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Speaker 1: Well, I asked for questions for our next guest, Chris Carter,

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Chris Carter kind enough to join us via

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Speaker 1: the Connectico Water Systems hotline. Welcome back, sir, Are you

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Speaker 1: still in town? I didn't realize you were at the

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Speaker 1: game yesterday until my producer guards he mentioned that are

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Speaker 1: you or have you flown the coup already?

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Speaker 2: I've already flown the coup.

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Speaker 1: Good for you. Here's the first question. Where is home

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Speaker 1: these days for Chris Carter? And what is he doing?

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Speaker 2: It's still in boker Ratone, Florida, Okay, And I am

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Speaker 2: the program manager and player development leader for Florida, Florida

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Speaker 2: Atlantic University, Florida.

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Speaker 3: Nice, I missed that completely.

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Speaker 2: How I've been doing that the last two and a

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Speaker 3: Well, that shows me for me to not pay attention.

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Speaker 1: Do you like doing that? What got you to it?

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Speaker 1: And how have you found that particular role?

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Speaker 2: Well, we have the youngest coach and he took over

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Speaker 2: last year and knewing that from a business perspective, from

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Speaker 2: an nil's perspective. I knew a few people here in

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Speaker 2: on staff to build help them grow the program. So

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Speaker 2: you know, you're dealing with young people and young people

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Speaker 2: trying to reach their potential. And you know, the thing

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Speaker 2: that I try to tell them, it's really not about

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Speaker 2: my career and what I accomplished is a player. It's

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Speaker 2: really about the connective points that as a former athlete,

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Speaker 2: high school coach, all those connection points of how you

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Speaker 2: might build to be successful. So you should build utilize

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Speaker 2: one of my experiences or something, yes advantage because we

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Speaker 2: very very rewarding to build help direct young people's you know,

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Speaker 3: That sounds really good.

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Speaker 1: Somebody also wanted to know what are most modern DAID

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Speaker 1: wide receivers missing that Chris's era did or had. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you may not even accept the premise. I don't know

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Speaker 1: he I think he seems to be suggesting that some

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Speaker 3: Do you even agree with that premise.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that it's really about what does the

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Speaker 2: job require. Like we always go through ways to try

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Speaker 2: to take shine off of people that are very, very successful,

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Speaker 2: and sometimes it's based on time, our technology or rule changes,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I really not try to be that way.

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Speaker 2: I really try to appreciate the game. The game has

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Speaker 2: the game has changed during the era that I played in,

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Speaker 2: So I think the wide receiver position they play at

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Speaker 2: have tremendous skill. You know, they have to deal with

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Speaker 2: a job than what they're doing. So I'm very, very

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Speaker 2: proud of the types of receivers we have, all the

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Speaker 2: different shapes, sizes, and how they're able to get the

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Speaker 2: job done. But the job is still number one is

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Speaker 1: All right, You study wide receivers closely, you study quarterbacks closely.

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Speaker 1: You are at the Viking Stadium yesterday for the loss

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Speaker 2: Well, I see a young quarterback. I see a young

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Speaker 1: You know what's interesting, somebody had texted me earlier about

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Speaker 1: And my recollection, again you'll remember more closely than me,

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Speaker 1: JJ is worrying people, even if, as you say, he's

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I think it's a brilliant comparison

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Speaker 2: were Dante sat his first year. Yep, we were very,

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Speaker 2: The thing about Dante that was easy to see whate

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Speaker 2: by the way, in that first year, there was two

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Speaker 2: no game that we dropped five balls like I saw

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Speaker 2: comparisons to Dante Culpepper. I think Dante was an MVP candidate,

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Speaker 2: right he was.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had one other year that was better, obviously,

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Speaker 1: It was almost from the from the very beginning. And

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Speaker 2: This was a thrower in college? Man?

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Speaker 2: Team that Dante Culpeper got off from his high school team,

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Speaker 2: I met his coaches, I met his teammate to Central Florida,

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Speaker 2: Dante Culpeper was it. He was the show. He was

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Speaker 2: He wasn't riding on the bus just to get from

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Speaker 1: No, that's that's fair. It's all hindsight now. So it's

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Speaker 1: easy I grant that point. But to me, the dilemma,

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Speaker 1: the challenge for the Vikings coming off fourteen and three

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Speaker 1: So if you look at the talent on the team

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Speaker 1: JJ have been better served if they put this thing

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Speaker 1: still we got a lot of good players on this team.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if we can take another step after fourteen

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Speaker 2: What do you think, No, the kid is not better

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Speaker 2: off served sitting any more time. All right, you're a

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Speaker 2: You can't just keep pushing it off to the future.

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Speaker 2: That's not the way to do business. And they couldn't

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Speaker 2: the Vikings. Did the Brett Faares thing? It almost God

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Speaker 2: was there. No, Brett was playing at a higher level.

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Speaker 2: We had Adrian Peterson. Yeah, so the combination to be

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Speaker 2: I mean that offensive line we had last year. They

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Speaker 2: like him as a quarterback. I think from a business

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Speaker 2: and he comes with a mentality Alabama Indian halpliss Man.

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Speaker 2: They ran the ball effectively and protected the quarterback for

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Speaker 2: So I think that JJ was not best served by

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Speaker 2: How could he be happy when you go home? How

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Speaker 1: Well, let me ask a crew were chatting with Chris Carter.

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Speaker 3: Does it give you pause?

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Speaker 2: Of course, because at this point, even on your fifth start,

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Speaker 2: I compare JJ to every other quarterback, every other journeyman

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Speaker 1: I mean to see age old question? After the game,

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Speaker 2: Well, when you listen to Koc's press conference today and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I saw yesterday. That's fair. That's the

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Speaker 1: Carl is checking in from Cottage Grove, but he writes,

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that specific game or any untold Jeff

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, Jeff, before we put the game plan in

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Speaker 2: Don't give me no abbreviated via backup, backup quarterback game plan.

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Speaker 2: He's out there drawing up signals. Hey, Chris, when you

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Speaker 2: That's the way we get our haircuts. I was like, yeah, Jeff,

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Speaker 3: Oh that's pretty good. Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: Were you dominant in that game? I don't remember much

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had we had to spread it around that game.

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Speaker 6: You keep throwing them out there, you keep you know,

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Speaker 2: backup next year. Yes, I'm definitely gonna do it. I

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Speaker 2: have to do that. I have to do that for

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Speaker 2: the team. And that's what they did last year in

436
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Speaker 2: Sam Donold with the end of the rookie year. I

437
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Speaker 2: did the same thing again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a great point. Well, you're you're

439
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Speaker 1: you're hurting the feelings of Gopher fans, who you know,

440
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: are big, big believers in Max Brosmer, the Gopher quarterback

441
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: last year is the backup. So I'm just saying be

442
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Speaker 1: careful because they're very sensitive to the issue of you

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Speaker 1: not saying that they have a you know, an established

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Speaker 1: backup quarterback.

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Speaker 2: No problem, no problem. I'm sure. I'm sure they wanted

446
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 2: to put him in yesterday.

447
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Speaker 3: Chris did, believe me. I'm not kidding. Well, you know

448
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 3: that bit.

449
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Speaker 1: The bit is, uh, you know, you don't the backup

450
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 1: is always the warp free guy, right, because you don't

451
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Speaker 1: associate any mistakes because he hadn't played, so you make

452
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Speaker 1: the assumption that why not just throw him out there.

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Speaker 1: Here's another good question from the audience. From Dustin out

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Speaker 1: of Bamidgie. As a wide receiver in your prime, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: the quarterback instability be extremely frustrating to you?

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Speaker 2: Well, you don't know my career. I made the Pro

457
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Speaker 2: Bowl with five different quarterbacks different times. That's my career. Yes,

458
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: Like we didn't have any consistency, Like we had to

459
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Speaker 2: make the quarterback work whoever it was. So I just

460
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 2: don't believe in making excuses.

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Speaker 3: Have you mentioned that to Justin Because you're exactly right.

462
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Speaker 1: I mean everybody talks about the number of quarterbacks he's

463
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Speaker 1: gone to have the deal gone through.

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Speaker 3: You went through more than that.

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Speaker 2: It's the same deal, but you got the bread. You're

466
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Speaker 2: getting all the credit. Like when they throw that ball,

467
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 2: they don't think it's them, that's true, they know it's you.

468
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 2: So yes, he has extreme pressure on him, but he's

469
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Speaker 2: built for it, like he's built for this, and he's

470
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Speaker 2: a great team leader, and he's going to say all

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Speaker 2: the right things. He's not going to say anything, and

472
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to speak to him, but I did

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Speaker 2: talk to him before the game. And wide receivers, man,

474
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Speaker 2: most of us have the same DNA. Okay, you don't

475
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Speaker 2: have to work too hard to think about what it is.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you were, I mean I think you were.

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Speaker 1: You're not as vocal as some, but you're I think

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Speaker 1: you're more vocal than he. I think you'd agree back

479
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Speaker 1: in the day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, but that's I got no problem

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Speaker 2: with you.

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Speaker 3: No, that was you.

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00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 2: Like, he's got a great style for which for which

484
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: he can get stuff done. And he's got a lot

485
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Speaker 2: of younger players in that locker room who really really

486
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Speaker 2: look up to him. So what he says is overall,

487
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 2: body language and everything becomes very very important, even if

488
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Speaker 2: he's lying.

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Speaker 1: Well, you got to right publicly. That's that's what you got. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well you didn't. You didn't feel obligated to actually though

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Speaker 1: you you will.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm not going to tell a lot, but I'll

493
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: also tell you in a way that you can you

494
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: can can can do your job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That's a very good way to put it,

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Speaker 1: and you often did. That's a hundred that's one hundred

497
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: percent true.

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Speaker 3: Is it? In the end? Is part of this too?

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Speaker 3: You know you mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: You if they've gone with one of the vets, then

501
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: you don't have money to spend elsewhere. But are we

502
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Speaker 1: coming to grips with the reality Chris, that it probably

503
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Speaker 1: was going to be unrealistic to expect you could do both.

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Speaker 1: In other words, throw the young quarterback out there and

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Speaker 1: compete in a way that you wanted to as much

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Speaker 1: as you did during the regular season last year. That

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Speaker 1: given his you know, some of his limitations are some

508
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Speaker 1: of his struggles at this point, that it just it

509
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: just was going to be very difficult to work to

510
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: get both things done, you know, because they're big here

511
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: on saying we don't rebuild. You know, we're not giving

512
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Speaker 1: away a leapy or anything like that. We're we're going

513
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Speaker 1: after it. But aren't we seeing the limitations of that

514
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Speaker 1: to a certain extent.

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Speaker 2: Well, for one, you can't you don't know what the

516
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: left tackle he designed to come back from a horrific

517
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 2: knee injury a little bit early, but you're trying to

518
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: gut it out. He's a great player, all right. His

519
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 2: comeback was a little bit slow. You lose the center,

520
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 2: all right, the quarterback gets nicked up early. So a

521
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 2: lot of things that Jordan Addison was suspended, you know,

522
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: So they had a lot of moving pieces that realistically,

523
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: the more championship models, especially though a match detrait and

524
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: physicality and Philadelphian physicality. They had to upgrade the offensive line,

525
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: they had to upgrade the interi of the defensive line,

526
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Speaker 2: and they also invested in some players that have been

527
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: successful for us. So yeah, I like the business model.

528
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Speaker 2: I believe in the front office. I believe in the ownership.

529
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 2: I believe in KOC. But that don't mean that what

530
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: I'm seeing right now that it looks better than actually

531
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Speaker 2: what I'm seeing it is what it is like this

532
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 2: team has underperformed based on the talent level they have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and again I'm not putting it on the

535
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Speaker 1: quarterback because it's not all on him. But the numbers

536
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Speaker 1: are alarm you know. I mean they're staggering even by

537
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Speaker 1: a young quarterback numbers when we're talking about QBR and

538
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: quarterback rating, I mean, they're off the charts here and

539
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Speaker 1: and so that's I mean, you know, as you mentioned.

540
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Speaker 2: Like this, but I don't like people who don't really

541
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 2: watch the game, right and yesterday, you know, the quarterback

542
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: was a great example, especially for a young player, Like

543
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 2: young players are typically more streaky, but you got to

544
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: get them a layup. You got to get them pocket, yes,

545
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 2: so that they can get that gleam in their eye,

546
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 2: get that college filling back where they were dominant players

547
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 2: the past. They throw early in the game down the

548
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Speaker 2: middle of the field to Jordan Addison that could have

549
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 2: changed his whole psyche. I mean, I mean that the

550
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: forty or fifty yard nugget that. Like, you don't know.

551
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 2: They had a couple other TJ. He dropped the path.

552
00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 2: The running back dropped the path. JJ dropped the path. Right,

553
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: So all these things, and we're talking about the quarterback

554
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: and all these things could have been way way different.

555
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: If everybody's doing your job, especially when you have a

556
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: young quarterback, your margin from air it decreases. We get

557
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 2: your damn job and help out the kid.

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Speaker 1: Help them out. Yeah, do what you can to make

559
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Speaker 1: a difference. I could keep you all day. As you know,

560
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: we're really late. I appreciate you as always. Uh, I'm

561
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: glad you're doing well, and uh hopefully we can chat

562
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: again soon later this very season.

563
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, keep your chin up, biking fans, We're gonna

564
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 2: be all right.

565
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 3: They need to hear that.

566
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Speaker 1: I think they probably needed that that message delivered. Although

567
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: you say it from the safety of Boca Raton. You're

568
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: back there while it's going to snow here tomorrow.

569
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what that don't mean I can't be a

570
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: fan and they're not going to hear it on your

571
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: show because you're not going to tell them that. That's

572
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: why you had to have me on here to give

573
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 2: them some hope many season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're writing just in time for the for the

575
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Speaker 1: holiday season. You're Oh, by the way, that was one

576
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: another question. Does Chris Carter put his Christmas tree up

577
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving? Or after Thanksgiving? That was another hard hitting

578
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: question I got from the audience.

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Speaker 2: Oh before, man, I got light everywhere here there already

580
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Speaker 2: I got Oh, absolutely, I got Christmas light on the

581
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: palm tree.

582
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Speaker 3: Send me a photo, man, send me a photo. I'll

583
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 3: tweet it out. That's perfect.

584
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: Okay, absolutely, I'll walk outside and take a picture of

585
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Speaker 2: the front.

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00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: Thanks Chris, my man, I appreciate you. That is the

587
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,959
Speaker 1: one and the only Chris Carter. We'll get caught up

588
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: when we complete. I can't think of a better follow

589
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: up to our conversation with the Chris Carter than this

590
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: particular Vikings talking point.

591
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 3: We call it wild high and wild low.

592
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 4: McCarthy play actions great drop deep one side in complaint

593
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 4: to Addison, who's scorched Naseean Wright. Bad pass by JJ McCarthy.

594
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 4: That should have been a big hitch, absolutely right.

595
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 5: It was a deep over route and he got some

596
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,719
Speaker 5: space between him he and the shot right, and that

597
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 5: thing was just thrown a little bit short. So something

598
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 5: to keep an eye on, Paul. That should have been

599
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 5: a big completion right there. You know, that's that's got

600
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 5: to upset Kevin O'Connell.

601
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Speaker 4: Scheme it open, Addison gets open at about the twenty

602
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 4: five of the Bears, McCarthy miss fire.

603
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 3: Minnesota two of two.

604
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Speaker 4: On third down, McCarthy shotgun five man rush passed left

605
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: incomplete to Jefferson and McCarthy was hitched shortly after he

606
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 4: threw it justin heads to the sideline, knowing he should

607
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 4: it should have been a first down. It was just

608
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 4: another off target too hard. JJ McCarthy passed.

609
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was thrown behind behind him in his back shoulder.

610
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 5: So that's too inaccurate passes that we've seen already in

611
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 5: this first series. And that doesn't Bowell. I know he's

612
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 5: got he has some issues with the hand. Not exactly

613
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 5: sure what.

614
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 4: Pistol formation McCarthy short shot play action, nice blitz picked

615
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 4: up by Aaron Jones pass right, intercepted. Kevin byered the

616
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 4: third with his fifth pick this year. He heads to

617
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 4: the right to the forty thirty five thirty and he's

618
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 4: out of bounds on the bear's bench side of the

619
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Speaker 4: equation at the eighteen. For JJ McCarthy, he has thrown

620
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 4: seven interceptions this year, and that one, I mean, that

621
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Speaker 4: one just just kind of hung up there like a

622
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 4: center field or waiting for the ball to come down.

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Speaker 3: Buyer got the pick.

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Speaker 5: Well, Bayern's, you know, really just bait at JJ McCarthy.

625
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 4: Now it's third and seven from their own thirty three.

626
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 4: McCarthy shotgun takes the snap. There comes a blitz picked

627
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 4: up by c. J. Hamm pass right incomplete. I mean,

628
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 4: I mean, I know it's his fifth start, and I

629
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 4: know experience is required.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know how to explain what just happened.

631
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Speaker 4: That was ten feet over the head of Justin Jefferson, who,

632
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 4: by the way, was wide open for a first down.

633
00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 3: Yeah it would have been.

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00:34:59,360 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 7: It would have been.

635
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 5: He was shooting to the sideline and the play was there.

636
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 5: It was open, and just over, just threw it over

637
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 5: his head.

638
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 6: Chris Carter catches that ball? Which one all of them

639
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 6: the last one doesn't matter if it's ten feet high

640
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 6: to find it.

641
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 3: Well he just elevate. You got both feet in, there's

642
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 3: no question.

643
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's a good as Carter and dropping no

644
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 6: five balls about that the best and so he.

645
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: Is still competitive. It's so great. Well that sort of

646
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: sizes it up on the downside, right, there is obviously

647
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: a great drive late, but there were some moments where

648
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: you go, WHOA, and I think you even got from Chris.

649
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: I think Carter is like you got to play him.

650
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: But I did sense a little bit of concern creeping

651
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: in regarding the level of inaccuracy in this game. And

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Speaker 1: again the kids don't remember Dante Culpeper's first season was

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Speaker 1: not perfect, but it was nothing like this from the

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Speaker 1: very beginning. It was nothing. They went to an NFC

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Speaker 1: title game that year that I mean it ended up

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Speaker 1: batter down. But yeah, that was his again same as JJ.

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Speaker 1: He sat for a year and this was his second year,

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Speaker 1: but the first time really playing in anything that mattered.

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Speaker 1: And I people have no recollection of it. But and

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Speaker 1: because right now they don't want to have a recollection

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Speaker 1: of it, because it would make it even more alarming.

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Speaker 3: What's going on right now?

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Speaker 1: Let's pause, get caught up, and more talking points when

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Speaker 1: we return. Time now for the Vikings Report on the Fan,

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Speaker 1: presented by Miller Lyte.

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Speaker 6: Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen joins Denver RaRo.

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Speaker 7: Next, marccers, all right.

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Speaker 3: Do you do it?

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Speaker 1: And let's do another quick Vikings talking point?

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Speaker 3: What do you think, Guardie?

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Speaker 1: I'll let you pick of the ones we have remaining,

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Speaker 1: anything any in particular you think worthy of our consideration

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Speaker 1: in this next short little block we have.

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Speaker 3: I like the last one run is success.

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Speaker 1: The power of Christ compels you to run the ball occasionally,

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Speaker 1: which we did do correct?

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Speaker 3: Want me to hit it? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Now the offense has to do their job. Yep, you

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00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 5: score here, it's only a six point lead. Now we

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00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 5: got some pressure on these Bears, Paul. They've been comfortable,

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Speaker 5: I think the entire game. It's time to make them uncomfortable.

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Speaker 4: Let's go forty two yard return by Price, his longest

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Speaker 4: punt return so far this year and needs a rookie.

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Speaker 4: Here we go first and ten. When the Bears twenty

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Speaker 4: four run it I'm behind McCarthy. It's a toss right

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Speaker 4: and turning it up. Jordan Mason gets to the twenty

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Speaker 4: outside the numbers. Tremaine Edmonds runs him down at about

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Speaker 4: the sixteen.

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Speaker 3: It's a run of eight run.

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Speaker 4: It again, dozing run by Jordan Mason. Second and two

691
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 4: thirteen minutes to go in the game. The Vikings, they

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00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 4: got some work to do, but at least they got

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Speaker 4: some momentum.

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Speaker 3: Now what a block by CJ.

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Speaker 5: Ham on CJ. Gardner Johnson, Paul, I mean that we've

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Speaker 5: talked about this all day, that they're keeping a defensive

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00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 5: back end basically to play linebacker against base personnel. So

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Speaker 5: you got the mismatch and CJ. Ham will take Gardner

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Speaker 5: Johnson all over second and short handoff.

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Speaker 4: Mason runs the right first job tenn sure Mason with

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Speaker 4: his fifth rushing touchdown this year, and the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 4: have life.

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Speaker 3: It's sixteen to nine Chicago.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they had a body there, but he just can't

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Speaker 5: arm tackle Jordan Mason. Paul, just tell the almost the

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Speaker 5: exact same play that they had run previously.

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Speaker 3: Off tackle.

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Speaker 5: Mason gets through the arm tackle by Gardner Johnson and

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Speaker 5: he takes it up and gets it into the end zone.

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Speaker 5: So what a huge turn of events, the Viking defense

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Speaker 5: coming out, make it something happen, special teams answering the call,

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Speaker 5: and then the running game of all things.

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Speaker 3: He sounds stunned.

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Speaker 6: He did, didn't he We converted a third and two

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Speaker 6: running the ball as well?

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Speaker 7: We did?

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Speaker 6: Did people bronx to hear that. I didn't hear that?

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Speaker 3: It's a good quote. I don't know though they did.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure they might have.

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Speaker 1: There were Goggins wrote some bitterness that we passed on

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Speaker 1: a couple of like a second and two.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember that one.

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Speaker 1: I I think overall I was as a you know,

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Speaker 1: a run run the ball terrorist as the Mike Zimmer. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I I have no complaints about the run game. I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's vindication once again that that it's an

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Speaker 1: important it can be an important piece. But as I

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Speaker 1: said on sermons, if you have a quarterback who's going

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Speaker 1: to be that inaccurate, it doesn't really matter how much

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Speaker 1: you run the ball.

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Speaker 3: There has to be it all has to work. There

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Speaker 3: has to be.

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Speaker 1: Harmonic convergence, right and and so and that I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can put on koc. It just he's just

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Speaker 1: wildly inaccurate. He's been that way. He's been a fifty

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Speaker 1: percent completion guy from the beginning of the season, and

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Speaker 1: that's the part that is scary and depressing about yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Kaos said it in his press conference. They ran the

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Speaker 1: ball really well. They had a lot of second in shorts. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they weren't behind the chains a bunch, and he got

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Speaker 1: good production.

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Speaker 3: He got good much.

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Speaker 6: Time, so much of it was set up to have

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Speaker 6: a really nice passing Yeah. Yeah, because of how they

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Speaker 6: established a run and I thought it was interesting. Ben

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Speaker 6: Johnson kind of in the middle of the first half

747
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Speaker 6: took the ball out of Caleb's hands a little bit too.

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Speaker 6: Caleb had a couple of runs in their touchdown drive,

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Speaker 6: but after he airmailed like four or five, I think

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Speaker 6: Johnson said, all right, we're going to the backs, give

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Speaker 6: me the Rutgers kid, give me the other guy. We're

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Speaker 6: gonna go. We're gonna run it a little bit. Let's

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Speaker 6: get this thing stabilized. They took the lead off that

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Speaker 6: that's true, and I thought that was interesting. But koc

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Speaker 6: I thought set up his quarterback amazingly yesterday, and his

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Speaker 6: QB was not ready for receivers.

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Speaker 3: Were open all over the place. There's no question.

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Speaker 1: Six point two guy earlier, listening to Pete Bursich through

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Speaker 1: these talking points, I feel like he's going into a

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Speaker 1: cranky old man, and you can hear it more and

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Speaker 1: more and more with each passing game. Uh, let me

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Speaker 1: let me put it this way. If that's what you

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Speaker 1: define as a cranky old man, I'll raise my hand

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Speaker 1: and endorse, because I don't think Peter Burstich sounds like

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Speaker 1: anything but a hell of a radio analyst. I don't

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Speaker 1: think if he's cranky, it's not a matter of cranky.

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Speaker 1: It's him evaluating what he sees exactly, which he's paid

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Speaker 1: to do. So if you turn if in your mind

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Speaker 1: that defines cranky, then I'm not sure again what you want.

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Speaker 1: If you it's not like it's not like Pa and

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Speaker 1: Bursus are afraid to cheer when things are going well,

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Speaker 1: but if they're not going well in a game, Bursus

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Speaker 1: isn't gonna lie to you. So I I love his

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Speaker 1: radio analysis. I can't half the reason we do talking

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Speaker 1: points brought to you by Federator Federated Insurance, by the

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Speaker 1: way we appreciate their support is the reaction. It's it's

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00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: it's an and and a lot of times. As you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know it because I'm watching it on TV.

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00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: So I'm amused because you know what's coming and I don't,

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Speaker 1: And it's it's part of the fun.

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Speaker 3: But he he ain't cranky at all.

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Speaker 1: What's he supposed to say? Well, he is cranky, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's cranky in terms of performance. It's not like

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Speaker 1: he's just waking up wanting to hammer no, Boddy no.

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Speaker 1: And what bothers him the most, I think should bother everybody. Yes,

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00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: the sloppiness, Yes, where they're running guys out, laid on

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Speaker 1: the punt, where guys are dropping the ball. Where he's

788
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: a coach and a player, he doesn't like the sloppiness. Dan,

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00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: your criticisms of JJ are factual, but I almost it

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Speaker 1: almost seems like you're enjoying seeing him struggle and mocking

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Speaker 1: the fans of support McCarthy. Do you have some vendetta

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00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: against McCarthy that's from Kyle, Kyle, keep that between you

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Speaker 1: and me. Yeah, I'm out to get the guy. I

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Speaker 1: celebrated the two when the Vikings drafted him. Vendetta against

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00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. If he looks like Josh Freeman, It's not

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Speaker 1: my fault. If he looks nothing like Dante Culpepper in

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00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: his first year, his second year with the team, that's

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Speaker 1: not my fault either.

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Speaker 3: It's the bumper to bumper show rap. It's never going

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Speaker 3: to end, is it?

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Speaker 1: Every third text you check Josh Allen stats his first year.

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00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me give him to you right now.

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00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,959
Speaker 1: His first season QBR forty nine to eight, regular rating

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Speaker 1: sixty seven to nine. Not great. You want to compare

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Speaker 1: that to what JJ has done this thus far QBR

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Speaker 1: twenty six point seven.

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Speaker 3: It's a little frustraer.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Again, I don't I just don't know what to tell you.

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Speaker 1: We are aware that it's not over for him, but

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Speaker 1: if the best you can do to make yourself feel

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Speaker 1: better is look at all these other quarterbacks and what

815
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: their numbers were. His quarterback rating was forty points higher,

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Speaker 1: as ordinary as it was. And again, don't get me

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00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: going down the Dante Culpeper road any further than we

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00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: already did with Chris Carter.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just just stop.

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Speaker 1: You're not doing your guy any favors with that, better

821
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Speaker 1: to just say, look, it's erratic right now.

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Speaker 3: It's worse than.

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Speaker 6: I might have even expected. Five games in. It's clearly

824
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Speaker 6: worse than what Chris Carter expected. He made that very clear.

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Speaker 1: But we're hanging with him, and there's too much upside here.

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Speaker 1: You're better off saying that than trying to make yourself

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Speaker 1: feel better by the because none of these comparisons, literally,

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Speaker 1: none of these comparisons add up if you care about

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Speaker 1: analytic numbers, the way that quarterbacks are evaluated, whether it's

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Speaker 1: old school rating or new scale of rating as well,

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Speaker 1: it's bizarre. A lot of his throws yesterday missed by inches.

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Speaker 3: A lot of them, some of them missed by yards.

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Speaker 6: And some of them, yeah, missed by zip codes.

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Speaker 1: Oh have you mentioned Donald's for imts today? Honestly ask him, No,

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Speaker 1: there are people.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 6: They just got to vote a confidence from somebody. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 6: a defensive player. Yeah, who were they playing? Guess who

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00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 6: they were playing yesterday? Who did they play the Rams again?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: No, the Rams are the one team that has Sam

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Speaker 1: Donald's number.

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Speaker 3: And he did. He threw as But here's what's interesting.

844
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Speaker 3: He still almost brought him back.

845
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Speaker 1: He cut the lead to one touchdown or even one

846
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: field goal, and then they got the ball again late.

847
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: But the field goal to try they they they attempted

848
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Speaker 1: was like I think sixty eight or sixty six sixty

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Speaker 1: five yards, So no, there was I'm noticing there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who said, well, what does that say?

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Speaker 3: I mean, is he coming back to the.

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Speaker 1: Pack or is it literally whoever runs the defense of

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Speaker 1: the Rams. Has Sam Darnold figured out or it's even

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00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: become kind of a mental block for him.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: He's had an outstanding regular season, there's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: You're hearing the music now because we're out early for

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Speaker 1: some Vikings programming, and that'll be followed by your Timberwolves

859
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: back in action against the struggling Dallas Mavericks, who have

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00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: everybody out right now, They're two best players are out well.

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00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: Kyrie is out for a long stretch right Although a

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Speaker 1: lot of people think he will try to come back

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Speaker 1: later this season.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they'll want to or will he.

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Speaker 3: By the way, did you notice I forgot.

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Speaker 1: To mention this with Johnny the Thunder, I believe has

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Speaker 1: lost one game thus far and they've been killing people.

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Speaker 1: They've been playing bad teams that they've been winning routinely

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Speaker 1: by you know, twenty thirty forty. The other nugget on

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Speaker 1: Okie City. I'm sure you've seen it. There's an excellent

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Speaker 1: chance that they will have two of the top ten picks.

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Speaker 3: In the NBA drafts. I know this upcoming in unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: How well they've put that thing together and sustained it.

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Speaker 6: They took advantage of being flyover country and having stars

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Speaker 6: absolutely out of there, man, Paul George. For sure, it's

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Speaker 6: almost scary when you think of it that way. It

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Speaker 6: is two of the top ten, and by the way.

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Speaker 1: One of those could end up being like a top

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Speaker 1: three pick eventually. One of them, I think is lottery

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Speaker 1: protected to an extent. That's great, but one of them

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Speaker 1: is not. The Rams also have Who's bad right now?

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Speaker 1: The Rams have somebody's number one pick next year. That's

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Speaker 1: really good. Let me see I can find it real quick.

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Speaker 1: We're out of time, aren't we.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Chris Carter joined us at what time? Five o'clock?

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Speaker 1: Five o'clock. If you miss it, I harghly recommend you

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Speaker 1: try to get to it. I thought I saved it.

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Speaker 1: Rams made a great deal when they traded for the

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Speaker 1: falcons twenty twenty six first round pick, Atlanta's in free

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Speaker 1: for all their starting quarterback. Gone Cousins looked. He didn't

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Speaker 1: look good. Hedn't even look interested to me. No, he

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Speaker 1: looks like he's whipped. He just looks like he's just

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Speaker 1: at his age.

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Speaker 3: Not great. Yeah, I'm probably right about that.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow, Kevin Steaffert and Luigi Vikings rewind and then Wolves

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Speaker 1: hoop action on the fan.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you at three o'clock.

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Speaker 5: A lot of things that are easily correctable.

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Speaker 4: We've got to get a fire in our ass.

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Speaker 2: It's real, it's wrong at times, it's real wrong