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Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Wild sounds of hockey.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you give me half the money you were

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Speaker 2: gonna bean and we'll go out. Man, I'll kick you

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Speaker 2: the nuts and we'll call.

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Speaker 3: It a day.

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Speaker 4: Can you repeat the part of the stuff where you

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Speaker 4: said all about the things personal file me?

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Speaker 5: I always love that one.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a box

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Speaker 6: in the Box presentation from Saint Paul with Kevin Gorg

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Speaker 6: and producer Nordo.

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Speaker 2: I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 6: Your Minnesota Wild take on the Vancouver Canucks this evening,

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Speaker 6: and we are very very happy from a tree or

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Speaker 6: rink where the Wild conduct their morning skates and the practices.

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Speaker 6: To be joined by head coach John Hines in advance

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Speaker 6: of a tonight's game on KFAM against the Vancouver Canucks.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, coach, how are things great? How you doing

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Speaker 6: pretty good? You got that heater in front of you

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Speaker 6: right now. I kind of monopolized that thing, didn't.

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Speaker 7: Great hospitality by you. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no problem, it's a one segment thing, coach, because

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Speaker 6: it's chilly in here.

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Speaker 2: Anybody gets you with a good April fool joke yesterday.

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Speaker 8: No, it's pretty quiet, thankfully.

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Speaker 6: How would you handle an April Fool's joke of like

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Speaker 6: somebody on the medical staff came up and said, hey,

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Speaker 6: probably shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Go there, right. No, I don't believe I'm super still,

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Speaker 2: but everybody.

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Speaker 4: Else April I mean bad nothing in October, but not

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Speaker 6: I mean I almost got bit yesterday on the with

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Speaker 6: an April Folds joke, just going up and down the

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Speaker 6: social the the X machine and and Nordo the producer

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Speaker 6: saved me because yeah, I mean there was a picture

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Speaker 6: of hughesy and like an eight year extension and everything

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Speaker 6: like that. Yeah you saw, didn't that thing look real?

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Speaker 2: Almost real?

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Speaker 4: But I knew better.

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Speaker 2: I almost went with it live on the radio.

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Speaker 6: Vetted it out with mad producer about an eight year deal,

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Speaker 6: almost went with it. Do you do you think, Coach Eyes,

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Speaker 6: do you think that there would be a day that

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Speaker 6: maybe we could really roll with something like that, like

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Speaker 6: like an extension for Quinn Hughes that's probably for the

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Speaker 6: off season, but uh, what do you think about that?

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Speaker 7: I think so, I mean, I go, uh, you know,

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Speaker 7: we we all love it for sure.

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Speaker 8: I think it.

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Speaker 7: Quinn's focus in our focus right now is obviously the

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Speaker 7: task at hand to finished the season strong in the playoffs.

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Speaker 7: But I'm sure that you know, Quinn in his camp

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Speaker 7: and and Billy and his crew will have h some

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Speaker 7: some certainly have some discussions when everything's else and done.

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Speaker 2: What what got into from what? You know? What got

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Speaker 2: road beat.

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Speaker 6: Beat Colorado eight six, and it's their first road win

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Speaker 6: in like a month, maybe a month and change. What

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Speaker 7: Well, I just think it goes to show you how

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Speaker 7: how competitive the league is. You know, I think anyone

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Speaker 7: who plays better or you know, they look like they were,

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Speaker 7: They were fastinacious, they were able to score. You know,

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Speaker 7: it was kind of a little bit of a rodeo

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Speaker 7: you know, that's that's why it's the toughest league in

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, How nice has it been to have this

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Speaker 4: some creativity with some small area games, but knowing that

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Speaker 2: How much can that help your team?

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Speaker 8: I think it always helps.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's it's obviously a long, grinding year, and

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Speaker 4: You've got a veteran team, do you since being around

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Speaker 4: these guys at the rink, whether it's at practice or

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Speaker 2: You've got a.

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Speaker 4: Group of people in this in this room, on this

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think that they're you know, they're

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Speaker 4: How much do you need some of your go to

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Speaker 2: We all get it.

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Speaker 4: But from your perspective, how important is it for a

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Speaker 8: Weeks, I think they will.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's it's you go through these little segments

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Speaker 7: at times to to to me, the most important thing

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Speaker 7: And when you do that and you're as talented as

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Speaker 6: Form any any line tinkering tonight and and like, is

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Speaker 6: that an out of balance question for a hockey coach

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Speaker 6: game day? You know, you know what I'm saying, Is

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't think in this situation.

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Speaker 7: I think sometimes if you haven't talked to the players

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Speaker 7: Nick Felina will take a night off. The d will

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Speaker 7: stay the same. You know, we're gonna go excuse me,

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Speaker 7: the the group of defensemen, yeah, will stay the same,

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Speaker 8: Switch back to pairs.

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Speaker 7: Brodein and Spurgeon will go back together, and Favor and

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Speaker 8: Will go together.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate your candor with that.

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Speaker 6: When when when the Felinos are playing and you have

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Speaker 2: I mean that, that's just such a wonderful, wonderful fourth line.

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Speaker 7: I think so, I've you know, we've had Bobby's obviously

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Speaker 6: With with Vancouver tonight you'll get Ze Boyam and Liam

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Speaker 6: what you've seen specifically of late, like like, how has

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Speaker 2: What have you seen?

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Speaker 8: He looks good?

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Speaker 7: You know. I think he's you know, he's basically a

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Speaker 8: The nhluse he was with us in the playoffs last year.

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Speaker 7: So he's gotten bigger, stronger, I think more, more realizes

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Speaker 2: Well, what about Rossie, how's he fit in there?

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Speaker 8: Marco looks good.

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Speaker 6: uh when we keep it local with the locals.

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Speaker 2: On the ESPN things just dumb. I need, I need

443
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Speaker 2: to see. I said it. I don't like it.

444
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,680
Speaker 4: I'm not going to touch it, but I need to

445
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 4: have my preference. I need to see you want to

446
00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 4: do every game? Yeah, Sunday and t bits the bomb Hyeah.

447
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,639
Speaker 4: In my opinion, these guys are cooing.

448
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 2: So Day's ABC.

449
00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 4: I think they've got a national spotlight for a really

450
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 4: important game. I mean, Detroit is playing for their playoff lives,

451
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 4: so that'll have some steam.

452
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Speaker 6: Seven days to the Masters, seven days to AUGUSTA.

453
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Speaker 2: How excited are you every year?

454
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Speaker 4: Especially when you live in Minnesota and you get to

455
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 4: this time of year. The Masters is sacred time. I

456
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 4: love the event. It's one of my two or three

457
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 4: favorite sporting events of the year, along with the Kentucky Derby, which.

458
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:27,959
Speaker 2: Is right after it.

459
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,480
Speaker 4: But for all of us that live here, and I

460
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 4: know the weather kind of sucks today, but when you

461
00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,400
Speaker 4: get to the Masters, you kind of feel like golf

462
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 4: courses are starting to open, the weather's warming up, horses

463
00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,919
Speaker 4: are coming back to Shakapy training is starting, so it's

464
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:41,920
Speaker 4: kind of a right of spring.

465
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Speaker 2: AAA.

466
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Speaker 6: Stella, Now Hanna, his kids are rubbing the fingers with

467
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Speaker 6: melted eminem's from the box box on the window. In

468
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,399
Speaker 6: the announcers booth at Canterbury. Yes, it's a it's a

469
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 6: ride up Spring and Summer.

470
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Speaker 2: Can't wait.

471
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Speaker 6: It's beautiful. He I wonder, I wonder, do you wonder

472
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Speaker 6: if Tiger Woods is addicted to some form of drug?

473
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Speaker 4: And I don't wonder at all. I mean, I think

474
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,919
Speaker 4: he's on pain killers. I think he's pretty upfront about this.

475
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 4: It's a sad story. Really has been upron.

476
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 6: I'm glad you said that because when I read up

477
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 6: on it yesterday painkillers in the pocket, the other day

478
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Speaker 6: with the car accident. Then you go back to twenty

479
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 6: seventeen mixed percoset and alcohol and ended up in a

480
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Speaker 6: drug rehab facility.

481
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 2: It's going back, I think, to get some help.

482
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 4: Right now, he's not going to be at a gust

483
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 4: of this coming week, which is really a bummer. He's

484
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,960
Speaker 4: turned down the opportunity to be the captain of the

485
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Speaker 4: Ryder Cup team. All of this is bad news. But

486
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Speaker 4: knowing Tiger Woods, knowing what he has proven to be

487
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 4: over the course of time, and when he puts his

488
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 4: mind to something, how hard he works towards it, this

489
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 4: might have been maybe a bottoming out a little bit,

490
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,120
Speaker 4: and you don't know what he's dealing with, None of us.

491
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 4: We live in a world where everything is on social

492
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Speaker 4: media and we don't really know behind closed doors what

493
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Speaker 4: is going on. But clearly there's an issue there. Clearly

494
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 4: he's got some pain that he's dealing with. Yeah, all

495
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 4: of us that that love golf and love Tiger hope

496
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 4: he gets the help he needs maybe in a couple

497
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 4: of years can get back to it competitive golf. Though

498
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 4: for Tiger Woods, I mean we kind of thought this

499
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 4: year might be one of his last masters to play

500
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 4: in father time comes for us all, and you wonder

501
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 4: if this is kind of it.

502
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Speaker 9: Well, I I just want to go back in time

503
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,239
Speaker 9: and try to remember when the first big injury was.

504
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 2: I mean, forget about it, like all.

505
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 9: The off course stuff and just kind of you know,

506
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 9: how things went for him.

507
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 2: What was it O eight oh nine, et cetera.

508
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 9: But remember when he went from kind of the lanky

509
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 9: or just kind of thinned to when he was beefed up.

510
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 2: He bulked up, right, his arms are unbelievable.

511
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Speaker 9: And whether it was the the the hormone tra of

512
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,719
Speaker 9: the PRP, I forget what he was doing. But then

513
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 9: he had that first injury and it really hasn't been

514
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 9: the same since and and and You're right, it's we

515
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 9: don't know what's going on in his life. We don't

516
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Speaker 9: understand the pain that he's going through, and you just

517
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 9: you just hope that there's there's.

518
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Speaker 2: A bright side.

519
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Speaker 9: I mean, even the accident that he had, I remember

520
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 9: where he almost died, he was driven a second time

521
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 9: it's happened. We have a ninety ish out. Was that

522
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 9: out in la maybe and you know, could that have

523
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 9: been potentially pill related as well? You just want to

524
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 9: see people find healing for sure, But when that happens,

525
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 9: and it's brutal for one of the greats who has

526
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Speaker 9: been maybe among the greatest on the course at Augusta.

527
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Speaker 2: As we approach Masters Week, I don't.

528
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Speaker 4: Think anybody has impacted the sport as much as Tiger

529
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 4: has impacted golf. Everybody right now is talking about swing speed.

530
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 4: We saw the incredible story last weekend. Gary Woodland, a

531
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Speaker 4: year and a half removed from having a tumor removed

532
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 4: from his brain, having this incredible surgery, he nearly passed

533
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Speaker 4: away and now at the end of his career, his

534
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 4: swing speed's up in.

535
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Speaker 2: The one eighties.

536
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 4: Tiger Woods was the guy that really brought swing, speed

537
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Speaker 4: and fitness to golf, you know, twenty plus years ago,

538
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 4: and that torque that he put on his body, the

539
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 4: way that he trained. There are prices to be paid,

540
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Speaker 4: and we're seeing that now later in life.

541
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Speaker 2: Who do you like in the Masters and why?

542
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Speaker 4: I don't think Mastress has ever been, at least in

543
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 4: the last ten years. For me, PA this wide open.

544
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 4: Normally you look at Scheffler and Rory and maybe a

545
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 4: Rom or Bryce and d Schambeau the top four and

546
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 4: the betting board, and you're kind of on your own

547
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 4: after that, because Scheffler is now in the process of

548
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 4: having another child with his wife and has been away

549
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 4: from the game for a couple of weeks, and frankly

550
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 4: hasn't looked like Scotti Scheffler because Rory has had the

551
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 4: back issue and he's been scruffling. Because d Chambeau and

552
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 4: rom play on liv and you don't really know what

553
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 4: they're beating. Is it a bunch of tomato cans? You

554
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 4: don't know. I think this year for one of the

555
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 4: the first time is in at least a decade you

556
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Speaker 4: can go twenty to thirty deep on that betting board.

557
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 4: And find some legitimate favorites.

558
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 2: Now.

559
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 4: The last couple of years, the player that has won

560
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Speaker 4: the Players Championship Scheffler two years ago, Rory last year,

561
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 4: has come back in one of Augusta. That's not a mystery. Gee,

562
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 4: your ball striking, your short game, you're putting on those

563
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 4: incredibly fast greens. Don at Sagrass carries over to a

564
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 4: place like a gus. So I'm not afraid to come

565
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: right on back with my guy cam Young, who's playing

566
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Speaker 4: the best golf of his life right now, and he

567
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 4: looked good winning the Players, And that trend to me

568
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 4: maybe stands.

569
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Speaker 6: Up is is Cameron Young top five, top seven favorite?

570
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 6: Or is the outside of that? He's in that six

571
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Speaker 6: to ten range and in the gate would he be

572
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Speaker 6: like eight ten to one?

573
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 4: Oh he'll be bigger than that. Oh yeah, he's He's

574
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 4: in that twenty to thirty to one range where you know,

575
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 4: even Scheffler's come up. He was three to one a

576
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 4: month ago, he's up to five and a half to one.

577
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 4: McElroy's in that ten to one range. And Rom and

578
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 4: Deshambo have been playing lights out on live and they're

579
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 4: getting pounded right now at the betting windows in sportsbooks

580
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 4: all over the country. They're down. They were originally eighteen

581
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 4: twenty to one, they're down in that twelve to one range.

582
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Speaker 4: It's a fascinating group because you've got Cam Young off

583
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Speaker 4: a win, You've got Fitzpatrick off a win, and then

584
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Speaker 4: you've got these unbelievably big time players like mcelroyan Scheffler

585
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Speaker 4: that are trying to find their game.

586
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Speaker 6: I I think I gave heinze Bad's team, and you've

587
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 6: been guilty of this, and I've been guilty had those

588
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 6: of the emotional variety. Before we went on the radio,

589
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 6: you know, I said to him, Hey, I think Nietzsches

590
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 6: might have broken his arm last night. Okay, well, doctor

591
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 6: Allen pouching, Doctor Allen Alan Roach out Red Rocks Way.

592
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 6: He lives right by Red Rocks. So I'm texting. He's

593
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Speaker 6: the voice of ball arena in US Bank Stadium. I'm

594
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 6: Alan Roach and and we were texting last night, uh

595
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 6: when Vancouver opened six to two, six to two on

596
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 6: the Avalanche and the Cove on the road. I don't

597
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 6: won a road game in until last night and like

598
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Speaker 6: a month. So we're texting and then he's like, oh great,

599
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 6: I think Nietzsche just broke his arm. Okay, so Nietzsches

600
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 6: went down. So I've researched it down. I probably should

601
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 6: have done this before. I talked to the head coach

602
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 6: of the National Hockey League teams and I'm like, you know,

603
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 6: Nietsch just went down last night.

604
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Speaker 2: I think he broke his arm.

605
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Speaker 6: Okay, Well, he went down with an upper body injury

606
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Speaker 6: in the first period, missed the second period, came back

607
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 6: in the third period.

608
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 4: No broken arm, you made coach Smith. For at least

609
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 4: a small.

610
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 6: Time, I thought I had some steam. And then and

611
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 6: he's and you know, we're talking to Heinz before the interview.

612
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 6: We're like watching the game last year and he goes, yeah,

613
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 6: I was in and out. I'm like, I think he

614
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 6: just broke his arm. He goes, really, he looks so surprised.

615
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 6: Why that's that's awful that I gave. She didn't do

616
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 6: it on the radio. But it's I mean, technically, it's

617
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 6: not my fault. It was the box of all boxes

618
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 6: ever to box, and he was guessing.

619
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Speaker 4: He's in the building, but he's.

620
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Speaker 6: Guessing because of your game has to be upper and

621
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 6: lower body and can't be specific, can't be specific so.

622
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,719
Speaker 9: Now in fairness, though, on social media, it's reported that

623
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 9: he went down the tunnel before the end of the

624
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,719
Speaker 9: second period, pointing, pointing at his hand wrist area. Yeah,

625
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 9: he was not on the bench to start the third.

626
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 9: And then yes, there's at least fifty x posts from

627
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 9: rubes and reporters saying he's back on the ice.

628
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 4: Some guys can play with one, you know, yeah, one

629
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 4: armed bandit out there. Who wasn't it Coil playing with

630
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 4: like separated shoulders. I mean that's I mean the classic

631
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 4: playoff they tried to play in a broken leg a

632
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 4: couple of years ago. I mean, these guys are insane.

633
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 4: The pain they can play with is unlike anything we're

634
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 4: used to dealing with.

635
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 6: So just to land the plane on Augusta once again,

636
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 6: who did you say were the five golfers you prefer

637
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 6: to get in the power trip draft?

638
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 4: Cam Young, Rory McElroy.

639
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 2: Are you really giving steam or are you just given favorite?

640
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 4: These are the guys I want. I want Fitzpatrick, I

641
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 4: mentioned rom and then if I want to go a

642
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 4: little bit off the radar, don't sleep on Adam Scott.

643
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 4: And let me just say this right now, now, the

644
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty six Masters with Jack Nicholas railing on the

645
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 4: back nine is one of the two or three greatest

646
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 4: sporting events I have ever watched.

647
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 2: He was forty six years old.

648
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 4: Adam Scott, a guy that's one of Augusta is forty

649
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 4: six years old.

650
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 2: Now forty six years old.

651
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 4: Now are built all a whole lot different than they

652
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 4: were back then. And as I looked at DraftKings this

653
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 4: morning before I drove in here, he is sixty five

654
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 4: to one. And I'm telling you right now, Wow, Adam

655
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 4: Scott is going to be a factor at Augusta.

656
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: So that's the guy I'm going to spot up on

657
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 2: the tars five and you'll end up picking six.

658
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, and how it works, and Corey will take some

659
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 6: golfer who takes one swing and then he's out for

660
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 6: the rest.

661
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 4: Of the Morrikawa for life is in jeopardy because he

662
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 4: had the back injury. Remember at the Players, he played

663
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 4: one hole, he was the most tipped guy and left

664
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 4: the tournament, was scheduled to come back and play this week,

665
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 4: and now the back is acting up again. Marikawa is

666
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 4: like the fifth betting choice on the board. Yeah, and

667
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 4: he is a major question mark.

668
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: Next week. How brutal is that.

669
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 9: Maybe you have a good little run at the roulette

670
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 9: table and you throw five bills on on Morikawa.

671
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: You sit down in the Circus sports book.

672
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 4: You got you one hole here, Yeah, let's go call.

673
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: He's out. He did part.

674
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 6: That's akin to us being at Canterbury and there's been

675
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 6: this high headed cleap for whom you've been waiting.

676
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: We've been waiting for three weeks, you know.

677
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 6: And you get five, six, seven, eight to one, You

678
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 6: spot up for a couple of hundred and they're racing, Oh,

679
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 6: something's gone to miss with cleat out of the gate.

680
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 6: It happens right, Lee Dwelt, and you're done. You can

681
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 6: literally sit there and tear. You're taking up ten seconds

682
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 6: into there, and then you're hoping that the starting gate

683
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 6: didn't no function in unison with the rest like a refund.

684
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 6: Kevin gorg Fandel at Gorgo Mattic two to one via

685
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 6: the X machine, speaking odds real quick. The So, of

686
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 6: course I watched Boston beat the Wild sixth three, and

687
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 6: then I watched a fair amount of Boston beat Dallas

688
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 6: six three. Dallas is not the hottest entity in the

689
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 6: NHL struggle, right but I mean they may be regular

690
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 6: season for show, postseason.

691
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 2: For dough thing. They just got ratting them back stuff

692
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: like that.

693
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 8: Uh.

694
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 6: But nevertheless, with with with pastor, Knock and McAvoy, Swamen

695
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 6: can get hot every so often. There plus seventy five

696
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 6: hundred to win the COP. This this is a plus

697
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 6: at the fan duel thing I looked at. This is

698
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 6: a plus seventy five hundred to win the COP. I mean,

699
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 6: I thought that was ridiculous.

700
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 4: Walking out of that building that day, I kind of

701
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 4: muttered to myself, they're going to be a tough out

702
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,479
Speaker 4: if and when they get in in the East, it

703
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 4: looks like they likely will. They play a real physical

704
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 4: They've got some jam to their game. Okay, they've got

705
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 4: some speed. You mentioned the high end talent poster. Knock

706
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 4: one of the best three or four goal scorers on

707
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 4: the planet. McAvoy is a great player, and you know

708
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 4: Swamon clearly is a super talented goalie. So I would

709
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 4: be real careful if I'm one of the higher seeds

710
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 4: in the East playing that team, because they could be

711
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 4: a handful.

712
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 6: Hey, what did you think of of Cassidy losing his

713
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 6: job at this stage of the equation here comes Torts.

714
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 6: So I mean he got great press conferences on the rise,

715
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 6: right for all of.

716
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 4: Us as fans to see Torts back. Let's be honest,

717
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 4: at this stage of the season bizarre. I remember the

718
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 4: Penguins did it once. We're going back thirty years here

719
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 4: probably and it's been done before. But it's a really

720
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 4: risky move. And watching Vegas from afar here the last

721
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 4: month they've been awful. They have not been playing good hockey.

722
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 4: This guy's a couple of years are moved from winning

723
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 4: a cup with basically the same group.

724
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 6: I'll say this cass has so many veterans too. He

725
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 6: won't be out for long.

726
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 4: Like when you look at the offseason and some of

727
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 4: the changes that are coming here, he will likely be

728
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 4: the first call that these teams make for all of

729
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 4: us though that you know, we'll get home from a

730
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 4: wild playoff game, will turn on the late night game

731
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 4: and Vegas is playing. I can't wait to see Torts

732
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,239
Speaker 4: get after the media come playoff time. He has some

733
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 4: cantankerous to.

734
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 2: Him, I know. And he's good on TV too, really good.

735
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 6: He does a good job on ESPN KG for a

736
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 6: couple of quickies to close here, So let's let's dreamscape

737
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 6: a little bit, so to speak. Like, all right, so

738
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 6: the Wild six points behind Dallas. If if the Peg

739
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 6: beats Dallas in regulation tonight, Wild do the same with Vancouver,

740
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 6: then I know there are games in between. But then

741
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 6: the Wild wins at Dallas and regulation and in a

742
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 6: week that does is there even a puncher's chance at

743
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 6: home ice or is it like below a five percent thing?

744
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 4: It's probably below five percent if we're being honest. You know,

745
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 4: Dallas hasn't been healthy like the Wild. They've had some

746
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 4: ups and downs lately. Both these teams kind of knew

747
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 4: a month ago what their lot in life was. They're

748
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 4: playing each other and I don't know that either one

749
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 4: of these teams is completely all in hell bent on.

750
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 4: We have to have home ice to win the series.

751
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 4: But you hit the nail on the head. The only

752
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 4: way that you get to the five or ten percent

753
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 4: part of the equation.

754
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, is today's a big day. Today's afore. You you

755
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 6: need the Peg to win on the road in regulation.

756
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 4: Which is saying something. And then you know clearly you

757
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 4: have to go to Dallas next week and beat that

758
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 4: hockey team. And you know this weekend, you know, if

759
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 4: you're looking at the schedule for Minnesota tonight, they're going

760
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 4: to be a heavy favorite, rightfully, So I think Minnesota

761
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 4: is going to get right tonight.

762
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: I think everybody believes that.

763
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 4: Now. You look at both Ottawa and Detroit on the

764
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 4: road this week, and you're playing two teams that are

765
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 4: in complete desperate mode. And that's the hard part for

766
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 4: teams like Minnesota, Dallas and Colorado right now. You just

767
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 4: don't understand what it is like when you know your

768
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 4: lot in life and you're playing a team that literally

769
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 4: is in playoff mode already. I saw it in Boston. Yeah,

770
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 4: both Minnesota and Dallas came out on the wrong end.

771
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 4: I truly believe that the Wild and the Stars are

772
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 4: a better hockey team than the Boston Bruins, but on

773
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 4: both those particular nights that wasn't the case. And that's

774
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 4: why overthinking the last couple of weeks here for this

775
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 4: Wild team specifically. And I know fans have a lot

776
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 4: of bad memories about first round playoff losses, but bottom

777
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 4: line is, when you get to April eighteenth, wait, you

778
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 4: need the team to be healthy, and you need Gust

779
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 4: to be laser focused and playing his best hockey. None

780
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 4: of this matters. And I've been saying this for a

781
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 4: while and I truly believe it. This is a veteran team.

782
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 4: You can't fool these guys, and so this weekend is

783
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 4: going to be a great test tonight.

784
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,240
Speaker 2: I hope they get.

785
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 4: Right and get some confidence back, get boldy and caprice

786
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 4: of scoring. But you just want to be healthy and

787
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 4: you want your goalie to be ready because to beat Dallas,

788
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 4: Gus is gonna have to at least be Ottinger's equal.

789
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 4: Doesn't have to go out there and stand on his head,

790
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 4: but he's got to be the equal to Odur and

791
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 4: from there, I think Minnesota is the better hockey team.

792
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 2: I truly believe that.

793
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 9: The tough thing about it, too, is that you're gonna

794
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 9: have to have Dallas lose to the Avalanche at home,

795
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 9: and they don't have Nietches.

796
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 2: And they don't have the car.

797
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 4: I took the fate. I took the fight well and

798
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 4: it rose to be honest. Though they may rest him

799
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 4: like literally, Colorado has no reason to put him back

800
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 4: out there last night. You want to make sure he's

801
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 4: right right, but mcar right now and they've Bednar's basically

802
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 4: said it. He's gonna be fine, but we're gonna give

803
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 4: him some time. And why wouldn't you, And I think

804
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 4: you know, lou Nanny's been talking about this a lot.

805
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,439
Speaker 4: So if Minnesota stays in the hunt for home ice,

806
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 4: they got to play this thing out. But to the

807
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 4: Godfather's point, you get to next week and now you

808
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 4: start to see that, okay, we are going to be

809
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 4: on the road, then you do have to give some

810
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 4: of these players that didn't have an Olympic break, players

811
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 4: like favor players like Bolding. Of course, players like Quinn Hughes,

812
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 4: you have to at least consider giving them a night

813
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 4: or two often the game I'm kind of looking at

814
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 4: as I look at the schedule, we'll know by the

815
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 4: time they get to Saint Louis the Monday after AUGUSTA. Yeah,

816
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 4: because you've got a back to back in Saint Louis

817
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 4: on that Monday, home to Anaheim on that Tuesday, and

818
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 4: you are going to likely play some of your big

819
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 4: dogs on fan appreciation night. Yeh, final home game with

820
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 4: that gap in between the last game in the playoffs,

821
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 4: But that game in Saint Louis, I would think might

822
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 4: be a good place to get some guys a little breather.

823
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,479
Speaker 6: I loved your question in closing for Coach Hines about

824
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 6: Quinn Hughes and you know, just the his countenance and

825
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 6: how you can just never get a read on him

826
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 6: and he's always laser focus. So I'm going to ask

827
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 6: you to give us a read on him. And here's

828
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 6: what I mean. How much do you think he likes

829
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 6: it here? And I'm not saying he doesn't like it

830
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 6: here and I'm not saying he loves it here. I

831
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 6: have no idea. I've never made him, but like, how

832
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 6: much do you think he likes it here? And I

833
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 6: have a reason for asking the question.

834
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 4: Well, all I can tell you is this, He's not

835
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 4: a small talk guy. There are a lot of guys

836
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 4: in that room when you bump into them at the hotel,

837
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 4: if you bump into him around the rink, Okay, he's

838
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 4: not a you know, let's just talk about nothing that matters,

839
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 4: right exactly, But I will tell you this, a little

840
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 4: chilli out there when you watch him interact with his teammates,

841
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 4: when you see him in the chemistry he has on

842
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 4: and off the ice with Corolla Caprice off yea, when

843
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 4: you get to know him and how much he wants

844
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 4: to win and how much he sees the talent on

845
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 4: this team. And I truly believe how much he enjoys

846
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 4: playing for John Hines. The way that he and Hines

847
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 4: have matched, I mean, he has fit in so well

848
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 4: with because in this system, coach Hines wants to play north.

849
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 4: He wants his defenseman to get the puck and push

850
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 4: the pace. That is exactly how Quinn Hughes plays the game.

851
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 4: So if I'm reading the tea leaves, I think he

852
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 4: loves it here. And I think the other thing is

853
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 4: the media in Canada can be a bit of a

854
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 4: fish bowl, and in Vancouver where that's the team, it's

855
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 4: like Green Bay and the Packers, I think it wore

856
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 4: him down.

857
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: A little bit.

858
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 4: And in Minnesota, truthfully, he is left alone. I know

859
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 4: we're the state of hockey, but if you watch the

860
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 4: way these guys are treated, and Russo's made this point before.

861
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 4: It's been on the show with you many times to

862
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 4: talk about this as hard as they can be on guys,

863
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,479
Speaker 4: and Mike's at the at the front of that list.

864
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 2: He's great, yeah, but you got to pay for his negativity.

865
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 4: They're left alone, like they can they can wander the

866
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 4: Twin Cities and not be bombarded when in Vancouver that

867
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 4: probably wasn't the case.

868
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 6: Okay, well, I'm certainly not trying to create some terrorism

869
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 6: and Hugh hugh'sly related terrorism.

870
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: I'm sure you know this. I didn't know this New

871
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 2: Jersey all right.

872
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 6: So his brother Jack Hughes is on a deal with

873
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 6: the Devils that runs through twenty twenty nine and twenty thirty,

874
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 6: correct at eight million dollars a year. So like, I'm thinking,

875
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 6: how can we get these brothers together? And then I

876
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 6: start looking at the Hughes. Luke Hughes also with New

877
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 6: Jersey on a nine million dollar a year deal on

878
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 6: average that goes through twenty third one in twenty thirty two. Well,

879
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 6: there's an outlier here whose contract it does not run

880
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 6: to twenty twenty nine. So you see what I'm saying here.

881
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 6: That's why I ask, like, does he like it?

882
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: Here?

883
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 6: I mean winning in the playoffs with Hughzy in the mix.

884
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 6: This has to happen.

885
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 4: It's big because as I look at New Jersey right now,

886
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 4: they're likely on the outside looking in. They don't look

887
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 4: like a team built to win a Cup right now.

888
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 4: They just don't where this team does. So you know,

889
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 4: you you there's a lot of pressure for Minnesota to

890
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 4: win and to advance this year in the playoffs. But

891
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 4: when you factor in that, Bill Garin's going to have

892
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 4: that conversation with forty three this summer to try to

893
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 4: get that done. Yeah, it's huge, that's passive. There's no

894
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 4: way to get around it. Let's just not beat around

895
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 4: the bush. Yeah, it's a big factor. And you and

896
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 4: I think Quinn is smart enough because he's a hockey

897
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 4: savant as we heard from John Hines, to look at

898
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 4: this team and understand that this isn't a one year window,

899
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 4: like this is a four or five year window. You've

900
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 4: got Boldie and Caprice Soft and Faber and all these

901
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 4: young players that are still in their prime. However, you

902
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 4: want to see it happen. You want to see them

903
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 4: win and have success in the postseason. There are a

904
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 4: lot of chips on that table come April eighteenth, and

905
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 4: it's always extra special when Minnesota plays Dallas. But it's time,

906
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 4: like it is time to go here. It's time for

907
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 4: Minnesota to put their best team out there and to

908
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 4: get it done. And so all I think about in

909
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 4: these next two weeks is can they get to a

910
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 4: place where they're feeling good about their game. They're healthy

911
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 4: and Gus is ready to go.

912
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 2: It's going to be fun. You're awesome man. We'll watch

913
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Speaker 2: you on TV tonight.

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Speaker 2: Nine to Noon continues after this.

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Speaker 3: It's a Thirsty Thursday, nine to now.

926
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Speaker 6: All right, after a Monday mock which led into a

927
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Speaker 6: two for Tuesday, then a wild card Wednesday, we get

928
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 6: to a thirsty Thursday and nine to noon, Ordo and

929
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 6: yours surely we will do this up to the NFL

930
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 6: Draft which is three weeks from today. Round one of

931
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 6: the NFL Draft is three weeks from today. The Thirsty

932
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 6: Thursday basically is like this, and you can treat it

933
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 6: however you want. You can drink during the segment. If

934
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 6: you do so responsibly, maybe that's your Thirsty Thursday. But

935
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 6: for us, it's players for whom we thirst. When it

936
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 6: comes to the Minnesota Vikings at eighteen. By the way,

937
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 6: about forty five minutes from now, I put this on

938
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Speaker 6: the set list on my ex page. My guy sideline

939
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 6: analyst for the Houston Texas John Harris is the draft

940
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 6: savant and he dropped a mock yesterday, a new mock

941
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 6: that goes through the second round, and it's interesting. In fact,

942
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 6: he has the Minnesota Vikings trading out of eighteen and

943
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 6: going back. And we'll explain that he's with Football Takeover,

944
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 6: it's his website. Formerly a scout and had a chance

945
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 6: to coach in college football. He's really juiced into people

946
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 6: in the college game and he's just super smart and calculated.

947
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 6: So he has some interesting thoughts with his mock that

948
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 6: we will unfurl at about ten thirty five. But for

949
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 6: my selection, NORDA will offer a little later for a

950
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 6: thirsty Thursday. I wanted to get the low hanger out

951
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 6: of the way early, and I wouldn't be mad if

952
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 6: this happened.

953
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 2: Dylan Theeneman is the name, and versatility is the game.

954
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 6: If if I had to, if it was gone to

955
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 6: the head right now and I had to make a

956
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 6: prediction for who the Vikings would take at eighteen, I

957
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 6: would fall into the Oregon safety Dylan Theeneman. When you

958
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 6: learn more about him as I have the last few days, Yes,

959
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 6: I understand it. It's low hanging fruit. Mostly for a

960
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 6: lot of national media people doing mock drafts and you know,

961
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 6: thinking Harrison Smith for sure is done, and you know

962
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 6: you might have a pickle at the nickel and things

963
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 6: like that, and Theenemon And I didn't know this until yesterday.

964
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 6: With this low hanging fruit that's dangling. I mean it's

965
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 6: hanging there like a succulent ripe fruit on the tree

966
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 6: of hope.

967
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 2: For the Minnesota Vikings.

968
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 6: The approach for me is, if it is Theenemon you

969
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 6: messed up with Kyle Hamilton in twenty twenty two, go

970
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 6: ahead and make it right in twenty twenty six. And

971
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 6: for me, it doesn't matter if Hitman returns. And here's

972
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 6: why this this stock is going to pay dividends for somebody,

973
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 6: for somebody now and certainly down the road. It's it's

974
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 6: like a dividend that that will have future earnings for say,

975
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 6: uh say the Box of all boxes ever to box,

976
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Speaker 6: Alan Roach, the king of male box money, knows about

977
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 6: future dividends with a theenem elite versatility high football like

978
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 6: you and ball hawking instincts. All right, everybody knows that now.

979
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 6: As we'll get a little more into later. If if

980
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 6: you want Dylan Thineman on your team, I believe the

981
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 6: and and John Harris a Football Takeover kind of put

982
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 6: me on this. So this would be Fiha Fairness and

983
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 6: Harris Act Miami at eleven. That is a legitimate landing

984
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 6: spot for Dylan Theeneman. And that's in fact where John

985
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 6: Harris has him going in his second mock draft at

986
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 6: Footballtakeover dot Com. And then I start to think it

987
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 6: out a little bit, and I'm like, ooh, all right,

988
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 6: so you got you got Halfley down there? Uh Jeff Hapley,

989
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 6: former defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. I mean,

990
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 6: when when you get new coaches rolling in, they generally

991
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 6: take players that that work for what they call and

992
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 6: so I do believe Miami will take a defensive player

993
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 6: at eleven, and Fienaman could, he would happily with eleven.

994
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 6: So Miami at eleven is a bit of a concern.

995
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 6: But what I didn't know about Fienemon and closing is

996
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 6: he plays every position in the secondary. Now, he didn't

997
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 6: play outside corner a ton, but he can, so he

998
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 6: can play any position in the secondary. And you got

999
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 6: the Kyle Hamilton comparison, if you want to make that

1000
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 6: thing right, Cooper de gene that that's more of the guy.

1001
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 6: When I watch him, he really reminds me of him

1002
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 6: with that flexibility in the UH and and I think

1003
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 6: he would be better than Cooper too with the versatility.

1004
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 6: So so I'm guessing Brian Flores loves a player like

1005
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 6: Dylan Fieneman with that position flexibility and the high end versatility.

1006
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 6: So the first submission for a Thirsty Thursday would be

1007
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 6: yours truly thirsty for Dylan fineman safety and dB from

1008
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 6: Oregon to join the Minnesota Vikings. More football coming up

1009
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 6: later in the equation, but when we return the cough

1010
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 6: of Michael Russo goes live from Tria and Saint Paul.

1011
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 6: It's a Box in the Box presentation today. The Wild

1012
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 6: hooks the Cove and you'll hear it shortly after seven

1013
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 6: with Joe and Tom on Kfam.

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Speaker 2: Don't leave, we'll be right back.