1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It is time for x'es and o's with Minnesota Vikings 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: head coach Kevin O'Connell on the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: now from the TCO studios at Egan. Here is the 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: Welcome into X's and O's with Kevin O'Connell, presented by 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: Ken Moore. Minnesota needed a go to source for everything 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 2: high school sports. That's why the Minnesota starts Abune created 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 2: strib Varsity. Sign up now at startsbune dot com slash 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,639 Speaker 2: strib Varsity. Kevin O'Connell out, Quasy Dolphamensa and here's x's 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 2: and o's. 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 3: Now post time for x'es and o's on the vaston 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 3: ever expanding KFA in Minnesota Vikings Audio. 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 4: Network and welcome back. I'm Paul Allen. 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 3: Happy to be joined by one of our favorite people here, Quincy. 15 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 3: How you been Quacy Quasi Im sorry, Quasi Udolfo Mensa, 16 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 3: general manager for the Minnesota Vikings. But we're on a level. 17 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 3: Just to take you behind the scenes here at Twin 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 3: City's Orthopedic Performance Center, where two studios to the left 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 3: of us, two studios to what would be the southwest 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 3: of US directionally is where those of you who watched 21 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 3: Undercover on Amazon Prime put together by Eli Manning. Well 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 3: that's where back in training camp, Justin Jefferson don to 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 3: costume called himself Darius Frost and one of my favorite 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: moments because it went nuts on social media last week. 25 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 3: So then I go to Prime and I'm like, cool, 26 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: I have Prime, So I guess I've been paying for 27 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 3: that for That's cool? All right, Well I might as 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 3: well watch it then, And I watched the first Undercover 29 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 3: with Baker Mayfield acting like he was Joe Q super 30 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 3: fan with the mullet. 31 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 4: And just everything. And then they start throwing pass. 32 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: This people are like hey, and the rookie receiver they 33 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 3: had three other players there, and so the rookie receivers 34 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: looking at fellow rookies going who is this? I mean, 35 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: this guy is an arm Then he takes the whole 36 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 3: thing off and the ruse. The ruse was done, and 37 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: it was beautiful. Episode number two. Justin Jefferson as a 38 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 3: photographer Darius Frost quasya do flamensa comes in August or 39 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 3: whatever it was for some quote staff photos end quote, 40 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 3: and and and the ruse and then the spoofing was terrific. 41 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: A lot of great laughs to be had there, especially 42 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 3: from you at the end when you figured it out. 43 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: But I I just there were a lot of great 44 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 3: moments there. I still think my favorite is what he 45 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 3: called you, Quincy. 46 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 5: Well, you know Quincy lifetime of having a West African 47 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 5: name that I love and dear to my heart, but 48 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 5: it's been mispronounced every which way possible. 49 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 6: So really there's yeah, it's Quasy, oh man. 50 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 5: The first day of school used to be this anxiety 51 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 5: inducing five minutes just as I knew there were now 52 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 5: I have been a last name, so I was normally quick, 53 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 5: but I'd be sweating waiting for the teacher to butcher 54 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 5: my name everybody. So those those reactions, that kind of 55 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 5: there's like this little six year old that shows up 56 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 5: in those moments just very quickly, Hey it's Quacy. 57 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 6: And move on. 58 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 5: But now, justin with that was an incredible performances. I'm 59 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 5: too close to Sam Newton right now. I don't know 60 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 5: that I trust him anymore. For people out there, I 61 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 5: don't normally get a headshot. I don't care what my 62 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 5: picture looks like, I guess, but I asked for one 63 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 5: this year, and I canceled the night before. I was like, 64 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 5: I don't really want to be memorialized with this mustache. 65 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 6: And Sam was like, you gotta do it, you gotta 66 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 6: do it. 67 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 4: What do you mean this mustache? You've always had a 68 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 4: mustache since I met you. 69 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 6: But just the soul it was, yeah, it was sick 70 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 6: and uh. 71 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 5: And so they kind of talked me into going and 72 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 5: they walked me off the plank there. So now we've 73 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 5: got some trust to build back in our relationship. 74 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, well, you know the that's so fantastic, Quincy. 75 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 3: The the you know, it's it's Twin City, north of 76 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 3: pg's Performance Center. It's a squared away, culture based building 77 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: that happens to house a football team that plays games. 78 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 3: And here's what I'm getting at. You don't think for 79 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 3: a second before this whole thing was pulled off, that 80 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: Newton Anderson and that entire staff had five meetings as 81 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: to hell to handle quasi begets moody with it or whatever. 82 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 4: Somebody was deceiving him. 83 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 6: That was no, that was it was so well done. 84 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 5: You know, obviously you got to be the Every once 85 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 5: in a while, the dial comes to you and the 86 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 5: laughs are maybe at you and sort of with you. 87 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 6: But no, it was a fun experience. I'm glad Justin 88 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 6: got to do it. 89 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 5: I wish it wasn't the number one prime show so 90 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 5: that everybody could see me in my week moment. But no, cool, 91 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 5: cool that we were able to do stuff like that 92 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 5: this facility. 93 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you've always been very comfortable with radio and 94 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: television and print attention. So something comes up on social 95 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 3: Pedia that undercovers the number one thing for the week. Yeah, yeah, 96 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: I'm sure you're really going to put your thumbs underneath 97 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 3: your armpits, so flutter your fingers and go A. That's 98 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 3: not exactly our general managers to go from man, so 99 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 3: off your name quickly though. I've heard a lot of quazis. 100 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of Quazis in Minnesota. So therefore, 101 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 3: you know, like for me, I think, I mean, I 102 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 3: told you it's a beautiful name. So like, you know, 103 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: if if it's on the radio or whatever, I'll be like, it's. 104 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 5: You know it it's sometimes fell with an A and 105 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 5: gunny and culture. 106 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 6: Really so the e I I could see that throwing people. 107 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: Off lo okay, well is quacy And there's a reason 108 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 3: for me asking this quacy adofo mensa? Is that the 109 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 3: only part of the name. And here's why I ask, 110 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 3: because I was watching a YouTube short yesterday, like while 111 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: I was writing, and there was an interview with to 112 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 3: kem Bae Mtumbo and the host was like, well, that's 113 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 3: your americanized name. It took to Kim bay m Tumble 114 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 3: three minutes to say his name. I mean that thing 115 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 3: had that thing had nineteen vowels and then before he 116 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 3: got to the first continent or vice versa. 117 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 5: There is a part to my first name that I'll 118 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 5: leave out just because my pretty much only my family 119 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 5: calls me that I don't know that I want to 120 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 5: be walking the streets of Minnesota, and I'll be like, 121 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 5: you know, it's a reaction where I only know that 122 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 5: somebody in my family saying something to me. 123 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 3: So yeah, the uh the with with Justin's giggle, okay, 124 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 3: his see you have one too. 125 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 4: So like if if somebody said, Paul. 126 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 3: Close your eyes and then you're gonna hear these laughs, 127 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 3: I'd be like, all right, well that's just one hundred 128 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 3: percent to come from the chest. With quacy, it has 129 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 3: a little high pitch thing to it that we can 130 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 3: talk about later, I don't. 131 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 4: I don't know if I've. 132 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: Heard Kevin laugh in the last five months, but we 133 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 3: can work on that against the Chargers. And but I'm 134 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 3: surprised you didn't get Justin's laughed in this ruse. 135 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 5: A lot of surprises, man, In hindsight, there was so 136 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 5: many things that I should have seen. 137 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 6: I should have Knowewn was coming. 138 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 5: Also, just how weird everybody was acting around and I'm 139 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 5: looking at the photographer, but Sam and Jeff are pacing behind, 140 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 5: and Andy looks like he wants to crawl out of 141 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 5: his skin. 142 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 3: Like surprised you would do the same thing if you 143 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 3: thought you potentially were losing your job over a ruse. 144 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 5: And I'm because I kept looking at him and like 145 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 5: they told me he was his intern, and you know, 146 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, you hired. I'm like cool, Yeah, And 147 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 5: I kept looking at him like okay, this is your intern, 148 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 5: you know, But no, it was you know, I probably 149 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 5: should have got it there, should have got it when 150 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 5: he's pointed the teeth when he said I don't know 151 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 5: anything about football, and then he's naming his contract lots 152 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 5: of places. 153 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I hit it perfectly. One party, and you. 154 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 5: Know, as my my wife would probably tell you, I'm 155 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 5: quacy is not fully in the room at all at 156 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 5: all times. 157 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 6: When I show up, the guy's honest truth. 158 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 3: That a different conversation, a different day. We need another 159 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 3: thirty minutes for. 160 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 5: That, man, we all do, you know, And so sometimes 161 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 5: you need to you know. Obviously with her, I buck 162 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 5: up and get my good ventially going. But sometimes in 163 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 5: the building when you're thinking about the six things that 164 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 5: happened in the day before, six things coming after, a 165 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 5: little distracted. 166 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 6: So I think my detector was a little off there. 167 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, two of us in here along with you or dad, 168 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 3: you know. So Nordo has has three young young daughters 169 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 3: nine or ten for the oldest two yeah, ten ten 170 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 3: year old twins, and then basically one that's coming up 171 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 3: on a year. I have a twenty five year old 172 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 3: son and a twenty two year old daughter. The daughter 173 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 3: is based in Denver, Colorado, after graduating from the University 174 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 3: of Colorado. So you're like, yay, we got that degree. 175 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 3: Here we go, new job, big girl job. Yeah, until 176 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 3: you move from Boulder to Denver and have to find 177 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 3: new friends. That's a lot of fun, right, Oh man, 178 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 3: it's just big people, big problems, little people, little problems, and. 179 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 4: Then when you put that whole thing in perspective. 180 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, man quaisia doofa mensa general manager for the 181 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 3: mission of the Vikings. 182 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 4: Okay, ready, ready, Sam, Here we go. 183 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 3: Football questions, NFL trade deadlines two weeks from today. Do 184 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 3: people still call people on like office phones? I mean, 185 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 3: do you have to look at your phone to illuminate 186 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 3: or do you actually, Hey, somebody's calling that phone. 187 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 5: That My office line is probably wrung seven times since 188 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 5: I've been here, and they've all been somebody from the 189 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 5: outside who got the number who and wants to yell 190 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 5: something that that myself or somebody else is doing the Vikings. 191 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 5: On draft day, people will we do have those landlines, 192 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 5: and those will get used on draft day. 193 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 6: But other than that, I'm not sure I've taken a 194 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 6: call on those landlines. 195 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 3: Have you ever investigated or just let yourself think about 196 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 3: what your job must have been like before cell phones 197 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 3: and or the internet. You know, like like sid Hartman, 198 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 3: God Rest his soul, he would tell a story about, 199 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 3: you know, back when the Vikings first started, like sixty 200 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 3: one or something like that, or it's the sixties or 201 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 3: the seventies and you know, Tech Shram for the Dallas 202 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 3: Cowboys told this story. Also where when when when it 203 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 3: was draft season or free agency or like they're trying 204 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 3: to trade or something that literally a football related. 205 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 4: Epiphany would hit them, they'd have. 206 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,239 Speaker 3: To pull off the side of the road, find a payphone, 207 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 3: make sure they have enough quarters to go into the 208 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 3: payphone to call. 209 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 4: The other general manager in Los Angeles. 210 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 6: You know, unbelievable. It's funny. We were in London. 211 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 5: I was walking the streets with my family and I 212 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 5: walked by a payphone. 213 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 6: I mean, when's the last time you saw a payphone. 214 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 5: I used to live in New York City and I 215 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 5: remember days where I was, you know, trying to go around. 216 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 5: I had to find a payphone and find a quarter. 217 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 5: Those are things that people, you kids nowadays probably know 218 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 5: nothing about. But you know, we talk about a lot, 219 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 5: you know, just the world and all the information we 220 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 5: have at our fingertips. But I almost wonder, if you know, 221 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 5: if you have the Nokia and the HIPI Classic that 222 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 5: didn't do anything else, would we all be in a 223 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 5: better place. I sometimes ask myself the question, do we 224 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 5: have too much in the palm of our hands? But 225 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 5: you know there's probably pros and cons to it. You know, 226 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 5: having information that quickly obviously is helpful, but also maybe 227 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 5: you know, maybe that's not helpful to maybe have everything 228 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 5: at your fingertip. 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Learn more at pays dot com, pa 237 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 2: z pays dot Com, X's and O's Piquaciofamensa continues. 238 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 3: Now, do you consider yourself with like trading deadline two 239 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 3: weeks from today, just at your human nature? 240 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 4: More of a buyer or seller? By nature? I mean, 241 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 4: do you like you know, you know what I mean? 242 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's more of a value proposition. You're 243 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 5: always looking for opportunities. Where do opportunities align? You know, 244 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 5: when you're obviously everything's about winning in the curren season, 245 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 5: but also you don't want to be so focused on 246 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 5: the currenciason that you potentially hinder yourself in future season. 247 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 5: So it's always that dynamic of time, value of performance, 248 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 5: time value of assets. So buyer in a sense, you 249 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 5: know you're feeling like, hey, this is our year, but 250 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 5: in a sport with an oblong ball and injuries and 251 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 5: all these different things, it's hard to ever really be 252 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 5: so binarily in that sense, right, and then potentially lose 253 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 5: assets next year they're going to help you improve. So 254 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 5: it's really just that conversation and you're looking through a 255 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 5: a trade meeting right after this this amazing time I 256 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 5: get to spend with you guys, But it's willing through 257 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 5: the hundreds of opportunities and then seeing, hey, what's three 258 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 5: or four aligned with our goals? Are that are trying 259 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 5: to get better this year, keep our flexibility for next year, 260 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 5: all those different things, And it really only comes down 261 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 5: to three or four opportunities you call them. Those lie 262 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 5: on the relationships you have, and maybe it ends up 263 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 5: being one deal that we typularly made at the deadline. 264 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 3: How close do you permit yourself to get to the 265 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 3: players you draft and or bring in via free agency. 266 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 6: You know, it's really really hard. 267 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 5: When I when I was deciding on, you know, in Cleveland, 268 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 5: deciding on not deciding, but is really asking questions about 269 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 5: becoming a GM. That was the one thing I asked 270 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 5: Sheldon Deck, I've known since I was in San Francisco, 271 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 5: and I was, how do I I had a great 272 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 5: because back then, when you're not in the chair, you're 273 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 5: you're always can be the good uncle almost in a sense, right, 274 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 5: And people would come to my office and I was 275 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 5: kind of just like, you know, how do I do 276 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 5: that job but still have these real relationships because it 277 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 5: will at some point feel transactional if at the end 278 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 5: of the day, I have to be the person to 279 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 5: be the bearer of bad news. And he said, just 280 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 5: be honest with people, be straight up, be yourself to 281 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 5: be always been. I think people can tell that you're genuine. 282 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 5: So I try and do that in a way that 283 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 5: people know that it's real that I do care about them. 284 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 5: I might have to at some point make a decision 285 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 5: that you might not like, but I have to do 286 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 5: that for the vikings. 287 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 6: But also know that I wouldn't. 288 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 5: I would drop everything to help you because I really 289 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 5: do me and I believe relationships are like that, so 290 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 5: that's how you try and treat it. I also don't 291 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 5: need to be these guys. I don't know that they 292 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 5: need a forty. 293 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 6: Four year old you know friend who uh you know. 294 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm the hip this guy uh 295 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 5: in the in the in the industry anymore. 296 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 6: I do, okay for for a for a GM, but you. 297 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 3: Just talked out both sides of again in eight seconds. 298 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 3: That's so brilliant. What's a gift? 299 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 5: But uh, you know, I just I love the time. 300 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 5: It was so cool to be around these guys. And 301 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 5: they're younger than me, so they used lingo and they 302 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 5: it almost keeps me young. It'll help me when i'm 303 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 5: I'm probably when I you know, my kids get a 304 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 5: little older. So I know what pause means or whatever 305 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 5: whatever the kids are saying nowadays. 306 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 4: But pause, pause, a pause. 307 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 6: That's the thing. 308 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 4: It was some six seven thing bouncing around. 309 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 6: I don't know what it is. I don't know what 310 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 6: it is. 311 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 5: Right if people knew how little connection I have, the 312 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 5: social media maybe found. 313 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 3: I'm still stuck on facts. I'll just stopped it right there, and. 314 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 5: A little facts machine you'll put in your text message. 315 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 4: Act. 316 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's. 317 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 4: How about that? 318 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: Well? 319 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 3: I mean, if you wanted to make a trade or 320 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: sign somebody twenty five years ago, you had use the 321 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 3: facts machine. 322 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 6: You know. 323 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 5: I was talking to Trash about this the other day. 324 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 5: I remember typewriter. I learned on it. I had a typewriter, 325 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 5: you know, and and when you messed up, you had 326 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 5: to like retype that, maybe wipe it out and then 327 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 5: write over it. I mean, just hey, that's where we're grind. 328 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 5: That was the original school of hard knocks on that 329 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 5: type typewriter. 330 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 4: A few here for Quasia doo fa mensa to close. 331 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 3: The general manager for the Minnesota Vikings does does losing 332 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 3: feel worse than winning feels good? 333 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 4: Go ahead and talk that one out from both sides. Yeah. 334 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 6: You know it's funny that I am normally pretty. 335 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 4: I'm not. 336 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 5: I'm a pretty even person. Last Sunday was hard. That 337 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 5: was a frustrating game. I think football is typically fair 338 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 5: when you Ke always gets mad at me when I 339 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 5: say that, because he's out there dying on the sideline. 340 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 6: What are your mad? 341 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 4: It's fair? 342 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 5: But you come up you watch the film and you're 343 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 5: when you win, you're typically like, yeah, we won, but 344 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 5: there's a couple of plays where you know that game 345 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 5: could have been different, or if you lose same thing 346 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 5: high or low, happy, sad. It's more about I just 347 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 5: got to watch something we projected what this team could be. Like, 348 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 5: I'm so excited to go wake up in the morning 349 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 5: and go learn and study it and see what happened. 350 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 6: There's a joy in that that process of learning. 351 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 4: What we are. 352 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 3: The joy you actually wake up after a game like that, 353 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: So I mean, is it, oh, human nature gets to 354 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 3: win too. 355 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 5: You know, it's a may you wake up with a 356 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 5: sense of because we get to do something about it. 357 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: You know it. 358 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 5: Texts the group about that at night, to try and 359 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 5: text them after every game, and I said I was frustrated, 360 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 5: but I also said that the good thing about our 361 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 5: jobs is we get to go tomorrow and try and 362 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 5: make it better and make it right. Same with everybody 363 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 5: in this building, every player, every coach, every front office, 364 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 5: every person who walks these halls. And that's what makes 365 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 5: the sport so great being a part of it. So 366 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 5: the joy, the highs and lows really for me only 367 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 5: come late late, you know, playoffs, different things like that, 368 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 5: when there's a finality, Yeah, you know when that lasts. 369 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 5: When you that locker room scene in Glendale where you're 370 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 5: seeing guys, that's where you'll see me. That's that's probably 371 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 5: the only time you really see if you feel me emote. 372 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 5: Because also, I think it's my job to be kind 373 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 5: of the emotional balance of the organization in a sense. 374 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 5: My job is to be long term focused more hey, context, 375 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 5: different things like that, never ride the waves with everybody 376 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 5: else knowing that they should happen. 377 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 6: But it's my job to kind of to be the 378 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 6: other side. 379 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 3: But but yeah, I mean they're looking in the mirror 380 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 3: moments too, right because like, okay, say somebody thinks, hey, 381 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 3: the squad's vulnerable. Look at all these games they've missed 382 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 3: from these key people. Now we can strike and and 383 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 3: that that's not a bad way to handle the job. 384 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 3: I understand that business part of it, but you also 385 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: have to be like if you're really frustrated with somebody 386 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 3: and you have been week after week and hey, just 387 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 3: had a big game or had another bad game, but 388 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 3: you know what's going on behind the scenes, and you're like, 389 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 3: I ain't giving up on this right, Well, then all 390 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 3: of a sudden, the seventh is the sixth, and the 391 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 3: six is We might be able to talk about the 392 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 3: fifth later today. You've got to battle all that, right, 393 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 3: all of it, all of it. 394 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 5: And you know it's is that person who had a 395 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 5: good game, well, what was your prior belief about them? 396 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 6: Or was that bad game? Some players, it happens, great 397 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 6: players have bad games. 398 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 5: So is that a bad game from a great player 399 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 5: or a bad player from somebody who needs to keep improving? 400 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 6: It's all again. 401 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 5: That's why one of the things I just love so 402 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 5: much about this job, the curiosity that you know that 403 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 5: that I have, that really I get to display. 404 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 4: Here Darius Frost. 405 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 3: I mean, say, I'm Newton with the media relations permitted 406 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 3: me to go to seven Geen because I know you 407 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 3: have that rating meeting coming up. So we'll just end 408 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 3: it like this, What music are you vibing these days? 409 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 3: And I have a reason for asking that question something 410 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 3: that took plays on my radio show yesterday. 411 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 5: Right now, I am listening to this southern hip hop 412 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 5: kind of classics list. Sometimes when people come in my 413 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 5: office for meetings, I'll ask them, Hey, what do you 414 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 5: want to hear and Jasper Brinkley probably a month ago, 415 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 5: was like, let's throw some of that southern hip hop on. 416 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 5: I was like, oh, I just kind of typed it 417 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 5: in and the first song is this trick Daddy song. 418 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 5: But I love one of the and I know we 419 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 5: vibbot music all the time. One of the things I 420 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 5: love about music is the first time you hear the beat, 421 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 5: your memory goes somewhere like special. 422 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 423 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 5: And so this trick Daddy song comes on and immediately 424 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 5: go to my sophomore year at college, who with some 425 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 5: of my fraternity brothers sitting in a room like the 426 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 5: first time I heard that song, And so if the 427 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 5: list started that way, and it just kind of continued on. 428 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 5: So I've been listening to that for the past month. 429 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 5: That's how I get. I get like, yeah, you know, connected, 430 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 5: really connected to a list. 431 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 3: But some great sounds easy listening to trick Daddy while 432 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 3: you do Level nine calculus, it sounds like it all 433 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 3: just fits together. I changed the techno for the calculution. Well, 434 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 3: the the what happened yesterday with PJ. Fleck, coach of 435 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 3: the Golden Gophers football team, who joins every single Monday, 436 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 3: is at the end, he talked about, you know, and 437 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 3: we teach music. He was talking about the culture and 438 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 3: what they do weekly and how they change things up 439 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 3: and we like teach music. 440 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 4: Well that ears immediately a. 441 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 3: Perked and he puts the word how into the band, 442 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 3: So like, you know, I don't know old school duo 443 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,719 Speaker 3: Daryl holl and John Notes, all of Notes, hown Oates 444 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 3: or We're going to play some some. 445 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 4: Halvin Gay today and learn about Marvin Gay. 446 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 3: So I'm like, well, what about Parliament, Howidelic and George 447 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 3: Clinton and Bootsy Collins on bass, Atomic Dog and Flashlight 448 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 3: and and and so many different songs and and so 449 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 3: therefore that I think that's cool what they do to 450 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 3: kind of break it up like that. But it also 451 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 3: helps the new age. There are those who are younger 452 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 3: learn about the roots of trick Daddy, the roots of 453 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 3: what people listen to. 454 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 6: Now, you know, that doesn't surprise me. 455 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 5: PJ is one of the more unique people I've ever met, 456 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 5: a creative, passionate watch that game on TV, really really 457 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 5: really proud of those guys. 458 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 6: So that doesn't surprise me at all. 459 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 5: But now music's this beautiful thing, you know, I know, 460 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 5: last night Jackson Smith and jig but had a great thame. 461 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 6: I love telling the story. But I'll run into him 462 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 6: every now and again. 463 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 5: He will remember the top thirty meeting where I asked 464 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 5: him what song would you play if you had something 465 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 5: to say about it? Like, he will remember and we'll 466 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,199 Speaker 5: talk about it. That's like a cool thing that you 467 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 5: can connect with people. We don't we're not from the 468 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 5: same place. 469 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 6: We don't know. 470 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 5: He didn't have a typewriter in seventh grade, but you 471 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 5: know we can. We can connect on those things and 472 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 5: kind of have those experiences, which is awesome. 473 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: All right, that's going to be a thank you very 474 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 3: much for joining. Greatly appreciate you. And if I don't, 475 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 3: if we don't chat on the sideline, it's so fi 476 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 3: It's because I envisioned there could be a moment with 477 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 3: a you and Chargers GM Joe is it Orchies? Yeah, 478 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 3: Joe Orchies. He's lost his top two running backs and 479 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 3: left tackle. Show later for the season. You've gone through 480 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 3: a million games of injuries this season, so maybe you 481 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 3: guys just lament a little bit into the game before 482 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 3: you compete against each other. 483 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 5: You know, Joe, Joe's super talented. Known of him for 484 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 5: a long period of time. But as GMS, you don't 485 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 5: really lament on those things. It's just say that's the job, 486 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 5: and you kind of take the challenge of it. He's 487 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 5: wired that way and they got a great roster. It'll 488 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 5: be a competitive game. I'm excited for it. Two teams 489 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 5: that need to win like we always do, so I'm 490 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 5: fired up for it. 491 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 4: I appreciate you, of. 492 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 2: Course, thank you for joining us for this week's episode 493 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 2: of X's and O's with Quacy del famensa in for 494 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell. X and O's is presented by Ken Moore 495 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 2: and is an official production of the Minnesota Vikings Audio Network.