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Speaker 2: He they come now a happy good Friday to you.

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Speaker 3: It's time to rise and shine at nine for the

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Speaker 2: Thinking of those steaks. So music.

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Speaker 3: In the end, Nordo produces and I'm Paul Allen, the

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Speaker 3: timber tech What's on deck set list unfurled momentarily, but

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Speaker 2: This is forced to make a save in the opening seconds.

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Speaker 4: Twenty three seconds into period two, Body's gonna pair head

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Speaker 3: Nordo hit the Captain Wolsey with a with a pressing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well and good morning. Uh no caprice Off.

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Speaker 5: I did have the Boldie highlight. I did not have

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Speaker 2: I was I went to the game. I was driving

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Speaker 6: Game, give us a replay, give us a highlight, and

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Speaker 6: so this in the car on the way home, they

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Speaker 7: Anyway, Boldie times too, the Caprice if highlight. I wasn't

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Speaker 3: That's the voice of Alec Lewis at alec Underscore. Lewis

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Speaker 3: covers the Minnesota Vikings for the Athletic and the Athletic

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Speaker 3: dot Com also has the wildly popular Alexis Show podcast.

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Speaker 3: And this is the Friday Football Feast, but it's also

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Speaker 7: And then but the urgency after that, and Tom Reid

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Speaker 4: So many stores got a passing play and lead. As

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Speaker 7: I was supposed to fly back I think Wednesday, and

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Speaker 5: An association that handles the shoveling for you at your spot.

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Speaker 7: People were in good moods, had a good time, learned

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Speaker 3: My son attended Grand Canyon University for a short time.

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Speaker 3: That builtmore. Oh my gosh, that's the best hotel I've

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Speaker 7: I look over at Stephen Jones just yelling at someone

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Speaker 2: Yeap learn that vax.

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Speaker 3: Wherever you get your podcasts right and and we also

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Speaker 3: Up to this draft. Rob Razinsky is the acting general manager.

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Speaker 3: With Alec Lewis of The Athletic in Theathletic dot Com

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Speaker 3: nine to noon style Nordo produces, and I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Welcome to KFAM.

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Speaker 2: Time Core Football.

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Speaker 3: It's nine to twenty in the neighborhood Friday Football Feast

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Speaker 2: Let's begin here there.

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Speaker 3: Jim Jimmy Johnson developed it many decades ago, and NFL

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and you've said that before, and I know you know,

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Speaker 3: and you've been telling us about Jeremiah Love for a while.

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Speaker 3: Well it's an hour and change from now you're going

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Speaker 3: Adam Brussert, No Adam Kaplan, maybe Chris Brussard at ten o'clock.

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Speaker 3: But I asked him, do you think he's a generational talent?

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Speaker 3: So so when I lay out, people I respect within

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Speaker 2: Would you agree with that? And have you heard the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's the deal.

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Speaker 7: It's hard not to start to think go through this

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Speaker 2: But the iss is under well. Obviously, the Vikings would

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Speaker 3: really really well up to the draft. They're going to

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Speaker 3: take cornerback Leon Hall, who ended up going to Cincinnati,

442
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Speaker 3: So they sold that hard. They all goodness. They They

443
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 3: also found a way because of Adrian. Adrian had a

444
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Speaker 3: bad collarbone. Well somehow they found a way to perpetuate

445
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 3: the rumor or the belief that this collarbone it's it's

446
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Speaker 3: it's a situation. You know, we're not saying we're red

447
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Speaker 3: dotting him and he's out, he's out of the chain,

448
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Speaker 3: but this collar bone is going to probably keep us away.

449
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Speaker 3: Plus we need a corner we love Leon Hall. Well,

450
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Speaker 3: then the picks fall here, picks fall there. With the

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Speaker 3: seventh overall pick in the two thousand and seven National

452
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Speaker 3: Football League Draft, the Minnesota Vikings select Adrian Peterson, running

453
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Speaker 3: back Oklahoma, and he's going to the ho AF.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say as tantalizing as it is, the

455
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Speaker 7: idea of trading a future first a second, and Jonathan

456
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Speaker 7: Garnard makes me ill to where I'm gonna go look

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Speaker 7: for the bathroom in the k Fans studio KFA and Studios.

458
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Speaker 7: It's and it's as much as I love the player,

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Speaker 7: as much as I know that the team loves the player,

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Speaker 7: like it would have to, in my opinion with Jeremiah Love.

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Speaker 7: The point at which it would become realistic to start

462
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Speaker 7: really talking about this would be like, you know, if

463
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Speaker 7: somehow it gets past seven with the Commanders, then you're

464
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Speaker 7: talking what do the Saints do at eight? What did

465
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Speaker 7: the Chiefs do at nine? They both just paid a

466
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Speaker 7: lot for running backs? And then can you get to

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Speaker 7: like eleven? That would be the point at which you

468
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Speaker 7: know it'd be probably more realistic. You're keeping Grenard, but

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Speaker 7: I would say, yeah, I mean the Grenard.

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Speaker 3: One and make this I want to make this figa

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Speaker 3: fairness in Jonathan Grenard act. I really really hope they

472
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Speaker 3: don't trade Grenard for personal reasons.

473
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Speaker 2: And also he's phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: He's awesome against the run, and he's an awesome, awesome player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jonathan Garnard is a great player.

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Speaker 7: You can you know people listening to this driving around

477
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Speaker 7: you guys are probably like, but he only had three

478
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Speaker 7: sacks in twenty twenty five, and I would say I

479
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Speaker 7: understand that he only played in twelve games, and his

480
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Speaker 7: advanced metrics in twenty twenty five.

481
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Speaker 2: Were better than they were in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: So really yeah, past rush win rate, pressure rate, run

483
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Speaker 7: stop rate, it was all better.

484
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five than twenty twenty four.

485
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Speaker 3: And remember at Seattle that disastrous day for the geam

486
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Speaker 3: when you know he was they were going to dust

487
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Speaker 3: him off from injury and he didn't start, and he

488
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 3: was a situational guy. Remember when he finally came in,

489
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Speaker 3: how Darnald and the right everybody freaked out for Seattle

490
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 3: pointing people over here, over here, and Flores had it

491
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Speaker 3: sniffed out and Grenard either sacked him on the first

492
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Speaker 3: play or he deflected a pass or something.

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Speaker 7: There's I mean, there's a lot with Grenard that I think,

494
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Speaker 7: you know something it's hard to notice beyond the sacks,

495
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Speaker 7: Like he's selfless enough to not have to be the

496
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Speaker 7: guy making the play every single time, which in this

497
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Speaker 7: defense is really important. You gotta have guys who don't

498
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Speaker 7: aren't just all in on racking up sack numbers, and

499
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Speaker 7: he has been a very team player. But yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 7: I'd say the Grenard thing is interesting because if you

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Speaker 7: go back, let's say a month and a half, you

502
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Speaker 7: could have argued that, Okay, the Commanders per Se needed

503
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Speaker 7: edge rushers at that time, and Durante Jones knows Jonathan Garnard,

504
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Speaker 7: so you could have said at that time, like, what

505
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Speaker 7: if the Vikings traded Grenard did some kind of eighteen

506
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Speaker 7: seven swap, and then you'd be in somewhat like that

507
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Speaker 7: would have been the Jeremiah Love would That would have

508
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Speaker 7: been really interesting. I just think at this point the

509
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Speaker 7: Commanders added to edge rushers. The Vikings are in a

510
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Speaker 7: spot where they obviously have been public about wanting to

511
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Speaker 7: keep Gernard.

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Speaker 3: So Tennessee was not necessarily in the running back market.

513
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Speaker 2: Cam Ward needs a running back.

514
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Speaker 7: I mean, yes, but I like Tony Pollard like I

515
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 7: don't know, I'm not like maybe I'm I don't like

516
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Speaker 7: him as much I like Jeremiah Love.

517
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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I think the idea is we're talking about.

518
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Speaker 7: And it's an interesting question of like, Okay, if somehow

519
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 7: he slid to eleven or Caleb down slides to eleven, like,

520
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 7: what would it take to get there?

521
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Speaker 2: Would they be willing to do that?

522
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Speaker 7: This team really wanted to have the amount of picks

523
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Speaker 7: they have for twenty twenty six, and the idea of

524
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Speaker 7: parting with them knowing that they can fill a bunch

525
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 7: of holes with them is something that I don't think

526
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Speaker 7: they really want to do unless it's for a guy

527
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Speaker 7: they love, which he would be in that vein Jeremiah.

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Speaker 3: And the reason I started at three because that, you know,

529
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Speaker 3: in dissecting a shot, that's the worst case scenario if

530
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Speaker 3: you're in the camp that's like, Okay, well you got

531
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Speaker 3: a bunch of holes you got to fill, So it

532
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Speaker 3: makes more sense to.

533
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Speaker 2: Trade back, which I would agree with. But again, if.

534
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Speaker 3: I don't, and and you know you've done this now

535
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 3: for half a decade, you know, and you're super plugged in, man,

536
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 3: we don't.

537
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Speaker 2: I can't speak for you.

538
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 3: I don't hear people describe people as generational talent very.

539
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: Often, do you know? I've heard it three times this

540
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Speaker 2: week now.

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Speaker 7: I mean this guy, Jeremi love, and there are a

542
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Speaker 7: lot of people just think he's the best player in

543
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Speaker 7: this draft.

544
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: And if it just position, if you remove positions to it.

545
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 7: So, yeah, and the idea of I've said this to you,

546
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 7: I've said this to Nordo, I've said this to listeners

547
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Speaker 7: on and write.

548
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: I've said this in writing.

549
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 7: The idea of having a generational talent at that position

550
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 7: and what that would do for the conviction and the

551
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 7: play caller calling runs, you know, sticking with the run game.

552
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 7: I do think that would be a major importance. I

553
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 7: also know they value this position. It's why they were

554
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 7: in on Travis. I think he pronounced his last name

555
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 7: at this point atn but he says he pronounced his

556
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 7: name differently.

557
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: They were in there.

558
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 7: But the Saints paid him a lot of money and

559
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 7: the Vikings weren't willing to go.

560
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 2: That far so.

561
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 5: In that neighborhood.

562
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 3: Yes, maybe I should know this. So, so you reported

563
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 3: they were in the d that's correct. Oh geez, Yeah,

564
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 3: that's a little bit of a tell here.

565
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

566
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Speaker 7: I mean, well they yeah, I mean they value the

567
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 7: running back position. And so it's why again, if you

568
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 7: see Jeremiah Love on the board at ten, If I do,

569
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Speaker 7: and I'm sitting in the TCO Performance Center that night,

570
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 7: I'm starting to lean forward in my chair like that

571
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 7: meme of the video game, because I just he's just

572
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 7: that talented a player.

573
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any way he's gonna fall that far.

574
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 7: So it's a little bit of a moot point, but

575
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 7: it's worth a discussion because of to.

576
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Speaker 2: Your point, he is that level of talent.

577
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: Well, at least that's what I'm being told, and I

578
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 3: think we both believe it. Yeah, Now you know who

579
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 3: else values running back? The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks,

580
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs who went out to get the MVP,

581
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Speaker 3: Howie Roseman, who made it an a topic to get

582
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 3: Sakwan Barklay the next level, Gooty with Lafleura in Green Bay,

583
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 3: with Jacobs, Ben Johnson with the way he does things.

584
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 3: So I mean, it's age old. In the NFL, which

585
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 3: is described as a passing league and stuff like that,

586
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 3: when you have and this cannot be disputed, when you

587
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 3: have the right running game and the right tight ends,

588
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 3: you're going to be awfully tough to beat.

589
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 7: It makes everything so much easier. And I think with

590
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 7: the running back like I view it kind of and

591
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 7: I've been told this isn't like me coming up with this,

592
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 7: Like there are running backs who can hit singles, and

593
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 7: hit doubles. And then there are running backs that can

594
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 7: get you over the fence where it's blocked for four

595
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 7: and you get me twelve, or where it's blocked for

596
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 7: five and you get me twenty five.

597
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Speaker 2: And that's what Saquon was for the Super Bowl.

598
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 7: Team, That's what Travis Atm has been for the Jaguars,

599
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 7: That's what Kenneth Walker was in the Super Bowl for

600
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Speaker 7: the Seahawks. And so the Vikings, I would say, since

601
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Speaker 7: Kevin O'Connell got here in twenty twenty.

602
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: Two, have they had that guy? I'd pose a question

603
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: to you guys, Well, Dalvin was closed.

604
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 7: Dalvin was, but he was obviously at the tail end

605
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 7: for him. But have they had that guy since then

606
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 7: that can get twelve when it's blocked for four.

607
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: No, they have not. And I.

608
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 7: Think that affects, like, you know, how we talk about

609
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 7: the run game and just the evaluation of does coach

610
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 7: and play color stick.

611
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 2: To the run game. That's obviously a data point in

612
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: his mind. It would have to be.

613
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Speaker 5: You would think, well, I think, and you're gonna you

614
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 5: did the conversation with Adam Kaplan PA and listeners are

615
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 5: gonna get to hear that next hour and it was

616
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 5: a terrific chat, but it's going to be brought up

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Speaker 5: during that and now I'll just throw this out there

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Speaker 5: now just kind of I wonder how teams value this

619
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Speaker 5: draft in totality. So we're wincing at the idea of

620
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Speaker 5: them giving up that first round or in that second rounder,

621
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Speaker 5: but would they value a generational talent and Jeremiah Love

622
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Speaker 5: more than the defensive tackle they'll get in the second round,

623
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Speaker 5: And and just kind of wanging that and how that

624
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 5: potentially turns this draft if if it's lighter on elite,

625
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 5: high end bits and Jeremiah Love considered the best overall

626
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 5: player in this draft generational talent, as you've heard multiple

627
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 5: times this week. One thing that possibly does, though, is

628
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Speaker 5: skyrockets the value of that third pick. What if we

629
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Speaker 5: are not the only team that is calling Arizona. So

630
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Speaker 5: for me, if if he's true, if you could guarantee,

631
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Speaker 5: which you can't, if you could guarantee that this was

632
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 5: the next Adrian like player what you described in a trade.

633
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 5: You do that every single time, and I don't think

634
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 5: you hesitate regardless of the various holes that need to

635
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 5: be filled, because it isn't just twenty twenty six. This

636
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 5: is a cultural builder here if he's that type of player.

637
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 5: But I just wonder how expensive it's going to get

638
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 5: and how trade crazy Thursday Night could be if they

639
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 5: look at this draft and say, the best of the

640
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 5: linebackers is here. I got to be there because I

641
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 5: can get a guy on Day two and I don't

642
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 5: feel that great about him. I just wonder how they

643
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 5: value the draft and how that could raise the value

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Speaker 5: of a trade for those who are really into the

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Speaker 5: NFL Draft. And you've listened to the first thirty seven

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Speaker 5: minutes of the show, the final segment or one of

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Speaker 5: the final two segments commencing about eleven thirty eleven thirty

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Speaker 5: five involves this conversation. So at the free iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 5: if you want to leave talkbacks on what we were

650
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Speaker 5: talking about about going from eighteen up to three and

651
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Speaker 5: what we've put into it, than by all means offer

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Speaker 5: your opinion and we definitely will play some back. Then

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Speaker 5: off what Nordo just said.

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Speaker 3: What you're going to hear from Adam Kaplan is he

655
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Speaker 3: didn't say it was a bad draft, you know, but

656
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Speaker 3: that he early in the conversation. He's going to say

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Speaker 3: it's the best tight end draft in the last fifteen years.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, well, I mean I'm not you know,

660
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Speaker 3: we didn't invite you into the neighborhood to sit back

661
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Speaker 3: in and throw tomato cans at you and try to

662
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Speaker 3: take you deep. But let's be mindful than in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three Laporta, Tucker Kraft, Dalton Kincaid and that was

664
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Speaker 3: pretty good tight ends draft.

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Speaker 2: And so so he backpedaled a little bit.

666
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Speaker 3: But it's I mean nine to noon's We've talked about

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Speaker 3: it now quite extensively about the depth and the rich

668
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Speaker 3: nature of the multifaceted tight ends all the way through

669
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Speaker 3: early Saturday. You know, this, this Sidique, this Sadiq looks

670
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Speaker 3: like he's going to be a cinch to be not

671
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Speaker 3: only a tight end, but tight end in New age

672
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Speaker 3: football where you can play slot, he can play outside.

673
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Speaker 3: He went four to three at the combine, no worries

674
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Speaker 3: about him off the field. Then you you have a

675
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Speaker 3: Roush from Stanford who I'm catching wind, a lot of

676
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Speaker 3: people like Eli Stowers from band here, people who are like,

677
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Speaker 3: you know, you're not going to put him in line

678
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Speaker 3: to you know, to bust you up, like Josh Oliver,

679
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Speaker 3: You're not going to follow him in the running game

680
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Speaker 3: all the time. He might be the best true pass

681
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 3: catching tight end in the NFL. Michael In the second round.

682
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 3: There's this cat from Baylor, last name Trig. Where you know,

683
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Speaker 3: I'm just hearing awesome things about five tight ends here

684
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: so much so where I'm like, I wouldn't mind the Vikings,

685
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 3: certainly considering one at eighteen when you balance what you

686
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: need now, because too many people look at the draft

687
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Speaker 3: as what you have to have right now. Yeah, where

688
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 3: general manager and personnel people they want to help them now,

689
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 3: but they want to fortify the forever. And and you know, like,

690
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Speaker 3: why are you taking Kenyon Sadiq? Well, I mean three,

691
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Speaker 3: four or five years down the road may may answer

692
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Speaker 3: that question, you know, Well.

693
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Speaker 2: I mean TJ.

694
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Speaker 7: Hockinson is now in the final year of his deal,

695
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Speaker 7: and if he has a phenomenal I keep saying that

696
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Speaker 7: word for some reason, this sporting TJ phenomenal.

697
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: If TJ.

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Speaker 7: Hockinson has a great twenty twenty six season, then he's

699
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 7: probably gonna get paid a lot. And can this team

700
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Speaker 7: afford to pay him with all the other things they're

701
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Speaker 7: gonna have to pay? I think it's a fair question.

702
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 7: If he has a pretty down season, you're probably gonna

703
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 7: be looking for a different tight end. So I mean

704
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 7: the idea of a tight end is is definitely intriguing.

705
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Speaker 7: Sadik is like, I mean, that guy is such a

706
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Speaker 7: weapon and he is a willing blocker, He is a

707
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Speaker 7: really I was thinking about this yesterday, Like if you

708
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Speaker 7: added him to what they have, I mean, just the

709
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Speaker 7: amount of explosiveness in the passing game and dynamic of

710
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Speaker 7: bil you would be would be pretty interesting. But I

711
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,479
Speaker 7: don't know, Like this team has a lot of needs.

712
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Speaker 2: We talked about center. I think I'd be pretty surprised.

713
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Speaker 7: If they get through the twenty twenty six draft without

714
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Speaker 7: drafting the center, Sam Hack receiver. I think receiver is

715
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 7: definitely another option there. I'd say, you know, you look

716
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Speaker 7: at defensive tackle, safety for sure, Like those those are

717
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 7: some of the ones that are sure fire. Tight end

718
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 7: probably lower on the list, But I mean, again, if

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Speaker 7: Kevin O'Connell is sitting there watching the film of ken

720
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Speaker 7: Yon Sadik and he's like, I have to have this guy,

721
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Speaker 7: be pretty hard to argue it.

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Speaker 3: involving the NFL Draft, which is just a hot tick

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Speaker 3: under three weeks away. In fact, three weeks from today

726
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Speaker 2: Done to the NBA playoffs are close?

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Speaker 3: Have you secured your credential to transcribe chats for Johnny Athletics?

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Speaker 2: Not yet?

752
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Speaker 3: Texas throw seat to transcribe chats and get paid? Are

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Speaker 3: you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: Maybe, if it's possible, I'm gonna do everything I can't.

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Speaker 2: I just look at hamstring. Thing ain't good. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: they get the.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's changes. It's the whole complexion of a

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Speaker 3: six y three.

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Speaker 2: He's averaged like thirty eight a game or something.

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Speaker 7: I haven't watched a lot of NBA of late, which

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Speaker 7: probably doesn't help my bid for the credentialing for the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Where you're following the wild so closely. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 2: how could you follow it all? Plus the NFL jex.

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Speaker 3: To me last night about you're off being a healthy

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Speaker 3: scratch x amount of games and them elevating him last night.

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Speaker 3: Why to fortify him and believe and have him and

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Speaker 3: believe in him and show show him that they believe

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Speaker 3: in him.

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Speaker 2: That was a wonderful day.

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Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, like when you're thinking about Bobby Brink

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Speaker 7: and you're thinking about mcaren and the I mean, McCarran

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Speaker 7: is massive, he is towering.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, hopefully I can do some NBA playoffs stuff.

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Speaker 2: We'll see.

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Speaker 3: Did you go to Johnny Athletics event last Friday at

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Speaker 3: head Flyer Tavern?

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Speaker 7: I did not, but it looked electric. It looked I

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Speaker 7: we had dinner stuff and I couldn't go.

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Speaker 3: But threats of bad roads and ice and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: John though ice as in accumulation of water when it

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Speaker 3: freezing correct Friday, we need to be careful.

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Speaker 5: I would have been a good place to go if

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Speaker 5: you wanted that NBA work to support your teammate. I

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Speaker 5: thought that that would have been a shoe in If

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Speaker 5: you do want to be row five recording chats honestly.

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Speaker 2: And recognize Aaron Freeman's birthday. It was it was. I

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Speaker 2: mean I saw Mike and Norry and John.

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Speaker 7: I mean it had been an unbelievable experience for the

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Speaker 7: folks that had flair.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about and I'm being serious with this, tell

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Speaker 3: us about Orange Beach, Alabama. And here's why. I ask

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Speaker 3: A dear friend of mine named Andy. Andy Pothan and

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Speaker 3: his family did spring break there and sent me some

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Speaker 3: pictures from something called Orange Beach in Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks so beautiful. Are you familiar? I am familiar.

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Speaker 7: I didn't spend a lot of time going like going

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Speaker 7: to Orange Beach. I think it's near, kind of like

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Speaker 7: Fair Hope area, mobile ish type of air.

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Speaker 2: Fifty miles east of Anniston. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 2: accurate or not, things it is.

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Speaker 7: I am going to the beach though, in Florida in

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Speaker 7: a few weeks, right before the draft fresh up. You're ready,

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Speaker 7: so I'm good for those late nights, day one, day two,

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Speaker 7: so I'm looking.

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Speaker 2: Forward to it.

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Speaker 5: I'll be in golf shores this summer is really fact

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Speaker 5: in Alabama. So any family down in the golf Shores

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Speaker 5: area that I could say hello too.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe so, but that's kind of Orange Beach territory.

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Speaker 2: What's what's Alabama weather like in the summer? Hot? Is

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Speaker 2: it humid? The most humid?

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Speaker 7: You walk outside and you're sure your hair the way

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Speaker 7: I'm looking at your hair right, it would be it

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Speaker 7: would be tough.

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Speaker 2: No, I think it looks fine. It'd be it's already.

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Speaker 3: Einstein ask if Pieneman goes to the Dolphins at eleven

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Speaker 3: because I think the I think the Dolphins with Halfley

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Speaker 3: as the coach and fortification needed all over the place,

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Speaker 3: but specifically defensively. And then you know, one thing that

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Speaker 3: I always have felt was underrated with people when they

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Speaker 3: analyzed the draft is they give you tells in free agency.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like the the Chicago Bears. I'm not saying

824
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Speaker 3: they won't draft a defensive player, but I mean from

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Speaker 3: I think it was Devin Bush to Neville gall More

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Speaker 3: to the big trade with Seattle with Kobe Bryant, I mean,

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Speaker 3: they've done so much defensively. Of course they could take

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Speaker 3: a defensive player mid twenties, but I think Ben's going

829
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Speaker 3: to look to amplify what's already good and a lot

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Speaker 3: of good coaches have done that for a long time,

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Speaker 3: taking what's good and making it great. So like Miami

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Speaker 3: with the defensive play calling head coach and Jeff Haffley

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Speaker 3: and then Javon Holland left, and I think he's good,

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Speaker 3: not great, but looking at the landscape of what they do,

835
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Speaker 3: that that could be. It's Caleb downs right for Ohio State. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that could be a spot like for him or for Theenemen.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's I learned this week that theeneman's position flexibility.

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Speaker 3: He plays all over the place, and he's really good

839
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Speaker 3: opposite certain players in the slot, right up on them

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Speaker 3: on the line in certain downs and distances. Not in

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Speaker 3: all situations, but like if if a safety or if

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Speaker 3: the Oregon guy theenum and goes eleventh to Miami, do

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Speaker 3: you think that Jack's up Minnesota's plan.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it is interesting to consider with how every

845
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Speaker 7: mock draft person, whether it's Daniel Jeremiah Field, Yates, Jordan Reed,

846
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Speaker 7: Dane Brugler, Bruce Feldman did one this past week and

847
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Speaker 7: he had Theenem in like everybody has projected Dylan Theenem

848
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Speaker 7: into the Vikings.

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Speaker 2: It's it's honestly but why do you think that is?

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Speaker 2: I mean it because we're not the only ones with steam.

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Speaker 7: No, it's probably pretty clear that the Viking I mean,

852
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 7: it is clear the Vikings have a safety need and

853
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Speaker 7: that this guy fits from a character high, high energy

854
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Speaker 7: experience coming from Oregon standpoint, So it makes this but

855
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Speaker 7: it is interesting to consider if a team snagged him

856
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Speaker 7: before then then what like then what do the Vikings do?

857
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Speaker 7: Theenem in is very like what what is I found

858
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Speaker 7: watching the tape? He plays like a if you think

859
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Speaker 7: about like a Tampa two coverage where you got the

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Speaker 7: middle linebacker running the middle of the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: In the Oregon system, he kind of played right there,

863
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Speaker 7: like in the in the linebacker role in the Kyle

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Speaker 7: Hamilton spot, Yeah kind of. I mean yeah, I would

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Speaker 7: say it's like a very Georgia defense where they play

866
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Speaker 7: three safety ish and then the middle safety is.

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Speaker 2: Kind of like in the more linebacker role.

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Speaker 7: So it was an interesting position for him, and it's

869
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Speaker 7: interesting to watch the tape. I thought Dylan Dieneman looked

870
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Speaker 7: really good coming forward tackling. He's he's pretty solid there.

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Speaker 7: He's gotten better at it. You could see from the

872
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 7: Purdue tape to the Oregon tape. He's gotten better there

873
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Speaker 7: going backwards. It's it Sometimes you start to kind of

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Speaker 7: hold onto your seat a little bit because he gets

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Speaker 7: a little turned around in coverage.

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Speaker 2: But he's an interesting player.

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Speaker 7: If he is snagged, then yeah, I mean you start

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Speaker 7: to really wonder what do you do at eighteen?

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Speaker 2: I mean I've been curious, like, could you trade back? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Could you? I'm a fan of that.

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Speaker 7: Could you get to twenty five or twenty six, pick

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Speaker 7: up another Day three pick like in the eighties or something,

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Speaker 7: and then you still can get a player you really

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Speaker 7: like and then you add another player in Day three

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Speaker 7: That would be an I would be a fan of that.

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Speaker 7: I just don't know how many teams are gonna want

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Speaker 7: to come up in this draft. All right, last one?

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Speaker 7: Who do you like this weekend?

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Speaker 2: And why?

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Speaker 3: Illinois against Yukon, Michigan, Michigan and Arizona. That Michigan Arizona game. Man,

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Speaker 3: that thing might be unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: I mean they both should be fantastic. Illinois and Arizona,

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Speaker 7: I feel like, are the two best teams. And then

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Speaker 7: I think Arizona's gonna win it all. But Illinois, I

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Speaker 7: mean watching that team is crazy. They are all they're six',

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Speaker 7: It's nuts and then the point guard is the craziest.

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Speaker 7: Story ever the guy was one hundred and fiftieth in

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Speaker 7: and he's going to be a top seven pick in

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Speaker 2: Was fun, thank.

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