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Speaker 1: What up a beautiful Wednesday morning to you. It's nor

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Speaker 1: to win for PA Vocal Maintenance in play and we'll

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Speaker 2: It took ot but our hockey team got it done.

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Speaker 3: It's a Now Center Superrillo.

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Speaker 1: Staress Matt Suprillo wins in it overtime.

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Speaker 4: Nice set up by Johansson and with a buck.

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Speaker 5: Fifty one to go on the extra session, the Wild

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Speaker 5: prevailing this one four three from United Center.

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Speaker 1: That's how it sounded on your home for Wild Hockey

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Speaker 1: the Fan. But of course you check in FanDuel Sports

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Speaker 1: Style to hear how this gentleman analyzes things on television.

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Speaker 1: It's Wes Wallas joining me this morning. How you doing, Wes.

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Speaker 6: Nordll great to be with you this morning, kicking things

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Speaker 6: off on a Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 7: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks No, that's that's awesome and I appreciate you joining

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Speaking of kicking things off, how

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Speaker 1: get back on their feet and in stride again. Last night,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 6: I mean obviously you want to try to beat those

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Speaker 6: to try to beat everybody you know every night you're

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Speaker 6: going out there. But I know there's been so much

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Speaker 6: wins against you know, Philadelphia and Toronto teams that they

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Speaker 6: to be honest, Nordo has been so overplayed. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I know the Wild for sure, and even Billy Garan

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Speaker 6: come out. I mean, we've got to start better. There's

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Speaker 6: no question about that. The team needed to start better,

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Speaker 6: and they did against Chicago. I think they had seventeen

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Speaker 7: They came out and punched the.

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Speaker 6: Hawks and the nose in the first period, and then

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Speaker 6: you know, I had enough to get through to the

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Speaker 6: finish line. It wasn't a complete perfect game last night

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Speaker 6: against Chicago, but the previous two games against Toronto and Philadelphia,

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Speaker 6: Nordo I think we outshot the Flyers forty two to eighteen.

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Speaker 6: I think that I believe we had a graphic in

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Speaker 6: the postgame the shot attempt against the Flyers were eighty

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Speaker 6: five to thirty nine, And if you just looked at

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Speaker 6: Flyers had like a one percent chance.

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Speaker 7: To win that game. And we end up losing that game,

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Speaker 7: we got Golid, and then the.

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Speaker 6: Next game in Toronto, even strength play against Toronto, we

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Speaker 6: had the puck in the offensive zone thirty minutes, thirty

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Speaker 6: I know we lost the games, and there's times you're

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Speaker 6: going to get Golid, and those two games we definitely

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Speaker 6: most people were in the state. Now, if the while

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Speaker 6: wave of the flags. They're not way of the flags,

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Speaker 6: but get concerned. I honestly have no concern about this

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Speaker 7: None. Well.

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Speaker 1: I love that that you you drew that out the

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Speaker 1: ask you just something we'd kind of bandied about last

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Speaker 1: just kind of how difficult can it be? Or maybe

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Speaker 1: it isn't a factor here when you're kind of locked

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Speaker 6: Well, no, I do agree with you, Nortal, I think it.

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Speaker 7: How many we ever have left?

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Speaker 6: When you when you're in a situation where you know,

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Speaker 7: On down the road. But you know, I mean, Dallas

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Speaker 6: Probably at some point going to go through it too,

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Speaker 7: For the wild still have you know, it's not like

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Speaker 6: This game Saturday afternoon against Dallas is gigantic. If they

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Speaker 7: But yeah, human.

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Speaker 6: Nature plays a big part of this. You know, you

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Speaker 7: And then when.

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Speaker 6: You get the game fifty or sixty, I mean it

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Speaker 6: felt like Nordo in game fifty fifty five, we already

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Speaker 6: But having said that, for both teams, like you know, Colorado,

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Speaker 6: next ten games Nortal might be an opportunity for coach

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Speaker 6: There is some advantages to that obviously as well.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you that you mentioned it just kind

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Speaker 2: How are they five v five?

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Speaker 1: Is there anything you particularly like or maybe that you

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Speaker 6: Team, Well, our five on five play, I mean our

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Speaker 6: our team has been ridiculous, like ridiculous, unbelievable offensively five

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Speaker 6: and of course you're going to need that dynamic. There

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Speaker 6: To have a player like that is you'd want to

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Speaker 6: I just I think sometimes breaking the puck out of

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Speaker 6: Playing to offensively as a team is it's hard work,

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Speaker 6: to play in your own zone defensively and every rep,

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Speaker 6: every time you come back into your own zone. But

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Speaker 6: this wild team is just so gifted offensively right now.

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Speaker 6: You know pretty much every night they're going to get

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Speaker 7: To dial in in my opinion.

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Speaker 6: So you asked me that question about even strength, So

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Speaker 6: I haven't loved their defensive game and their own zone

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Speaker 7: So that's going to need to be tightened up.

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Speaker 6: And I think the players in the locker room understand

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Speaker 1: Well. I appreciate that perspective, Wes, because I as I

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Speaker 1: led into that, I was kind of thinking offensively. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, since since Quinn joined, that dynamic has really

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Speaker 1: Now this West Walls fan Duel Sports Network North, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I was watching watching the game last night

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you.

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Speaker 2: Were you checking the crease for vomit?

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Speaker 7: I was.

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Speaker 6: I was thinking that my mind was the same place

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Speaker 6: you did that. He wasn't feeling very good. I think

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Speaker 6: he said he had some equipment failure or something that

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Speaker 6: he need a little bit more time or whatever. But hey, listen, Nordo,

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Speaker 6: nothing surprises me with goalies, man. And you saw the

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Speaker 6: look on John Hines's face when he looked down the hall.

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Speaker 6: I think I think John Hines was representing the state

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Speaker 6: like where are you going? So I don't know if

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Speaker 6: we call that toilet gate or whatever. So who knows

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Speaker 6: and the while lose that game after a three to one,

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Speaker 1: Hey can thank you enough for giving me some time

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Speaker 2: Know that absolutely man, Thank you. That's Wes Walls.

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Speaker 1: Good conversation with Wes Walls the previous segment and as

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Speaker 1: been in some of those spots. Zucarello the latest to

438
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Speaker 1: handle business. But you can also look at what was

439
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Speaker 1: it the Colorado game. I think it was Nico sterm

440
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Speaker 1: with a go ahead short handed goal. You're up to one,

441
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Speaker 1: they tie it and bring it into ot McKinnon daggers

442
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Speaker 1: them in the shootout a week in change ago, a

443
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Speaker 1: couple sundays ago. You could also look at a situation

444
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Speaker 1: where you have a three to one lead after the

445
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Speaker 1: first period in Chicago against a non playoff team, and

446
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Speaker 1: you find your way to requiring Zucarello to be a

447
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: hero and requiring that or putting yourself in spots like

448
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 1: that as often as this team does to that. Texter's

449
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 1: point could be very concerning.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about all that? Brat?

451
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Speaker 5: In my opinion, an overtime win in the playoffs is

452
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Speaker 5: just a win, you know, like, yeah, it's still five

453
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Speaker 5: on five and it's different than the three on three

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Speaker 5: or a shootout.

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Speaker 2: But I think it.

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Speaker 5: Does speak a little bit to the team's inability to

457
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Speaker 5: put a complete sixty together at points in time. Obviously

458
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Speaker 5: they have done it at the past, and when they're firing,

459
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 5: they are firing, but sometimes they just don't put it

460
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Speaker 5: and lately, you know, I thought Walls kind of underplayed

461
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Speaker 5: it slightly. I'm not you know, pitchforks torches. Let's run

462
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Speaker 5: over to Saint Paul and make our voices heard. But

463
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Speaker 5: I'm a little concerned that they're not putting together a

464
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Speaker 5: full sixty because you know you're gonna need in the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: But that being said, I think going in overtime and

466
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Speaker 5: winning a game isn't the end of the world.

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Speaker 3: Being in games isn't the end.

468
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Speaker 2: Of the world.

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Speaker 5: And I think, if anything, I'd look at other places

470
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Speaker 5: to be concerned about. But the overtime wins. If you

471
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Speaker 5: make it in overtime the postseason and you win, you

472
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Speaker 5: still win that game and you move on.

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Speaker 2: You win that game the series, well yeah, yeah, certainly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if there ends up being a parade down

475
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Speaker 1: West seven, you look back and it's like, ah, geez,

476
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Speaker 1: they went to six overtime games in the playoffs and

477
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Speaker 1: they were five and one in those affairs. Yeah, I

478
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Speaker 1: don't think any of us will go back. There will

479
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Speaker 1: be no tallies, not about overtime or regulation victories.

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Speaker 2: It just kind of sticks.

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Speaker 1: It sticks with me from the standpoint of you're gonna

482
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Speaker 1: get bit specifically in the postseason if you're finding late

483
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Speaker 1: one goal leads erased if you're finding that or because

484
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 1: off those three losses. And I like to again going

485
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Speaker 1: back to what Wes was talking about, I loved in

486
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Speaker 1: some respects yeah, things to pick apart. But you got

487
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Speaker 1: stirkind on Saturday against the Rangers. Uh, the Leaf's game

488
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: all that time. You know, you can you call it

489
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: puck luck. I mean we can, we can write off

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Speaker 1: or minimize certain moments over the course of a long season.

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Speaker 1: But uh, but to that end, the early urgency that

492
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Speaker 1: you see last night, I mean, how about that feed

493
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Speaker 1: from Carill to Hartman. Yeah, like that's sweet, right, And

494
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: Marcus Johansson, Marcus Johanson hasn't gotten paid off. It feels

495
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: like two months since he scored, but he does, right,

496
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Speaker 1: it actually was, Yeah, I think it might have been.

497
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Speaker 1: It was a long time, we'll say, for as far

498
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Speaker 1: as the calendar is concerned. But but but Joe Hanson

499
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Speaker 1: gets that goal, it's like, oh, and great feed. I

500
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,360
Speaker 1: mean the puck kind of just lands on his stick,

501
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: but he handles it. He takes out the garbage right,

502
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Speaker 1: and you're up to nothing and then boom it's two one.

503
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Speaker 1: But then you stretch it out again, right, and and

504
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 1: then you But but that second and third period, third

505
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Speaker 1: period in particular, it's like, man, we just can't pull away,

506
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Speaker 1: and so so I just just something that the texture

507
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: kind of put in my mind, and you know, concern,

508
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Speaker 1: what's the level of concern.

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Speaker 2: There's a spectrum of concern.

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Speaker 5: I almost feel like it was the inverse of the

511
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Speaker 5: three games at home, where they started slow and then

512
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Speaker 5: about halfway through the second, maybe started the third, you go, oh,

513
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 5: now they're really going.

514
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Speaker 3: Now we're really skating.

515
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Speaker 5: It felt like the opposite of that, where the first

516
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 5: period they were on fire and they were, as you

517
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 5: alluded to, scored many a beautiful goal, some not, but

518
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Speaker 5: got out in front and handedly so and then it

519
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 5: almost was like, all right, now we can coast back

520
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 5: to what we were doing in the first period. And

521
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Speaker 5: the Blackhawks they get paid too, and they can come

522
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Speaker 5: back and get back into the game. Then they had

523
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Speaker 5: to put the foot back on the gas. I would

524
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Speaker 5: just like to see them be so far ahead that

525
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Speaker 5: it doesn't even matter if they take the foot.

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Speaker 2: Off the gas or not.

527
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Speaker 1: Now, how about this A texture offers a different perspective

528
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Speaker 1: on this as a wild season ticket holder. Well, first

529
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Speaker 1: of all, that's all, congratulations, that's great. I hope you're

530
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Speaker 1: enjoying the season Grand Casino Arena. But the point this

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Speaker 1: person's trying to make a team that is able to

532
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Speaker 1: win close games even in OT builds confidence most games

533
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs.

534
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Speaker 2: Iron now sharpened. Who's better at OT than the Minnesota

535
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Speaker 2: Wild No, by all right, just a thought.

536
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: Twenty five regulation wins. I'm just going to trust that initial.

537
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Speaker 1: It's fourteenth in the NHL, and it's just kind of

538
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: a striking contrast a bit when you see and that

539
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: the teams were comparing ourselves to eight more regulation wins.

540
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: The Dallas Stars have fourteen more, the Colorado Avalanche have.

541
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Speaker 2: But it was just a thought. All right, With all

542
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Speaker 2: that out of the way, we got.

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Speaker 1: A couple of Vikes nibbles, Well, vikes nibbles on a Wednesday, a.

544
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Speaker 3: Couple of Vikes bites. It's officially time to retire this.

545
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 2: He ain't heavy. He's a punted.

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Speaker 1: On rest in peace to that one. So there's a

547
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Speaker 1: non zero chance. Congratulations to Ryan Wright on that contract

548
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: that he was able to get from the New Orleans Saints.

549
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: It is a profession, it is a potential income, pretty

550
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: nice income, certainly, but he got I think fourteen million

551
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: in total. It was a three or four year deal

552
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: and eight of it's guaranteed. So thanks for his support,

553
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: Thanks for his contributions there is a there's a non

554
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: zero chance that he chose the Saints because we refer

555
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Speaker 1: to him as the plus size punter.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why I feel like that. I feel like.

557
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Speaker 1: There's a non zero chance that the playful plus size

558
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: punter Moniker if both sides all things are equal.

559
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 2: But he hears some.

560
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: Idiot nine to noon singing a song about he ain't heavy,

561
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Speaker 1: he's a punter.

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Speaker 2: He probably chose the Bayou maybe for the music and

563
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 2: the cuisine as well. I can't do that. That's stupid.

564
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 2: And look at me. Who am I my criticizing? My goodness?

565
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: But best of luck to Ryan. Right, but we do

566
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: have we do have a new member of the team.

567
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: And well, if you're Johnny Hecker, Johnny Hecker and first

568
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: started punting in the NFL twenty twelve. He was young,

569
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: he was twenty two, former Beaver Oregon State. You saw

570
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: him with the Saint Louis and Los Angeles Rams for

571
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: a number of seasons decade in fact, and then you

572
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: saw him in Carolina. Most recently last year he was

573
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Speaker 1: punting with the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 2: You who's your punter?

575
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 3: Was it Daniel Wheling? He's pretty good, right, Irish ace.

576
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, nicknames for everybody out there.

577
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 2: See that.

578
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: We call our guy the plus sized punter. You call

579
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Speaker 1: your guy the Irish ace. Now I get it. Now,

580
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: I'm starting to finally get it. But Johnny Hecker, Now,

581
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Speaker 1: if you're married, you've probably heard, at some point during

582
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: your marriage vows to have and to hold well. But Johnny,

583
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: it's to heave and to hold because he passes fifteen

584
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Speaker 1: to twenty six in his career, one ninety three through

585
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: the air and a touchdown. A touchdown I believe came

586
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: in his rookie season.

587
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: Nonsense.

588
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: Twelve of his fifteen completions resulted in a first down.

589
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 2: Seven point four yards per ten. Nice job, Johnny.

590
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 3: Is this quarterback competition open?

591
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: Still not bad for a punter.

592
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: He's not a mobile passer, though he has a total

593
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: of four rushes in his career, totally named negative number.

594
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 2: I believe minus seventeen had a run for three ones.

595
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: Good for them.

596
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: So more of a pocket passer. Now, to heave and

597
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: to hold. I think that's really the key with this

598
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: Johnny Hecker. The overlap with the Los Angeles Rams six

599
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: degrees of Kevin O'Connell in company. There's probably a connection

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Speaker 1: there and for Will Richer keep this thing rolling. We

601
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: got the all pro into Paula snapping it to Johnny

602
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: Hecker and Will richerd as long as aren't me wires

603
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: in the way, is generally going to be pure.

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00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 2: Now a cynical.

605
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: A cynical person or a pessimistic person would say that.

606
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: In Free Agency with Kyler Murray and Johnny Hecker, the

607
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: Vikings added a passer who punts and a punter who passes.

608
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: If you were a pessimistic about Kyler Murray.

609
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 2: A passer who punts and a punter who passes.

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Speaker 1: Now this is no surprise because KFA and listeners are

611
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Speaker 1: not just loyal, but they have the memories of elephants.

612
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: We have to go back and I just got to

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00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: verify this here for accuracy matters. Nine to noon, all

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00:29:58,680 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: of you listening.

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00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 8: No, I always said that about this program, and accuracy

616
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 8: matters specifically because I don't want to hear Brett play

617
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 8: the Covenant cleanup song that he is forever hovering over

618
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Speaker 8: with his mouse.

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Speaker 1: This goes back to twenty twenty three. It was an

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00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: October game an afternoon. It was a beautiful fall day

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Speaker 1: in Charlotte, and the Minnesota Vikings at that time trying

622
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: to find I believe their first victory, and the Panthers

623
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: were hideous and at that time, you know Adam Thielin

624
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: they're doing that retirement presser tomorrow at TCO. Excuse me,

625
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: they had Adam Theeling at that time. So I believe

626
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: cool reunion and all of that. But Kirking Company, we

627
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: need that victory. Well, it certainly didn't help when early

628
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: on Kirk Cousins throws a pick six to Sam Franklin

629
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: didn't really like that. But Jefferson back then he was

630
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Speaker 1: JJ got into the end zone. Hey, DJ Wantum with

631
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: the FUMBLETD dig that and the Vikings found their way

632
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: to victory.

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Speaker 2: DJ Wantum future.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was an audition for the Carolina Panthers at

635
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: that time. But Pa, as long as he's been doing

636
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: Nine to Noon, he's been calling Vikings games for a

637
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: very very long time. He tries to find the deep

638
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: dive stats, the intriguing, the obscure that he will slip

639
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: into a broadcast for the sake of enriching the minds

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Speaker 1: of listeners. And he's as good as anybody at it.

641
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: And he was going way deep on Johnny.

642
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 9: Hecker, and now Johnny Hecker's in the game to punt. Now,

643
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 9: you gotta be careful with Johnny Hecker. John all right,

644
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 9: three two, you gotta be alright three two. You gotta

645
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 9: be careful with Johnny Hecker because he likes to pass. Now,

646
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 9: he hasn't thrown a pass since twenty twenty, but in

647
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 9: his career fourteen of twenty three, one eighty six and

648
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 9: a touchdown, he's a punter with a sixty one percent

649
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 9: completion percentage. Johnny Hecker takes the snap, keep an eye

650
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 9: on Hecker, and Hecker to the very high punt. Brandon

651
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 9: pal calls for a fair catch at the seventeen and

652
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 9: the Yours truly has just immortalized himself on the Power

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00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 9: Trip Morning Show. Gotta be careful with Johnny Pecker, but John.

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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness, it doesn't get old. Gotta be careful

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Speaker 2: with Johnny Pecker.

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Speaker 7: But John.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Man, I love that guy.

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Speaker 1: He does so much prep work, He puts so much

659
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Speaker 1: mental capacity into the from the depth chart you should see.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's like that that.

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Speaker 1: Charlie what is it Charlie Day from It's always Sonny

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Speaker 1: that that meme of him in front of the whiteboard

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Speaker 1: with the with the pins and yeah, Pepee Sylvia. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like that in the box box where he's

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Speaker 1: got sheets up of everything, every possible outcome. The host

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Speaker 1: of nine to Noon has it figured out and he's

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Speaker 1: ready for it. He was ready for Johnny Hecker to punt.

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Speaker 2: Gotta be careful with Johnny Pecker.

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Speaker 10: John, Well, at some point we got to have Johnny

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Speaker 10: Hecker on the show to be careful with Johnny Pecker.

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Speaker 7: John.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I absolutely love that. I love that to no end.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's here to heave and

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Speaker 1: to hold, to heave and to hold for Will Rekords

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Speaker 1: as the Special Team's battery of specialists is complete now,

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Speaker 1: So welcome to the Covenant, Johnny Hecker. And yes, if

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Speaker 1: anyone is already potentially tired of that sounder, you need

678
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Speaker 1: to understand it's gonna keep coming. We're gonna wear that

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Speaker 1: thing out. We had a fun week or two with

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Speaker 1: that three years ago. How he's on the team. Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, that's uh, that's terrific. So welcome, welcome Johnny Hacker.

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Speaker 1: Having a little fun with that and excited to see

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Speaker 1: him in purple. So that answers that question right in

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Speaker 1: a in a free agency period, I think Kevin's Kevin

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Speaker 1: Seffert wrote out, I just saw the headline. I haven't

686
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Speaker 1: read the article yet, but elite work that Seffert does,

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Speaker 1: kind of noting just how quiet, how hush hush that

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Speaker 1: the free agency has been for Vikings.

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Speaker 2: He got Johnny Hacker into the mix.

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Speaker 1: Kyler, we know about that, and we'll continue to talk

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Speaker 1: about what that's going to look like.

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Speaker 2: Cool article.

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Speaker 1: You speaking fellow UH coverer of the of the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings in the NFL, Alec Lewis. He hooked up with

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Speaker 1: with a film guy via the Athletic I believe his

696
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Speaker 1: name's Ted Win and and they did a really sweet

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Speaker 1: breakdown of Kyler's game and maybe how that could translate

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Speaker 1: to this scheme, this offense is coach et cetera. UH

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Speaker 1: Alex's going to be in studio with us on Friday

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Speaker 1: morning at ten, so looking forward to that. But well,

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Speaker 1: we know about Kyler, will continue to talk about him.

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00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: James Pierre, former cornerback of the Steelers. And then it's

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Speaker 1: just kind of some resigns, right the Paula, Tavier Thomas,

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Speaker 1: you find some you find some money for Eric Wilson,

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Speaker 1: things like that. Just a very very quiet free agency period.

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Speaker 1: But but you mentioned we made another move Brett.

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Speaker 2: Is that accurate.

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Speaker 3: It's very accurate.

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Speaker 1: He's an offensive lineman probably. I guess they saw something,

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Speaker 1: you know, a swing guy that's been kind of used

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Speaker 1: to describe him a bit. He started four games last year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know much. I don't know much about him,

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Speaker 1: but alec Lewis posted on x and passing that he

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Speaker 1: apparently graded out pretty well in those four starts, specifically

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Speaker 1: again with the in the run game. So Ryan Vandermark

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Speaker 1: kind of filling out.

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Speaker 2: A depth role. I've seen it bandied about, you know.

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Speaker 3: The It did an offer sheet, so they must like him.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's yeah.

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Speaker 1: I guess I should say it's not official yet because

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Speaker 1: the Bills have four or five days, yeah, to match that.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise he would indeed then join the Minnesota Vikings. So

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Speaker 1: it's an offer sheet, not an acquisition. And I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you you know what that is. I made a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Just play it all right, say less.

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Speaker 2: It's a covening clean up.

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Speaker 8: We say stupid things all of the time.

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Speaker 2: There you go, thank you for that. So we'll watch

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Speaker 2: for Vandermark.

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Speaker 1: Still very quiet free agency period for the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for a couple of Vikes, nibbles, a couple

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Speaker 1: of nuggets, some bites if you will.

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Speaker 2: That's Brett Blakemore. I'm Nordo.

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Speaker 1: I'm in for Pa today and we'll continue Vikings conversation

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Speaker 1: at the top of the hour when Paul Charchion joins us.

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Speaker 1: Nordo in for Pa.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: PA back in the mix and we are back to trio.

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Speaker 1: We were there a week ago. Sadly didn't work out

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Speaker 1: with the Flyers in town shootout winners were the visitors

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Speaker 1: or we're gonna try it again tomorrow against these Blackhawks,

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Speaker 1: and it sounds like Anthony Lapanta is going to be

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00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: in the mix later in the show. Gorgy kind of

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Speaker 1: co hosting early on, We'll have Hines and hopefully Russo

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Speaker 1: Radio Joe Joe O'Donnell as well. Now to the Hoop Squad.

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Speaker 1: They were victorious last night, so let me kept the

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Speaker 1: rebound alive.

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Speaker 4: It lamersis control. Here's island across the lake. Sobou the

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00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 4: driving layup, he got it. That was perfection. That's it

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00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 4: had some MATTC. Johnson flair to.

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Speaker 2: It right there.

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Speaker 4: Bolves knew he had a small window to zip that

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Speaker 4: thing through and he.

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Speaker 2: Did exactly that.

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Speaker 1: Man, I was sweating this game. Terrific work by Alan

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Speaker 1: Horton and Jim Peat. Jim Peterson on the call last night,

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Speaker 1: were your home for for Wolves basketball and I listened

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Speaker 1: via the free iHeartRadio app one sixteen one oh four

768
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Speaker 1: of the final just kind of talking whether it was

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Speaker 1: the wild and it felt like more more people are

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Speaker 1: holding kind of the opinion that a Wes Walls did

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Speaker 1: offered us earlier on West Walls opening the show, or

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Speaker 1: Pat mclatty early on in the week and just seeing

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Speaker 1: a lot written and reported on it that there was

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Speaker 1: some ugliness to those to those three losses from the

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Speaker 1: Flyers and then the back to back with the Rangers

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Speaker 1: and the and the Maple Lee on Sunday and just

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00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: kind of busting out of that that early energy, that

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Speaker 1: an urgency specifically that you saw in the first period

779
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: last night. That was a team that's kind of come

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Speaker 1: back to life a little bit different in the conversation

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Speaker 1: for the Wolves, and you know, without Anthony Edwards being

782
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: reported yesterday, he's out at least a week, maybe two.

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Speaker 2: He'll be reevaluated.

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Speaker 1: With with this right knee soreness and something that has

785
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: just kind of gradually gotten worse in the in the

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Speaker 1: recent days and weeks. And I you know, still kind

787
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: of like, what's up with this infected toe thing?

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Speaker 2: That's what I was.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to amputate a tow with Anthony, But no, this,

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00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: this right knee is is a different thing altogether.

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Speaker 2: And so without him, how do they look?

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Speaker 1: And just kind of sarcastically, you know, many of us

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Speaker 1: would just say, well, you know, they're just going to

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Speaker 1: go out and handle business.

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Speaker 2: It was kind of a clompfest. Early on.

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Speaker 1: It looked like it looked like Devin Booker. Devin Booker

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00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: was terrific last night. And as frustrating as he is,

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Speaker 1: all the all the crying memes, aside, dude is so

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00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: smooth and I think Jim Pete put it this way

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Speaker 1: on the on the broadcast. He's a professional scorer and

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Speaker 1: and that's what you saw from from Booker last night.

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Speaker 1: H Jalen Green was just hideous and I think he

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Speaker 1: had eight or nine points, but he was he was

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Speaker 1: two of fifteen shooting at one point. But you know

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Speaker 1: the star of the show, you know, Ayu Desumu and

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Speaker 1: his work last night. We floated it yesterday a bit

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Speaker 1: just kind of you know, could just start Desumu at

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Speaker 1: point guard. But then who goes to the bench? Would

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Speaker 1: it be Dante DiVincenzo. How does that look for him? Well,

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Speaker 1: he was he was O of eight last night. Let's

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Speaker 1: not let's not base everything off of last night. But

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Speaker 1: but it was a tough night shooting for Dante last night.

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Speaker 2: It kind of looked pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And now that's that's without aunt that's the the difficulty

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Speaker 1: of kind of analyzing any of this right without without

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Speaker 1: Edwards in the mix. But but bones terrific off the bench, Nas,

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00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: it felt like there was there was kind of a

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Speaker 1: defensive sea change a bit between bones and nods in

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Speaker 1: the mix last night. Nas, excuse me bones rather just

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Speaker 1: all go. I mean there are no breaks with that kid,

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Speaker 1: and he was terrific last night. But I you I

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Speaker 1: liked Desumu in that role at least for a night

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Speaker 1: and moving forward to win they needed. Now they got

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Speaker 1: to do it again tonight against the hideous Utah Jazz.

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00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: So building off of that, but man in terms of

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Speaker 1: staying out of the play in absolutely had to have it,

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Speaker 1: got to have it game last night they stretched that

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Speaker 1: that deficit to three games for the Phoenix Suns now

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Speaker 1: sitting in the seventh and the Wolves, I guess a

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00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: bit more comfortably in sixth. Weird to say that, but

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Speaker 1: awful timing for for Ant to go down and but

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Speaker 1: the Wolves at least for a night handled business short

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Speaker 1: shorty here, because we're gonna pause and come back. Paul

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Speaker 1: Charchion is going to join us from Utah. Some vikings

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Speaker 1: and NFL related conversation with charts around the corner.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned. It's nine to New