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Speaker 1: I think that anything, anything to say, anything, to do everything.

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Speaker 2: Nine to noon? Now, what what did I do wrong?

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Speaker 3: I know? Right?

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Speaker 2: This is great set up, Bob. Time for two more.

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Speaker 4: Alrighty now, good morning nine to noon is in the air.

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Speaker 4: We begin with a howl, momentarily eagerly awaiting the arrival

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Speaker 4: of Minnesota Timberwolf, said coach Chris Finch to start this

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Speaker 4: talker Tuesday nine to noon Style. After that the great

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Speaker 4: Courtney cronin ESPN dot Com on the Bears and Packers

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Speaker 4: playing in the wild Card round on Saturday night. Plus

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Speaker 4: up much more coming up later. But let's let's begin,

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Speaker 4: as we mentioned earlier, with the hal nine to Noon

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Speaker 4: style order producers and I'm Paul Allen. Chris Finch, head

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Speaker 4: coach of the Minnesota Timberwolf, joins US weekly courtesy of

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Speaker 4: Second Harvest Heartland and two Harvest dot Org. Miami is

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Speaker 4: here tonight and Finchy squad looks to beat them for

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Speaker 4: a second time in three days. Good morning, Chris, thanks

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Speaker 4: for joining the show. How are things?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Good morning Pa, and happy birthday to you.

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Speaker 4: Oh my man, thank you very much. Indeed is my birthday?

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Speaker 4: Aw I think I get a comp grand slam at Denny's.

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Speaker 4: You want to meet there after the radio show and

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Speaker 4: talk passing game scheme?

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Speaker 1: I would love to. I'd love to, all right, I'll.

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Speaker 4: Text you at eleven five six, any outside of your

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Speaker 4: Went to bed a little early last night. Any idea

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Speaker 4: what the heck happened to Okase last night? I mean,

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Speaker 4: Charlotte beat the by almost thirty and the thunder were

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Speaker 2: I didn't see the game.

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Speaker 1: I just saw some of the highlights. You know, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon Miller hit seven. I know that.

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Speaker 4: Razinski co wrote, and I saw your quote, you know,

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Speaker 4: They lose by almost Charlotte ain't bad, but especially when

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Speaker 4: Grant once told me, distractions are the ultimate equalizer. You know,

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Speaker 5: So so Coach Chris Finch, thanks to Second Harvest heart Land,

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Speaker 5: for season long sponsorship. Uh Chris Finch nine to noon,

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Speaker 5: approaching the midway point of the season, you guys have

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean listen. I like I would say that

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Speaker 3: Morning, and happy birthday, burying the lead much. That is

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Speaker 3: the plan. That is the plan.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: I am doing everything within my power to get down there.

439
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Speaker 3: I have a ticket. It's just going to depend on

440
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Speaker 3: how a few things shake out at the end of

441
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Speaker 3: the week because it is the playoffs and I was

442
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Speaker 3: not expecting them to be this Saturday game. I don't

443
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Speaker 3: think many people were. That seemed like that was prime

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Speaker 3: for an NBC slot, But Amazon Prime here it is

445
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty million dollars for Bears packers. So

446
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Speaker 3: gonna be testing the laws of time and patience this

447
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Speaker 3: week and if I'm able to make it, but really

448
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Speaker 3: hoping to get to ce Indiana make it to the

449
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Speaker 3: national championship by beating Oregan.

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Speaker 4: With well, I mean the Saturday night game actually did

451
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Speaker 4: Beloved Sea a favor, I would imagine, I mean, not

452
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Speaker 4: not to get too far in the weeds with the

453
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Speaker 4: boring schedule during the course of the week, but the

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Speaker 4: final press conference into the game that you know that

455
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Speaker 4: you always attend would be a Friday for a Sunday.

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Speaker 4: So now it's a Thursday for a Saturday, which means

457
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Speaker 4: gets see gets a travel day on Friday, a game

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Speaker 4: Friday night, get back early on Saturday, hoping we have

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Speaker 4: no bad weather.

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Speaker 2: I mean this sounds good enough to eat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you're right, that part is nice about the

462
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Speaker 3: Friday schedule. I just worry with like the Saturday turnaround.

463
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Speaker 3: But either way, if I if I'm able to make

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Speaker 3: it down there, if it's all systems go, just hoping

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Speaker 3: that the weather cooperates and there's no freak snowstorm that

466
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Speaker 3: would off my travel plans of getting back to cover

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Speaker 3: a playoff game.

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Speaker 2: Said Hoosiers.

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Speaker 4: The alma mater of Courtney Grolan said, Hoosiers are favored

470
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Speaker 4: over Oregon. I think it's for do you think they're

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Speaker 4: going to win and get to the national championship game?

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Speaker 3: I do, And I know that sounds probably like some

473
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Speaker 3: home cooking just because of where I graduated from and

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Speaker 3: that I've been banging the drum for Indiana all year.

475
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Speaker 3: But the type of performance that they put up in

476
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Speaker 3: Rose Bowl was not just a byproduct of a bad

477
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Speaker 3: Alabama team that couldn't run the ball to save their life.

478
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Speaker 3: I think they finished the twenty three rushing yards. That's

479
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Speaker 3: not the Derrick Henry Alabama's or mark Ingram Alabamas. That's

480
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Speaker 3: pretty bad Alabama. Organ's different. Obviously. Oregon's the reason we

481
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Speaker 3: can say that Indiana is a national championship contender in

482
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Speaker 3: the first place because of what happened on October eleventh.

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Speaker 3: That's a battle tested team. For them to go on

484
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Speaker 3: the road to Aubson and for Fernando Mendos that throw

485
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Speaker 3: the pick six and then rebound the way that they

486
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Speaker 3: did that was the most complete perfemance we saw from

487
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Speaker 3: you know, the team top to bottom all seasons, and

488
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Speaker 3: then of course there's the Penn State game and people

489
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Speaker 3: want to find their favorite moments from there on out.

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Speaker 3: But for me, it was that that first organ meeting,

491
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Speaker 3: and I do think that matchup for matchup defensive line

492
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Speaker 3: against their offensive lines probably where I'd Givendiana the edge.

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Speaker 3: We saw the type of pressure that they got on

494
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Speaker 3: Ty Simpson routinely last week, and I think that will

495
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Speaker 3: carry over to how they game planned for Dante more.

496
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Speaker 3: But I mean, I never in my wildest imagination that

497
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Speaker 3: I ever think that I'd be looking ahead to Huh,

498
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Speaker 3: who did they match up better with? Is it the

499
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Speaker 3: speed of Ale myth? Or is it you know, a

500
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Speaker 3: Trenches matchup with Miami International Championships. So it's just wild

501
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Speaker 3: that we're at this point right now.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Courtney, what what was it like last week on

503
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Speaker 4: ESPN TV hosting first Take with big timers like Cam

504
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Speaker 4: Newton and Dan Orlovsky.

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Speaker 2: That that was fantastic?

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun and I love getting a

508
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Speaker 3: chance to do it whenever I can. Certainly this time

509
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Speaker 3: of year is more prevalent. But you know the way

510
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Speaker 3: that I had this conversation with someone yesterday, because we

511
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Speaker 3: were on on January first, and on the second, so

512
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Speaker 3: the day of the Rose Bowl, the day after the

513
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Speaker 3: Rose Bowl, and all the bowl games that were really

514
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Speaker 3: you know, the forefront of what we talked about outside

515
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Speaker 3: of the NFL, and there's something that has to happen

516
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Speaker 3: now that you have a team from the Big Ten

517
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Speaker 3: that's relevant and not just a one year, one hit. Wonder,

518
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Speaker 3: there's so many SEC voices out there because predominantly I'm

519
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Speaker 3: not even just talking about you know, you know Paul

520
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Speaker 3: fines On, who obviously is a prevalent SEC voice. He

521
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Speaker 3: always will be, always has been. But like the analysts

522
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Speaker 3: on TV, there's no former players that went to Indiana

523
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Speaker 3: that are, you know, vouching for the Big Ten, vouching

524
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Speaker 3: for their schools. Kind to squash the narrative that everybody's

525
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Speaker 3: holding onto five, ten, fifteen years ago, that the SEC

526
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Speaker 3: dominance of then is the SEC dominance of now, because

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Speaker 3: I feel like more of the conversation last week was

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Speaker 3: why did Bama perform like that? Why did Georgia perform

529
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Speaker 3: like that? Instead of Wow, Ole miss representing the SEC

530
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Speaker 3: on the biggest stage, or Wow giving Indiana the credit

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Speaker 3: that they're due in not using the rhetoric as though

532
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Speaker 3: they're just a basketball school. To me, that's a very

533
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Speaker 3: lazy narrative from people who are not educated about the

534
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Speaker 3: current state of athletics in Indiana. I know Brerero will

535
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Speaker 3: agree with me on that that's holding on to that's

536
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Speaker 3: holding on to a very lazy narrative from years ago.

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Speaker 3: So for me, I felt really proud that I had

538
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Speaker 3: a chance to correct a little bit of that and

539
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Speaker 3: educate a bit of that to a national audience. When

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Speaker 3: I'm sitting there with aforementioned Cam Newton graduate of Art

541
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Speaker 3: Auburn quarterback Paul fine Bomb SEC voice of the SEC

542
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Speaker 3: Ryan Clark LSU, former LSU player, like, it's a neat

543
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Speaker 3: chance that I had in that week, and then the

544
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Speaker 3: whole Christmas week too, but really last week when the

545
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Speaker 3: narrative about college football was changing in real time and

546
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Speaker 3: people are finally waking up to it that the pundits

547
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Speaker 3: are being forced to talk about Indiana in a way

548
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Speaker 3: and even Oregon in a way that they didn't before.

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Speaker 5: Well, hey, off what you said? You know, like, hey,

553
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Speaker 5: it wasn't about the winner. It was about what Georgia

554
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 5: did or or what Alabama did not do against IU.

555
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Speaker 5: As the Bears go Sunday, I mean, my mind and

556
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Speaker 5: heart goes to what happened to the Bears against the Lions,

557
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 5: not what the Lions did against the Bears. And here's why,

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Speaker 5: after Campbell put fifty two up on them week two,

559
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Speaker 5: I fully expected Ben to roll up fifty three or

560
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Speaker 5: high or Sunday if he had the chance. They but

561
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Speaker 5: they lost the game. Was that surprising to you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, especially for the first reason that you point that.

563
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: You know, he won't publicly say it's a revenge game.

564
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be embarrassed the way that they

565
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Speaker 3: were in week two. But you saw the handshake after

566
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Speaker 3: the game. It was two seconds long. He was feeling

567
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Speaker 3: about the offense afterwards, as he should be, but that

568
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Speaker 3: was this is not what they wanted at this time

569
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Speaker 3: of year, like to play your best football in December,

570
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Speaker 3: so you're playing great football in January. You don't want

571
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Speaker 3: to back your way into the playoffs. It's how a

572
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Speaker 3: lot of teams have done at the Eagles being one

573
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Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, I understand they rested their starters. Same

574
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Speaker 3: thing with green Bay. Green Bay is probably more of

575
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Speaker 3: a prevalent example of team. A team that's lost four

576
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Speaker 3: straight now not great. You saw that game last week,

577
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Speaker 3: and I know starters will be back, but you don't

578
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Speaker 3: want that taste in your mouth of having to rid

579
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Speaker 3: the last two losses, mentally get over them, and then

580
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Speaker 3: play perfect football in a do or die situation. So

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Speaker 3: I was not expecting it to take them that long

582
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Speaker 3: to get off to like to score their first points.

583
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Speaker 3: I mean it was sixteen to nothing in the beginning

584
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Speaker 3: of the fourth quarter. After one week after you're getting

585
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Speaker 3: a shootout with San Francisco, which was I believe the

586
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Speaker 3: only game that had the I don't know, it's not

587
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Speaker 3: a score of GAMI, but I don't know how you

588
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Speaker 3: would classify it where it was like seven seven, fourteen, fourteen,

589
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Speaker 3: twenty eight, twenty, so on and so forth, until obviously

590
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Speaker 3: they went forty two thirty eight Like that was surprising,

591
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Speaker 3: Like where did that high octane offense go? And I

592
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Speaker 3: get it, Ben said, yesterday, then the day before this

593
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Speaker 3: was one of their simpler game plans, which irritated him.

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Speaker 3: They couldn't execute a simpler game plan, and there were

595
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Speaker 3: a lot of mental errors. The first nineteen plays, they

596
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 3: had six mental errors that he counted, and that's I

597
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 3: think frustrating because this was one that you had to

598
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Speaker 3: have to feel good about going into the playoffs. Their

599
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Speaker 3: fortunate the draw that they have is a very injured

600
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Speaker 3: Green Bay team, especially on defense, but it's also a

601
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Speaker 3: Green Bay team that kept you on your heels until

602
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Speaker 3: the final minute of the four fourth overtime. So that

603
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Speaker 3: that being said, I know that he can't go the

604
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Speaker 3: same full throttle approach that he took the last time

605
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Speaker 3: they were zero to two or lost two games, which

606
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Speaker 3: is the beginning of the season, where he makes some

607
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Speaker 3: practice for two and a half hours and ninety degree

608
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Speaker 3: heat and it's one of the more intense physical practices

609
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Speaker 3: that you can't do that at this stage. That's when

610
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Speaker 3: he called them out for not having championship caliber practice habits.

611
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Speaker 3: But you better flush this in a hurry and not

612
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Speaker 3: let the big game juice that comes with Bear's Packers

613
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Speaker 3: affect you the way that it did the first time

614
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Speaker 3: you played this team.

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Speaker 2: In Week thirteen, amen cee ce.

616
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Speaker 4: So if the Bears lose Saturday night to Green Bay,

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Speaker 4: should the turnaround be considered a success given the Bears

618
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Speaker 4: went from last to first in the division?

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Speaker 3: I think so. I mean they're a year had a

620
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Speaker 3: schedule in the eyes of most people, and some people say, oh,

621
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 3: we had them going to the playoffs all along. He

622
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Speaker 3: didn't have him at eleven wins, No one did, No

623
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Speaker 3: one with a brain did. But things broke well for

624
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Speaker 3: them with the schedule, with who they were facingquarterbacks in

625
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 3: which they were facing, and I think that that says

626
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Speaker 3: something about how they could sustain success throughout the season.

627
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 3: Whether you believe momentum carries over week to week or not.

628
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Speaker 3: They still had two four game win streaks and that's

629
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Speaker 3: what they're aiming for now when the stakes are ultimately

630
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Speaker 3: at their highest. So I think it would be a

631
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Speaker 3: major disappointment because of getting there and showing up to

632
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Speaker 3: the playoffs. If it's the same effort of what it

633
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 3: looked like last week, that's not great or even in

634
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 3: the first two Green Bay games they trailed at halftime.

635
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Speaker 3: But if it's anything other than that, you're playing with

636
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Speaker 3: house money. If they make it into the divisional round.

637
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Speaker 3: That's that's all house money from there and out, because

638
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: no one would have expected them to get that far

639
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Speaker 3: in the first year.

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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson, are you expecting Roma Dunes to return for

641
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Speaker 4: this one and if so, how much will it help?

642
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 3: It'll help for sure, you know. I think guys catching

643
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: passes will help too. That was a big problem this

644
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: past game. Luther Burden was a victim of it. John

645
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 3: A Walker as well. D two Moore kind of gave

646
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 3: up on the touch on the interception in the end zone.

647
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 3: That was a touchback, like I think having roam back.

648
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 3: He hasn't played since the Philly game, and he had

649
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 3: a practice last week on Friday. He was limited, but

650
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 3: he's been doing workouts three game. He's been moving around.

651
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Speaker 3: He's itching to get back out there. They needed to

652
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Speaker 3: shut him down to protect him from himself because you know,

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Speaker 3: he kept pushing it. He has a stress fracture in

654
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Speaker 3: his foot. He's playing through that and the only way

655
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Speaker 3: that gets better is if you stay off of it.

656
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Speaker 3: Now they need He and Caleb have had some chemistry

657
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Speaker 3: issues at times this year where it's like this is

658
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Speaker 3: your number one wide receiver, Like why aren't you, why

659
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Speaker 3: doesn't it look easier with him? And I would, I would,

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Speaker 3: I would be cautious of that, just knowing that it's

661
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Speaker 3: going to take some time for those two to get

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Speaker 3: back in a rhythm. But if he's a full going

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Speaker 3: practice this week, they have a walk through today and

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Speaker 3: then they'll have two practices Wednesday and Thursday, then he

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Speaker 3: will play. And I think that's the plan the whole

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Speaker 3: week for you know, anticipat and he will be.

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Speaker 2: Back time for two more.

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Speaker 4: Courtney's most recent story at ESPN dot com involves the

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Speaker 4: still budding relationship between quarterback Caleb Williams and head coach

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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson. Now, the assumption here is it's quite good

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Speaker 4: given Caleb just rolled up to a game wearing an

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Speaker 4: Ac Reynolds High School Rockets jersey with the numbers twelve

673
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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson wore when he played at the North Carolina

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Speaker 4: High School. So how far of these two come when

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Speaker 4: it comes to executing winning game plans?

676
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Speaker 3: I think fairly far. I mean, there's obviously a long

677
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Speaker 3: way to go, But as I documented over the course

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Speaker 3: of the season, now this is a quarterback who he

679
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Speaker 3: got what he asked for. Like last year, he didn't

680
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Speaker 3: feel like maddieberflus knew what he was doing in all honesty,

681
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 3: asking to be held accountable, asking to be coached hard,

682
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Speaker 3: all that stuff that's saying to your head coach and

683
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 3: to the staff, I think you people are incompetent. That

684
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 3: is exactly what that is, saying it in a more

685
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Speaker 3: politically correct way. So he gets a coach who gets

686
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Speaker 3: in here and is on his ass twenty four to seven.

687
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Speaker 3: Early on, I remember there were times during OTA's in

688
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Speaker 3: mini camp where you know, this is guys in shorts

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Speaker 3: running around and Ben Johnson's screaming his head off because

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Speaker 3: somebody's aligned an inch off and they have to re

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Speaker 3: huddle and run the play again. And there were times

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Speaker 3: where Caleb's like, I don't even know if this guy

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Speaker 3: likes me, And this is somebody that he wanted so

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Speaker 3: badly to like him, somebody he wanted so so much

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Speaker 3: that he fell for these teenagers pranking him. I remember

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Speaker 3: it was the it was wild Card weekend. It was

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Speaker 3: literally before Ben Johnson had interviewed with any of the

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Speaker 3: teams on the Saturday, because they were the ones feed

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Speaker 3: last year in Detroit, Like Caleb so desperately wanted it

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Speaker 3: to be Ben Johnson that he fell for a prank

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Speaker 3: of these kids saying, hey, it's Ben Johnson. I've been

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Speaker 3: hired to be your coach. And he called the number,

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Speaker 3: and then of course the kids you know, are are

704
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Speaker 3: videoing it and put it on on TikTok. He got

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Speaker 3: exactly what he wanted and there's results now that you see.

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Speaker 3: Like my phrase that I've used all year long, call

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Speaker 3: is proof of concept, to where then may call a

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Speaker 3: play that looks like it might not work, but when

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Speaker 3: it does, you're like, oh, this guy knows what he's doing. Yeah,

710
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Speaker 3: And that's something that I think any coach, any quarterback combination,

711
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Speaker 3: that's how you build trust to see that the body

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Speaker 3: of work stands for itself and it's not just a

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Speaker 3: house of cards. It's going to fault that looks good

714
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Speaker 3: and it's going to fall down. That's why this relationship

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Speaker 3: has ultimately succeeded. And I think he's in demanding a

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Speaker 3: lot from Caleb. It's improved his work ethic, it's improved

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Speaker 3: how much time he's been in the building, it's improved

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Speaker 3: the overall command that he has. But this is his team.

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Speaker 3: He's got a rookie trying to feel his way a

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Speaker 3: bunch among a bunch of Vets, the way that he

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Speaker 3: did last year, and all of those things have factored

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Speaker 3: into why they've had so much success early on in

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Speaker 3: their relationship.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we have a new time for two more,

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Speaker 2: Time for two more.

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Speaker 4: Your biggest fan, Johnny the Mouse Michelson has texted me

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Speaker 4: and I you questioned that I can't leave on the

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Speaker 4: table final Final on the NFL green bag. Is it

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Speaker 4: fair to say, Courtney, if Dobbs doesn't mess up that

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Speaker 4: on side kick, that the Packers probably win that game

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Speaker 4: a couple of saturdays ago, And just overall, what do

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Speaker 4: you think of the Packers.

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Speaker 3: I think they're a team that is doing the exact

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Speaker 3: same thing they did last year, which is slumping at

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Speaker 3: the wrong time. We saw what happen those two division

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Speaker 3: games that they lost Week seventeen and eighteen. They go

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Speaker 3: to Philly, they get snacked and it's not just Micah Parsons.

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Speaker 3: I mean, sure they missed him in everything, but like

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Speaker 3: there's still a capable defense. They held the Bears. It

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Speaker 3: was fixed nothing at halftime. And if it's not for

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Speaker 3: DJ Moore on that third down throw, I believe And

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Speaker 3: then John A. Walker catching the pass in the corner

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Speaker 3: of the end zone by using all six foot four

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Speaker 3: and a half of this frame to grab it. And

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Speaker 3: it's a completely different story. The Dobbs injury on the

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Speaker 3: on side kick. It's kind of weird that nobody went

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Speaker 3: over to help him on that. I thought that was,

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Speaker 3: you know, the recovery obviously attended, bounces off his chest

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Speaker 3: and he gets hurt. But I feel like this is

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Speaker 3: a team that has crumbled a lot in big moments

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Speaker 3: in the postseason under Mattlafloor, and there's a reason why

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Speaker 3: as of right now, he doesn't have a contract extension.

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Speaker 3: But they match up like for the Bears, matching up

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Speaker 3: with the Packers is probably the best draw that they

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Speaker 3: could have in a two to seven matchup because they've

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Speaker 3: seen them a lot. They know that there are things

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Speaker 3: that they're that they've held back from their game plan

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Speaker 3: that ultimately they will expect will be some unscouted looks

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Speaker 3: that they see this weekend, but not many.

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Speaker 1: Not many.

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Speaker 3: I mean the last week. You can't even look at

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Speaker 3: last week's film and say that's who Green Bay is

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Speaker 3: because you had Clayton Tunes starting at quarterbacks. So I

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Speaker 3: think it's a good draw for them. I think they

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Speaker 3: should win this game, but if they don't, there's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a lot of questions of why it was the

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Speaker 3: snowball effects something you couldn't stop from the San Francisco

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Speaker 3: game onwards.

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Speaker 4: All right, lifetime, dear friend of mine, Johnny the Mouse

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Speaker 4: Michelson as all you're out ones texted me for Courtney

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Speaker 4: back to IU. Does does c C Field Mendoza will

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Speaker 4: be the first taken in the draft and is it warranted?

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Speaker 3: Warranted?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I know some people say that Dante more is a

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Speaker 3: better pro prospect, but I think that Mendoza if he

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Speaker 3: wins the national championship, and I'm not unlike another quarterback

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Speaker 3: who just won a national championship that you guys know

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Speaker 3: all too well, like it's warranted that he would be

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Speaker 3: where he'd be drafted number one. I just hope the

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Speaker 3: Raiders don't screw him up because they need to hit

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Speaker 3: full reset on their rebuild, meaning coaching staff, not any

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Speaker 3: no carryovers from this staff, and going out and getting

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Speaker 3: somebody that can continue on to develop a quarterback. He's

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Speaker 3: if there's one thing, and I actually think about Tornado

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Speaker 3: Mendoza quite a bit when that conversation came up that

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Speaker 3: Wes Phillips was having a couple of weeks ago with

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Speaker 3: the beat about peer progressive, the pure progression passing game,

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Speaker 3: Like a lot of guys do that in college because

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Speaker 3: that's how I mean, most players do that in college,

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Speaker 3: because that's how it's taught. Bernana Mendoza might be the

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Speaker 3: only one who is like the antithesis of that in

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00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 3: college football right now. So I think he needs somebody

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00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 3: who can challenge him from the respect of, you know,

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Speaker 3: a real NFL offense. Obviously he's going to have a

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00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 3: learning curve, but I really hope that that part of

797
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 3: the coach of like the overall what they're doing in

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Speaker 3: Vegas this year, since you will probably be going there,

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Speaker 3: I hope they get it right because I don't want

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Speaker 3: to see a talent and another Heisman Trophy talented quarterback

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Speaker 3: like Caleb Williams get screwed up by the first staff

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Speaker 3: that they're with. Like it's such a rich investment that

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Speaker 3: if they don't trade out of that number one pick

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Speaker 3: and decide to like completely go the long way of

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Speaker 3: a rebuild when you can get a franchise quarterback, I

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Speaker 3: hope that you have the right infrastructure around them.

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Speaker 2: Greatly appreciate you. Ain't nobody better at Courtney.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, safe travels on Friday and Saturday morning, okay,

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00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 4: because I know you're going to do this, And thank

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Speaker 4: you very much for the time. All right, Go, who's.

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Speaker 3: Your have a good birthday.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Go Courtney cronin and we'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: See ya.

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Speaker 4: That's CC Courtney Cronan at Courtney R. Cronan via X

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Speaker 4: covers the Bears for ESPN used to cover the vikings

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Speaker 4: for for said entity. She's fantastic. It's nine forty five

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Speaker 4: fikes bites our next.

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Speaker 7: Good morning and happy birthday, pa, you boxy, boxy.

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Speaker 2: Son of a gun. You Hey.

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Speaker 7: I've been listening to you for the better part of

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Speaker 7: twenty years and I can't imagine a Sunday going by

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Speaker 7: without hearing you during the football season. And I just

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Speaker 7: want to say thank you for all the years, and

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Speaker 7: and I hope we get another another sixty out of

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Speaker 7: your happy birthday, my friend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Be nice to get another sixty out of it.

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Speaker 4: It's more of a long shot than McCarthy starting game

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Speaker 4: one next year for Kevin O'Connell's Vikings another sixty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you never know. We'll count yourself out. You

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Speaker 2: never know.

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Speaker 4: But thank you very much for the kindness. Thank you

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Speaker 4: Norda for setting up those talkbacks.

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Speaker 2: Let me play one more and then we'll wait.

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Speaker 5: Can tell me and my man for calling me boxy, boxy,

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Speaker 5: I got called boxy.

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Speaker 2: That was kind of sweet.

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Speaker 5: Pa.

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday, man. I am an og listener.

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Speaker 6: I've been listening to you so long that I used

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Speaker 6: to listen to you through my computer in college in

841
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Speaker 6: the early two thousands in Canton, Missouri. It was like

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Speaker 6: one of the first people to figure out how to

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Speaker 6: work the radio through the computer.

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Speaker 2: So happy birthday. I can't believe where this sold. My friend, Amen,

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Speaker 2: take care an old schooler puppy. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for the kindness there.

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Speaker 4: I still very much love calling Minnesota Vikings football games.

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Speaker 4: This this you know, this year that we just completed

849
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 4: was my twenty fourth, so that there just weren't as

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00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 4: many big offensive plays this year, yeah, as we've had

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Speaker 4: in the past. And it's not for me to to

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Speaker 4: anoint myself how God made me or what positions I'm

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Speaker 4: best at per God's plan. But when there are big

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Speaker 4: offensive plays, I seem to have a lot of fun

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Speaker 4: with them, and there just weren't a lot of big

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Speaker 4: offensive plays this year.

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Speaker 5: Man. You know, no, it's the stream of consciousness that

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Speaker 5: you have and the end he's loose. We got to

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Speaker 5: hear it with Isaiah Rodgers early in the season Bengals

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Speaker 5: Game five, takeaways, all that, but it's sadly twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: five was marked more by the emotional are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: This is ridiculous.

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Speaker 5: The rhetorical question correct, the questioning our existence, the questioning

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Speaker 5: is what I am seeing on the current field actually happening? Ye?

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Speaker 2: And I mean that's that's a nine and eight season.

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Speaker 5: That's why we're having Courtney Cronin on to talk about

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Speaker 5: Bears pack sadly and not who the Vikings will be

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Speaker 5: facing this.

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Speaker 4: I mean, about a quarter century into the blessing of

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Speaker 4: doing this job. How I know I still love it

871
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 4: is it is what transpired yesterday with me out of nowhere.

872
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 4: I mean, because you know, Nordo and I and Nine

873
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 4: to Noon started saying after that Bears game that when

874
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 4: you're basically a minimal chancer to make the playoffs and

875
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 4: you've got three major holidays in front of you, a

876
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 4: lot of things backtor into that, the human nature aspect

877
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 4: of it with the players and stuff, but you know

878
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 4: other people, ancillary people working with the program that would

879
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 4: include like the broadcast team and stuff. But so I

880
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 4: was reserved for quite some time knowing the team wasn't

881
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 4: going to the playoffs. But the frustration came out to

882
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 4: me yesterday for some reason, like I didn't go to

883
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: bed Sunday night, pissed off the Vikings weren't going to

884
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 4: the playoffs. I was resigned. I had been resigned for

885
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 4: quite some time knowing they're.

886
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Speaker 2: Not going to the playoffs. Yeah.

887
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Speaker 5: Well then I woke up here and you know, Nordo

888
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 5: hits me with a paraphrasing not going having the season

889
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 5: and like this is stupid.

890
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 2: Well then it pissed me off, not in him, but

891
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 2: the situation. Then I started to get mad.

892
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 5: So then I had this whole thing crafted and stuff,

893
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 5: and I just I was more frustrated into the microphone

894
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 5: yesterday than I thought I would be. Then I thought

895
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 5: about it a little later, like why, man, where'd that

896
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 5: come from? It's because we care.

897
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 4: We really enjoy Vikings conversation, not only year round, but

898
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 4: specifically late July through the postseason, even if it's.

899
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 2: A loss in the thick of him. Man.

900
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Speaker 5: And then you know, my dear friend Kevin Stefanski lost

901
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 5: his job yesterday with Cleveland. So then I'm seeing some

902
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 5: tweets about Stefanski and you know, certain good things and

903
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 5: perceived bad things and stuff.

904
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 4: And then I got pissed off again because I was like,

905
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 4: all right, well, if this guy over here thinks Kirk

906
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 4: Cousin is going to be cut by Atlanta and Atlanta's

907
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 4: going to interview Kevin Stefanski to be the head coach,

908
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 4: what if Kirk stays Because the last time the Vikings

909
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 4: won a playoff game was before the freaking pandemic. It

910
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 4: was twenty nineteen with Stefanski as OC and Cousins at quarterback.

911
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 4: So then I got pissed off again, had to go

912
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 4: to bed and miss most of the wild game.

913
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 5: Think what Stefanski could do play action Bijon Robinson. Wow,

914
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 5: he's got Kyle Pitts finally. I mean it's taking years

915
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 5: showing a pulse. Drake London, Okay, yeah, see that's this.

916
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 5: It's you get resigned to it because you know you're

917
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 5: out of the mix. The problem is, though this is

918
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Speaker 5: not first first overall.

919
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: Pick Radio PA. This is if this happens.

920
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 5: XYZ roster built to win, teammates, massive investments, and the

921
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 5: talent on this squad and it all hinged. Which is

922
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 5: really in this one particular position happens to be the

923
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 5: most important position on the field in any sport, really

924
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 5: the quarterback spot. But if this goes if this goes right,

925
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 5: this doesn't go wrong, We're talking about a playoff team.

926
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Speaker 5: That's where I'm always able to emotionally compartmentalize and say

927
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 5: goodbye to the season.

928
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,720
Speaker 2: I understand why we're in this spot.

929
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 5: But then when I got to do Brian McKnight's One

930
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 5: Last Cry, and I'm becoming really good at it because

931
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 5: it's the twelfth freaking year in a row that I've

932
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 5: had to do the montage.

933
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 4: That also elevated my frustration when you said that yesterday

934
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 4: and I'm like, are we ever not going to end

935
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 4: a season with Brian McKnight's One Last Cry? Are we

936
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 4: ever going to play queen? We are the champions? How

937
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 4: good would that be?

938
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 5: And then You're like, I'd be doing it on no

939
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 5: sleep because I would be floating in the freaking clouds

940
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 5: that entire previous night, and You're like, we've Brian McKnight

941
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 5: did it with a montage for twelve years and I'm like,

942
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 5: damn man, that's been a long time. Holy now ridiculous.

943
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 5: All right, Well I got off track. Technically this is

944
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 5: Vike Spikes Good. We got the scriber on the corner,

945
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 5: So Vikes Bites. Whatever topics you have that you don't

946
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Speaker 5: use here can drop in there. But I understand regarding

947
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 5: this segment regarding Bikes Bites, which is five days a week,

948
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 5: nine to noon. Sometimes it goes ten minutes, sometimes it

949
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 5: goes twenty five minutes. Correct me if I'm wrong here,

950
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Speaker 5: But believe we are in search of a sponsor.

951
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are Vikes Bites.

952
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Speaker 5: And just I mean over the last two and a

953
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Speaker 5: Lifetime grazed grass fed Beef. They've been amazing partners to

955
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Speaker 5: nine to noon turn people in my life, Matt and everybody.

956
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Speaker 5: It's a Clearwater, Minnesota company. Yeah, they're great, Absolutely love

957
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Speaker 5: them and they're kicking ass. But this sponsorship Vikes Bites,

958
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Speaker 5: this slot where we get to get to talk about

959
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Speaker 5: you every day for about forty five seconds. This is yes,

960
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Speaker 5: it is technically open for business at this particular time.

961
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Speaker 5: So so many thanks to Matt and everybody at Thousand Hills.

962
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Speaker 5: And as you heard a couple of weeks ago, Matt

963
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Speaker 5: did agree he would match my fantasy winnings, which I

964
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Speaker 5: believe was thirty three hundred to support feed my starving children.

965
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Speaker 5: So again, so many thanks two thousand Hills. But an

966
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Speaker 5: opportunity for a business out there in the metro and

967
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Speaker 5: beyond that wants to hear wants to hear us talking

968
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Speaker 5: about talking about them on a daily basis as we

969
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Speaker 5: do Vikes Bites. We love our purple and we love

970
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 5: you so but Vikes Bites, it's very paltry because we're

971
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Speaker 5: going to be talking about free agents and some other things.

972
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 5: What I did want to hit on Thursday, I believe

973
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Speaker 5: time to be determined courtesy of PR season ending press

974
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 5: conference for Kevin O'Connell. I'm assuming maybe Quasia Delfha Mensa

975
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 5: might be speaking. Maybe I'm assuming wrongly in that regard.

976
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the season closing recap with the head coach

977
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 4: and the general manager Thursday. Like you said, time, it's

978
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 4: TBA did a little lobby in yesterday for.

979
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 2: The old eleven am slot, and we'll see what happens.

980
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 5: You think I didn't potentially reply to the PR guy said,

981
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 5: you know, we love a morning press or nice.

982
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's we never get them. I don't

983
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 4: think we're going to get this one. But nevertheless, that's

984
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 4: coming up Toe's day.

985
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll end on this.

986
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 5: I saw some audio from Jalen Naylor and he'll be

987
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 5: part of the conversation with Ben Gesling next hour. Just

988
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 5: would be good to come back season ending lockers being

989
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 5: cleaned out and just some good bits and pieces coming

990
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 5: out of that as this particular incarnation of the Vikings

991
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 5: departs and parts ways really forever and you start to

992
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 5: turn things around some reserve contracts, the wheels already turning

993
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 5: into twenty twenty six.

994
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 2: But Jalen Naylor some other names.

995
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Speaker 5: I would definitely like to broach Fike's byte style, but

996
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 5: Ben Gesling style as we get into the ten am hour.

997
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the way, this Vike's bite, these Vikes

998
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 4: bite segments again are daily.

999
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 2: Nine to noon. It's somewhere between.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you've heard yours truly end or Nordo with

1001
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Speaker 4: Thousand Hills brass fed beef of Steve's appliances the week

1002
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Speaker 4: in Wrap by Hoffman Cooling and Heating, which we'll return

1003
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Speaker 4: somewhere around April or May. If you believe in the

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Speaker 4: station and subsequently believe in us, then we're going to

1005
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Speaker 4: do our darnness nine to noon to make sure you

1006
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Speaker 4: get paid. And we are not afraid to push the

1007
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Speaker 4: envelope and we are not afraid to over sell what

1008
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 4: you do if we believe in it. So if you'd

1009
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 4: like to advertise with KFA and specifically nine to noon

1010
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 4: and pick up that bike's bytes tabs part of your

1011
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:37,240
Speaker 4: endorsement deal, you can contact Nordo or yours truly via email.

1012
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: We could start there.

1013
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 5: Sure you could taxt six four six eight six right

1014
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 5: now and jump started, but we'd love to have you

1015
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 5: part of the family and we absolutely aim to make

1016
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Speaker 5: you and your company not just money, a lot of money.

1017
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 5: This is broadcasting. This is not narrow casting, this is

1018
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 5: not online, this is radio. This is broadcasting.

1019
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 4: We have capabilities podcasting like that don't have. So therefore,

1020
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Speaker 4: just consider that six four six eighty six if you

1021
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 4: want to hook up with Nordo. Nordo, by the way,

1022
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Speaker 4: is the father of three young girls, ave A, Stella

1023
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Speaker 4: and Hannah, and I bring it up because I mean,

1024
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Speaker 4: just what an amazing birthday.

1025
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Speaker 2: Wish text I just got for my daughter in Denver.

1026
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Speaker 4: And I think you're gonna like this, Nordo having three

1027
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Speaker 4: girls now, Coley's going to be twenty three in a

1028
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, so you're obviously a decade and change

1029
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 4: away from that with the twins.

1030
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Speaker 2: But get ready for this. You're ready?

1031
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Happy birthday to my best friend ever and that

1032
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Speaker 4: includes the whole planet. I love you and wish I

1033
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Speaker 4: could be there for you today. By the way, can

1034
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 4: you put four hundred dollars in my account?

1035
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Speaker 2: I always love that one. I need this. She didn't

1036
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 2: say that at the end. I'm just kidding. I get

1037
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 2: ready for that, man. I love you, Love Coli. Man,

1038
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Speaker 2: that's amazing, all right. I appreciate all the convert wishes.

1039
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Speaker 2: Been Gessling.

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Speaker 4: The scribe covers the team for the Star Tribune and

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Speaker 4: Star Tribune dot Com. He joins US Next nine to

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