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Speaker 1: Let's jump right into it.

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Speaker 2: Joining me now, Minnesota Wild analyst, reporter, extraordinary handicapper, elite,

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Speaker 2: elite Canterbury Park paddock attire, especially when it's a beautiful

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Speaker 2: Kevin Gorg and he's with me.

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Speaker 1: Now, how are you doing, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Nor No, I'm doing great. I love that you teed

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Speaker 3: up the Canterbury Park tire because it's just a few

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Speaker 3: months away and we'll be back outside in the warmth

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Speaker 2: You might think that I'm being sarcastic about it, but

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Speaker 2: when you're popping on the TV with with Angela and

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Speaker 1: Style shirts, it's incredible.

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Speaker 2: So I just, uh, I just got to I just

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Speaker 2: got to give some appreciation where it's absolutely due.

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Speaker 1: And that's why. And I'm glad you're you're joining.

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Speaker 2: As you are about to head to Edmonton here because

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Speaker 2: we got to give some appreciation to a regulation victory

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Speaker 2: for the Minnesota Wild and that four to one w

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Speaker 2: little grinder until things opened up on the power play goal.

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Speaker 2: What'd you love about last night at Grand Casino Arena.

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Speaker 3: Well, I love that it took care of business. I

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Speaker 3: think John Hines put it best when we talked to

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Speaker 3: him in the postgame press or that not every game

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Speaker 3: is going to be a picasso. He was not happy

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Speaker 3: with the first two periods, and I think he made

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Speaker 3: the point nord A that there was a lot of

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Speaker 3: know that drives him bananas.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you get.

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Speaker 3: Those two quick goals earlier, you're playing a bad hockey

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Speaker 3: team who's in the middle of a losing streak, and

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Speaker 3: you're in the dog days of the season. I really

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Speaker 3: thought it was it was Philip Gustuson against the world

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Speaker 3: from that point on until the final five or six

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Speaker 3: minutes when they got those power plays and then their

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Speaker 3: star players seem to elevate their game and put it away.

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Speaker 3: But I think if you're really handicapping where the wildart

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Speaker 3: right now, it's about a ninety nine percent chance if

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Speaker 3: you look at the analytics, they're going to play Dallas

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Speaker 3: in the first round of the playoffs. It's not changing

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Speaker 3: it's what it is. I don't think home ice is

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Speaker 3: that crazily important, and you got some guys that are

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Speaker 3: beat up and tired. It's been a really busy schedule.

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Speaker 3: There's been a ton of travel. You got a veteran

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Speaker 3: hockey team here. I truthfully feel they're trying to get

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Speaker 3: to the break here and the guys that aren't going

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Speaker 3: to be going over to Italy are going to use

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Speaker 3: those three weeks to really recharge and reset. I think

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Speaker 3: when they get back and you get Brodeine back and healthy,

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Speaker 3: and you get into the final couple three weeks of

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Speaker 3: the season, you try to get a little momentum then

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Speaker 3: and you want to be playing your best hockey because

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Speaker 3: they're clearly not playing their best hockey now. But they're

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Speaker 3: such a good hockey team and they have such great

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Speaker 3: goaltending that they're able to survive. And that's I think

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Speaker 3: that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Is there is.

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Speaker 2: There any worry to You mentioned the post game last night,

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Speaker 2: and you know, analyzing and not being happy with certain

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Speaker 1: Just ready to play man like we didn't have it.

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Speaker 2: We weren't on time was kind of the phrase when

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Speaker 2: I chatted with him yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We didn't show up on time?

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Speaker 2: Is there worry about that as part of the grander

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Speaker 2: not playing our best? Hockey related conversation is just the

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Speaker 2: idea that they're not ready to go at puck drop

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Speaker 1: That would be frustrating if I'm John Hines.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fear factors thing too. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: think right now it's all about habits, and you don't

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Speaker 3: the opening five minutes last night where Minnesota did arrive

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Speaker 3: do believe with a veteran team that when push comes

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Speaker 3: when this team's playing their style of hockey, and John

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Speaker 3: Hines always says, let's get it North. Well, you've got

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Speaker 3: the guys right now, led by Quinn Husic can do that.

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Speaker 3: I just think sometimes watching this group, especially last night,

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Speaker 3: I think when you get back, I mean, you've got

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Speaker 3: of a sudden you're in the March, and March always

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Speaker 3: feels different for a multitude of reasons. Here with the Wild,

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Speaker 3: the weather starts to I'm up to start to really

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe the best way, and I'm sure the

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Speaker 2: coach want to look at it this way, you could

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Speaker 2: just say the Wild were really, really, really efficient in

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Speaker 2: the first period. I mean, how about that three shots,

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Speaker 2: you get two goals. That's got to make everybody smile, right.

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Speaker 2: The analytics department is like, okay, hang on, you're unhappy, John,

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Speaker 2: But they were very, very efficient. You think they can

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to run it off

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Speaker 3: like that, because you know, they gave up thirteen or

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Speaker 3: Your ops got basically the backside of that wide open

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Speaker 3: and then force the Jake Middletons stretch pass floater that

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Speaker 3: They were both beautiful goals. It just felt like Calgary

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Speaker 2: Uh, you mentioned you mentioned Hennestroza, just focusing on on

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a polite and assertive on ice conversation that

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Speaker 2: I saw the head coach having uh with mister Hennestroza

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think the message was pretty clear and and he's

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Speaker 3: He's not going to run guys over. It's not going

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Speaker 3: Our data analyst on the broadcast last night, Mike Kelly,

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Speaker 3: think Minnesota's just got to simplify things. And you know

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Speaker 3: they're going to Edmonton. They're super fast, they're super skilled.

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Speaker 3: Then you come home for a Monday night showdown with Montreal.

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Speaker 3: He hadn't watched them play. They're incredibly good. Robbie Rosenhaus

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Speaker 3: So back to back games where you're gonna be playing

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Speaker 3: When we're playing North, we're able to get that fucking

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Speaker 3: I think these next two games, because of that fear factor,

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Speaker 2: Know, the penalty kill the last two games five for

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Speaker 2: as an outsider, I'm looking okay. Well, Calgary's power play

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Speaker 2: Is there is there an opportunity here even in this

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Speaker 3: Well, you're right about one. It's been bad all year.

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Speaker 3: In Saint Paul, we had a crazy stat a couple

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Speaker 3: But the bottom line is on this home stand, their

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Speaker 3: I thought Guess revolted against Chicago, specifically in overtime, made

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Speaker 3: Gustus and was their best penalty killer last night. You're

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Speaker 3: you saw Damon Hunt get some time on the penalty

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Speaker 3: but specifically when I asked to jump into that penalty

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Speaker 3: now to that guy, because I don't think John Hines

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Speaker 3: digesting what happened. If Bonex plays in that game, I

433
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Speaker 3: think Denver wins by double digits. I don't think I'm

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Speaker 3: going out on any limb. I thought Sean Payton did

435
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Speaker 3: not do a great job within that game. Bad weather,

436
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 3: great defense, forecast for snow during the second half, chance

437
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Speaker 3: to go up ten with that rockstar defense, we decided

438
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Speaker 3: to go for it, and the play call was obnoxiously bad.

439
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Speaker 3: And he's got his fingerprints on all that stuff. Some

440
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Speaker 3: weird decisions with field goals and when to kick from

441
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Speaker 3: distance and bad weather. And I think if you were

442
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Speaker 3: looking back at that game and saying, did Sean Payton

443
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Speaker 3: put his best foot forward? Probably not. I don't think

444
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Speaker 3: it mattered Nordal because even if Denver eked out that

445
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Speaker 3: win against New England, they would have been a nine

446
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Speaker 3: or ten point underdog against a really good Seattle team,

447
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Speaker 3: and with a quarterback that really isn't ready for prime

448
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 3: time in a controlled environment with good weather, they would

449
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Speaker 3: have got clocked in the Super Bowl for all intents

450
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Speaker 3: and purposes, their their season was over as soon as

451
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Speaker 3: boon Knicks announced that that ankle injury. After that crazy

452
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Speaker 3: win with they probably were lucky to beat Buffalo, so

453
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Speaker 3: great season. Love boon Knicks, Sean Payton though, up to

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Speaker 3: Sean Payton things not making any friends, And I'll put

455
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Speaker 3: it this way, I put up with him. I've always

456
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Speaker 3: loved my team, and he'll come and go, but I'll

457
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Speaker 3: always be my you know, it'll be my club forever.

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Speaker 1: You know, you could have gotten a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a replay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you recall remember the Seahawks Broncos

461
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: Was that a met life?

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Speaker 3: It was awful. First play the game safety uh Peyton

464
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Speaker 3: Manning sacked in the end zone. It was a disaster

465
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Speaker 3: Percy in that game.

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Speaker 2: Didn't didn't Percy have a special teams touchdown or something

467
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Speaker 2: like that that day too?

468
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: I think you're right fair enough. I'm saying, Look, you

470
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Speaker 2: know how, I'm a Vikings fan. I mean I got

471
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Speaker 2: I got one quarterback that my team reportedly wanted to

472
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Speaker 2: trade up in draft. The other quarterback was wearing my

473
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Speaker 2: jersey a year ago. I have apologize for trying to

474
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Speaker 2: tear you down to in some ways make myself feel better.

475
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Speaker 2: Have fun in Edmonton, man, and I just always appreciate

476
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Speaker 2: the chance to talk with you.

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Speaker 1: And we'll catch up again soon, all right, Nora.

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Speaker 3: All is good to hear your voice. Thanks for having

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Speaker 3: me on, and have a great weekend to head buddy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you too, man, that that is one of the best.

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Speaker 2: It's Kevin gorg at gorgo Matic two to one via

482
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Speaker 2: the X machine and you catch him on FanDuel Sports

483
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Speaker 2: Network North covering the Minnesota Wild, the Wild with the

484
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 2: four to one dub last night and joking and jokingly

485
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Speaker 2: with the coach yesterday. It's just like, hey, twenty one

486
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Speaker 2: overtime slash shootout games each of this, the previous three

487
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Speaker 2: at home, go into the to the extra time if

488
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Speaker 2: you will, the ot frame and just how exhausting that

489
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Speaker 2: can be. I believe the twenty one by the ways,

490
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Speaker 2: most of in the NHL, can you just freaking win

491
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Speaker 2: one in regulation? And they handled business last night, although

492
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Speaker 2: Calgary's kind of it. I mean, I don't want to

493
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Speaker 2: say it's a dirty game in terms of like they're

494
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Speaker 2: underhanded things. They're just dirty game, like grind, just meat

495
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Speaker 2: grinders of affairs with with the Flames, who are not

496
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Speaker 2: a good team, so they kind of have to win

497
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Speaker 2: those games.

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Speaker 1: Is that kind of their vibe? Gritty team? Yeah, you're not.

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Speaker 1: You're just gonna get a free two points from him.

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Speaker 2: No, just whether it was it was two nothing at

501
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Speaker 2: home a month and change ago, and then you're you're

502
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Speaker 2: zero five on the on the power play when you

503
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Speaker 2: played them up in Calgary, and then even last night

504
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Speaker 2: you love the PK shutting it down. You finally get

505
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Speaker 2: over the hump with the with the advantage with the

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Speaker 2: boldy goal. But nothing's easy against against those Flames. So

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Speaker 2: thankfully Wild in regulation last night. Let's just go beat

508
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Speaker 2: Let's go beat Drysdle, Let's go beat McDavid.

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Speaker 1: Why not?

510
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Speaker 2: And that's up next tomorrow, late night hockey right here

511
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Speaker 2: on your home for Wild Hockey the Fan. Next, we're

512
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Speaker 2: going to continue the hockey conversation in fact with with

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Speaker 2: Joe O'Donnell, voice of the Minnesota Wild. He watched it

514
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Speaker 2: last night, He watches all of them, and he gets

515
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Speaker 2: to sit next to the great Tom Reid.

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Speaker 1: He's he's going to join me next and uh, and.

517
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Speaker 2: Then at ten forty five, a late edition, I'm gonna

518
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Speaker 2: check in with with Twins Daily, the Twins Geek, John Bonus,

519
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Speaker 2: the news that Derek Falvey and the Minnesota Twins have

520
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Speaker 2: mutually agreed to part ways. I'm going to get a

521
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Speaker 2: few minutes with with Bones on the line. We'll do

522
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Speaker 2: some news and then Johnny Krazinski of The Athletic at

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Speaker 2: the top of the hour, it's nor to win for

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Speaker 2: p A nine to noon and we got a cash

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Speaker 2: giveaway that we do.

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Speaker 5: The fan wants to give a shot to win those

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Speaker 5: bonus bucks in the national cash contest at a KFA

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Speaker 5: dot com.

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Speaker 1: The keyword is gold. The keyword is gold this hour

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Speaker 1: Cafe dot com keyword gold.

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Speaker 6: Threes s wheel near the blueline gives it back to Hughes.

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Speaker 1: When to use feeding super rollo ass back they use

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Speaker 1: write circle caprizo. He p.

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Speaker 2: That was the voice of Joe Donald, your voice for

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Wild Hockey, right here on the fan, and he

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Speaker 2: joins me, Now, how are you doing this morning?

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Speaker 1: Joe?

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Speaker 3: Great nordo. Thanks for having me, buddy has always a pleasure.

539
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Speaker 1: No, thank you, It must have been nice. You got

540
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Speaker 1: home a little bit earlier.

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Speaker 2: Last night, team decided just to handle business in the

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Speaker 2: first sixty.

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Speaker 1: It was a nice one.

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Speaker 6: It was a rarity three straight prior and going over

545
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Speaker 6: time to shootout I think ten of seventeen. I think

546
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Speaker 6: the fans and the Wild players of staff probably getting

547
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Speaker 6: used to needing more than sixty minutes. But you have

548
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Speaker 6: a team like Calgary that's struggling, important to take care

549
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Speaker 6: of business. It wasn't pretty. I love John Hines' quote

550
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Speaker 6: after the game thing when you have eighty two games,

551
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 6: they're not all going to be picassos, but two points

552
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Speaker 6: in a regulation win, which is obviously one of the

553
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 6: tie breakers. The Wild don't have a lot of those.

554
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 6: Should have come down to it at some point. The

555
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 6: more those you can stack, the better. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was talking with with Kevin Gorg last segment and

557
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Speaker 2: just kind of the starting to become resigned to the

558
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 2: idea that it that it will. Indeed, you know, however

559
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 2: this plays out, you want to play well into.

560
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Speaker 1: The pause, come out of the pause.

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Speaker 2: It's a sprint to the playoffs, et cetera. But just

562
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: kind of becoming resigned that one way or another it's

563
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Speaker 2: going to be the Dallas Stars. Is it starting to

564
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 2: kind of feel that way for you as well well.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you don't have to be a mathematician to

566
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Speaker 6: sort of piece that together. But Gorge faund on that

567
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Speaker 6: train for a while now a while now, I've been

568
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Speaker 6: pushing back on them a little bit, you know, I

569
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Speaker 6: think you know, again, the odds are the two to

570
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Speaker 6: three matchup is going to be Dallas and Minnesota, but

571
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Speaker 6: a lot can change. I mean, we saw last year

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Speaker 6: after the Four Nations face off, the Wild went just

573
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Speaker 6: one game above five hundred because of injury. Mainly they

574
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Speaker 6: needed until twenty seconds left in the last game, as

575
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Speaker 6: you're well aware, to punch the playoff tickets. So I

576
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 6: know they have a cushion. I know it's a bigger

577
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 6: cushion than last year. I know there's some teams underperforming

578
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Speaker 6: in the Western Conference, but I don't like to get

579
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 6: too far ahead of myself because I know there's you know,

580
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Speaker 6: going to be twenty five games left after this break

581
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Speaker 6: or whatever it is, and it's gonna be a sprint

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Speaker 6: to the finish.

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Speaker 2: What is what has stood out to you in terms

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Speaker 2: of this team over the last few weeks. Because different

585
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 2: people will take at different angles, whether it's yeah, goaltending

586
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: hasn't exactly been as elite as a certain stretch earlier

587
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Speaker 2: in the season, the injury woes, not starting games fast.

588
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 2: Like what has stood out to you if if someone

589
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Speaker 2: was to say, man, hockey team's not playing their best

590
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Speaker 2: hockey right now, where what direction would you first point to?

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Speaker 6: Probably just the defensive side of things. You know, the

592
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Speaker 6: glass half full approach is, Hey, they're getting a lot

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Speaker 6: of points, right, even if it's the one point variety,

594
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 6: the overtime or shootout loss. But you know, five to

595
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Speaker 6: one and one in the last seven, right, so it's like,

596
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 6: are they are they playing that badly? But I think

597
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Speaker 6: defensively last night was the first time in the last

598
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Speaker 6: ten games that they gave up less than three goals

599
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Speaker 6: to their opponent. So that's a good sign. You know,

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Speaker 6: you're gonna play some tough teams coming up here. They

601
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Speaker 6: can they can score goals, beginning with Edmonton tomorrow night,

602
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Speaker 6: then Montreal, Nashville. I think right out of the break

603
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Speaker 6: is Colorado and Utah. So I'm hoping that they can

604
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 6: continue to play the right branded defensive hockey and with

605
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Speaker 6: good health, I think this team will will trend in

606
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Speaker 6: the right direction and get back to where they were

607
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Speaker 6: for that six week span where you could argue they were,

608
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Speaker 6: you know, one of the top two or three teams

609
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Speaker 6: in the league. And some of it will come down

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Speaker 6: to goaltending, the consistency there between the pipes. When you

611
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Speaker 6: know most teams are having success, their goalies are making

612
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Speaker 6: that extra saver to a night, having a nine to

613
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Speaker 6: zero five or better save percentage. And when your team

614
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 6: struggling or giving up too many great A scoring chances

615
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 6: against and the goalies aren't bailing you out, that's when

616
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 6: you give up four and and sometimes you need five

617
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Speaker 6: or more to win, and that becomes more difficult on

618
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Speaker 6: the team.

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Speaker 2: Do you think in some ways John Hines, I mean,

620
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Speaker 2: he wants Edmonton to go the right way. He wants

621
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Speaker 2: to come home and beat Montreal, et cetera. But this

622
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Speaker 2: this little three game stretch into the pause, I think

623
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Speaker 2: the coach in some ways, like man, I think we

624
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Speaker 2: could use this break. You think that is somewhere in

625
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Speaker 2: his head, despite of course the current focus game.

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Speaker 3: I guess yeah.

627
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Speaker 6: I think you've got to go one game at a time, right,

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Speaker 6: You can't look too far ahead. I asked be any

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Speaker 6: Hinna Schroz about that last night on the post game show, Like,

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Speaker 6: I know it's a cliche, but it do you start

631
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Speaker 6: looking at the break? And I thought he had a

632
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 6: really good answer about like, you know, they're in such

633
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Speaker 6: a rhythm right now with playing pretty much every other

634
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Speaker 6: night that they don't know anything other than that. So

635
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Speaker 6: it's come to the rink, and when you're at the rink,

636
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 6: it's business and get your rest when you can. But

637
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Speaker 6: when they get to that break, you know, outside of

638
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 6: the you know, I guess eight to nine guys that

639
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Speaker 6: represent their countries from the organization. The other guys are

640
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Speaker 6: going to get so much need of time off. Hopefully

641
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 6: guys like Marcus Felino can heal up a little bit,

642
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 6: guys that have been playing through injuries. You're gonna get

643
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Speaker 6: a lot of rest for Caprice off, which will be huge.

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Speaker 6: You know last year he didn't have him down the

645
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Speaker 6: stretch obviously, So I think there's kind of twofold. It's

646
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Speaker 6: back these points when you can for the guys not

647
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Speaker 6: going to the Olympics obviously get their time off and

648
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Speaker 6: then get back into great playing shape. There is a

649
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Speaker 6: like a little window there where they can use ice

650
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 6: to tree a rink and kind of ramp back up,

651
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 6: even though half the team might not be there for

652
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Speaker 6: some of those practices. But then the guys going to Italy,

653
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 6: what a great opportunity for them. You just hope for

654
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 6: good health and success, and they all come back brooming

655
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 6: with confidence because we've seen that. You know, you look

656
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 6: at Matt Boldi, Nordo John Ies will tell you. The

657
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 6: World Championship experience, the Four Nations experience, they those things

658
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 6: made Matt Boldi a more confident and better player. He

659
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 6: was around the game's best, the world's best in those environments,

660
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 6: saw he could do it, saw how they prepared, and

661
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 6: it really helped them. And I think that can you know,

662
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Speaker 6: apply to all those guys for Minnesota that are gonna

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Speaker 6: go overseas.

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Speaker 2: What do you do during the break? I mean, are

665
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Speaker 2: you just your your full fan in some ways? Right

666
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 2: for for a few weeks. I mean it's gonna feel

667
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get lonely on the fan, man. I mean

668
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: we got the howl going and stuff like that. From

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Speaker 2: from next Wednesday, I believe you're in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: And then you.

671
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Speaker 2: Come right out of the break h for for an

672
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Speaker 2: evening at ball Arena in Denver, that that's some serious

673
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: chill time. You kind of just get to be a

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Speaker 2: fan and soak in the Olympics.

675
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I get to be a more consistent youth

676
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Speaker 6: hockey dad. You know, that's the one thing I miss

677
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 6: a lot of with our three boys. It's kind of

678
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 6: getting the slower part of the youth hockey schedules. A

679
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 6: lot of people out there no starting to get the

680
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 6: district playoff time for our kids. So I'm hoping to

681
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,239
Speaker 6: just be able to make more of that. Maybe go

682
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Speaker 6: skate on the outdoor rink with them, knock out a

683
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Speaker 6: podcast episode or two, and maybe just catch up on

684
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 6: some stuff that I've been that I've been lagging on,

685
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 6: you know, things you want to get to and kind

686
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 6: of cross them off the lift. But it will be

687
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Speaker 6: a nice break for anybody that's not going over to Italy,

688
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Speaker 6: and then it's you know, rampant back up time and

689
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 6: really just an absolute sprint to the finish.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy two points for our favorite hockey team, and

691
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 2: they get the pause, they get healthy. I mean, Jonas

692
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Speaker 2: Brodein's kind of the main health talker right in terms

693
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Speaker 2: of will the Olympic break be enough for him to

694
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Speaker 2: come back, rare and ready to go too.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think, you know, John Hines has kind of

696
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 6: talked about that six to eight week timeline. I'm not

697
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 6: sure exactly when he had the procedure done, but let's

698
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 6: just say we're into that second week now. Yeah, you know,

699
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Speaker 6: I think you'd probably expect him back at some point

700
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 6: here well before the end of the regular season. Might

701
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Speaker 6: be a stretch, but hopefully enough time to ramp up

702
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 6: to feel confident that the injury is, you know, not

703
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 6: only fixed, but that he's feeling one hundred percent And

704
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 6: what a boost. Obviously, you know, the guy they called

705
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Speaker 6: Jimmy can be on that back end. He is as

706
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Speaker 6: good he gets. And look, I'm not gonna say he's

707
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Speaker 6: the reason why the team's been giving up. His absence

708
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 6: is the reason why the team's giving up more goals recently.

709
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Speaker 6: But I don't think it's much of a stretch to say,

710
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 6: when you're without maybe your best shutdown defenseman and one

711
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 6: of the best shutdown defensemen on the planet, like you're

712
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 6: gonna give up more scoring chances, You're gonna give up

713
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 6: more rush chances against. He's able to cover up so

714
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 6: many things, and I really feel like him and Spurgeon

715
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 6: were playing just outstanding hockey together. I know Spurgeon and

716
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 6: Middleton have been together over the years since Shake Middleton

717
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 6: was acquired from the Sharks a few years back, so

718
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 6: there's chemistry there and they play well together. But boy,

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Speaker 6: I felt like that that combo Brodein and Spurgeon was

720
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 6: so good with Faber and Hughes and you had arguably

721
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Speaker 6: one of the top four defense pairings in the league.

722
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Speaker 6: And when you have Middleton and Bogosion at the five

723
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Speaker 6: to six, like, that's as deep as anybody in the NHL.

724
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Speaker 6: So again, if the Wild can get good health on

725
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 6: the back end of this Olympic break and get back

726
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 6: to a brand of hockey that allows them to limit

727
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 6: the chances against get the goaltenders in a rhythm, they're

728
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Speaker 6: gonna be tough to beat.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I appreciate you whenever you joined nine to the Dune. Man,

730
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: safe travels to Edmonton and we'll continue to listen to

731
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,959
Speaker 2: you with Tom and even fall this in company Wild

732
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Speaker 2: Radio Network.

733
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Speaker 1: But terrific work as always. Man, have a great day.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks Nordo and everybody out there in the state

735
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 6: of hockey. We appreciate the support on the Wild Radio Network,

736
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 6: and when the break gets here, enjoy it and enjoy

737
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:23,919
Speaker 6: the Olympics as well.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely take care man.

739
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 2: That's Joe Donald, Joe o'donald, voice of the Minnesota Wild

740
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 2: and you'll get to hear him tomorrow night a little

741
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: bit later, puck drop in Edmonton with Tom Reid as

742
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Speaker 2: the Wild. Let's just keep these winning. Why don't we

743
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 2: win two in a row in regulation? How about that?

744
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: Let's jump, let's sprint into the pause before we start

745
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 2: wearing our country's colors on our chests and enjoin some

746
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Speaker 2: Olympic hopy hockey. Local news by the way, and we're

747
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Speaker 2: gonna pause now come back on the front end of

748
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Speaker 2: news to NORD. We're gonna have John Bonus Twins Daily

749
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Speaker 2: on for a few minutes to discuss that Derek Falve

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Speaker 2: pobo for the Minnesota Twins and said organization they've mutually

751
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 2: agreed to part ways. Isn't like spring training, just like

752
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks away, Like what are we doing here? Well,

753
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 2: we're gonna ask Johnny Bonus about that when we return.

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00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 2: It's nine to noon. Welcome back, nine to noon. We'll

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00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 2: get to well, this is all wrapped into news really

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Speaker 2: news of the morning from the baseball team Minnesota Twins.

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Speaker 2: Choosing along well mutually was the word used via the

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Speaker 2: statement at Twins you can find that on x you

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00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 2: can find Twins Daily related content Twins Daily dot com.

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00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 2: And of course, one of the fans' finest, John Bonus,

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Speaker 2: is allowing me to steal just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: Now, how are you doing, mister Bonus? Doing busy morning? Indeed?

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Speaker 1: And again just a few minutes, because I know.

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Speaker 2: This has to be elite emergency podcast Patreon style gleaming

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Speaker 2: in the geek type of content, so uh digging.

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Speaker 4: That is correct. We also have the press conference I

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Speaker 4: mean here I think at eleven or eleven fifteen with

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Speaker 4: both Derek Falvey and Tom Pohlad. It will be just

769
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Speaker 4: to see what each of them say.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that would that would lend to the idea

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00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 2: if Falvey's part of this bit that clearly mutual indeed

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Speaker 2: is the case here?

773
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Speaker 1: What do you think about it?

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Speaker 2: The timing, just what is kind of fresh on in

775
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: your brain here as we're all kind of ingesting and

776
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Speaker 2: digesting this news.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'll start with this. My first reaction when

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Speaker 4: I heard the news was I've kind of wondered for

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Speaker 4: months whether or not Falvey wanted if this was the

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Speaker 4: job he had signed up for. You know, within the

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Speaker 4: last two years, he've beent seven years building an organization,

782
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 4: and then within the last two years they've cut payroll

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Speaker 4: by sixty million dollars. They've cut payroll each of the

784
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 4: last three years by about twenty million dollars. They have

785
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 4: they went through a potential ownership sale, then not an

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Speaker 4: ownership sale, then a restructuring of half a billion dollars

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Speaker 4: in debt. Then they had they also had him, you know,

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00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 4: changed to president of base of business and baseball operations,

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Speaker 4: not just business operations. Then they had a change in

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Speaker 4: who the executive chair from the Poet family was that

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00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 4: was going to be overseeing the whole thing, and that

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Speaker 4: happened within the last month. Wow, I mean, so this

793
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 4: is not the job he signed up for. It's not

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Speaker 4: the job it was for the first seven years. Like

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Speaker 4: it's been a you know, his hands have been tied

796
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 4: in the off season. His hands have been tied at

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Speaker 4: the trade deadline, except for the last trade deadline when

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00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 4: he was you know in a position where he ended

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Speaker 4: up selling you know, trading off the eleven of the

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Speaker 4: players on the team, the big one of the biggest

801
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 4: trade deadline fire sales in Major League Baseball history. Right

802
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 4: and now, you know, even after that, and even after

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Speaker 4: unloading Correa's you know, thirty million dollar stur or your

804
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 4: twenty million of his thirty million dollars salary, he just

805
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 4: had another twenty million dollar payroll cut. That looks like

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00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 4: and if there was any sort of thought process of, hey,

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00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: we got to be competitive, even if the even if

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00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 4: they wanted to invest, you know, money in the team,

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Speaker 4: right now, that came so late in the off season

810
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Speaker 4: that most of the big free agents have been completely

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Speaker 4: stacked up. Right There's now there's not a lot of

812
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 4: there's not a lot of pass forward in terms of

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Speaker 4: available items on the shelves to go get. That was

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Speaker 4: my first thought about the whole thing. Let me give

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Speaker 4: you my let me give you my sicket on this, which,

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Speaker 4: as you mentioned, which is the timing, timing on this

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Speaker 4: is weird. Okay, The off season is he oversees both

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Speaker 4: the baseball and the business side operations. Baseball side is

819
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 4: not yet done. They still have at least one spot

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Speaker 4: open on their forty man roster that they're trying to

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Speaker 4: get a reliever for spring training begins, you know, two weeks,

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Speaker 4: two weeks from yesterday. Uh, the business sides even more

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Speaker 4: badling because Daj Peter, who is the president of the

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00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 4: team for twenty plus years in two those two, stepped

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00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 4: down last March and Derek Falley took over for it,

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Speaker 4: and now he's leaving that role the president of that

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Speaker 4: one completely unmanned for your of just two months before

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Speaker 4: the season starts, before opening day, this whole thing feels rushed.

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Speaker 4: You know, when Dacy Peters stepped down, they announced that

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Speaker 4: he was going to be stepping down as the president

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Speaker 4: four months before he stepped down as president, right before

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Speaker 4: Calby transitioned into that This this as of this morning

833
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 4: at nine am, I could not get anybody. We knew

834
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Speaker 4: a move was coming. I thought it was going to

835
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Speaker 4: be signing a reliever. Nobody knew this was coming or

836
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 4: nobody was talking about this coming. This was completely unforeseen,

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Speaker 4: and it's unusual for any organization to have a leadership

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Speaker 4: vacuum with a without a transition plan as such a

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Speaker 4: critical part of their business year. So I think I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, despite the fact that they said, this conversation

841
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 4: has been going out for weeks. Maybe it has been

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00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 4: going out for weeks, you know, I think it feels

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00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 4: like there was a breaking point for whatever reason. Tom

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Speaker 4: pohl Had and Derek Faldy are not on the same

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00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 4: page or are on the same page that that Derek

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Speaker 4: Falley should not be as part of that organization.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's just it's it's a wow, and it's

848
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Speaker 2: just the way that you're building this up, and it's

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Speaker 2: I'm just on the speculation side of things. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it does feel at some point Falve's like I just

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00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 2: can't work with this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there is there an era of that

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00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: in some ways?

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00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 2: I mean pole Ad now now we got I think

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00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: it's Tom pohladd in charge of the business side, but

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00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: it does kind of feel that way Johnny where it's

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00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 2: just Falvey's like, my goodness, I mean this is just

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Speaker 2: awful and I'm going to go spend time with family.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean he's not looking for another job.

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Speaker 4: You know, he did talk about, you know, I'm looking

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Speaker 4: forward to spending time with family.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, they both seem to say it's a mutually

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Speaker 4: agreed upon thing and despite the suddenness of it and

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Speaker 4: sort of the optics around it, and how quickly it happened.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shocked if it is a mutual thing.

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Speaker 4: I are you asking me if I think Derek Falby

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Speaker 4: quit or if I think he got fired, And the

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Speaker 4: answer is I don't know, maybe both.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, at some point, that's that's a mutual decision, at

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Speaker 4: some point, like, yeah, I don't really want you here,

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Speaker 4: and I also don't want to really be here, so

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Speaker 4: you know, let's let's let's agree to go our separate

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Speaker 4: ways and we'll both be fine. It is a mutual breakup,

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Speaker 4: is what it feels like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, Hey, thank you for this time, Johnny, on very

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Speaker 2: short notice. We'll follow, of course with the press conference

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Speaker 2: and such and and then you and Gleaman, who cover

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Speaker 2: all this so well in the podcast amazing as it is.

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Speaker 1: We'll all be tuning into that later on my man.

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Speaker 4: All right, sounds good?

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks man.

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Speaker 2: That's John Bonas at Twins Geek via x and again

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Speaker 5: Number, Well, we had a whole segment planned for it,

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Speaker 5: to change plans, So I'll give you some time now.

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Speaker 5: The Eagles have hired former Minnesota Vikings quarterback and most

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Speaker 5: recently Packers quarterback coach Sewn Manyon as a new offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 5: He's coached for just two years, and I feel like

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Speaker 5: offensive coordinator is such a giant leaf. But he was

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Speaker 5: playing quarterback for the Vikings like two and a half

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Speaker 5: years ago.

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Speaker 7: Manions back in passes over the middle incomplete.

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Speaker 1: That's the one Sean Manion unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: The offensive coordinator did did you Packers? I mean typical

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Speaker 2: Packers fans. You don't even know who your individual position

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Speaker 2: coaches are. You just know that Laflora's a change and

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love. You probably heard about Jeff Haffley, but you

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Speaker 2: only knew about him after he had moved on to

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Speaker 2: take the Dolphins job. That's just typical Packers fan level

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Speaker 2: of knowledge as it pertains to their favorite team. Did

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Speaker 2: you did anybody ever have a big opinion on Sean

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Speaker 2: Manyons as the QB coach for the Green and Gold.

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Speaker 5: So when I was pulling sound various weeks for Packer Preview,

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Speaker 5: it only came up once that I heard an oppressor.

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Speaker 5: Someone asked how Sean Manyon doing, and Laflora immediately is like,

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Speaker 5: this guy is going to have a great future in coaching.

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Speaker 5: He goes above and beyond saying he's putting him over huge.

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Speaker 5: Clearly he wasn't kidding around, because to jump from a

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Speaker 5: you're just an offensive assistant to now you're a quarterback coach.

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Speaker 5: All of a sudden, you're the offensive coordinator of an

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Speaker 5: offense that has Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley. So that's

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Speaker 5: a pretty big jump. And I think Lafloora's correct in that.

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Speaker 7: Super impressive manions back in passes over the middle incomplete.

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Speaker 2: So during Kirk's tenure. And I mean, I'm not trying

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Speaker 2: to revise history, but it always it always felt like

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Speaker 2: Manion was not there, as he was not with the

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Speaker 2: Vikings as a backup QB to truly provide the team

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Speaker 2: with its best chance to win games. If Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 2: was ever to miss time, it was really in a

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Speaker 2: support role to get the most out of Kirk and

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Speaker 2: in some ways even again prior to his playing career ending.

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Speaker 1: And I just I mean, I'm gonna play this over

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Speaker 1: and over until the end of time.

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Speaker 7: Manion's back in passes over the Middle incomplete.

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Speaker 2: All jokes, all jokes aside about Manion, and I would

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Speaker 2: make the comment quite regularly like it's a good thing

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Speaker 2: that we have Sean Mannion on the team because he

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Speaker 2: is the greatest in the history of the world at

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Speaker 2: operating a Microsoft surface on the bench. You've never seen

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Speaker 2: anybody better than Sean Mannion on the bench operating a

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Speaker 2: Microsoft surface. Now, tongue in cheek, I would say this

946
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Speaker 2: because if Kirk ever missed time and that audio, by.

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Speaker 7: The way, if you forgot Manuons back in Passes over

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Speaker 7: the Middle incomplete, I.

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Speaker 2: Believe was in a twenty twenty one season where the

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Speaker 2: Vikings were fighting for their postseason lives, and there was

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Speaker 2: a primetime game at Lambeau where Manion started man in,

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Speaker 2: he got his finger bumped, had to leave for a series.

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Speaker 1: Kellen Mond would come in. We know how that went.

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Speaker 7: Do you think you want to get a look at

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Speaker 7: Mond next week?

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Speaker 2: Not particularly.

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Speaker 4: Mike. Why don't you want to get a look at him?

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Speaker 1: I assume every day and then after Mod would leave

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Speaker 1: for that series, then.

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Speaker 7: Manuons back in passes over the middle incomplete.

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Speaker 1: All jokes aside.

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Speaker 2: Clearly he is that good with a Microsoft's surface that

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Speaker 2: he sees the game that well from the bench, where

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Speaker 2: on a night when Kirk Cousins wasn't able to go,

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Speaker 2: I think he caught the COVID bug and he was

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Speaker 2: in the protocol, etc.

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Speaker 1: If you remember those days.

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Speaker 2: Man you went in and it was nothing short of

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Speaker 2: a catastrophe through a late touchdown pass that believed to

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Speaker 2: kJ Osborne maybe at the end of the third quarter,

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Speaker 2: and it was just a route. It was thirty something

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Speaker 2: to ten if I remember correctly. But to that end,

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Speaker 2: congratulations to Sean Manyon. Now he's not exactly finding himself,

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Speaker 2: or is he. I guess it depends because good coaches

975
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Speaker 2: end up becoming head coaches. But this coordinator situation with

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Speaker 2: the Eagles is interesting. Doug Peterson running things in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: but then it was Shane steik In twenty one and

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Speaker 2: twenty two. The Eagles go to the Super Bowl. I

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Speaker 2: believe they lose to the Chiefs at the end of

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Speaker 2: the twenty two season. Stikin then goes and becomes the

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Speaker 2: head coach of the Colts. The Colts hand Maybe Colts

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Speaker 2: fans are cult like down in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. I don't drink the concession stand A slip

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Speaker 1: of the lip.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, then Brian Johnson not Fantasy Football Weekly's best. Brian

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Speaker 2: Johnson a different one. I believe he was an OC

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Speaker 2: for a season. In twenty twenty three, they win the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl with Kellen Moore as the OC. In twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, he's now the head coach of the Saints,

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Speaker 2: and then the much maligned It was a tough year.

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Speaker 2: That was a season in which Kevin Patulo probably didn't

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Speaker 2: read a lot of the Philly Inquirer, probably didn't listen

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Speaker 2: to Merril Reese or anybody else that jumps on the

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Speaker 2: Juggernaut WIP ninety four, your Home for a Fly, Eagles Fly.

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Speaker 1: And now it's Sean Manyon.

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Speaker 2: That is the sixth offensive coordinator in the last seven

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Speaker 2: seasons for the Birds, six different OC's for Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 1: Yet they have found.

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Speaker 2: Their way to two Super Bowl finding a trophy in

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Speaker 2: one of them. That's a hot spot and there's when

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Speaker 2: things are going around going We talked about this during

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Speaker 2: the season with the Eagles, just you know, is this

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Speaker 2: a team that loves the drama? Is this a team

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Speaker 2: that kind of manufactures their own grit or their own tension.

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Speaker 2: You got big Dom on the sideline, the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: It's it's just obnoxious. As a Vikings fan, certainly with

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Speaker 2: maybe some bad memories of the twenty seventeen season in

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Speaker 2: that title game, but all the same, Sean Manyon, that

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Speaker 2: is awesome. I'm so happy for him because at one

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Speaker 2: point just making stupid jokes.

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Speaker 7: Manions back in passes over the middle incomplaint.

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Speaker 2: When I thought he was just languishing on the bench,

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Speaker 2: he was preparing himself to become the offensive coordinator of

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Speaker 2: one of the NFC Juggernauts in the Philadelphia Eagles congratulations

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Speaker 2: to him. Awesome opportunity for him, and I hope that

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Speaker 2: this is not the trend that continues. And for Jalen

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Speaker 2: Hurt's sake, they wouldn't be bad to an offensive coordinator

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Speaker 2: last more than a season or two. But that's super

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Speaker 2: cool for Sean mannon cool news that popped. You had

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Speaker 2: no idea he was a quarterbacks coach, but now but

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Speaker 2: now he's gone, he's he's instantly the love you lost.

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Speaker 2: With that said, we're gonna pause, come back Johnny Athletic,

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Speaker 2: John Krazinski of the Athletic, We're gonna chat with him

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Speaker 2: about the Howl who have now won three straight and

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Speaker 2: they went through a nasty gone It's like three what

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Speaker 2: three games or four games in the last five six

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Speaker 2: nights something like that.

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Speaker 1: It's been a stretch.

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Speaker 2: They're on the right side of it right now, and

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Speaker 2: they handled Okac last night. So we'll catch up with

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Speaker 2: Johnny Athletic around the corner final hour ahead Nordo win

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Speaker 2: for PA on the Fan