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Speaker 1: Noon, A happy Friday morning to you well, sunshine out

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Speaker 1: there in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and I'll get to the

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Speaker 1: timber Tech set list. Of course, the Minnesota Wild resuming

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Speaker 1: to action last night, just throttling the Avalanche mile high style.

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Speaker 2: And in studio now is Chad Greenway.

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Speaker 1: Chad Greenway, former member of the Minnesota Vikings, of course

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Speaker 1: all timer as one of our linebacking core and at

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Speaker 1: Chad Greenway five two via X season studio. Now, how

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Speaker 1: you doing man, I'm doing well, man. It's been a

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Speaker 2: It has been a couple of weeks and a couple

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Speaker 2: of grind your fridays for me. So nice. Nice to

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Speaker 2: be back in here in studio seeing your smiling mug.

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Speaker 2: Are you feeling a little extra patriotic? This week? The

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Speaker 2: women hoisted gold? Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: The dominance of the women's side has been so fun

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Speaker 3: to watch and just to see the way they come together.

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Speaker 3: The Minnesota connections is of course, we take so much

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm I'm felt like Team Minnesota over there.

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Speaker 2: I'm not as specky guy as you know this.

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Speaker 3: As you know, I got a bunch of basketball players

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Speaker 3: but the way that we embrace hockey here is so special,

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Speaker 3: and you try to explain to people that aren't from

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Speaker 3: Do you driving around a nice winter night and there's

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Speaker 3: about growing up in that environment if i'd had And

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Speaker 3: it's funny South Dakota four and a half hours away

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Speaker 3: where I grew up literally no hockey but or culture

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Speaker 3: of it right, but here, Like to think about a

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Speaker 3: kid skating and then watching Team USA, especially having all girls,

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Speaker 3: like all these daughters that look up for these girls,

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Speaker 3: it is special. And then to see the boys come

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Speaker 3: over the top, the men come over the top. I mean,

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Speaker 3: what are the NHL doing not having these pros play forever?

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Speaker 3: I mean the fact that they skip this for a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they got to get the bleep together. Yeah they

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Speaker 3: That because that would be sweet to have all three

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Speaker 3: and I think it's it goes to show you from

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Speaker 3: you know, obviously Canada was playing really, really well. But

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Speaker 3: sometimes it just doesn't go your way and you have

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Speaker 3: lights out and here we are.

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Speaker 2: Is awesome?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now this is I mean on air production a

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Speaker 1: if Brett Blakemore can can ask Zach Halverson if this

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Speaker 1: is his Chick fil ag that's sitting in the studio. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know everything's all good. It's always a party. Are

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Speaker 1: if somebody could come get the garbage that is currently

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Speaker 2: Say we got a Sammy in there, some little samich.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well maybe maybe their breakfast becomes ours. We have

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Speaker 3: Believe there's a biscuit involved. Looks delicious. Actually you probably

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Speaker 3: put that delicious food. All right, we'll work on that

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Speaker 3: during the first break. We'll make this a quick segment.

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Speaker 3: But but you know, it's it happened five. One thing

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Speaker 1: It happens on SUN morning, everyone's excited, and now on

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Speaker 2: Do you ever feel like in life like really great things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe while to live in it, you want

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, especially now.

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Speaker 1: But by nature of our of our fruitfly like attention spans,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome to social media age. And when things just

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Speaker 3: it's been a long time since it happened here in America.

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Speaker 3: With the men's on the men's side, women have been

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's and it's like, chew a little more

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Speaker 2: These moments are so fleeting. You mentioned that in nearly

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Speaker 3: Don't get me started on that, right, But it's the uh,

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Speaker 3: you're right though, because now you're going to look back

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Speaker 3: But to me a little bit the Olympics, I'm not

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Speaker 2: It was and speed skating's fun. I mean, speed skating

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Speaker 1: I actually I had more time than usual, both the

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Speaker 1: But while you were, you were on basket all duties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in a gym all the time pretty much.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, there's a lot of parents out there that

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Speaker 1: And you saw those all those viral videos the kids.

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Speaker 2: But it was crazy though, because the idea of so

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Speaker 1: They I mean, it's so clockwork up there. Ballards kicks

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Speaker 2: And these guys are hardcore ice fishermen. Now I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: But I was surprised because all the hardcore fishermen, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and to be able to celebrate dice together and

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a it's a good example.

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Speaker 1: So so I was I returned from from up north

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Speaker 1: You again feeding moments. It's like I want this. I

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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, it's well, I wonder what Kevin O'Connell's going

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Speaker 2: I just saw this kid on social media this morning.

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Speaker 2: So you saw it. You may have seen similar things.

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Speaker 2: What is that? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Like what like what like? Where does that come from?

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Speaker 3: So me as a genetic makeup of this human being

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Speaker 3: is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: So you know, mediocre high school goalkeeper as I was

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Speaker 1: in soccer, humble beginnings, man Cato, Minnesota. There's auster East.

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Speaker 1: I was a West kid. Okay, so you're read right

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Speaker 1: the what are you the ye? West is the best,

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Speaker 1: East is the least.

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Speaker 2: And what do you guys?

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Speaker 3: Cougar's are the East scarlets scarlets? Yes, that's right, you're

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Speaker 3: right throughout one.

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Speaker 1: Sixty nine yeah, off of yeah, Highway sixty yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, hop on down.

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Speaker 2: There's a question queen across the street.

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Speaker 3: There is drove great fond memories that were getting way

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Speaker 3: off track here of my dad before I lost him,

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Speaker 3: when he was sick at that dairy queen, when I

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Speaker 3: was at training camp, No way, never. I have a

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Speaker 3: bunch of pictures of us right there with my kids

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Speaker 3: at that DQ that you probably frequented a lot based

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Speaker 3: off how you look when you were high school.

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Speaker 1: I what that means if you can believe this, I

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Speaker 1: think I graduated about like one hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: pounds and now you're one ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, one yeah, carry the hold on. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's a simple math problem that I'm not interested in

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Speaker 1: solving at this particular moment I actually was. I was

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Speaker 1: looking at my driver's license. So I'm about two fifty

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Speaker 1: five now, yep, and I still have I got to

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Speaker 1: update my life. I still put two thirty up. Of

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Speaker 1: course you do so ok goals, Yeah, slim it out

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and that's that's something to work towards.

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Speaker 1: But but from that end, mayk it a west and

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Speaker 1: humble beginnings there, Uh, genetics, skill, there are some just

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Speaker 1: just some very simple things that I was missing, right,

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Speaker 1: I loved it. We all had dreams of going pro.

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Speaker 1: We all looked up to athletes and those things. It

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering just even as a guy that removed

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Speaker 1: ten years decade this year, right, real? Yeah, you're super

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Speaker 1: high end. You were, you were one of the best

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Speaker 1: on the field at all levels. You have a terrific

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Speaker 1: NFL career, and just a decade later, you're watching some

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Speaker 1: cat with a forty three inch vertical He's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: run like four three five or four four yep? Like

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Speaker 1: is that even as a pro athlete? Again, there should

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Speaker 1: be pride and self respect for what you accomplished. But

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Speaker 1: even in such a short period of time, it's like what, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what happened? How did that happen?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean you look at these I just think it's you.

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Speaker 3: Know, you talk about just specialization of sports, but also

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Speaker 3: we know so much more about the human body, how

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Speaker 3: to train it, how to work it, how to get faster,

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Speaker 3: how to kind of everybody's born with this bandwidth you

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Speaker 3: have of a nervous system, and how do we get

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Speaker 3: to the top of that nervous system to be as

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Speaker 3: explosive and fast. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: it's genetics in a lot of cases. And this guy

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Speaker 3: is a complete freak. And I could ask this all

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Speaker 3: the time by young by young parents, you know, parents

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Speaker 3: of young kids. My kid plays linebacker. He's a thirteen

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Speaker 3: year old kid loves this. He's like, you know, he

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Speaker 3: like what does he have to do to be a pro?

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Speaker 3: Like was he there to be a Division one player?

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Speaker 2: What was it to do this?

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Speaker 3: And like can you look at the parents, You're like

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Speaker 3: change parents, Like you can't like.

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Speaker 2: Like genetics are going to get you so far?

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Speaker 3: You know that you try not to say the actual

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Speaker 3: have these expectations, but like you know, look at what

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Speaker 3: you're giving them as genetics, and then what the tools

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Speaker 2: Now. Of course, you can outwork a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: You can do a lot of great things, but there's

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Speaker 3: only so much hard work that's gonna get you. But

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Speaker 3: sunny styles, you know, he was born I always talked

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Speaker 3: to about Adrian. Adrian was a freak of the freaks, right,

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Speaker 3: Percy Harvin. I'll throw a Jimmy kleinsaucer in there, Steve Putchinson.

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Speaker 3: These guys that were just born different, different nervous systems,

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Speaker 3: different strengths, can do freaky stuff. And like Adrian didn't

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Speaker 3: trade himself to be that way, Adriane was born.

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Speaker 2: His genetic makeup is just different. So like you can't

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Speaker 2: outrain that.

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Speaker 3: You could be like, hey, Adriane, like you know, has

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Speaker 3: done a pull up in two months and be like, hey,

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Speaker 3: can you do thirty pull ups? He do like thirty seven,

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Speaker 3: Because you just like he's just a freak. And those

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Speaker 3: that they are the one percent of the one percenters,

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Speaker 3: on that so much that when other people are really good,

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Speaker 3: something that's tough for them because their whole life they

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Speaker 3: would have stuff handed to them. So for me, the

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Speaker 3: benefit was I was I got nobody recruit nine man

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Speaker 3: it's like, oh, this is easy, I've done this before,

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Speaker 3: Like nobody expected much of me. So that was kind

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Speaker 2: So when you were going through the Combine in two

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Speaker 3: Six, awful experience, it was it's just awful. I mean

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Speaker 3: the whole thing is awful. And you basically like you

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Speaker 3: have this whole college career. You know, you played Iowa

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Speaker 3: great things, have team success, and then you go to

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Speaker 3: the Senior Bowl and you play right, you show and

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Speaker 3: prove that you can play in front of the best

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Speaker 3: seniors that are out there.

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Speaker 2: Have all this tape and you go to combine, it.

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Speaker 3: Can be taken away from you like with a bad

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Speaker 3: And to me, that thing again, there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: players that drop because they go there and can't test

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Speaker 3: it's just weird thing and you have to have something.

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Speaker 3: You have to have some level of differentiation, right whereas

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Speaker 3: see where everybody's at. Now, how do you read between

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well in two thousand and six was this was

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Speaker 1: there this idea that I'm going to skip the combine

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Speaker 1: I I don't want to put something on tape there.

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Speaker 1: I want to do it maybe comfy confines of an

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Speaker 3: You're training where you've worked out your whole college career,

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Speaker 3: so ours was back in Iwa City. You're lifting on

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Speaker 3: you you're running the same turf. You're doing all the

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Speaker 3: same You're getting sleep, You're not you're not up, you

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Speaker 3: know up souper relate doing these interviews with NFL teams,

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Speaker 3: waking up at six thirty am. It's just the schedule

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Speaker 3: the field work on the last day. And throughout that

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Speaker 3: four days, I think it's four days, you're testing. You're

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Speaker 3: doing the bench press test, you're doing that, you're taking

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Speaker 3: all the scans of the body, doing all the you know,

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Speaker 3: So it doesn't it's not an advantage. If you are

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Speaker 3: there really isn't advantage of going now, you know, if

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Speaker 3: you're going to be a top fifteen pick, like, are

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Speaker 3: you really going to elevate yourself that much more by

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Speaker 3: going to the combine. There's probably more harm that can

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Speaker 1: Did you have a coach going through the interview process?

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Speaker 1: Did you have somebody that talked to you like, here's

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Speaker 2: Did you have that kind of guy? Never went through

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Speaker 3: I mean we trained physically trained, and I would see

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Speaker 2: So we're like, I'm like, wow, would I leave? I

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Speaker 3: My wife was making all the money financial analyst right

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Speaker 3: the interview stuff is interesting because every team handled it

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Speaker 3: the ten words? Just stuff like that is like retention.

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Speaker 3: How smart are you? Can you react? Can you respond

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Speaker 2: Did you remember?

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Speaker 3: But the hardest one I probably did was I think

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Speaker 3: You sit down and they have say, we'll call it

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Speaker 3: fifteen snaps of my college play where I'm awful, like mistackle,

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Speaker 3: you know, looking like an idiot getting pancaked, you know

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Speaker 3: the stuff that happens in the fou fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's a lot more than that, buddy.

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Speaker 3: You dig, you dig deep enough, and and they're basically like,

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Speaker 3: explain this play, Explain this play, what happened on this play?

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Speaker 2: What was your position? Like, what was your what was

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Speaker 3: And you have to explain away like yeah missed that tackle,

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Speaker 3: through miss assignment whatever it was. But it's just about

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Speaker 3: you understand the looking back. It's like every football game

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't care the best of the best.

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Speaker 3: Right now, You're gonna watch seventy five plays, which you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's just the way football is. It's a

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Speaker 2: reaction sport.

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Speaker 3: You could take a wrong step, take a misstep, you know,

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Speaker 2: And like you get defensive, you get a break. You

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Speaker 3: And like I grew up on a farm where my

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Speaker 3: parents sort me all the time for not doing things right.

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Speaker 2: It helped me accountable.

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Speaker 3: So like I grew up in a world where like

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Speaker 3: that was normal, and we you know, and Iowa, we

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Speaker 3: watched film, we watched tape. We got criticized all the

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Speaker 3: time for not doing things right with high expectations. So

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Speaker 3: you come from a program where like you're not being

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Speaker 3: told how great you are all the time. That makes

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Speaker 3: life a lot easier when you walk into the league,

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Speaker 3: when you know it's going to be OK. Care how

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Speaker 3: good you are, you got to you gotta get a

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Speaker 3: hold that standard.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: That's Chad Greenway in studio to kick off a Friday

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Speaker 1: some Vikings football with Chris Carter. Kevin Fallness mentioning the

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Speaker 2: Here during the break, it's nine to noon.

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Speaker 1: Nine to twenty five, another segment with Chad here the Uh.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I have some homework for you. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're you're you're busy enough, I mean

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Speaker 1: homework and I don't know ever, it's just so you

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Speaker 1: can see my grades, the the the combine for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, coming out of it, Pa and and and

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Speaker 1: Pete Bursage did a couple of awesome shows in India

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Speaker 1: earlier this week. But it's still kind of I come

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Speaker 1: out of it maybe with a couple names right away

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Speaker 1: that kind of pequed my interest, but I'm still more

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Speaker 1: of a trying to dial in position wise what that

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Speaker 1: target might look like at pick eighteen and is and

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Speaker 1: should it be position position specific? Excuse me, I apparently

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Speaker 1: can't talk, but I looked at some Hawk Eyes. So

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Speaker 1: you're Hawk Eys have nine players, So homework.

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Speaker 2: As at the combine.

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Speaker 1: At the combine and we got in a quarterback got

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Speaker 1: left out, So you have this team needs a center.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know about that Chad Greenway.

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Speaker 1: We produced centers at Chad Greenway five to two via

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Speaker 1: x Logan Jones. He is in that top three four

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Speaker 1: center ish area. Then you have Bo Stevens. Yep, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't believe both Stevens. He's your guard. He's top ten

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Speaker 1: ish in terms of his rankings into it. Don't need

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Speaker 1: Drew Stevens the kicker. Interested to know more about Max Llewellene,

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Speaker 1: a d liner stud, Xavier Wonkpa, a safety safety. So maybe,

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Speaker 1: if anything, there's some homework in the essence and in

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Speaker 1: the spirit of helping your favorite NFL team, if we

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Speaker 1: can get some if we can get some elite intel

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Speaker 1: on the Hawk Eys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, freaking nine of them in more hawkeys the battle.

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Speaker 3: Let's be honest, you go for fans rolling your eyes

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Speaker 3: out there. More golfers too, huh. I mean that's I

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Speaker 3: mean PJ is producing some some pros as well, some

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Speaker 3: big time pros. I like Llewellen a lot. The defensive lineman,

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Speaker 3: very versatile, He's going to play. He's not gonna value

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Speaker 3: with athleticism, but he's gonna absolutely be in the right

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Speaker 3: spot all the right time. He's gonna be super physical

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Speaker 3: at the point and play multiple positions offensive line.

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Speaker 2: I mean, was he an edge or was he more he.

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Speaker 3: Would he would wrote to be played edge, Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: he can play inside too. I mean we we our

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Speaker 3: edge guys are built like interior guys. I mean we're

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Speaker 3: not gonna we're not gonna wow you with our speed

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Speaker 3: rush off the edge, but you're gonna be versatilely, gonna

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Speaker 3: play your role and do your job and kind at

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Speaker 3: a high level. So maybe with Flores he'd be an

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Speaker 3: interior problem most like an interior guy offensive line. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is the guys were we've been historically, we've been producing,

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Speaker 3: have been doing very well the game. The style of

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Speaker 3: play and the type of kid that are coming out

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Speaker 3: of there. I mean it matters, right, I mean where

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Speaker 3: you're getting kids from, how they're being taught, what they're learning,

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Speaker 3: and what that what that gap is, Because when you

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Speaker 3: get to become a pro all a sudden, like how

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Speaker 3: much gap is there to like catch this kid up

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Speaker 3: so we can use him right now? Like how much

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Speaker 3: does that fit the style of play though of our offense?

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Speaker 3: Why this the fit matters so much? And I think

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Speaker 3: when you just like our tight ends, when you come

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Speaker 3: out and you can actually block and actually be an

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Speaker 3: extension of the offensive line, and by the way, or

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Speaker 3: fast enough to have to get open and catch football

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Speaker 3: is like that's just what you're gonna get from a Hawk.

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Speaker 3: Guys like the guy, he's just gonna probably do his job.

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Speaker 3: It's not gonna be flashy or sexy, but you're gonna

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Speaker 3: get it done. And and I like, I like all

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Speaker 3: the offensive lineman Jenning's dunker, the redhead with the with

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Speaker 3: the flop in the back.

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Speaker 2: I mean that he played right tackle for us.

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Speaker 3: Now just from a just from a look standpoint, we

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Speaker 3: got to get that guy, really, I mean just unbelievable,

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Speaker 3: just the redheaded flop that he's got going on.

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Speaker 2: It's just beautiful up top. I'm all in on that.

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Speaker 2: But it fit into the hockey space up here real good.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember Dan Feeney, Oh did you see him

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Speaker 1: during his short tenure here Indiana kid? And he had

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Speaker 1: the luck elite broom on that upper lip and that

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Speaker 1: more things that I sadly have fallen short in. But

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Speaker 1: but the flop and the look didn't didn't. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: always work, doesn't always work. But that's what we're talk about.

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Speaker 3: The Hawkys here. They're gonna get a companies, gonna be

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Speaker 3: solid at a minimum solid And I and I think,

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Speaker 3: uh Xavier Wonk Buzz was an interesting because he was

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Speaker 3: I want to say he was the biggest recruit ever

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Speaker 3: to go to Iowa. He's from Des Moines. He grew

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Speaker 3: up in Des Moines area. They kept him home and

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Speaker 3: he ended up having an incredible career there. Probably didn't

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Speaker 3: actually live up to the recruiting level he is, but

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Speaker 3: he's got a pro style game, and I think that matters.

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Speaker 3: Playing safety is sometimes when you go to io when

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Speaker 3: the style of play we played defensively doesn't always marry

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Speaker 3: up to what you're going to do in the pro game.

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Speaker 3: And I think I think the program actually fits him better.

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Speaker 3: And I love the versatility he can bring, whether playing

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Speaker 3: in the slot, playing in the box and being physical.

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Speaker 3: He knows how to tackle, he can play defense, and

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Speaker 3: he can also play in the back end. I love

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Speaker 3: him for our back end with Flores. To be honest

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Speaker 3: with you, so I think that, I think that, actually

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Speaker 3: think that's a really good fit. Not sure where he's ranked,

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Speaker 3: where's supposed to GOCU. I don't pay attention to the draft.

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Speaker 1: As much, but well, the ranks to get him the ranks,

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Speaker 1: it's it's mostly okay, so we kind of know who

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Speaker 1: the best in classes at any of these spots right now,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of it's subject to change.

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Speaker 3: And at eighteen, by the way, you bring bought that

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Speaker 3: up at eighteen, Like I think, you know, I was,

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Speaker 3: I was seventeen.

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Speaker 2: I think when you get in that middle.

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Speaker 3: Of the first round, you kind of have a you

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Speaker 3: kind of have people targeted that you say, hey, we

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Speaker 3: we would take these guys in the top ten, top fifteen,

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Speaker 3: Like if somebody falls to eighteen, we have two or

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Speaker 3: three names that we're absolute going to go stretch and get.

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Speaker 3: But now you're probably going for best player available to me. Like,

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Speaker 3: I think it's the best player available in position of need,

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Speaker 3: and you go get that guy at eighteen unless there's

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Speaker 3: some movement the guy you've fall in love with, Well.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me look at this for a second.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's okay.

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned best player available. So two thousand and

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Speaker 1: six NFL Draft, the Vikings select Chad Greenway, linebacker Iowa.

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Speaker 2: Bobby Carpenter goes a spot after you. Yeah, missed that one.

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Speaker 2: Thank god, guys.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so now we're still best player available. Antonio Cromarti

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Speaker 1: goes nineteen. Yeah, yeah, good having kids, I think we're

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Speaker 1: still best player. Avail, great cover guy, very good. Dude

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Speaker 1: was massive. I mean he's like six to two long arms?

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Speaker 2: Crazy? Was that a good player? Was that an age?

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Speaker 1: Because now, to be honest, the six to two hundred

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Speaker 1: pound corner is not the anomaly.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that at once? Yeah he was, and he he is.

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Speaker 1: We're closer than Antonio, Antoine Winfield, excuse me, more so

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Speaker 1: than they were.

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Speaker 3: Tomarty was sort of I mean he not the original,

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Speaker 3: but one of the original guys that had so much

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Speaker 3: length and I mean you can go flying a scrimmage

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Speaker 3: with him.

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Speaker 2: Great player. What about Tom ba Lee. He goes twenty

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Speaker 2: to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: He stud Yep Studd, Lawrence Maroney stud go Gophers stud

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Speaker 1: Manny Lawson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they run. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Deavin Joseph, Yeah, Bucks Bucks guard. Good player. Jonathan Joseph

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Speaker 1: I think, had a nice career, went to the Bengals. Yep,

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Speaker 1: let me see here. Mercedes Lewis, I think he's still

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Speaker 1: he's still He's literally still playing.

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Speaker 2: He's still playing. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I never had like a super high end career, but man,

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Speaker 3: has he been good alone time?

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Speaker 2: Solid? Yeah, Joseph had died of the Colts. Yeah, good player.

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Speaker 3: It kind of looks like, well, keep looking, there's more

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Speaker 3: guys out there.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, but but how far do we need

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Speaker 2: to go down?

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Speaker 1: Solid? Like Andrew Whitworth made a nice career for himself,

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Speaker 1: But he's the second rounder.

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Speaker 3: Devin Hester though, Yeah, Devin Hester Studd, he's in. He's

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Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame. You haven't heard about him.

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Speaker 3: Demiko Ryans is the top of that second round. He's

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Speaker 3: now the coach of the Texans. That's how well I am.

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Speaker 2: Oh he is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Duquel Jackson Yeah said linebacker. Yep, you see, I'm

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Speaker 1: still saying I think overall, I think Vikes went.

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Speaker 2: Do you think Vikes went best overall at seventeen? Uh,

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Speaker 2: they definitely they plug a spot.

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Speaker 3: I think they went need and I think they went

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Speaker 3: the one they they again, I will go back to

655
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 3: my my time pre draft is I went to the

656
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 3: Senior Bowl and I had I had a good week

657
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 3: down there, and went to the Pro Bowl, went to

658
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 3: the combine, had an okay, combine was not didn't blow

659
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 3: it didn't blow it out of the water. Uh, but

660
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 3: worried about to four seven six, Yeah, because that because

661
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 3: I was a speed guy. So I went down there

662
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 3: and I actually laid an egg and I come back

663
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 3: to my protay and run. I never ran lower than

664
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 3: four to six in college. And I got to my

665
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 3: proday and run four five nine. There we go with

666
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 3: the with the Vikings and everybody there, with everybody with

667
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: at the stop watch. You know, it's like just running

668
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: and you're like, okay, that's so that I kind of

669
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 3: redirected that, which was nice because that was that was

670
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 3: the game, part of the game that was most important.

671
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: Then.

672
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 3: So Mike Tomlin's there take does the Pro Day. But

673
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 3: then I got come in pre draft and Mike t

674
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 3: was just basically showing all senior Bowl tape like in

675
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 3: our little meeting before pre draft, and then coming up

676
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 3: on draft, I mean as new as a good position fit,

677
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 3: you know, coming to play in that Tampa two. Say,

678
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 3: back in zone, I said something I'd done at Iowa,

679
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 3: so I figured the Bikings would have a chance.

680
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good draft here, Maurice Jones. Drew went

681
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: your year as well. Yep, let's keep stretching back any value.

682
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: Jarry Evans wasn't bad on the O line for the Saints.

683
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: He was a fourth rounder. Goskowski though, yep. Oh, Brandon

684
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: Marshall Bronco's fourth rounder, Elvis Dumerville man good players. Ronco's

685
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: kind of cleaned up mid round the mid rounds that year. Yeah,

686
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: see that. That's the fun part about the draft. But

687
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: getting back to whether it's the Hawk gys, it's more position.

688
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 2: Based than it is player based.

689
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: So much has to happen over the last couple of weeks,

690
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: I you know, again, busy weeks as they are. I

691
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: don't know how much you keyed into both Kevin O'Connell

692
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: and Rob Razinski taking time to sit down with Pa

693
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: and Pete in Indianapolis and just trying to sift through

694
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: those tea leaves and just whether it's the amount of

695
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: commitment that you have to to JJ McCarthy. That's going

696
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: to be a talker until some dominoes fall. But even

697
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: with Brazinski speaking to the need to really he needs

698
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: to handle business in this draft right and you can

699
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: you can think about being permanent GM down the road.

700
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: That's that's not a now talker, but just to focus

701
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: on really acing this draft.

702
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 2: And then you got to wait eighteen months.

703
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: So if right you take take the test, jobs will

704
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: come in.

705
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 3: Sometimes you know in the summer that you missed you know,

706
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 3: well you know right away if you missed almost almost

707
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: almost immediately.

708
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: Well I hope we don't know that, yeah, September game one.

709
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: But but among all of those talkers, you know what

710
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: we do in the draft, some things have to happen

711
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: before and that includes TJ Awkinson the big decision on

712
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: HOK and you know that that cap number is massive,

713
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: h Sadly, you know the injury takes place that steals

714
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: the better part of a calendar year from us in

715
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: terms of getting that productivity. Didn't get a touchdown two

716
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: years ago until in that playoff loss at the Rams,

717
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: trying to do his thing this year.

718
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: Just what do you think the future holds from TJ?

719
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: A Hawkey but finding his way here the money we

720
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: paid him versus maybe the production we're getting or not getting.

721
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: What do you think about TJ and what he means

722
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: to this offense and what it means if he goes elsewhere.

723
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely gonna be one of the biggest talkers

724
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: of this offseason, just based off all the things you listed.

725
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 3: And I think his usage rate to me was just

726
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 3: it happens for a reason. Either the game plan and

727
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 3: scheme isn't being produced for him to get the ball

728
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 3: or be the option that we need him to be. Yeah,

729
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 3: and or he's not able to get open to man

730
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 3: the man situations to go get a win in those

731
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: in those in those critical moments. And again I'm not

732
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 3: breaking down the all twenty two to see what's going on.

733
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 3: But reality is is like the number matters a lot,

734
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 3: probably more so than the production. Even if he had

735
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 3: had a killer a couple of years. Is you still

736
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 3: got a look at the number and say, how do

737
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 3: we get free have some cash here? I think the

738
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 3: interesting part about this draft coming off of Quasi's tenure

739
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: here is was a heavy, you know, very well talked about,

740
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 3: like discussed like analytics base kind of approach, looking at

741
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: the numbers and kind of letting that drive your your

742
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 3: draft and seeing it now with Rob being in there, like,

743
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 3: first of all, great human being been around our organization forever,

744
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 3: done it the right way to now your personnel staff

745
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: that's it's always been there, yep, that's been so strong

746
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 3: and solid. Got great leadership in that personnel group is

747
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 3: really going to matter. And I think those guys and

748
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 3: their input working with Rob is going to be really

749
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 3: important to see. Like how we know you're breaking down

750
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 3: and watching these guys regionally as a scout, you know,

751
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 3: for two, three, four years. All of a sudden they

752
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: come the draft time and they say, listen, I've listened

753
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 3: to this guy. I've watched this guy. I've been at campus,

754
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: I've been at practice. I know Kwie works, I know

755
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 3: how he operates. It's less analytics and numbers based. It's

756
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 3: more based off what I've seen with my own eyes

757
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 3: over the course of these last couple of years. And

758
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: I'm going to push this guy at the top of

759
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 3: the board and you got to take all those things

760
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 3: into account. I just think it's gonna be interesting to

761
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 3: see this draft and how it takes shape and how

762
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: Rob leans into those guys and gals in this in

763
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 3: the in the scouting department to really help us make

764
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 3: that best best scenario pick. And also because he is

765
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 3: the guy with the bag of money and he has

766
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 3: been historically know how these numbers work, like knowing how

767
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 3: he can make this thing work and put all together.

768
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for him to have the reins of

769
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: this thing and vikings Fans who maybe just don't know

770
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 3: what it's going to look like, you should be fired up.

771
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 3: This guy gets it. He's been there, he is one

772
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: of us, and so I'm fired up for him. Yeah,

773
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 3: I'm fired up for him too.

774
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: You mentioned something that I've been really intrigued by, though,

775
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: is analytics in the sport So quasy moving on.

776
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: But other than that, all.

777
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: The same people really all the same parts, and we

778
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: can argue who gets a bigger piece of the pie

779
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: chart in terms of decision making. Later the quasy goes

780
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: robs in the change. From an analytical perspective, I just

781
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: wonder there are probably great examples of how it's truly flourished.

782
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: But in the terms of okay, just stick, we can

783
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: go back. I hate bringing this up, but it's been

784
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: brought up innumerable times. You can stick and take Kyle Hamilton,

785
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: or you can move back, try to you know, find

786
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: your way to an extra pick and take take Lewis scene.

787
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: Now Lewis scene, by the way, was a benchmark safety

788
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: for a title winning Georgia Bulldog's team, and so. But

789
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: but in the end, you know, specifically with with Rob Needing,

790
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: W's in the draft and this team analytics versus what

791
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: my eyes tell me, what the person themselves tell me

792
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: through connections and personal interactions and such. I just need

793
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: a guy that can freaking ball so we can play

794
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: the numbers games and trying to squeeze as much blood

795
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: out of that stone as we can. Maybe another time,

796
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: but I just need to know that that guy can ball,

797
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: screw it, stick and pick, not play games.

798
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: Just find that guy.

799
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: Maybe that's one of the differences we could see moving

800
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: for at least in the short term.

801
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 3: I think you you know, one of the things the

802
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 3: scouting department takes into account and the personnel people taking

803
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 3: account is where's that kid coming from? What program and

804
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 3: how do they how do they become pros? Because not

805
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 3: every program is producing the type of pros. Now you

806
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: have one offs and spinoffs, yes, certainly, But how the

807
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 3: Georgia Bulldogs defensive backs doing in the NFL historically coming

808
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,439
Speaker 3: out of that system and then coming into the NFL,

809
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 3: which is a different game. And I think when you

810
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 3: a good example, I mean you try to find good

811
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 3: examples over the course of a of course of time

812
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 3: of a guy who comes in. Maybe you missed on him,

813
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 3: you hit on him, vice versa. But those those scouting

814
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 3: departments are at practice as watching all these guys are

815
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 3: being developed, and they know the numbers. And I think

816
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 3: so from an analytic standpoint, I think it's always going to

817
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 3: play a role, but it's got to be a blended

818
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 3: decision where it's going to see what my I see.

819
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 3: I've been on campus, I've seen him at practice, see

820
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 3: how he interacts. I've seen how he reacts to mistakes.

821
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 3: I've seen how he responds to criticism and coaching. To Okay,

822
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 3: the numbers also tell us a different story. How we

823
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 3: blend that together and find that right pick. Yeah, so

824
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure a I can probably do all this

825
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 3: real quick. But the reality is going to lean on

826
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 3: the on their scouting department heavily, I think this year,

827
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: and it's be fun to see how it plays out.

828
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting you mentioned that because the front

829
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: of Georgia has really flourished. Possibly you are past the

830
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: first two levels. So whether I mean we're talking about

831
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: the Jalen cars that back end, Like though, let's stop

832
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 1: spitting on people, please, but Jalen Carter is a high

833
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: in town in the NFL. Yeah, the linebackers, the Nakobe

834
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: Deans of the World, et cetera.

835
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 2: But I mean they're long removed from champ Bailey.

836
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my point, and I brought that up purposefully,

837
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 3: is because you you look at how programs are developed,

838
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 3: especially long tenured head coaches who have been in places

839
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 3: for a long time. So you know the product, you

840
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 3: know who they're recruiting. Yeah, you know how they're developing,

841
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 3: you know the scheme they play. Now how does that

842
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: game translate? And it was funny so when I came out,

843
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 3: I was meeting with the end the Saints, that team

844
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: that is from New Orleans that nobody likes, and I

845
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 3: met with them pre draft. Actually had the combine and

846
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 3: there I think it was a linebacker coach at the

847
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 3: time who was part of the pay to hurt Brett deal.

848
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 2: So I'm glad I missed that one.

849
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 3: But his question to me, and he used some excellent

850
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 3: is when he asked me this, He's real direct and

851
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 3: kind of confrontational when he asked me, He's like, why

852
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 3: the bleep would we take a linebacker from Iowa? There's

853
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 3: not been one good linebacker since nineteen eighty eight, But whatever,

854
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 3: he's saying. The stats right, and historically Iowa linebackers in

855
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 3: the nineties like had not produced any.

856
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm trying.

857
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 3: I don't want miss anybody off anybody, but anybody in

858
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 3: the nineties that had gone to the league and really

859
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 3: done anything. In early two thousands, same so abdual Hodgen

860
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 3: myself come out No. Six and the question was like,

861
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 3: why the h would we take you guys like this

862
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense. You haven't produced any players like this.

863
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 3: So then we kind of get drafted first and third round,

864
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you start to see

865
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 3: this cycle of linebackers that come behind us. Now we've

866
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 3: had thirty guys and I'm making the number up twenty

867
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 3: to thirty. Guys in the last ten, fifteen, twenty years

868
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 3: get drafted, have long careers, have great careers, win super Bowls,

869
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 3: and I think it matters on how these guys are

870
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 3: getting developed in college. No different than a quarterback or

871
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: anything else. Is you're going to play a certain system

872
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 3: in college that you maybe can't use in the league.

873
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 3: So it matters what system you play in who you

874
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 3: play for.

875
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: That's a good point. I just blindly draft a tight

876
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 1: end from Iowa. Yeah, I think it's smart at least

877
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: just give them a shot. I don't even know if

878
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: there's a tight end. No, there's no tight end from

879
00:37:58,680 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: Iowa at the comp next year.

880
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a couple. We have a young kid

881
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 3: that's gonna be really good to freshmen. So a couple

882
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 3: of years, but yeah, we I mean again, every coach

883
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: has has a good staff member that produces certain players.

884
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 3: It's just you know, I mean, of course there's anominally

885
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 3: so you can point out and tweet me there's a

886
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 3: million well yeah about this kid or that kid. But

887
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Speaker 3: like I wanted something that's going to be what's the

888
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Speaker 3: most guaranteed thing I can get that I know is

889
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 3: going to walk in here and be able to plug

890
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 3: and play. Don't have to worry about nor about his

891
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 3: character who he is. It's going to be solid and

892
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 3: that's be solid to great.

893
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

894
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: Absolutely, last thing for you, it's a text message from

895
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: brand just to go backwards a bit. You mentioned sometimes

896
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Speaker 1: that summer you can know if maybe you missed were

897
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Speaker 1: you talking about Christian poker. You know, there's a couple

898
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: examples that I have in my career where you there's

899
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: there's there's two ends of the spectrum. Is when you're

900
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: in OTAs in the summer before you go to training camp.

901
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: There's the guys that just murder in the underwear. Right,

902
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: you're in shorts and T shirts.

903
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 3: We call them up ers, these little these little softies

904
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 3: pads and your helmet, and you're out there run around

905
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 3: being an athlete, and nobody's said to each.

906
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: Other, well, now you've got the bro bra too. We

907
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: didn't have the bro bra GPS and the track monitors

908
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Speaker 1: and everything.

909
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, And and you got guys that just show out

910
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 3: in those and you know, on the off season and

911
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: then you go training camp, you're like, where did that

912
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 3: guy go?

913
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: Right?

914
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 3: You realize the pads came on and all of a sudden,

915
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 3: like football gets real, and like some guys can't. The

916
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 3: game does not translate all the time. And you have

917
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 3: guys that show up and especially in skill positions, you know,

918
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 3: almost always when you look at them in the summer,

919
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 3: you're like, nah, Like arm strength is definitely a factor,

920
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 3: like accuracy and arm strength like that can only improve

921
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 3: so much over time when you're a pro, Like your

922
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 3: arm strength is sort of probably your arm strength and

923
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: your ability to kind of read and put that ball

924
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 3: in the spot.

925
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 2: It's got to be all the time.

926
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Speaker 3: But I also think receivers, you know, dbs, guys getting

927
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 3: in out of their hips, like those those types of

928
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 3: thing you can't run away from, and that doesn't only

929
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 3: have so much room for improvement. So it's usually the

930
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 3: skill positions. And I don't want to name names specifically, no,

931
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Speaker 3: I understand.

932
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 2: Out of respect.

933
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: By the way, the worst player on any of your

934
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Speaker 1: teams was in elite athlete.

935
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes that's true.

936
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: So but hey, thanks for hanging out in the studio, man.

937
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate what's good. What's good with great now? Yeah

938
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Speaker 1: good better than everything? Good to be back great?

939
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're moving into spring Moat, so leaning heavily into

940
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Speaker 3: this hockey piece we got going on in America, which

941
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Speaker 3: is exciting.

942
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Speaker 2: We can lean into that.

943
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Speaker 3: You can see some new programming with our Seltzer coming

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Speaker 3: down the pipeline at some really big retailers that are

945
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Speaker 3: diving into gray Duck in a heavyway. So we're looking

946
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Speaker 3: for huge case stacks that can be very pro America

947
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Speaker 3: that we all can get behind as American. So I'm

948
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Speaker 3: fired up, so we're gonna lean to that. So be

949
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Speaker 3: looking for that in any liquor store you guys walk

950
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Speaker 3: into support local, So thank you, no, thank.

951
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Speaker 2: You, good to see you. That's Jack Greenway at Chad

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Speaker 2: Greenway five.

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Speaker 1: Two via X a little football, some com bites I

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Speaker 1: believe around the corner from Brett but then Chris Carter

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Speaker 1: around ten oh five, falling us on hockey ten twenty

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Speaker 1: Charchion as in Paul Charchian from Utah around eleven.

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Speaker 2: It's nord to win for PA. Nine to noon the

958
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Speaker 2: fan welcome some great shows of Mystic Lake Amphitheater.

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Speaker 4: Crue August twenty. First you can get all of our

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Speaker 4: details on upcoming shows on the concert page, kfan dot com,

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Speaker 4: keywor calendar.

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Speaker 1: I just had to remove some food garbage that was

964
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Speaker 1: just left in the studio Brett, So I do want

965
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Speaker 1: to get to some combites here, combine underway workouts and

966
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Speaker 1: everything nine to noon, great podcastable interviews with the free

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Some cool Coveny catchups. But also you had

968
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Speaker 1: both head coach Kevin O'Connell and acting general manager Rob

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Speaker 1: Razinski sit down with Pa and Pete Bursich. Great conversations there,

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971
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna start combine combined bites, combites, combites. That's right,

972
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Speaker 4: with more of a question because I'm looking at all

973
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Speaker 4: the measurements and all the different talkers. So for instance,

974
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Speaker 4: I think you and Meat Sauce are Draft guys. You're

975
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 4: lock in. We're watching the fourth round. We're gonna have

976
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Speaker 4: live coverage to the two of you. We're doing it

977
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Speaker 4: like and some people are, some people aren't. But this

978
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Speaker 4: I'm reading a Twitter thread, a next thread from at

979
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 4: the Draft network, and it literally is just measurements of

980
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 4: the safeties, measuring in and it's a whole thread. Jalen

981
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 4: Husky not a great name safety Maryland, six' to one

982
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Speaker 4: one ninety. Six his arm, length his hand. Size there's

983
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 4: twenty five of these as they just come. In and

984
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Speaker 4: Then i'm looking at a bleacherport. Article Cassius. Howell he

985
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Speaker 4: is a edge From TEXAS a AND. M, Yeah how's

986
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 4: lack of arm strength impossible to? Ignore, yeah measuring it

987
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 4: thirty and one fourth inches In. Indianapolis how can we

988
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Speaker 4: ignore his lack of arm?

989
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Speaker 2: Length? YEAH i.

990
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Speaker 1: Need first of, All i'll Need i'm gonna need a

991
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Speaker 1: month BEFORE i become a draft, guy But i'll get.

992
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Speaker 2: There, SECONDLY i do LOVE i do love.

993
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: The drilling into the, numbers as we Had greenway and

994
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Speaker 1: study and he mentioned, it you require these drills for

995
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Speaker 1: the sake of Having, okay so this is a specific

996
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: standard bar of measurement and everyone has to go through

997
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: that exact same, process and then you decide what matters what.

998
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: Doesn't arm length probably does matter in terms of when

999
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: you're talking about edge. RUSHING i mean you look at

1000
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: a guy Like Daniel. Hunter Daniel, hunter there are probably

1001
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: many olignemen that if they just if they just do

1002
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: if they just stand across from each, other And Daniel

1003
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: hunter puts his hands on that person's shoulder with his

1004
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: arms out, straight that old lineman can't get a hand

1005
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: On Denil. Hunter so there are aspects where it does,

1006
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: matter but they make these guys sound like D rex is. Out,

1007
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: yeah it's, unbelievable just like with these little baby. Hands

1008
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: now does hand size matter in terms of quarterbacks as

1009
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 1: it relates to. FUMBLES i know a lot of people

1010
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: When Kenny pickett was being drafted most, recently a lot

1011
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: of people, questioning, okay hand size like eight and change,

1012
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: right eight inches and whatever a half or a, quarter

1013
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: well's how's he going to be able to grip the?

1014
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: Football and then you Had Dante culpepper drafted by The

1015
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: vikings in nineteen ninety. NINE i had the opportunity to

1016
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Speaker 1: meet dantev since met him again at an event at

1017
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: the golf course At, meadows and first of, all, elite awesome,

1018
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: person but kind of the joke always was that he

1019
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: must have really small hands because of all the fumbles

1020
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: that we saw From, dante and so.

1021
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 2: He got his role on a.

1022
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: Bunch he fumbled a bunch fun times With dante here In.

1023
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: Minnesota but, yes they tend to over maybe examine some

1024
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: of those specific numbers and measurables that play into.

1025
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 2: It. Now speed is another.

1026
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: Thing we Had Jack greenway, here he, mentioned you, know

1027
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: he runs a four to seven six at The combine

1028
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: runs a four to six at at his pro, day

1029
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: and that changed things maybe in terms of how. Teams

1030
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: so maybe significant changes or significant jumps.

1031
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 2: Matter but, yeah arm length And i'll tell YOU.

1032
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: I might be excited for the draft and excited to

1033
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: do shows With saucy about.

1034
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: It i'm not really digging into.

1035
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 4: THAT i just want to meet the guy who has

1036
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Speaker 4: the notifications on for every time The Draft network tweets

1037
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 4: and just locked in on What lorenzo styles junior out

1038
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Speaker 4: Of Ohio, state what his hand size AS i.

1039
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Speaker 2: Want to meet that. Guy com.

1040
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 4: Bites are you mentioned it To, Greenway i'll turn it

1041
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Speaker 4: around to, you and maybe an early edition of.

1042
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Speaker 2: Sur Boom pray Per pray and maybe a position group

1043
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Speaker 2: that you like for.

1044
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Speaker 1: You Per Boom Prayer pray that's copyrighted by the.

1045
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Speaker 2: Program you can't play that. Nine is there a position?

1046
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Speaker 2: GROUP i? Know best player?

1047
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Speaker 4: Available that's what we, Do that's what we want to

1048
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 4: do at Eighteen but if if you had to nail

1049
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Speaker 4: down a position group for your purple for purple, prey.

1050
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Speaker 1: Heer boom, pray purple, pray where'd you? Go? Yeah, right right,

1051
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 1: NOW i am looking at safeties AND i am looking

1052
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: at interior defensive.

1053
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: Linemen so those are the two That i'm looking.

1054
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: At but but but as we'll talk more with With

1055
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: charch at eleven. O'clock this this is the same conversation

1056
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: we've had for a, week is that dominoes need to

1057
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: fall before you start really understanding where the holes are

1058
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: that need to be. Filled IF tj and, yes best

1059
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: player available and all of, that but IF Tj hawkinson stays,

1060
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: well that Makes Kenyon, sadik The oregon tight, end less

1061
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: of a less of a factor at a, team to

1062
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: the point where even any of you out there, Listening

1063
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: vikings loving roobs that you, are IF tj restructures his

1064
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Speaker 1: deal and you still have you still HAVE. Tj you

1065
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Speaker 1: still Have Josh. Oliver we're trying to figure out. BabyCare,

1066
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Speaker 1: Guy you're a. Sec if we're still three or four

1067
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Speaker 1: tight ends deep and they get rid Of Javon hargrave

1068
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: and there's this awesome d tackle that you love there

1069
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: and they Take Kenyon, sadik you're going to be angry about.

1070
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: That so you can say best player. Available but then

1071
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: in the, end the depth in what this roster looks

1072
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: like on draft day does play a factor into what they.

1073
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: Do but right, now safety and d tackle for, me

1074
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: because as the roster is, NOW i Mentioned Javon, HARGRAVE

1075
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: i would be very much surprised if they don't find

1076
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:01,959
Speaker 1: a way to move.

1077
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 2: Him and is that an outright.

1078
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: Release we heard some steam over the week that there

1079
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: might be some trade, conversations but my, goodness the, money the,

1080
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: age the, PRODUCTION i don't know how you're going TO i,

1081
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: mean that would be a trade where you trade, them

1082
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: you get nothing, left nothing, back and you might have

1083
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Speaker 1: to keep some of that.

1084
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 2: Salary that might be the only way a trade works.

1085
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: Out or they'll throw you a twenty twenty eight to

1086
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: seventh round pick or something like. That and WITH tj

1087
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: the twenty plus million cap, number you know that would

1088
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: impact again what they, do but specifically to the, safeties

1089
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: they should Say Harrison smith and what appears to be

1090
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: the pending. Retirement then that would lead you down a

1091
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: road where it's, like we gotta do something about. That

1092
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: so the health of the health Of metellus a year

1093
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: ago kind of impacting things playing with that, shoulder and

1094
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: then ultimately a season ends, early all of those. THINGS

1095
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: i just look at safety and interior d line at

1096
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: this particular. Moment but, Again domino's far over the next

1097
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: two weeks in in terms of what we can.

1098
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 2: Expect maybe you can get a guy Like Chris carter

1099
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,479
Speaker 2: in the. Draft Chris, carter how about?

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00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 3: That?

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Speaker 2: Yeah And i'm let's do.

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Speaker 1: This let's pause from some calm bites and we're gonna

1103
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: jump back into. It in earnest with at eleven o'clock

1104
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: With Paul charchie and joining from his nuclear bunker or

1105
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: rest stop In.

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00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 2: Utah but we're gonna go heavy on.

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00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: Football he's already as we were doing this, Segment, brett

1108
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: he was texting me maybe a few names that he'll

1109
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: be looking. At but that's conversation at eleven with charch

1110
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: The Minnesota wild thumping The Colorado avalanche and they're resuming

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00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: of play last evening In, colorado front end of a

1112
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: back to. BACK i got a text From Drew Hey

1113
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: brett play The Nobody cares sounder when he's talking about

1114
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: football and start talking about THE nhl And.

1115
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 2: Wild so we'll do that around.

1116
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: Ten twenty for, You drew and anybody else that's loving

1117
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: our favorite hockey team as they got back into action last.

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00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: Night you tawd this evening on the road and you're

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00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: home For Wild hockey The. Fan but next HO F

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Speaker 1: Chris carter set to. Join there's a charity bent to,

1121
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Speaker 1: it but we'll chat Some vikings football With Chris carter

1122
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Speaker 1: around the.

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Speaker 2: Corner It's nordo in For. Pa it's the fan