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Speaker 3: Listening for Paul, Saint George Way. Paul was always a

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know what, rest stops all

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Speaker 2: one of the two things. But in honor of Paul,

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Speaker 2: what we do is, uh, we take offensive positions and

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Speaker 2: him all of his career. So we are to running backs.

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Speaker 2: We've gone quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, tight ends, again,

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Speaker 2: back to wide receivers, and you're winning. And now we're

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Speaker 2: at running backs six healthy lead, six points not really

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Speaker 2: I have thirty six points after t Higgins last time

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Speaker 2: we got together at a couple of touchdowns. Nordo has

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Speaker 2: twenty eight, only eight behind. I mean, shoot, we've still

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Speaker 2: got a lot of weeks to go. It's a two

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Speaker 2: would you like to use this week? In I hop

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Speaker 2: like fashion? And why yeah, I'm taking James Cook. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Dalvin Cook's brother of the Buffalo Bills. This guy is

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Speaker 2: They do a great job with heavy personnel, and they're

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Speaker 2: playing the Miami Dolphins, which are a an abject disaster

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Speaker 2: like that, and it's not just on the field.

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Speaker 3: You hear some stuff about that building and how things

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Speaker 3: to be real thankful that you're not covering the Miami

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Speaker 3: Dolphins on a day to day basis James Cook like

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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills. That's that's my pick, and I'm sure you'll

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Speaker 2: You know what. I'm gonna go second because I want

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Speaker 2: And I gotcha, shut up and up and we move forward.

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Speaker 2: You guys think I'm crazy, Well, we're going to figure

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Speaker 2: out exactly what's up the method of the madness here

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Speaker 2: with your pick for me? Uh, I'm gonna take Jonathan

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Speaker 2: Taylor running back for the Indianapolis Colts games in Berlin.

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Speaker 2: That's the Berlin clip I think with the Falcons. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine next year the Vikings I'm sure will

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Speaker 3: I'll do a profile in many pack you out to

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Speaker 2: How long will it take O'Connell to start looking to

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Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell's hairline and minor will be equally equally moving back.

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, I got you guys gonna leave me

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Dally, Jonathan Taylor got to take him. He's on

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Speaker 4: John Robinson in that same Derek by the way, Yeah right,

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Speaker 4: but it's it's bad for the image of the show.

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Speaker 4: If we were gonna pick Derrick Henry, well, yeah, in

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Speaker 4: particular week. You know what is good for the image

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Speaker 4: of the show the player you're taking.

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Speaker 2: All right, So here's here's my mindset behind it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, well I'm I'm taking Vikings running back

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Speaker 4: Jordan Mason.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Jordan Mason for two touchdowns. Mason, let's call it,

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Speaker 2: me offer a feena fairness and Nordo act. Okay, you

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Speaker 2: are now hoping Aaron Jones does not play. And here's

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Speaker 2: why no, Because when Jones plays, Mason snaps way down.

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Speaker 2: Mason never scores when Aaron Jones plays.

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Speaker 4: But he's he's still going to get in and you've

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Speaker 4: seen from a run standpoint, you have seen that Jordan

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Speaker 4: what Aaron joneson and maybe in the end, I'm picking

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Speaker 4: now where I had the right idea, but it was

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Speaker 4: The Ravens have allowed ten rushing touchdowns in ten games,

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Speaker 4: and this is a feast where it's ripe with opportunity

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Speaker 4: things with takeaway specifically the last few games talked about

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Speaker 4: a healthier secondary, that defensive front can be had, and

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Speaker 2: This is all my tout of Jordan Mason or my

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be Mason into the end zone this weekend,

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Speaker 4: and you can write that down now.

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Speaker 4: But it's gonna be dictated by game flow as whether

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Speaker 4: This is not a team that at any point you're

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Speaker 4: chasing in a ten point deficit. If they're running downhill

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna beat them forty to six.

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Speaker 4: But you can't sit at home and allow Lamar and

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Speaker 4: Just as important as it was a week ago against

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Speaker 4: This hand at home against the Ravens, and the Ravens

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Speaker 4: defensive front can absolutely be had. I don't care if

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Speaker 4: speed advantage for the Vikings, and that ain't Mason. That's

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Speaker 4: certainly Aaron Jones. So I like to catch a run

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Speaker 2: But I truly believe, and a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Of a bit as part of this too, the Vikings

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Speaker 4: are gonna be on the doorstep in this game, and

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be second in goal, and head coach Kevin

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Speaker 4: O'Connell is a guy that learns from moments, and he's

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Speaker 4: gonna learn from a chance when he could have ran

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Speaker 4: Jordan Mason potentially into the end zone to kill some

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Speaker 2: Kill some clock. He chose to pass it, who was incomplete?

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Speaker 4: The Vikings will be at the doorstep on Sunday and

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Speaker 4: he will have learned from that mistake, and in an

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Speaker 4: attempt to kill the clock, Jordan Mason will find his

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Speaker 4: the running backs on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I absolutely love it because Jordan Mason.

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Speaker 2: John Robinson on the table did that. Jordan Mason, what

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Speaker 2: you're doing needs a good game, all right, Jordan Mason

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Speaker 2: needs a good game. Okay. The whole world saw him

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Speaker 2: get trucked in the last game on the pass protection

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Speaker 2: right into the quarterback. Yep. The whole world saw two

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Speaker 2: And Mason tapped himself once like my bad might have

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Speaker 3: The way that Wes Phillips off the coordinator, talked about it,

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Speaker 3: it did sound like that was a running back up responsibility.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So that means, with all due respect, we're not

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Speaker 2: in our playbook. We're not in our playbook. Okay. And

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Speaker 2: with all due respect, you're not Adrian Peterson. Adrian Adrian

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Speaker 2: whole thing didn't really matter that much. Daydream. That's why

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Speaker 2: they never threw to him. That's why his first year

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Speaker 2: Why pass protection, that's right, what goes into third down?

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Speaker 2: So when you're botching two plays where the quarterback turns

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Speaker 2: where is he okay? And that happens twice. You're you're

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Speaker 2: great at that. Jordan Mason needs a big game this weekend.

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Speaker 2: From monitoring the injury report with the Jones not practicing

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Speaker 2: then going limited, we'll see what happens today and off

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Speaker 2: what to Aaron either said via to you guys or

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Speaker 2: my drive buys or O'Connell with the post game at

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Speaker 2: I feel great, You'll be fine. I'll be fine, y'all.

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Speaker 2: And then they don't play, So like, what's your what's

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Speaker 2: your vibe with Aaron Jones this weekend?

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Speaker 3: him to be a little hampered. The fact he didn't

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Speaker 3: was pretty skeptical that he could look like the.

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Speaker 2: Prime Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 3: That he looked like that, you know that I loved

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Speaker 3: of him in Green Bay, and.

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Speaker 2: He looked like that. I mean.

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Speaker 3: It was the first run of the game, an eleven

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Speaker 3: a very big third down, and he gave I mean,

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Speaker 3: he just gave so much energy, injected so much energy

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Speaker 3: to the offense that if he cannot give you that

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Speaker 3: to the conversation, it falls on Jordan Mason to be

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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm just I'm feeling the flow.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize we were still on IHOP. I didn't

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Speaker 4: Let's dictate the pace and I think Jordan Mason needs

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Speaker 2: Last time we spent this much time on IHOP, I

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Speaker 4: Well, it's injuries and it's bits, and the running game

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Speaker 3: When you come to Elk River, and yeah, listen, when

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's completely lost track of what we were

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Speaker 2: the entire building? Was there a lot of cash in that?

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings Audio Network. Thank you, Jay Dubbs. The sounding

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Speaker 2: See the thing is is we we may have cut

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Speaker 2: at Buffalo Wild Wings elk River. Nobody can hear us

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Speaker 2: with you so we can say anything. This is all

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Speaker 2: for you, so welcome everybody. Cole Wiseman, Happy fortieth birthday,

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Speaker 2: Cole Wiseman, Happy fortieth birthday. O wise men, And finally,

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Speaker 2: before we do a little handicapping, your your servers, servers

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Speaker 2: high servers, go ahead, just put there, put your hand

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Speaker 2: in the airback they're servers and bartenders tip tip them nicely, please, Okay,

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Speaker 2: they've been here a long time because they line up

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Speaker 2: for the feast at like six thirty or seven in

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Speaker 2: the morning to get you know, seating up here near

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Speaker 2: this table. Wow. And then they open I think at eight,

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Speaker 2: and I mean people start chugging to datoh one, people

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Speaker 2: start eating to datoh two. Tip the servers and bartenders exponentially.

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Speaker 2: If you're of the cheap variety, Now's not a good

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Speaker 2: time to be cheap. So if you get fifty cents,

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Speaker 2: please give a dollar. All right, servers and bartenders, round

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Speaker 2: of applause for the way they execute their toil. Eagles

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Speaker 2: and Packers. For the Green Bay Packers five two and one,

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Speaker 2: this will be their first game. This is take one

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Speaker 2: for Green Bay Saans tight end Tucker Craft. Yeah, how

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Speaker 2: you guys see this one? That is a tough loss

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Speaker 2: for them.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've I felt like Tucker Craft was becoming

468
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Speaker 3: a top three tight end in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Is that is that overstated? I like it.

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Speaker 4: It really felt like he won his most recent his

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Speaker 4: most recent action prior to the injury.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was like one hundred career game. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's let's just let's think that out top of the

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Speaker 2: head quickly. Who else would it be? Kittle? You got

475
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Speaker 2: Kittle in there. I don't have Kelsey in there anymore.

476
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Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts never was in there. I feel like there's

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Speaker 2: some of the ones in this game at US Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 2: I'd putting them to Rock Bowers, Bowers, Towers. How's Warren?

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Speaker 3: He's good. He's not Bowers, but he's good. What about

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Speaker 3: Kincaid and Buffalo Nope? Receiver only? Yeah, and they benefit

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Speaker 3: about I like, but he struggles to stay healthy?

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Speaker 2: Set time, Welcome down for river ladies and gentlemen. That

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Speaker 2: that's my cousin tang Ray. They had in tanger Ray.

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Speaker 2: Are we still on the radio? Coming up at noon?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Eagles and.

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Speaker 3: Packers with the tipping, Yeah, I look, the Packers are

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Speaker 3: an interesting team, I would say right now, there's a

489
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Speaker 3: lot of a lot of kind of noise around Matt

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Speaker 3: Lafleur's play calling and Jordan Love.

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Speaker 2: I've told you guy that you guys this for a

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Speaker 2: long time.

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Speaker 3: Like there are times where I watch Jordan Love and

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Speaker 3: it's like, man, that guy's impressive. And then there are

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Speaker 3: times where I watch Jordan Love and I'm like, man,

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Speaker 3: this is unsustainable, and it's felt like that for three

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Speaker 3: years for me, and that that is a very tough

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Speaker 3: place to be there. It just doesn't feel like they

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Speaker 3: are complementary to a level that you'd really want. And

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Speaker 3: I you know, the Eagles are interesting. They they added

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Speaker 3: Jalen Phillips, the edge rusher, via the trade deadline. Their

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Speaker 3: defense is gonna give you It's gonna be really difficult

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Speaker 3: at all times. So that is a really tough bounce

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Speaker 3: back matchup for Matt Lafleur and that Packers offense.

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Speaker 2: I feel like you can.

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Speaker 4: Run the ball on the Eagles a little bit now

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Speaker 4: that I'm in the same boat as you with Jordan Love,

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Speaker 4: He's I mean, this is and maybe this is the

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Speaker 4: identity of the team and the way that we would

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Speaker 4: talk about the identity of the Vikings.

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Speaker 2: What identifies the Purple, what identifies.

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Speaker 4: The Packers is they'll roll out and tie the freaking

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Speaker 4: Cowboys in primetime where Jordan Love was electric when Jordan

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Speaker 4: Love made all the throws and the lights were bright

515
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Speaker 4: and he did everything, and he puts forty on the

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Speaker 4: board for the road team, but somehow their defense and

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Speaker 4: trying to usher Michael Parsons back onto the stage in

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Speaker 4: his old building. They somehow allowed a dac and George

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Speaker 4: Pickens and company to do what they do.

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Speaker 2: They'll they'll go out and they'll fight you and fistfight

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Speaker 2: the good teams.

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Speaker 4: You see the way they put the game plan together.

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Speaker 4: It's opening week. A lot has changed the way they

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Speaker 4: beat the kiddies at home. But then they'll do what

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Speaker 4: they did to Rico Daudell and the Panthers and Love.

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Speaker 4: Jordan Love may have thrown two if you just lined

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Speaker 4: up like all the picks, all the bad throws in

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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty five season, Jordan Love might have two

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Speaker 4: of the top five in the same game from how

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Speaker 4: hideous he was against the Panthers. But then now you

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Speaker 4: have high in defending champions in town bright lights, where

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Speaker 4: Jordan Love has kind of started. It feels like to

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Speaker 4: turn a corner and operate a little more efficiently and

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Speaker 4: explosively on that stage.

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Speaker 2: So it's very difficult to handicap.

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Speaker 4: I will say this though, it just kind of feels like,

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Speaker 4: and I hate to look at it this way.

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Speaker 2: Was the Vikings game for the Eagles feels like their

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Speaker 2: get right game? Do you know what I mean? In

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Speaker 2: that regard? And I know Saquon didn't get didn't get loose.

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Speaker 2: He got loose the.

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Speaker 4: Following game in a huge way for them, But just

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Speaker 4: in terms of the get right and the attitude and

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Speaker 4: the Eagles of their own worst enemy, and they got

545
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Speaker 4: all these stars and everybody wants to eat what's up

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Speaker 4: with the QB's kind of weird and he's quiet, but

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Speaker 4: then he just makes these unbelievable plays.

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Speaker 2: So you deal with it, and and maybe ag o line.

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Speaker 4: You just think about myriad issues that you could you

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Speaker 4: could have brought up into that game against the Vikings.

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Speaker 4: With the Eagles, I don't think you can bring those up.

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Speaker 4: And it's only been a few weeks, but just fresh

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Speaker 4: off the buy, they did add some talent, so the

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Speaker 4: GM is putting all of his investment into the stock.

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Speaker 4: The players feel that vibe. They're gonna be better on

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Speaker 4: pass rush. I think the defense with all the young cats,

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Speaker 4: and they've kind of dealt with a few injuries here

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Speaker 4: and there, specifically in the secondary, but they're healthier. I

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Speaker 4: just it's difficult for me to say that the Eagles

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Speaker 4: off the buy are going to roll into Lambeau and

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Speaker 4: get trucked by by this Green Bay bunch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm with you, like I and the Eagles,

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Speaker 3: I mean their defense for me, like I really, you know,

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Speaker 3: by the end of the season, I will wonder if

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Speaker 3: they're just an ascending unit because I mean, you get

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Speaker 3: Brandon Graham, who's obviously old and aging, but I still

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Speaker 3: think that guy is capable in the.

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Speaker 2: Interior, made that Jalen Phillips move.

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Speaker 3: Made the Jalen Phillips Phillips move. Quinjon Mitchell is healthy.

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Speaker 3: Cooper Dejene like I do. I don't think that doesn't

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Speaker 3: do it. He doesn't do a ton for me at

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Speaker 3: this point. But I mean they're linebackers, Zach Campbell and

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Speaker 3: Jihad Campbell, Zach Bond excuse me, Johodd Campbell. Johodd Campbell

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Speaker 3: is one of the best defensive rookies in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Really good in coverage. Just Campbell is yeah, yeah, he is.

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Speaker 2: I like him.

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Speaker 3: And then Vic Fangio, the coordinator, I just think is

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Speaker 3: really really good. So my ascension is really the key

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Speaker 3: word that you're hitting on, because Campbell had trouble earlier

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Speaker 3: in the year, even cracking and getting on the field,

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Speaker 3: and then we saw him and he's making plays like ascension.

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Speaker 2: That's a good word for the Birds.

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Speaker 3: It just feels like defensively with that unit, it could

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Speaker 3: be that way. And then I mean the Packers defense,

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Speaker 3: like there's a reason they brought in us Sante Samuel

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Speaker 3: on a visit yesterday, Like there's a reason they are

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Speaker 3: intrigued with that cornerback, just like Vikings are intriguing in

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Speaker 3: that cornerback. I mean that the defense, you know, I

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Speaker 3: like the coordinator Jeff Hafley, Micah Parsons is who he is.

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Speaker 2: But it doesn't feel like that defense.

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Speaker 3: Has been the dominant unit that it was the beginning

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Speaker 3: of the season, and that that I mean again it's

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Speaker 3: a complimentary thing and just feels like they've lost the

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Speaker 3: conviction in the complimentary nature the way they had it earlier.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a perfect setup for Vikes by next because

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Speaker 2: the Sante Samuel Junior will come up in the mix.

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Speaker 2: And with Alex who writes for the Athletic and the

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Speaker 2: Athletics since its inception, and just this week Alec has

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Speaker 2: a really good breakdown of the game. Vikings or Ravens

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Speaker 2: with a Johnny athletic. We also have a McCarthy related

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Speaker 2: story Redmond and next segment, Jalen Redman is going to

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Speaker 2: get center stage nine to now with some things that

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Speaker 2: Ali chronicle just this week involving Jalen Redman defensive tackle

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Speaker 2: for the Minnesota Vikings. Buffalo Wild Wings up River. We're

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Speaker 2: Fed Beat. Thank you. A Sante Samuell Junior visiting the

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings. Maybe even right now maybe he's working out

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Speaker 2: slash meeting them now, Alec, what do you think is

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Speaker 2: the purpose behind this and what chance would you give

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Speaker 2: it that he doesn't leave Minnesota, that he signs with

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Speaker 2: the team. I'm not sure, you know.

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Speaker 3: I'd give it a chance that it's possible he has

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Speaker 3: other visits planned after this, so he could leave and

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Speaker 3: then ultimately make his decision. So Sante Samuel Junior, twenty

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Speaker 3: six year old cornerback, son of a legend great ball

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Speaker 3: skills and can play the zone coverages that Brian Flores

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Speaker 3: wants to play now. A month now, he's coming back

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Speaker 3: from spinal fusion surgery, throwing a guy back in coming

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Speaker 3: directly off that it's probably gonna take some.

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Speaker 2: Time to work up to it.

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Speaker 3: And then his tackling is not spectacular, and you have

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Speaker 3: a cornerback group right now that has not had the

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Speaker 3: greatest go of it from a tackling perspective. So I

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Speaker 3: definitely there's a chance. From what it sounds like, this

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Speaker 3: is not like something that just surface. I think there's

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Speaker 3: been some mutual interest for some time now, but we'll

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Speaker 3: see how the medicals check out. Adding a cornerback for depth,

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Speaker 3: to me, would make sense just because if Iron Murphy

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Speaker 3: or Isaiah Rodgers were to go down, it gets pretty dicey.

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Speaker 2: So that's what I'd say. And secondly, and finally for

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Speaker 2: Vikes Bikes, Alck once again wrote a really really good story,

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Speaker 2: very touching story at the Athletic and the Athletic dot

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Speaker 2: Com about the Vikings defensive lineman jail In Redmond. Some

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Speaker 2: of it I slash many of you may have known.

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Speaker 2: But when you get the vivid detail of like an

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Speaker 2: X ray and a black circle and then black circles,

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00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: and then somebody who has a very best friend who

651
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 2: dies at age twenty three, somebody who's in Norman, Oklahoma,

652
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 2: just ready to take off and like start life anew

653
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 2: with football and or basketball, but football for sure. And

654
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden they're like they can't breathe

655
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: on their dormitory room floor and you're thinking that, like

656
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 2: everything is over. This Jalen Redmond story, he wrote, man,

657
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: he I didn't realize he had been through as much

658
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 2: as he had. Well, then the calfstrain with the Carolina Panthers,

659
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 2: it's like calf strain, I'm gonna play through it all right, Well,

660
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 2: you ain't playing great, so we're probably just gonna cut you,

661
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: maybe put you on the practice squad. Well that was

662
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 2: blood clot related. Yeah, this is unbelievable.

663
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Jalen Redman, I mean, watching his development since

664
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 3: he arrived.

665
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: You'll remember this, like.

666
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 3: One of the first practices since that he was here

667
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 3: last year last summer, Kevin O'Connell kicked him out of

668
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 3: practice and you're like, oh, man, you wrote that.

669
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: I didn't remember that.

670
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there was like a fight in practice and

671
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 3: Kevin has a rule at the time where like there's

672
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 3: no fighting and he gets thrown out. He's number sixty one.

673
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 3: You're thinking, this guy's got no chance.

674
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: What do you think you are? Tier target?

675
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 3: But but internally they were, they were over the moon

676
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 3: about what they were seeing from him. And then like

677
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 3: you hear about that him being thrown out now and

678
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 3: it's like, well, we kind of like the meanness, the attitude,

679
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 3: the edge that he had even at the time. But yeah,

680
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 3: when this guy has navigated blood clots and then I

681
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 3: you know, people have asked me a lot or over

682
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: the last couple like last year and a half, why

683
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 3: has any changed from numbers sixty one? And I thought,

684
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 3: I've thought the same thing, like it's.

685
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 2: A brutal number.

686
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 3: And so I went up to him in the locker

687
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 3: room a couple of weeks ago, and I was just

688
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 3: messing around, joking around, and I asked him, like, have

689
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: you thought about changing for sixty one? And he told

690
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 3: me the story of when he was in high school,

691
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 3: he wore I believe number six, and his best friend

692
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 3: Juwan Walker wore number one and Joan passed away at

693
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 3: twenty three years old, went to take a nap, passed away,

694
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 3: and so he where he has continued to wear sixty

695
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 3: one to honor his best friend who passed away. And

696
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 3: like when he told me that, yeah, just knowing the

697
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 3: extent of his story and how good he's been, it

698
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 3: was a no brainer story. And he I mean, just

699
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 3: watching him grow and the amount of trust that he

700
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 3: has from teammates and coaches, it's been pretty freaking cool.

701
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 2: And I don't know if if he does And this

702
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: is the last paragraph, last sentence in this story The

703
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 2: Athletic Theathletic dot Com. I don't know if he praised

704
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: this or if he just says it. I do know

705
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 2: Jalen is a person in a prayer because he will

706
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 2: pray occasionally in the locker room or on the sideline,

707
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: but he says, Juan, I wouldn't be here if it

708
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 2: wasn't for you all that that choked me up a

709
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: little bit this morning.

710
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 4: Bro.

711
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 3: Well, he was a basketball player and and like the

712
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 3: coaches and teammates had to really convince him to come

713
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 3: play football. Not that he hadn't played, but it just

714
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 3: he was he was a basketball guy. And Juwan who

715
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 3: was I mean, was one of his best friends, and

716
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 3: like was was huge and kind of.

717
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 2: Convincing him that he should play football.

718
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 3: So it was, yeah, I mean, that was doing the

719
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 3: story on Jalen Redman is the type of story that, like,

720
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 3: you know, it's you don't see it all the time

721
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 3: in football because UDFA guys just don't have this type

722
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: of arc.

723
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 2: And you got to give credit.

724
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 3: I'll just say this, like Ryan Grigson takes a lot

725
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 3: of shots from people just from what But the reason

726
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 3: Jalen Redman is a Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle playing fifty

727
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 3: snats is because Ryan Gregson identified him on film playing

728
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: for the Arlington Renegades.

729
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: That's not to say the drafting it has.

730
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 3: Been perfect to the front office or any of that

731
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 3: but I just I do want to credit how they

732
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: identified him in the first place, and then Brian Flora's

733
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 3: willingness to believe in him once he arrived in the building.

734
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 4: You know, it's cool and your opportunity with the Athletic.

735
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 4: You've written a lot of features on specific players, and

736
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 4: this isn't the first one that has led a story

737
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 4: down the road of tough upbringing, troubled circumstances, finding their

738
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 4: way and accomplishing dreams. But it just kind of makes

739
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 4: me think sometimes, and you saw this the late Kyrie Jackson.

740
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 4: Part of his story just kind of leads me down

741
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 4: a road like how humans encounter and use adversity in

742
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 4: their lives and then how maybe they triumph over it.

743
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 2: I mean, Jalen Redman, will he be a Hall of

744
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: Fame football player? Maybe maybe not.

745
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 4: You know, it's good, it's it's it's it's not been

746
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 4: written yet, but to the end of as a human

747
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 4: in covering you know, not only personal health issues, but

748
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 4: the death of a friend and just the emotion and

749
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 4: everything behind that all while in the end we operate

750
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 4: in a world or for avolity with sports, but trying

751
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 4: to achieve that dream.

752
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 2: You know, people meet crossroads, right and the resistance, and you.

753
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 4: See it a lot in sports where a lot of

754
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 4: these players encountered a hell.

755
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: Of a lot of issues as kids and it.

756
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 4: Wasn't a perfect home and a picket fence, but they

757
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 4: had this gift and for them to lock in focus,

758
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 4: maximize it, whatever the motivation's personally behind it, for them

759
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 4: to overcome some of that stuff.

760
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: It's really cool that you get to write stories like that.

761
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 4: It's just super captivating to me and fascinating kind of

762
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 4: the melting pot of sports locker rooms. How these guys

763
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: get from point A, which starts at different levels, by

764
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 4: the way, but point B finds themselves playing a professional

765
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 4: sport and being very blessed in Douds and I think.

766
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: It's beautiful the way you laid that out, because without

767
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 2: getting into the weeds, you and I in our lives

768
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 2: both have experienced personal tragedy, yeah, recently or throughout the past,

769
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 2: and if we were to really sit here and like

770
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: minister to people or counsel to people or talk to

771
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 2: people like what you went through and what was different,

772
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 2: it's it is. You know, cliches are cliches because they're

773
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: age old and true. So people can be like I

774
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 2: talking cliches, right, whatever, No, Well, you say things because

775
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 2: they're true and they've been true for a long time.

776
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 2: So when I or we say speaking for us, because

777
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be accurate. There are certain

778
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 2: tragedies that hit your life that humble you in ways

779
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 2: you can't see coming. And it also helps you recognize

780
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 2: things that maybe would wind you up to an eight,

781
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 2: nine or ten before now wind you up to a two,

782
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 2: three or four, and you handle them differently. I said

783
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 2: something on the radio the other day, just in passing

784
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: where it's like, I don't prefer to argue. I can

785
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 2: argue if we need to argue, but I don't prefer it.

786
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: In fact, if I'm seventy five, if I think I'm

787
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 2: seventy five percent right, then it's important to me, in

788
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 2: certain facets of my life to be the first to

789
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 2: say I'm sorry, even if I think I'm seventy five

790
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 2: percent right, because it's it's not only the right thing

791
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 2: to do, but it diffuses things, and it causes a

792
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 2: face change, it causes things to settle, so you can

793
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 2: actually accomplish things that but I can't always say that

794
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 2: I was that person you know so so that that

795
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: just so many emotions were triggered by the story that

796
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 2: you wrote. To hear Eric speak the way he did,

797
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: you know, knowing his life as well as I do

798
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 2: over the last decade and change that was beautiful.

799
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: Well, I've thought about It's a way different conversation where

800
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 3: you're talking about like the different upbringings and what guys

801
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 3: have navigated.

802
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 2: Like you look at JJ McCarthy, well with Redman just

803
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 2: to land the plane here, Yeah, the humbling part. Yeah,

804
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 2: I thought for sure I should be drafted. Yeah I was.

805
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 2: I I twenty three year old best friend dies bye

806
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: bye bye. Everybody else you could just tell his perspective change.

807
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've thought a lot about JAJ McCarthy, not within

808
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 3: this conversation, but like this is a guy who grew

809
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 3: up with a great family, a great home, has been

810
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,439
Speaker 3: the star quarterback, played at IMG, went to Michigan. He's

811
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 3: the hero, and so you would think from the outside, man,

812
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: this guy, everything's great, everything's easy, everything's perfect, and then

813
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 3: he suffers the injuries he suffered, and I don't he's

814
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 3: gotten into it a little bit, but the mental I guess,

815
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 3: just challenge hurdle, you know, complication of you've always been

816
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 3: the guy, you know, you suffer the injury, you can't

817
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 3: be with your team, Like there is a serious amount

818
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 3: of adversity within that. And I've just thought about JJ

819
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 3: with this from a he's twenty two years old. Imagine

820
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 3: how hard life was as a twenty two year old anyway,

821
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 3: And you've got some microscopic lends on you. Every throw

822
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: you make, every step you take, every word you speak.

823
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 2: It is a It is a tough place to be.

824
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: And I I credit him honestly for like, that's what

825
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 3: I was thinking about a lot coming out of that game.

826
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 3: Is you navigate being out again five weeks out and

827
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 3: he comes back, comes back and performs in the spotlight

828
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 3: like that.

829
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: It has not been an easy road for him.

830
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 3: Different conversation, just something that's you know, it's it's gone

831
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 3: through my mind.

832
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 2: Tell me and closing here, tell me this alter Ego

833
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: nine thing is not gonna have legs. And I and

834
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you why. I hope it doesn't have legs.

835
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 2: It's not him, Okay, I don't know why he said

836
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: what he said. The the the scal the the unbelievable

837
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 2: video with O'Connell giving him the ball and the meme

838
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 2: mugging and yeah me and all that. Okay that you know,

839
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 2: that's he's a child. Okay, he's a child playing a

840
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 2: man's game, still growing up, Yes, childlike qualities, while being

841
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 2: very gifted and good at what he does. But this

842
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 2: nine alter ego thing, that thing's domo. Hope it doesn't

843
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 2: get legs. Yeah, I don't know. It was kind of

844
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: out of nowhere in the Prescotte. It's not him. I'm

845
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 2: just telling you right now, it's not him.

846
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 4: It was just Betty Feel's moments like I don't think,

847
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 4: I don't think it's false.

848
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 2: But it's but it's there. Yeah, No, it's gaining traction

849
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 2: in a way that I'm the same. Yeah, I'm just

850
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: saying that is not him. I here's the thing.

851
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 3: I remember, maybe in August I wrote a story about

852
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 3: JJ and in it it was like, he's still a kid.

853
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 2: And I remember there were people.

854
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 3: Who replied to the story and they're like, why do

855
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 3: you keep calling him a kid? Yeah, we're really mad

856
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 3: about that. Well, he's twenty two years old, and so

857
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 3: there is a lot of at that time growth learning

858
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: development that has to go on, and so what you

859
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 3: know what he says, what he does. He's not going

860
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 3: to be perfect in the games. He's not gonna be perfect.

861
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 3: He's twenty two. There's a lot of growth. It's like

862
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 3: any of us at twenty two years old, if everything

863
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 3: we said and everything we did was documented, you'd probably

864
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 3: be like.

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Speaker 2: What in the world. Thank goodness social media.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know whether the nine thing catches on.

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Speaker 3: I will say this, I like this. Justin Jefferson was

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Speaker 3: asked about it. They said, you know, our team has

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Speaker 3: a lot of nice guys, and sometimes we kind of

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Speaker 3: need the dog to come out within our team.

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Speaker 2: And I like that, Like, this is football.

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Speaker 3: I know I'm this nerdy, you know, journalist guy, but

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Speaker 3: this is football. It requires some absolute kind of you know,

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Speaker 3: borderline moniacal behavior to perform on Sunday. And so if

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Speaker 3: that's where he the place JJ has to go to

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Speaker 3: do that, and that galvanizes the group.

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of for that. Alex lewis the athletic Matt producer.

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Speaker 2: Alan Nine to Noon is the radio show of Buffalo

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Speaker 2: Wild Wings up River, and we head into the final

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Speaker 2: hour of the presentation. After this