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Speaker 2: Bett Leber at Nacho liber Sideline analyst for the vast

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Speaker 2: and ever expanding Minnesota Vikings KFA N Audio Network. Don't

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Speaker 2: four thirty, Channel five, each and every weekday. And mister

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Speaker 2: Benjamin joins us in studio. Now, are you guys sampling

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Speaker 2: all the new eats at target Field this summer? I

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Speaker 2: mean that seems like an absolute winner for the old

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we are going to do a split show out there. Actually,

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Speaker 3: we might do a full show out there. Not to

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Speaker 3: we're gonna be out there soon doing a show. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure we're going to have some sort of new

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Speaker 1: Who who do you like? Today? It's time to drop

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Speaker 1: the pot.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got Michigan State and Yukon at twelve

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Speaker 2: thirty in the Massachusetts Regional, then Dartmouth, Wisconsin, North Dakota

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Speaker 2: and Merrimac and Providence and Quinnipiac.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Frozen four. We've got the Frozen four.

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Speaker 2: Beginning today, we're to the sweet sixteen in the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 2: The Minnesota Timberwolves are setting for making history with an

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Speaker 2: overtime victory. In the NFL Draft is one month from today.

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Speaker 2: This whole thing's good enough to eat. I'm gonna pull.

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Speaker 3: For Quinnipiac just because it's really fun to say, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'll go for the small the small market team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah there, Mike.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know what their mascot is, the Quinnipiac

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Speaker 3: probably big fat Q, sure John Q tips. But this

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Speaker 3: is this is a wonderful, wonderful sports time of the year.

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Speaker 3: Wild play the back to back champs tonight too.

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Speaker 2: That's on k FAM Wild and Florida Panthers with a

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Speaker 2: Joe O'Donnell on lead vocals. Boomer the Bobcat, Boomer the

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Speaker 2: Bobcat for Quinnipiac Bobcats. Okayw NFL DeAndre Hopkins kind of

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Speaker 2: begged via teat played for the Minnesota Vikings, and it's

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Speaker 2: like Kyler's my dog. He didn't say this, but he

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Speaker 2: could have, Like, I know, Christian Kirk is Kyler's best

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Speaker 2: friend and they played together in college and the pros,

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Speaker 2: and he went to the Niners, and Kyler might be

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Speaker 2: a little sad, but Kyler and I are dogs too,

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Speaker 2: So why don't you guys bring me up to Minnesota?

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins on any form of a fair deal?

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Speaker 1: What do you think I mean to be quite the

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Speaker 1: lineup on a fair deal? Why not?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: I mean, we lost Naylor. Good for him, great deal

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Speaker 3: for him. We're kind of searching for that number three

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Speaker 3: guy if d hop wants to take over that role

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Speaker 3: and certainly not JJ's and he just kind of slides

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Speaker 3: I say why not?

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Speaker 2: And DeAndre Hopkins has some football immortality to him. Never

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Speaker 2: has been the fastest receiver in the history of the NFL,

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Speaker 2: and I would imagine if at the stage of his career,

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Speaker 2: there is some skeletal remains of DeAndre Hopkins, if you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, say the Vikings find a

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Speaker 2: way to trade up to get Notre Dame running back

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Speaker 2: Jeremiah Love. I mean, he's fast, so is Justin, so

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Speaker 2: always love that one. I wouldn't say it's my first pick.

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Speaker 3: I truly think that for this offense and for what

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Speaker 1: But not Eddie Royal. No, certainly not.

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Speaker 2: Odell Beckham doesn't fit. No, despite playing for for Kevin O'Connell.

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Speaker 2: and social media and KFA and YouTube for those who

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Speaker 2: may have missed it, it seems to be like a

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Speaker 2: connecting the dots type situation. So like Nacho tweets something,

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Speaker 3: About Well, the KFE and video was really just a

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Speaker 3: not an intentional clip, okay, But the one I made

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Speaker 1: What happened Were you on the beach when you film that? No,

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Speaker 1: I was sitting in a golf cart, sitting in our motive.

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Speaker 2: Transportation to the beach was behind you from the beach

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Speaker 1: It was the beach.

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Speaker 2: It was. It was a low key creasal flex that

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Speaker 2: he takes fifteen trips a year and they're they're always

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Speaker 3: The kids get paid for them. I don't get paid

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Speaker 3: go to Disneyland. No, well, usually the trip when he's

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Speaker 3: So No, this was all the news that came out

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Speaker 3: that X is a terrible place to add context and have,

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Speaker 3: clarify the fact that I do think that Kyler's going

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Speaker 2: Right, and just to add two said context now, like

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Speaker 2: I saw via a Ben Gesling tweet earlier this week,

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Speaker 2: Carson's deal, Wentz's deal is not of the proven variety.

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Speaker 2: I mean it could be, but it's like it's like

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Speaker 2: just a hey, yeah, we'll give you one and one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's also that I like that. I like

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Speaker 1: As a team and as a quarterback position.

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Speaker 3: I thought, based on the three weeks that Carson had

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Speaker 3: because of injury, I thought that over that over his

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Speaker 3: which we're going to have this year.

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Speaker 1: We all cross our fingers.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's healthy and we're gonna be a better offensive line,

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Speaker 3: and Jackson's gonna be even better as a left guard

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Speaker 3: if he gets protection he can he can really open

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Speaker 3: that I think that KOs wants to run this offense right,

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Speaker 3: certainly not taken away middle of the field throws that

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Speaker 3: they admitted to basically doing with McCarthy. So you're gonna

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Speaker 3: I mean it must there must be something to it, right, it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing anybody would hear in a background chatter on

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Speaker 3: We're basically going with the idea that McCarthy could not

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So, well, Kyler Murray's just got here.

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Speaker 3: And all we've heard about Kyler Murray is he's not

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Speaker 3: So he's got a lot to learn if we're going

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: That's why I think that he's going to be the

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray is the starting quarterback right now. I'm not

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Speaker 2: That That is an underlying part of this. That's like

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Speaker 2: somebody gives you thirty five million dollars to leave. Well,

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Speaker 2: there there's more that goes into that than we, like

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Speaker 2: Jacoby or we got our eye. We got our eyes

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Speaker 2: on a second round quarterback. Nobody's talking about there's just

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Speaker 2: think anybody would have done that. Is it required to

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Speaker 2: have a sneaky chat with Kyler Murray? Like, Hey, you know,

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Speaker 2: going to start, okay, And let's just don't tell your

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Speaker 2: don't tell anybody. Does that happen?

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Speaker 3: I think it happens. I think it happens, and it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to hear that on the sideline.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't part of a background chat or I really

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Speaker 1: Well? Are you kid me meed? They bring in competition

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Speaker 3: It's it's so fascinating that we will hammer these guys all,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're in a position to do that right.

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Speaker 1: I'm messing with you because you're my dog.

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Speaker 3: But I think the situation that we're in, the situation

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Speaker 1: When and depth charged by the team don't come out

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Speaker 3: I honestly think that you make it as cutthroat and

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Speaker 2: And then McCarthy shows that the John beckcamp that thing

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Speaker 2: So if somebody else played into somebody getting better, then

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Speaker 1: Just embrace it, you know, so let me let me.

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Speaker 3: I'll ask I'll ask you both. And I know that

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Speaker 3: This kind of turned on you guys. How would how

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's he didn't like it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't like it.

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Speaker 1: I always love that one with Kyler Murray and how.

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Speaker 5: Well the question you ask. So we're balancing. I feel

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Speaker 5: And I think that sets him back. So you're telling

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Speaker 2: But see, the word competition needs to be defined because

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Speaker 2: Nobody was lying that's an easy way out.

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Speaker 3: So true and listen, I am I'm obviously not knowledgeable

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Speaker 3: So that kind of goes back to my initial statement

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Speaker 2: If you believe speed kills, and it's a speed game

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Speaker 1: We know he can run.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if he has a swivel, Like, what's the

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Speaker 1: Vikings pick eighteen.

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Speaker 2: This kid may go eight who knows, but you can

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Speaker 3: Well, that's why I kind of couched everything with the

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Speaker 3: He's going to try to find the one little edge

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Speaker 3: that same read in the first couple of reads in

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Speaker 3: the first like boom boom. If it's not there, then

440
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Speaker 3: he knows that he can use his legs and that

441
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Speaker 3: could be a fifty yard play as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the return of the big offensive places has arrived.

443
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Speaker 3: I'm not, you know, naive enough to know that like

444
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Speaker 3: to think that in the at the end of the

445
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Speaker 3: day that Carson wentz or JJ McCarthy is going to

446
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Speaker 3: win out and be the starting quarterback. I'm just saying

447
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Speaker 3: I get it. As of today, this is probably how

448
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Speaker 3: it looks. And then Kyler's really got to go out

449
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Speaker 3: and prove that he can run this offense. And there's

450
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Speaker 3: got to be a little bit of a negotiation too

451
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Speaker 3: with the way Kaos calls things, because how much under

452
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Speaker 3: center do you want to put him? How much more

453
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Speaker 3: shotgun are we going to see? How much more flexibility

454
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Speaker 3: is Chaos going to give him with the offense? I

455
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Speaker 3: mean there is going to be have to be a

456
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Speaker 3: compromise between play style and play caller.

457
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Speaker 2: If if of what I said eight and a half

458
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Speaker 2: minutes ago, if per chance you in sneaky fashion made

459
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Speaker 2: a promise to Kyler Murray because they were competing with

460
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Speaker 2: teams to get Kyler Murray. It may not be like

461
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 2: loud and public and everything, but they were not the

462
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Speaker 2: only team that was like, hey, come in here and

463
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Speaker 2: do But if it's the Jets, everybody wasn't going to

464
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Speaker 2: go to New York, right, But what if it was

465
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Speaker 2: the Rams and and it was backup roll? I understand,

466
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Speaker 2: but you know, Matt missus games and to have that

467
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 2: so and so I see what you're saying, but if

468
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Speaker 2: you made that sneaky promise to him, that sign here

469
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Speaker 2: and you will start, you made a mistake. You made

470
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Speaker 2: a mistake if you did that with Kyler Murray, and

471
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Speaker 2: really if you do it with anybody. But I just

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Speaker 2: I really really hope that didn't happen. I hope everything

473
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Speaker 2: you're saying is absolutely veracity filled and accurate, and truly

474
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Speaker 2: it will be a competition maybe between one and two

475
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Speaker 2: the veterans, with the three having a puncher's chance the kid.

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Speaker 1: But no, I wouldn't.

477
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Speaker 2: I really hope that that some form of promise was

478
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Speaker 2: not made to Kyler. That's Ben Lieber at Nacho liber

479
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Speaker 2: Via ex It's nine ton. It is this the age

480
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Speaker 2: of the tight end and the reason I bring it

481
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Speaker 2: up like that, and you're an elite football mind and

482
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Speaker 2: you probably put me on this take, and I gravy

483
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Speaker 2: trained it and amplified it. But you know, with when

484
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 2: we were in Arizona a couple of years ago to

485
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Speaker 2: play the Rams, and you know they have super special

486
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Speaker 2: Tyler Higbee and they got this cat named Allan. They

487
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 2: had like two tight ends who basically didn't play that

488
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Speaker 2: much and played a ton against the Vikings and in

489
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Speaker 2: playoff games, then again the next year. Then we we

490
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Speaker 2: look at let's take Seattle, Let's take the champions, you know,

491
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Speaker 2: as an example, and what they did with Barner and

492
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 2: and another guy who like this other guy. Well, the

493
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Speaker 2: Bears are the perfect example. Beloved BJ drafts Loveland and

494
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 2: he's right, and Loveland's a star. He's a perennial law

495
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 2: pro in the making. Cole Comet does everything well and

496
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Speaker 2: nothing great.

497
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Speaker 1: So what are we gonna do.

498
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Speaker 2: Well, We're gonna pill for something called durham smythe from

499
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Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins and playing four plays a game. But

500
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Speaker 2: those four plays we play, he's gonna catch one for

501
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Speaker 2: a first down, and he's gonna block a B and

502
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Speaker 2: C for DeAndre and we're gonna get more first downs,

503
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Speaker 2: and then he's gonna go to the bench for the next.

504
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Speaker 1: Half of the quarter.

505
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Speaker 2: So the specialization of the tight ends is is en

506
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Speaker 2: vogue in the National Football League. So now day one

507
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Speaker 2: at the combos combine segment one at the combine, me

508
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 2: and Bursage, we call the sideline analyst, and we're chatting

509
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Speaker 2: about Kenyon Sadiq. So now from what you infatuated you

510
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 2: with Oregon, Sadik then to adding more to it. I mean,

511
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Speaker 2: he's the bell of the ball right now. You know,

512
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Speaker 2: I got John Harris from Footballtakeover dot Com. He was

513
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Speaker 2: He's been a scout and worked on college staffs. He's

514
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 2: just so plugged into college football. He's the Nacho Leber

515
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 2: for the Texans radio network. But he has a side

516
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 2: bit football takeover dot Com. And he compared Kenyon Sadiq

517
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Speaker 2: to Trey McBride. And in that interview that I had

518
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Speaker 2: with him forty five minutes ago, I mean he started

519
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,479
Speaker 2: laughing with how deep this tight ends draft is for

520
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Speaker 2: those who catch and run and yeah, they're blockings good.

521
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Speaker 1: Well, Sadik does it all.

522
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: But the others and and this guy catches and runs

523
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 2: and his blocking is good, but can get better. Well,

524
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 2: this guy right here is like us check who can

525
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: line up at tight end and do this. They're all

526
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Speaker 2: over the place. It's the age of the specialization with

527
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Speaker 2: the tight ends really matters in the National Football League

528
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Speaker 2: these days.

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Speaker 3: When you agree, it certainly does because unfortunately the guys

530
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Speaker 3: like c J.

531
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Speaker 1: Ham I've been phased out.

532
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Speaker 3: And we were surprised that actually when Koc got this

533
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Speaker 3: job that he kept CJ. Ham just based on the

534
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Speaker 3: amount of fullback usage that the Rams had.

535
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Speaker 2: Interesting you say that you were on vacation, you were

536
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Speaker 2: on spring break feeling, and Ham had their retirement.

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Speaker 1: Yep, it was.

538
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Speaker 2: They was spectacular. I mean, they dressed up the Vikings

539
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Speaker 2: Entertainment Network studio as good as I've ever seen it.

540
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Speaker 2: It was a beautifully touching day.

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Speaker 1: But CJ.

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Speaker 2: Ham said, my first year with Kevin, I didn't play

543
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Speaker 2: that much, you know, but I stayed in my life

544
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Speaker 2: and I did what they wanted me to do as

545
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Speaker 2: well as I could.

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Speaker 1: And then it grew from there to amplify what you said.

547
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I think that there we've certainly seen

548
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 3: the whole NFL kind of change over and to get

549
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 3: a little bit more spread out, more wide outs, a

550
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 3: little bit more seven on seven. I think that's starting

551
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 3: to pair back a little bit. I think they're starting

552
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 3: to see again because of these hybrid tight ends, that

553
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 3: there's more of them. You can you can play with

554
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Speaker 3: personnel groupings a lot more. I wouldn't be surprised if

555
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 3: we never we never replace a.

556
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Speaker 1: Guy like CJ. Ham with another CJ. Ham.

557
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Speaker 3: I think that this offense probably could use another pass

558
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Speaker 3: catching tight end, twelve personnel could probably be the flavor

559
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Speaker 3: of the month, and it's it's the personnel group, and

560
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Speaker 3: that I think gives the defense most fits because it's

561
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Speaker 3: harder to line up against because you can line up

562
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Speaker 3: the other tight end in so many different spots.

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Speaker 1: But you're twelve here with Hopkinson and Oliver is already good.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's what I guess. That's the point

565
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to make. Imagine if you added a Kenyon Sadiq,

566
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Speaker 3: who we know when we were talking at the Combine.

567
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Speaker 3: The reason I brought him up was because, well a

568
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Speaker 3: I was heard about him and watched him a little

569
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Speaker 3: bit during the college football season. I knew he was

570
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Speaker 3: going to be he was going to test well at

571
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Speaker 3: the Combine because of all the rumors about how freakishly

572
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Speaker 3: he is. And then you start to see all these

573
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Speaker 3: mock drafts where they see at around eighteen, a guy

574
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Speaker 3: like Sidiq is still available. Now that was that was

575
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Speaker 3: pre Combine. Now he blew up the Combine, and so

576
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Speaker 3: I think he's he might be picked a little bit

577
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: earlier than that, but we all know the draft can

578
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 3: get a little wonky. So it was just a name

579
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 3: to put on the radar. That wouldn't it be really fun?

580
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 3: And I know that you are you know, we were

581
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: talking about other wide receivers. You you're big on Juwan

582
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 3: Jennings and that could still happen. But what if it

583
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Speaker 3: was JJ Jordan, Addison, Hawkinson.

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Speaker 1: Sadik Oh wow? And you're like, is Sadiq four three

585
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: or is he like?

586
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: Dude? He yeah, he was super sub four four. If

587
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 2: not four three, he was a liont he might have

588
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: been four three four.

589
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 3: And from what I've heard and watched a little bit

590
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 3: on the blocking and they're like.

591
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Speaker 1: A tight end at four three? Are you kidding me?

592
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 3: The thing that sets him apart I think from some

593
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 3: of the other tight ends and what your guy was

594
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 3: seeing it's a deep, deep tight end draft where he

595
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 3: is separated from everybody else.

596
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: It's his attitude.

597
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 3: The dude plays with a mean spirit, he plays pissed

598
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 3: off and he's not afraid to block. So you get

599
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 3: a guy like that that carries a lot, a lot

600
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Speaker 3: of bravado and you know he's got that sort of

601
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 3: dog in him, and you put him in the same

602
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 3: athletic body and then you put him on the field

603
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 3: with Hawkinson and you line these guys up like and

604
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 3: then you know, then you get you know, I don't know,

605
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 3: maybe a second third round running back if you can

606
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: find one of these speedy guys along with Jordan Mason.

607
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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, you.

608
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 3: Got an offense right there that is going to be

609
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 3: so dynamic and so complex and you won't talk about

610
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 3: layering things down the field. My god, it's gonna be

611
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 3: hard to defend these guys.

612
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 2: Fall back tight end h back from Oregon and one

613
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Speaker 2: of the rare players to come into the NFL or

614
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 2: NBA these days. Who didn't like Okay, well, let's look

615
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: at this. Okay, one year at James Madison, two years

616
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Speaker 2: at SMU, one year at Notre Dame, and one year

617
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Speaker 2: at Clemson. Now he was Oregon all the time. He

618
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: ten inch hands, very good. His forty was four to

619
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Speaker 2: three nine. His tight end ran a four to three

620
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Speaker 2: But drafts avant John Harris from football takeover dot com.

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Speaker 2: Here here's what he wrote about him. He blocks his

622
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: guts out of the point of attack. He doesn't always

623
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: just play great hands, but when he reels the ball in,

624
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: he might be the fastest tight end in football on

625
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 2: any level. Four to three nine at the combine probably

626
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: precipitated even more discussion in draft rooms, especially for teams

627
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 2: that need an offensive boost out of that position. Outstanding build,

628
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: strength and speed, the full package for teams that are

629
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: looking to get more out of the interior passing game.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

631
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Speaker 2: And the player comparison is Trey McBride. That's I mean,

632
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Speaker 2: he's at least pro bowler.

633
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

634
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 2: Then the next one was his number two. There is

635
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Speaker 2: Denton Geyer. Let's see is it Dent Who is it?

636
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: Oh?

637
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: No, Eli Stowers Stower Stowers Yeah, yeah, Bandy Texas A

638
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 2: and m New Mexico State than Bandy. No, he's from Denton, Texas.

639
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: But his comparison is Mike is SICKI So, I mean

640
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: we got and then Sam Ruche Raush from Stanford. His

641
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: comp is his Compstuck or Craft damn. And I bring

642
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: this up because my John, my guy, John's just really

643
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: good at what he does. So man, indeed, the very

644
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 2: deep tight ends draft.

645
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: All right.

646
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 2: Lastly, Uh, the the NFL Draft is a month from today, and.

647
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith is returning, isn't he.

648
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: I I'm not asking you to make a declaration. I'm

649
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 2: just saying we had that ballyhooed retirement ceremony.

650
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: We had no twenty two and that's fine.

651
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 2: And then your guy Derwin James taps out of the

652
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: flag football game in La. Well, Hitman's out. I'll play

653
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: running around looking good, super cool like the hit Man.

654
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 2: But it's so quiet, and you know better than anybody,

655
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: when it's quiet like this, the wheels are grinding most loudly,

656
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: and I just I just I gut feeling as he plays.

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Speaker 1: Again, that wouldn't shock me at all, because go in

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Speaker 1: other words, you know, and you don't want to no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: But like he he sort of talked about it, like

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Speaker 3: you know, he and I were talking about it after

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Speaker 3: the game in the in the locker room postgame, and

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Speaker 3: and he very much because I either I brought it

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Speaker 3: up or he brought up the Eric Kendrick situation where

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Speaker 3: you know, he didn't get picked up for half the

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Speaker 3: season then and then and then the forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: needed a guy and they bring him in. And so like,

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Speaker 3: I think that he's he's not the way I interpreted

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Speaker 3: that was, he's not ready for a full retirement. I

670
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Speaker 3: need to have a press conference. I'm ending my career

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Speaker 3: right now. Yeah, I think he is looking at it

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Speaker 3: as like, let my let my mind and my body heal.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to leave the doors open.

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Speaker 3: If the Vikings are in a situation or a team,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna put the Vikings obviously like ninety nine percent

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Speaker 3: the team that he just wants to.

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Speaker 1: Come back for.

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Speaker 3: If we're in a playoff run in week eight and

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Speaker 3: we have a guy that goes down or we need

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Speaker 3: a little a little leadership for this playoff push, then

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Speaker 3: he absolutely is gonna leave the door open. And I

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Speaker 3: do think that that's most likely what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: And he has earned guidelines where others follow rules. And

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Speaker 2: here's what I mean is you don't have to come

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Speaker 2: to organized team activities if you don't want.

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Speaker 1: We can, but you know, but we do.

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Speaker 2: Have to have the Covenant catchup, just check up, just

688
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: to make sure that you know the workouts are going okay,

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Speaker 2: not that you're not doing them, but that it's working

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Speaker 2: okay for full throttle. So you're going to go from

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Speaker 2: this and you know, maybe mini camp and then chill

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Speaker 2: fireworks any Dina with Nacho le and then when you

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Speaker 2: come back, your body's got to be good, ma'am. So

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Speaker 2: will there would be covenant catchups, but my man's earned guidelines.

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Speaker 2: If you don't want to be in organized team activities

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Speaker 2: but you want to play, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: So we don't know the schedule until what May. I

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00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 3: think it's going to come out a week or two

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Speaker 3: after the draft. If that bye week is week seven

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Speaker 3: to eight, prime situation to give him a little ring

701
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Speaker 3: ring and be like, hey, man, bye week's coming up,

702
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Speaker 3: how's your body feeling.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring in a little physical.

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Speaker 3: He comes in, has a full bye week to basically

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Speaker 3: be at the facility and get all his workouts in

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Speaker 3: and make sure that what he's been doing in the

707
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Speaker 3: off season and what he's been doing during the season

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Speaker 3: to stay in shape checks out to what they want.

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Speaker 3: They don't want to run into a Frank Ragnow situation

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Speaker 3: where he wants to go in and take over that

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Speaker 3: center spot and then realize he's got a Grade two

712
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Speaker 3: hamstring terror or whatever because he's out there training trying

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Speaker 3: to get ready.

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Speaker 1: So I think if we have a late bye week, perfect.

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Speaker 2: Opportunity to bring him back and at that point in

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Speaker 2: October or November when they need him and they want

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Speaker 2: it and he wants to play, then it's going to

718
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Speaker 2: be like Riz, remember when you squeezed me back here?

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Speaker 1: Y'a'll play ten million?

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Speaker 2: We love that.

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Speaker 1: What's your cap thirteen? I'll take ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I am so happy to see you again. I'm

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Speaker 2: glad your spring break went well. And we'll watch you

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Speaker 2: on TV today, Channel five at three to four thirty.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you man, going to see you. Twins

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Speaker 2: back after this.

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Speaker 5: look at what's forward, let's go backwards in time just

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Speaker 5: a moment and listen to a fun finish at Targets

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Speaker 5: Center last evening Bolts.

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Speaker 1: Against Jay shot Tate shot clock down to eight off

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Speaker 1: the TJ screen.

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Speaker 2: Now Randall with us five to shoots Julius on a run.

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Speaker 4: Shut saw praise himself fifteen first god Temperwolf take the

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Speaker 4: league one ten to one of eight up fifteen all

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Speaker 4: min Asma run. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Alan Horton on the call.

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Speaker 5: By the way, a little side note, Alan Horton has

746
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Speaker 5: eclipsed fifteen hundred games as a Timberwolves box and hold on.

747
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 5: It's got to be nineteen nearly twenty seasons now for Allen, Yes,

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Speaker 5: sir calling the oh so, congratulations to him, Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: To the Wolves.

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Speaker 5: And we talked about it a bit in the open, PA,

751
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Speaker 5: but it was the run by the Rockets to force OT.

752
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Speaker 5: It was the run to start OT by the Rockets

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Speaker 5: that put the Wolves in a spot where you threw

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Speaker 5: this stat out the team's ten or more in terms

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Speaker 5: of being at a deficit in overtime, teams down by

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Speaker 5: ten or more. We're o to one eighty, I think,

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Speaker 5: is how you framed it up in the open. They're

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Speaker 5: now one in one ADPA because that fifteen to oh

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Speaker 5: run found them one ten to one oh eight. Kevin

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Speaker 5: Durant gets fouled by Julius, has the chance to shoot

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Speaker 5: two free throws. The team had been perfect from the

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Speaker 5: stripe all night. Suddenly KD misses the first one, tries

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Speaker 5: to force miss the second one, and the rest is history.

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Speaker 5: Wolves find that w They've won four of their last five,

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Speaker 5: so we dig that specifically in those games, lacking or

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Speaker 5: not having Anthony Edwards sounds like he is nearing a return.

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Speaker 5: But last night, whether it was Jaden McDaniels getting crampy,

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Speaker 5: we have Rudy fouling out, we got Nas being asked

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Speaker 5: to leave the game. All those things no Io desumu.

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Speaker 5: Last night, all those potential roadblocks and hurdles, the Wolves

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Speaker 5: found their way to a victory. They're now fifth and

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Speaker 5: creating a nice little gap between the Wolves and the

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Speaker 5: fifth spot. And I believe now nearly five games behind

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Speaker 5: them would sit the Suns in seven, so staying out

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Speaker 5: of the play in if that was the operation, which

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Speaker 5: is about ten or so games to go, the Wolves

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Speaker 5: are very close to solidifying and accomplishing that.

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Speaker 2: You're a half behind Denver for home ice in the

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Speaker 2: first round and just two games behind the Lakers. So

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Speaker 2: for third for the third spot, nobody's catching San Antonio

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Speaker 2: or OKC. San Antonio might slash probably we'll catch Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: City for the top seed in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 1: That's how hot set squad is when Anthony Edwards returns.

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Speaker 2: My eight topic of what I've seen in the last

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Speaker 2: five games is continuing to get Jaden McDaniels his shots

786
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Speaker 2: and continuing to keep him engaged and part of the offense.

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Speaker 2: Not because we're like patting somebody on the head saying

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Speaker 2: that's all good, Jaden McDaniels, thank you very much for

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Speaker 2: your service. No, because he's good, because his offensive skills

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Speaker 2: are good, and he's not going to get the one

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Speaker 2: or probably two defensive matchup from the adversarrea. He'll get

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Speaker 2: something less and he'll beat it and maybe he'll draw

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Speaker 2: attention and then he can kick and then other people score.

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Speaker 2: So might start this Saturday. I think it's a four

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Speaker 2: thirty game at Target Center against the Pistons.

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Speaker 5: The march madness continues, pa as the Sweet sixteen continues

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Speaker 5: this evening.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get it now.

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Speaker 5: First weekend has typically been the most enjoyable from the

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Speaker 5: standpoint if you're looking at Cinderella's you're looking at potential

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Speaker 5: massive upsets. This weekend kind of digs in where the

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Speaker 5: Juggernauts and the matchups become as much the story as anything.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I when Nebraska is going to be sweet

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Speaker 5: Arkansas and Arizona, Illinois and Houston this evening.

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Speaker 1: So you have four really cool games.

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Speaker 5: Purdue as as I mentioned, lifting off against Texas at six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so looking forward to that.

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Speaker 5: But in the vein of national tournaments about the trip

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Speaker 5: to the Frozen Four, the hunt for the Frozen Four.

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Speaker 5: As today you got four games in the mix, Michigan

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Speaker 5: State and Yukon that's going to be twelve thirty. Then

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Speaker 5: you have Dartmouth and Wisconsin. Let's go Dartmouth beat the

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Speaker 5: scanis number two ranked North Dakota and Merymack in the

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Speaker 5: evening set. Another one at four o'clock. Today's well Providence

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Speaker 5: in Quinnipiac, which we now know. I believe Quinnipiack are

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Speaker 5: the Bobcats. So the tournament underway stinks that our favorite

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Speaker 5: team is not in the mix, but of course state

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Speaker 5: of the fan as it is, whether it's North Dakota,

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Speaker 5: let's go crazy up in Grand Forks, UMD Bulldogs are

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Speaker 5: in it. They play tomorrow evening against Penn State and

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Speaker 5: a fun Let's fan Cato, Let's do it fan Cato.

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Speaker 5: The MAVs are up against Western Michigan tomorrow afternoon as well,

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Speaker 5: So some fun games to watch. How closely are you

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Speaker 5: going to dig into? Now, we got our coach in

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Speaker 5: maroon and gold, they get to chill and sadly our

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Speaker 5: spectators do.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing. But digging into the national Tournament.

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Speaker 2: Well, I do believe Brett Larson will be in studio

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Speaker 2: nine to noon next week at least that's what That's

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Speaker 2: what it seems to be leading to, and that would

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Speaker 2: be funky fresh if that were the worthy case. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: you know I've said this before, just for whatever the reason,

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Speaker 2: I don't watch a lot of college basketball during the

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Speaker 2: regular season, but I watch more during the NCAA Tournament

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Speaker 2: than I watch in like three regular seasons year after

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Speaker 2: year after year. I love the NCAA Basketball Tournament. There

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Speaker 2: are so many things that are revealing to me because

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Speaker 2: I've just never seen or heard of a lot of

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Speaker 2: these players. If there is a better player in the

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Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament than Arkansas's freshman Darius A. Cuff Junior, I

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Speaker 2: got to see it. He's unbelievably good. He's such a

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Speaker 2: phenomenal basketball player, and I think he could elevate Calipari's

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Speaker 2: team to a victory in the Elite eight. Fred Hoiberg

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Speaker 2: joined Nine to Noon earlier this week off the dramatic

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Speaker 2: victory they had against Vanderbilt, and that thing was just

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Speaker 2: all about a spine tingler. Well, I'm pulling for Fred.

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Speaker 2: He I've noticed family for nearly a quarter century. Fred

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Speaker 2: salt of the earth. I want him to win it all.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't pick him to win it all. And

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Speaker 2: if Michigan happens to beat Duke in the NCAA tournament,

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Speaker 2: I might be I might be scooping metaphorical chips.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: But I would prefer Fred Hoiberg and these Huskers who

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00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 2: are favored over Iowa. They split with them this year.

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Speaker 2: One of the games was like fifty five to fifty,

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Speaker 2: and I think tonight's going to be of the underwhelming variety.

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Speaker 2: But you know it's I'm thinking, like, I'm thinking happiness

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Speaker 2: for people I know. That'd be Hoiberg and Sam and

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Speaker 2: his twin brother Jackson, and Carol, his wife.

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Speaker 1: That'd be sweet.

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Speaker 2: But it also means Freddy come on nine to New

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Speaker 2: Monday or Tuesday to talk about being in the final four.

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Speaker 1: Then maybe personal and professional angle to this.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's not yes, it's not it's a I mean, yes,

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Speaker 2: it obliterates a segment, no doubt about it. But a

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00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 2: lot of Cornhusker fans all over the country, a lot

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Speaker 2: of people morph their way to people like Fred Hoiberg

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Speaker 2: because he's antithetical to a lot of people and how

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Speaker 2: they execute their toil in the world of sports. So

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Speaker 2: it's phenomenal. I love the NCAA Tournament Frozen Four. They

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00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 2: let sand Lin in. That's all I'm gonna say. They

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Speaker 2: let sand Lin in. Big mistake with sandlen In. I

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Speaker 2: think with ten or twelve losses, Okay, they let him in.

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Speaker 2: Du had the audacity to lose ten or eleven this year.

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Speaker 2: They don't care about the regular season. They care about

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Speaker 2: the NCAA Tournament, the Frozen Four. Yeah, so du and

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Speaker 2: they let sand Lin in.

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Speaker 1: H That's where I'm casting my gaze.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's gonna be some people watching Duluth and the

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Speaker 5: Bulldogs handle business.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't let him in. Chip turn of chants for Sandalin

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Speaker 1: And you're right, Denver.

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Speaker 5: Everyone forgets they have a program until they're hoisting the

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Speaker 5: national trophy.

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Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. Last thing for you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's baseball season PA two O five PM. Minnesota

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Speaker 5: Twins in Baltimore, Joe Ryan on the mound versus Trevor Rodgers.

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Speaker 5: The twenty twenty six Camp pain is about to be underway,

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Speaker 5: and all I have for you at this particular moment

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Speaker 5: is I love the new manager and I'm rooting for

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Speaker 5: Derek Shelton likewise, So best of luck to the Minnesota Twins.

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Speaker 5: As one hundred and sixty two of these things, the

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Speaker 5: first one happens today, Yeah, and that's that's news.

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Speaker 1: And we had one last night it was the Yankees

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Speaker 1: and the Jigante.

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Speaker 2: So it's all underway. It's all underway. It's all happening

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Speaker 2: at Marathon to is major League Baseball. Jojo goes for

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Speaker 2: US today against Trevor Rodgers. Royce Lewis is batting eighth,

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Speaker 2: and to talk about that and more around the corner,

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Speaker 2: we believe Lavelle O Neil, the third columnist for the

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Speaker 2: Star Tribune, will be joining us. Then former Twins general

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Speaker 2: manager Thad Levine. He's on the nine to noon show

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Speaker 2: about thirty minutes from now. Back after this