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Speaker 1: Chicago shall legging battering the Bears.

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Speaker 2: Okay, nine to noon, just listen, just listen, A happy

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Speaker 2: Thursday to you. Nine to noon is in the air

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Speaker 2: nine segments until we fade to black. Then hit Buffalo

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Speaker 2: Wild Wings Lakeville tomorrow for the Friday football base. Now,

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Speaker 2: as we've stated many times around here, Chicago Bears play

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Speaker 2: by play voice Jeff Joniek is one of our very

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Speaker 3: His radio calls are fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Giants need the Bears forty four to keep this thing alive.

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Speaker 4: At his fourth out of ten, four defensive backs unbrelled

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Speaker 4: back and the line of scrimmage loaded with black and

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Speaker 4: blue Bears ready to deliver some heat. Snap back, everybody's

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Speaker 4: coming to Rustle in the pocket, passes throught and his

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Speaker 4: tipped head complete. He got a tip. All the pressure

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Speaker 4: got to him. Bears takeover. Hit his fourth down and

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Speaker 4: out thirty eight seconds to go. The Bears are gonna

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Speaker 4: come away with a win here at Chicago. They have

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Speaker 4: it right now at twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Twenty fucks.

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Speaker 2: This is Jeff's twenty fifth year calling Bears games on

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Speaker 2: the radio, and he joins us, Now, Hey, what's going

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Speaker 2: on there, double Jay.

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Speaker 3: Good to hear from you.

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Speaker 5: Well's going on, pa, Always good? Always good to be

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Speaker 5: looking forward to shaking your hand on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Likewise, now, in a story I read commemorating your quarter

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Speaker 2: took out of it and really liked. I love how

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Speaker 5: Right now, one hundred percent, it's the biggest adrenaline rush

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Speaker 5: And when I meet with Bears fans, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: And you've called a super Bowl, but you know, we

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Speaker 2: That completely resonates with me because the preparation into the

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Speaker 2: And even even if your squad man's like three and eleven,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, people tell me all the time, especially because

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really I really enjoy you know preparing the

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Speaker 5: Know, he's already got the fifth most passing yards in

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Speaker 2: This is Jeff Joniac, quarter Century play by play radio

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Speaker 2: voice for the Chicago Bears, Fuck Vikings and Bears noon

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Speaker 2: KFA in this weekend. I'm gonna call it the Ben

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Speaker 2: A doonsay has taken off, Dj Moore throws touchdowns, and

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Speaker 5: No it is, And you know, by and large, Ben

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Speaker 5: Ben's really creative, obviously, And I'm not calling him trick

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Speaker 5: me if you agree with that. I'm just I'm calling

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Speaker 5: If it's done in the first quarter, and it involves everybody,

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Speaker 5: it's fun. It's fun for the players to keep them engage,

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Speaker 2: I like that their gad but the word gadget, you know,

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Speaker 3: The end zone.

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Speaker 2: Well, that keeps them, I don't want to say keeps

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Speaker 2: in practice, they're always hooting.

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Speaker 3: And hollering and right.

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Speaker 2: All the receivers think they can throw, you know, so

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it keeps things loose. That's a very good point.

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Speaker 5: The other thing is that the running game. And you know,

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Speaker 5: it was, you know, double digits, but the reaction from

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Speaker 2: To look like that veteran DBCJ. Gardner Johnson Two games,

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 5: Have you ever met this man?

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Speaker 2: Last one minute and change you get at all. Jeff Joniac,

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Speaker 2: Pete and I will come up to the booth on

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Speaker 2: God bless you and your family man, and I'll see

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Speaker 1: Same.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me on. We're looking forward to seeing you.

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Speaker 3: See you.

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Speaker 2: About Jeff Joniac played by play voice for the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: Quarter century into it, governing claps for Jeff Joniack. He's

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Speaker 2: the National Football League Friendship Aside. It's still this Chicago. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's time to get bate up. Nine to sixteen, John Hines,

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Speaker 3: Nine to noon.

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Speaker 9: Now play hockey.

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Speaker 10: Closed on by Zuperello. So he played at the Dickenson

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Speaker 10: Sharks fired along Celebrini with graft going from the net

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Speaker 10: Colin Grafts stickhandle past Gustison Tucktoba backhander and the Sharks

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Speaker 3: Some hot sporting activity.

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Speaker 2: Some hot sporting action includes the Minnesota Wild. This weekend,

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Speaker 2: on a back to back. Finchy Chris Finch, coach of

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Speaker 2: of our favorites, John Hines, coach of the Minnesota Wild.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, coach, How are.

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Speaker 1: You how you doing? My man?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well all right, my brother. Good start to November,

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Speaker 2: don't you think? Six games, two points in four of them,

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Speaker 7: Well, I think it's allowed us to, uh to put

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Speaker 2: With with half a week between San Jose and Anaheim

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Speaker 7: line meetings, you can touch up some things. So it's

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Speaker 7: a you know, it's a multitude of things. It's not

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Speaker 7: just practice time. Practice is a big part of it.

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Speaker 7: But also I think guys getting some little bit of

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Speaker 7: recovery time mentally and physically. And then it also allows us,

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Speaker 7: you know a little bit more time to to you're

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Speaker 7: not so much preparing for the next game all the time,

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Speaker 7: and guys have a little bit more time around where

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Speaker 7: you can do some meetings, which I think help as well,

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Speaker 7: whether that's line meetings or individual meetings.

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Speaker 2: John Hines, coach of the Minnesota Wild, Well talk, what

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Speaker 2: are some facets that play into how you as the

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Speaker 2: head coach?

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Speaker 3: John? What describe your team's identity?

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Speaker 7: Well, I think when we when we play, when we

452
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Speaker 7: play a fast game and a direct game. You know,

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Speaker 7: when we when we make strong plays coming out of

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Speaker 7: our own end, when we play fast through the neutral

455
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Speaker 7: zone and we can get into an attack mindset if

456
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Speaker 7: we have opportunities to attack off the rush because we've

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Speaker 7: transitioned the puck quick and they're in an unorganized defense

458
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Speaker 7: and we can attack in those areas. But also when

459
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Speaker 7: the other team's done their job and they're in good

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Speaker 7: position that you know, we get a strong four check

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Speaker 7: and we're into the offensive zone and we can lean

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Speaker 7: on teams. I think when we when we play that

463
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Speaker 7: style of game, you know that gives us the best.

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Speaker 3: Chance to win.

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Speaker 2: The power play is top four almost a quarter of

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Speaker 2: the way into the season. Uh, you got one the

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Speaker 2: other night against San Jose. I mean that patients played

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Speaker 2: by Zuki before he hit bold he was beautiful. What

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Speaker 2: what can what what's consistently good with this the power

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Speaker 2: play keeping it upper echelon.

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Speaker 7: I would say it's been two units, you know, this year.

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Speaker 7: You know, we've had contributions from both units. You know,

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Speaker 7: if uh, you know, if if Boldian Boldie and Katrisov's

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Speaker 7: unit doesn't score, uh, you know, we've had the other

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Speaker 7: units score. So I think when you have when you

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Speaker 7: have contributions from both units, I think it brings a

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Speaker 7: little bit of internal competition. But I think also you

478
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Speaker 7: need you need two units to score, and that's what's

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Speaker 7: helped was when one hasn't, we've been able to get

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Speaker 7: another one that has.

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Speaker 2: And conversely, the penalty kill fifth from the bottom. And

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Speaker 2: we've talked about it before, But are you still looking

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Speaker 2: for them to be more attack conscious in that department?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think sometimes when you when you

485
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Speaker 7: get into it was a little bit leaky early in

486
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Speaker 7: the year, but I would say the last four or

487
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Speaker 7: five games, you know, I think we the Santose game,

488
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Speaker 7: we gave up a goal. I think it was the

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Speaker 7: first one in four games, right, and it was a

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Speaker 7: good play by It was a good play by them,

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Speaker 7: you know, I would say that, yes, it's fifth from

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Speaker 7: the bottom. But I also think you have to look

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Speaker 7: at it in segments, in five and ten games segments, right,

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Speaker 7: because you could have a bad stretch and it might

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Speaker 7: sink you for a while statistically. But I think you

496
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Speaker 7: need to you need to look at where is it

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Speaker 7: at in the last five games, ten games, and where's

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Speaker 7: it moving forward. I think it's been very good as

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Speaker 7: of late.

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Speaker 2: Quite there him for two more, John, What are some

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Speaker 2: parts of Carill caprice offs game that are very good

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Speaker 2: but maybe go unnoticed to the casual fan or maybe

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Speaker 2: the untrained eye.

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Speaker 7: Well, I think Carill cares about I think he's a

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Speaker 7: tremendous competitor. I think you know a lot lots of

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Speaker 7: times you see the offensive flare from him, which I

507
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Speaker 7: think catches everybody's eye. But I would just say the

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Speaker 7: consistency of competitiveness that he has and I think is

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Speaker 7: you know the other thing too, is his willingness to

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Speaker 7: play the right way without the puck. You know, he's

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Speaker 7: a guy he doesn't hope and wait for offense. I

512
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Speaker 7: think if the puck's turned over in the offensive zone,

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Speaker 7: you know he's gonna he's going to track back and

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Speaker 7: and help the defense with the rest coverage. When he

515
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Speaker 7: gets into the defensive doone coverage, you know he's he

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Speaker 7: cares about keeping the puck out of his net. And

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Speaker 7: I think sometimes when you look at these high end

518
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Speaker 7: skill players, you know he is the offensive flair that

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Speaker 7: you see, but it's also the kind of the mundane

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Speaker 7: things that the thankless jobs in the game that you

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Speaker 7: don't recognize, shift in and shift out, that he's willing

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Speaker 7: to do.

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Speaker 3: Love that.

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Speaker 2: Lastly, here coach Hans Anaheim in Vegas. Are here Saturday

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Speaker 2: and Sunday. The Islanders win second half of that back

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Speaker 2: to back with travel.

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Speaker 3: That was impressive, quite dominating too.

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Speaker 2: Are there things you have to do as a coach

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Speaker 2: the first part of a back to back to make

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Speaker 2: sure they have enough in the tank for the second part.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I think when when you know it kind of

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Speaker 7: goes back to your first question with Zuki is I

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Speaker 7: think right now, when you have when you feel like

534
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Speaker 7: you have four lines and six defensemen that are all

535
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Speaker 7: contributing and playing at a at a strong level, you know,

536
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Speaker 7: it allows you to divvy up the ice time a

537
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Speaker 7: little bit where you don't have to overextend guys in

538
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Speaker 7: certain situations in the first game, you know, which I

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Speaker 7: think allows you to have some energy in the second game,

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Speaker 7: which we had in New York. And then I all

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Speaker 7: so think, you know, on the second half of the

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Speaker 7: back to back, playing playing smart. You know, you hear

543
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Speaker 7: it all the time in sports is don't you know,

544
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Speaker 7: don't beat yourself. And whether that's you know, taking care

545
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Speaker 7: of the parker, penalty discipline, or line changing and shift lengths,

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Speaker 7: just those little small things that you could say the

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Speaker 7: same thing for saying football, right, yeah, penalty game, Uh,

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Speaker 7: take care of the football, whatever it might be. I

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Speaker 7: think it really comes into into play every game, but

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Speaker 7: particularly in the in the second half of it back

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Speaker 7: to back, when you know you may be playing a

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Speaker 7: little bit tired. Now you got to you got to play.

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Speaker 2: Really smart, brilliant, tear it up. Beat them both this

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Speaker 2: weekend and we'll call you next week. All right, all right, pa,

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Speaker 2: take care of Yeah, see you about. John Hines, coach

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Speaker 2: of the Minnesota Wild Weekly nine to noon. Harrison Smith,

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Speaker 2: beloved hit ma'am, is playing his two hundredth regular season

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Speaker 2: game this weekend. We're going to celebrate the career that

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Speaker 2: has Ben Harrison Smith around the corner via Sound and Fought,

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Speaker 2: and then we're going to bring and former Viking safety

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Speaker 2: Anthony Harris, a teammate, former teammate with Harry the hit Man,

562
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Speaker 2: and chat about that and more with Anthony Harris. That's

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Speaker 2: around the corner. It's nine to noon on KFA. Viike's

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Speaker 8: So thank you thousand Hills and Vike's bite style. I mean,

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Speaker 8: the team's being its team limited. We're worried about the

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Speaker 8: bandage on the QB's hand. Ryan Kelly's practice window opens

574
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Speaker 8: up all kinds of things going on this week, and

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Speaker 8: plenty of time to cover it all, but really, I

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Speaker 8: think we have to spend at least a few minutes

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Speaker 8: before our next guest joins to just appreciate a rookie

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Speaker 8: campaign in a career that started in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 2: Ten seven Vikings, Adrian Peterson with a rushing touchdown and

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Speaker 2: Percy Harvin with a receiving touchdown. Two receivers right, Andre

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Speaker 2: Roberts left opposite Chris Cook. On third down from the

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Speaker 2: twenty four, John Skelton's out of the shotgun La rock

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Speaker 2: Steven's howling to his left, takes the snap. Skelton three

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Speaker 2: step drop steps away from the pressure, runs up the middle, fires.

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Speaker 3: Header scepkin head.

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Speaker 11: It's picked off by Harrison Smith. The rookie comes to

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Speaker 11: the right side. It's twenty to up, fifteen late for

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Speaker 11: the ends of touchdown. Harrison Smith's first National Football League

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Speaker 11: interception results in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: It's twenty seventh Minnesota.

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Speaker 8: I mean that was week seven, and just seven weeks

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Speaker 8: later he's doing it again.

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Speaker 2: Pa Marshall slot right opposite ends one with spens. Now

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Speaker 2: Fikes lead fourteen to seven. Now Marshall motions to the

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Speaker 2: lefty slot left Cutler, shotgun, Vikings rush four jay back

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Speaker 2: pass buyers over.

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Speaker 11: The middle, accepted by Harrison Smith. Here comes the rookie

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Speaker 11: to the party, sprints down the sidelines thirty twenty he

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Speaker 11: to the ten angles flip touchdown. Harrison Smith's second defensive

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Speaker 11: touchdown this year gives the Vikings to twenty to seven lead.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was just his rookie year, PA.

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Speaker 8: We thought he'd have one hundred of those things that

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Speaker 8: felt like but the twenty ninth overall selection making a

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Speaker 8: name for himself in twenty twelve. He'd also have defensive

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Speaker 8: touchdowns both Week one against the Rams in twenty fourteen

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Speaker 8: Nerve and that offense twenty fourteen, the year that that was.

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Speaker 8: He also had another one, his fourth of his career

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Speaker 8: in twenty fifteen, in a late primetime affair at the

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Speaker 8: College Stadium, a beatdown of the New York Giants and

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Speaker 8: Eli Manning.

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Speaker 3: Four defensive tds.

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Speaker 8: Sadly, it's been a decade since the last one, but

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Speaker 8: there's still time. Twenty and a half sacks in his

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Speaker 8: career PA. Just a couple of years ago, he hit

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Speaker 8: the trifecta, a come.

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Speaker 2: Fourth and goal from the eighteen empty backfield, three receivers left,

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Speaker 2: two rights.

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Speaker 3: Twenty one thirteen Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young between the hash marks takes the Bozeman snap,

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Speaker 2: poor Man Rush pays hit Heavy's sacked. He has hit

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Speaker 2: and sacked and taken down by the player of the game,

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Speaker 2: Harrison Smith with his third sack this game.

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Speaker 8: That was his first game with three sacks, first game

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Speaker 8: with two as well. Prior to that, he has a

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Speaker 8: sack a full sack in seventeen games in his career.

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Speaker 3: The team's fourteen and three.

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Speaker 8: When the hitman has a sack, by the way, and

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Speaker 8: we'll spend more time on this, whether it's with Ant

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Speaker 8: Harris around the corner. Of course, eventually, as time maybe

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Speaker 8: will force us into a grander hit man conversation. With

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Speaker 8: thirty seven career picks, four seasons with at least five

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Speaker 8: eighty four tackles or more in ten of his fourteen seasons,

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Speaker 8: thirteen force fumbles, ten fumble recoveries, ninety nine passes defense,

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Speaker 8: let's get to the century mark this weekend. A freaking

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Speaker 8: bleepload of hit hence the nickname. Other than missing half

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Speaker 8: of twenty thirteen his second year in the season, he's

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Speaker 8: never missed more than three games in any other season,

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Speaker 8: and as he passes ron Yerry now this weekend in

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Speaker 8: games played, only Jim Marshall at two seventy, Mick Tinglehoff

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Speaker 8: at two forty, Fred Cox at two ten, Carl Eller

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Speaker 8: at two oh nine, and Scott Studwell at two to one.

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Speaker 8: Those are the only guys that have played more games

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Speaker 8: in Purple than Harrison Smith. If he makes all the

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Speaker 8: dances this year, he'll finish the season at two oh seven.

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Speaker 8: Hitman has left. Why don't we say indelible marks on

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Speaker 8: this Purple and Gold franchise.

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Speaker 2: He is Minnesota Vikings immortality. He smhof two him no

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Speaker 2: doubt about it. Two hundredth regular season game taking place

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Speaker 2: the Sunday at noon at us Bank Stadium against the

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. And we aim to chat with some of

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Speaker 2: Hipman's former teammates over the next couple of days. One

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Speaker 2: around the Corner now tomorrow at Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville

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Speaker 2: Chad green Way, a long time teammate with Harry at

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Speaker 2: the hit Man He'll.

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Speaker 3: Be joining nine to noon in.

656
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Speaker 2: His regular spots second segment chat about Harrison Smith, and

657
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 2: we also are looking to hook up with Andrew Sendejo tomorrow,

658
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: one of Harrison's best friends, to talk about his career.

659
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 2: But let's begin all that with Anthony Harris, Undrafted from Virginia,

660
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: Anthony played six seasons with the Vikings and overall one

661
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 2: hundred and four games in the NFL in twenty nineteen,

662
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 2: Anthony Harris tied for the league lead in interceptions with

663
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Speaker 2: six and forty one joins us. Now, great seeing you

664
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Speaker 2: in the booth Sunday. How are things, Anthony, I'm.

665
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 6: Doing well, man. Good to see you two as well.

666
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 6: Always good to you know, see people out in Minnesota.

667
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: You've been around the team a fair amount this year,

668
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe I've missed it over the last

669
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,959
Speaker 2: few years just didn't see you, but especially a training camp.

670
00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: What what what would your safety role be Anthony in

671
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 2: this Brian Flores defense?

672
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 4: Oh?

673
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 6: Man, you know I looked at it. I try to

674
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 6: look now and see like kind of, you know, over

675
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 6: the years where I've played and kind of how I've

676
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 6: assisted and where things possibly could have could have been

677
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 6: this season or in the two years that just passed.

678
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 6: But I've seen myself as a guy just kind of

679
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 6: out there at directing traffic, making sure we're in the

680
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 6: right coverages, overlapping, you know, side to side in the field,

681
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 6: and also you know, dropping down onto slots and in

682
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 6: the middle of the defense a little bit. But managers

683
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 6: like previous years playing off for Harry in terms of

684
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 6: different disguises, having me down sometimes and him rotating back.

685
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 6: So a lot of just versatility between the two and

686
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 6: assistant with the communication.

687
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 2: I you know, I should I should have had this

688
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: down in front of me. So I'm just you know,

689
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: I apologize if I make a mistake here. Twenty twenty two,

690
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: when you finished your career with the Denver Broncos, what

691
00:36:58,480 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 2: was was Vic Fangio part?

692
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: Did that mix?

693
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 6: Actually? Uh not with the Broncos and that and that

694
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 6: season I returned to you know, silly, but at that

695
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 6: point he was no longer with the Broncos.

696
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: Okay, because when when you hear about, you know, Flora's

697
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 2: defensive style, you frequently hear like Steve Spagnolo and Big

698
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: Bangio and everything, and you know, Harrison Smith could could

699
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 2: pretty much morph into any form of defense and be good.

700
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 2: He's playing in his two hundredth regular season game Sunday

701
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 2: against the Bears. Uh what When Anthony came into the

702
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 2: league out of Virginia in twenty fifteen, Harrison was entering

703
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: his fourth year. What was he like as a teammate

704
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 2: for you, Anthony?

705
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 6: Initially he was Initially he was kind of quiet, didn't

706
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 6: say a lot. He was a guy that was just

707
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 6: you know, working on the field, you know, communicating defensively,

708
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 6: you know, he was he was fairly social in the

709
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 6: locker room with the guys. I remember being, you know,

710
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 6: as a rookie coming in, you know, having to do

711
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 6: the little rookie rookie duties and and go through that process.

712
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 6: And he was a guy who was supportive. You know,

713
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 6: we'd have to do little runs and grab food and stuff,

714
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 6: and you know, you being a rookie coming in you're

715
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 6: new to the city. Uh, he was extremely you know,

716
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 6: helpful and considerate if you know, if I had transportation

717
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 6: to go pick up the food before we got on

718
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 6: the plane, and different things of that sort. So he

719
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 6: was a guy that definitely took part in the traditions

720
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 6: of you know, guys kind of carving out their role

721
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 6: and doing the different things that guys went through over

722
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 6: the season. But slowly, you know, he started to open

723
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 6: up more and give me little insights after I made

724
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 6: a player, after I was in getting reps on defense

725
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 6: about things that I could do better. And so over

726
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 6: the years our relationship just evolved and talking about the

727
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 6: game and spending time together watching football.

728
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 2: Well of your eight years in one hundred and four games,

729
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 2: you know you played, you played six seasons on defense

730
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: with him, and you know, I'm glad you went down

731
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: the road, you know that you did after you know,

732
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 2: the longer you got in the league. I mean you

733
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: you started I think five games maybe eight games your

734
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: first three seasons. Then in twenty eighteen you start nine,

735
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 2: then fourteen and sixteen in your final two years for

736
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 2: the Viking. So it, you know, is undrafted. Guy, You're

737
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 2: not the first to have it, you know, kind of

738
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 2: go along slowly, but once once it started to click.

739
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 2: What what what can you say? Like early in your

740
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 2: career when you and Harrison started to become comfortable with

741
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: each other, when when it comes to preparing for games,

742
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: like where where could he help you? Or others preparing

743
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 2: for games?

744
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 6: Man, as we as we started to you know, kind

745
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 6: of build a relationship and get more time playing together,

746
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 6: we'd often find ourselves, you know, in a textpad, sending

747
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 6: different clips that we'd see on the iPad, discussing, you know,

748
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 6: how that play might play out or how we might

749
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 6: actually see it and just being on the same page.

750
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 6: And so from the safety position, you know, you kind

751
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 6: of have to see both sides of the field, be

752
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 6: aware of a receiver on the other side that could

753
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 6: possibly come into your own in terms of coverage. So

754
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 6: me and him discussed that a lot. You know, hey,

755
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 6: on this play, what do you see? How would you

756
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 6: react in this play? And so that would kind of

757
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 6: give you an idea on you know, how you can

758
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 6: play or manipulate the quarterback in terms of disguises, whether

759
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 6: pre snap or either on the mood. And so we

760
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 6: did that a bunch. I remember facing Green Baby would

761
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 6: we would talk about some of the robbs that they had,

762
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 6: and the one thing that me and him came up

763
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 6: with was, you know, in this situation, it's really two

764
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 6: versus one. You know, Aaron Rodgers, he can only see

765
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 6: one of us at a time, and so you know

766
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 6: if he if he sees you, he doesn't see me,

767
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 6: and vice versus. So regardless of you know, kind of

768
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 6: what happens on this play, you know he can't be

769
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 6: right because you know the other guy when he's not watching,

770
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 6: will make up the space and overlap.

771
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 3: Listening to you described that the way you did.

772
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: You've only been out of the game three years, I

773
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 2: mean your last year was twenty twenty two. I just

774
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: I you missed the game, don't you. I mean, I

775
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: can tell that you miss conversations like that, don't you.

776
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 12: Yeah, That's something I kind of do down a little

777
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 12: bit in my spare time, whether I'm just you know,

778
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 12: talking to current players, talking to coaches often, you know,

779
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 12: attending a lot of games or either watching them on TV,

780
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 12: but really just the schematic part.

781
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 6: Of the game, you know, from front to back, secondary

782
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 6: down to the defensive line, and then vice versa on

783
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 6: the offensive side of the ball, and special teams as well.

784
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 6: So that was one thing that you know, Harry really

785
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 6: appreciates and me and him was really able to bond over.

786
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 6: Was really just talking about the game from overall perspective,

787
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 6: not just pertaining personally into you know, our position, but

788
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 6: really just falling in love with the art of it

789
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 6: in itself.

790
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 2: Anthony, how much think about this all right? Anthony came

791
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: in in twenty fifteen, left in twenty twenty two. How

792
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 2: much did playing defensive back change from your rookie year

793
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: of twenty fifteen to when you left in twenty twenty two?

794
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 2: And I guess I'd be talking about rules, but just overall.

795
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 6: Well, I think, you know, it's it's kind of evolved

796
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 6: over the year, like it's done. You know, prior to

797
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 6: me even coming into the league, you know, you saw

798
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 6: bigger players, you know, safeties not having to be quite

799
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 6: as rangy possibly, but now you know, you look and

800
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 6: you see a number of guys you know, kind of

801
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 6: playing in a deep half. There's a lot of versativity,

802
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 6: and particularly with Flora's schemes, you know, the safeties are

803
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 6: acts to do a lot. You know, you're down in

804
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 6: the line of scrimmage. You know, your back deep center field,

805
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 6: you're playing deep halfs, you're rotating on safeties and so

806
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 6: on slot receivers, and so there's a lot of versativity.

807
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 6: You know, I'm extremely you know, amazed at where Harry's

808
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 6: continued to be able to do prior to me coming

809
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 6: into the league and then without time together even toil now,

810
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 6: just how he showed up taking care of his body,

811
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 6: put in the work to you know, embrace all the

812
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 6: different schemes he's had to play over his career and

813
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 6: then just going out having fun and making plays still

814
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 6: and staying healthy. Is this contribute to who he is

815
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 6: as a player, who he is as a person.

816
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: And regarding Harrison Smith Harry the hit man. You know

817
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 2: the reason I set that question up that way, Anthony

818
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 2: is there seemed to be a time hit man had

819
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 2: to pull back on the hitting portion of the equation

820
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: due to fines with hits that for years were permissible.

821
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: So did did he and other dbs have to change

822
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 2: playing style due to rules changes?

823
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 6: I mean, I think there's always there's always going to

824
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 6: be an adjustment, you know, when there's real changes. You

825
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 6: know things now, particular hits that you probably you know,

826
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 6: be more aggressive, more assertive in situations you kind of

827
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 6: have to be more conscious, you know. Thinking about Harry specifically,

828
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 6: you know, he's he's been able to get after the

829
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 6: quarterback a ton over his career in terms of you know,

830
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 6: getting stacks and forcing fumbles in those things, and and

831
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 6: and now you know there's a bit of approach to

832
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 6: you know, him actually stepping into the pass rush around

833
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 6: much like a defensive end is, you know, if he's

834
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 6: going after the quarterback, making sure that you know, he

835
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 6: isn't falling and putting too much weight on the quarterback

836
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 6: so he won't get a penalty in that sense, or

837
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 6: even just attacking the ball over the years, you know,

838
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 6: seeing guys go up for passes and you know kind

839
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 6: of get hit in the air and defenders attacking them

840
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 6: more aggressively. It's kind of deteriorated a bit, you know,

841
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 6: just due to you know, the potential to get a

842
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 6: flag in certain situations. So you never want to penalize

843
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 6: your team. But I have to imagine for a guy

844
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 6: who's played as long as he has, you know, it's

845
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 6: a bit of an adjustment, but you know he's been

846
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 6: able to do it pretty well. And the game has

847
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 6: evolved in that sense of h physicality of following on

848
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 6: the quarterbacks, and then some of the rules in terms

849
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 6: of you know, maybe targeting or leading with the helmet

850
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 6: are called more often.

851
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: Time for two more the Vikings get the Bears this weekend.

852
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,919
Speaker 2: Here what Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. What do you think

853
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 2: of Caleb Williams.

854
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 6: Well, I know he has a lot of mobility. I've

855
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 6: watched him a couple of games now. He can extend plays,

856
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 6: has an arm where you can throw on a number

857
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 6: of different angles. I think Ben Johnson is trying to

858
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 6: been trying to do a good job of settling them

859
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 6: in and getting him in more to the scheme and

860
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 6: a little bit less, kind of like off time and

861
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 6: then off script plays. But that's part of his game

862
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 6: that makes him explosive. And so I see him trying

863
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 6: to just settle in and rely more on his actual

864
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 6: team and the play design than his own ability. But

865
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 6: he has great arm talent and he can move.

866
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 3: Last one.

867
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,720
Speaker 2: Anthony had some memorable games against the New Orleans Saints,

868
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: and in those games sometimes it included stuff like this

869
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 2: Comara in the backfield, breeze on third downs, great drop,

870
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 2: it's a deep shot. He's looking for tech Ken interceptioning,

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Speaker 2: Yes it is.

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Speaker 11: Anthony Harris gets up and runs at the twenty five

873
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Speaker 11: to the far side. Forty Harris to the fifty.

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Speaker 6: Well done.

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Speaker 2: That's the seventh interception this season for Anthony Harris and

876
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 2: there are no flags on the play. Two to three

877
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: to go in the first half and Harris just turned

878
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 2: over breeze six in the regular season. Won in that

879
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Speaker 2: playoff game. How memorable were games against the Saints for you?

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00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 2: Because we have the Minneapolis miracle after the twenty seven team.

881
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 2: Then as we just heard there, you picked off Drew

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Speaker 2: Brees in that playoff game down there after the twenty

883
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Speaker 2: nineteen season. Those games were memorable against the Saints, right, yeah, man.

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Speaker 6: Those were very physical games, you know, going against another

885
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 6: good coach, Sean Payton in his offensive mind, and that

886
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 6: was a roster field with a lot of talent. So

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Speaker 6: those games we knew they were going to be physical.

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Speaker 6: You know, there was going to be a lot of

889
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 6: mental games played as well, with having Drew Brees at quarterback,

890
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Speaker 6: and so those games were extremely fun, extremely competitive, and

891
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 6: a lot of guys made a lot of plays and

892
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Speaker 6: we had a lot of fun doing it.

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Speaker 2: It's been great seeing you as many times as I

894
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 2: have since training camp. Saw Misterrell Raymond this weekend, Xavier

895
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 2: Roads a few home games ago. So it's great that

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Speaker 2: you guys stay involved via the alumni and next time

897
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Speaker 2: you're in town, man, stop by the studio.

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Speaker 3: Let's mix it up for a couple of segments.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's do it.

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Speaker 6: See you about see you.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Harris, former safety for the Minnesota Vikings but also

902
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 2: a teammate for several years with Harrison Smith was playing

903
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Speaker 2: his two hundredth regular season game this weekend. Somebody who's

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Speaker 2: quite close with Harry the hit Man is our next

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Speaker 2: guest Ben Lieber, sideline analyst for the Vikings Audio Network.

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Speaker 2: It's not your time around the corner on KFA