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You know you've got discipline. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.800 This is from a t Olsen. Do you husband swap 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:57.760 for the right guy? Yes? 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.720 Speaking of that, I've just guys, I'm gonna make an 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:08.199 AI video of Tommy no to Reese's Butterfingers sour Patch 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.440 brill just to see what it does with Tommy. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.880 Well, I can guess it's gonna be an Asian kid trick. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:18.280 Or treat brit right, that's what your AI think, So that'll. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.200 Be cool and and Tommy will be excited about that. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:21.880 Yeah, I can't wait to see it. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.720 If you watch these ben not all of them. Chris 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:25.240 is put. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.120 I saw the sauces, and do you see how he 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:28.479 changed into an Asian person? 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.440 So last week it was the opposite. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.080 Last week, A Hawk's video started with this, uh, this 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.320 adorable Asian like college age kind of girl, and then 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.720 at one point turned into like a middle aged white lady, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.520 and then right back to an Asian girl, but it 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.319 was a different one, and then she got older. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.160 AI is just convinced we're all eventually going to be Asian. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:50.600 Yeah, because we will welcome to me. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.920 Let's do it's working for you. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.480 I'm not sure we're wanted. I'm not gonna let you 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.760 do have to pa, That's what I'm saying. I think 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:02.480 I'm gonna get no. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.000 Sorry, I don't know if a I is gonna be 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.400 able to handle Tommy? What if? What if? What if? 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:09.600 You input? 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.120 Here's the song, here's what I want, here's a picture. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:17.480 Tommy and a I is like, no, no hard pass. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.080 Just suddenly I hear knocked at the door and I 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.720 turned on and it's the fuzzy. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:24.720 Tommy shuts down. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.480 Tommy will square off against you Friday in quarterfinal number five. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.400 He'll be your first Thursday as well. Take on days 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.000 and lawyer Lambert and Julia. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.320 All right, you know what, it's time for the news. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.360 But our top story is gonna have nothing to do 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.239 with news because our main man is here. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.120 That's rights with Chris Hockey. That's right, Paul. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.239 All of that is correct. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.200 Saints Baseball dot Com is the website. That's Saints Baseball 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.000 dot Com. Get on down to hs Field, my main man, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.280 John bumps up there, love chs Field. He did not 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.480 go to Doggy Day, though, did you? 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:08.000 I did go to dogt at Doggie Dan at the 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.200 as well, call Culpeppers Man Waller hit a home run. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:12.600 It was great. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.040 I went to Reverse Cowboy Day. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:16.480 You take there, Tommy. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.240 I'm surprised you didn't Military Day, uh seven o seven 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.440 on the fourth day of August your next home game 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.600 versus the Louisville Bats for your Saints. Saints Baseball dot Com, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.640 thank you, Saint Paul, Saints Ben Yes, Jamal Adams. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.760 Yes, what are your thought? 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:34.119 Well? 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.080 Okay, so, uh, I don't know what that was. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:43.840 Singular thoughts. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:50.480 Okay, here's the thing. I only have one singular thought. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:58.200 I'm intrigued. I don't. I am a little confused, definitely intrigued. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.840 I didn't have some time last night to watch a 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.040 few games of his with the Raiders last night. And yes, 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:12.960 it is true that he played linebacker last year. Does 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.320 it seem like a natural fit for him? No, I 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:23.200 don't think so. Does he play well, well, I'll put 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.000 it this way. He was mostly an outside linebacker. I 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.680 saw somebody post last night that you know, he spent 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.880 this number of snaps and Nickel as the nickel slot guide. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.040 I'm like, well, kind of. You know, when he's he's 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.080 an outside linebacker and you're adjusted out on a number 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.359 two receiver, you're not necessarily a nickel. It's not necessarily 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.960 a subpackage. But I think that's the intrigue with him, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.520 is that you don't have to swap all these defensive 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.520 personnels to match the offensive personnel because he can show 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.560 the acumen to play linebacker. But he also knows how 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.960 to play in space as a safety and a defensive back, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.599 So you know, he is sort of that second level 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:08.800 hybrid linebacker defensive back. Do I think that he plays 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.440 downhill off the block like a linebacker should very well. No, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.240 I don't. He doesn't use his hands very well. He 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.240 shoulders a lot of blocks. Is he going to be 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.040 you know, is he going to look like Blake Cashman 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.040 or Eric Wilson? I don't think so. Do those guys 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.120 have to worry? I don't think so. So It's like 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.200 if those two guys now barring, we don't know, maybe 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.480 there's some stuff going on behind the scenes injury wise. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.400 If those go those two guys are true inside linebackers, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.960 I don't think that they have anything to worry about. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.080 He's not a true a gap B gap in the 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.680 box linebacker. If you're Josh Mattellus, do you have to 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.960 worry that he's going to come take your spot? No, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.600 Because he didn't show a lot of playing in space 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.680 deep safety stuff. You didn't see him coming down to 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.000 the lion scrimmage and a lot of Harrison Smith type of stuff. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.440 You didn't see him rocking and rolling pre snap with 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.400 a line of scrimmage and rolling back and playing deep 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.720 safety and all this other stuff. He wasn't a trigger 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.479 guy for that defense. And secondarily, he only played like 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.360 what a third of the snaps. Yeah, so he's not 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.640 he's not a heavy personnel guy. If a team comes 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.080 out in heavy personnel means us. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.960 Then he's not. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.760 He's not in the game. If if they're in true 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.159 eleven ten personnel and you have like true dying personnel 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.320 out there, he's not in that package either. He's not 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.719 carrying guys at the seam. I didn't see a ton 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.280 of man of man coverage with him. So that's why 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.839 I'm like, I'm intrigued. Like he can blitz off the edge, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.159 he blitzes off that's you know, kind of think about 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.040 that overhang. You know, a just down number two receiver, disguise, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.080 disguise and then a snap of the ball, he'll come. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.880 He'll come off the edge and make a play. But 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.400 how many times are you gonna do that? And how 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.720 many times are you gonna tip your hand defensively if 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.640 that's where if that's all he's gonna do for you. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:02.760 So I'm intrigued. I'm guessing that we didn't. Probably we 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.279 don't have to pay him a lot of money. I 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.560 definitely think that we need a veteran presence. So is 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.360 this a Terrence Newman sort of situation where he comes 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.600 in as just kind of the rock that maybe we 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.520 need emotionally and from a leadership standpoint, and he's just 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.119 there to give us a few snaps, you know, stay 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.000 fresh throughout the game. But I don't see him coming 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.840 in to like replace anybody. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.320 Can I ask you a question in regards all that, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.400 why did they put him in linebacker? 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.000 I think that he's becoming a little bit limited in 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.280 in coverage in space, you know, I mean, you gotta 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.480 be able to, you know, man, turn a guy going 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:45.960 up the seam. You got to be able to change 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.480 directions of safety and play a little bit better in space, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.880 a little bit more fluidity that part of his game. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:59.120 I thought he's definitely showing his age in just that 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.280 that neeband the flexibility, the mobility, the change of direction. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.960 Just not obviously the same player that he was when 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.760 he was a three time pro bowler? Is he? Yet? 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.400 You make it sound like he's got enough flexibility, like 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.080 the kind of guy that I would think Flores likes 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.080 guys with flexibility who can play a little bit of 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.680 this and a little bit of that. And now you 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.000 don't know how I'm going to use him, you know, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.000 in the same way you're calling intriguing, the quarterback of 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.520 the other side is looking and going, what's he doing 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:28.040 out here? 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.400 I got to keep tracking. Is that accurate or is 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.000 that no? 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.040 That is I think that is very accurate that it's 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.720 you've got another tool. You've got another dynamic tool to 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.760 use for your defense. And I think one of the 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.680 biggest things for a lot of these defenses, you know, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.280 you know Leslie Fraser talked about this during the Super Bowl. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.000 They defensively look for at Seattle, which is where Nolan 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.400 Teasley came from and Trent Kershner came from. That they're 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:04.080 looking for positionless. They're trying to get away from labels, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.160 and they're just saying, is this guy an athlete in 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.439 an asset and can he play defense and or offense? 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.000 Can he block? Can he tackle? Can you do those things? 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.439 And if he can play multiple roles, then we'll find it. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.720 We'll find some space for him. So yes, I think 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.160 based off the philosophy that we've heard from Seattle, the 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.120 familiarity that they have with him already having spent time 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.680 in Seattle, I think this is just another dynamic tool 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.280 that they can use. They'll find a place to plug 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:39.040 him in. It'll be spotty. I think it'll be certain packages. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.040 I think that he can play safety. I think he 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.000 can play linebacker because he played at the same level 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.959 that he did six years ago. Seven years ago. I 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.040 don't think so, but I still think, yes, it's a 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.040 nice tool to have, and I think the leadership will 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:53.600 be important. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.680 Torn Labram in twenty twenty one, torn quad in twenty 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.400 twenty two, and again in that kind of three or 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.520 four year window, he just missed a ton of games 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.680 and arguably hasn't been the same since. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:08.400 That's where he had a. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.200 Really short stint with the Titans, or really short stint 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.440 with the Lions, and then played last year, like you said, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.960 in limited time with the Raiders. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.920 Played in all the games, but just like a third 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:18.560 of the snaps. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.760 Yeah, I mean when you're When I was going through 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.839 the film, it was, I mean a whole series. I'm 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.959 just fast forty, Like, I don't see thirty three out 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.719 there at all. Don't see hi, don't see him, don't 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.320 see him, do't see him. So it was actually kind 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.320 of a quick review. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.600 Either way, when we see the actual contract, my guess 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.000 is it's going to be like you said, it's going 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.959 to be a one year deal for almost no money. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.560 Yeah, that's my guess, right. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.480 So low investment, high reward potentially. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.160 Yeah, yeah, we'll see. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.439 I mean, what do we have to lose. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.400 We have no death fun, big name, you know, for sure, possibilities. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:53.560 Man. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.960 Again, like I said earlier in the show, Ben, we 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:57.840 didn't expect big things out of Eric Wilson when we 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:58.280 brought him in. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.560 But no, there he was, I. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.440 Know, and he got himself a nice another little extension, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.280 and he looks like he is flourishing in the b 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:08.120 flow defense. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:10.920 I don't know that I call him a free I 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.120 wouldn't call him that. He cut stone kidding me. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.079 I mean, the guy with the shirt off is a 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.520 free I mean, calm down, then. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.400 Corey, Yes, sir, there's no way around it. That man 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.720 is built like a brick blank house. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.840 Remember remember when he said the word, he said a 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.040 blank house. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:34.760 One of my favorite moments. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:36.839 The word brick ye. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:39.320 Word. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.320 Remember when he yelled put the lotion and. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:49.440 He said the word we had fun. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.000 I'd killed for that audience. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:53.880 We had fun. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:12:00.440 Somebody's got he just yells the F word. The upper 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:01.640 motion in the basket. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.640 All right, there's the dumb button. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.120 All right, sausage sports after this, Ben Lever is here, 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:08.920 John Bonus is here. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.559 It's a Tuesday in the Power To Morning Joy. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:24.440 Here on the pan, it's Chris Hockey the Partrip Morning Show. Hey, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.280 welcome back, Patrick Morning Show seven twenty two. And Ben 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.319 Lever's over there with Johnny Beans, Bonds Bones, and we've 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.000 got lots of things to talk about. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.640 Not just Vikings because it is Viking season. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.719 It's official, ladies and gentlemen. The rookies are in camp, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.040 so we can say it now. Thank everybody else reports 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.640 today as well. Sure tomorrow's camp camp. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:43.040 Yep. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.199 Right now it's time for sports sports. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.679 It's time for Fan five on the Power. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.800 Trip, brought to you by Circa Casino and Circa Casino 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.760 dot Com. Let's go number eighteen through twenty third the 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.199 live broadcast the anniversary celebration at Circa. Get your tickets 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.280 now and get your room now for the Power To 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.920 twenty fifteen versary. Ben will be there, my main man, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.440 Johnny Bones will be there and the rest of us 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:05.800 as well. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.400 Let's be giddy up as right. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.160 Yes November, we're turning twenty five years old. First show 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.280 in Twinity's radio history to go twenty five straight years. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:14.800 Pretty cool. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.800 Search up first first search. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.480 Woh, that's fantastic, hey, Ben, Since you're not going to 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.720 be there on Sunday, any interest in doing like a 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.800 stadium swim pool party on Thursday night? 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.080 My god esus, it's. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.199 Of course everybody's asking. I mean, Zach and Tommy trying. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.000 To sell more trips. Calm down, did email or just emailing? 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.040 Oh yeah that was my Yeah, not friend fan fan 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:39.520 of the show. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.920 Yeah, go ahead, Ben, Well, I. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.199 Was gonna say it's possible, Zacho. You know, I haven't 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.840 looked at my I haven't looked at the actual flight schedule, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.800 and I'll be able to pull off, but I probably 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.240 will be there later on Thursday night. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.440 Cool sauce. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:57.480 Yeah. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.839 I was just told via text. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.520 That some people pretty high up the ladder at iHeart 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:11.120 are currently listening to this show. No pressure me, Yeah, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:16.320 I mean it's your turn. There are higher ups currently 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.800 tuning in right now. They're tooting right now. Yes, they 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.560 wanted to see what all the hypees about. So the 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.680 floor is yours and the fate of this show is 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.840 possibly in your hands. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:27.680 My hands. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.320 Well, I mean this is when they're listening, so it's 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:31.280 not like we got to pick. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.280 They just tuned in. They're listening right now, right now. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:44.000 Multiple higher ups go. The Twins start. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.600 Today at six forty battle the Terrible Royals at Target Field. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.400 Taj Bradley will be your pitcher for the Twins. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.440 Your Minnesota Twins are one game back of the final 0:14:55.640 --> 0:15:00.040 wild card spot in the American League. They trail the 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.760 the Guardians, the Red Sox, and the Yankees, who have 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.680 about a six and a half game lead on that 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.960 first wild card spot. For baseball today. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.360 How long are you gonna toss the. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.960 Question everybody's asking for baseball bonus your thoughts. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.520 They are one game under five hundred. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.320 It would be nice to be five hundred, and they 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.400 have got a real shot at it today with Taz 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.960 brad Lay in the mountain. It's been pretty good last start. Notwithstanding, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:33.960 they have six games here before the trade deadline. Taking 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.360 two out of three here would be a big step forward. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.040 I think they are in a position right now where 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.920 if they had to make the decision today, they would 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.840 probably be buyers light buyers at the trade deadline, maybe 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.120 picking up a couple of bullpen arms. They're not it 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.800 is not the trade deadline. They do not have to 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.880 make that decision today. So it's critical that they take 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.160 two out of three from the Royals, and they're in 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.880 a good position to do so. The Royals or seventeen 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.960 games under five hundred, and the Twins are sending their 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.720 three starters who are probably be the three guys who 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.000 would start a playoff playoff games for them right now. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.320 So this is their chance. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.320 Let's take you out to three or three, go three 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.320 and one themselves in a real spot to compete for 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:10.560 August and September. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:11.360 Let's do this. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.600 The MLB trade deadline is on the following or soon 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.880 to be Monday, at five o'clock. 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:25.320 The following or soon to be Monday. People say sixty next. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:26.280 Monday, Oh next okay? 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.640 Yeah, okay, as in next. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.640 Monday, yeah, next Monday, following or soon to be five o'clock. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:32.640 Bonus your thoughts. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.080 I would like to see the Truands to be buyers. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:36.600 It is not. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.880 It does not require them to make significant moves to 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.360 be able to compete for a postseason spot. All they 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.160 have to do is probably pick up a couple of relievers, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.480 maybe a back of the rotation starter and that's not 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.200 going to cost you a top five prospect. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:52.880 It's not going to cost you a top ten prospect. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.160 It's going to cost you, you know, the twelfth, fifteenth, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.400 and eighteenth prospect in your system. And they can afford it. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.000 They've got one of the stronger farm systems in Major 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.719 League Baseball, and this is the time to to leverage 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.160 that and give yourselves a chance. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.760 Ben Lieber, two time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Vita Vea 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.399 has requested a trade from Tampa after talks about a 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.480 contract extension failed. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:21.679 Didn't Hawk have Vita Vea in the eighties. It's like 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.800 dueling meat sauces. Ben, Your thoughts, uh my thought? 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:27.760 My thought of thoughts? 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.240 Thought, that's. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:36.399 Listening to the Hawks would love Vita Vella. Outstanding football player. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.360 Uh is on the other side of thirty, it would 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.480 be it would cost you for sure. I mean, it 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.199 is a trade and he's not a free agent. So 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.840 what are you willing to give up? I don't think 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.919 that we're in that. I don't think we're in that 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.800 market to give up draft picks or certainly not players. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.240 And then if you if you trade for him, then 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.840 you got to give him a fat contract because he's 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.199 because that's the reason why he wants out of Tampa 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.920 is he's got zero money guaranteed on the last year 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.040 of his deal, and he wants some guaranteed money. See, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.639 what are you willing to give this guy? What a 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:12.000 three year extension? Two year extension, fully guaranteed. No, I 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.560 just don't think that we're going to be buyers in 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.760 this situation. But love the player. It's like a dollar 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:16.120 an hour. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.000 The Vets report today to training camp, and that means 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.639 every team will be in training camp by the end 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.280 of today. In the NFL Hall of Fame Game, Hogs 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:30.720 Daddy is a week from some say next Thursday. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:36.120 Yeah, okay, I can't wait. Let's see here, we talked 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:36.639 a lot about it. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.880 But you if I can sign Jamal Adams to play linebackers, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.480 slash safety, slash something. He's thirty, he played for the 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.360 Raiders last season. He is a former three time Pro 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.399 Bowl player, and he will most likely be in camp today. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:52.840 Yeah. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.040 No, No, I. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.360 Don't think he's going to play basketball. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.520 He might, he might, he might. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.159 Yeah, another quick recap on what I just mentioned the 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.960 last segment, But yeah, I think a multi tool player 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.639 that I think beflow is gonna have fun trying to 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.399 like put in his defense. You know, it's it's a 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.719 curious signing. I don't see him as like supplanting anybody 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.760 as a starting starting position. I don't think any of 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.920 the linebackers have anything to worry about. I don't even 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.480 think in the safety is everything to worry about. I 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.359 think he's a leadership guy, a multi tool guy, and 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:24.400 we'll see what they do with him. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.479 On a sad note, Mia b Enemy, Eric Bienemy's wife 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.240 yesterday was allegedly shot by the couple's son. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.320 She is in stable condition. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.760 Do we know the motivation behind that? I did not 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.800 read the full story. I always saw the headline. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.800 No, but he's been arrested in charge with a malicious wounding, 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.240 use of a firearm and commission of a felony and 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.040 discharge of a firearm inside of a dwelling. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.479 But not attempted murder. 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:54.720 I don't know. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.639 That's not what it says. That's interesting. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:02.159