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Speaker 1: bite a couple of pressers yesterday that I want to

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Speaker 1: dig into and lots to Chewan Vike's bite style. In

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Speaker 1: terms of the head coach and Thursday's quarterback, Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 1: it was announced that Carson will indeed be under center

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night against the LA Chargers, but the practice

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Speaker 1: window for another player has opened up. Let's hear from

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Speaker 1: the head coach on Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 2: Also wanted to make note of Aaron Jones' twenty one

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Speaker 2: day window opening up today. That'll be something that will

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Speaker 2: happen today and we'll see where he's at potentially for

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Speaker 2: his availability on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: So even prior to Aaron Jones being hurt PA through

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Speaker 1: the first two games, Jordan Mason had the lion's share

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Speaker 1: Of course, Aaron Jones did have that receiving TD against

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Speaker 1: Jordan Mason, but potentially welcome back tomorrow night, Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 1: What dynamic do you think he offers, if healthy, if happy,

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Speaker 3: And you know it's we we intimated it late last

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Speaker 3: if he comes back, you know he will play a

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Speaker 3: fair amount. That's my guess. Now where things change is

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Speaker 3: Jordan was asked to do. He's not going to run

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Speaker 3: then you go back more into you know what we'll

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Speaker 3: talk about about an hour and ten minutes from now. Identity.

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Speaker 3: The Minnesota Vikings have no identity right now. I mean now, now,

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Speaker 3: They all lack identity because are you a loser or

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Speaker 3: are you a winner? Oh, you've done this three times

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Speaker 3: I would say from a catching standpoint, he does have

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Speaker 3: one receiving touchdown this year. Aaron Jones Vikes Bites.

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell also had this to say in relation to

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Speaker 2: He's had a lot obviously a lot of snaps and

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Speaker 1: For Dallas Turner and just expecting we we won't be

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Speaker 3: Okay, there are key members of the Vikings who at

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Speaker 3: They have some interesting players on their offensive line. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that could favor the Minnesota Vikings right tackle. But Bradley Boseman.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's no, he has number one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, when we go depth chart diving there, leading Rusher,

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Speaker 3: I think we'll be intriguing to some people. Vikes bites.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at Bean by the way before we

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Speaker 1: move on. He succeeded Ryan Kelly at Bama, right, and

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Speaker 3: That's what was eye opening to me was he was

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Speaker 3: Tony Jefferson, it's it's I mean, I'm stepping on all

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Speaker 1: Like that, vice mites speaking a center for our team.

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Speaker 1: Is there a controversy at the center spot?

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Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, we're getting both those guys

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Speaker 2: think is the best five for the game for sure.

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Speaker 4: Well, and that was short. I should have prefaced it.

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Speaker 1: The head coach was speaking specifically to Michael Jurgens, who

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Speaker 3: And Brendell really came back to the pack last game. Yes, Now,

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Speaker 3: in mind. Okay, it was Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis. Yes,

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Speaker 3: just fantastic. Now this week against the LA Chargers is different.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a different group up front compared to what

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Speaker 1: Remember when Tierre Tart threw uh through Garrett Bradbury out.

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Speaker 3: Tier Tart, the former Titan, second year with the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: He's a very very strong man. Yes, and he's going

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Speaker 3: to be opposite Donovan Jackson, who is a very very

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Speaker 1: There's I see the noses is a rookie Jammrie Caldwell.

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's right, j He is a sack. Yep, he's twitch,

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Speaker 3: he's fast. They like it. They actually like him a lot.

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Speaker 1: And I'm excited for your deep dive because you found

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Speaker 1: the pronunciation for a boy of boy be.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, boy be something like that. But somebody who

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if his shoulders still look like coat hangers,

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Speaker 3: But they like him a fair amount out there.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember which which one said this to me,

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Speaker 3: I know, because his shoulders aren't broad. He's angular and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just done guessing about it, and quite honestly,

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Speaker 4: You know, soft benchings and things.

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Speaker 3: No, the guy knows there's going to be a National

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Speaker 4: And I'm not.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent with you in terms of done guessing

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Speaker 4: He's ready again.

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Speaker 1: The coach has been absolutely rock steady consistent on when

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Speaker 1: Ankle's not good, he's not playing. But to this end,

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Speaker 1: And while I was tooling around, Dame Mizutani, who covers

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Speaker 1: But Dane was kind of making the point that it's

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Speaker 3: Well they right, well, well done, I mean for my taste,

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Speaker 3: And Dane's a fantastic guy too, and he does really

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Speaker 3: All right, well, guess what I mean, Guess what is fact?

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Speaker 3: So with that said, I'm not saying McCarthy's had bad luck.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying we saw him and he was gone. We

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Speaker 3: there's really nothing else to say. Until we start watching

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Speaker 4: Now, nice job.

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Speaker 3: Why'd you push that vase off off that dresser or

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Speaker 3: But still I get you right right, Well, what in

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Speaker 3: I call people liars, man, or just come out and

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Speaker 3: therefore that's why we're holding back because we might have

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Speaker 3: made a mistake here. Guys, right, come out and say it.

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Speaker 3: Come out and say, Kevin, I think you're lying. I

435
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Speaker 3: think you just lie to the assembled media and the

436
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Speaker 3: public because I personally.

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Speaker 4: I I I I.

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Speaker 3: Personally don't think you like the quarterback. I think you're

439
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Speaker 3: concerned about it. His ankle is good enough to play,

440
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Speaker 3: but you want to use the other guy because you

441
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Speaker 3: need to win games.

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Speaker 4: Just come out, Just come out. I think you're lying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just be stupid like that, just if you're going

444
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Speaker 3: to be stupid come out so everybody can know you're stupid,

445
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Speaker 3: so we at least can identify who end or what

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Speaker 3: is stupid so we can avoid it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think that you know the implication of a

448
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Speaker 1: soft benching leads you down that road lying being untruthful.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there's validity to asking the question? Is

450
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Speaker 1: their second guessing or through those two games? Are we

451
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Speaker 1: not at the are we not where we thought we

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Speaker 1: would be with the QB injury?

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Speaker 3: Is sid? I can't answer that because I haven't asked

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Speaker 3: the question, and I'm not one that's going to speak

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Speaker 3: for others like others are doing with the soft benching accusation.

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Speaker 1: No, I I just noted I think that that could

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Speaker 1: be a fair question in it in a press conference

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Speaker 1: environment where.

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Speaker 4: Okay, a press conference environment.

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Speaker 3: I thought you're asking my opinion.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no through Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So it's like what you said yesterday, that the fact

463
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Speaker 3: that they blew it by not taking bo Nix. I

464
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Speaker 3: still need to see McCarthy play the game before I

465
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Speaker 3: can get to that finish line.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm still very happy.

467
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Speaker 3: Hold on Feena fairness, FEMA fairness, and Matt producer act.

468
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Speaker 3: He actually did not say that it's nine to noon,

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Speaker 3: cracking wise, because we are k fan raised.

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Speaker 1: I just think again, the soft benching is kind of

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Speaker 1: inferring the idea that there's lack of truth there versus

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Speaker 1: I think you could be open and honest and ask

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Speaker 1: the coach through these two games. You got to see

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Speaker 1: a quarters, I know, the ankles balking, and we're going

475
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Speaker 1: to see what the timetable is. But are you where

476
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Speaker 1: you wanted to be with him through two games? And

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Speaker 1: then allow the coach to kind of answer that that

478
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Speaker 1: kind of avoid that avoids the implication of him being

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Speaker 1: untruthful about an injury.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's just that's where my head is at on it.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, I think he's lying. No, I

483
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Speaker 1: don't think the coach is lit on you today for

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Speaker 1: some reason. Come asked, I'm just playing with.

485
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Speaker 3: But okay, well that we're kind of running up against

486
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Speaker 3: it here. We're good.

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Speaker 4: But but but in the end.

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Speaker 1: Carson's Carson's rolling tomorrow and uh and and from my standpoint,

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Speaker 1: I just I like just kind of putting a ball

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Speaker 1: on that Dame Missy Tawny piece.

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of in lockstep with him.

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Speaker 1: Where when the kid is healthy, when the kid does

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Speaker 1: make it back to the field, I think.

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Speaker 3: For good, bad, ugly, or worse.

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Speaker 4: I think it's it's it's gotta.

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Speaker 1: BEJJ in there, and we're gonna do everything we can

497
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Speaker 1: to raise nine and support him on this journey throttle.

498
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Speaker 4: And who who Okay, who runs?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's be a tough road to go down. Like

500
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Speaker 3: when I say who runs the team? Okay, Well I'm

501
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Speaker 3: not talking about somebody with the last name Will. So

502
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 3: now we can get into you have the general manager

503
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Speaker 3: and you have the head coach. Okay, so where when

504
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 3: that decision is made, Okay, it's full boar ahead. It's

505
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 3: full throttle. There's no moon walking with this kid unless

506
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Speaker 3: he gets hurt. No matter what the outcome is, we're

507
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Speaker 3: going to raise him. We're going to win with him.

508
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 3: And if we lose with him and he consistently keeps

509
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Speaker 3: making mistakes, the same mistake, and we'll start talking about that.

510
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 3: When that decision is made, the person making that decision

511
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Speaker 3: has to be incredibly comfortable within their own skin. And

512
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 3: they can't let stupid columns second guessing. They can't let

513
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Speaker 3: little shots on social media about mistakes that may have

514
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 3: been made. It has to be elevator music. It has

515
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 3: to be in one ear and out the other. You

516
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 3: have to remind yourself, I've worked a long time for this.

517
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 3: I earned it. I earned this new piece. There were

518
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Speaker 3: other people who voted this, and thus I won this

519
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 3: off the fourteen wins. I didn't vote for myself. This

520
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 3: is how it worked out because I guess respect or whatever,

521
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: and you just got to the noise. Yeah, whomever is

522
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Speaker 3: making this final decision that you're talking about with the

523
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Speaker 3: quarterback or anything, and I would bet it's Kevin O'Connell. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: then you have to eliminate the noise.

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Speaker 4: I agree.

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Speaker 3: I'm not coming into I'm not like like with Zimmer. Okay,

527
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 3: when he couldn't eliminate the noise, you know, it got

528
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 3: it got boisterous. I mean, like, look at look at

529
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 3: the petulance and the immaturity and ridiculous nature of how

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Speaker 3: he handled Chris Thomason's questions.

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Speaker 4: Correct. Okay, well go ahead and fight that.

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Speaker 3: I mean seriously, that's like coming into the lake of

533
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 3: fire with a squirt gun. So I'm just gonna go

534
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 3: and do the moonwalk on that. It's like back to

535
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Speaker 3: the back of the room. Kevin is not like that.

536
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 3: So that's a lot, man, There's just a lot going

537
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Speaker 3: on right now, and they need to win tomorrow night.

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Speaker 4: They need to win.

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Speaker 3: They need a w tomorrow night. Just three and a

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Speaker 3: half point underdogs that house of the con. I think

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Speaker 3: we're gonna get a w. Tom I hope with you

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Speaker 3: tomorrow night. I hope Carson throws for four to ten,

543
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 3: three and zero. I really want to see it.

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Speaker 1: That's the Thousand Hills Lifetime grays Grass fact. It gives

545
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Speaker 1: you Vikes bits.

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Speaker 3: All right. It's ten thirty five. Covenan ketchup, as in

547
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Speaker 3: ketchup on the clock coming up around the corner. As

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Speaker 3: we walk up to a Covenant ketchup of a different variety.

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Speaker 3: Former Minnesota Vikings tight end Byron Chamberlain joins twenty five

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Speaker 3: minutes from now. He's an elite football mine. We think

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Speaker 3: you'll like it.

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Speaker 1: But first this the fan, along with two men in

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Speaker 1: a junk truck want to give you a chance to

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Speaker 1: win some bonus box with the National Cash Contest.

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Speaker 3: The keyword is dollar.

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Speaker 1: You can use keyword dollar and potentially win a bunch

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Speaker 1: of them by entering dollar in a KF And it

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Speaker 1: was doing a little steely Dan Ricky, don't lose that number.

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Speaker 1: I just add the song in my head and now

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Speaker 1: I bleep the whole thing up. I basically got to

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Speaker 1: cut the whole segment.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean you have to take it out of

563
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Speaker 3: the podcast, or thirteen people are going to lose jobs.

564
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Speaker 3: So just remember, okay, just don't forget one of those

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Speaker 3: jobs actually in here right now mark the tape ten

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Speaker 3: thirty eight. Okay, yep. An hour thirty eight into the presentation.

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Speaker 3: Well they're talking about again. Oh yeah, So Alan Horton

568
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Speaker 3: on the call this evening with Wolves and Portland Trail Blaze.

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Speaker 3: We got a doubleheader for you this evening on your

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Speaker 3: Audio Leader FN one hundred point three k FAM now

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Speaker 3: at seven fifteen ish tomorrow night from SOFI Stadium in Inglewood, California,

572
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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings will contest Keenan Allen and the LA Chargers.

573
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 3: Keenan can catch passes. Let's just hope he doesn't do

574
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 3: this again. Keenan has been a problem today. Is the

575
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 3: is for most twelve catches one hundred and thirty five

576
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Speaker 3: yards and he is wide left. Now he goes in

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Speaker 3: motion and he will halo behind Herbert, who will throw

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Speaker 3: it to him. Keenan's going to hoole pass two guys

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Speaker 3: wide open, caught twenty five ten five touchdown and we

580
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 3: just got Oki doped. And the touchdown pass by Keenan

581
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 3: Allen the first of his career. And for the LA Chargers,

582
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 3: the receiver Mike Williams on a four forty nine yard touchdown.

583
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Speaker 3: Keenan Allen to Mike Williams, No Minnesota Viking within the

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Speaker 3: vicinity and is twenty to ten. Well, let's let's also

585
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Speaker 3: hope that when you have an opportunity to intercept a pass,

586
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Speaker 3: you actually catch it to win a game, and you

587
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: don't deflect it. First down Chargers, two tight ends to

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Speaker 3: the right, two receivers left, Herbert shotgun blitz again, pass

589
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 3: left and oh if Caleb Evans nearly had an interception.

590
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 3: Really it bounced into the arms of Josh Palmer. Really,

591
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Speaker 3: and the LA Chargers have a serendipitous score. It's a

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Speaker 3: thirty yard touchdown. And by the way, when you're trying

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Speaker 3: to win the game, let's let's make sure you throw

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Speaker 3: it to the right guy. Let's make sure you throw

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Speaker 3: it to the right guy. Twenty two seconds.

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Speaker 1: To go in the game.

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Speaker 4: Kill the clock.

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Speaker 3: Man. Kill it.

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00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean kill the clock. We're trying to get

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Speaker 4: everything set.

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Speaker 3: Up, trying to get nigh out. We burned about five

602
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Speaker 3: or ten extra seconds because of the Kirk shotgun and

603
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Speaker 3: the lists all bouncing about. Intercepted by the Chargers in

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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vike, Jero and Parie are you kidding? Football?

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Speaker 3: Been a Charger, I believe, and was intercepted by a

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Speaker 3: member of the Chargers. Spitted now boy in the end zone.

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Speaker 3: That is Kenneth Murray June's spited now boy. Keenan Allen

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Speaker 3: needs football immortality. Thirteenth year from cal So. He's thrown

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Speaker 3: five passes during his career and he's completed one. And

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Speaker 3: you just heard it to Mike Williams at US Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 3: We got the old Oki dok is what it is?

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Speaker 3: Six versus Minnesota for immortality. He averages ten catches a game,

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Speaker 3: one hundred and nineteen yards per game, with four receiving

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Speaker 3: touchdowns and the only passing touchdown. As we just mentioned

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Speaker 3: now that center Bradley Boseman I mentioned, eighth year from Alabama.

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Speaker 3: He's played one hundred and twenty games, one hundred and

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Speaker 3: one starts with Baltimore Carolina and the Chargers. He's a

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Speaker 3: tough customer. Bobby Heart I tackle. Perhaps he's made two

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Speaker 3: starts in four years. Austin Deculus their left tackle. Now

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Speaker 3: I think Joe All comes back in play, so one

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Speaker 3: of these guys takes an l but Deculus third year

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Speaker 3: from LSU. They were so stuck at offensive line they

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Speaker 3: traded with Houston like a month and a half ago

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Speaker 3: for a backup offensive lineman. And now Deculus has made

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00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,719
Speaker 3: five starts, three with the LA Chargers, and he's been

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Speaker 3: in the league three years, So like that's not a

627
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Speaker 3: lot of starts. Zion Johnson their left guard, fourth year

628
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Speaker 3: from Boston College, first round pick in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: He's good. He's becoming one of the best guards in

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Speaker 3: the NFL. Mark my words. And the reason I say

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Speaker 3: it is one major thing for their left guard, Zion

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Speaker 3: Johnson that really impresses me is in his first season,

633
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Speaker 3: his rookie season. He's a first round pick. He's a beefeater.

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Speaker 3: He was called for twelve penalties, nine were accepted.

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Speaker 4: His rookie year. He generated twelve zero flags, three declined,

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Speaker 4: nine accepted as of this year. As of now, I

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Speaker 4: think he has two against him, maybe three and only

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Speaker 4: four last year, so the penalties have come way back

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Speaker 4: for their left guards. Ion Johnson, he can be a handful.

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Speaker 4: Arondez Gadsden the second number eighty six for them. He's

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Speaker 4: a tight end who has a little wiggle to him.

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Speaker 4: That's around rookie from Syracuse. Old schoolers may remember his father,

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Speaker 4: Aronde Gadsden, the first He played six years in the

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Speaker 4: NFL with the Miami Dolphins. Their top two wide receivers,

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Speaker 4: Quinton Johnston and Keenan Allen, have combined for nine touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: Like our top two receivers Jefferson and Addison have a

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Speaker 4: combined two. These guys have a combined nine touchdowns. The

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Speaker 4: LA Chargers, they're the only team in the league that

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Speaker 4: has I think it's five guys off to look this up,

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Speaker 4: it's five guys would like at least one or two touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Well, you got Keenan Allen or Quinton Johnston five. Lad

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Speaker 3: McConkey has two. Gadsden has won and yeah, I'll look

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Speaker 3: that up in a minute. But for their offense to

654
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Speaker 3: land the plane, here, Justin Herbert with with rookie Amarion

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Speaker 3: Hampton on ir with that ankle. Justin Herbert leads the

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Speaker 3: LA Chargers in rushing yards with active players, and he

657
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Speaker 3: had he had a forty one long last game. Yeah,

658
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Speaker 3: so he's still out there cooking. Now. My man has

659
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Speaker 3: thrown five pick sixes and the Dolly Haskin, and we're

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Speaker 3: happy for both those guys.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Haskins is going to play based on

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Speaker 1: the d NPS through two with the Hammy.

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Speaker 3: Good point and trade. They just traveon Johnson. They just

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Speaker 3: assigned a running back to their practice squad, So you're

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Speaker 3: probably right. Khalil Mack has played four years. He's in

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Speaker 3: his twelfth year. Khalil Mack, He's immortality. Spent four with

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Speaker 3: the Raiders, four with the Bears, and now he's in

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Speaker 3: his fourth with the LA Chargers. Which team do you

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Speaker 3: think he amassed his most sacks his first four with Oakland,

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Speaker 3: his middle four with the Bears, or his current four

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Speaker 3: with the LA Chargers. The con I.

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Speaker 1: Would immediately guess the Bears. I assume you're going down

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Speaker 1: a road here of how productive he's been with the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: But it just felt like he reached his apex or

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Speaker 1: zenith with the Bears. Forty and a half sacks with

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Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders will come in most of his career. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And what else do we have here?

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Speaker 3: Former Gopher Benjamin Saint just he is an interception this

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Speaker 3: year unrestricted from Washington. You mentioned earlier tier tarp zero sacks.

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Speaker 3: They got this tooy Polo all right, third year from

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Speaker 3: USC second round pick in twenty twenty three. I wasn't

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Speaker 3: real familiar with him. Tippolo too, Yeah, yeah, what's to

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Speaker 3: say his last name again? I think it's tiple low too, yeah,

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Speaker 3: something like that. He has five sacks and eighteen sacks

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Speaker 3: and forty one games. This guy's no joke and he's

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Speaker 3: super super fast. I believe he wears number forty five.

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Speaker 3: And we've got Troy Die six year from Oregon. And

688
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 3: what else do we have here? It was a rookie

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Speaker 3: as one of their three safeties are Jay Mickens, sixth

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Speaker 3: round rookie from Clemson. He's playing his fifth game. I

691
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 3: think he can get over the top on him. What

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Speaker 3: about Tib Still Toib tar Heeb Tarhib tar Heeb Still

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Speaker 3: he has zero interception second year from Maryland. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: how about this, let's keep that at zero. I should

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Speaker 3: save this for tomorrow night. But Cam Heart. All right,

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Speaker 3: Cam Heart is one of the four corners they use.

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Speaker 3: He wears number twenty second year from Notre Dame, fifth

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Speaker 3: round pick in twenty twenty four. Zero interceptions in his career.

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Speaker 3: That's not the first to go a year in change

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Speaker 3: without having any interceptions. My man's last inner reception took

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Speaker 3: place four and a half years ago in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: when he played a Notre Dame on September twenty fifth.

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Speaker 3: He had a couple of interceptions from the arm of

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Speaker 3: Graham Mertz, who was the quarterback for Wisconsin. So the

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Speaker 3: only way that gets into the game called Tomorrow Night

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Speaker 3: is if cam Hart has an interception. Otherwise it'll stay

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Speaker 3: on the nine to noon cutting floor. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, short segment here nine to noon and it's new.

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Speaker 1: six pm. Wolves making their season debut. That's going to

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Speaker 1: be a late one in Portland, Saint Thomas, the University

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Speaker 1: of Saint Thomas, a couple of cool things coming their

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Speaker 1: way for the Tommies. Is a the provisional period from

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Speaker 1: a Division one standpoint, that's over, so hockey and hoops

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Speaker 1: and everybody involved, playoffs in play and just the journey

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Speaker 1: of all of that going D one making that change.

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Speaker 1: Big part of the conversation, a short one, but a

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Speaker 1: fun one that I had with athletics director doctor phil Eston.

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Speaker 1: And they're celebrating because two nights from now, Friday night,

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Speaker 1: they're opening to Lee and Penny Anderson Arena and it's

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Speaker 1: a beautiful, fresh new venue for the Tommies and their

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Speaker 1: sporting programs.

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Speaker 4: And that's where I kind of started things.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on the new facility, mister Eston, and just talk

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Speaker 1: about that journey.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I tell you what, it's been quite a journey.

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Speaker 5: We you know, we started this a couple of years

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Speaker 5: ago with a vision and then a large gift, the

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Speaker 5: largest gift in the history of Minnesota, you know, universities

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Speaker 5: and colleges, Lee and Penny seventy five million dollar commitment,

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Speaker 5: and then you know, really navigating no design construction market,

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Speaker 5: you know, everything else that we've had to navigated over

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Speaker 5: a couple of years. It's really satisfying to know that

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Speaker 5: we're going to finally be competing this weekend. I'll tell

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Speaker 5: you what. As much as anything, that satisfaction was in

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Speaker 5: the faces of the kids as they moved into their

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Speaker 5: spaces over the last couple of weeks. And just to

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Speaker 5: sheer joy that they had on their faces when they

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Speaker 5: saw their new locker rooms and lounges and training spaces

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Speaker 5: and the competition venue is what it's all about ultimately,

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Speaker 5: and so it'll be great experience for our student athletes

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Speaker 5: and for our fans as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Lee and Penny Anderson Arena, hockey and hoops.

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Speaker 1: I believe fifty three hundred or so seats.

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Speaker 4: What are is there?

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Speaker 1: Is there a favorite thing about the new facility. I

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Speaker 1: just pictured the idea.

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Speaker 4: It's like a new car, it's like a new house.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned that, you mentioned the student athletes themselves

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Speaker 1: how excited they are for the new facilities there anything

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Speaker 1: as you look at it, you're like, man, I'm glad

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Speaker 1: this is part of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I tell you what that For me,

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Speaker 5: it's the memories that are going to be made right,

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Speaker 5: and we were able to design this in a way

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Speaker 5: that it feels like it belongs to campus. It feels

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Speaker 5: like it's been there for one hundred years. The design

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Speaker 5: and architecture is similar to what you see on our

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Speaker 5: campus limestone siding and the Gothic architecture. But I tell

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Speaker 5: you what, the memories that we know we're going to create.

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Speaker 5: We've been playing off campus hockey forever and you know

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Speaker 5: that now we can invite our alumni back to campus,

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Speaker 5: give our students an opportunity to engage in Our student

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Speaker 5: sections are going to be full now or before it

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Speaker 5: was difficult to them to get to you know, get

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Speaker 5: to Mendota Heights, to the Saint Toom's Academy. So those

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Speaker 5: are the things that I'm looking forward as much as anything.

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Speaker 5: And then of course celebrating all the milestones along the way.

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Speaker 5: And we've had some milestones over the last couple of

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Speaker 5: years that we've celebrated as we moved the reclassification, and

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Speaker 5: this is another one as we continue on this commission

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Speaker 5: on journey.

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Speaker 1: No, I love that, and congratulations again on completing the project.

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Speaker 1: Friday night, you're going to have Lee and Penny Anderson

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Speaker 1: arena opening, go to tommysports dot com and just learn

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Speaker 1: more about the new venue.

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Speaker 4: It's it's terrific now you mentioned it.

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Speaker 5: Yes, well, we stall tickets the veil a couple of

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Speaker 5: tickets available. You know, I just want to mention that,

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Speaker 5: you know, the the arena sitelines are unbelievable, but we

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Speaker 5: do have less than one hundred tickets available for Friday night.

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Speaker 5: So those that are interested in your right times sports

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Speaker 5: dot com is the spot to find them and we

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Speaker 5: hope to see a Friday night and if not Friday,

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Speaker 5: we'll return against Providence on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: And with that said, what they're watching right now is

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Speaker 1: a full D one. Products serve four years of Division one,

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Speaker 1: but it's kind of your D one and name only.

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Speaker 5: What is it?

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Speaker 1: What has it been like making the jump, the challenge

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Speaker 1: of fitting in and then also, as you've mentioned, with

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Speaker 1: at least you know, hockey and hoops and you've had

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Speaker 1: some success along the way as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the last four years, in this provisional

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Speaker 5: period that we've been in, as we've been with classifying,

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Speaker 5: we've really doubled down on culture that's been important to

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Speaker 5: us and we believe that our best I guess defense,

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Speaker 5: if you will, against the transfer portal has been making

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Speaker 5: sure that the culture has been strong and as student

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Speaker 5: athletes love being in the locker room and loved the

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Speaker 5: coaches and love their students, their their teammates, and because

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Speaker 5: of that, I think we've had some success. The culture

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Speaker 5: has been one of those ingredients that's led on court,

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Speaker 5: on field, on ice, whatever success, and we have experienced

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Speaker 5: some of that, maybe sooner than some may have thought

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Speaker 5: we would, but we've won several conference championships. Both of

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Speaker 5: our men's basketball, men's hockey last year competed in the

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Speaker 5: conference championship game. You know, they win that, they win

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Speaker 5: the tournament, the conference tournament, and so it has been

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Speaker 5: a little bit of a journey. But now this year

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Speaker 5: we've got an opportunity to go on in advance to

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Speaker 5: postseason play, represent the subhimate League and the university at

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Speaker 5: the INSTABA Championship play. So excited about those opportunities now

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Speaker 5: as well for our student athletes and for our fans.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, yeah, and going into it, you knew that the

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Speaker 1: provisional period would be what it was. There had to

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Speaker 1: be a moment specifically, you know, with with the hockey

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Speaker 1: team and the hoop squad being on the brink not

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Speaker 1: having that extra step then that that you now have,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you are now a full D one member.

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Speaker 1: That must have been kind of frustrating in the moment,

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Speaker 1: even if you knew that would pet tension.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's one of those things that the

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Speaker 5: NCAA laid out pretty clearly to us on the fund

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Speaker 5: that you've got this provisional period and there are certain

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Speaker 5: aspects to that that you're going to just have to

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Speaker 5: live with for a number of years. You know, Franklin,

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Speaker 5: when we first began on this journey, we were told

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Speaker 5: that would take twelve years to fully reclassify from Division

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Speaker 5: three and Division one. We did in four and so,

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Speaker 5: you know, part of the fact that we were able

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Speaker 5: to demonstrate to the NCAA that this is a university's

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Speaker 5: profile and commitment to excellence is one that belongs to

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Speaker 5: the Division one level. But yeah, along the way is,

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Speaker 5: you know, our student athletes really had to believe and

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Speaker 5: they were part of the legacy of building a foundation

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Speaker 5: for future success. And you know, some of those student

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Speaker 5: athletes that committed to Saint Thomas and our seniors on

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Speaker 5: the squad this year even juniors on the squad this

844
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Speaker 5: year committed not knowing if they'd have the opportunity to

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Speaker 5: compete in postseason. So I tell you what, I give

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Speaker 5: them a lot of credit to their commitment, their vision,

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Speaker 5: their dedication because they're at Saint Thomas, because they wanted

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Speaker 5: to be part of the story of building a foundation

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Speaker 5: for the future. And so whether that's in basketball or

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Speaker 5: in hockey, or football or any of our other twenty

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Speaker 5: one sports, you know those student athletes are long going

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Speaker 5: to be remembered as the builders of what is our

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Speaker 5: success in the future.

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Speaker 1: Big thanks to Saint Thomas, the athletic director, doctor phil

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Speaker 1: Eston for giving me a few minutes kind of pumping

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Speaker 1: up the new arena. Nice job with that again, Tommy

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Speaker 1: finale of a road trip before they come home featuring

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Speaker 1: the New Jersey Devils. Here is head coach John Hines

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Speaker 1: with PA this morning talking about some things that the

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Speaker 1: Devils have going for him, some things that he'll have

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Speaker 1: he'll be focused on tonight in the game.

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Speaker 6: Well, they're a quick team. You know, they got some

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Speaker 6: quick water bug type of forwards n F high skills,

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Speaker 6: so they're they're pretty dangerous off the rush. Also, they

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Speaker 6: do a good job because they're quick and fast. They

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Speaker 6: like to get out on the four check and if

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Speaker 6: they can create quick turnovers off of four check, they're

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Speaker 6: looking right for some direct place to the slot. I'd

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Speaker 6: say those are two of their probably biggest assets.

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Speaker 1: And then of course the hoops team is making their

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Speaker 1: season debut.

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Speaker 3: Pump to see the Wolves.

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Speaker 1: Still questionable Anthony Edwards with some backspasms, so looking for

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Speaker 1: health related updates as we near the game tonight, but

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Speaker 1: it is a late one. It's a double feature on

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Speaker 1: the fans, So after the Wild hopefully get two points

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Speaker 1: against those Devils, the Wolves and the Howl get started

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Speaker 1: and hopefully a double I think tip offs.

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Speaker 4: Right around nine pm right here on the fan.

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Speaker 1: Alan Horton on the call for that, you're going to

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Speaker 1: get to hear them get a w against those Blazers.

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Speaker 4: And we have a creature feature tomorrow evening Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Night, seven fifteen KFAM your home for everything funky and

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Speaker 3: fun and live sports audio. It's the Vikings and the

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Speaker 3: Chargers and to discuss that former Minnesota Vikings Titan Byron

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