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Speaker 3: In studio, guards Ian for Barrero today, Brett Blake Moore

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Speaker 3: here as well. Lou Nanny will join about ninety minutes

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Speaker 3: from now his weekly Tuesday appearance on Bumper to Bumper

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Speaker 3: Questions for Seaffert, Bradshawn, Brian Kava and text line sixty

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Speaker 4: More likely to be.

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Speaker 3: With the Vikings next year Brian Flores or Harrison Smith.

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Speaker 5: You know I wrote earlier in the week about whether

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Speaker 5: either one of them would be back based on what

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Speaker 5: I just said about head coach. You know, the possibility

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Speaker 5: of Brian Florest being a head coach and my doubt

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Speaker 5: that there's going to be a situation where, uh, somebody

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Speaker 5: offers him a better option as a defensive coordinator than

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Speaker 5: the Vikings will I'll say it's more likely to be Flores.

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Speaker 5: You know, Harris Smith has not wanted to talk about

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Speaker 5: his future. And you know, each of the past few

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Speaker 5: years has kind of felt like this, where he's getting

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Speaker 5: emotional after games and like and he it's funny, he said,

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Speaker 5: like that's been an issue, Like I'm actually a lot

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Speaker 5: more emotional than people realizing. My dad told me when

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Speaker 5: and you know, and so I don't, like, it's hard

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Speaker 5: and so and he's had a few times these past

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Speaker 5: you know, I remember when Brett Farve used to talk

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Speaker 5: until June or so after his retirement. But uh, I

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Speaker 5: think there's a greater chance that Harris Smith retires, then

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned I'm glad you reminded me of the

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Speaker 3: Harrison Smith speech. Basically, I think every Vikings fan had

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Speaker 3: to love that what he said.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure you were.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And because I was, I didn't see a lot

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Speaker 3: Doesn't sound like I missed a lot other than the

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Speaker 3: halftime show and my guy Rosmer, we're gonna talk about him, Okay,

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Speaker 3: that didn't acquit himself too well until the game was

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Speaker 4: Line and these nails for five yards.

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Speaker 3: He picks up the first style and gets into positive

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Speaker 4: But yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 3: I was convinced last year in the playoffs after they

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Speaker 3: that even got this year out of them. But he's

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Speaker 3: I like this text because it's just a statement and

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Speaker 3: Brian to the Bradshawn Bryant camp Inn text line six

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Speaker 4: Bradbury And I'm not even fact checking this.

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Speaker 3: I'm with Garrett Bradbury, Ezra Cleveland and ed Ingram will

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Speaker 5: So ed Ingram's with Houston and Garrett Bradberry Patriots and Patriots,

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Speaker 3: So yes, uh so how are they starters for NFL teams?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and so I and I you know, ed Ingram

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Speaker 3: As it was, he came up in a lot of

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Speaker 6: In terms of the draft and all that.

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Speaker 5: And then Ezra Cleveland thing. I think he was just

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Speaker 5: Whether they executed well at that is another story. But yes,

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Speaker 3: How closely do you sit to Alec Lewis from the

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Speaker 5: Stadium Further and further away each week. No, I'm kidding

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Speaker 3: Okay, so pretty close. I asked because I'm curious as

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Speaker 5: With said there was different levels of denial because sometimes

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Speaker 6: I think Alec is doing just fine.

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Speaker 4: You know. The thing.

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Speaker 5: The thing with Max is, you know, and you look

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Speaker 5: no one with any level of responsibility or credibility in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciated the studio thought that this was like

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Speaker 3: I told you on Tuesday, what would this have been?

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Speaker 6: Matter what happens.

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Speaker 5: opportunity to never have to leave San Francisco, you know,

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Speaker 5: And that's also true if if they get the number

444
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Speaker 5: one seed and lose, but they wouldn't have to leave either.

445
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Speaker 5: But they can they can go from week from the

446
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Speaker 5: second to last game regular season game of the year

447
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Speaker 5: through the super Bowl playing all their games in their

448
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Speaker 5: home stadium because that's where the super Bowl is this year.

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Speaker 3: So what happened spens after the game this weekend for

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Speaker 3: the ESPN reporter. Yeah, you've got locker clean out day.

451
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Speaker 3: You always love that one.

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Speaker 6: That's a big one.

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Speaker 5: There'll be a press conference at some point within that

454
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Speaker 5: first week with the general manager and the head coach

455
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Speaker 5: where we try to pull out of them exactly what

456
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Speaker 5: they're going to do every day of the of the

457
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Speaker 5: free agency and the off season, and we'll see how

458
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Speaker 5: far they go there and and then it's uh, you know,

459
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Speaker 5: then we focus on the playoffs, you know, and see

460
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Speaker 5: if there's any other things we can do on different teams,

461
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Speaker 5: and but before you know it will be passed several

462
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Speaker 5: pass the Super Bowl, the Combine comes up a few

463
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Speaker 5: weeks after that, sometimes two and a half weeks after that,

464
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Speaker 5: and then we're off to the races.

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Speaker 3: Two quick texts for you before you head out. What's

466
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Speaker 3: more complicated in our state? Pure progression in the pocket

467
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Speaker 3: or preventative protection on our highways? Baseball's backed up? Brozemer

468
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Speaker 3: bumper to bumper. And then this one Paul from Maple

469
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Speaker 3: Grove must to settle everybody down. Snow removal operator checking in.

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Speaker 3: I'm coming up to a nineteen hour stint removing snow

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Speaker 3: and applying salt guards.

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Speaker 4: You tell the people to settle down.

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Speaker 3: We could only remove so much at once, and not

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Speaker 3: everyone gets to be first.

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Speaker 6: Love you guys, Well, how do you feel now?

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Speaker 4: I mean he's asking me to settle down?

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Speaker 5: Yeaheah, Well no he didn't he see he asked you

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Speaker 5: to settle everyone else down, and here you're.

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Speaker 4: Up.

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Speaker 6: The guy's been working nineteen straight hours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well he's funny. He had time to text. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'd get back to work. We got voice to text, right,

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Speaker 3: Blake I'm kidding, Paul, Thank you good keep keep working.

484
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry that the rain, you know, screwed it up

485
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Speaker 3: for us, and or all the things that that McCarthy

486
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Speaker 3: was having problems with, like the biomechanics. Remember we had

487
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Speaker 3: all those excuses forever. Like that's what I feel like

488
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Speaker 3: we're getting right now with the snow.

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Speaker 4: Noami.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think simplified.

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Speaker 4: Just get it off.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I think it's gonna happen. It's gonna be warmer,

493
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Speaker 5: that's the big thing.

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Speaker 3: Drive safely home. Okay, thank you for coming in. Happy

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Speaker 3: New Year. Any New Year's plans? You rip it up

496
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Speaker 3: on New Year, don't you.

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Speaker 5: I gotta work the next day, so I gottah. I

498
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Speaker 5: suppose you gotta keep it toned down, which is probably

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Speaker 5: what I would be doing anyway.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you there. Thanks Kevin.

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Speaker 3: All right, Kevin Seffert from ESPN and EESPN dot com.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, How far Away We're gonna play

503
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Speaker 3: something called how far Away?

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Speaker 4: Do you feel? You look tired too, Brett Blake more A,

505
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Speaker 4: You're gonna be all right.

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Speaker 2: I've been here for a minute.

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Speaker 1: You got a top five, and I feel like I've

508
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Speaker 1: done a nineteen hour ship.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay, it's the same clearing snow and very similar. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 3: very similar, very similar. Well, we'll try to get you

511
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Speaker 3: through the next two hours. Got the top five and

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Speaker 3: five coming up, lu Nani at five point thirty, but

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Speaker 3: let me come back.

514
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Speaker 4: How far away do we feel? It's your final.

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Speaker 3: Guards Ian Bumper to Bumper Today, We've got World Juniors

521
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Speaker 3: tomorrow after Minnesota Wild Hockey tomorrow in the afternoon, got

522
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Speaker 3: best of on New Year's Day, and then I'll be

523
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Speaker 3: back for I think a ninety minute show on Friday,

524
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Speaker 3: because guess what we've got more World Juniors is December?

525
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Speaker 4: Why not?

526
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Speaker 3: Brett blakemore here as well. Lou Nanni will join about

527
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Speaker 3: an hour from now. The top five to five coming

528
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Speaker 3: up before we play a game called how far away

529
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Speaker 3: do you feel? I've seen this text A couple of

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Speaker 3: different times. We played the Brian Flores comments and read

531
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Speaker 3: the Brian Flores comments today based upon the Kevin Seffert

532
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Speaker 3: question do you want to be back here? And something

533
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Speaker 3: where Flores said, I've loved my time in Minnesota, and

534
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Speaker 3: internet sluiced and I think arsen List firefighters have been

535
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Speaker 3: parsing those comments.

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Speaker 4: And then what does he mean loved?

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Speaker 2: What does he mean.

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Speaker 3: Loved like it's past tense? Does that mean he's already

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Speaker 3: got his foot out the door? Does that mean he's

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Speaker 3: already got a secret deal with somebody else? Does that

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Speaker 3: mean he's leaving? I would cue the Mike Tice. Okay,

542
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Speaker 3: calm down. I think what he means is I have

543
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Speaker 3: loved it, and if I stay, I will probably continue

544
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Speaker 3: to love it.

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Speaker 4: We don't have to make him mountain out of that

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Speaker 4: mole hill. Is that fair? I know you don't text

547
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Speaker 4: and talk more with flow than people know, but.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm the furthest away from that.

549
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Speaker 3: Probably, I think we're trying a little bit too hard

550
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Speaker 3: to read into what he's saying.

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Speaker 4: He said, I've loved it here. It's been great. It's

552
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Speaker 4: been a good fit.

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Speaker 3: Football wise, and honestly, football wise, he's going to get

554
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Speaker 3: to do whatever he want said. Any stop that he

555
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Speaker 3: makes as a defensive coordinator, he's earned it. He's been really,

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Speaker 3: really good in the three years that he's been here,

557
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Speaker 3: and the performance they put on the other day was masterful,

558
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Speaker 3: and he's got so much control over what they run.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Koc's checking in a mini defensive meetings right,

560
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Speaker 3: doesn't seem like he's gone wonder it flows up to today.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go see make sure he's, you know, covering

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Speaker 3: this pressure package. Pretty sure he gets to basically run

563
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Speaker 3: his side and handle his ship with a p My

564
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Speaker 3: voice is weird today, so I want to make sure

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Speaker 3: I enunciate he gets to pretty no exactly for your sake.

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Speaker 4: So he gets to do whatever he wants to do.

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Speaker 3: He's picking the players that he wants in free agency

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Speaker 3: and presumably the draft, so he's got a pretty good

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Speaker 3: gig here. I will say, though, I do view him

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Speaker 3: as pretty indispensable moving forward, at least in the short

571
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Speaker 3: term for the Vikings. I know there's always another coach,

572
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Speaker 3: and I'd probably worry about who the guy is going

573
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Speaker 3: to be after the guy more than most people. But

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Speaker 3: I just I think he's one of the best. I

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Speaker 3: think he's one of its proof he's one of the best.

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Speaker 3: He was already hired as a head coach, which means

577
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Speaker 3: he had already done really good work before, good enough

578
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Speaker 3: to get a head coaching job. We know that it

579
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Speaker 3: was a disaster in Miami for a million different reasons,

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Speaker 3: some of them him, some of them not. He clearly

581
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Speaker 3: didn't want to have Tua as the quarterback. I'm pretty

582
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 3: sure he's been vindicated on that take. On that hot take.

583
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Speaker 3: He got overruled by the owner, as the story goes,

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Speaker 3: and they had to take two I think pick ten

585
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Speaker 3: in the first round. And even though my guy Mike

586
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Speaker 3: McDaniel he'll put his arms around Tua and just believed

587
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Speaker 3: in him so much. That worked for like a day

588
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Speaker 3: and a half or like a year and a half,

589
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Speaker 3: and now he's a two hundred and twelve million dollars

590
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Speaker 3: backup essentially, right. I think I saw that headline. He

591
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Speaker 3: signed a big contract, and he really hasn't been very good.

592
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Speaker 3: So I find it hard to believe that Flores would

593
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Speaker 3: find a better football situation than the one he has

594
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Speaker 3: already in terms of what he's allowed to do, the

595
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Speaker 3: leeway that he has all the input that he gets.

596
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Speaker 3: So if he's leaving, to me, it's for a head

597
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Speaker 3: coaching job or somebody just offers it because the Wilson

598
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Speaker 3: be stupid, and I don't think they would. I don't

599
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Speaker 3: think like financially it's going to be an issue. They've

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Speaker 3: never struck me to be like the pole Ads on

601
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Speaker 3: the east side of town, right the east side pole

602
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Speaker 3: Ads there, they spend money, they get money, and they

603
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Speaker 3: get breaks, and they got help from us to build

604
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Speaker 3: the beautiful palace, and I'm sure they got great deals

605
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Speaker 3: to build what they've built out in Egan there, but

606
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 3: they've never been afraid to invest in the team, So

607
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: financially it would seem like that's a no brainer. And

608
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Speaker 3: I just think I love the vibe about it right now,

609
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Speaker 3: and the fact that the defense has continue to play

610
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Speaker 3: so well pretty much all season when the offense has

611
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 3: been essentially a failure all season long even gives him

612
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Speaker 3: more leverage to say, Yeah, let's do the business side

613
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Speaker 3: of things and let's make sure I'm taken care of here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he ended up getting the last laugh when it

615
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Speaker 1: comes to to a turn the ball over. He was right, Yeah,

616
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Speaker 1: that turns out you've had that in the whole was

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Speaker 1: in the chamber for a while that. Yeah, not didn't

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Speaker 1: come up with that one. The one thing we fear

619
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Speaker 1: the most in this town is people taking our stuff

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Speaker 1: and people leaving for the coasts or the big markets.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was fearing caprice ofv I was biting

622
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Speaker 1: my metaphorical fingernails until that contract got done because I

623
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Speaker 1: was convinced he would want to go to and not rationally,

624
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Speaker 1: just irrationally, because that's what happens in this town. So

625
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: then when we get any evidence to that, regardless if

626
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Speaker 1: it's valid or not, we latch onto it like it's

627
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Speaker 1: confirmation bias, Like well, hey he said past tense. There

628
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Speaker 1: he goes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's just a part of living in

631
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Speaker 1: this town.

632
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Speaker 3: Need it not up a little bit because he's just

633
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 3: calm down. Yeah that's what I mean.

634
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Speaker 2: Just relax.

635
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Speaker 4: It doesn't really mean anything.

636
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Speaker 3: I'm not all that worried about it, and I think

637
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Speaker 3: he probably will end. I don't think he's leaving here

638
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: for another defensive coordinator job. I just think unless he

639
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 3: thinks the quarterback situation is so helpless and hopeless that

640
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 3: they're going to win five games again next season, and

641
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 3: he wants to go try to win a championship somewhere.

642
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 3: That's the only thing I could come up with. But

643
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 3: he even said the football stuff is working out. He

644
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: basically said it's the business stuff, right, which has nothing

645
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 3: to do with that. So I think everything's going to

646
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 3: be fine. I think everything is gonna be fine.

647
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Speaker 4: Now.

648
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 3: If he gets offered a head coaching job, he's probably gone.

649
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Speaker 3: He should take it, depending on the gig, because he's

650
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 3: probably smart enough to know you really only get most

651
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 3: guys get one, some guys get two. Very few guys,

652
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 3: unless they have ridiculous success, get three cracks of being

653
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 3: a head coach, right, So I'm sure, and he has

654
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 3: said as much as well that he's gonna be pretty

655
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Speaker 3: picky about his next opportunity. I would imagine if he

656
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Speaker 3: wants to be a head coach. But I hope he stays.

657
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Speaker 3: I was telling somebody this past week as a fan,

658
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Speaker 3: every time they flash to him, and I'd probably said

659
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Speaker 3: this to you. Every time they cut to him and

660
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Speaker 3: the Vikings defense is on the field, I just feel

661
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 3: like something good is going to happen. He just has

662
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,239
Speaker 3: like a vibe and an aura that I've got this.

663
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 4: My guys have got this.

664
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 3: Hit Man's out there, Grenard's out, but Grenard's over there,

665
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: Gink's over here, Cashman's there.

666
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 4: Like we're good. Because who is the old Falcons head coach?

667
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 6: Uh?

668
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 4: Was it Smith? Yeah? Mike Smith?

669
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: No?

670
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 4: Smith was his name?

671
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: Like as a contrast, and I think we played them

672
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 3: last year or two years ago. Every time they cut

673
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 3: to him. If I was a Falcons fan, I would

674
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 3: have been just terrified, like what what is going to happen?

675
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 3: This is another great example Matt Nagy back in the day,

676
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: like Zimmer nothing now, Zimmer was fine, nothing good.

677
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 4: It took us to our last FFC Championship's.

678
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: True, right, that's unquestionable.

679
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 3: So but when they cut to those guys, you just go, well,

680
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 3: this is not going to work out. This is a

681
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: I have no confidence at all if I'm a fan

682
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 3: that this is a situation that's going to be beneficial

683
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 3: for me, us, the team, anybody. This sucks With Flores,

684
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 3: it's the opposite. It's just he's got it, figure it

685
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 3: out and I and he's got the guys, he knows

686
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 3: the team, he's scheming them up, especially if it's like

687
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: a young quarterback. He's going to just carve that guy up.

688
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 3: Six turnovers the other day against the Lions on Christmas

689
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 3: Day was snooping the wings. That's pretty good. And I

690
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: know the Lions aren't the Lions that they've been, but

691
00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 3: they had a lot to play for that day if

692
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 3: I remember correctly right, and I think it was the

693
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: final playoff spot, and the flow Nami preceded the snow

694
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 3: Nami and ran them out of town essentially offensively. So

695
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: I just have so much confidence in him that it

696
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 3: would take a pretty special dude to replace that. So

697
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 3: I think they understand that. Obviously Koc understands that, and

698
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 3: hopefully he's back again next season.

699
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: It's already started on the text line Ben and Roosevelt

700
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: text in wait until the Giants come calling, big city market,

701
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: here we go. It's I'm telling you there's just something

702
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: in the water here that we and maybe it's I

703
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: don't do Is this go back to Ortez? Does it

704
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,239
Speaker 1: go back to KG like just people leaving us for

705
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: the big time markets. We're just terrified.

706
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it all started I think in people

707
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 3: in Minnesota, if he's listening, could could maybe come up

708
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 3: with the origin story.

709
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 4: Better.

710
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 3: But I'll just say for let's just take the Gophers

711
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 3: for example, my Gopher jobs. Lou Holtz leaving for Notre

712
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 3: Dame in the eighties completely ruined everything because he was here.

713
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 3: He was the one that said we should stay in

714
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 3: the Metronome, which set us back generations of fans. And

715
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 3: just now fifteen years in the Huntington Bank Stadium, there's

716
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 3: actually people like my age that have gone to school

717
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 3: at the U tailgated at the U. Now they bring

718
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 3: their families to the games and it's actually a pretty

719
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 3: fun vibe on a Saturday because the students are there,

720
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: They've got young alumni there. Now it's completely changed from

721
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 3: when I started. But that's where it started with Gopher stuff.

722
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: With Holtz, is he left for Notre Dame. Why wouldn't

723
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,719
Speaker 3: so and so leave for Notre Dame? Or why wouldn't

724
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 3: so and so leave for you know, when Tubby Smith

725
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 3: was here or Richard Patino had different opportunities early on

726
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 3: in his tenures.

727
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: PJ Fleck to you CLA talks, the PJ was, you know,

728
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: for five straight years, was linked to some job.

729
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 3: And now Pj's been here long enough where if he left,

730
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 3: I would be bummed because selfishly, I like working with them,

731
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 3: and it makes my job harder to have to start

732
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 3: over with a whole new staff. And you know this,

733
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 3: I think he's done a good job here. I think

734
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 3: this job is really hard. And even talking to your guy,

735
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 3: Jason ac the next Wisconsin head coach at New Mexico,

736
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 3: he brought it up talking about the Gophers, saying it's

737
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: it's a hard place to win in general. He goes,

738
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 3: it's become even harder now that they've taken the West

739
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 3: Division away from all of us, and he said, I

740
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 3: think you see Wisconsin having some issues adjusting to life

741
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 3: without the West.

742
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 4: Like it's just it.

743
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: Was nice to get almost a free pass to Indy

744
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: for like a decade.

745
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 3: But he at least you had that carrot and you

746
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 3: could yeah, right, and you say, and so they've so

747
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 3: he mentioned, like it's a tough place.

748
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 4: But after like if PJ wanted to leave.

749
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 3: Now, let's say Kyle Whittingham didn't go to Michigan and

750
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 3: they got a couple of more nos, and all of

751
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 3: a sudden, they say, look, this guy's won a lot

752
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 3: of games at Minnesota and he's a culture guy, and

753
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 3: he's the kids are going to go to class, and

754
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 3: they're going to be good in the community, and they're

755
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 3: going to be pretty consistent. And yeah, the people always

756
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 3: love when he runs the ball on third and nine,

757
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 3: which he, by the way, hasn't done all that much

758
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 3: the last couple of years. When he had a good quarterback,

759
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 3: I'd understand said, look, you've given a decade like Matt

760
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 3: Campbell at Iowa State, right like he had some big

761
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: moments at Iowa State.

762
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 4: He was there eleven years.

763
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 3: I think like at some point you kind of get

764
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 3: over that paranoia and you get over that fear. But

765
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 3: I do think Holtz was the one that ruined it

766
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 3: for for Gopher fans. But you mentioned the leaving part

767
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 3: and it tripped me onto a Gopher thing that I

768
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: want to bring up quickly. And I don't know what

769
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 3: we may get to. How far away do you feel

770
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 3: it's pretty evergreen because our teams are always far away

771
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 3: and we've got maybe.

772
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 4: We've got time to do it.

773
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 3: But Anthony Smith, the All Big ten offensive line or

774
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: defensive lineman, announced after the game where he was completely dominant,

775
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 3: and I think showed why he's not playing in the

776
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 3: Mountain West. He's playing in the Big ten because he

777
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 3: completely just destructed a Mountain West team, which he should do, right,

778
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 3: But he was phenomenal, like so good sacks, batted down passes,

779
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 3: tackles for loss. He was great. He announced that he

780
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 3: was coming back for his final year. And I said

781
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 3: this on the Parent of Spare podcast earlier today. That

782
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 3: will drop at some point whenever I have time to

783
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 3: post it, because I just haven't had time to do

784
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 3: it today. We need to get over the fear of

785
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 3: people leaving us, just like with Flow here and just

786
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 3: like with whomever. Like most of the time, it doesn't

787
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: happen most of the time, and even if it does,

788
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 3: you'll probably figure it out.

789
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 4: You'll be good.

790
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 3: But I don't know if I ranted on this with you,

791
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 3: but in October everyone was telling me that Drake Lindsay

792
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 3: was just going to take the biggest bag possible. And

793
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 3: even though it's maybe the best quarterback that they've had

794
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: in a really long time, I enjoy him while you can,

795
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: because someone's going to pay him and he's going to

796
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: go to the portal and you're never going to see

797
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 3: him again. Well, Drake Lindsay announced like a week ago

798
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 3: he's coming back. Darius Taylor doesn't know if he's coming

799
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 3: back or not, but he's not going to the portal.

800
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 3: He said that last week in Phoenix. And Anthony Smith

801
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 3: has been getting calls for three years to go somewhere

802
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 3: else and he's coming back. So can we stop with

803
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: the laziness? Can we stop with the stupidity? Can we stop?

804
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: I'm not saying a player is never going to leave

805
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 3: Minnesota and get more money somewhere, or Brian Flores isn't

806
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 3: going to leave, but it doesn't happen. It's not as

807
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 3: automatic as people might think it is. So I think

808
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 3: we just need to get over that a little bit.

809
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 3: I agree, that's all.

810
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know you were going for me from.

811
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 4: Are you never agree? You never agree with me on

812
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 4: college football?

813
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, there's in Minnesota. By the way,

814
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: quick to say that Bud Grant passed over Buddy Ryan

815
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: for defense coordinator, he left Chicago eighty five pairs, Well

816
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: that is though.

817
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay, But that's a different that's a totally

818
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 3: different topic. Correct, that's not somebody leaving us, but it is.

819
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 3: But there's a whole other subset of paranoia in that.

820
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 3: Look at Denny Green's assistant coaches in the nineties into

821
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: Brad Childers's assistant coaches. Later, Denny Green on the staff

822
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety eight. I don't think Doungee was still there,

823
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 3: but he had been on the staff previously. Dungee I

824
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 3: think was in his first year in Tampa. Tony Dungee

825
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 3: won a Super Bowl after leaving Minnesota as the head coach.

826
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: Now he's Tony Dungee. Now, anytime there's an opening anywhere,

827
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 3: the joke around here is called Tony Dungee. People wanted

828
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 3: him to be the Minnesota football coach for the last

829
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 3: fifteen years. Like if PJ left today, somebody would say,

830
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: how come they don't give Dungee a look? He probably

831
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 3: wants to get back in. And I'm not even making

832
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: that up. Somebody would text it and they'd be serious.

833
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 3: That's Tony Dungee. Brian Billick was the offensive coordinator in

834
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety eight. He won a Super Bowl two years

835
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 3: later with the Baltimore Ravens. They beat the New York Giants,

836
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 3: who beat the Vikings forty one donut in that NFC

837
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 3: championship game. Mike Tomlin was the defensive coordinator for Brad

838
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 3: Childress for one season. He won a Super Bowl I

839
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 3: think three years after that, and is still in Pittsburgh.

840
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 4: Now this might be the final time, this could be ahead.

841
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 3: But when he was a defensive coordinator here, I was

842
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 3: twenty five years old. I'm now forty three years old.

843
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 3: It's been a pretty good run. So we've had a

844
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 3: run of we kept the wrong guy. And I remember

845
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: thinking that when Comlin was here, like what a stud

846
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 3: he was? What uh you know, a leader he was.

847
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 3: Lieber has talked about it. Playing for him was pure electricity.

848
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 3: Everybody loved it. So there's that part of it too,

849
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 3: like sometimes the assistant in waiting, yes, you wish he

850
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 3: was going to be your head coach. Denny a little

851
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 3: harder because he won a bunch, but Childress for sure.

852
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 4: Childress, for sure.

853
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 3: I would have made that trade even at the time,

854
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 3: even in his first year, because there was just there

855
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 3: was always something with Childress.

856
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 4: It was I talked about it with Seaford.

857
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: It was guys get the head coaching job and all

858
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 3: of a sudden they're, you know, completely different person than

859
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 3: they were on the way up, and they feel like

860
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 3: they have to act a certain way and they rub

861
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: people the wrong way and even all the crap that

862
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 3: went on with FIV.

863
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: So I don't know, do you think that's closer to

864
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: like a Tomlin with because Flora is to me, I

865
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: think of more there's two different There's guys who we

866
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: really value, who are really good in elite and where

867
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: words are going to leave us for New York or

868
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: LA or big time money. And then there's option B

869
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: where we let a guy go who we think was

870
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 1: nothing and they turn out to be really good, like

871
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: a like an Ortiz. I feel like this is more

872
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: in the Justin Jefferson crookaprisof paranoia more than it is

873
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: the Tony Dungeee. Yeahlin, because that's two different sets of

874
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: paranoia that we have to deal with.

875
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 6: Yes, I said week.

876
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 3: There was a run of players that went to bigger markets,

877
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 3: but KG had to be talked into being traded.

878
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 4: KG didn't want to leave right away.

879
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 6: Yeah.

880
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 3: KG was a loyal guy, still is a loyal guy.

881
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 3: Welcome back and he's back in the organization in the

882
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 3: fold now, so that's good. But he had to kind

883
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 3: of be talked into it because he wanted to be

884
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 3: a one team guy for his whole career.

885
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 4: But they basically said, we're never going to win here.

886
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,479
Speaker 3: We're just never gonna win here with you, you're gonna

887
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 3: be wasted and so, but that started it. Like Johan Santana,

888
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 3: they also had to trade. That was different because I

889
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 3: hope people are sitting down or have two hands on

890
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 3: the wheel and they're driving through these icy conditions. The

891
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 3: poll Ads weren't going to pay Johan Santana. I think

892
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 3: a seven year, one hundred million dollar contract is what

893
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 3: he ended up getting for the Mets. Now, fairness to them,

894
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 3: I don't think Johan pitched that entire contract. He threw

895
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 3: the one no hitter through like one hundred and fifty

896
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 3: pitches and was never the same guy. But the entire

897
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: time he was here, especially later on when he was

898
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: racking up cy Young's and was about to hit free agency,

899
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 3: everybody just kind of knew he was probably on his

900
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 3: way somewhere else. But it wasn't like his choice to

901
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 3: lead necessarily is because they traded him to the Mets.

902
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: And Buxton probably not far far behind. What do you mean, well,

903
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 1: doesn't he on the way potentially mean they've talked about

904
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: it like, well, yeah, he's I've got my no move,

905
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's more open to it than he appeared

906
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: to be at the end of it.

907
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 3: And we'll see where this whole thing goes now that

908
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 3: Tom Polad's in charge the new pole Ad And I

909
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 3: hope it was a good Christmas for the pole Ad family.

910
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 3: I hope everything was okay and it wasn't too awkward

911
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 3: around the pole Ad family Christmas tree this year with

912
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 3: brothers Tom and Joe, you know, probably not exchanging gifts.

913
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 3: Hopefully they got somebody else for Secret Santa and they

914
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 3: didn't have to worry about what was going on there,

915
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 3: so you know, and then in that time or Teaz

916
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 3: left that was a poor choice.

917
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 4: It was a we've had a run.

918
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 3: We had a run there in the late oughts early

919
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 3: teens where it did seem like any time anybody left

920
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 3: here things would go badly for us and much better

921
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 3: for the team.

922
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 4: That was receiving the player. So I don't know.

923
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 3: With Flow, I just feel like, unless it's a head

924
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 3: coaching job and it's a great situation, I feel like

925
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 3: he's coming back. I think everybody there knows how important

926
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 3: he is to the whole operation.

927
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 4: I certainly think Koc gets that.

928
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 3: I think Flores understands what a good situation he's in

929
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 3: in the fact that he basically gets to do his

930
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 3: own thing. So to bring it full circle, I don't

931
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 3: worry a ton about it, and I hope he's back

932
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 3: because I think he's done a really good job. Let's

933
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 3: get to the top five and five when we come back,

934
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 3: we've got lu Nani at five thirty.

935
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 4: Like I said, how far away do you feel? Is

936
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 4: something evergreen?

937
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 3: Because history tells us we're going to remain far away

938
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 3: from everything. And when I say how far away do

939
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 3: you feel from a championship? Not a championship as much,

940
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 3: but like contending for a championship because as you know,

941
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 3: I tell you this all the time, Brett Championship it's

942
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 3: hard to come by, right.

943
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: Only one team wins them per year.

944
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 4: One team wins them per year.

945
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 3: History tells us it's not going to be us, no

946
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 3: matter how stacked the team is. And so all you

947
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 3: can ask for is are you in that mix? Are

948
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 3: you in the conversation, are you in the final four?

949
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 3: Are you in a championship game? And then you see

950
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 3: what happens after that? How far away do you feel

951
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 3: from all of those respective to the core four?

952
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 4: Sports.

953
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 3: Here is what I want to get into at some point,

954
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 3: maybe today, maybe on Friday, not exactly sure.

955
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: Well, we could get into it in the top five

956
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 1: and five because one team is inching ever closer.

957
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 4: I have a feeling I know which team it is.

958
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 4: And Beyond the Pond was four hours ago.