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Speaker 1: Jeff Jonia calls games for the Chicago Bears, one of

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Speaker 1: the best in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: He does radio and TV. And I'm like, so what

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Speaker 2: do you do here every year at the combine?

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Speaker 3: Same stuff you're doing, except I'm not doing a talk show.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 2: That's because you got that Bears pension money.

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Speaker 4: And I was gonna say, you've been a Bears an

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Speaker 4: employee now for what.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my twenty fifth season calling Vikings football.

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Speaker 5: Do you have an office in house?

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Speaker 3: Hot?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't have Winny again.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not in the pension because I'm not a

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Speaker 1: team employee pension.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a team employee. Yeah, you know personal services

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Speaker 3: contract now that that doesn't count.

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Speaker 2: Have you started looking at property in Indiana?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: No, like Anderson, Indiana, Bloomington.

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Speaker 3: Well no, nope, nope, I'm still holding out hope whatever, listen,

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Speaker 3: whatever the organization feels his best.

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Speaker 4: That's assistant general manager, right, Ryan Grigson, Hammond, Indiana Native.

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Speaker 4: He has the inside any real estate that you may

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Speaker 2: Including his places.

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Speaker 3: Everything is a process. Let's see what happens.

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Speaker 5: Let's see what happens.

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Speaker 1: You can sort of drive down here from there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's be serious. The Bears in Indiana, stuff like, how

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know. It's a it's a long

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Speaker 3: way away from whatever happens. And uh, I just I

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Speaker 3: every aspect of it. It's something that I feel the

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess we know what he feels about Soldier

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I always felt that the franchise should

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Speaker 3: how this would all work wherever they go. I know

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Speaker 3: they got Arlington, they got the Arlington, they have track.

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Speaker 3: I was recently in Atlanta at the Battery Area. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if you've been there. It's tremendous.

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Speaker 2: People told me about it.

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Speaker 1: But he met people named Lolita and Tangle Ray and

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Speaker 3: But the Brave Stadium. You know, you open up Domni

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Speaker 3: Hotel windows and you're in the center field of the

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Speaker 3: Brave Stadium. They got the Atlanta Hawks right there as well.

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Speaker 3: But it's like Wrigleyville. You guys have been to Wrigleyville.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic, But they own all that property. So you

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Speaker 3: you've got you know, I'm learning that four thousand fans

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Speaker 3: every night at home games for Atlanta Braves games never

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Speaker 3: That's the same true for college campuses. Now my alma mater,

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Speaker 4: All right, Jeff, So you've been think about the change

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Speaker 4: drafting number one overall top ten picks and then to

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Speaker 4: see that investment come to fruition and you win the

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Speaker 5: What is it? What is most.

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Speaker 4: Imperative for the Bears to stay on top and then

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Speaker 4: to get to the NFC Championship or the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: What do they need to do?

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Speaker 3: All right, roster, let's just keep knowing that you can win,

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Speaker 4: So we we kind of knowing. We witnessed that one

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Speaker 4: score differential. Did you did twenty two to twenty three?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Right, you guys are amazing.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 4: We won I don't know how many games by one score.

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Speaker 4: We sent a records eight nine of them. Oh, Connor

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Speaker 4: was like nineteen to one at that at one point. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and so we we've witnessed that. So what was that on?

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Speaker 4: My start to believe? Were before the players?

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Speaker 1: Are you having post season PGSD right now? You got

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Speaker 1: all nervous and you squirming in your chairs.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see what's next. Yeah, it's that feeling.

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Speaker 3: And I felt that way every fourth quarter because after

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Speaker 3: the new Packers the boogeyman is gonna bite us again?

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Speaker 3: And then every halftime with Jason mckeare sideline reporter, it

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Speaker 3: Every week it was checking that box, okay, knowing so

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Speaker 3: wait to the fourth quarter and the way it's set up,

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Speaker 3: it felt like that Patriots win over the Falcons in

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, where every single thing that happened when

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Speaker 3: they fell behind had to happen, when it happened, and

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Speaker 3: why it happened. And this is how the Bears games

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Speaker 3: did things happen. You'll wound up with the football in

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Speaker 3: the final minute and twenty seconds ago in the game

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Speaker 3: and they were gonna either make a close, close crack

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but one guy was Tom Brady who did it?

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Speaker 1: You had a second year Caleb Williamson.

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Speaker 2: So what jumped? But he jumped out of his skin

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Speaker 3: You to tell you what's that day? My gosh, I

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Speaker 3: keep bringing this up, but in all the years you're

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Speaker 3: calling games, all the year's pete you playing games fifty

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Speaker 3: In the divisional place ever seen?

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Speaker 2: Oh the throw back left of the end zone? Why?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 3: What in God's greener how does this happen?

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Speaker 1: You're not beating yourself up anymore for the call, are you?

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Speaker 1: Because he did lob it. I went and watched the

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Speaker 3: Who lobs a fifty one point Jeff George, say Williams,

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Speaker 5: He said he could toss at seventy right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah he did?

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Speaker 3: I bet he? Yeah, that guy, that guy, uh Greg Cosel.

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Speaker 3: I interviewed him earlier and he just got a kick

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Speaker 1: Spin it, I know, effortlessly? What what? What was it

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Speaker 3: As you know, it's an adrenaline rush that goes having.

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Speaker 3: But but here's here's what I kept saying. And I

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Speaker 3: to it than just the play. It's everything around it.

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Speaker 3: So the stadium and the first time in my career

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Speaker 3: it was heaving. It was it was actually we the

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Speaker 3: stadium was shaking, And I don't know if that's good

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Speaker 4: We felt that one time and Joe was it was

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Speaker 3: Means necessary, calm.

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Speaker 2: It down game super Dome.

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Speaker 1: They stood up every single play the five game and

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Speaker 5: Every time they scored.

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Speaker 4: You played New Orleans, they scored touchdown and they go

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Speaker 4: to commercial break and what do they do. They play

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Speaker 2: But anyway, but so I continue.

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Speaker 3: It felt cinematic to me, honestly, especially because it was

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Speaker 3: sensory overload. It was the robust, the robust response to

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Speaker 1: Mablem a standing ovation despite losing when they times.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen that in your life?

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Speaker 1: Into the tunnel It was loud and long in football? Yes, never, never,

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Speaker 3: The players are never going to forget that. Believe me,

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Speaker 3: it resonated with them because maybe they'll be able to

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Speaker 3: fact that they get booed. Yeah, because they loved you

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Speaker 5: Good point.

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Speaker 3: They were trying to get them out of the state.

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Speaker 3: They stayed those six.

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Speaker 5: In the morning.

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Speaker 3: They were all Bears fans. So the Bears are back

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Speaker 3: like this city of fuels.

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Speaker 5: Were you he was crazy? Were you upset? Stepped all

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know, and I don't care. Okay, So

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Speaker 3: he miracle they had so stupid, doesn't get up out

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Speaker 3: of his chair much. It was just raw wow high five.

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Speaker 3: And the fans in the booth, you know, because we're

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Speaker 3: of your fans on your booth are phenomenal. But but

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Speaker 3: my twenty five years. They're trying to reach in and

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Speaker 3: I felt like the stadium people strangers dancing and it

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Speaker 3: was like a slow motion movie. That's why it was cinematic.

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Speaker 3: When the snow started falling, Oh, I mean so reason

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Speaker 3: when the snow falls a Bears game, the fans just

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Speaker 3: lose their mind. I almost swore just there and and

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Speaker 3: they just and it adds to the drama. And it

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Speaker 3: was just I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know believe that he was going to that he was

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Speaker 2: going to Santa Clara A.

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Speaker 5: Lot like the opening overtime.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's right.

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Speaker 1: Well, you talk about the surreal moments about a body

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Speaker 1: and it's it's going well.

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Speaker 2: Nine.

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Speaker 1: When the Vikings got the ball with two minutes left,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly the words. I said, we come

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Speaker 1: out of break and I say to Pete, Pete, this

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Speaker 1: is what everybody always talks about. We have Brett Farv

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Speaker 1: and the ball to go to Miami, right, and.

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Speaker 2: Then he threw it to Tracy Porter and we went home.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 5: The whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Two many men out there after a time out, no doubt, yeah.

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Speaker 2: About your miracle call Minneapolis miracle. If you know mine, well,

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Speaker 2: we can imitate it right now.

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Speaker 3: Pardon my French.

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Speaker 2: Now we can imitate it right now.

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Speaker 5: Caught, I dig I don't and.

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Speaker 3: So you guys want.

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Speaker 3: We don't hear it. In some reason, it just stop

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Speaker 3: Here's a masterpiece, here's what it happened. You know, NFL

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Speaker 3: But anyway, so a lot of guys are miked up,

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Speaker 3: But do you need the Caleb Williams. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: That happened to us this year.

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Speaker 5: No, you'll get this.

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Speaker 4: We were playing in New York and their media, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that, but you gotta be careful with it

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Speaker 1: because uh, near near the end of his run with

447
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Speaker 1: the Vikings, x Roads. Okay, so I'm calling him Xavier

448
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Speaker 1: Xavier Xavier. Well, then somebody tells me his name's actually

449
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Speaker 1: e Xavier Roads. So they wanted to change. Well, when

450
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 1: we changed the to Xavier Roads, his career went in

451
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Speaker 1: the tank.

452
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 2: It's terrible. Tell him everybody's put moves on him.

453
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Speaker 5: Tell him about Blake Brandell.

454
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Speaker 1: Oh that happened last year. So we're about to get

455
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Speaker 1: shut out by the Seahawks. It's the night before at

456
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Speaker 1: the team hotel. I'm walking up to see Pete and

457
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Speaker 1: Jennifer and and this nice lady comes up and approaches

458
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Speaker 1: me and introduces herself. We listened to all the games

459
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Speaker 1: our family does Blake offensive lineman?

460
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Speaker 5: He won't.

461
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Speaker 1: He won't tell you this, but the last name is Brandle.

462
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Speaker 1: It's not Brandell. Okay, it's Brandle's. So like every time

463
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Speaker 1: I walk up to Blake Brandle, I go Brando Brandle, Brandle,

464
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Speaker 1: Brandal Brando Brandell. So well, I made it a bit,

465
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Speaker 1: so let's kind of break the ice. So the names

466
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Speaker 1: are important. Man, A couple of quickies to close?

467
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Speaker 5: Uh Tremaine Edmonds, what are your thoughts on him?

468
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Speaker 6: Well?

469
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Speaker 3: I enjoy this player. I think he had one of

470
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Speaker 3: his best seasons of his career for sure. That even

471
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Speaker 3: goes back to his early days with Buffalo. Still a

472
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Speaker 3: young player, believe it or not. He's been in the

473
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Speaker 3: league since twenty twenty years of age, and you always

474
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Speaker 3: look up and he's still not hit the thirty years

475
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Speaker 3: old mark. You know, a perfect fit for a guy

476
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Speaker 3: that's going to cloud the vision of the quarterback down

477
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Speaker 3: the middle of the defense. And I you know, we

478
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Speaker 3: got salary cap issues right now.

479
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Speaker 2: You guys do what are you over? I think we're

480
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Speaker 2: twelve over.

481
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Speaker 3: I think we're ten.

482
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's not that's not fixable.

483
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Speaker 3: That's not fixable. So it's a it's a waiting seething opens.

484
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Speaker 4: The door for like DJ Moore talk and all this

485
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Speaker 4: other you know, yeah, there's these guess all these topics

486
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Speaker 4: were hit yesterday about Chicago, Mado tremain you know, DJ Moore,

487
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Speaker 4: Are we going to you know, make moves for big

488
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Speaker 4: free agency, try to make some trades.

489
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Speaker 3: Tyson Beiging got more talk yesterday.

490
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Speaker 2: Really than anybody and talking about it.

491
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Speaker 3: What Tyson beagent. I don't want to lose Tyson Baging, right,

492
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Speaker 3: you know, I guess minds ringing ringing.

493
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Speaker 4: Because no one in Minnesota thought of the until you

494
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Speaker 4: said it. Right when we when we get them, then

495
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Speaker 4: we'll think.

496
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Speaker 3: For what you know. Uh, you know, Dennis Allen likes

497
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Speaker 3: a specific type of player and he wants a out

498
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Speaker 3: of speed on defense, and so he did a great job,

499
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Speaker 3: in my opinion, working with what he inherited, and uh

500
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Speaker 3: suffered a lot of injury on defense unfortunately, especially to

501
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Speaker 3: our second round pick turn.

502
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Speaker 4: I can understand the speed with the surface that you

503
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Speaker 4: have that's maintained by the city surface.

504
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Speaker 2: The surface socks, so every single.

505
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Speaker 3: Not really oh gosh, no, come on, it's it's a

506
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Speaker 3: title title wave difference.

507
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Speaker 2: It is yeah, yeah, right, it is.

508
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Speaker 1: Okay, this stuff depends what kind of cleat you wear

509
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Speaker 1: or what you're doing with the tidal wave.

510
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Speaker 3: You know what, nobody's complaining about it anymore.

511
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Speaker 5: It's a it's a spark stadium, it's a park in

512
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Speaker 5: the stadium. How about this.

513
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Speaker 1: The Vikings finished nine and eight and swept the Lions,

514
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Speaker 1: and we're a ninety five percent chance to sweep the

515
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Speaker 1: best team in the division, the Chicago Bears. Then somebody

516
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Speaker 1: got lost on the Duvernet kick return, black Well blocking

517
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Speaker 1: for him.

518
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Speaker 3: Wasn't that a beauty?

519
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Speaker 5: No?

520
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Speaker 2: It sucked.

521
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Speaker 1: It was terrible because that right there I identify, Yeah,

522
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Speaker 1: Josh Blackbor value was the bomb.

523
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Speaker 2: He was leading the way for him value.

524
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Speaker 1: But but it that right there in my estimation, you know,

525
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Speaker 1: nobody within has told me this. I thought that was

526
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: the bottom. Like it's like we're kind of seeped in. Wow,

527
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: that was that. If we had gotten that one could

528
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Speaker 1: have done some damage. If we get the quarterback situation right.

529
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Speaker 1: Du Verne burned us, Santos walked off on us. We

530
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Speaker 1: were a ninety five percent yours. I had you nervous,

531
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Speaker 1: You were dead to right.

532
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Speaker 3: Had me nervous?

533
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Speaker 2: And then we blow it on the kick return? What

534
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Speaker 2: had you nervous?

535
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 4: Like the Jordan Andison drop wide open miss McCarthy on

536
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Speaker 4: a seven.

537
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Speaker 2: Murphy jack left in the end zone.

538
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 3: I get too comfortable and then JJ drives him down

539
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Speaker 3: the quick score.

540
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Speaker 1: I'm in Minnesota. The places going Da da Dad McCarthy.

541
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Speaker 1: Fourth quarter at Soldier Field, Though.

542
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Speaker 3: How about the Bengals game? I Tom got super mad

543
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 3: at me there because really I turned, We're up, and

544
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 3: I feel like it's about a beer time right now?

545
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Speaker 2: Man and I sitting on the radio.

546
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Speaker 3: I did, I thought, and there's five touchdown scored in

547
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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. Yeah, I'm like, wait a minute. And

548
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 3: then it needed the unbelievable throwing catching a two guys

549
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 3: missing Cooston Loveland to the end zone. That game I

550
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Speaker 3: never sit in my whole career.

551
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Speaker 1: You standardsit mostly sim question's not loaded everybody.

552
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 3: It's about our performance in the booth.

553
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 2: To get the right angle with that camera. Afore.

554
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Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a very active guy. I'm sore after

555
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 3: the game. I'm in constant motion on my hands talker

556
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 3: and I'm moving around, rocking back and forth. I sat

557
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 3: that game in Cincinnati until that calmon Ung guy run

558
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 3: with a scrum rugby style movement and I literally got

559
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Speaker 3: me out of my seat and I was animated and cold,

560
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Speaker 3: and it's all people are watching me and Mark Silverman

561
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Speaker 3: from the Espiona Chicago's He's like, oh my god, I

562
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Speaker 3: never saw you get So it was raw emotion to

563
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Speaker 3: your point, But what a game that.

564
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Speaker 1: Well that that's because team president Kevin Warren was looking

565
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Speaker 1: at you and you want to get on the pension.

566
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Speaker 2: No, you don't much the team boss.

567
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Speaker 3: That game was not on video. Oh really, because you

568
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 3: know I never wanted it. I never wanted it, and

569
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Speaker 3: I don't know when it's in er. It's not man,

570
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Speaker 3: it's the bears that do it.

571
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Speaker 5: That's the key.

572
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Speaker 3: But I know that people do love it.

573
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Speaker 2: I never look at it. We forget the cameras in there.

574
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Speaker 3: People love it. Yeah, of course you do. I have

575
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 3: no idea what I'm doing, and I also don't want

576
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Speaker 3: see people to see what I'm doing during the break

577
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 3: same because it's a lot of bad language.

578
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Speaker 5: At least you got a bathroom right by you.

579
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Speaker 3: Well if you can get in, Hey, everybody, it's a line.

580
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 3: If you don't get in there.

581
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Speaker 5: Before the line at the public restroom.

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Speaker 3: By our books, it's not ideal.

583
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are going to be okay next year.

584
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Speaker 1: Despite Alamade's the key is leaving Kevin Bayern the assumption,

585
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Speaker 1: j Johnson, whatever, start.

586
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Speaker 3: Your game, but come on, let's see what happened.

587
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Speaker 2: You're the best. Thanks for the chat.

588
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Speaker 3: Thank you guys.

589
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 2: As always, the box.

590
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Speaker 1: Back after and the final combine cleanup is with big

591
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Speaker 1: hitter Jeremy Fowler, senior reporter for ESPN covering the NFL

592
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Speaker 1: from the Common Fine in Indianapolis.

593
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Speaker 2: So how many combines for you?

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Speaker 7: I want to say this is like fifteen or sixteen.

595
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Speaker 7: My first one was covering the Vikings back in twenty.

596
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Speaker 1: Ten, eleven, twenty ten, that Brett Favre second season. I mean,

597
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Speaker 1: it was memorable for many reasons.

598
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Speaker 2: But you've seen so much.

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Speaker 1: Over the years as a as a reporter for ESPN

600
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Speaker 1: or just working covering the NFL beat for ESPN. The

601
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Speaker 1: combine what's important to you?

602
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Speaker 7: Well, for me specifically, what's important is setting up meetings

603
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Speaker 7: with whether it's in gms or agents or people that

604
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Speaker 7: I need to speak with to get ready for free agency.

605
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Speaker 7: That's that's my main objective right now. The draft for

606
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Speaker 7: me is more mid March and on. But for the

607
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Speaker 7: first week of for Agency, I need to be buttoned up.

608
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Speaker 7: I need to be ready for news and breaking news.

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Speaker 7: And you know, I'm part of our Fregency show Monday

610
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Speaker 7: through Wednesday, which is like a live show and a

611
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Speaker 7: lot of bullets are flying. So really my main goal

612
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Speaker 7: is to get ready for that, and then if I'm

613
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Speaker 7: working on a story or two, I might need to

614
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Speaker 7: follow up with an interview or get what I need

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Speaker 7: in that.

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Speaker 2: Regard, Do you enjoy the combine? Do you enjoy that

617
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Speaker 2: part of the job.

618
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I do.

619
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Speaker 7: Is it's probably my favorite event on the NFL calendar.

620
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 7: Funny enough, you know, it's tiring, as you know, you

621
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Speaker 7: get a lot of steps in and you're run around,

622
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Speaker 7: and sometimes there's some late nights too, so you're trying

623
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Speaker 7: to balance all that, but you can get a lot

624
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Speaker 7: of work done and you can really sort of justify

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Speaker 7: your existence that way.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy, if you were to paint Free Agency coming up

627
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Speaker 1: soon here with a broad brush, would you say it's

628
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Speaker 1: good in between or not a great class?

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Speaker 7: I would say it's somewhere in between B and C

630
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 7: options like it's not great. It's not terrible, but it's

631
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Speaker 7: not very good. So the problem is, and you taught

632
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Speaker 7: to teams are like any players I would actually get

633
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 7: excited about are now getting franchise taged, like Kyle Pitts

634
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 7: or Breys Hall or George Pickens, like those are more

635
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Speaker 7: high end talents. Well is the reason why they're not

636
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Speaker 7: going to be available in two weeks And so then

637
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Speaker 7: you're kind of playing like supporting players high money and

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Speaker 7: that's the issue.

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Speaker 2: But that's the cost of doing business.

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Speaker 7: And I will say it's more exciting now because teams

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Speaker 7: are showing that you can't actually spend a ton of

642
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 7: money and it can help your one. Like the Patriots

643
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 7: last year they went eight for eight on their big signings.

644
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 7: You know, all those guys contributed. They spent a ton

645
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Speaker 7: of money and it worked out, you know. So I

646
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Speaker 7: think other owners are saying, hey, we can do that too.

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Speaker 6: You know.

648
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Speaker 7: The Vikings are in a weird predicament because they've done

649
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Speaker 7: some of that already and now they have a roster

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Speaker 7: with a lot of big salaries. So I don't know

651
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Speaker 7: how much they can spend, but they're going to have

652
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Speaker 7: to supplement in some spots including quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, what time I at this stage of the equation

654
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Speaker 1: with the Vikings free agent wide receiver jail and Naylor.

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Speaker 1: You know, o'connells put a lot of time into him,

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Speaker 1: featured him in preseason games, just really really trying to

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Speaker 1: raise him in a way where he can be a

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Speaker 1: contributor on a down by down basis. Now, this outwork

659
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Speaker 1: cap situation for the Vikings is what it is, and

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Speaker 1: they may not be able to retain him. What kind

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Speaker 1: of a market do you think there is for jail

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Speaker 1: and Naylor?

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Speaker 5: Pretty good?

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Speaker 7: I kind of put him in that second tiers, like

665
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Speaker 7: a second or third wave of free agents at that position,

666
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Speaker 7: because you got the top like Alec Pierce of the Colts.

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Speaker 7: Guys like that, they'll get the big money. But he's

668
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Speaker 7: I think Jale's going to get a sneaky good deal.

669
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Speaker 7: You know, he could hit double digits per year in

670
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Speaker 7: a contract. It wouldn't shock me. So he's gonna be

671
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Speaker 7: tough to retain for that reason. My question is if

672
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Speaker 7: you if you give him real money to keep him,

673
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Speaker 7: what do you do with Jordan Edison? You know, because

674
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Speaker 7: Justin Jefferson, I suspect is not going anywhere unless somebody

675
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Speaker 7: offers them. You know, King's ransom and I don't expect that.

676
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Speaker 7: So kN You know, what do you do with Adison

677
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Speaker 7: who's a year away from a new contract, but it's

678
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Speaker 7: at some off field issues, Like I don't know, it's

679
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Speaker 7: a tough equation, so you almost have to pick one,

680
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Speaker 7: you know, do we just roll with a US in

681
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Speaker 7: one more year? Let Naylor test the market, see what

682
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Speaker 7: he can get, and if it's too price, he will

683
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Speaker 7: back out.

684
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler, senior reporter for ESPN. If you're to close

685
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Speaker 1: here now, you know, a decade and a half ago,

686
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Speaker 1: as Jeremy mentioned, he covered the Minnesota Vikings and at

687
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Speaker 1: that time, you know, Rob Erzensky was the capologist. In fact,

688
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Speaker 1: Roberzensky was just a capologist three and a half weeks ago.

689
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Speaker 1: Now he's the acting general manager. I know you've spoken

690
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Speaker 1: with him recently. What do you think about that whole situation?

691
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Speaker 7: You know, it's interesting, but he's somebody he's probably worn

692
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Speaker 7: every hat in the business behind the scenes with the

693
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Speaker 7: Vikings over two plus decades, you know, I mean, he's

694
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Speaker 7: done probably every role except for maybe more of the

695
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Speaker 7: front facing interview stuff that he's doing this week, but

696
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Speaker 7: he's equipped to handle it. I mean, he's been around

697
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Speaker 7: just talking to him, it's pretty obvious. You know, he

698
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Speaker 7: wants to get more involved in the scouting process of

699
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Speaker 7: just making sure everybody's aligned, making sure they're bringing out

700
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Speaker 7: the vision that Kevin O'Connell wants in their draft picks.

701
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Speaker 7: He wants to hit the draft hard. It's pretty clear

702
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Speaker 7: they're not going to spend huge in free agency, but

703
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Speaker 7: he'll supplement within you and they'll get a quarterback some

704
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Speaker 7: They're fully going to get a quarterback somewhere. I just

705
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 7: don't know which one yet. And then yeah, he knows

706
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Speaker 7: they have to hit the draft. They as you know,

707
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Speaker 7: they've had some drafts last four or five years that missed.

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Speaker 7: So I think if he can hang his hat on

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Speaker 7: a good class that helps him in that role moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Well, your your cohort, Adam Schefter, when when I believe

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Speaker 1: it was he who broke the story that March thirteenth,

712
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Speaker 1: first first day of the league, yere Kirk Cousins will

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Speaker 1: be cup by the Alanda Falcons. Well recently at the combine,

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Speaker 1: their general manager validated that and that's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: So like what do you think is next for Kirk.

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Speaker 7: I still think he's got a decent chance to get

717
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Speaker 7: a starting job. I don't know if that's guaranteed yet,

718
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Speaker 7: but the supply and demand is pretty good.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 7: You got whether it's the Dolphins, the Cardinals, the Vikings

721
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Speaker 7: that are in a tricky spot because they kind of

722
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Speaker 7: have to sell competition a little bit. But knowing that

723
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Speaker 7: whatever veteran you sign, if you give them real money,

724
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Speaker 7: that means they're probably gonna start like Daniel Jones last year.

725
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Speaker 7: So it's tough. But then you want to get somebody

726
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Speaker 7: where you have wiggle room for McCarthy to potentially play too.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 7: That's why even like a Joe Flacco comes to mind,

729
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Speaker 7: or somebody that's like a classic bridge. But Kirk at

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Speaker 7: this stage, I don't think he's expecting the contracts he

731
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Speaker 7: used to get, but you know, he's gonna want to

732
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Speaker 7: start somewhere, and I do think there's a chance at that.

733
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Speaker 7: If it's not in Minnesota, I don't know where I

734
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Speaker 7: could see it.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 7: I would say Atlanta, but they're cutting him, but I

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Speaker 7: could see him maybe going back there in a world

738
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Speaker 7: doing a new contract with Kevin Stefanski, So he's gonna

739
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Speaker 7: have options.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, I mean we hear, I mean you hear

741
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Speaker 1: more than we hear. But Mac Jones quarterback for the

742
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, that he's coveted, you know, and hey,

743
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Speaker 1: what would it take to get Mac? What would it

744
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Speaker 1: take to give Mac Jones? Do you think San Francisco

745
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Speaker 1: is even interested in moving him?

746
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Speaker 7: Well, my understanding is if it's a great draft pick

747
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Speaker 7: they could get for Mac Jones, I do think they

748
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Speaker 7: would revisit that stance. Right now. They want to keep Mac.

749
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Speaker 7: He was a great backup for them. Rock Perty has

750
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Speaker 7: had some durability issues in recent history at least, So

751
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Speaker 7: do you like, what's it worth to you? Is getting

752
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Speaker 7: rid of Mac Jones for a fourth round pick worth

753
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Speaker 7: it in exchange for not having a good backup? Probably not,

754
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Speaker 7: you know, but if it's a two, do they do that?

755
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Speaker 7: I think they would do that. And but that'd be

756
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 7: rich for mac Jones. So some do see him as

757
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Speaker 7: a backup despite his kind of star turn last year

758
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Speaker 7: with San Francisco, So you know, which is a great

759
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Speaker 7: offense for most any quarterback by the way, Yeah, So

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Speaker 7: I don't know he would be a good fit in Minnesota,

761
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Speaker 7: But I just don't know, you know, what it's worth

762
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Speaker 7: draftic wise, if you're given up a Day two pick

763
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Speaker 7: for him, it's a little rich for my taste.

764
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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, it's when you're talking about quarterbacks and veteran

766
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and the Vikings and McCarthy at age twenty three

767
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Speaker 1: and all that add nauseum in our market. The name

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Speaker 1: here at the combine that started popping up with some

769
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Speaker 1: people I trust is Geno Smith, Las Vegas Raiders quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not gonna pretend like I watched

771
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Speaker 1: a lot of Gino play with Las Vegas. He had

772
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Speaker 1: some wonderful moments with Seattle. But do you know what,

773
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Speaker 1: Geno Smith do you do you think he still has

774
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Speaker 1: good reps left in him?

775
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Speaker 7: Possibly? I do think he'll probably end up being available,

776
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Speaker 7: you know. I think he would like a fresh start,

777
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Speaker 7: knowing that they're gonna draft Mendoza and he's gonna have

778
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Speaker 7: to take the bullets for him in another down year.

779
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Speaker 7: I don't know that he's crazy about doing that. So

780
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Speaker 7: do they oblige and just move on before the rest

781
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Speaker 7: is guaranteed money is up.

782
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Speaker 2: It's possible, so he.

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Speaker 7: Could be a true free agent, which could make some

784
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Speaker 7: sense for Minnesota. I don't know if I had a

785
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Speaker 7: Kevin O'Connell Gino Smith Perring at this point, just synergy wise.

786
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Speaker 7: I wonder if some other fits would be better, but

787
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Speaker 7: I think he could make it work, certainly.

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Speaker 1: Let's close with Roachie Roachie the box of all boxes

789
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Speaker 1: ever to box now, all righty, it is the vox

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Speaker 1: of all boxes ever to vox. Allen Roach Minnesota's Allen

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Speaker 1: Roach at Mile High Roach via x and Roachie joins

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Speaker 1: us now after the the entering of boxing of a

793
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Speaker 1: couple of gold medal winning hockey teams. Alan, I mean

794
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: you've been next to mucho high end sporting events, super

795
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Speaker 1: Bowl stuff like that, Milan, I mean that that just

796
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Speaker 1: had to be spectacular, right, Good morning, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Good morning Pa. Yes, the experience was amazing. It was

798
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Speaker 6: something I'm very proud of. And now it's something that

799
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna let the cat out of the bag. I've

800
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Speaker 6: kind of hid in a corner over the last three

801
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Speaker 6: days and not talk to anyone about this. I've got

802
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 6: a couple more radio interviews coming up. It's going to

803
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Speaker 6: be impossible to escape. I did not announce either gold

804
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Speaker 6: medal game or the women or the men because I

805
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 6: was sent home on Thursday prior to those games being played,

806
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Speaker 6: because they only kept one English announcer and it wasn't me. Well,

807
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Speaker 6: I mean that part is disappointing. I did watch the

808
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 6: men's gold medal games sitting on my couch. The women's

809
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 6: unfortunately happened while I was playing on a plane, and

810
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 6: i'll I do was read about it. But yes, that

811
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Speaker 6: diminished my experience a little bit. But I don't want

812
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 6: to sound like, you know, a crybaby or need therapy,

813
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 6: but yeah, it was disappointing not to do those.

814
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: Okay, John Facenda's dad, So who else do they use

815
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: beside you?

816
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 6: They chose to use a gentleman from Liechtenstein who announces

817
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 6: a hockey tournament in Switzerland every year.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting you say that, because after Jack Hughes

819
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: scored the ot winner and they're like doing the anthem

820
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 1: and some other stuff, it wasn't you. But I thought

821
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Speaker 1: maybe you just took off after that, So hey, hey man,

822
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 1: maybe I should have looked into that a little bit.

823
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Speaker 2: Now, the well go ahead.

824
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Speaker 6: It's not that you didn't look into it, it's that

825
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 6: I didn't. I feel bad talking about it now, because

826
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Speaker 6: you know I did the sour grapes or whatever the

827
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Speaker 6: word is or you know, ego maniacal whatever. No, I

828
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 6: haven't talked about it. But yeah, now that I'm going

829
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Speaker 6: to start talking about my experience, there's no way around

830
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 6: talking about that.

831
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Speaker 1: Okay, well you won't say this, and sure we're friends,

832
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Speaker 1: but I mean, you're not doing the Super Bowl, Olympics,

833
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: ball arena and all that kind of stuff if you

834
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Speaker 1: are not the best in arena box of all boxes

835
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Speaker 1: ever to Vox period. So we'll move on anyway. So

836
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Speaker 1: sorry you had to go through that now. But let

837
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Speaker 1: me ask you this. Before the gold medal games, the

838
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Speaker 1: speed of the game, the men's game at ice level,

839
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Speaker 1: I mean, that had to be That was awesome, right.

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00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of ruined going back to an Avalanche

841
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 6: game tonight, although that one's going to be great.

842
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 6: During for the first twenty years of announcing the Avalanche,

844
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 6: I sat exactly where I sat at the Olympics, right

845
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 6: next to the timekeeper, about four feet to the left

846
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 6: of the red line, and got to see action on

847
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 6: the ice that close. For twenty years, COVID happened and

848
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 6: the NHL moved everybody out of the penalty boxes to

849
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 6: protect the players, and now we're never going to get

850
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 6: invited back. I now sit way up in the sixth

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Speaker 6: level in a five level building, and that's where I

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00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 6: call the games from. So to go back there for

853
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 6: a week and see games from that perspective, it's going

854
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 6: to be really hard to go to my perch way

855
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 6: up high tonight. And those last two games that I

856
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 6: announced were the men's quarter final games, which I guess

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00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 6: were USA and Canada. They didn't play each other, obviously,

858
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Speaker 6: I forget which teams they played. It was USA, Sweden,

859
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 6: I think Canada, Slovakia maybe Canada, check you. I think

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Speaker 6: those games were two of the best, fastest, hardest hitting,

861
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 6: most intense hockey games I've ever seen.

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00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: So at Ball Arena tonight with Wild and Avalanche on

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Speaker 1: kfam rock Nelson, like, is there a gold medal celebration tonight?

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Speaker 6: I would assume so. I thought it was interesting that

865
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Speaker 6: McKinnon got the day off last night but brock Nelson played.

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Speaker 6: Had not this last night? Go crazy war Road Minnesota? Right, Yeah,

867
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Speaker 6: I would think so. I would hope so, and I

868
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Speaker 6: hope that if we do announced something or if I

869
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 6: announced something that I get to include the grandfather and

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Speaker 6: the uncle that were part of the other two gold medals.

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Speaker 6: What a story that is?

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00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 5: All right?

873
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: Well, tonight for the game, I got bad news for you.

874
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: It's Gus between the pipes for us, not Vall Step.

875
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: So ABS fans can't they can't boo the guy that

876
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: everybody was loathing after that shootout victory here in Minnesota.

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00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 6: Well, knowing a little bit about the temperament of the

878
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 6: Minnesota sports fan and knowing how things have kind of

879
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 6: gone over the couple of weeks before the Olympics began,

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00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 6: and of course Gus Buss's experience at the Olympics, it's

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00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,959
Speaker 6: gonna be. It's gonna be. There'll be some therapy needed

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Speaker 6: tomorrow if Gus let's in three on fourteen shots in

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Speaker 6: the first period.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, Rochie mckennon's back tonight for you guys.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. To have the you know, the some of the

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Speaker 6: to watch, and now to come back home and see

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Speaker 6: a bunch of those guys on the team that I

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Speaker 6: announced for is is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: You know that much like the wild the Avs had

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Speaker 6: players on almost every team in the Olympics, and having

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Speaker 6: all those guys back and now kind of a refocus.

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Speaker 6: The Avalanche were falling off right before the the Olympic break.

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Speaker 6: They were looking a bit what's the word human, I

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Speaker 6: guess mortals, and so I think probably now is the

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Speaker 6: time to refocus and get back to Hey, remember in October,

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Speaker 6: November and December when we were the best team in

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Speaker 6: the league by far. We need we need to get

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Speaker 6: that back.

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