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Speaker 1: join nine to Noon coming up here relatively soon, quite quickly.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be followed by the controversial first portion

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Speaker 1: of the Monday mock, the first eight picks predict at

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Fire weekend rap. My man's name is.

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Speaker 1: It's Bryson Mullins. He's a freshman for Yukon. He was

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Speaker 1: mister Basketball in the state of Basketball Indiana. So like

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Speaker 1: Minnesota is the state of hockey, Indiana is the state

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Speaker 1: of basketball. This Bryce and Mullins is a freshman who

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Speaker 1: was mister Basketball just last year in Indiana, so he's

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Speaker 1: a true freshman. And he hit what they call in

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Speaker 1: the business thanks to Caitlyn Clark, a logo three pointer

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Speaker 1: to eliminate Duke when there was a boozer involved in

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Speaker 1: Wasn't Cameron, it was his brother and lo and behold

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Speaker 1: Mullins nails one from about forty feet and down goes Duke.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild will be in action later this week.

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Speaker 3: Let's play hockey, but hockey conversation later.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Minnesota Viking's head coach Kevin O'Connell.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, it's Paul Allen. Good morning.

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Speaker 2: How you doing?

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Speaker 3: Pretty much the home with you this morning? Likewise, thank

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Speaker 3: you very much for the time.

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Speaker 1: At eight eighteen in the morning, Scottsdale time. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine it's just a beautiful Arizona day for everybody involved.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: I just walked out of the NFC Coaches media breakfast

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Speaker 2: spend some good time with the folks who made the

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good day here.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get to business.

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Speaker 1: I know you've got ten minutes and here they are,

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Speaker 1: your first year on the competition committee. How's that part

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Speaker 3: Kevin?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what it's been.

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Speaker 4: It's been a really good experience.

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Speaker 3: So far.

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Speaker 2: You know, I get to be with a great group.

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Speaker 4: You know, some of the other coaches.

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Speaker 2: It's just been very unique. And the one thing that

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Speaker 1: The dynamic kickoff and altering to a five four to

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Speaker 1: Hey, Kevin with with Kyler Murray when you went deep

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Speaker 2: The things that he's done at a really high level.

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Speaker 2: And he's proven to be that throughout his NFL career

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Speaker 3: Well, obviously he needs to win the job.

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Speaker 1: But I'm you know, I'm really happy you went down

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Speaker 4: The Minnesota Viking.

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Speaker 2: So that's man, man.

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Speaker 1: been excited to ask you this since you're Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 3: Zoom that you did.

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Speaker 1: Frank Smith is your new assistant head coach, come from Miami.

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Speaker 1: He was Ben Roethlisberger center for three years at Miami Ohio.

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Speaker 1: What what do you envision Frank's role looking like when

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Speaker 1: you start playing games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Frank's role really you know, in this day and age, PA,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, sometimes you've got to be creative

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Speaker 2: with titles and responsibilities to try to really, you know,

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Speaker 2: enhance some opportunities for guys. And Frank was certainly that

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Speaker 2: he was a guy. The second that you know, there

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Speaker 2: was a change made down there in Miami, I was

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Speaker 2: going to find a way to get Frank Smith on

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Speaker 2: our staff and that's that's to be part of our

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Speaker 2: offensive think tank. That's to continue the evolution and the

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Speaker 2: constant need to you know, continue to be an attacking

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Speaker 2: offensive group. But you know, I think I'm always trying

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Speaker 2: to grow and learn, and a guy like Frank Smith

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Speaker 2: coming with the unique ways that they did things schematically

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Speaker 2: and you know in Miami, and we're able to you know,

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Speaker 2: apply so many principles to whether it's wide zone, mid zone,

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Speaker 2: gap trap runs. But they did it from the gun,

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Speaker 2: they did it from the pistol, they did it from

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Speaker 2: the offset gun. So you know, so there may have

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Speaker 2: some foreshadowing.

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Speaker 4: There of a necessity to provide.

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Speaker 2: Some expertise to our offensive staff room in that regard.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be heavily involved in building our run

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Speaker 2: game plan throughout the offseason and weekly, and then also

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Speaker 2: has a really good feel as a former coordinator of

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Speaker 2: how to tie it all together, you know, marrying that

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Speaker 2: running pass no matter how you're running the football with

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Speaker 2: play action and keep your game and screen game. We

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Speaker 2: are super fortunate to have Frank Smith working alongside.

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Speaker 4: West and the rest of our offensive staff.

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Speaker 2: And it's always something that I need you know about

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Speaker 2: how much I value those offensive staff guys to help

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Speaker 2: put together something special.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wait to watch, you can't wait to call it

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Speaker 3: and we hit that twenty nine. We're playing fast. Ko

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Speaker 3: and March have a good day, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Pa misch Man, hope you're doing well and

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Speaker 2: look forward to seeing me soon.

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Speaker 1: Likewise, so your coach, Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, joining nine to noon play yea