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Speaker 1: Hello, you're on the air. Are you not the Morning pay?

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Speaker 2: Hey? What's going on? Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Box in the Box from Tree or Rink,

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Speaker 3: the practice home for your Minnesota Wild. I'm Paul Allen,

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Speaker 3: Nordo produces and fanduels. Kevin gorg is here with us

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Speaker 3: and we start the show with Minnesota Wild head coach

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Speaker 3: John Hines.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? John, Good to seeing in person, my brother.

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Speaker 4: Great to see you.

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Speaker 3: It's been a while, and thanks for everything during the

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Speaker 3: course of the season. I know you got the Olympic

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Speaker 3: break coming up soon, not necessarily a break for you,

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Speaker 3: but it's great to be out here for a Box

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Speaker 3: in the Box twenty six, twelve and nine through forty

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Speaker 3: seven of them. Just a general question, how do you

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Speaker 3: feel about the team's lot in life with eleven to

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Speaker 3: play before that Olympic break.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like we're in a you know, we're

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Speaker 5: in a spot. It's uh, you know. I really like

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Speaker 5: how we've kind of come out from the break. I

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Speaker 5: think that we've played some pretty good hockey fund a

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Speaker 5: way to get some points. I'd like to see a

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Speaker 5: little bit more, you know, with these last eleven before

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Speaker 5: the break some some consistency to our game and get

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Speaker 5: back to, you know, winning a little bit more than

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Speaker 5: we have the last couple of games.

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Speaker 1: Coach, when you're playing this league eighty two games, the

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Speaker 1: team that's most desperate on a lot of evenings ends

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Speaker 1: up having the edge. I think you're going to face

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Speaker 1: a team tonight in Winnipeg that's probably gonna be as

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Speaker 1: desperate as any team you'll face in the next eleven.

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Speaker 1: You're kind of locked into that two to three spot

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Speaker 1: right now in this division, the best division in hockey.

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Speaker 1: How do you keep your team desperate?

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Speaker 4: Well, we want to we want to continue to grow

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Speaker 4: our game.

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Speaker 5: I think we all know over the course of eighty

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Speaker 5: two games there's there's some ebbs and flows to the season.

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Speaker 4: But I'm a big believer in just in focusing on.

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Speaker 5: What's next and making sure that you know, our group

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Speaker 5: is challenged and ready to play and compete every night.

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Speaker 5: And you know, the most important thing is you have

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Speaker 5: to continue to get better as the season goes on.

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Speaker 5: And I think us it's not so much where we

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Speaker 5: sit now, but building our game, building up the individual players,

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Speaker 5: making sure that our game is growing, we continue to win,

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Speaker 5: we continue to get better because the team we are now,

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Speaker 5: we want to be a better team than we are,

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Speaker 5: you know, at the end of the season. So that's uh,

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Speaker 5: I think that's the motivation and that's our focus.

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Speaker 3: Are you finding it difficult to focus on the Jets

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Speaker 3: game this evening and the Sabers game Saturday, when the

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Speaker 3: Patriots play the Houston Texans this weekend, and the National

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Speaker 3: Football League playoffs?

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Speaker 2: And I know you love the Patriots and I know

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Speaker 2: you love the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, this is a great time year obviously to watch sports,

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Speaker 5: and whether it's the NFL or the you know, college football,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fun.

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Speaker 5: I think it's uh, you know, when you're involved in

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Speaker 5: the intensity of the games, of watching other coaches and

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Speaker 4: So it's a it's an exciting weekend for us obviously

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Speaker 4: to play, but it's also I think a good sports

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Speaker 3: Fan when you get to chat with other head coaches

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Speaker 3: of say pro teams, so Kevin O'Connell Vikings, Chris Finch,

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Speaker 3: And the reason I bring it up is when the

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Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell and Chris Finch came together for the first

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Speaker 5: Yeah, very much. So I think it's you know, being

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Speaker 5: it's always it's always important to do that, particularly in

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: And KG is so close to the team and with

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say here. But there's so much more

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Speaker 3: and here's why. You know, it's just managing so much,

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Speaker 5: I think the you know, the uh, you know, the

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Speaker 5: I think for coaches practices, but there is a lot

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Speaker 5: sure that things run well. Yeah, it's how you travel,

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Speaker 5: team for the x's and o's. But there's so many

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Speaker 3: O John is an assistant for the USA Olympic team. First,

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Speaker 3: what an honor and does Secondly, have you ever been

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Speaker 5: No, it's a great honor and I'm, you know, so

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Speaker 5: thankful for the opportunity, and I've had multiple opportunities to

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Speaker 3: That's great And there's so much sight seeing that that

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Speaker 2: Will you have any time to do that?

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Speaker 5: But I think in my experiences in these type of events,

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Speaker 3: Here's the suggestion Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci's mural the

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Speaker 3: Last Supper at Santa Maria del Grazzi Convent. I mean

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Speaker 3: that could be a once in a lifetime right there.

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Speaker 3: It's Leonardo da Vinci. You're kidding me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm impressive with your uh wow, with your Italian

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Speaker 1: One of the guys they'll be on the bench with

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Speaker 1: you is Quinn Hughes. You've had a month now of

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Speaker 1: time with him here in Minnesota with the wild What

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Speaker 5: I would say his his his competitiveness. I think you

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Speaker 3: Coach, I want to take a different angle to the

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Speaker 3: question Kevin just asked. Because Quinn's been here now about

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Speaker 3: Is there is there part of your job that maybe

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Speaker 5: I think in the beginning they might have there might

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Speaker 4: Little bit more seamless.

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Speaker 5: Probably easier for Quinn, but I think also easier for

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Speaker 3: John Hines, coach of the Minnesota Wild Box in the

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Speaker 3: seven o'clock puck drop. Listen to it on KFA and

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Speaker 1: On Monday, we saw Zach Bagosh and Juel ericson I

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Speaker 1: take part in morning skate. They look the part. You know,

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Speaker 1: you said day to day, how are they coming along?

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Speaker 1: Will either one of those guys be available tonight against Winnipeg.

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Speaker 4: They're both coming along really well.

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Speaker 5: So they're going to do a little skate here prior

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Speaker 3: With the with the Jets this evening. Minnesota's looking to

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Speaker 3: sweep the Jets in the season series for the first

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Speaker 3: time since twenty eighteen. Twenty nineteen, and Winnipeg maybe last

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Speaker 3: in the division, but it's gotten hot of late. This

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Speaker 3: division is just so rock solid from top to bottom.

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Speaker 3: What do you see in the Jets?

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Speaker 4: They you know, I think they're playing really well.

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Speaker 5: I mean the games that we've played them have been

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Speaker 5: they're a good team. They play with good structure. I think,

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Speaker 5: HELLI Buck's playing well. Now, you know, the their top

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Speaker 5: I think when you're if you're if you're generating offense

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Speaker 4: Just make sure we continue to move forward the right way.

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Speaker 3: Marcus Felino joins the radio show about ninety minutes from now,

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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills fan, Buffalo New York native. You guys played

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Speaker 2: On that trip?

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Speaker 1: I'm on the trip.

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Speaker 3: We'll be at the Anchor Bar on We'll be watching

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get there time to watch the second half

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Speaker 2: You're the best man, all right, thanks, tear it up?

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Speaker 3: Coach John Hines, coach of the Minnesota Wild starting our

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Speaker 3: Marcus Felino joins later. Likewise for RUSSO Radio, Ryan Carter

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Speaker 3: as he has for at least a couple of years now,

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Speaker 2: They've won three in a row last in our division.

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Speaker 3: Like coach Heines said, if you break down some of

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Speaker 3: Hellabuck was bad for a long stretch of this season.

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Speaker 3: When I started researching this, I'm like, damn man, if

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Speaker 2: One of them. I put it in there, but like

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was like bottom three and then he

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Speaker 7: So stupid question at a global level, Gorgy, what had

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Speaker 7: What has gone wrong in total? When you see something

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Speaker 1: are in town, the family is there, that've got part

440
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Speaker 1: of one of the sections reserved for the US Gang,

441
00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 1: and it's a big deal. And then you can feel

442
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Speaker 1: that in that interview with Quinn, he's kind of opening

443
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Speaker 1: up a vein a little bit talking about how special

444
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Speaker 1: this is. So no, it's cool. It was awesome. Unfortunately,

445
00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 1: what was kind of an entertaining game for forty minutes

446
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 1: got away from Minnesota in the third pier when the

447
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,920
Speaker 1: Devil scored those quick goals to get up five to one.

448
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,159
Speaker 1: No one's going to panic around here. This is a

449
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,760
Speaker 1: great hockey team. They are going through a stretch. And

450
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Speaker 1: I loved your question to Coach Hines about Puck Cluck.

451
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: You're going to go through ups and downs to the year.

452
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Speaker 1: I do think this is a sneaky big game because

453
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Speaker 1: this road trip that they're going on, you know, it's

454
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Speaker 1: not the fourteen day odyssey we saw last month, but

455
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Speaker 1: it's it's three games and four nights. Buffalo's the hottest

456
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Speaker 1: team in hockey. Really think about that. Tage Thompson, though

457
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,240
Speaker 1: fourteen to two in their last sixteen geez and Montreal

458
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Speaker 1: and Toronto are both rolling those that you talk about seriously, No,

459
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Speaker 1: and obviously Buffalo on SAT is, you know, such a

460
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Speaker 1: great sports town. It's gonna be jumping.

461
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Speaker 7: The goaltending, the tandem, the duo, the wall of Saint

462
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Speaker 7: Paul and then Gus Buss. As good as their run

463
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Speaker 7: has been, it feels like it hasn't been on that

464
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Speaker 7: terrific heater that we saw over maybe a fifteen seventeen

465
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Speaker 7: game stretch, even a couple of weeks ago. And the

466
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Speaker 7: only reason I truly know that because you look statistically,

467
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Speaker 7: you're like, all right, these guys are damn good, and

468
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Speaker 7: certainly we love what we have here. From look is

469
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 7: a wedgwood in Blackwood that the dynamic duo in Colorado

470
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Speaker 7: do they just have everything?

471
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Speaker 1: I'm just curious.

472
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Speaker 7: You know, you relent at all over you know, in

473
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Speaker 7: two weeks is not a small sample size, and it

474
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Speaker 7: just feels like you're a mile away from what the

475
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Speaker 7: ABS are continuing to do.

476
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Speaker 1: Here in the West.

477
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Speaker 7: So where are we at in terms of that dynamic

478
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Speaker 7: tandem between the pipes. Has there been any might you say,

479
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Speaker 7: just kind of leveling out or regression or is again

480
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Speaker 7: that just kind of over analyzing what appears and hopefully

481
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Speaker 7: is a short term stretch.

482
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Speaker 1: Oh, there had to be some leveling off. I think

483
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Speaker 1: the bar that they set, say a percentageump near ninety

484
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: six ninety seven, is not something that's long term sustainable.

485
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Speaker 1: And they had that incredible run well over a month

486
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Speaker 1: where they just were trading punches and playing at this

487
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Speaker 1: incredible level and the team reap the benefits. And now

488
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Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, to your point, Nordo,

489
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Speaker 1: it has leveled off. And I think if you talk

490
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Speaker 1: to both of these guys individually, they're not preparing any differently.

491
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Speaker 1: It is I think a good time right now for

492
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Speaker 1: a reset. And I think both these guys right now

493
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Speaker 1: look at the well the next four games. You look

494
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Speaker 1: at the game tonight against Winnipeg, the tough road trip

495
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: that takes you to Buffalo, Toronto and Montreal. They're likely

496
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Speaker 1: going to each get a couple of starts along the way.

497
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Speaker 1: This is one of those sneaky, all right reset points

498
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Speaker 1: in the season, not just for the hockey team, but

499
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Speaker 1: for the goaltenders to get back to where they were,

500
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Speaker 1: at least close to where they were, because in the

501
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: last six seven games you're seeing three four five bucks

502
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: go in. Not gonna win a lot in this league.

503
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Speaker 1: When you give up more than three.

504
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Speaker 7: Maybe the dumbest question that you'll get all day. And

505
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Speaker 7: I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but a couple

506
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 7: of weeks ago, team gets much healthier. You reinsert four

507
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Speaker 7: or five bodies that you want into the mix, and

508
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Speaker 7: I'm just thinking, was is there any potential where it's

509
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Speaker 7: impacted things in terms of the chemistry and reacclimating, because

510
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Speaker 7: it felt like, I'd say early December, Let's just say

511
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 7: a month ago, there was immense urgency and then you

512
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Speaker 7: add Hughes and then boom, you're off to the races.

513
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Speaker 7: Right then you get super healthy, and now you're trying

514
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Speaker 7: to reintegrate all these names and faces that we love

515
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Speaker 7: and we're gonna want them in April and May and

516
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Speaker 7: hopefully June.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

518
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Speaker 7: But in the same sense, I just wonder if that

519
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Speaker 7: reintegration process from Hines's standpoint and just putting this thing

520
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Speaker 7: out on the ice every other night, how that impacts

521
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Speaker 7: things and maybe in the short term does that play

522
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Speaker 7: into We're trying to figure some things out.

523
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Speaker 1: The challenge you run into is it's great getting those

524
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Speaker 1: bodies back, It's great having Quinn Hughes. Do you get comfortable?

525
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Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is in this league,

526
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Speaker 1: when you play one of eighty two every night, I

527
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: get back to the parody in the league and the

528
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 1: separation that there is from top to bottom, there isn't much.

529
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Speaker 1: If you're not playing with complete desperation and playing on point,

530
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Speaker 1: things could go pair shaped. And the other factor here,

531
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Speaker 1: at least recently the last couple of games is I'll

532
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Speaker 1: stand by it. You take Jewel Erksinak out of this lineup,

533
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: yeah they are a completely different team. You go back

534
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: and watch the last couple of games, and yes they've

535
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Speaker 1: had chances. Yes Soroken was great in that Islander game,

536
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Speaker 1: and yes they missed a few open nets against Markstrom

537
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Speaker 1: and New Jersey. What's been missing more than anything else,

538
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Speaker 1: net Front presence, jewel Ericsonak drags everybody into the fight.

539
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Speaker 1: And I know that you can make an argument right now,

540
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Speaker 1: Boldy Resov and Quinn Hughes who's the best player on

541
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Speaker 1: the Wild And you can sit in the bar, have

542
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 1: a beer with your buddies, and you can argue about

543
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: that for hours, and it's a great argument. I will

544
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: tell you the most valuable player on this roster continues

545
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: and will continue to be jul Eric Sinak, face offs,

546
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: penalty kill, NetFront, battle level, it's all there. And so

547
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Speaker 1: if he is indeed able to play tonight, it is

548
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Speaker 1: a huge boost for Minnesota.

549
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Speaker 7: And that is iffy right. That is an on the

550
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Speaker 7: fence situation with.

551
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Speaker 1: I was hoping he would be back, and I think

552
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Speaker 1: all of us talked here in the last couple of

553
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Speaker 1: days getting ready for the broadcast, like we thought he

554
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Speaker 1: might be back. I chatted with Wes bya text yesterday.

555
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Speaker 1: John Hines's answer was really vague, so I was confident

556
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Speaker 1: he would be until I asked the question when coach

557
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Speaker 1: was with us, And now I guess I want to watch,

558
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Speaker 1: not only now the little skate coming up, the skate

559
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Speaker 1: coming up with Andy Ness, who does a phenomenal job.

560
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Speaker 1: He's out there right now, are skating and skills coach,

561
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Speaker 1: and then let's see how they're integrated into practice, because

562
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Speaker 1: when they get to line rushes here somewhere around ten

563
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Speaker 1: thirty ten, that might be the tell.

564
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Speaker 3: Did you happen to come across that that story about

565
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Speaker 3: the ebug in Chicago? The emergency backup goalie. I mean,

566
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Speaker 3: my man's in a men's hockey league down the street

567
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Speaker 3: from the United Center, So cool and illness flies through

568
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Speaker 3: the Blackhawks locker room. They're down two goaltenders. They elevate

569
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Speaker 3: one from the AHL and then they find Beer league

570
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Speaker 3: guy who's like a boat prey, Connor Beauprey, who we've

571
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Speaker 3: seen at Xcel Energy Center, Grand Casino, Arena, Trio and everything.

572
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Speaker 3: But you, being a former goaltender, can you imagine I

573
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Speaker 3: forgot the guy's last name, but can you imagine if

574
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Speaker 3: the AHL guy got nicked up and this guy had

575
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Speaker 3: to go into the game against Avechkin.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it though, right like we saw the Zamboni

577
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: driver come in and beat Toronto. Yeah, it's it's a

578
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: fascinating part of the NHL way behind the scenes. It

579
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Speaker 1: almost never happens. It's it's like an eclipse of the sun.

580
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Speaker 1: But when it does, it beas comes the story throughout

581
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Speaker 1: the league.

582
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Speaker 7: The one quick question on that though with bou Prey, Yeah,

583
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Speaker 7: he would. He's the ebug at Grand Casino Arena. Yes,

584
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Speaker 7: So if the other team required, would he potentially have

585
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Speaker 7: to put a sweater on and play for let's say,

586
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 7: super awful things happened throughout the day. We're not rooting

587
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 7: for that, no, but but he could potentially have to

588
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Speaker 7: put a Jets for scenario, he puts a Jets sweater on.

589
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Speaker 7: So he's kind of like the facility. He's the venue

590
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Speaker 7: e bug.

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Speaker 1: For either team. He is, and wow, you know he's

592
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Speaker 1: practiced with the Wild when there are stretches during the season,

593
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: when a goalie needs a day off, that's a Confl's

594
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Speaker 1: not around. He slides right out there. You're right. His dad,

595
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: legendary goalie for the for the North Stars, took him

596
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: to the Stanley Cup back in the early eighties.

597
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Speaker 3: So Donny Bopray, Wait, don Bouprey was the goaltender for

598
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Speaker 3: the Wild when they played Lemieux and the Stars.

599
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Speaker 1: When they played Vin Malash with a one two punch.

600
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Speaker 2: So was that trote a pot? Ben Bossy the four

601
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Speaker 2: year run.

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Speaker 7: That well, I thought it was a three p He

603
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 7: was four straight, four straight and Arstar's got a run over,

604
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Speaker 7: and they did get a win.

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Speaker 1: They got a run over in five games.

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Speaker 3: Kevin gorg Fan Duel Fan Duel television joining nine to

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Speaker 3: noon out of the Gate. We had John Hines on

608
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Speaker 3: the radio show earlier Moose. Marcus Feleno joins at eleven,

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Speaker 3: how's he getting along these days?

610
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Speaker 1: Get along great?

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Speaker 4: You know.

612
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Speaker 1: He scored a goal a little while ago, which I

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Speaker 1: think really helped his confidence. He's not here specifically to

614
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Speaker 1: provide offense, but he brings the energy, he brings the emotion.

615
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Speaker 1: He's one of the leaders of this team. So it

616
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Speaker 1: was great to see him get a puck and have.

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Speaker 2: It going at that.

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Speaker 1: But listen, you're gonna have more fun talking with him.

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Speaker 1: He's one of my very favorite all time in my

620
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Speaker 1: twenty years of doing the skies to sit down and

621
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Speaker 1: chat with yea because he will talk about the Buffalo Bills,

622
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: he will talk about his beautiful three daughters, life away

623
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Speaker 1: from hockey, face off great, and his brother and that

624
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: whole charity drive. It's it's phenomenal. And I think, you know,

625
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that he's made for for

626
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Speaker 1: for media hits, whether it's radio or TV.

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Speaker 3: Do you think you know because last time we chatted

628
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Speaker 3: with you on the radio and and I credited you

629
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Speaker 3: within the last couple of days promoting Box in the

630
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 3: Box saying, holy cow, Senior Spotty really saw that thing clearly.

631
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Speaker 3: He basically guaranteed to win and Seattle to finish the

632
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Speaker 3: long trip.

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Speaker 2: And well, yeah you did.

634
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Speaker 1: I said it was easier the too, for sure, right.

635
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Speaker 2: And then you were like concerned about the Islanders game

636
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 2: and they lost that game. Well, then they lose to

637
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Speaker 2: the Devils.

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Speaker 3: No, granted the Devils had beaten him like five or

639
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Speaker 3: six consecutive, but do you think maybe there's a chance

640
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: that it took like two games after that long trip

641
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 3: to kind of get everything going again or.

642
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: Was it just one of those nights?

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Speaker 1: I do think to tell that the coaching staff had

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Speaker 1: And this is why I asked John the question in

645
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Speaker 1: our first segment. The fatigue factor of that trip when

646
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Speaker 1: you get back and you change time zones and you

647
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: try to reacclimate in a lot of these guys have

648
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Speaker 1: young kids at home in different schedules when they're at

649
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Speaker 1: home compared on the road. I believe the tell was

650
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Speaker 1: they took the last two days off, and this is

651
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Speaker 1: something we have not seen from John Hines in this

652
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Speaker 1: time here. So they have the game Monday, scheduled day

653
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Speaker 1: off Tuesday, which is normal normally Wednesday. They're gonna get

654
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: right back to it right yesterday, complete day off, no

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Speaker 1: media availability, which tells me they're going all in the

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Speaker 1: night right rivalry game hungry Jets who are desperate Hella

657
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Speaker 1: buck all this like, this is a game where he

658
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: wants them rested and ready, and so I thought, yes

659
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: to your point, I think the coaching staff maybe felt

660
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: that way, and an extra day off probably is going

661
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: to do them some good.

662
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 3: What is a day like today like for you? I mean,

663
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 3: generally speaking, you're super kind to come out here and

664
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Speaker 3: helping on to noon for the first two segments. I

665
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 3: wouldn't imagine you would be here this early otherwise. However,

666
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 3: you still get here early on a game day, So like,

667
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 3: what's your day like?

668
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: Well, you start the day out by trying to communicate

669
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: with with the crew that's going to put the broadcast on.

670
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: Pick a guy to interview. We're gonna ask for Matt

671
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: Boldy tonight. Marcus Johanson will be our backup. So you

672
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: start communicating with Aaron Sickman and his that the pregame

673
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: or between period pregame interview. Got it, And then you know,

674
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: you do the conference call. You start to mix ideas up,

675
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: what direction you want the show to go tonight, some

676
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: of the storylines, you know, while trying to sweep the Jets,

677
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: certainly being at the top of that list. And you

678
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: spend an hour and a half, two hours here talking

679
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: to players, talking to coaches. I'll record a quick little

680
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: video preview that our fan Duel the Big Network uses

681
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: all over the league. They have different guys that do

682
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: these little sixty second previews. Then you go home for

683
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. You put the placards together. Some

684
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: people have tablets, normal people where they type in their stuff.

685
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: I write them out by hands, as you know, multi colored,

686
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: got to do it. And then though yeah, about three

687
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: point thirty, you hop in the shower, put the suit on,

688
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: and come on back to the rink and get ready

689
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: for a great night. There's nothing like game night. I'm

690
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: with coach Ianes. The days in between are cool, the

691
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 1: travels great. Yeah, there's nothing like game night.

692
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: Somewhere in between the establishing of the baldy pre game

693
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: and getting the fan duel clip ready and then going

694
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 3: home and coming back, there has to be a Fenway

695
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 3: and or Brooks walk.

696
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: There'll be a big walk today because they're going to

697
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: be alone for a lot of the day. They've been

698
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: they're alone right now. I left the house somewhere around

699
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, so we did a little neighborhood sweep. Yeah,

700
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: around seven forty five. We'll get a nice afternoon walk

701
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: in and then we'll tuck them in. They'll watch the

702
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: game to night with mom, and yeah, it'll be good fun.

703
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 3: Your your Broncos versus Felino's bills. And I mean it's

704
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 3: your Broncos and Marcus Felino from Buffalo his bills.

705
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: So you know, I love Josh Allen. So this is

706
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: one of those weird spots.

707
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 3: Well, it sounds like spot up time between you, between

708
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 3: you and the man called Moose. Yeah that doesn't sound

709
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: like a dinner or something.

710
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't mind that. I think the Broncos are

711
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: going to win, I do. I think their defense rested

712
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: and ready. I looked at that game last week and

713
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: I'm super that the Bills went down there and beat Jacksonville.

714
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: And by the way, Jacksonville went to Denver and mushed

715
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: my Broncos a month ago. But it's been a grind

716
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: for Buffalo. You watch that Philly game late in the year,

717
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: He's getting beat up. This guy, if he is an MVP,

718
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: he's is no good wide receivers. I'm telling you they

719
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: have no passing game.

720
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 7: Just lost another guy in a Yeah.

721
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: So I get that James cook is an elite running back,

722
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: but their defense is middle of the road, if not

723
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: bottom half. Their wide receiving core, I will put you

724
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: at the top of the list as the least dangerous

725
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: receiving corps in the NFL. And yet they go out

726
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: there and produce every week. This guy is superman. So

727
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: as much as I like my Broncos, the X factor

728
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: of not knowing what Josh Allen can do at any

729
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: given point in that game makes me a little nervous.

730
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 3: Belief in the secondary type people is so important this

731
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,479
Speaker 3: time of the year. And what I mean is like

732
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 3: Brandon Cooks, all right, the former ain't the former cowboy.

733
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 3: I mean, Brandon Cooks has bounced around for like a decade.

734
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: All right, he's in the Bills Covenant. Somebody goes down.

735
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 3: They need Cooks in the game to play like ten

736
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 3: to fifteen plays. I think he finished with like three

737
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: catches fifty three yards. He had an eighteen yard grab

738
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 3: on third down that was one of the biggest catches

739
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 3: of the game. Crazy, my man just got to the

740
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 3: Covenant and here's Josh Allen basically just just like pretending

741
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: what the huddle would have been, like BC, it's coming

742
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 3: your way, and here's what we're gonna do, and let's

743
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 3: just everybody exhale ready and then go out there and

744
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 3: do it. So he believes he empowers everybody around him,

745
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 3: and that's just so galvanizing. Just a quick recap for

746
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 3: those who don't know. You are Burnsville bred and raised

747
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 3: and you've lived in Minnesota all your life. Yep, how

748
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 3: did you become a Broncos fan?

749
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: I was six or seven years old. I was collecting

750
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: beer and pop cans and orange crush. The pop came

751
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: out with the Denver Bronco can with the logo and

752
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: the horsey on there and I'm like, oh, my heavens,

753
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: and there was like six in the collection. Then I

754
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: started doing a little deep dive into the Broncos and

755
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: realized Rick Upchurch was their receiver slash kick returner former

756
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: Golden golfer.

757
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 4: Wow.

758
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: I grew up going to the old one Mortal Stadium

759
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: watching a new.

760
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: Mecklenburg, but I didn't know the Church was.

761
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: Their big play guy. And then a couple of years later,

762
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: it's nineteen seventy seven and they're going to the Super

763
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: Bowl to take on Golden Richards and the Dallas Cowboys. Now,

764
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: the game didn't go our way, but Craig Morton and

765
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: my team that was it. I was like, I'm hooked

766
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: for life and that's where I've been.

767
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: So it was Morton. It wasn't even Lway, wasn't It

768
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 2: was the same number. Oh yeah, so it was Haven Moses,

769
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: nice call my wide receiver.

770
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, players like that Mecklenburg Dennison Gratishar, Yeah, Randy Gratishark.

771
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. So good.

772
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 3: Well in that game, I mean, since we're a racetrack

773
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 3: raised the totals forty six?

774
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Between those?

775
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 3: Now, I know Buffalo's defense has been suspect, and you know,

776
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 3: it was bad against the run the whole year and

777
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: under and Ettn you know, I thought was going to

778
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 3: have a bigger game than he did, but he didn't.

779
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 3: Because it's playoff time, everything shrinks and everything becomes tighter

780
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 3: and more nerve racking. When I saw the total of

781
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 3: forty six with this Broncos defense and they're rested and

782
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: it doesn't be whov Allen to throw the ball forty

783
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 3: forty five times a game unless he has to, I

784
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 3: was like, forty six, are you kidding me?

785
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: I think the winning team gets if you get to

786
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: twenty three in that game, you're going to feel really

787
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: good about getting a victory. I'm with you. I think

788
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: it's going to be a tight, low scoring game. I

789
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: think Denver's defense is going to dictate the pace of play,

790
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: kind of a twenty three to seventeen type of game.

791
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: I saw. I'm with you on that.

792
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 3: And you watch the Broncos and follow them markedly more

793
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 3: closely than me, but from afar, you know it's I'm

794
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 3: a bon Knicks fan, but in a lot of these

795
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 3: Broncos games, man, it's just like a complete forty five

796
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: fifty minute meat grinder where it's like, well they might

797
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 3: not win or wow, it's just another super tightly contested game,

798
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 3: and then the offense and Knicks catch fire the final

799
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 3: ten minutes of games where they're almost unstoppable.

800
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: Is that fair?

801
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: He's got a little Caleb Williams to him where he's

802
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: at his best in the fourth quarter when they're down,

803
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: and we've seen huge comebacks against Dallas, against the Giants,

804
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: the game at Washington was crazy. The Packer game. Every

805
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: week with Denver, it's a grind, and he seems to

806
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: embrace it. I think the irony of this game is

807
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: you know, you know Josh Allen's going to make plays

808
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: with his feet. But to me, the X factor on

809
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: the Denver side is I think Bonnicks, if they're gonna win,

810
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: has to make plays with his feet.

811
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 3: I should know this. Who's your start, who's your preferred

812
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: running back? Something Harvey?

813
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 2: R J Harvey is a rookie. RJ Harvey, who's he.

814
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: Well, he's a rookie. That's he wears number twelve, so

815
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: that's a weird number. He's better on the exterior part

816
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: and Buffalo can be gashed in the middle, so that's

817
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: where I think they're gonna They're gonna drop some plays

818
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: for bow Knicks. They've got a cat named McLaughlin. They

819
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: can run up the middle well, and then they're going

820
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: to use I think Courtland Sutton again underneath can be

821
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: a real problem for Buffalo. It's a really cool matchup

822
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: because Josh Allen just wills the Bills into big spots,

823
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: and if they get through this one after going to Jacksonville,

824
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: it might be their years. So I really I'm excited

825
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: to watch this game. I think Denver and that defense

826
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 1: against Josh Allen is a really cool matchup.

827
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 3: If the Broncos made the Super Bowl and you can

828
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 3: swing it with your schedule, would you go.

829
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: No, I'd rather watch it on TV.

830
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really would. I mean, I've never been to

831
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl either. Yeah. Never crazy to me.

832
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 3: Zero Well, I tried to go to one with when

833
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 3: I lived in Southern California. Doug Williams, quarterback for the then

834
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: Washington Redskins, my lifetime favorite team growing up.

835
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: In DC Rodriguez. They buried my Broncos.

836
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 3: Okay, so they're playing the Broncos at Jack Murphy in

837
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 3: San Diego.

838
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: Go up seven to nothing, first play of the game,

839
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: they score the next forty two.

840
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: Honest, all right, Shirley god rest her Saul. Shirley gives

841
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 3: me x amount of dollars. Helps my friend Ricky Rodriguez too,

842
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 3: because we're gonna He and I are going to.

843
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 2: Go see the game.

844
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 3: Bought some tickets outside of the stadium about four hours

845
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 3: before the game.

846
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 2: Spent a grand.

847
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 3: Total of like eight fifty nine hundred on two seats.

848
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 3: Went up to counterfeit tickets. Counterfeit tickets. Couldn't get into

849
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 3: the game, surely ripped off. Watched what's the gaslight district

850
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 3: or lamp something district in San Diego.

851
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: That's heartbreaking.

852
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just so. I tried to go to

853
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 2: one and my favorite and my favorite team one two.

854
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 2: I mean, Timmy Smith was like the MVP.

855
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about the game.

856
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 3: I had a Timmy Smith jersey I was wearing. That's

857
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 3: my thunder golf story. Oh, I've never told you that.

858
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 3: I'm so cool. I have a thunder golf story. Timmy

859
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 3: Smith was the Super Bowl MVP, was a running back.

860
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 3: I had a Timmy Smith jersey. Hey, trying to go

861
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 3: into the games. My friend Ricky Rodriguez. What do you

862
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 3: mean these tickets don't work? We just spent eight hundred

863
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 3: and seventy five dollars on them with my man over there,

864
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 3: way where is he? Hey, buddy, come back somebody like

865
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 3: running down a catwalk or something with our cash.

866
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 7: If you guys get to host it, I just if

867
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 7: you can get through this game. Yeah, I think you're

868
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 7: Santa Claire about I did too, and that's just I mean,

869
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 7: bo Nicks needs this game. I think the ability to handle,

870
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 7: whether it's Patriots, whatever's coming your way the next following week,

871
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 7: I think you might be Santa Claire about.

872
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: What about the Rams and Bears? Any opinion?

873
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got an opinion. I think the Rams three

874
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 1: and a half. Right, Yeah, I like the Bears. Listen,

875
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: the Rams are a better team indoors. The Rams would

876
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: likely pump this football team outdoors. It's gonna be windy,

877
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna be snowing, it's gonna be cold. I saw

878
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: a number you know V sent as there are guys.

879
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: Last ten times Stafford's played in wind and or snow

880
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: straight up, he's one and not.

881
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 2: Oh geez, I.

882
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: Love Matt Stafford. Hall of Fame, Cinch one of my

883
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: all time favorite players to watch in that weather with

884
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 1: The Bears are just one of those teams, man, where

885
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: it feels like this just could be their year. And

886
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: I don't know how because I've watched. I don't think

887
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: they're that good. But Caleb Williams, that coach, the fourth quarter,

888
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: the magic, I think it continues.

889
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 3: Texans at New England. Doesn't that sound like thirteen to six? Somebody?

890
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's money to me on New England.

891
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: I don't know how.

892
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 2: What's the number three?

893
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:16,479
Speaker 1: Only?

894
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 2: Oh jeez?

895
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, their defense, you got Drake may A start

896
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: under his belt. It wasn't it wasn't real pretty outside

897
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: of the throat to Henry which was beautiful.

898
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got CJ.

899
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: Stroud who's turning the football over left and right. You

900
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 1: have no likely top receiver Nico Collins, And I think

901
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: it's a big step up in class, right, going against

902
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and now going to New England, that's a huge

903
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: step up in class. I don't think the Texans are

904
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: ready for it.

905
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: Before we say goodbye, we do have the sounds of

906
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: hockey here at Treea Rink, and it's the sounds of

907
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 3: sil Ericsson eck. I mean he's he's flying around the

908
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 3: rink right now.

909
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: Looks good to me. I was great.

910
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 3: Come the coach put him in. Okay, so that you

911
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 3: have this. Now, does he like take part in morning skaters?

912
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, if he's gonna play, if.

913
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 2: He's gonna play, So we'll know that way.

914
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: Not only will we take part in morning skaping, he'll

915
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: do line rushes. And I would say, just from listening

916
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 1: to the coach, it's probably a coin.

917
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate you, but I appreciate you.

918
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 3: Two guys as Kevin gorg At Gorgomatic two to one

919
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 3: via X nine to new as a Box in the

920
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Speaker 3: Box presentation in the air right now from Career Rank

921
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 3: in Saint Paul and with Nordo.

922
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 2: I'm Paul Allen back after this Russo Radio Michael Russo from.

923
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 3: The Athletic and the Athletic dot Com about ten to

924
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes from now day upbreak from hockey for a

925
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 3: moment to update us on some things, if anything, that

926
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 3: has transpired in the world of the National Football League

927
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:56,760
Speaker 3: since we last spoke.

928
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, indeed, VIT's bite slash NFL Bites segment if you will.

929
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 7: We will start with with the Purple in fact, just

930
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 7: going hardcore on Flores fodder and season ending press conferences

931
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 7: and things yesterday Yep, you know, kind of the conversation.

932
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 7: And it's still just I can't wrap my head around

933
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 7: a pa the idea that Flores would leave Minnesota with

934
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 7: a lateral move to the defensive coordinator with another team,

935
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,479
Speaker 7: via the idea that the Vikings would not be able

936
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 7: to match resources, if you know, can we get an

937
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:31,959
Speaker 7: expert title on a business card?

938
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: Here? Money situation, the whole thing.

939
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 7: And and I saw the news yesterday interviewing with the

940
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 7: Washington commanders. Now I forget what the name. It's not

941
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 7: Adam Peters that maybe that's the right name, maybe it's not.

942
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 7: He has a connection via the Patriots with I believe

943
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,919
Speaker 7: the Commander's GM, and so there's there's a history there

944
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 7: again in twenty twenty two, twenty three, before he before

945
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 7: he took the Vikings job, he had that connection with

946
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 7: Monte Austin for the GM down in Arizona and went

947
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 7: through the interview process for the head coaching job. Whether

948
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 7: he turned it down or in the end he was

949
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 7: a finalist in name only.

950
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:10,479
Speaker 1: However that process worked.

951
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 4: He comes to Minnesota.

952
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 7: But seeing stuff like that taking place, I don't want

953
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 7: to say it's problematic. I'm not getting goosebumps or worry

954
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 7: by any stretch.

955
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: But that kind of struck me.

956
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 7: And then as I'm still trying to think about how

957
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 7: that would work out, the news comes out that he

958
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 7: will be interviewing for the Pittsburgh Steelers job. So thus

959
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 7: far as we're just kind of on the floor as

960
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 7: tracker and you're taking notes, you got a pen and

961
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 7: a pad and a stenographer in the mix. Here you

962
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 7: have Raven's head coaching job, which has some intriguing elements

963
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,240
Speaker 7: to it. Probably of all openings, I would say most

964
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 7: plug in play to be competitive and in the mix

965
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty six, given Lamar Jackson, given you get

966
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 7: Matt Abuque back, that big timer on the D line

967
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 7: for the Ravens and all that, and then the commanders

968
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 7: certainly not and full rebuild, but they really need to

969
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 7: re rig things with both Kingsbury I believe leaving and

970
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 7: then I forget the name of the defensive coordinator, but

971
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 7: clearly there's an opening there given the interview with Flores.

972
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 7: But now Pittsburgh Pittsburgh connection and everything's a buzz if

973
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 7: you're watching Pittsburgh fan Reddit threads and various social media hashtags,

974
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 7: et cetera.

975
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 3: That's interesting you say that because I never look at

976
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 3: Reddit threads, but I searched yesterday. I know what reddit is,

977
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 3: but I've like never looked at it, and sometimes you

978
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 3: get into it. Well, I've looked at it, you know,

979
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 3: but sometimes you get into it, and it's tough to

980
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 3: kind of figure out how to find exactly what you

981
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 3: went in there for initially because of advertising and things

982
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 3: like that. But I googled yesterday Winnipeg Jets fan reaction

983
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 3: site just.

984
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 2: To see like what the rubes are saying about the

985
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 2: Jets on three in a row. And I love doing that.

986
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 3: Before that they lost or had troubles like fourteen or

987
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 3: fifteen or fifteen or sixteen, and it's yeah, it's it

988
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 3: just seems like there's a flim flam with so many

989
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 3: different things this day and age that it's like, Okay,

990
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 3: this cost what was it?

991
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 6: Oh?

992
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, a movie recently that I paid for three ninety

993
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 3: nine for like Prime or something like that. Sure, Well,

994
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 3: then the bill comes through on the on the credit

995
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 3: card or the bank account, it's like four thirty nine.

996
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 3: So there's like a little fifty cent up charge there,

997
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 3: like okay, because they're going to take the facts game through, right,

998
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 3: But it's not. It doesn't say that when you purchase it. Okay,

999
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 3: is fifty cents a difference for me or most people now?

1000
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 3: But you'd like to know. And if you think about

1001
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 3: the entity charging the extra fifty cents times how many

1002
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 3: people buying this over the course of that's a lot

1003
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 3: of money.

1004
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 7: You really went through a Reddit rabbit hole?

1005
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 2: Well this off? What off? What you just said?

1006
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: Well?

1007
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, well no, the So then I get into Reddit

1008
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 3: and you're trying, like you see the headlines like jets

1009
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 3: one three in a row, Okay, click on that, then

1010
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 3: ad ad ad. Then you go to click on something,

1011
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 3: something pops up so that you click on it before

1012
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 3: you get into it. Sure, I'm like, holy cow, is

1013
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 3: are all constituents so stuck right now that they're like

1014
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 3: flim flamming things on the back end so that you

1015
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 3: get in there maybe look at it and go, hey,

1016
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 3: I came in here for this, but I think I'll

1017
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 3: buy this for ninety five dollars, you know what I mean?

1018
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 2: Well all over the place, man.

1019
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Reddit it's an awful cesspool.

1020
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 7: But from a fan rube thread standpoint, just digging into

1021
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 7: some things, a lot of Pittsburgh fans are on fire

1022
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 7: about the idea of that baton toss that I've talked

1023
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 7: about in the past, and it's you know, not I

1024
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 7: didn't go deep diving a beautiful mind on it to

1025
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 7: connect the dots. It's just that's an interesting spot for him,

1026
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 7: and not that the Giants were ever going to be

1027
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 7: a spot. I wonder, if you know, especially after the

1028
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 7: dable and Belichick texting the wrong Brian and all of that,

1029
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 7: if mister Larez at any point would whatever be a

1030
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 7: candidate for the Giants near term or long term.

1031
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: But we may not have to worry.

1032
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 7: About that, pa as the news breaking, John Harbaugh and

1033
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 7: the Giants are working to finalize.

1034
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: It appears it might be up to a five year deal.

1035
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 7: To become the head coach of the Giants. So initially,

1036
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 7: whether I did Stefanski officially interview there? Okay, so he

1037
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 7: was an interview candidate.

1038
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 3: He interviewed with Atlanta and where was he yesterday? He

1039
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 3: interviewed somewhere yesterday I interviewed with the Ravens.

1040
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 7: That may have been a spot because I know the

1041
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 7: Ravens were trying to interview ten or fifteen people, and

1042
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 7: you can find kind of an extended interview with Steve Bashatti,

1043
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 7: the Ravens owner, kind of talking through his mindset and

1044
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 7: the philosophy of moving on from Harbaugh. It was kind

1045
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 7: of an interesting You don't get to hear that from

1046
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 7: owners very often, but in terms of what's going on

1047
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 7: in the.

1048
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 3: NFL, you do have Harbaugh, Giants, Harbaugh to the Giants.

1049
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 3: You know, it's when we have this conversation and then

1050
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 3: there's really no right answer here. It's just opinions, and

1051
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 3: we were prioritizing, you know, like.

1052
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 2: What job is best and why? Yeah.

1053
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 3: I put the Giants first for several reasons, but one

1054
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 3: of them, you know, had to do with more than

1055
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 3: just the players on the team. I mean, it's the

1056
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: money they pump into that thing. There are just a

1057
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 3: lot of things that go when the Giants are good.

1058
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 3: It's a really, really great place to be. But you know,

1059
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 3: the more I think about this thing, it's like when

1060
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 3: you Alan and I or with whomever, we prioritized which

1061
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 3: job we felt was best and why.

1062
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was you me and charts, maybe last Friday.

1063
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 3: That's what it was. I should have elevated Pittsburgh. In fact,

1064
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh should have been top three. And it has nothing

1065
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: to do with the fact that they don't have a

1066
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 3: quarterback for who. They don't know their quarterback is for

1067
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 3: next year. It's the Rooneys can't fire people.

1068
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 2: No, they can't.

1069
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 3: I mean seriously, it's now. Granted, with Noel and Declarin

1070
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 3: to Tomlin, you've had a lot of good memories, but

1071
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 3: they have to be the most patient owning family really

1072
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 3: of anybody in the NA where you know no Granted

1073
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 3: Tomlin didn't have a losing season for two decades, but

1074
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 3: it's it's difficult for them.

1075
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 2: To move on from people.

1076
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 3: So if you're looking to get a landing spot for three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

1077
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 3: ten years, get a little stability people who believe in

1078
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 3: your philosophy of how you want to rebuild it, Pittsburgh

1079
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 3: wouldn't be a bad place.

1080
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:21,439
Speaker 2: To be well.

1081
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 7: And that's why I think the Flores landing spot makes

1082
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 7: so much sense there. And then you can do connections

1083
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 7: to the Raiders as we've talked about and other things.

1084
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 2: But the Giant.

1085
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 7: The Giants are interesting because you mentioned when they're good.

1086
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 7: It's a great place to be, we'll say for seven

1087
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 7: and eleven. A lot of struggles at times on a team, man,

1088
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Speaker 7: and the headlines get louder in the Big Apple than

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Speaker 7: you do in just about any metro market in the country.

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Speaker 3: I also like Jackson Dart more than most well, and

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Speaker 3: that plays into it. Jackson Dart was at the Harbaugh interview,

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Speaker 3: not for the whole thing, but like John interviews and

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Speaker 3: Jackson Dart was part of it. And you know, we

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Speaker 3: got Russo Radio around the corner. Another side winding thing

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Speaker 3: with Harbaugh reportedly landing in the Giants with the Giants

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Speaker 3: is I think that's an indicator that Matt Lafleur probably

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Speaker 3: will get a contract extension relatively soon, in that you

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Speaker 3: know that that's not a bad job to have the

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Speaker 3: Packers job again. Now they have the fans own the team,

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Speaker 3: They had policies, the president he makes all the decisions,

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Speaker 3: so you don't have to answer to owners at least,

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Speaker 3: you know, like say Mark Ziggi Wilf or whatever. Sure,

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Speaker 3: but you got the quarterback, you got a running back,

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Speaker 3: you got Michael Parsons.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a bad place to be.

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Speaker 7: No it's it's not. But but I think about New York,

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Speaker 7: is it the most obvious they would go Harbaugh because

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Speaker 7: of what they've experienced in the post Tom Coughlin area.

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Speaker 7: You talk about the Rooney is having a hard time

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Speaker 7: moving on since they moved on. Tom Kaughlin was established,

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00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 7: not elite, but a good coach. I think he was

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Speaker 7: in Jacksonville prior to New York. Yeah, he wins a

1113
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 7: couple of Super Bowls with ELI. I remember his red

1114
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 7: face on the field at Lamb and stuff like that.

1115
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 7: But but now going through the dable, what was it

1116
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 7: McAdoo prior to him? And then that that GM they

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00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 7: have Joe Shane. I don't think he can go out

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Speaker 7: in public in New York. The fan base is so

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00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 7: sour on this guy. And Marror rolls in, It's like, okay,

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Speaker 7: this this stable thing. McAdoo was a freaking disaster. Was

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Speaker 7: Garrett maybe the former Cowboys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Was was?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 7: Maybe he was a coordinator in New York for a stretch,

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Speaker 7: et cetera. They're like, We've tried all this stuff. This

1127
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 7: is the big game, Like, is it is there some

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Speaker 7: big city, big name and and maybe GM's job on

1129
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Speaker 7: the line with getting this right, and it's it feels like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what he did in Baltimore over.

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Speaker 7: The course of time, like that's a safe, high end

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Speaker 7: option among what's.

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Speaker 3: In the in the coaching pool, and what we're discussing

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Speaker 3: is our reports that John Harbaugh is going to be

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Speaker 3: the next coach of the New York Giants. We're going

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Speaker 3: to get back to hockey here momentarily. Michael Russo Russo

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Speaker 3: Radio at Russo Hockey via the X Machine.

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Speaker 2: He's going to join us today.

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Speaker 3: The Minnesota Wild take on the Winnipeg Jets this evening

1140
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Speaker 3: at Grand Casino Arena. What you can hear in the

1141
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Speaker 3: background is jul ericson k He's been out there for

1142
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Speaker 3: about a half hour now and he's out there by

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Speaker 3: himself with a goaltender and Andy Nest, the skating coach,

1144
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 3: trying to get himself ready for the night.

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Speaker 2: John Hines, coach of the Wild, joined.

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Speaker 3: Us earlier and just reading between the lines kind of

1147
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 3: made it sound fifty to fifty like Eric Sinex is

1148
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Speaker 3: going to play this evening. Looks fantastic right now to

1149
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Speaker 3: the untrained eye, and Wild and Jets are on KFA

1150
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Speaker 3: and tonight at seven o'clock back after this