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Speaker 4: It should it should bother us, and it does.

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Speaker 4: That is absolutely the case and.

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Speaker 3: the best? All well, the turnover battles huge, the penalties,

442
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Speaker 3: time of possession, the kicking game phase is massive, you know,

443
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 3: in each and every one of these games, but it

444
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Speaker 3: all matters when you start talking about the best teams

445
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,919
Speaker 3: competing for a championship.

446
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Speaker 11: You don't have any concrete updates on coaching at this point,

447
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 11: but how would you characterize negotiations with Brian Flores and

448
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 11: where things stand about bringing him back here.

449
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been We've been really aggressive and Flow knows

450
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 3: exactly how we feel about him, but at the same

451
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 3: time want to be really supportive. I'm really excited for him.

452
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 3: I think I think he's gonna for sure talk to

453
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Speaker 3: one team about their head coach position. Would not be

454
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 3: surprised at all if it ends up being multiple. I

455
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 3: think he's more than deserving everything he's brought to our

456
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 3: organization over these last three years.

457
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Speaker 4: You know.

458
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Speaker 3: It's it's it's been an awesome process to go back

459
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 3: to when I first sat down with him and really

460
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 3: talked about this vision and his impact and what it's

461
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 3: inevitably ended up being.

462
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Speaker 4: It's been.

463
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Speaker 3: It's it's it's been a really positive thing for me.

464
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 3: Our relationship is super strong. We're talking, you know, almost

465
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 3: every day, and just making sure he knows the intent

466
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Speaker 3: of of where we're at to have him as our

467
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Speaker 3: defensive coordinator, and he is, you know, kept no secrets

468
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 3: about his desire to to stay.

469
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Speaker 4: Here doing that role as well.

470
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Speaker 3: But I but I think it's important that he totally

471
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 3: commits to going through this process, especially the head coaching process,

472
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 3: you know, and put his best foot forward, which I

473
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 3: know he will. He's been through it before, and I'm

474
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Speaker 3: not surprised people are wanting to talk to him about

475
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 3: about that role and excited for him to do so

476
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 3: all well, knowing our number one priority really before the

477
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Speaker 3: season even ended, but our number one priority has been,

478
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Speaker 3: you know, to uh, you know, get to get that

479
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 3: thing done with.

480
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Speaker 4: Him independent of head coaching. That it hasn't happened yet.

481
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Speaker 8: I mean was ten days or so since the end

482
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Speaker 8: of the season, and you know he could sign that

483
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Speaker 8: and still go interview for head coaching job.

484
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

485
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Speaker 3: I don't particularly take it any any kind of way.

486
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 3: I mean, whether it was trying to get something done

487
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 3: in training camp, trying to get out in front of

488
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 3: kind of this period before people would would be able

489
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Speaker 3: to talk to him about a similar role with their teams.

490
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 3: You know, you don't really you don't see a lot

491
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 3: of players signing free agency before free agency starts, sometimes

492
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 3: because they want to know what their market is and

493
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 3: they want to be able.

494
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Speaker 4: To totally clarify that.

495
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Speaker 3: We're very much being aggressive to try to get something

496
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Speaker 3: done with him, but at the same time, I want

497
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 3: to be respectful and and make sure he can go

498
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Speaker 3: through whatever process, whether it is for a total you know,

499
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 3: clarity and commitment to the head coaching process. But I

500
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Speaker 3: don't I don't have based upon my conversations. I think

501
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 3: I shared this the last time we were able to speak,

502
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Speaker 3: was I have a lot of confidence we're going to

503
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 3: be able to get something done with him as our

504
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator LAS one season.

505
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Speaker 6: Do you think he needs anything big mechanically to get

506
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 6: to an accuracy spot that you guys want to be

507
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 6: at or do you think it's just a footwork focus

508
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 6: that you talked about.

509
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Speaker 3: I think so much of it goes back to playing

510
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 3: with a repeatable the top of any drop, whether it's

511
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: quick game, five step, seven step play action, anytime he's

512
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 3: coming to balance at the top of a drop, that

513
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 3: base balance, body position to be repeatable, to be to

514
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 3: be able to allow him to.

515
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 4: Activate the throw required.

516
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 3: You know, in regards to the NFL passing game of

517
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 3: spacing and timing, and in regards to our passing game,

518
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 3: you know, we talk a lot about voids and vacancies

519
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 3: and attacking those by putting individual players, regardless of coverage,

520
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: in a bind to have to defend multiple things, and

521
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: then obviously building progressions so guys can eliminate quickly and

522
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 3: you know, get the ball out of their hands in

523
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 3: a timely manner. And that's where the mastery of it

524
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 3: comes from a standpoint of tying in. Okay, here's the scheme,

525
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 3: here's what we're trying to get done here. Maybe I

526
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 3: do have an alert versus this coverage on this play,

527
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 3: Maybe I do all the scheme stuff continuing to become

528
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 3: second nature and not just on the practice field, you know,

529
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: the ten games of inventory we do have. There was

530
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 3: some real improvement of decisive decisions in the rhythm of

531
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 3: an NFL snap, which, as we talked about with the

532
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 3: pass rush earlier, needs to be something that you're able

533
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 3: to process and do quickly, and he showed some real

534
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 3: moments of that. In regards to, you know, some of

535
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 3: the fundamentals and techniques, it's about being able to repeat,

536
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 3: you know, the different types of fundamentals and techniques and

537
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 3: be consistent with those things so that you're not having

538
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 3: to self correct, you know, as the ball leaves your hand,

539
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 3: and you're not having to ultimately, you know, try to

540
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: take a lot of variables that are existing, maybe that

541
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 3: you can control and eliminate some of those by the

542
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 3: consistency of how you do your job. And that's fundamentals

543
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 3: and technique and footwork and things like that are all

544
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: just a way of getting to that proper base and

545
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 3: body position at the top of a drop, and then

546
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: how you navigate the pocket, how you keep your eyes

547
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 3: up through a progression and ultimately find a completion to

548
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: generate a positive play, because we all know that they

549
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 3: have a negative effect on the defense. Whether it's a

550
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 3: five yard completion or a sixty yard touchdown, they all

551
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 3: have an effect. And it's hard to do those jobs

552
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 3: consistently if the foundation of playing the position at this

553
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 3: level is not there. And I think he grew tremendously

554
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 3: throughout the season and kind of learning that feel and

555
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 3: why it's important. And now he gets a full off

556
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 3: season to stack a lot of days and knowing what

557
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 3: it felt like for those ten games and hit the

558
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 3: ground run and doing.

559
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: So what what they say at the end there? Thanks everyone?

560
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: And was it sure?

561
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 2: Well they're waiting for the GM now, oh yeah, that

562
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: was so? The so quays he is speaking, Yes, yes.

563
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 4: All right, we.

564
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Speaker 1: Just wait, what do we do? We got any got

565
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Speaker 1: any of that the weak track terrorism the music? Yeah

566
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: we do. Jeez, let's break be right back. All right,

567
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: let's jump on the quasi train. He's speaking now, GM,

568
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings get.

569
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Speaker 12: That play style, that ability to win games for you know,

570
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 12: seventeen plus games this season. So that's how we focus

571
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 12: on our conversations.

572
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 4: How do you get there?

573
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 12: You know, obviously the season just ended, so we're focusing

574
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 12: on obviously the people that we have in the building

575
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 12: first and how you know, JJ has, how he's matured,

576
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 12: and how he's done gone on through the season. You know,

577
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 12: you talk about his first six games and how they went,

578
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 12: but the last four games, great increases and completion percentage,

579
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 12: touch on interception, four wins obviously, and different things like that,

580
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 12: playing up in the pocket, all the different things that

581
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 12: we talked about him improving. We're trying to make sure

582
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 12: that we set the table for that first start there

583
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 12: and then kind of use that mindset to kind of

584
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 12: fill out the rest of the room.

585
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 13: Crazy Kevin's talking about the balance of supporting the prime

586
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 13: Flais funny head coaching jobs, being aggressive to keep him

587
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 13: as a GM if he does go to the ahead

588
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 13: of somewhere personnel wise, would be a challenge for you,

589
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 13: don't you think because of just how unique his style

590
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,959
Speaker 13: and defense is. Does that presents if you actually personal

591
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 13: that you'll have to, you know, maybe change up the defense.

592
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 12: There's always you know, when you bring in a new coordinator,

593
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 12: there's always that carryover possible attrition versus you know loss

594
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 12: in a sense, he is a unique and he does

595
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 12: have a unique play style. But if you really look

596
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 12: down deep, what is flow? Value, versatility, physicality, the things

597
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 12: that matter and a deep good defensive football setting edges

598
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 12: tackling different things like that that everybody values. Flow kind

599
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 12: of takes those pieces and puts it together an artwork

600
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 12: that's different than the most but the core colors that

601
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 12: are part of that that painting are a lot of

602
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 12: people you know, share those same things.

603
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Speaker 5: Question when you look back, I mean you talk about

604
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 5: always evaluating your own decisions, kind of grading yourself. When

605
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 5: you look back at the quarterback decision from last year,

606
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 5: the money that was spent to save to not franchise Sam,

607
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 5: just how do you weigh those things and how the

608
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 5: results turned up?

609
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 12: You know, it's it's been a lot of those nights. Obviously,

610
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 12: you know you're up in these decisions and they're uncertain,

611
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 12: and you're trying to make sure that you don't lock

612
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 12: yourselves into what you did and thinking that it's always right.

613
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 12: And so there's those nights that you wake up and

614
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 12: start at the ceiling and ask yourself. But I always

615
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 12: go back to the process and what we thought at

616
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 12: the time it's easier to kind of go and be

617
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 12: revisionists and results base, but going to really think through

618
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 12: what we had at the time, I still understand why

619
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 12: we did what we did. The results maybe didn't play

620
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 12: out the way we did we wanted them to, but

621
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 12: you know, ultimately, I think at the end of the

622
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 12: day that we could have executed better in certain places,

623
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Speaker 12: and I don't want to say individually in terms of

624
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 12: particular player, but just execute and better knowing what the

625
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 12: room was, play style wise, experience wise, and just kind

626
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 12: of really put together a better combination of people collective

627
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 12: in that group. That's kind of the thing I've probably

628
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 12: focused on the most. And then ultimately understanding how we

629
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 12: play and win football games. Again, you know, I'm not

630
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 12: going to get to this specific how we group it,

631
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 12: but we won a high clip of games over here

632
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 12: when we since we've been here, we've gotten a certain

633
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 12: level of play, a certain style.

634
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 4: Of explosive plays.

635
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 12: These are things we've talked about, but a lot of

636
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 12: times think points aren't made until something is removed, and

637
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 12: then you kind of see the complex system and how

638
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 12: when you move that one variable, how those that one

639
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 12: variable at texts other things, and really seeing how when

640
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 12: we weren't that explosive, how teams played us, and how

641
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 12: they had got to box a different fight, and when

642
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 12: they got to box a different fight, how that impacted

643
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 12: our defense and their ability to create turnovers and win

644
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 12: games the way we thought we could win. So that

645
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 12: was really just a great learning experience that tied into

646
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 12: the quarterback discussion, and those are things will carry with

647
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 12: us going forward.

648
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 9: How big was the lots of Jones ultimately to the

649
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 9: Colts crazy? And was there an overconfidence within this building

650
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 9: that he was going to come back because he had

651
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 9: signed here after the Giants looked at him, going no.

652
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 12: I don't want to say overconfidence, but I do think

653
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 12: him being here was something that we, you know, we

654
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 12: kind of considered and thought would impact his decision. But ultimately,

655
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 12: there are free agents, and to your point of learning lessons,

656
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 12: I think, execution wise, you have to treat it as such,

657
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 12: no matter what the conversation is or relationships are. The

658
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 12: you know, for agents are free for a reason, and

659
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 12: they're allowed to vet all their options, and ultimately we

660
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 12: could have executed better around them.

661
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Speaker 6: See do you want JJS starter in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 12: You know, I don't know that that's you know, I

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Speaker 12: want the Vikings to achieve our goals, and I think

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Speaker 12: one of those goals is to make playoff runs and

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Speaker 12: do different things like that. I think he is the

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Speaker 12: character and ability to be the person to do that

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Speaker 12: for our organization. If I say that in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 12: that kind of binds us into a certain you know area.

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Speaker 12: The way we set this team up, we built this

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Speaker 12: court or really, like we've always talked about, give ourselves

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Speaker 12: multiple shots at it because you never know when there's

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Speaker 12: going to be a year where the field field it's

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Speaker 12: a little bit wide open and you can make that

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Speaker 12: run or and so that's what we're really focused on

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Speaker 12: talking about. Whether it's this year and next year isn't

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Speaker 12: really you know, my my immediate reflection, it's my job

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Speaker 12: to really bring that deep competitive room that we've talked

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Speaker 12: about to the Vikings.

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Speaker 4: Do you think there.

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Speaker 7: Was a misevaluation and how ready JJ was to be

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Speaker 7: the guy this year?

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Speaker 12: You know, we talk about a lot, and that's a

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Speaker 12: great question. We talk about a lot. You know, the

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Speaker 12: path of young players isn't linear, and you ultimately don't

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Speaker 12: know how the first three games, four or five games

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Speaker 12: are going to go, and we have obviously a lot

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Speaker 12: of historical studies about what that first few games are

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Speaker 12: going to look like, or that first year could look

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Speaker 12: like in a sense, and ultimately that's why we tried

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Speaker 12: to build the team knowing that those growth pains could

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Speaker 12: come to be able to overcome them and withstand them

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Speaker 12: in a certain sense. Ultimately, a lot of this job,

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Speaker 12: you know, our geo call it fast eyes, and this

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Speaker 12: isn't a fast eyed decision. But in a perfect world

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Speaker 12: you would have had a full sample three years of

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Speaker 12: Washington play in the NFL before. That's not how this works,

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Speaker 12: and sometimes you have to go on an incomplete information

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Speaker 12: and the information we had was all good, but it

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Speaker 12: was admittedly, you know, incomplete and small sample. So ultimately

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Speaker 12: we trusted and the information we had, we trusted our coaches,

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Speaker 12: we trusted the team around him to do that. And

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Speaker 12: so it's hard to really when you think about that

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Speaker 12: and then go look at the back at the season,

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Speaker 12: as I talked about, you saw the improvement at the end,

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Speaker 12: You saw the flashes of the player we thought he

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Speaker 12: could be. So in that sense, you know, I can't

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Speaker 12: say that we're over confident. Maybe the timing didn't work

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Speaker 12: out with other aspects of our team, would that be

709
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Speaker 12: injuries or different things like that, But you know, ultimately

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Speaker 12: we're comfortable with where we are and we're excited about

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Speaker 12: where you can go.

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Speaker 4: Quitl.

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Speaker 7: You mentioned the character and the ability with JJ, but

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Speaker 7: I guess what how do you feel about his ability

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Speaker 7: to be consistently available to all the injuries he's had

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Speaker 7: to mark?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and that's ultimately something that the story will will

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Speaker 12: be written. You know, availability is a skill, as they say,

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Speaker 12: and you're talking about a player who's incredibly tough, didn't

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Speaker 12: miss games in college, and that was one of the

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Speaker 12: things we talked about. I mean, we went to the

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Speaker 12: people in the building in Michigan. They told us the

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Speaker 12: things he fought through and different things like that, and

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Speaker 12: that's really not different than the player we've gotten here,

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Speaker 12: the type of player that finished the game when he

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Speaker 12: when he had a knee injury that would take him

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Speaker 12: out for the season. And so ultimately that is something

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Speaker 12: that's we're more mindful of.

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Speaker 4: Given just how it's happened. We're in control.

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Speaker 12: We can control, though, how do we get him right

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Speaker 12: from a mechanical stampay from a decision making standpoint to

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Speaker 12: to kind of protect himself and try to convince him

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Speaker 12: to protect himself. But you know that mindset of you know,

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Speaker 12: me versus them, I'm going to get this last yard

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Speaker 12: that that's also what the great ones have. So for

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Speaker 12: me to sit here or anybody else to tell him

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Speaker 12: to be a different version of himself when that's kind

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Speaker 12: of the stuff that we want to be there in

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Speaker 12: the end, it's a delicate balance. But I know that

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Speaker 12: he wants it more than anybody I've ever been around.

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Speaker 12: And he's got an off season where he's going to

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Speaker 12: have time to not rehab an injury, and so we're

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Speaker 12: excited to see what de velopment he takes and really

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Speaker 12: the steps he takes towards being available for us.

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Speaker 9: And that's great, But when the fact that he missed

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Speaker 9: time and mischage with eat separate injuries, how much do

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Speaker 9: you guys have to have to get insurance now? Like,

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Speaker 9: if you get a backup and keep plays and that

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Speaker 9: does not play well, Je's hurt again, that's on you, guys, Marshall.

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Speaker 9: So like, how important does that backup now become to

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Speaker 9: be a viable starter just in case he goes out

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Speaker 9: in games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that goes to what I was saying earlier.

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Speaker 12: The collective a deep, talented collective group that gives us

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Speaker 12: the ability to be our explosive sales and win games

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Speaker 12: at the clip.

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Speaker 4: We want to keep winning.

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Speaker 11: Whatsy As you're figuring out how to address the quarterback room.

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Speaker 11: How much of that process is how you talk to

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Speaker 11: free agents about how much of a chance they'd have

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Speaker 11: to win the job, I think, but Daniel Jones, that

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Speaker 11: probably was that factor of saying, Okay, where do I

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Speaker 11: have the best chance to get myself on the field.

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Speaker 11: As you're talking to free agents this offseason or whatever

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Speaker 11: you end up doing, how much does that play into it?

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Speaker 11: Just the way you characterize how open the competition will be.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, my conversation with agents are typically that

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Speaker 12: focused on that. That'll be a lot just kind of

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Speaker 12: the players reception of of of kind of the outcome.

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Speaker 12: But we're we're gonna be honest as we always are.

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Speaker 12: We're very transparent in our free agency conversations. We want

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Speaker 12: to be able to play a certain South football for

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Speaker 12: seventeen plus games, and we're going to create a competitive environment.

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Speaker 12: It's my job to bring in a group of people

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Speaker 12: to do that. It's Kevin's job to decide who comes out,

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Speaker 12: splits the reps, all those different things that'll be Kevin's job,

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Speaker 12: and at the time they're allowed to talk to us,

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Speaker 12: we can talk to the player about that, but for

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Speaker 12: the most part, we'll focus on the opportunity the Vikings provide,

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Speaker 12: the teammates are around them, the great resources we have here.

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Speaker 4: And we'll leave it to that team building perspective.

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Speaker 8: Christianairasa, like, to what extent are you confident or concerned

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Speaker 8: about whether he can every down seventeen game a year guy.

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Speaker 12: Again, Yeah, you're removed from that injury, so time is

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Speaker 12: on our side in terms of kind of getting away

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Speaker 12: from that injury point another year of rehab, strengthening and

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Speaker 12: different things like that. But obviously, at all parts of

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Speaker 12: our team, you've seen how important he has been to

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Speaker 12: our play and so when we're addressing things in the

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Speaker 12: draft or for agency, we have to be mindful of that.

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Speaker 12: And I don't want to say insurance, but we're always

792
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Speaker 12: trying to have a roster aspirationally as a GM, when

793
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Speaker 12: that first guy goes out, that next guy comes in

794
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Speaker 12: and is as good as the guy. Is that reality, No,

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Speaker 12: but that's the mindset we got to take, and that's

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Speaker 12: a position we probably got to be more mindful of that.

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Speaker 10: You wish you had a training camp and let him

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Speaker 10: be a part of that.

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Speaker 1: Where does he.

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Speaker 4: Shand I don't know that.

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Speaker 12: I wish many things since becoming an adult, but I think, uh,

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Speaker 12: you know, I understand where that question comes from. I

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Speaker 12: don't know that. I don't know that him coming here

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Speaker 12: when he came here affected how he played. I think

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Speaker 12: our offense moved the ball pretty well in the three

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Speaker 12: games he played before he got injured. He's a guy that,

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Speaker 12: even when he's healthy, doesn't need a lot of reps

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Speaker 12: of his experiences, intelligence level, his ability to see over

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Speaker 12: the defense, which was great because when he was here

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Speaker 12: gave brozmer chance to get reps and different things like that.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know that that is.

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Speaker 12: Something I look back on as a as a big mistake,

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Speaker 12: But it's a it's a it's a reasonable thing to ask,

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Speaker 12: is earlier some small probability of that the odds could

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Speaker 12: have been better? I'll certainly you know, I can't. I

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Speaker 12: can't deny that that's the case. But just thinking about

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Speaker 12: it holistically. I don't know that that's some big thing

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Speaker 12: that we're regretting.

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Speaker 1: Quite siadofa mensa. Following Kevin O'Connell season closing and off

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Speaker 1: season beginning, a press conference from Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance

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Speaker 1: Center up against it with a Gophers Weekly around the corner.

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Speaker 1: So let's pause. Okay, so oh good, Wait, Jordan Addison

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Speaker 1: was arrested in Tampa Bay, like within the last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. I mean that that that like right out

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Speaker 1: of the gate. You know, you're waiting for darisaw questions

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Speaker 1: and McCarthy and off season plans and coach Patton after

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Speaker 1: twenty four years is retiring. And I think it was Doogie,

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Speaker 1: it's the Lions. Somebody presented Jordan Addison was arrested in

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Speaker 1: Hillsborough County, I believe Tampa Bay for trespassing an occupied

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Speaker 1: structure or conveyance. Anybody have any idea what conveyance means?

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Speaker 1: Arrested in Tampa Bay trespassing occupied structure or conveyance. Conveyance

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Speaker 1: the action or process of transporting someone or something from

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Speaker 1: one place to another. That's like convey a thought, convey this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so what about the next one under the law category conveyance,

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Speaker 1: the legal process of transferring property from one owner to another,

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Speaker 1: for instance, protective measures that might be taken before the

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Speaker 1: conveyance is concluded.

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Speaker 4: End quote.

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Speaker 1: The bond's five hundred dollars. That's like fifty dollars, damn man.

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Speaker 1: And then and he's wearing orange twenty five with the

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Speaker 1: Nizzo nowhere to Gizzo he knows, he's, I mean, he's, he's.

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Speaker 1: There's a mug shot, all right. That's that stray of

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Speaker 1: inadequacy was caught out of nowhere. As Kevin O'Connell was

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Speaker 1: addressing his form of the seven stages of Gridiron Grief

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Speaker 1: for everybody to hear via press conference, that just came

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Speaker 1: to a conclusion. There there's still a shock. There's still

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Speaker 1: is shock. A briker kicking it to the east side

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Speaker 1: of the US Bank Stadium boom, a shorter kick by

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Speaker 1: design Dubernet from his own three heads right five ten,

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Speaker 1: fifteen twenty. It's a knife block from blockwell Errik close

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Speaker 1: and trying to run him down with no riker and

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Speaker 1: just blockwell Nick that Devin do out of bounds. Deepened

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Speaker 1: Vikings territory, deafen DuVernay with a cold blooded return of

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Speaker 1: fifty seven yards and that was it. All intents and purposes,

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Speaker 1: all right. Gophers Weekly with a head coach Nico medved

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Speaker 1: Is next game day two. They hooked Bucky this evening

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Speaker 1: at Williams Arena, and that one will be on FM

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Speaker 1: one hundred point three KFAM. Gopher's Weekly coming up around

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Speaker 1: the corner tomorrow nine to noon. Chris finch starts the

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Speaker 1: show at nine o'clock. Start the show with Finchow. Start

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Speaker 1: the show with Finchow Oxen. They played tonight sans Anthony

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Speaker 1: Edwards foot maintenance and sans Rudy Gobert suspension. Other than that,

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Speaker 1: Miss Lincoln, how was the play? I always love that one, Finchy,

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Speaker 1: right out of the gate. Tomorrow the pressers that we

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Speaker 1: just heard. We will tie those to some talkbacks tomorrow

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Speaker 1: with off season plan, so'll be ready for that. And

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Speaker 1: Bryant McKinney joins nine to noon tomorrow. B Matt big

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Speaker 1: Mac left former left tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and

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Speaker 1: also a former member of the Miami Hurricanes. He'll be

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Speaker 1: joining to discuss the National Championship game. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for the help today, Brett Blake Moore, and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: thanks to everybody out there for listening Tonine to noon.

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Speaker 1: I'm Paul Allen. May God bless all of you and

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Speaker 1: have a beautiful Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye podcast Today's Paul Allen Show.

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