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Speaker 1: Synecon in the hot seat today with Brett Blake Moore

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Speaker 3: I think fallness is in tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I believe common Anne Barrero taking this week off

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell's press conference about an hour and fifteen twenty

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Speaker 2: The key points he'd.

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Speaker 1: Very much like to have JJ McCarthy on the field

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Speaker 1: for Week eighteen comes down to how that hands feeling

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Speaker 1: signal caller. He did mention though it could be Max,

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Speaker 3: I think the Greeneld just need to figure out how

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Speaker 3: Seems like they were uninterested in unmotivated last week.

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Speaker 1: We're back on the common Man program. It's the Monday

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Speaker 2: Hello Corey, how are you.

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Speaker 4: I'm great, Dave, thanks for having us on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you bet so. Give me the genesis for this idea?

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Speaker 4: A buddy of mine, Ethan Gilmore from demach And Restaurant,

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Speaker 4: And so last year with the inaugural Border Battle, tug

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Speaker 4: And originally we applied for we still got a lift

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Speaker 2: How do they do that?

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Speaker 4: To register, you can either go to Bryan's Bar and

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Speaker 4: Half they are Mick CAFs. They have a purple and

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Speaker 1: Sweet, I'm guessing you've got Gert Schmid to grease the

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Speaker 1: There's no question about it. So help me visualize what

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. That is obviously a great cause. And so

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Speaker 1: Dick Sbar and remind folks one more time, Corey how

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Speaker 4: Sure, go to order battle dot org and there you'll

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Speaker 2: Very much.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. It sounds like the weather we'll co operate.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Dave, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Take care now you got it. That's Corey Bittner.

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Speaker 1: He's helping organize the Tug of War the Border Battle

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Speaker 1: All right, final segment Today's edition of the Common Man Program.

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Speaker 1: Dave sinecon and for Common Today, Falness will be in

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Speaker 1: this chair tomorrow let me again give you the line

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Speaker 1: up the rest of the day. A very busy day

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Speaker 1: to come on the fan. Alec Lewis will be in

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Speaker 1: this chair shortly for a truncated one hour edition of

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Speaker 1: the Bumper to Bumper program. He's on from three to

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Speaker 1: four vikings rewind follows. I'm sure you'll get the highlights

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Speaker 1: of the Kevin O'Connell news conference, much of which we

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Speaker 1: carried live about an hour and almost two hours ago,

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Speaker 1: I guess now from four to five vikings rewind, then

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Speaker 1: live coverage of Team USA against Slovakia the World Juniors.

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Speaker 1: Blake Moore will be in the house. Halverson will be

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Speaker 1: behind the mic. We'll bring you that game live on

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Speaker 1: the fan at seven. First half coverage of Monday Night

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Speaker 1: foot ball rams looking to hopefully get closer to the

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Speaker 1: number five seed and a date with the NFC South

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Speaker 1: champs that's preferable to the sixth seed, and either the

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Speaker 1: Eagles or another NFC West team will give you the

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Speaker 1: first half of that one, and then Wild Hockey at

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Speaker 1: nine o'clock on the fan. Wild at Vegas Wolves will

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Speaker 1: be available on the iHeart app, the Timberwolves channel. They're

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Speaker 1: in so plenty to come on the fan for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the day. A lot of texts came in

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Speaker 1: Bradshawn Bryan Cafe and text Line on the idea of

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Speaker 1: would you rather beat the pack or secure the fourth

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Speaker 1: place schedule for next year? Vast majority would prefer to

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Speaker 1: secure the fourth place schedule, although one text reminded us, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this year you get teams like the Bears and Jaguars

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Speaker 1: and Patriots. How that work out for teams having to

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Speaker 1: play those teams? Yeah, that's always a danger that some

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Speaker 1: of those fourth place teams are going to be great.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at how the Bears and the

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Speaker 1: Niners in particular feasted on week schedules from the fourth

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Speaker 1: place position, I think that's the way you always want

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Speaker 1: to go. One person texted, and I love hearing two

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Speaker 1: Packer fans saying, you don't want to beat us, you

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Speaker 1: want to lose to us.

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Speaker 3: I didn't say that.

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Speaker 1: Neither one of us said that. I'd much rather not

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Speaker 1: go into the postseason on a four game losing streak.

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Speaker 1: I would much rather win the game on Sunday. And

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Speaker 1: to be perfectly clear, Matt Laflor has made no public

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Speaker 1: declarations of what his strategy is going to be on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We're just connecting the dots that in a game that

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Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing to Green Bay's playoff positioning, and as

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Speaker 1: banged up as they are and thin because they're having

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Speaker 1: to play guys already, they lost five more guys on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night to go with the I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many guys were out before that game. There's not a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of healthy bodies to play anyway, So I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see Malik Willis start. Jordan Love is not

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Speaker 1: playing in this game. I think it could be pretty

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Speaker 1: clebby bamboozled. What if he played the first half, But

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Speaker 1: what's the point. What if he gets knocked out and

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Speaker 1: now he's done for the playoffs and if you can't

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Speaker 1: gain anything, you want to give him just a couple

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Speaker 1: of break a sweat for.

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Speaker 3: A I'm ex playing to I think they should sit

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Speaker 3: him too, for the record, but I could see a

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Speaker 3: world where they go, well, if we sit him this week,

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Speaker 3: that's two weeks of rest and he'll be rusty. So

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Speaker 3: you got to get him out there a little bit

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Speaker 3: to face see them.

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Speaker 2: To face Brian Flores the mad scientist, and that No,

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Speaker 2: thank you, it's not much problem last time. I understand that,

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Speaker 2: But I put Malik out there.

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Speaker 1: Let Malik build his resume, assuming his shoulders healthy enough

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Speaker 1: to play. Jacobs will not be playing Watson, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: will not play, although he's really close to passing his

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Speaker 1: career totals I think, and catches in yards or touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: But you just gotta be careful. So no, I'd love

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Speaker 1: to win that game and have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: something positive heading into a likely game in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: That's not the point.

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Speaker 1: I just don't expect Green Bay to going to this game,

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Speaker 1: showing a lot and playing a lot of their really

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Speaker 1: key players. And that's why the motivation on the Viking

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Speaker 1: side was made clear by the head coach. They want

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Speaker 1: to keep going, they want to keep winning. A coach

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Speaker 1: is never going to say, yeah, we love to secure

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Speaker 1: that fourth place schedule. We'd love to finish last in

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Speaker 1: the North. That would be outstanding, even if a small

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Speaker 1: part of him believes that looking ahead to next season.

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Speaker 1: Once all this dust clears and we're into the offseason

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Speaker 1: and they see what their schedule looks like and they say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, suddenly we get to play the you know whatever.

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Speaker 1: It might be the Titans or the Saints, or the

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Speaker 1: Jets or the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look at the NFC West. You get the.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals or you get a playoff team. That makes a

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Speaker 1: big difference as you come down to raizor thin margins

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Speaker 1: whether you're in or out. I mean, if Minnesota wins Sunday,

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Speaker 1: they finish a half game behind the Packers, that Dallas

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Speaker 1: tie is probably what save Green Bay for missing the postseason.

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Speaker 2: The way things have gone, so.

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Speaker 1: You've all weighed in, it feels like those of you

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Speaker 1: that have weighed in would rather secure that fourth place schedule,

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Speaker 1: just white. We just washed the season away and know

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Speaker 1: that you got maybe a couple of slight advantages heading

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Speaker 1: into next year. We saw a game yesterday that kind

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Speaker 1: of a tankathon game right between the Raiders and Giants.

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Speaker 1: Whoever lost that game has the inside track at the

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Speaker 1: number one pick. You sense that the Raiders were the

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Speaker 1: more desperate team to secure the number one pick because

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Speaker 1: they're looking for a quarterback. Not that you can't get

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Speaker 1: on at two, but you'd love to have your chance,

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Speaker 1: your choices at one. The Giants feel like they've got

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Speaker 1: their quarterback. I doubt if they stay at number two,

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Speaker 1: they'll likely trade down a little bit and secure some

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Speaker 1: draft capital to move down a few slots because they

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Speaker 1: need a lot of things. But they feel good. I

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Speaker 1: think about Jackson Dart, but it's brought up the cop

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Speaker 1: of the conversation today. I've seen it in a couple

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Speaker 1: places about the NFL eventually, and maybe sooner rather than later,

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Speaker 1: going to a draft lottery. I'llah most other leagues, I think.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, we know the NBA does it.

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Speaker 1: Does Hockey do a lottery?

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Speaker 3: They do? I don't know what baseball does, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: the two Winter Sports do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think they have to find a way

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Speaker 1: to do something like that, right, because look what happened

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Speaker 1: in Vegas this past week.

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Speaker 2: They decided to.

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Speaker 1: Shut down brock Bauers, shut down Max Crosby. He throws

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Speaker 1: a hissy fit and leaves the facility and says, I'm

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Speaker 1: here to play. I don't want to not play because

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Speaker 1: you think I'm going to give the team a better

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Speaker 1: chance to win a meaningless game. That's just a bad

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Speaker 1: look for the league, especially when you have players like

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Speaker 1: that that want nothing more than to be out there.

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Speaker 1: And Grant and he's banged up, and maybe it does

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Speaker 1: better serve him to rest his body, but you alienated

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Speaker 1: your best player. I don't know how much, but it

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Speaker 1: sounds like a lot And then maybe to the point

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Speaker 1: where the guy says, get me out of here. And

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Speaker 1: now suddenly, if you've got a deal Max Crosby, you're

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Speaker 1: really starting from scratch. So I don't know how they

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Speaker 1: would accomplish it. But you know, how many teams do

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Speaker 1: you put into the lotteries at all? The non playoff teams?

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Speaker 1: Is it weighted like what the NBA does? Does the

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Speaker 1: NHL do it the same way? Where you know in

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Speaker 1: the in the NBA, now that the four worst teams

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Speaker 1: all have a twenty five percent chance to.

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Speaker 3: Kill the number one, you have more of a chance. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's almost never happens that way though.

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Speaker 1: Well no now in the NBA either, looking at Dallas

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Speaker 1: ends up with Cooper Flag and the number one pick

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Speaker 1: with that Fanny a one point four percent chance. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we we made you trade Luca to the Lakers, so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw you a bone here and give you

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Speaker 1: the number one pick. That's the conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 3: Funny when there was a consensus number one overall pick

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Speaker 3: and hockey Connor Berdard the three finalists that it got

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Speaker 3: down to the three finalists. I think they do that

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Speaker 3: in the NBA as well. It was between Anaheim Columbus

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Speaker 3: and the Chicago Blackhawks, and funny the major market original

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Speaker 3: six team one and now they have a generational player

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Speaker 3: in Badard. Funny how that.

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Speaker 2: First it really is?

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Speaker 1: I think it's only a matter of time in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's it best serves the league to

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Speaker 1: not have these kind of ugly situations where teams are

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Speaker 1: trying to you know, lose and making no bones about it,

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Speaker 1: like it's quite obvious that that that's what they're trying

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Speaker 1: dollar UH presentation for sure. So Abbitt just texted us

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Speaker 1: that we talked about see that the busy day ahead

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Speaker 1: on kfan. You want to go ahead and let us

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Speaker 1: snow what happit wanted to remind us.

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Speaker 3: Well, not only do we have everything lined up with the.

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Speaker 2: World Juniors Wild Wolves all tonight.

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Speaker 3: But also we have men's basketball. It's Winsday's News Talk

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Speaker 3: Am eleven thirty and one of three five FM UH.

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Speaker 3: And you have women's hoops, so that's Gophers and women's

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Speaker 3: hoops as well against your club, the Hoosiers. That's on

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Speaker 3: kfan plus ninety six seven.

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Speaker 2: So you're telling me Guardzy is in lovely Bloomington, Indiana

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: Well, he did tweet out pictures of his last couple

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Speaker 3: of days. One pool side in Phoenix after the Rate

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Speaker 3: but either way it's going to be cold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do get snow occasionally in Bloomingto, no question,

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Speaker 1: I'm envious that he gets to be in one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite towns. So Gophers men and women on our

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Speaker 1: various stations, AM News Talk or Kfan Plus. For the women,

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Speaker 1: the Gophers, I think this is their final tune up

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Speaker 1: before the Big Ten season begins at Earnest this weekend.

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Speaker 1: That's Fairleigh Dickinson, I believe. For the Golden Gophers, it

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Speaker 1: feels like they haven't played in forever, maybe finals and

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Speaker 1: the holidays and all of that. But I'm anxious to

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Speaker 1: turn my attention to Big Ten basketball. That's one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite things to follow. That'll start up again this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I know my Indiana team hasn't played in like two weeks.

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Speaker 1: They have a game I think they play Washington on

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Speaker 1: Sunday to start their Big Ten schedule. So this is

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Speaker 1: an epic, epic sports day everybody in action on this

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Speaker 1: Monday holiday week. But yeah, back to the future of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, I think that's going to serve this

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Speaker 1: league well. To do that, I'd love to know how

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Speaker 1: quickly they can make that happen and how they navigate it,

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Speaker 1: because that's something I think that needs to happen. We

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Speaker 1: talked about Week seventeen B in the books, What lies ahead?

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Speaker 1: The number one seed up for grabs in both conferences.

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Speaker 1: Four division titles still up for grabs. We're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: the common complaints about the NFC South champs either going

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Speaker 1: to have eight or nine wins, you might have a

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Speaker 1: losing record, yet they get to host a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: and there'll be all the consternation. Is that fair for

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Speaker 1: a team like you know, Seattle or San Francisco, whoever,

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Speaker 1: doesn't win the NFC West, they have to go and

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Speaker 1: play a team like that. And you know, I just

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Speaker 1: I'm an old fashioned guy. I'm an old guy. I'm

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Speaker 1: an old fashion guy. I like divisions. I like the

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Speaker 1: fact that winning a division gets you something. And in

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Speaker 1: this case, it's a home game. And you know, we

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Speaker 1: saw it was it Seattle a few years ago that

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Speaker 1: was under five hundred and they go and win on

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Speaker 1: the road against the team a double digit win team.

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Speaker 1: So I again, we look at it now and say,

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Speaker 1: whether if it's Seattle or San Francisco going to TENA

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Speaker 1: or Carolina, can't see them losing. Well, you're probably right

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Speaker 1: this year, but that's why they play the game. Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay has lost.

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Speaker 2: Let me get the number.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I take my glasses off, because

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Speaker 1: whenever I want to refer to my paper, I have

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Speaker 1: to put them right back on. Tampa Bay has lost

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Speaker 1: seven of their last eight games, and if they win

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Speaker 1: Sunday to win the NFC South, they'll be the first

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Speaker 1: team to finish two to seven and reach the postseason.

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Speaker 2: And that was a team.

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Speaker 1: Remember again, we talked about how long the season is.

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield was talking, was being talked about as an

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Speaker 1: MVP candidate in October. He looks nothing like that guy

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Speaker 1: the last two months, and neither the Panthers nor the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers look like they belong on the same field with

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say Green Bay, but the other

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Speaker 1: five playoff teams right now they look like at an

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Speaker 1: entirely different level. But it would be quite a turnaround

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Speaker 1: for Carolina to win that division where they were a

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Speaker 1: year or two ago.

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Speaker 3: Do you think they could redo the NFL playoff system

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Speaker 3: without losing the division or because I get winning the

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Speaker 3: division means nothing, right, but you still have just teams

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Speaker 3: that you play more often than the others, or do

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Speaker 3: you have to scrap it entirely? You'd go protected opponents

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Speaker 3: like the Big Ten does where Wisconsin and Minnesota play

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Speaker 3: every year. I just feel like we voted on it

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Speaker 3: and it got I think pretty well voted down on

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Speaker 3: redoing the playoff system and how it's done. I'd like

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Speaker 3: to see the toush push go this year, that's for sure,

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Speaker 3: especially after all these off side calls. I just don't

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Speaker 3: know if there's a way that you can do it

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Speaker 3: without either getting rid of the divisions or neutering them entirely.

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Speaker 3: Is there a way? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I don't know either. Yeah, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: I was asking you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have an answer.

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Speaker 1: I just I got wrapped up in a text that

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Speaker 1: came in saying, what are you talking about green Bay

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Speaker 1: can't get a fourth place schedule or locked in as

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Speaker 1: the second in the division?

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Speaker 2: Who said green Bay's playing for the fourth place schedule?

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Speaker 2: I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I said it's the Lions or Vikings. We know this

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Speaker 1: because the Vikings the Packers are in the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: the Vikings and Lions aren't. So how can green Baby

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Speaker 1: playing for a fourth place schedule? You must have misheard.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the value of whether it makes sense

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings to feel okay about finishing in fourth

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Speaker 1: place in a meaningless game. I understand, do the players

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Speaker 1: want to win this game, the coaches want to win

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Speaker 1: this game. They don't care about a fourth place schedule

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Speaker 1: right now? This week I'm thinking about from a top down,

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Speaker 1: like how do the Wilfs feel about this game? Like

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Speaker 1: do the Wilfs care about finishing eight and nine verses

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Speaker 1: nine to eight? Or knowing that, yeah, a loss sucks

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Speaker 1: and we're eight nine and we expected a whole lot more.

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Speaker 1: But that fourth place schedule is going to feel good.

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Speaker 1: And I understand it's only three games difference among many,

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Speaker 1: but those three games can swing everything. Again, if you're

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Speaker 1: playing the Cardinals next year versus the Seahawks, Okay, that matters,

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Speaker 1: And yes, the Cardinals could be an entirely different team

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Speaker 1: next year. I get that you're gonna bet on that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not. I'll take my chances with the Cardinals right now.

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Speaker 3: I know it's hard to believe, but when you and

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Speaker 3: I are talking about football and what we'd rather have,

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Speaker 3: it's not always about Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: It's I know, I know it's hard for some people

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Speaker 1: to wrap their headsctly. All right, final few minutes, let's review,

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Speaker 1: shall we? We got a game tonight, Rams Falcons. Not

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Speaker 1: much on the line unless you're playing fantasy football and

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Speaker 1: you got like Nordo needs Viijon and Puka to have

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Speaker 1: major nights, he'll be locked in. Otherwise, it comes down

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Speaker 1: whether the Rams can hang out of the five seed,

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Speaker 1: which is useful to play the NFC South champ versus

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Speaker 1: the Eagles or the Seahawks or Niners. We get that,

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Speaker 1: but otherwise we're looking ahead to one final week where

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Speaker 1: our game means very little, But there are so many

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Speaker 1: epic games on the final Sunday of the calendar. To

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Speaker 1: map out the fourteen teams and what the matchups are

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Speaker 1: in the postseason wide open season, Eagles and Chiefs seemed

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Speaker 1: like obvious picks a year ago heading into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: As we said to start the show, give me sixteen

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Speaker 1: different matchups. I wouldn't be shocked if any of them happened.

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Speaker 1: While they're back in action on the road against Vegas,

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Speaker 1: You'll be watching because.

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Speaker 3: To see how they step it up and how they

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Speaker 3: even go further and keep the momentum going because it

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Speaker 3: you know, we talked about momentum and keeping it for

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Speaker 3: the Vikings potentially winning and carrying it to the next season.

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Speaker 3: The momentum for the while. They're rolling right now. I

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Speaker 3: think there are five one in one or five to

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Speaker 3: zero in one since the Quinn Hughes trade. So let's

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Speaker 3: keep it moving. I think off the top of my head,

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Speaker 3: Gus buses in the net. Some lines rejuggled, which I

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Speaker 3: very much enjoy. So I want to see Eurorov on

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Speaker 3: that top line. So he plays at Capriso.

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Speaker 2: That's at nine o'clock. You'll hear it on the fan.

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Speaker 1: I'll be locked into the timber Wolves, who we'll try

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Speaker 1: to make amends for a lousy performance on Saturday night

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Speaker 1: in Chicago to face Josh Giddy, Colby White and a

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Speaker 1: cast of thousands with the Bulls. You'll hear that on

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Speaker 1: the timber Wolf channel. On the iHeart app, we have

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Speaker 1: World Juniors. We've got Gophers men's and women's too. It's

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Speaker 1: a cornucopia of sports on the fan. But up next,

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Speaker 1: it's Alec Lewis to talk all things Purple. He will,

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Speaker 1: i'm sure, analyze what he heard in Kevin O'Connell's press

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Speaker 1: conference and what he thinks the Vikings will be looking

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Speaker 1: to show and do in week eighteen. It's a one

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Speaker 1: hour edition of the Bumper to Bumper program with Alec Lewis.

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Speaker 2: That is up next. That's it for us for Brett

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Speaker 2: Blake Moore.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dave Sinecon, Thanks for listening, Happy New Year, and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to change it up.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to Thursday about three o'clock. Go Hoosiers. Have

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Speaker 2: a good day, everybody, good night, and good night missus Calabashi.

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Speaker 2: We're heavy.

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