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Speaker 2: Just in case you missed it, it's the top five

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Speaker 3: Somebody's sign me the Carolina Panthers, who we were alluding

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Speaker 3: to in that segment with Ben Gesling, actually have a

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Speaker 3: better record than the Purple I'll have to double check that.

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Speaker 4: Pretty sure they do, aren't they five and four? That

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Speaker 4: would mean a better record.

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Speaker 3: You're right, Wow, I gotta stop disparaging and just assuming

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Speaker 3: been bad other years. Five and four, Yeah, that's better

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Speaker 3: than not five and five. Five and five, that's bad. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so they well they played one more game, correct, but

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Speaker 3: that's still a better record. And we're sitting there at

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Speaker 3: we're at four and five right now? Correct? That is correct?

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Speaker 3: All right? A mini top five at five and again,

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Speaker 3: I guess we shouldn't be surprised. But there's more Minnesota

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Speaker 2: The obligatory Kevin Fallness Minnesota Wild mention.

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Speaker 3: Who is it now.

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Speaker 4: Well, this particular person is officially on the injured reserve

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Speaker 4: a lower body injury. It's one of my favorite Sparco Rossi,

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Speaker 4: So that changes everything. As far as I start calling

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't. I can't either. I'm Spanish. That's what's embarrassing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how to do anyway, whatever, I

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Speaker 4: injury sure list is how long do you know? On

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Speaker 3: It's well, we were just talking about injuries. Everybody has them,

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Speaker 3: but I do feel like in hockey we have them

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Speaker 3: much as some teams. Well, that's the real kick. That's

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Speaker 3: the thing. If we have more depth, it would not matter.

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Speaker 3: So we got a Mattene game tomorrow. It's it's simpling

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And here's the lines in case you're wonder because

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Speaker 4: Rossi was the top one. So Hartman gets vaulted up

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Speaker 4: to the first line with Caprice, Avin Zucarello, Eck center's

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Speaker 4: I always champion the young players. Danila Yurovs centering whoa,

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Speaker 4: scored yet I want to say he has at least once,

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Speaker 4: Ben Jones centering the fourth line with Felino and Trendon,

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Speaker 4: so opportunity. And then Zeev gets put back on the

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Speaker 3: And how do we feel about because we talked to

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Speaker 3: the significance of plus minus in hockey, which I think

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Speaker 4: For Zev, yes, I think you just have to live

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Speaker 4: what other teams do. We're seeing it all across the NHL.

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Speaker 4: I understand, what would you rather trade places with them? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: That's the problem.

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Speaker 4: So they could pass us at any point in time.

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Speaker 3: Yes, no question about that. Wolves. They play tonight.

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Speaker 4: It is an NBA Cup game against the Kings at home,

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts. Kings are a mess right now. There's there's

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Speaker 3: in the Western Conference. So Edwards has come back yet

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Speaker 3: Is this the first game you've covered at that stadium?

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Speaker 3: Water Systems Hotline. What are your You have a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, it's more likely, isn't it. When the team

431
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Speaker 3: is doing better. You know that Bears fans haven't had

432
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Speaker 3: much to crow about, and so whether they've played against

433
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,119
Speaker 3: bad teams or not, if you're sitting at six and

434
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 3: three and have a chance to lord it over on

435
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Speaker 3: the road and enjoy yourself a little bit, it's been

436
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 3: a while since Bears fans have been in that particular position.

437
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 3: For sure, you and I talked about them. I think

438
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 3: as recently as a week ago. I think both said

439
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I'm buying what they're selling. The question

440
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 3: at some point is, even if you know the schedule

441
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 3: has been pretty thin to this point that if you

442
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 3: keep winning and you keep finding ways to come back

443
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,719
Speaker 3: the way they have, does it indicate that something is

444
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,959
Speaker 3: starting to change there? And how much impact does that

445
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 3: have on how you know things might go and how

446
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 3: difficult a game this might be for the Purple on Sunday.

447
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 5: Well, I think that things have changed a little bit,

448
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 5: and that has not come all the way over to

449
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 5: where you want it, but there is something to be

450
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,360
Speaker 5: said about not losing games you should win. I think

451
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 5: Chicago fans are still, you know, aching over how Week

452
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 5: one turned out, since they left for the majority of

453
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 5: the game and then you know, Number nine popped out

454
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,719
Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter and led the Vikings to glory.

455
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 5: Probably a little bummed out about that. But since then

456
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 5: they've had they'll be able to hold off the Raiders,

457
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 5: come back against the Bengals, and come back again, you know,

458
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 5: last week. So I think that's encouraged. Those are encouraging

459
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 5: things because a year ago, Caleb was bringing the Bears

460
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Speaker 5: down the field in the fourth quarter and they still

461
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,919
Speaker 5: were winning games. You know, they brought them down the

462
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 5: field and Thanksgiving against the Lions, and then Matt Evers

463
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 5: screwed it up. He brought him down the field twice

464
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter in Washington, but the Tree Stevenson

465
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Speaker 5: decided that with fans. I believe a Bear scored fifteen

466
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 5: points in like forty five seconds against the Vikings at

467
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 5: Soldier Field, ended up losing that game. There's a game

468
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 5: against Green Bay Caleb brought him in brains of its

469
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 5: game sign and field goal they got blocked. So the

470
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,479
Speaker 5: difference between this year and last year is that some

471
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 5: of these fourth quarter comebacks are paying off with w's.

472
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 5: So it's kind of changing, you know, attitude about the team. So, yeah,

473
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Speaker 5: would you like to see a signature win? I certainly

474
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Speaker 5: would like to see a signature win. But there's also

475
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 5: something to be said about taking advantage of the opportunity

476
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 5: of that your schedule prevents present you. Yeah, and that

477
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 5: the Bears have done the last few weeks.

478
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Speaker 3: If you analyze the current condition of the Vikings and

479
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 3: you look to their schedule, which I think includes after

480
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Speaker 3: this game, a two game road trip to Green Bay

481
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 3: and to Seattle, aren't we pretty close to must win

482
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Speaker 3: category for the Purple On Sunday? You lose to the Bears,

483
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Speaker 3: you fall through three games behind the Bears, hardly the

484
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: best team in the division, and you go you lose

485
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: another home game. You go two games under five hundred

486
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Speaker 3: with two challenging games on the road. I mean, you're

487
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 3: if you want to, you know, insimulate yourself into the

488
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 3: notion that there's still a team that can get in

489
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,360
Speaker 3: the playoff scrum, the playoff mix. You have to win

490
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 3: on Sunday, don't you?

491
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Speaker 5: I think this is the must wing game for the Vikings,

492
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Speaker 5: especially coming up to what happened, you know, last week,

493
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 5: and look at what's going on the next two weeks,

494
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 5: about the trips to the Green Bay and Seattle. So

495
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Speaker 5: I think they need this win on Sunday like they

496
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 5: need air to breathe, you know. And you could say

497
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 5: that there's been a lot of injuries and we're dealing

498
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 5: with dups and downs of a young quarterback. But your record,

499
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,959
Speaker 5: you are what your record is, you know, and right

500
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,239
Speaker 5: now it's the last place record in the division. They

501
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 5: need to start stacking wins now. The Bear schedule gets tougher,

502
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 5: no doubt, no doubt. And I'm cringing at the last

503
00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 5: five games because it goes Packers, Browns, Packers forty nine Ers, Lions,

504
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 5: and that's a gauntlet, that is except for the Browns,

505
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 5: that is a gauntlet. And you know, we got we

506
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 5: got some barious fans taking they have a chance to

507
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 5: make the playoffs. I'm so skeptical that I think there's

508
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 5: a little too few holes on this too many holes

509
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 5: in this team to say they're ready to do that.

510
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 5: They need to Marcusistant passed Russia. The secondary needs to

511
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 5: be stronger, although I was I raised an eyebrow to them.

512
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 5: When the injury report came out.

513
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Speaker 3: Dan Jalen Johnson's made an.

514
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Speaker 5: Appearance on the injury report as questionable after not even

515
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 5: being mentioned for the last several weeks, so apparently he's

516
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 5: making progress from his growing string. I wonder if that's

517
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 5: a numb friend would be on the field or not.

518
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 3: That's a great question. In fact, I talked with Ben

519
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 3: about that. He still thought it was a long shot

520
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 3: that he would play, but questionable is an interesting designation

521
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 3: that certainly seems to open the door to the possibility.

522
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 3: I you know, I don't know. The bad news for

523
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 3: the Vikings, of course, is Grenard is out and the

524
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 3: center is also out with the still recovering from concussions.

525
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: The Grenard part probably hurts them, obviously even more because

526
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 3: of the pressure that that he can create the Bears.

527
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 3: I think I think TJ. Edwards is out, which does

528
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 3: hurt them. I think I've been a broken record on

529
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 3: this today, but I think this is if there's ever,

530
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Speaker 3: if there's ever been a game for the Purple to

531
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Speaker 3: try to run the ball, despite the head coach's proclivities,

532
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 3: this is it because the Bears have been thin against

533
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Speaker 3: the run, and I think they'll be even thinner if

534
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 3: Edwards in fact doesn't go. They have not been very

535
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Speaker 3: good handling the run at all this season. I think

536
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 3: they're averaging giving up more than five yards a run.

537
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 3: So to me, help the kid quarterback out. Don't be afraid.

538
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 3: And by the way, I you know me, I like

539
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 3: short passes too. I you know, a few weeks ago,

540
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 3: our bit was the power of the completion compels you.

541
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Speaker 3: I'm okay with you know, runs or short passes, because

542
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 3: to me sometimes they're almost synonymous. They're equal. Just make

543
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: plays where the QB has a chance to sustained drives

544
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 3: and relax a little bit because he's not under heat

545
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 3: because of my god, we're about to give up the

546
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 3: ball again on third and twelve. You know, just just

547
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 3: keep the change moving.

548
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, here's a two thing to them. But you're

549
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 5: talking about your coach who likes to throw the ball,

550
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 5: and he's gonna look at the bear secondary situation at

551
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 5: the Terise Stevenson, who you can mess with. Jalen is

552
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 5: not a lot to play. Kyla Gordon's out and Jakwon

553
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 5: Brisks banged up as well. This is the week that

554
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 5: I can get JJ going through the air.

555
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 3: That's what I know.

556
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 5: That's what he's gonna be thinking. And I will tell

557
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 5: you this, the one weird thing about the Bears defense

558
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 5: is that, yeah, it's been leaky and the secondary has

559
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 5: been torched at times. You know Nayshn rot right. I mean,

560
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 5: I know his dad saying he's got pass breakups, He's

561
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 5: got a couple of picks, he's got a couple of

562
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 5: plumber recoveries. But it seems like he's a lot of

563
00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 5: times he's around the ball and it is on the

564
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 5: able to make plays and that makes him a target.

565
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 5: So I think the one thing that the Bears have

566
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 5: done well three things. One, takeaways. They're big en though

567
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 5: takeaways this year. Two they've been great on third down defense.

568
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 5: And they've been great in a rental and that's kind

569
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 5: of prop that's kind of been a buffer against the

570
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 5: yards they've given up on the ground and through the air.

571
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 5: So that's going to be interesting to watch play out

572
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 5: on Sunday against the Vikings. Guy, I think kose he

573
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 5: is still gonna be looking over Chuck plays. I think

574
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 5: you're right about running the ball more. Yeah, I think

575
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 5: you got the personnel to do it. Aaron Jones looked

576
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 5: great ever since he came off the injury list. I

577
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 5: think you should accentuate that. But Kelsey, I'm not calling

578
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 5: Kelsey the mad bomber, but he's a mad man when

579
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 5: it comes to wanting to throw.

580
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 3: The ball pretty close. There's no question about that. What

581
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 3: do you think we can say so far about the

582
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 3: impact that Ben Johnson has had? Not so much in

583
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 3: terms of whether the offense is better at the end

584
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 3: of games or closing out drives, whatever, but just in

585
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 3: terms of how he has run the team. Have we

586
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 3: seen enough to think, all right, I get it. I

587
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: definitely see why they coveted him, why everybody coveted him.

588
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: This guy's going to be a pretty good coach.

589
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 5: Well, I think that the work started in during training

590
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 5: camp with getting his philosophy across and holding the office

591
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 5: to hon house Fits accountable. And there's a lot to

592
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 5: be a hell of accountable about. I mean, Luther Burden

593
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 5: couldn't get lined up right during lock throughs during camp.

594
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 5: You know, that's how far some people have come. There

595
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 5: were plenty of false starts and the League of procedures

596
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 5: and that actually leaked into the beginning of the season

597
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 5: when the Bears were getting a lot of those types

598
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 5: of penalties, and he's been he's been focusing on that

599
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 5: and he's drilled down on that. And then he also

600
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 5: jumped on the leadership on the team. Hey, it can't

601
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 5: always be the coach. Players. Have the whole players accountable too,

602
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 5: you know. So he's got them involved as a collaboration

603
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 5: in order to kind of be a little more disciplined.

604
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 5: And it's been that way the last couple of weeks.

605
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 5: Think kills to has some ways to go. As a passer.

606
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 5: I still think it holds onto the ball a little

607
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 5: too much, and I still think he doesn't let the

608
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 5: ball work when there's when there's yards there. But he

609
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 5: is better. He is definitely better from a year ago.

610
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 5: The pace and throw for four thousand yards, which no

611
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 5: Bears quarterback has done. They rebuilt the interior of the

612
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 5: offensive line and that's kept him clean. He's only been

613
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 5: sacked fourteen times this year after being sacked the league

614
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 5: high sixty eight last year. So there are some there's

615
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 5: some incremental steps being taken here in terms of where

616
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 5: the offense is headed. The one, the one corny thing

617
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 5: that Johnson does, which I can't believe works because it

618
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 5: goes back I heard. I first heard this phrase in

619
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 5: first grade about good better best. Never take a rest here,

620
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 5: duke gets better, you better gets best. I mean, I

621
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 5: was like something I heard when I was like in

622
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 5: grade school, and that's like a mantra, like after when

623
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 5: they're in the locker room screaming that that thing, but

624
00:30:55,160 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 5: it's clicking, they're embracing it and it's working. So if

625
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 5: the if the players are buying in the corny stuff

626
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 5: like that, that means they've got some respect for the

627
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 5: head coach.

628
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 3: Twins hires to the staff. Thus far, any thoughts, any impressions.

629
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: The only thing that struck me is I'm trying to

630
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: understand what point you're trying to deliver by telling people

631
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 3: that your list of managers was eighty deep at the start.

632
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: I just don't know what that accomplishes. I don't know

633
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: if that's supposed to impress anybody. Maybe it was true,

634
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 3: but I tend to think that that's always true for

635
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 3: a lot of people, are a lot of organizations, and

636
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 3: you don't even bother mentioning it when it's that why,

637
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 3: it doesn't really mean anything, does it? Eighty people. What

638
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 3: does that really say. It's just it's kinda it sounded

639
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 3: like showing off to me, and I don't think it

640
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 3: impressed anybody.

641
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, that that corporate collaborative horizontal leadership

642
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 5: crap leaks into every facet here. I sit and off,

643
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 5: but I sit in meetings with the Start and they're like,

644
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,719
Speaker 5: we want to do this, we want to do this.

645
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Speaker 5: So we're all throwing stuff out and we got twenty

646
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Speaker 5: five or thirty things on the board, and we end

647
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 5: up starting to show you put them in different categories

648
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 5: of buckets, and they were able to whoole down to

649
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 5: what we think are the core things we're trying to

650
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Speaker 5: get at here. And maybe they just had a bunch

651
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 5: of people, Hey, send me a list of your ten

652
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 5: favorite manager of prospects, and maybe just started spitballing in

653
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Speaker 5: a Start from there. I don't know if I would.

654
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 5: I don't know if I would communicate that to the media,

655
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 5: you know, even if you did do it, because to me,

656
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 5: it's just it's just noise. You make it sound like

657
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 5: you had this super excesive third what you didn't, which

658
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 5: no stone was unturned. But you know, we don't want

659
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 5: to know how the cake was baked. We just want

660
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 5: the cake out of the oven and the slice on

661
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 5: our plate, you know. So Yeah, so I do think

662
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 5: that's a little.

663
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 3: Bit overkilled, no doubt. Uh. Any impressions of the hires

664
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Speaker 3: that have been made thus far, what strikes you.

665
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 5: I'm happy to see Toby hart gardenher get a shot

666
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 5: with the major league staff. He knows, he knows a

667
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 5: bunch of guys because they came through Saint Paul and

668
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 5: maybe you know, uh, he has the right words and

669
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Speaker 5: the messages for them to help them take the next step.

670
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 5: Really happy with for LaTroy Hawkins because I think LaTroy

671
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 5: will be a really good coach. I think the totality

672
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Speaker 5: of his career, you know, put them in a good

673
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 5: spot to be effective. Uh. He's He's threw up a

674
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 5: lot of wisdom, a lot of experience. He went from

675
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 5: a guy who couldn't throw the ball over the plate.

676
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

677
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 5: And I remember in O two when they finally switched

678
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Speaker 5: over from Dick Sutch to Rick Anderson. Now it was

679
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 5: like a breath of fresh air to LaTroy. And they

680
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 5: also signed Mike Jackson as a free agency pitcher. Veteran

681
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 5: guy who ended up putting putting his armund around LaTroy

682
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 5: and kind of helping him get over to hump to

683
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 5: become a quality reliever and it. Since then, he's been

684
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 5: with so many different organizations and has seen a lot,

685
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 5: been a lot around a lot of pictures. I just

686
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 5: think that his experiences go where off well. On the

687
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 5: pitch staff, that's there. I don't know much about the

688
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 5: bench coach, although he went to the University of Illinois Chicago,

689
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 5: where I went to for two years. So it's always

690
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 5: good to see a fellow flamer in baseball, so we

691
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 5: have something to talk about when I see him. But

692
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 5: other than that, we have another hitting coach. That's the

693
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 5: only ump out of me. We got another hitting coach

694
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 5: after we let one go went to the World Series

695
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 5: with the Toronto Blue Jays. We got rid of the

696
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 5: guy we had, we got him to replace, got to

697
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 5: replace him, and now we have a third guy. So

698
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 5: I hope they can find I hope they can find

699
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 5: someone that clicks and says the right things to get

700
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 5: these guys going.

701
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 3: The new bench coach is Mark Hallberg.

702
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: Is that correct, Albert?

703
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Just for the record. Good Sunday column

704
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 3: we're running out of time here against the clock. What's

705
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 3: Sunday gonna be about?

706
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 5: Actually Sunday is I'm actually a s fall so off

707
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 5: Dakota right now at the US the US Curling Trials.

708
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Speaker 3: Nice.

709
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 5: This is like the path to the being on the

710
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 5: Olympic team. Sore with John Schuster and the Peterson sisters.

711
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 5: And I'll have curling coverage and paper on Sunday because

712
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 5: we don't curling.

713
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 3: Why not? A little change of pace is not a

714
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 3: bad idea. Have fun there. I appreciate the time as always. Well,

715
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: chat next week. Thanks lovel all right, Dan, take care

716
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 3: lavelle e Neil.

717
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 4: The third on the road chasing the curling Olympic dream

718
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 4: not bad at all.

719
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 3: I mentioned the Denver Nuggets, the Wolves opponent Saturday night.

720
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 3: That's another place he could have gone. They're nine and two,

721
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,720
Speaker 3: and again we've had tended to have the Nuggets number.

722
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 3: Certainly postseason. We seem to be the antidote to when

723
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 3: they were the world champions. They're better. This version of

724
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 3: them is better. So it'll be interesting to see if

725
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 3: the Vike, if the Wolves can match that as well.

726
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 3: That is tomorrow night, So lots of you, I mean

727
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 3: it's very busy.

728
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,959
Speaker 4: Wild matinee tomorrow, well like late matten a five o'clock correct, Yeah,

729
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 4: Wolves tomorrow night, Gophers tonight, Viking Sunday be a one

730
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 4: hour edition of Sunday Sermons.

731
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 3: For the record, A number of.

732
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 4: People are believed they heard Guardsy toot during his bit.

733
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Speaker 3: I don't think he was tooting. I think it was

734
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Speaker 3: just the the limitations of the line that seemed to

735
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 3: sort of imitate sounds that might be associated with the

736
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Speaker 3: expulsion of gas. It happened so much, yes, that there's

737
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 3: no way. Yeah, I mean that's that's I'm not sure

738
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 3: he's capable of flatulence on Q to that effect. So no,

739
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 3: I know, I know, it's just for our audience. There's

740
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 3: just nothing wackier guards on the air, because that's what

741
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: we are. We're we're still twelve. But no, in this case,

742
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 3: I think it was just technically speaking, there was just

743
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: a little bit of sound built in from his location.

744
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 3: I think he had a squeaky chair. Well it was

745
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 3: too I wasn't sure, but it sounded me like a

746
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 3: squeaky chair, which we occasionally have had that problem in

747
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: here as well. Great guest lineup today, great audience, as always,

748
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 3: but a great guest lineup today included Ben Gestling at

749
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: four thirty? Is that correct? Is I think it was

750
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 3: hit four thirty? That's right. Gurby was outstanding today. Or

751
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 3: for the predictions segment where I've just about given up

752
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: it's all podcastable. By the way, well, when will winners

753
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 3: know whether they get tickets to see Vikings packer Vikings

754
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 3: bears on the basis of the Gurby lock of the.

755
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 4: Week this afternoon. They may already, they may already know.

756
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 4: That's how stuns. That's a good gig if you can

757
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 4: get it.

758
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,479
Speaker 3: And then of course Lovell joined the last half hour

759
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 3: of the broadcast sermons. Then, as I mentioned earlier, it

760
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 3: will be one hour tour between nine and ten o'clock

761
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 3: as the Vikings pregame will be at ten, will be

762
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 3: able to review be a Gofer game against the Oregon

763
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 3: Duck more preview of the Vikings. Maybe look back on

764
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: the Wolves and the Nuggets and look back on the

765
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Speaker 3: Wild and the Ducks. That's a Saturday, the Saturday game. Correct?

766
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 3: Does the Wild play Sunday too?

767
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: Oh?

768
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 3: They play back to back? Am I wrong? I want

769
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 3: to say they do?

770
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: Yeah?

771
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 4: They do against ye guess that's it. That's what I

772
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 4: thought line for tonight for the Gophers.

773
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you. They're twenty five and a half point

774
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 3: on twenty five and a half. I thought it was

775
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 3: even bigger than that. But that's that's not a good sign,

776
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 3: boys and girls, it really isn't. It's not what you're

777
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 3: really supposed to be, even if Oregon's better and they

778
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 3: got nil and we've got nothing and they've got everything.

779
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 3: Thanks again for watching and as I say, for listening

780
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 3: and Gopher football Saturday on a Friday night. The pregame

781
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 3: show is coming up next from Eugene, Oregon. We'll talk

782
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 3: Sunday at ninth oh