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Speaker 1: I mean, what a bunch of loser moves by us

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Speaker 2: We only have three of these left. I feel good

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Speaker 1: We have running backs this week. The only rules are

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Speaker 1: I have fifty four points. Alank has fifty two, Nordo

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Speaker 2: Who do you like? Well? This feed my starving children.

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Speaker 3: I feel like could be there could be a points

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Speaker 3: I did fish third most running back scores allowed, that

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Speaker 3: the last two weeks alone, and it's crazy. He's one

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Speaker 3: of the most used players in the NFL. Bijon Robinson

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Speaker 1: Please follow him if you are so inclined. Who is

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Speaker 4: I'm so glad Nordo left me. Saquon Barkley, Oh wow.

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Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley is the Eagles running back. You might know him, Oh,

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Speaker 4: I've heard of him. They play the Commanders this weekend

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Speaker 4: and the stats that I brought for you today are

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Speaker 1: It just hits me with stats. Why don't I get stats? Well, well,

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Speaker 2: A self proclaimed to lead football mind. You don't need

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Speaker 1: Courtesy of mister Scott Fish and fantasycres dot Org The Cleve.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking James Cook running back Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: I got James Cook for for second harvest Heartland. Let's

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Speaker 1: And Nordo goes with Bijon Robinson Fantasycaars dot org. Thank

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Speaker 2: That's why I say that about the Timberwolves, Well, it's worrisome.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Edward's best player on the timber Wolves, questionable into

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Speaker 4: The Wolves need a point guard. They need another point guard.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know how Tim Connelly, I know, I

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Speaker 3: But on TJ McConnell from the Pacer seats watching last night,

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Speaker 1: Well, he only plays eleven to fifteen because he's forty

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Speaker 2: But what you're gonna give up to get him, you

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't, They wouldn't part with them with that on.

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Speaker 2: That would TJ McConnell be a good answer.

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Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado, the d League can afford TJ McConnell too.

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Speaker 1: At age at age thirty eight, Jose Alvarado, Wow, what

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Speaker 2: Guy, that's Jose Alvarado.

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Speaker 4: That's okay as a like point guard, backup ish type.

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Speaker 1: Well they got this himy Jaquez himI Miami.

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Speaker 2: how's the marketing director? Young? Alec? Great question.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Austin Harper as in Austin's thirteenth birthday.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how about that? All right? You have a Vikes

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Speaker 2: I think I think that I can promise you that inside.

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Speaker 3: Hawkinson's are going to get more opportunities because of what

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Speaker 2: What's your name where you're from. Ken from the Yellow Bar.

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Speaker 4: After watching last night, what's our record with Sam Darnold

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Speaker 1: Do you think if the Vikings had Sam Donald this year?

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Speaker 4: Hey, Kevin, uh No, Sam Donald, what would the record be?

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Speaker 1: Hello, John, How are you welcome to US Banks Stadium?

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Speaker 1: What's your question?

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Speaker 1: And that, ladies and gentlemen, is from a fan perspective,

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Speaker 1: what six and eight Radio truly sounds?

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Speaker 2: That is correct?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Dashing dreams. Well, I can tell you I'm not

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Speaker 3: It matters the hell to me as well. Momentum in

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Speaker 3: Momentum of individuals is a real thing. And how good

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Speaker 2: Smashing dreams.

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Speaker 3: Maybe all we have taking others down to make ourselves

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go with you more. What's your name?

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Speaker 2: Where you from? Kyle? From Megan? This is the lie?

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Speaker 2: This is the lie. Yeah, your question? This is the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty seven to one? Okay, cool? What are you

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Speaker 6: Where you from? Jason from Plymouth? The Vikings defense is

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Speaker 2: Make Jackson Dart have to beat you through the air.

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Speaker 4: And if you can do that, I really don't see

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Speaker 1: The Vikings have not given up a pass touchdown for

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Speaker 2: I didn't go that far. I said, practice today.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't bet play.

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Speaker 4: Like the thing that you know, people would ask me,

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Speaker 2: Of what this has been all season.

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Speaker 1: Those are Vikes bites from Buffalo Wild Wings Apple Valley

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Speaker 1: nine to noon continues after this, Hey, Apple Valley, Apple Valley.

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Speaker 1: Your attention, please, your attention. Please. We know this is

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Speaker 1: the Friday football Feast, but it also is the Friday

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Speaker 1: four checking feast.

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Speaker 2: All your Minnesota Wild do are?

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Speaker 3: Is?

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Speaker 1: When in what we're calling Quinnesota and they and they

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Speaker 1: won again last night and they planned to stay that

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Speaker 1: way of this week.

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Speaker 2: And you know last night who Matt Boldy Baldy Baldy

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Speaker 2: a round six in a row? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Six in a row for the Minnesota Wild. That's sweet

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Speaker 1: all in regulation too? Are they not even messing around

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Speaker 1: with the Ots? Just getting her done? And they beat

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Speaker 1: Epison last night after beating ov and uh they got

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Speaker 1: Edmonton is here on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Do we get a little heat check?

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, a second heat check Sunday night, Sunday at five,

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Speaker 1: Colorado's back in town looking for some more in that shootout.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Alan roach box of all boxes over in a box.

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Speaker 1: That'll be sweet, all right, So congratulations to uh coach

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Speaker 1: Heines and the Minnesota Wild. Now, uh, before we uh

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Speaker 1: we get into some players of the Year and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. Kirk Cousins had had a part of his

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Speaker 1: press conference with the Atlanta Falcons that had some viral

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Speaker 1: to it. We played some of it nine to noon

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Speaker 1: yesterday and chatted about Kevin O'Connell, Sean McVay, the Rams offense,

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Speaker 1: things like like Matthew Stafford never had been considered an

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Speaker 1: MVP quarterback in his career. Now he's a Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: winner and he might be the MVP this year. O'Connell

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Speaker 1: with the offense here Cousins and things he did with

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Speaker 1: O'Connell and kind of what Kirk was explaining a few

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Speaker 1: days ago. It matters and it resonates, and I know

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Speaker 1: it's resonated with Alex Lewis at ALEC Underscore Lewis via X.

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Speaker 2: But first, speaking of quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: With the college football playoffs beginning this evening, Oklahoma is

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Speaker 1: hosting Alex Alabama Crimson Tide. Alex is from Aniston, Alabama,

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Speaker 1: in case people didn't know it, and he loves the Crimson.

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Speaker 2: Tide, Roll tad Roll Tide.

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Speaker 1: So that triggers a question off the benching of Tuwatunga

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Speaker 1: Bai looa, like what was he like A I mean

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Speaker 1: I know he was good at Alabama. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: lead college football mind, and he's had mo in the NFL, Like, how,

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Speaker 1: why and when did this thing just completely fall off?

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Speaker 1: And by the way, with the Dolphins, if the Vikings

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Speaker 1: are looking for a veteran backup quarterback next year.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, thank you. Can I finish this off? Sure?

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Speaker 2: What was I gonna talk about? I don't know, that's

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Speaker 2: what I thought.

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Speaker 1: He's going with Zach Wilson, right, it's if Zach Wilson plays, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's somebody actually to watch if you're looking for context

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Speaker 1: or layer ring. But clearly I was the only one.

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Speaker 1: So with Tua Tounga by loa, like where did it

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Speaker 1: fall off? Why did it fall off?

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Speaker 2: And when? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I mean in college he debuted in the second half

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Speaker 4: of the National Championship game against Georgia and made an

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Speaker 4: unbelievable game winning throw to Devonte Smith.

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Speaker 2: And at that point, I mean, it was just electric arm.

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Speaker 4: It felt like it was like whippy arm action, really athletic,

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Speaker 4: kind of could move around, dart around in the pocket. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: And I mean he suffered a hip injury late in

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Speaker 4: his college career, still became a first round pick after that.

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Speaker 2: But you know, his fatal flaw.

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Speaker 4: Is just like he struggles to see the field after

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Speaker 4: the snap. And that really for me, the more I

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Speaker 4: cover the NFL, the more I watch the NFL, like

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Speaker 4: that is the separator is when the snap happens. Can

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Speaker 4: you see the field? Can you see space? Can you

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Speaker 4: get the ball up and down in the windows? Do

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Speaker 4: you have a feel with it? Like some guys I

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Speaker 4: feel like have that and some guys I feel like

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Speaker 4: don't have that. Yeah, and Tua has. You know, when

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Speaker 4: he's in rhythm and on time in two and a

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Speaker 4: half seconds, he can put the ball.

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Speaker 2: In the money.

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Speaker 4: But when he has to react second reaction time, you know,

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Speaker 4: type play, he struggles mightily. And so I just feel

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Speaker 4: like athletically he's not what he was at Alabama. And

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Speaker 4: and and you see that their toll to Yeah, the

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Speaker 4: head injuries definitely, but the you.

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Speaker 2: Know, mentioning the scene the field.

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Speaker 3: And this is in combination with the audio that we

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Speaker 3: played yesterday Pa with with with Cousins, Yeah, and just

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Speaker 3: coverage versus pure progression and just it felt like I

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Speaker 3: was sitting down in a four hundred level quarterback class.

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Speaker 3: The last night in the game, Donald at the end

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Speaker 3: making throws like he made to Cooper Cup and he

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Speaker 3: finds his way, helps will that offense to a victory

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Speaker 3: and just incredible moment for Sam Darnold. But earlier in

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Speaker 3: the game, his two interceptions, both of them seeing the

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Speaker 3: field post snap where there's a linebacker and I forget

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Speaker 3: who they were taking, but then they released him and

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Speaker 3: he just sat in the zone. It was playing pitch

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Speaker 3: and catch with the defense.

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Speaker 2: It's a pick.

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Speaker 3: And then on the second one, he's eyeing Jackson Smith

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Speaker 3: and Jigba and you have Kobe Turner with the initial

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Speaker 3: thrust and then he drops back into coverage.

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Speaker 2: Again pitch and catch.

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Speaker 3: And just within that game itself, you saw Sam Darnold

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Speaker 3: struggling to just simply see the field post snap and

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Speaker 3: make the right decision. And on the flip side, you

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Speaker 3: have Matthew Stafford seeing it so well that he's manipulating

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Speaker 3: the defense with his eyes, moving a defender from one

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Speaker 3: area of the field to another and then no looking

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Speaker 3: the ball behind them into the void like that's again,

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Speaker 3: the most elite guys in the NFL are able to

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Speaker 3: post snap just see things.

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Speaker 2: At an elite level. That's why Philip.

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Speaker 4: Rivers, even at his age, can make it work because

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Speaker 4: mentally he is there.

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Speaker 2: And that's where like even Jalen.

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Speaker 4: Hurts the Tours of the World Darnald like some other

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Speaker 4: that you can overcome some of the post snap processing

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Speaker 4: speed with the way you set things up with you know,

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Speaker 4: great design, but in you know, when it's third and

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Speaker 4: long and it's playoff time and you've got to make

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Speaker 4: a play and see it post snap. Some guys can

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Speaker 4: do it, some guys can't. And so that's where with

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Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy, like, that's one of the most interesting facets

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Speaker 4: of me watching is can he get to the place

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Speaker 4: at which when the when he catches the snap, he

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Speaker 4: like he sees things at an elite level. Field wise,

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Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connell always talks the two things he looks at

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Speaker 4: in quarterbacks are accuracy and big field vision, like he

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Speaker 4: always those are the two qualities he covets the most

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Speaker 4: in quarterbacks. So it is really interesting. And to go

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Speaker 4: back a little bit to the Kirk Cousins clip, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: like why that the pure progression stuff For me more

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Speaker 4: than anything else, it is a window into the evolution

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Speaker 4: of this game we all love.

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Speaker 2: And so you know, some people.

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Speaker 4: Are more nerdy about it than others, and I'm definitely

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Speaker 4: on the nerd side of it. But Kirk Cousins was

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Speaker 4: really talking about the evolution of the game, and so

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Speaker 4: that's why it's fun. That's why as media members we

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Speaker 4: ask the questions because rarely do you get a window

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Speaker 4: window into what it looks like behind the scenes. So

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Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins really talking about like in the old days,

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Speaker 4: you used to just look at the number of safeties

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Speaker 4: deep and that would queue you into where you throw

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Speaker 4: the football. Now, because there's so much disguise, you kind

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Speaker 4: of have to assess where to throw the football after

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Speaker 4: the snap, and so coaches have adapted to put the

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Speaker 4: quarterback in a spot where they make it easier on.

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Speaker 2: Them to do that, and that's that's kind of where

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 3: It made me laugh over that that audio clip, though,

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Speaker 3: because in the end he's explained it as beautifully and

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Speaker 3: as technically sound as you possibly could. Then at the end,

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Speaker 3: after talking about the pure progression, he's like, but y'all

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Speaker 3: still need to know the coverage and everything. So, I mean,

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Speaker 3: could you make this sound any more difficult and scientific?

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. He's trying to solve a math proof in

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Speaker 2: about two and a half seconds.

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Speaker 4: So that's why all year you've had so many times

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Speaker 4: where on either comments on stories or social media, it's like,

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Speaker 4: they got to make this easier on JJ. And yes,

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Speaker 4: there are levers coaches can pull to try to make

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Speaker 4: it easier, but the job of playing quarterback in the

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Speaker 4: NFL is really, really, really difficult, no.

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Speaker 2: Matter if you're young, no matter if you're old.

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Speaker 4: No matter who you're playing, it is a very hard

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Speaker 4: job that requires a certain level of aptitude of reactiveness

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Speaker 4: on the fly.

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Speaker 2: And so that's what's been great to see.

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Speaker 4: As much as yes, the Vikings have leaned into heavy personnel,

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Speaker 4: yes they're throwing outside.

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Speaker 2: Of the numbers.

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Speaker 4: They're trying to do as as much as they possibly

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Speaker 4: can to put JJ in an advantageous spot and making

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Speaker 4: you know, putting them on keepers and bootlegs.

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Speaker 2: It's to the sideline. The difference now, more.

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Speaker 4: Than anything, is that he's just making the throws that

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Speaker 4: are there to be made, and he's more decisive and

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Speaker 4: comfortable in the pocket. It's so like, you know, you

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Speaker 4: can make a lot of certain aspects, but it is

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Speaker 4: a hard job. And that minute and a half clip

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Speaker 4: of Kirk Cousins. If you watch it, it'll it'll it's

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Speaker 4: revelatory of just the challenge that is preparing for and

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Speaker 4: reacting when you're in that position on a week to

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Speaker 4: week basis.

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Speaker 1: With with the Cousins clip, when he went down the road,

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Speaker 1: he started with, you know, I'm really glad you asked

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Speaker 1: that because I lived the transformation. And then he went

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Speaker 1: down the road of O'Connell McVeigh and the Rams, and

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Speaker 1: I'm really glad he did because in a roundabout way,

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Speaker 1: it was actually quite direct.

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Speaker 2: It's he's saying this works. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's why I said it yesterday, I said

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Speaker 1: it today or today, whenever, whenever I was last in

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Speaker 1: is Stafford has always been considered good. He's always been

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Speaker 1: considered gifted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe he didn't have Pooka and or Cooper

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Speaker 1: Cup when he won, but he had Calvin Johnson, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he had a good receiver and he played

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Speaker 1: a long time. But nevertheless, he gets to the Rams,

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Speaker 1: it all changes and he becomes a Super Bowl winning quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Might be the MVP this year.

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Speaker 1: Cousins again, forty nine hundred yards one year with Washington.

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Speaker 1: If you look back at it was hollow. It was

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Speaker 1: just really personifying a big box score. We know the

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Speaker 1: cold blooded throws he made here middle of the field

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Speaker 1: with key players on the run. And so the last

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Speaker 1: part here that I wanted to ask you of what

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Speaker 1: Cousin said and where McCarthy is is off Everything you

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Speaker 1: heard that is right and just from Kirk, and it

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Speaker 1: ties into the offense here in the maturation of young

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Speaker 1: and veteran quarterbacks. Kirk went through that transformation middle of

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Speaker 1: his career. How do you think it will impact McCarthy

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Speaker 1: next season? But say by the middle of next season.

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Speaker 1: So what do we got eight starter, ninth star coming

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Speaker 1: up this weekend, ninth start night, So we're gonna finish

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Speaker 1: with twelve hopefully. Then let's get him, Let's get him

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Speaker 1: to the middle. Let's get him twenty starts into it

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Speaker 1: middle of next season. Off what you heard from Cousins

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Speaker 1: at that point with McCarthy, what do you think will

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Speaker 1: be different?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean what I think is interesting is JJ

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Speaker 4: sees coverage like he after the game on Sunday night,

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Speaker 4: he was asked about the TJ Hockinson. I think I asked,

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Speaker 4: what was your favorite throw of the night? And he

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Speaker 4: said the TJ hockens to throw down the scene. And

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Speaker 4: then as part of that answer, he's like they were

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Speaker 4: in a cover for Pseudo Palm Z Cover two. Look,

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Speaker 4: so he sees coverage and is, you know, pre snap

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Speaker 4: pretty aware of what's going on, and then it's it's

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Speaker 4: kind of incumbing upon him.

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Speaker 2: The question that I.

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Speaker 4: Have is how good can he get pre snap at

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Speaker 4: knowing where to go, remaining call him in the pocket,

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Speaker 4: being accurate with this, being good with this footwork, Like

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Speaker 4: the questions for JJ for me are not at all

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Speaker 4: learning the system, not at all all identifying the defense

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Speaker 4: pre snap. But it's it's just what we talked about

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Speaker 4: with Sam Darnold in the post snap processing. How good

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Speaker 4: can JJ McCarthy be at reacting on the fly and

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Speaker 4: remaining cal him in the pocket post snap?

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Speaker 2: And if you can become elite at.

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Speaker 4: That and then your mechanics can get to a more

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Speaker 4: consistent level, then you're talking about the level of quarterback

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Speaker 4: play that's the that sustains that allows this fan base

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Speaker 4: to get behind a team that's gonna be in the

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Speaker 4: in the dance every single year. And so to your

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Speaker 4: initial question of where I expect them to be if

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Speaker 4: Jada McCarthy can get through the last three games healthy

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Speaker 4: and and continue on this ascent by the middle of

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Speaker 4: next season. The comfort and the conviction and what he

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Speaker 4: sees post snap, you just you would hope that that

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Speaker 4: that rises to an entirely different level. The other aspect

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Speaker 4: with jj is he didn't play a ton of college games,

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Speaker 4: and so just the more time seeing the speed of

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Speaker 4: the game, you would have to think would get him

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Speaker 4: to a level where posts that he can't operate the

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Speaker 4: way similar to some of the best do like that

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Speaker 4: is the hope, that is the vision. That is a

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Speaker 4: trajectory that everybody, I think would look for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I want to see the final three.

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Speaker 3: But if the final three look like the previous two,

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Speaker 3: then for me it's just.

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Speaker 2: Knowledge versus application.

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Speaker 3: Really knowing the coverages, knowing those things, now how do

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Speaker 3: we apply it? And he's even referenced kind of subtly

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Speaker 3: and the last couple of pressors talking about you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm seeing things. But his processing is improving, I think

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Speaker 3: because it's not going through the mental mental laundry list

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Speaker 3: of the nine answers to a problem, it's got to

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Speaker 3: be instinctual. So knowledge versus application, I think is where

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Speaker 3: that biggest growth step will take beginning to twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: And that's well said, like the application of everything is

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Speaker 4: is where the evaluation the analysis of JJ should lie,

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Speaker 4: like the application of can you place the ball consistently?

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Speaker 4: The application of are you saying yes no quickly when you're.

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Speaker 2: Processing the field?

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Speaker 4: So it's I think that conversation is really is really interesting,

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Speaker 4: fascinating and worthwhile.

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