howl and the Washington Wizards here and your home

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01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 3: for Timberwolves basketball the Fan Vikings fan Line. Those of

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01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 3: you who listen on a week by week basis, those

1602
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:36,679
Speaker 3: of you were annoyed, those of you that have maybe

1603
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 3: too many pops and then you call in and you

1604
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 3: say whatever you want, that's all good.

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Speaker 5: We love you for it.

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01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,560
Speaker 3: Thanks for supporting Vikings fan Line, Thanks for listening to

1607
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 3: the broadcast from from the Boom all the way through

1608
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 3: through Ron Johnson and yours truly Nordo from non to noon.

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01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 3: Thanks to Max for his production work and all that

1610
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 3: goes into this Viking season.

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01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 2: Sadly ending too soon.

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01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,799
Speaker 3: Vikings finished the season on a five game win streak,

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01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 3: but all for not in terms of the postseason. They

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01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 3: finished nine to eight. You dig that, but they're not

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01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 3: going to the playoffs and we're all just gonna sit

1616
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 3: in our chairs and soak in what the future holds

1617
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 3: for the NFC and AFC, for Ron Johnson, for Max

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Speaker 3: Fullerm Nordo.

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Speaker 2: From nine to noon.

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Speaker 3: This has been Minnesota Vikings fan line. Vikings ended on

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01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,720
Speaker 3: a good note with the Border Battle. Now let's all

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01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 3: howl it's wolves and whizz around the corner on the

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Speaker 3: fan