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Speaker 1: We're breaking up, Bob, play around a bad football team.

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Speaker 2: Bad things happened, personal foul whipping, well.

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Speaker 3: Average.

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Speaker 1: Morning.

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Speaker 4: This is nine to noon at Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center,

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Speaker 4: home to your Minnesota Vikings. It is our regular Tuesday stop,

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Speaker 4: the Vikings of the Chargers Thursday night at so Far.

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Speaker 4: More on that coming up very very soon, but we

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Speaker 4: are happy to welcome back into the love Covenant Chris Finch,

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Speaker 4: head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, into his fourth full

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Speaker 4: season leading our Timberwolves, and the regular season opener is

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Speaker 4: tomorrow night at Portland and Chris Chris joins us every

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Speaker 4: week or certainly close to every single week nine to

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Speaker 4: noon courtesy of Second Harvest Heartland and two Harvest dot Org.

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Speaker 1: And here he is. It's Paul Allen. How you been,

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Speaker 5: I've been great? How about yourself?

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Speaker 1: A great?

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Speaker 4: Sounds like you're smiling right now because you know I'm

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Speaker 5: I did go to the game. It was it was

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Speaker 5: I knew you were gonna you were gonna bring this up.

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Speaker 5: So I just love football because it's it's for me

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Speaker 5: you know, it's always tough you have long, long, long

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Speaker 5: sometimes it comes down to players having execute. I'm not

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Speaker 5: I don't I don't pretend to talk that way about it.

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Speaker 5: But as a fan and as a coach who can

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Speaker 4: The reigning National Football League Coach of the Year, Kevin O'Connell,

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Speaker 4: no doubt about it. Let's let's unfurl a FIFA early, FIFA,

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Speaker 4: this is fairness in Finchy Finchy Act. For those of

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Speaker 4: you who don't know, like where Chris came from, he

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Speaker 4: for everybody involved. At us Bank Stadium. What kind of

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Speaker 4: Warn Harold Carmichael.

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Speaker 1: You're fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Safe travels to you and the Covenant and maybe we'll

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Speaker 3: so I'm thrilled to be in said concrete jungle.

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Speaker 1: What do you like about New York City?

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Speaker 3: I could never live here. My head with spin, but

439
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Speaker 3: when I come here, I'm always moving At Central Park

440
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Speaker 3: staple for me Broadway show, which I'll do tonight. There's

441
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Speaker 3: just so much to do with the great food. I

442
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Speaker 3: had a chance to dinner with Louie Nannie and your

443
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Speaker 3: guy Lapants a couple of nights ago, a great Italian

444
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Speaker 3: spot here. I just it's one of those places you've

445
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Speaker 3: been here like it's non stop, Like, yeah, I could

446
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Speaker 3: not live here, but I love to visit here.

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Speaker 5: I'll keep it that way.

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Speaker 4: Well, you being a movie buff or a movie's snob,

449
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Speaker 4: have you ever taken because you've done this two decades now,

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Speaker 4: I mean, what are you into your like your twentieth

451
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Speaker 4: year Yes, Okay, well that's fantastic, So you've been there

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Speaker 4: a million times.

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Speaker 1: But being a movie.

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Speaker 4: Buff with like like not Escape from New York with

455
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Speaker 4: Snake Pliskin, that would be different, like say a Bronx tail.

456
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Speaker 4: You do you ever like try to venture to neighborhoods

457
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Speaker 4: like that?

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Speaker 1: So I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you can see a table outside of an Italian

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Speaker 4: restaurant with a checkered tablecloth and some old guys sitting

461
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Speaker 4: there with cigars and there's a phone on the table.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I find myself because of my love of movies, Pa,

463
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Speaker 3: I love walking around the city, especially around Central Park,

464
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Speaker 3: and going to places that have been featured in movies.

465
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Speaker 3: Of course Home Alone in New York, the Plaza Hotel,

466
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Speaker 3: the restaurant called Serendipity three was featured in Jeff q

467
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Speaker 3: Sex Serendipity. We're not far from the Empire State Building,

468
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Speaker 3: which so many movies, but Sleepless in Seattle one of

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Speaker 3: my favorites with Tom Hanks. So I love going to

470
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Speaker 3: different spots that have been featured in some of my

471
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Speaker 3: favorite movies. And when you're in New York, there are

472
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Speaker 3: dozens upon dozens of places to do.

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Speaker 4: That sweet win last night at Madison Square Garden, which

474
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Speaker 4: is arena immortality, And personally, I felt excellent for Gus.

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Speaker 4: I felt excellent for the goaltender who was enduring a

476
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Speaker 4: rough thattch and they're going to be as you know,

477
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Speaker 4: there are going to be games where he gives up

478
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Speaker 4: zero zero one, two, zero one, three, But I think

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Speaker 4: we had a five and a six in there, which

480
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Speaker 4: is not preferred. So I felt really good for him

481
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Speaker 4: last night to be able to leave with the money

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Speaker 4: the way he he did.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 3: I completely agree. And when you're going up against Igor Schusterkin,

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Speaker 3: a Rangers goali who was widely considered one of the

486
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Speaker 3: best two or three goalies in the world. He came

487
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Speaker 3: into the game last night with a save percentage of

488
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Speaker 3: over ninety six, which is ridiculous. And then you look

489
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Speaker 3: at Gus's rollst recent start on this road trip. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he was the really only good thing to say about

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Speaker 3: the Washington game. We got a shot forty five to

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Speaker 3: fifteen in that game, and so he gave us some goals,

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Speaker 3: but he was actually really good in that game.

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Speaker 5: And so to have him come out.

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Speaker 3: And play like he did last night, I thought he

496
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Speaker 3: was great. All night, but specifically in the third period

497
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Speaker 3: when the Rangers really came with a push. You know,

498
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Speaker 3: the say he made on Zebtajad on the week side

499
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Speaker 3: with that club was a game changing stave and he

500
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Speaker 3: just looked fully in control of himself on on and

501
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Speaker 3: he really has except for one game, you know, the

502
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Speaker 3: Columbus game at home was certainly a plonkervert. Other than that,

503
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Speaker 3: he's given the team a chance to win every time

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Speaker 3: he has started, and it's I think it's really cool

505
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Speaker 3: that the other suite, yes for a volset that is

506
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Speaker 3: starting to push him, and that's good. Competition in that

507
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Speaker 3: crease is a good thing. And so we don't know

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Speaker 3: who's going to be in goal to Brown night in

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Speaker 3: New Jersey. It likely will be Gus, but because balt

510
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Speaker 3: that's played so well, that competition is off and running

511
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Speaker 3: and that's a good thing for this team.

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Speaker 4: He g first NHL goal last night for Danilla. You're

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Speaker 4: off a first round pick in twenty twenty two. What

514
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Speaker 4: are we liking about him?

515
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Speaker 5: From day one?

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Speaker 3: He has a high Hockey IQ, super smart player pa.

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Speaker 3: He knows what to do without the pocket. You can

518
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Speaker 3: just slowly kind of see him settling in He's a

519
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Speaker 3: super quiet kid, doesn't really speak English much yet. In fact,

520
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Speaker 3: Caprice if ironically he's had to transit a couple of

521
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Speaker 3: interviews we've done in the locker room with him. But

522
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Speaker 3: now you're starting to see him take steps, and one

523
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Speaker 3: of those steps is getting to the net. When you

524
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Speaker 3: play hockey over in Russia, when you play the europe

525
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Speaker 3: in Branda, hockey the physical stuff that the NHL provides

526
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Speaker 3: as a challenge, and he is starting to where he

527
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Speaker 3: scored his goal last night, get to the middle of

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Speaker 3: the rink. He's a really good skater, he's a responsible player,

529
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Speaker 3: and you know there's offensive skill there. We just hadn't

530
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Speaker 3: seen a lot of that in training camp. I think

531
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Speaker 3: he played a real safe and smart game in camp,

532
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Speaker 3: and now I think you're starting to see the twenty

533
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Speaker 3: one year old starting to get a couple of looks

534
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Speaker 3: in the top line. You saw John Hines early in

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Speaker 3: the game, give him a shift or two with Boldie

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Speaker 3: and Caprice of you're seeing him get some power play

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Speaker 3: time and you're seeing his game grow. And I think

538
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Speaker 3: right now we're just scratching the surface. But when a

539
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Speaker 3: kid like that finally scores that first goal, a lot

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Speaker 3: of times that will set them in motion and they'll

541
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Speaker 3: be a little more aggressive with and without the puck

542
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Speaker 3: getting too those areas they need to get to. And

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Speaker 3: this kid's clearly got a ton of talent, and I

544
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Speaker 3: think the upside is going to be fun for us

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Speaker 3: as Wild fans to watch.

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Speaker 1: KG from New York City.

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Speaker 4: After the Wild beat the Rangers last evening, this is

548
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Speaker 4: nine to new Hey, Gargy. We knew that power play

549
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Speaker 4: bonanza that we saw early on was probably not sustainable,

550
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Speaker 4: but what have you seen from the team specifically five

551
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Speaker 4: on five? I know, you know, last few games a

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Speaker 4: couple of them being l sadly, but all the same

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Speaker 4: five y five.

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Speaker 1: Are we seeing some life there?

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Speaker 3: We are, Nordo and great point, because when they got

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Speaker 3: out of the gates near forty seven percent of the

557
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Speaker 3: power play that that's just not sustainable, and they're still

558
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Speaker 3: sitting at over thirty four percent. There's still the number

559
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Speaker 3: one power play in the league. But if you're gonna

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Speaker 3: win games consistently in this league, you've got to.

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Speaker 5: Win the five on five.

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Speaker 3: And what we've seen here on this road trip specifically

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Speaker 3: is their their blue liners start to get involved. The

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Speaker 3: Washington game which was not a game the will probably

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Speaker 3: real proud to put on tape. Their d were really quiet,

566
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Speaker 3: and then you saw those numbers jump up, the analytics

567
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Speaker 3: doubled with Blue line pushing the offense and getting twenty

568
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Speaker 3: shots to the net. And then again you saw it

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Speaker 3: last night, starting with Corodin's goal to get the while

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Speaker 3: back in the game after the Rangers are taking that

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Speaker 3: one nothing leave. This has always been and will always

572
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Speaker 3: be a team that is built from the back end

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Speaker 3: when it comes to offense, and you clearly can see

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Speaker 3: the young talent now on that Blue line with the

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Speaker 3: buoyum and now we're getting to see a little bit

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Speaker 3: of David Yichek, like this is a team that wants

577
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Speaker 3: to push it from the back end, making good plays

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Speaker 3: using speed, getting defensement involved in the rush. And when

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Speaker 3: they do that, they're a good hockey team. When they

580
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Speaker 3: don't do that, like in Washington, then they play on

581
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Speaker 3: their heels and it's not the same product. So great question,

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Speaker 3: and I think if you continue to see the Blue

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Speaker 3: Liners push the face, that's a good thing.

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Speaker 8: Well, and to that end, you know kind of early

585
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Speaker 8: on and you love seeing capriz Off and Boldie. I

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Speaker 8: believe both have ten points through this first stretch of games,

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Speaker 8: and that's a positive thing, of course, but whether it

588
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Speaker 8: is seeing you're off get into the mix, whether.

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Speaker 1: It is Brodein getting that goal.

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Speaker 8: And you mentioned the young Blue liners and how this

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Speaker 8: team aims to push it, you know, finding scoring among

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Speaker 8: other lines, finding that complimentary work such an a topic, right,

593
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Speaker 8: and maybe this team could be leveling out specifically, whether

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Speaker 8: it's even strength and getting other contributors into the mix,

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Speaker 8: no question.

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Speaker 3: And you know, Vladimir Karasenko scoring that goal in Philadelphia

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Speaker 3: to me, can be a real impactful play here moving forward. Certainly,

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Speaker 3: Marco Rossi, I don't think he's going to be out

599
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 3: too long here. He's a very durable player. He played

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Speaker 3: eighty two games in each of the last two seasons.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like it's going to be anything more

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Speaker 3: than a game or two. Get him back in the fold.

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Speaker 3: And then, and certainly sometime in late November early December,

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Speaker 3: when you get a guy like Zuparrello back, you want

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Speaker 3: to get to the point here, guys, where you have

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Speaker 3: two different lines that are dangerous right now, the track

607
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 3: they're falling into, and it's again nothing John Hines can

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Speaker 3: do with the players they're missing. You look at last

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00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 3: night with Zuparello and Rossie. I want if you have

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Speaker 3: to load up that top line, and that's a double absorber.

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Speaker 3: The top line is awesome, but the opposition when you're

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Speaker 3: on the road has last change and they can say

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Speaker 3: the matchup and you're likely going to be going out

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Speaker 3: there every single shift against whatever team you're playing best defensively,

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Speaker 3: and so you've seen their production. The top two guys

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Speaker 3: Gooldie and capriceof Paper just a little bit here on

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Speaker 3: this road trip, and it's a bigger challenge where you

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Speaker 3: don't have another line take pressure off them. So if

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Speaker 3: you can get Rossie back in the mix and you

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Speaker 3: can get their or think go going, you can get

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Speaker 3: Johnson to continue to play well. Quietly, guys Murcus Johansson

622
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Speaker 3: is playing really good hockey right now, and but while

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Speaker 3: need him, they need him to continue to produce because

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00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 3: you can't rely on that top line every single night,

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Speaker 3: especially when you're out on the road.

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Speaker 1: The best. Thank you very much for making time.

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Speaker 4: I know you're a morning's busy out NYC Way and

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Speaker 4: expect us to contact you next week. Gorgame with the

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we're about eleven days away from the breeders stuff,

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Speaker 3: so I look forward to that conversation.

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Speaker 5: Have a good day, guys later.

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Speaker 4: hyper accurate? And I'd like to begin here. The Detroit

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Speaker 4: Lions are the best in the NFC North and it's

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Speaker 4: not even close.

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Speaker 8: I'm leaning towards hyper accurate with that, and and that

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Speaker 8: that has required me, you know, as we would joke

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Speaker 8: around change, you know, changing my face on the kiddies,

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Speaker 8: with the new coordinators and all of the new that

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Speaker 8: has taken place in Detroit, watching them just systematically dismantle

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Speaker 8: everybody that they are playing right now, sands the opener

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Speaker 8: against the pack right the What were they going to

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Speaker 8: lose on offense with Gibbs in Montgomery, trying to find

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Speaker 8: that wrecked mix and trying to target and take advantage

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Speaker 8: of the brilliance in Amana Saint Brown. Oh wait, they've

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Speaker 8: lost nothing. What about this offensive line and all that change.

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Speaker 8: Golf got beaten up a little bit by that nice

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Speaker 8: Tampa front. For the most part, it hasn't changed, and

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Speaker 8: golf has remained super efficient. They find the explosives that

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Speaker 8: they had before with Ben Johnson, and then defensively Pa

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Speaker 8: they've gotten healthier and a guy that we know and respect,

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Speaker 8: but he was hurt and it's almost like you forget

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Speaker 8: when somebody's gone and then they come back and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 8: that guy, Alee McNeil, are you kidding me right now

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Speaker 8: with that? So they're they're surviving some injuries and some

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Speaker 8: issues specifically in the secondary.

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Speaker 7: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: They're the same damn team, man. They are the best

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Speaker 1: in the NFC North.

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Speaker 8: All respect and even some appreciation for the nasty neighbors

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Speaker 8: to the east and what the pack We're able to

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Speaker 8: do surviving via matriculation and in some ways attrition over

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Speaker 8: the course of that game against Jacobe Brissett, I think

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Speaker 8: the Lions are right back in the caffird seat of

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Speaker 8: the North.

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Speaker 4: Now in the NBA, there are how many games in

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Speaker 4: a regular season eighty two? Okay, So here is the

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Speaker 4: next one outside of the football covenant, hyperbolic or hyper accurate.

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Speaker 4: OKC will win seventy four games and set a new

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Speaker 4: NBA record for season wins. It's within the last decade.

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Speaker 4: I believe the Golden State Warriors won seventy three games,

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Speaker 4: and I think that passed Michael Jordan's Bulls team from

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Speaker 4: days gone by, winning seventy two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, seventy two and ten and then seventy three and nine.

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Speaker 4: The Dubs were yeah, okay, seventy four and eight or

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Speaker 4: seventy five and seven.

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Speaker 1: Hyperbolic or hyper accurate.

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Speaker 4: OKC will win seventy four games, I guess at least,

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Speaker 4: but seventy four games and set a new NBA record

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Speaker 4: for season wins.

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Speaker 8: I think that's at this stage incredibly hyperbolic. And it's

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Speaker 8: not that they aren't the best team in the West,

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Speaker 8: but injuries occur. I think we've seen over the last

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Speaker 8: year decade, now what seven or eight consecutive different NBA champions.

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Speaker 1: So you speak to the.

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Speaker 8: Parody in the league and whether it's us messing around

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Speaker 8: talking LFL stuff, fantasy basketball, or just kind of bumping

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Speaker 8: around over the course of the season, chatting with Finch

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Speaker 8: and watching our favorite team.

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Speaker 1: How muddy is this freaking West Man?

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Speaker 8: I mean, even in your conversation with him, it's like,

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Speaker 8: how do they keep figuring it out?

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Speaker 1: In Denver?

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Speaker 8: I know Jokich is otherworldly, absolutely otherworldly, but Jamal Murray

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Speaker 8: and just getting through his injuries, the supporting cast has

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Speaker 8: been weird. They kind of dust off Aaron Gordon make

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Speaker 8: him into what he is. Christian Brown emerging is maybe

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Speaker 8: that third or fourth potential scoring option. Like the Nuggets

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Speaker 8: just come to play and they are so tough, tough

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Speaker 8: as anybody in the NBA. Then you think about the

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Speaker 8: Houston Rockets, Then you think about the Lakers. Maybe a

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Speaker 8: slim down Luca and an aging Lebron certainly, but a

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Speaker 8: different cast of characters around him is so difficult. I

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Speaker 8: focus on the West just because obviously that's where most

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Speaker 8: of the games will be played. From a standpoint with OKC,

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Speaker 8: I think it's incredibly hyperbolic because the West is as

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Speaker 8: talented as it is, and I just went on. I

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Speaker 8: went down a list of teams without even mentioning our

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Speaker 8: favorite team, with our favorite player that has a right

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Speaker 8: and that has a right to be better this year.

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Speaker 8: I just can't see them getting through this conference with

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Speaker 8: seventy four wins.

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Speaker 4: Fair hyperbolic or hyper accurate. Bo Nicks is the best

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Speaker 4: quarterback from the twenty twenty four class, and it's becoming

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Speaker 4: not even close. I think that's also hyperbolic. I think

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Speaker 4: that the First of all, the jury's still out. But

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Speaker 4: look at Drake may Man. Look at Jaden Daniels, who

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Speaker 4: I mean, he ran away from him by twenty lengths

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Speaker 4: last year, and.

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Speaker 8: So and he is probably Jaden Daniels is probably still

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Speaker 8: in the lead there. Sophomore campaign's been tough for him

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Speaker 8: from a health standpoint, so that has to fact or

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Speaker 8: in our favorite guy. It's been an entire conversation of

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Speaker 8: health the entire time. Even Caleb Williams it looks like

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Speaker 8: he is evolving. With Ben Johnson, I still they can

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Speaker 8: win four in a row. Look a little bit at

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Speaker 8: that schedule, dig into some of those games a bit,

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Speaker 8: and the grind is real still for Ben Johnson and the.

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Speaker 1: Bears boon Nicks.

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Speaker 8: It's impressive what they did, the thirty three points in

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Speaker 8: the fourth quarter, I get it, But there are still

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Speaker 8: moments where they're putting.

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Speaker 1: Themselves in those spots.

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Speaker 8: Pa, So I'd love to dig a little bit deeper

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Speaker 8: in terms of what it takes for Sean Payton to

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Speaker 8: put bon Nicks in those.

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Speaker 1: Spots using his legs. He makes some.

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Speaker 8: Terrific throws, he also still makes some bone headed decision

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Speaker 8: So for me, Jaden Daniel still in the mix. I

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Speaker 8: think Drake May is getting some late speed and he's

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Speaker 8: catching up quick.

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Speaker 1: Let's pause now.

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Speaker 4: When we returned, Viking's general manager Kwasia Dofa Mensa joins

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Speaker 4: nine to noon