1 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Oh good, what's that fool doing? I don't know football. 2 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 2: The Soldier field is silenced. You could hear a snowflake 3 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: kiss the crossbar. 4 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: Have the silence you hear is lambeau Field nine to noon, 5 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: Bob personal foul clipping. This an old fashioned ass kicking 6 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: right here and that's a fact. Kiss rushing time for 7 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: two more big boys back. 8 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: Right, signs of Zukie trying to get a round start 9 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: he did, Suzuki, I'm off near the goal line by Karasankos, 10 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: with Loma back up Tom for Hudson once more. 11 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: Suzukie on the pop up lay papers Field fifteen second 12 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: tap that put Montreal in fiance George in the paint. 13 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 3: Hanks Bailey rises rooted in the DMPEX ricage. 14 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: But back. That's still good. Jazz still with it. 15 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 3: George thirty mill Tarter his career night continues, forty three 16 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 3: shads now leading by five. Fiance George will dribble this 17 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: out for the second time this season. The Timberwolves have 18 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: lost three consecutive games. Friday in Houston, Saturday at San Antonio, 19 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: Tonight into Utah. A forty three point fourth quarter for 20 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 3: the Utah Jazz. 21 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: They rally from fifty down to win it. 22 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: Cool night on the local sports landscape. Last evening mister 23 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 2: Medved's team ll Benchi l Heinze Hell and now it's 24 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: knowing Helle. 25 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: Good morning. 26 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: This is nine to noon Paul Allen, mad producer by 27 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: my side, Parker Fox, by our side at Parker Fox 28 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: two four via the tweet machine follow if you are 29 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: so inclined. Twins manager Derek Shelton will be in this 30 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,679 Speaker 2: studio today at eleven o'clock. Mister p Fox, are you're 31 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: going to come back from First Resource Bank Minneapolis and 32 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: get a selfie for your insta with the manager? 33 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: I need one. 34 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 4: I heard he's an excellent guy, so I'm excited for 35 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 4: the ability to listen to that and to see the 36 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 4: direction that Twin's going. 37 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: Now, you know, notice how you stopped there. 38 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 2: I'm excited for the season, okay, and then you stopped 39 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 2: because you're MoU to meat. I raised very respectful young man. 40 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: You're not really excited for the season. You're excited for 41 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: the opportunity for mister Shelton. You're excited for the gregarious 42 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 2: nature of said manager. Nine to noon today at eleven o'clock, 43 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: and you're excited for whatever deals you're surge me is 44 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 2: gonna cut with mister Shelton because he's a bourbon connoisseur 45 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: and I happen to have three bottles of aged Woodford Reserve. 46 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 2: Oh from the Kentucky Derby. Hello from like one from 47 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: a Derby gone by twenty three years ago, and like 48 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: sixteen then like nine. Wow, I'm gonna try to cut 49 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 2: a deal for some Champions Club seats and I ain't 50 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 2: going by myself, So you're excited for that? 51 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: All right, I'm throwing a bottle of Yamasaki twelve year 52 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: and we'll call it today. 53 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm Asaki. Watch your language in front of the ladies punk. 54 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: Come on? Do I need to bump that? Do I 55 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: need to dump that comment there? 56 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 5: Yeah? 57 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: I'm Asaki twelve ye SOFTI doesn't join until tomorrow. It's 58 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: the best bourbon in your life, it is. 59 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, yea, I'm a Suckia twelve yea, I'm a suckys 60 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 4: Well they have an eighteen year as well, but the 61 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 4: twelve years is my favorite. 62 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: What happened to your GPS on overtime last night in Columbus? 63 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: And good morning? Yeah, good morning, fun game? You take 64 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: it to overtime? 65 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 4: We took Ohio State to double overtime last year and 66 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 4: unfortunately lost. They just didn't have the depth on the stretch. 67 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 4: We've talked about it on this show. They only play 68 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 4: seven guys, they'd prefer to play five guys, and Kate 69 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 4: Tyson fouls out and overtime, and when that happens, you 70 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 4: just don't have the offensive process that you wish you 71 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 4: would have down the stretch. Overtime becomes a possession game. 72 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 4: If you can win the possession battles, limit the turnovers, 73 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 4: find ways to crash the offensive class, you give yourself 74 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 4: a chance to win. And in Ohio State kind of 75 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: jumped down them early in overtime and Gophers were trailing there, 76 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 4: and then you don't have Kate Tyson. You don't get 77 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 4: the offensive power that you want to have. And really 78 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 4: good game. Proud of the way the guys fought. Jalen Crocker. 79 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 4: Johnson was awesome, eleven for nineteen from the field, had 80 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 4: twenty six points. Kate Tyson only fifteen points. I know 81 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 4: fifteen still a good number, but if they go fers 82 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 4: want to win games in the road, he has to 83 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 4: be a twenty five point performer. 84 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: We we and the Love Covenant the nine to noon 85 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: radio show. I think we're in Unison recognizing in the 86 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: early stages of the Nico medved run as a coach 87 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 2: of the Golden Gophers basketball team. For the most part, 88 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 2: he's done pretty good work, beating a couple of ranked teams. Yeah, 89 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 2: at the Ascona game and the whole thing, right, Nices, Yeah, 90 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: we're okay. So we're in Unison with that. Yeah, they've 91 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,679 Speaker 2: lost four in a row. What do you think about 92 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 2: all that? They've lost four in a row. It's starting 93 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: to get a little frenzied. Well, and it only gets tougher. 94 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 4: You got number seven Nebraska coming into your homes, Freddy. Yeah, 95 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 4: Hoyberg's in town on Saturday with he's got that thing 96 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 4: locked up. Oh my goodness. They are the seventh thranked 97 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 4: in the country and they just beat Oregon by thirty five. 98 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 4: So this is a team that's not only beating teams, 99 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 4: but they're dominating teams. 100 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 2: And they wish you'd done that before Perry's transferred. 101 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: Is that where he went? No where to go, Koy Perrich. 102 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: I thought he was. 103 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 5: I I hadn't followed it in a few days, but 104 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 5: I thought didn't he go to Did he go to Oregon? 105 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: Yeah? 106 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 4: I think Parish commit. Yeah, I think committed Oregon. Yeah, 107 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 4: But nonetheless, yeah, it only gets tougher. And then you 108 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 4: got to go to Wisconsin and they've already beat you 109 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 4: at your home place. So this is the big ten, Pa, 110 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 4: This is uh you know, I was saying this morning. 111 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 4: The refs start to put the whistle in the pocket 112 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 4: a little bit too, and they let those boys play 113 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,119 Speaker 4: and it gets physical. And when you only have seven 114 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 4: guys and you're already struggling with lingering injuries, it's inevitable. 115 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 4: Throughout a season, it only gets tougher and tougher. So 116 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 4: you gotta find ways to protect home court. That's something 117 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 4: I've always preached throughout my time. If you can protect 118 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 4: home court and steal a couple on the road, you 119 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 4: put yourself in a good position. 120 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: Now. 121 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 4: Tough losses, tight losses, you're at least in the game. 122 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 4: I know there's no moral victory, but you got to 123 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 4: be proud of the way this team fights and the 124 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 4: lady execute offensively. 125 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 2: Did you are you familiar with the name because you 126 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: mentioned officiating, Are you familiar with the name Tony Garenti? 127 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if I know that one long. 128 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: Time NFL referee, big ten referee. Okay, so Tony COARENTI 129 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 2: I mean I would imagine he probably did her game 130 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 2: or two of. 131 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: Yours over your run. I just wonder if you ever 132 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: mixed it up with him. 133 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: Freddie Hoiberg and his seventh throwing Huskers like you said 134 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: here Saturday? What what's Freddy? I have cocon down Lincoln Way? Like, 135 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 2: how old of a sudden did they get good? 136 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 4: Well, they have a big in rank Mast who was 137 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: out with an ACL last year. He's a three point 138 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 4: shooting stretched the court kind of big rank Mast. Yeah, 139 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,679 Speaker 4: he's I think he's from the Netherlands. I think he's Dutch. 140 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 4: He was a tremendous player. Played against him two years ago. 141 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 4: He was out last year. We actually went to Nebraska 142 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 4: and beat them there, which was austin game. We hadn't 143 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 4: done that for ten plus years. Then they get a 144 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 4: transfer from Iowa and Pryce Sandford. He's about as good 145 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 4: of a three point shooter as there is in the country. 146 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 4: His brother Peyton was one of the elite shooters in 147 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 4: the country as well. They were teammates at Iowa. So 148 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 4: they bring him in and then they add a Burke 149 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 4: buttengel U c l A. Oh yeah, yeah, hey, you 150 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 4: know burk button jobs follow him for four Man's Luel 151 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 4: sindor Yeah, exactly right, talk of the AAU circuit exelt. 152 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 4: But no, they just have awesome pieces. And you know Hoiberg, 153 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 4: he's been here in Minnesota. He's famous around these parts. 154 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 4: He's an excellent coach. We were talking about this morning. 155 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 4: Not a lot of success. Seven wins in his first season, 156 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 4: seven wins in his second season. And now he's got 157 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 4: a top ten team in the country and they're undefeated 158 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 4: ten games, maybe into Big ten play. It's looking really good. 159 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 4: Lincoln Way and go big red Man. Both fans or 160 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 4: those fans are nuts. Let's not forget about. I assume 161 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 4: it's his son Sam, Yeah, the senior who has come 162 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 4: of age. Yeah, I think he started. I mean this 163 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 4: is his first year being a full time starter. 164 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: I think. 165 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 5: But the four dimes, five rebounds, he's got a couple 166 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 5: of steals the game, nearly nine points. 167 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: He's playing for his dad. 168 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 5: That's good enough for con to pick up off the 169 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 5: waiver wire LFL style. 170 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: The Hoiberg single handedly ruined my son Derek Allen's youthful 171 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 2: basketball per There you go, Jackson, Oh jack Oh, there 172 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 2: you go. 173 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: And I think he ended up in Michigan State. Wow. 174 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, So Derek, you know, we're fourth fifth gradeish, we're 175 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna start playing. Fred's coaching with the Wolves. Yeah, 176 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: he's living in the western suburbs. So we're gonna, you know, 177 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 2: get the kids together in this in this not audition, 178 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 2: but like tryouts, practices things like that for for traveling basketball. 179 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 2: And Derek was paired with Jackson Hoiberg right out of 180 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 2: the gate. I mean, I'm like, holy cal Freddy as 181 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 2: he had ankle weights on since he had like a 182 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 2: thirty five inch vertical as a fifth grader. 183 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jackson played at Michigan State, right he did. 184 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, he was migrade as well, so we would play 185 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 4: those youth tournaments against him, and yeah, played at Michigan 186 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 4: State and I think he was at U T. Arlington 187 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 4: as well. But nonetheless, Norda was mentioning Sam, his other son. 188 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: He's a pest. He's one of those guys. 189 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 4: Where you just hate playing and Sam because every pass 190 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 4: you make is deflected. Every loose ball. Sam Hoiberg's on 191 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 4: and now he's getting into to this space a little bit. 192 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 4: He's been calling the Husker women's basketball games as the 193 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 4: lead analyst on their radio show. So yeah, give Sam 194 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 4: a lot of credit in his off time. I'm sure 195 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 4: he's doing all his school work and nonetheless, but in 196 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 4: his off time he's calling the women's basketball games on 197 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 4: the radio. It's awesome to listen to. 198 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: What do you think it would be like playing for 199 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: your father at that level? 200 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, so I played for my dad all the way 201 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 4: up through elementary. But I think there's another level it 202 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 4: gets to at the college level where he's still your father. 203 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: Right, He's still your dad. 204 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 4: But I think to your teammates, you have to kind 205 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 4: of flip that switch on and off when you step 206 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 4: on the court. 207 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: Now, I never got to experience. 208 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 4: It'd be fun to kind of hear the perspective of 209 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 4: some of the guys that got to experience that. But 210 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 4: I think he's got to be your coach on the court, 211 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 4: not your father. So I think you have to kind 212 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 4: of flip that switch. Like I said, But in terms 213 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 4: of Sam Hoiberg, he's the kind of guy any coach wants. 214 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 4: He's absolute energy, he's excited. I mean, he's not going 215 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 4: to score the ball crazy, but he knows his role. 216 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 4: And I think that's important with the coaches kid to 217 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 4: know I don't need to go out there and have 218 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 4: twenty five, but I need to have twenty deflections on passes. 219 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 4: I need to have twenty loose ball on the floors. 220 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 4: Bring that energy, bring that effort. I think that's something 221 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 4: he does really well. I got a Freddie Hoiberg story 222 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 4: for you. 223 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: Would you like it? Yeah? 224 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen Vikings are at the Chicago Bears. So a 225 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 2: couple of media relations friends of mine, Sam Newton, Spearfish 226 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 2: Sammy and John Extrom. When the Vikings schedule comes out, 227 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: we first one of the first things we look at 228 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 2: is we pair it with the NBA schedule to see 229 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: if we are on the road when like the Bulls 230 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 2: are playing at United Center. So we've gone to a 231 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 2: couple of Charlotte Hornets games nights before the Vikings played 232 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers. We've gone to a couple of Knicks 233 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 2: games at Madison Square Garden before the team plays New 234 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,079 Speaker 2: York teams went to just it's probably about seven of 235 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 2: them overall. One of them was in twenty eighteen before 236 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: the Vikings were going to play the Chicago Bears. And 237 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 2: I've known Fred Hoiberg since, you know, since for twenty years, 238 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 2: since my son was four or five years old. So 239 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 2: got in touch with Fred. He's coaching the Bulls. Things 240 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 2: ain't going well, Toronto Raptors are in town. Fred arranged 241 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 2: for some tickets for us, So we had three tickets 242 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 2: across from the Bulls bench on a night that sadly 243 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard was not playing for the Toronto Raptors. Big 244 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 2: Kawhi guy wanted to see the best of the best. 245 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 2: And so now they're playing the game and Freddy's team's 246 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: down at the end of the first quarter, maybe by 247 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 2: twenty into the first half, maybe by twenty eight into 248 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: the third quarter, maybe by thirty eight into the game, 249 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 2: they might have lost. 250 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: By fifty or sixty at home. Okay. 251 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: So Fred had arranged for through media relations for Spearfish 252 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: extrom In myself to have asses to go back to, 253 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 2: like the coach's office. And so like we're walking in 254 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 2: the bowls through the bowels of United Center. I'm an 255 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: NBA roob. I see Kawhi standing in this little standing 256 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: in this little closet. 257 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: Why what's up? He goes, hey, hey, hey, that's why. 258 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: What's up? 259 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 2: Oh he was feeling talkative that day, exactly. Got a 260 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 2: selfie with Bobby Portis. Oh, this is all on our 261 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 2: way to Hoiberg's office, all right, So it was Bobby 262 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: Ports like, Bobby, can I get a picture? 263 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: Nine? 264 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: Hey BP nine. And so walk into the Bulls locker 265 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 2: room just for a second. See what an NBA locker 266 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 2: rooms like? You know, even though they just took up me. 267 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 2: It was a fifty or sixty point l I'm not 268 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: kidding here. They lost by that many points. 269 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, they lost one twenty two eighty three. Oh in 270 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 5: November at twenty eighteen, what was it? It was one 271 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 5: twenty two eighty three about forty point l there. 272 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. And like Kawhi didn't play. I 273 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: think Freddie van Vliet might have had a massive game 274 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 2: for Toronto. 275 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 5: Yeah it was. It was a bad night for Freddy. 276 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 5: This isn't the Danny Green surge of Bacca days. 277 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: A game, Yeah, it was fun unless you're provided the 278 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 2: tickets by the coach of the team that's on the 279 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 2: wrong side of the fifty point out. 280 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: So we walk into Fred's office. 281 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 2: And this is where this is where self awareness just 282 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 2: you know, we were tepid to go in there in 283 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: the first place. They just got killed. Media relations people 284 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 2: work with coaches. I work around coaches, so we kind 285 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 2: of know what the vibe is like. So we're like, 286 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: I think, so where do we go? Let's go in 287 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 2: and he gave us the passes. You know, He's sitting 288 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 2: behind his desk faced. I mean it looked like it 289 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: looked like he had just seen the proverbial ghost. 290 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: Wow. How you doing all right? Man? 291 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 2: Well, anyway, appreciates the tickets and everything. We were in 292 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: there for a grand total of twenty seconds. I mean, 293 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 2: I always loved it was not the right place to 294 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 2: be now. Sadly, within the next two or three days 295 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: he was fired as head coach of the Chicago book. 296 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 2: We saw professional dead man sitting Yeah, tough, uncomfortable. 297 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 5: So you may have watched the game where is it still? Rhinsdorff? 298 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 5: Is it still? What is it? 299 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: Paxton? 300 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 5: I forget the name of the decision makers with the bills, 301 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 5: but you may have saw the moment where it was 302 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 5: over for him. I think his last game, which is it? 303 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: Which is awful? 304 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 5: By the way, because he's going to work with I mean, 305 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 5: you got Bouchet coming off the bench, we got Pascal Siakam, 306 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 5: we got Kyle Lowry when he could actually, I mean 307 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 5: when you had legs raptor, and he's going, It's right, 308 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 5: he's going to work with Justin Holliday, Jabbari Parker. Remember 309 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 5: how just underwhelming, sadly his career was a young campaign, 310 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 5: Wendell Carter junior, Robin Lopez off the bench, providing some 311 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 5: inside scoring pop Cristiano Felicio. 312 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: I mean, how was it possible. 313 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 5: I'd give him an extension and wow, I mean that 314 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 5: roster was tough. He could have used Rank Mills, Rank 315 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 5: Mast at age five in that game. 316 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 2: Breddy Hoiberg one of the kind. Just ever, don't leave 317 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 2: home without him. Do you deem the Wolves loss last 318 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 2: night a bad loss? Because we're hearing that quite a 319 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 2: bit this morning. It actually started last evening with columnists 320 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 2: Lavelle Neil the Third texting nor do and I bad 321 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: loss for Wolfs? 322 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: I do? 323 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 4: I think if you want to be a championship caliber team, 324 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 4: which which we've found ourselves in the last two years 325 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 4: in the Western Conference finals, competing four championships, you have 326 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 4: to find ways at the end of road trips to 327 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 4: finish them out. 328 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: Right. 329 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 4: So you can look on this on paper and say, 330 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 4: four game road trip, you play the Spurs, the Rockets, 331 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 4: you played some good teams and you just weren't able 332 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 4: to finish it off. That's okay, we'll go back home 333 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 4: and we'll win these next two and you'll find a solution. 334 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, you're going into 335 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 4: Utah a team that you should beat by fifteen to 336 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 4: twenty points every time you play them because you're a 337 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 4: better team. 338 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: Incorrect, You don't agree with that? 339 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 2: Huh No, No, not, I mean because NBA is not 340 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 2: plug in like that like Colledge basketball totally. You know 341 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, anybody can beat anybody. I'm not saying 342 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 2: that you should lose the game. And they were twelve 343 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 2: and a half point favorites on the road last night. 344 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 2: But as we discussed yesterday with Chris Finch, Keyante George 345 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: is top two or three underrated offensive players in the NBA. Yeah, 346 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: nobody talks about him. Why because he's mired with charts 347 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 2: in Utah. Ace Bailey, I mean, rest up, you know 348 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 2: this man Ace Bailey skilled? 349 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, By the. 350 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 2: Way, when a'st Bailey, like, I don't know how old 351 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 2: he is, feels like he's twenty or something, but like 352 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: when he grows and when he matures and fills out, 353 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 2: I mean he's rail thin. First time I've really watched 354 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 2: him last night though, Yeah, as Bailey is gifted. 355 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, played against him lastyear at Rutgers. I was sharing 356 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 4: this morning how he isolated on me. I got on 357 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 4: a switch with him and just kind of looked at 358 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 4: me and smirked and just knocked one down in my face. 359 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 1: So I was like, Oh, it's gonna be it's gonna. 360 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 3: Be a long night. 361 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 2: Guarded players do yeah, exactly. Walter Clayton, you can't find 362 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: him with a searchlight. 363 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: And no he is he he was non existent, played 364 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: thirteen minutes. 365 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 4: But I love the wheel what you're saying, and I 366 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 4: love the way that the Jazz approached it too. They 367 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 4: came in and said, hey, this is a team that's 368 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 4: on the end of their road trip. 369 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,360 Speaker 1: We can steal one here. And I think you're right. 370 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 4: You look at a guy in Keyante George, you wouldn't 371 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 4: believe he's a top twenty scorer unless you followed the 372 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 4: NBA closely. 373 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: He's eighteenth in the NBA scoring. 374 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 2: He gets to the line a million times a game 375 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 2: he is, which is the separator. 376 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly right. 377 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 5: Wouldn't you be kind of frustrated though, on a night 378 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 5: where it's like, okay, Keyante young budding he had I 379 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 5: think thirty the previous three out of the four games, 380 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 5: like his scoring. I mean, this kid's going to be 381 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 5: a baller for sure. Yeah, but it's like, I don't 382 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 5: need Isaiah Collier having some sort of semi career night 383 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 5: where he's seven to ten. He's usually just a couple 384 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 5: of buckets and eight dimes. 385 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: Thee Mahollick, who knew, come on, it's. 386 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 4: My guy, Makay Luke's Yeah, we were at the same 387 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 4: agency in college, so we would work out together in 388 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 4: the summer a lot. 389 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: And yeah, what to do with the triple? 390 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 5: Like, I mean, you can't have everybody go off? So 391 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 5: it's like, I get where you're where you're going with this. 392 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 5: Totally agreed in some respects, but it's like you lose 393 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 5: three in a row. This was the slumpbuster after the tough, 394 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 5: tough doubleheader. 395 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: Everybody with a pulse. 396 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 5: On that team went off last night, it felt like 397 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 5: against the howl man. 398 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 2: That was that was ugly, not arguing Utah has I 399 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 2: mean Utah was the thorn in the proverbial side last year, 400 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 2: yecause Anthony Edwards, you know, suspension bit. You're right when 401 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 2: he was playing the childish card with those te's. Yeah, 402 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 2: well the one he missed was at Utah and they 403 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 2: lost by a point and then that ended up being 404 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 2: the separator from like home court advantage and postseason stuff 405 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 2: and things like that. 406 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 1: So hopefully this one doesn't come back to bite them 407 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 1: a little bit. Pea Fox. 408 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, you just look at the bench production too, and 409 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,959 Speaker 4: it's like Bonce Island only plays four minutes and has 410 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 4: zero points and Jalen Clark plays almost twenty minutes. If 411 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 4: you just need to after that, I mean more from 412 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 4: your bench. And Cody Williams, what has happened? 413 00:19:58,400 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: If you ever heard of it? 414 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 4: Come on, that's a Cody Williams is out of Colorado 415 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 4: and I think he's either I think he's brothers with 416 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 4: Jalen Williams. J Dubb on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Yeah, 417 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 4: so the right J dub, Yeah, the right J dub Yeah. 418 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, Baron Baron Jay only played five minutes. 419 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder what happened there. 420 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 4: I don't understand that because I loved his production against 421 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 4: the Spurs. 422 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: I loved his minutes. 423 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 4: He was probably a little bit more excited playing his 424 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 4: Frenchman and Rudy Gobert in Victor Webbin Yama. But nonetheless, 425 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 4: you have to produce every single night and to find 426 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 4: yourself with only five minutes as a guy who's kind 427 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 4: of on the end of the road trip is you 428 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 4: got to be the guy that brings energy and he 429 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 4: only gets five minutes. 430 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. 431 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 4: I just didn't love the effort. I watched the whole game. 432 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 4: I just didn't love the effort from start to finish. 433 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 4: You gave up one twenty seven. That's not that's just 434 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 4: not a winning recipe. I was in full time wild 435 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 4: mode last night. I was a little bit so I 436 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 4: was in and out of the Wolves game. 437 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: What a game. But I watched him, I mean the defense. 438 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter, they gave up forty three points 439 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 2: like they weren't getting in front of people. And I 440 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 2: mean Nurkic sixteen points, eighteen rebounds, ten assists. Yeah, it's 441 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 2: he channeled his inner joker last night. But Nurkic is gifted, yes, 442 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 2: and he's the rebounder right right, but he's not you know, 443 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: he's a veteran, but he's not like super old. Near 444 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 2: the end of his career, he's had injuries and stuff. 445 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 2: But Nurkic, I believe, was with the Denver Nuggets and 446 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: then they drafted Joker and they're like, hey, these guys 447 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 2: play the same. So the Nurkics, they they moved him 448 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 2: off to Portland. 449 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 5: Yeah. 450 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: Then he was like battling injuries and everything, so, I mean, 451 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: and then the Suns and then he was with Charlotte. 452 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 5: He's kind of become just kind of big guy gun 453 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 5: for higher part of his career. 454 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 2: Now, the New York Knickerbockers have lost I think nine 455 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 2: of eleven. Yeah, and reports are they've become bored with 456 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns. 457 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: I can't believe they want to trade him now, those 458 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: are reports. 459 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a lot of them, got a lot 460 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 2: of sources, you know, sources here, sources there. It's like 461 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 2: nobody's like. An associate to owner Jane Dolan has confirmed 462 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 2: to the New York Post that Karl Anthony Towns is 463 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 2: tradable and Memphis and Orlando, and a bunch of other 464 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 2: teams are calling. Man, they get when things are bad 465 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 2: with like I mean, I guess it's all the New 466 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 2: York pro teams, maybe all the college teams. Man, it 467 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 2: gets loud in New York when things go the wrong 468 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 2: way with the Knicks and the Giants and the Yankees. 469 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 4: Damn, welcome to the spotlight, right, welcome to Welcome to 470 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 4: the moment. 471 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the spotlight, young man. Exactly right. 472 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 4: But the Knicks have been so terrible defensively, Pa, They've 473 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 4: been one of the worst defensive teams in the NBA 474 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 4: over that stretch. 475 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 2: And you know, TIBs, you know this. Why did they 476 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 2: get bored of tips? I don't understand how the conference finals. 477 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 2: I don't understand that one either. It doesn't make sense 478 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: to me what they're doing in New York. 479 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 4: And now you look at you're finding a scapegoat, right, 480 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 4: And if that happens to be Carlon Towns, it happens 481 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 4: to be somebody. But this is the this is the 482 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 4: life we live in here where the spotlight's extra bright 483 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 4: in New York, and you gotta find somebody to put 484 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 4: the black and granted, yeah, Carl hasn't been the player 485 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 4: that he needs to be for this team. 486 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 2: Jalen Brunston last year he was, Oh, he was excellent 487 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 2: last year. Bomb last year he was Actually everybody's like, 488 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: we got done on the trade. Yeah, nah, we won 489 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 2: that trade. I agree Randall for half the price Evincenzo, 490 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 2: and I think we got a first out of it too. 491 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. 492 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 4: That there has to be somebody to blame it. And 493 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,159 Speaker 4: they're putting it on Carl, which is too bad. But 494 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 4: ain't putting it on Brunson. No, put it on Buns. 495 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 2: And Jalen Brunson is a dog show father, Rick and 496 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: assistant on the staff would whoop anybody's ass anytime. That right, 497 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 2: Rick Brunson man when he played, he was tough. This 498 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 2: is self destruction though. 499 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 5: I mean whether you guys were just talking about Hoiberg 500 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 5: and you mentioned Parker, you said he he started out. 501 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: I mean it was abysmal right in Nebraska, but. 502 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 5: With patience and time and growth, now he's finding his 503 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 5: squad as a top ten operation. Now pro sports we 504 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 5: have less patients. We just saw ten coaches fired or 505 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 5: ten openings, I should say. And you hit it, Pa, 506 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 5: I think it was you that said like forty six coaches, 507 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 5: or that there was something just the turnover when it 508 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,479 Speaker 5: comes to coaches and regimes, the lack of patients. If 509 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 5: they were going to shop Carl, I would have thought 510 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 5: Tibbs would have gotten board with them, you know what 511 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 5: I mean, where there would have been some sort of outburst. 512 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 5: There's the emotional superstar versus the gruff head coach. Tibbs 513 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 5: loved him, Tibbs figured out how to use him at 514 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 5: a high level. They've gone they went to the playoffs 515 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 5: I think four out of the five years that Tibbs 516 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 5: was there. To now have him as the scapegoat is 517 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 5: ridiculous and it's only going to set the Knicks back. 518 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 5: I mean, as hungry as they are for a title, 519 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 5: the lack of patients is going to prove to be 520 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 5: disastrous for him. 521 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 4: It's almost mind boggling to think this is a team 522 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 4: that won the NBA Cup about a month ago, a 523 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 4: month and a half ago. 524 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem. It could be put all their 525 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 2: energy into winning the wrong championship. 526 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 4: Cop and they've won two of their last eleven and 527 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 4: they go, yeah, right, they were fired out to win. 528 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: They've been diseased. You're exactly right. 529 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 4: I think they might have just been too excited to 530 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 4: finally win something in New York. 531 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 5: But they hang that banner next two years. That's problem 532 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 5: the issue. They got a little too excited about it. 533 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's what the players meeting was. Jalen Brunts 534 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 5: was like, we're taking that banner down. We can't have 535 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 5: this thing hanging up here. But it's been interesting. 536 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I messed up the clock already. 537 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 2: Give me your best fifteen seconds on Patriots at Denver. 538 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: Who wins? And why? Yep? 539 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 4: At Patriots it's easy to meet. Quarterback plays the most 540 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,479 Speaker 4: important thing in the play season. It's an easy win 541 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 4: for the Patriots. I think they win by two scores. 542 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 4: Nice Yep, Rams and Seahawks. Rams are my pick from 543 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 4: the jump. I so you like both the road teams. 544 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 4: I like the most important game of the year. I 545 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 4: like both the road teams. That was the hard one 546 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 4: for me. Two close games in the regular season, one 547 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 4: point victory and a two point victory. But I picked 548 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,199 Speaker 4: the Rams from the jump and I got I got 549 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 4: the Rams winning at all. 550 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, understandable in a game. 551 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 2: Where home field advantage means so much. He's taking the 552 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 2: road teams will be damned. Come on, when do you 553 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,959 Speaker 2: like it? When do you leave for Milan? Yeah, we 554 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 2: don't leave. 555 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 4: Taylor leaves next Thursday, and I don't leave till February ninth. 556 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 1: Okay, so we got some time together. 557 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 5: Man. 558 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 2: All right, so let's see two. 559 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: Three, four. 560 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 2: So it's like four five or six o'clock in Milan 561 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, yeah, which means you're gonna be getting 562 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 2: some calls from nine to now. Come on, man, are 563 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: you going to go to the to the USA Men's 564 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 2: Hockey Games? 565 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: Also? Yeah, we're working They're a little expensive, so we're 566 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 1: working out roll. 567 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 2: Your fiance is going to steal the show in worldly 568 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 2: fashion in the Olympics for the Red, White, and Blue. 569 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 2: We hope you should be able to get a couple 570 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 2: in the upper deck. 571 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: I know that's what I'm hopeing too. I can we 572 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: get some cop tickets here? About that up? 573 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 4: Jack Eichel, No, I'm hoping to get over to some events. 574 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,360 Speaker 4: It's all dispersed throughout Italy, so it's gonna be tough 575 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 4: to like do the skiing and stuff. 576 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be in my hockey mode, that's for sure. 577 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, So so let's do some Covenant check ins from Milan. 578 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: If you get the opportunity with all right. 579 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 2: All right, have a good day, brother, I'll love you, 580 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 2: Love you Man Parker Fox at Parker Fox two four 581 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 2: via Twitter and thanks to timber. 582 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: Tech and timber tech dot com. 583 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 2: What's on deck nine to now includes and extremely truncated 584 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 2: bikes by It's followed by Florio and PFT. 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You can 602 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 5: check out a wide selection of boats and boating gears 603 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 5: and must see attractions and it's fun for the whole family. 604 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 5: You can get the full details find out how you 605 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 5: can register for a new twenty four foot DOCA doc now. 606 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 5: Just go to KFN dot com keyword calendar. The boat 607 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 5: shows always fun. I get to look at a ton 608 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 5: of like cabin cruisers, stuff I can't afford it. 609 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 2: Well, you know, down the street is the Regressive Boat Show. 610 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 2: There they have displays of the Titanic and the boat 611 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 2: that was maroon for Gilligan's Island. 612 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: I always love that one at the Regressive Boat Show. 613 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 5: I'm going to hit two things over the next few 614 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 5: minutes here, Vike spits. I'm going to hit the purple 615 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 5: momentarily with Derek Sheldon, new Twins manager. He's going to 616 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 5: be in studio at eleven. I would love to potentially 617 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 5: get a few talkbacks from listeners. Twins fans, baseball fans 618 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 5: season around the corner, good times, bad times. We get 619 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 5: all of that, but the opportunity for me maybe to 620 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 5: fire off some talkbacks from you, the listener as he 621 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 5: jumps in studio at eleven, big questions for the new manager. 622 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: Well, free iHeartRadio app. 623 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 5: Hit that microphone, give us up to your best thirty 624 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 5: seconds and maybe we'll fire off some talkbacks for Derek 625 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 5: Shello eleven quite possible. 626 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: Rethought it a little bit after a saying of the 627 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: set list. 628 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 2: Maybe I should have asked you before I said that 629 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 2: that's okay. That technically comes back to my bad speaking 630 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: of talkbacks. About forty five minutes from now, we have 631 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 2: a Hodgepodge ten twenty. I do want to put this 632 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 2: in front of people right now, and with the free 633 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 2: iHeart Audio app, you can leave that talkback. You know 634 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 2: how to do it, and we'll set them up like 635 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 2: this with the Minnesota Twins and the Timberwolves. Yeah, how 636 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 2: close excuse me the wild in the Timberwolves? How close 637 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 2: are the wild being considered a legit Stanley Cup candidate? 638 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 2: And how tough was that Wolves game for you last night? 639 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 2: How good are the wild? And what do you like 640 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 2: or loathe about the timber Wolves? I have reasons for 641 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 2: putting one of these talkbacks in there and we will 642 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 2: share those in the ten o'clock hour. 643 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 5: Well, I totally dig all that. Let me hit you 644 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 5: with this, Derante Jones. It's been hoarded that the Packers 645 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 5: have requested a chance. 646 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: To interview Dorante. 647 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 5: That's nice, say it ain't so, and that's kind of 648 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 5: We're gonna go down the line. 649 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: You're gonna hear more. 650 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 5: Inside steam and in bits and opinning, opinions and opining 651 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 5: from Florio around the corner. But that's a nugget there, 652 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 5: Deronte Jones potentially interviewing for the Packers defensive. 653 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: Coordinator spot Floraz. 654 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 5: Brian Flores did his interview with the Steelers yesterday. They 655 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 5: announced the completion of it as is in vogue. Now 656 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 5: there's a social media post, so they get schefter to 657 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 5: say our interview with Brian Flores has been completed. Interesting though, 658 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 5: as Mike McCarthy, former Packers coach former Cowboys coach, has 659 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 5: a meeting with them today, so maybe that's something to watch. 660 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 5: And I've also maybe this is a question. That's that's 661 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 5: the thing is Don's grandson, Chremuler. He's not just the 662 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 5: Rams defensive coordinator, but well known McVey Tree acolyte as 663 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 5: he is, he is heavily favored to be the next 664 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 5: coach for the Steelers or the Steelers, So that may 665 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 5: be means Flores is going to be back in Purple, 666 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 5: and we'd love to have him. No charges being filed 667 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 5: against Jordan Addison that misdemeanor trespassing bit at the hard Rock. 668 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 5: He was asked to leave, he didn't, He got arrested, 669 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 5: but the state attorney not following through with charges in 670 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 5: Addison's own lawyer maybe moving forward with a civil suit 671 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 5: alleging of false arrest. 672 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: So I guess watch that. 673 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 5: I did have some Kyle Rudolph audio that we don't 674 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 5: have time to play now. 675 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: I might hit that later on in the ten What's 676 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: Up with Rudolph? 677 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 5: Al Rudy was on up and at it with Kay Adams, 678 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 5: and he was just kind of giving his perspective on 679 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 5: maybe where the Purple aired in twenty twenty five as 680 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 5: it relates to the QB spot and moving forward. He 681 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 5: even offered up a name of somebody maybe that comes 682 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 5: in and elevates that QB. 683 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: Room in twenty six. 684 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 2: We have to have that at ten twenty I had 685 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 2: no idea that took place. 686 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, I could throw that in there, absolutely so. But 687 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 5: other than that, that's some vikes bites. Raheem Morris being 688 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 5: bandied about as a name. Maybe we talk about that 689 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 5: at ten twenty. There's some actions the six degrees of 690 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 5: Ko and McVay, et cetera. 691 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh hired Mike McDaniel. That's not a bad hire 692 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 2: for the chargeow, that's not a bad hire at all. 693 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 2: And we'll continue this conversation throughout nine to know p 694 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 2: F t A. 695 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: You know we is next. 696 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 6: Father of mine, teller, Where have you been close my 697 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 6: father of. 698 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: The day. Yeah, well, I'll still you're going hardcore football. 699 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 2: Mike Florio is the creator of Pro football Talk dot Com, 700 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 2: our favorite pro football. 701 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: Website, pro football Talk dot Com. 702 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 2: He's also part of NBC's Football Night in America and 703 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 2: the author of a book called Big Shield. Big Shield, 704 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 2: a book about pro football and gambling. And Mike Florio 705 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 2: joins us. Now, speaking of gambling, how about that point 706 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 2: shaving bit that emerged in college basketball prosecutors This is 707 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 2: a little old, but we haven't chatted with you since, 708 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 2: and you're smart about this stuff. Prosecutors allege the scheme 709 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 2: targeted more than twenty nine games involved more than thirty 710 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 2: nine players across at least seventeen NCAA Division I programs 711 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 2: expanded from overseas professional leagues into US college basketball as 712 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 2: recently as January twenty twenty five. Federal authorities say the 713 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 2: FBI's investigation uncovered text messages, social media, direct messages, FaceTime calls, 714 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 2: and travel arrangements, leaving a substantial digital trail. Good morning, Mike, 715 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 2: And what do you think about all that? 716 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 7: I'm not surprised by any of it, Paul. Every time 717 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 7: we hear about one of these scandals, I think to myself, 718 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 7: Number one, when's the next one? And number two, how 719 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 7: many are out there that we're never going to find 720 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 7: out about? With so many of the ones that happened. 721 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 7: When there's an attempt to rig prop bets, we only 722 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 7: know about it because the people who have the inside 723 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 7: information decide to be pigs at the trough and they 724 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 7: engage in betting activities that set up alarms within the 725 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 7: sports books. If you just don't go crazy with that information, 726 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,800 Speaker 7: if you decide to take it slowly with a stream 727 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 7: of inside information, over time, no one's even going to 728 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:26,239 Speaker 7: detect it. So I just think that these isolated incidents 729 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 7: are evidence that it's much more widespread. Then maybe we know, 730 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,879 Speaker 7: and we'll find out in specific examples here or there. 731 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 7: It's also normalized now, that's really the key. Beyond legalized 732 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 7: and clearly monetized by the NFL and other sports leagues, 733 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 7: it's normalized. People are seeing these ads everywhere. They're on TV, 734 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 7: they're masquerading as content in pregame shows, and so the 735 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 7: players much more easily just to fy crossing the tracks 736 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 7: and engaging in things that give them a little piece 737 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 7: of the action too. It's just easier to justify it 738 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 7: because everybody's betting, and the sports books are making billions 739 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 7: of dollars off of the bets that lose. My dad 740 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,320 Speaker 7: told me, my dad the booky back in the seventies, 741 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 7: you can't win. There's a book that came out yesterday. 742 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 7: Everyone loses. I'm going to buy it. I'm going to 743 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 7: read it. It's about the whole sports betting phenomenon. It's 744 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 7: rigged against the betters. This isn't the stock market where 745 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 7: a rising tidealists all boats. Your money goes into their pockets. 746 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 7: They have billions because they've taken it from you. Through 747 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 7: all the ways that the system is set up and 748 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 7: all the little ways that's rigged. A dollar at a 749 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,799 Speaker 7: time becomes billions for the sports books, and billions that 750 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 7: the individuals lose. And I think it's very easy for 751 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,840 Speaker 7: the players to now justify doing things that used to 752 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 7: be very, very very rare because they see it everywhere. 753 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 7: It's just part of the fabric of their existence now. 754 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 7: So that's my take on it, and I expect more 755 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 7: of these issues to come, and eventually there will be 756 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 7: one that is big enough that sparks a massive change 757 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 7: and a phony cry by the NFL that we had 758 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 7: no idea this could happen. 759 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 2: Dude, do you think it's tougher to fix games in 760 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,200 Speaker 2: a digital age because of the digital trail and things 761 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 2: like that, Well. 762 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 7: I think it's always tough to fix outcomes of games. 763 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 7: The more players on the field, the more people involved. 764 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,919 Speaker 7: You know, you do a boxing match, you got one 765 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 7: person you have to get to. You do a basketball game, 766 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 7: you got five. You do a football game, you got 767 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 7: twenty two and the coaching staff and the officials. So 768 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 7: rigging a game, I think is a real challenge. The 769 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,000 Speaker 7: prop bets the crack cocaine of the sports betting industry. 770 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 7: Those are the things that need to go away. And 771 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 7: you know, people who are bought and paid for by 772 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 7: the sports books get mad when I say that, and 773 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,800 Speaker 7: they say, oh, you pick games. Yeah, we're picking games 774 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 7: for fun, And I tell you, I tell them all 775 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 7: the time. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to me 776 00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,879 Speaker 7: if you're gonna go wager your hard earned money. Those 777 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 7: thats allow the gambling types and this is part of 778 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 7: the storyline of Big Shield to get to specific players 779 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 7: and either get information from them or get them to 780 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 7: participate in these situations where somebody is suddenly going to 781 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 7: be injured and exit a game and the under on 782 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,760 Speaker 7: their prop bets is going to hit. So yeah, look, 783 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 7: there will be a treasure trove of digital evidence if 784 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,760 Speaker 7: somebody actually investigates first, you got to know there's a problem. 785 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,439 Speaker 7: And that gets back to my point. Only when someone 786 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 7: who has that information overdoes it in their betting that 787 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 7: it sends up red flags within the sportsbooks and they 788 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,319 Speaker 7: start investigating. That's when they work backward. I suspect there's 789 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 7: plenty of digital evidence out there if somebody was actually 790 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 7: looking in the right places and looking at the right people, 791 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 7: But there's an entire universe of athletes and programs and coaches, 792 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 7: and where do you even start. You're fishing. So the 793 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 7: first indication that there are fish in the pond is 794 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 7: when someone overdoes it with their betting and someone at Draftking, 795 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 7: Sport of the Fan Duel wherever, they're like, oh wait, 796 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,720 Speaker 7: we got a problem here, because all of a sudden 797 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 7: there's a crapload of money coming in on on this 798 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,279 Speaker 7: guy's under tonight. 799 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,760 Speaker 2: Right or like like And I read this relatively closely, 800 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 2: but it was a week ago. Greed brought this group down, right. 801 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,879 Speaker 2: I mean when you start, you know, when you start 802 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 2: betting fifty dimes on South Carolina State and Kennesas State games, 803 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 2: I mean, who doesn't think that's going to be on 804 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 2: somebody's radar? 805 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 7: Well exactly, and that's when they start looking. So, you know, 806 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 7: you scratch an itch, so the itch has to pop up, 807 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 7: and I think the reality is a rash all over 808 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,520 Speaker 7: the body of the entire sports industry, But they only 809 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 7: scratch at the spots where that itch is the most 810 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 7: pronounced by somebody doing something that causes someone to say, hey, 811 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 7: something weird is going on here. 812 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 2: Hey it's and lastly here, I mean, it's the easy 813 00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 2: way out. 814 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,399 Speaker 1: What's your majority of people take? 815 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,800 Speaker 2: And so maybe these players thought it would be easy 816 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,760 Speaker 2: money and obviously thought they'd never be caught. I wonder 817 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,280 Speaker 2: if the Purps were frustrated they didn't get nil money 818 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,359 Speaker 2: and others on the team, did you know what I mean? 819 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 2: I just wonder if there's a name, image and likeness 820 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 2: money that like factors into what about me? 821 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 1: Oh, okay, I'm going to do this. 822 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 7: I think that's a great point, beyond the fact that 823 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 7: the gambling is now so normalized and everybody is getting paid. 824 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 7: The schools have their sponsorship deals, the leagues have their 825 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,320 Speaker 7: sponsorship deals, the sports books are making money hand over fist. 826 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,799 Speaker 7: Now on top of it, the star players have their 827 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,520 Speaker 7: nil deals. I'm gonna get mine. John Tay Porter's brother 828 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,240 Speaker 7: explained at some point last year on a podcast appearance, 829 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,400 Speaker 7: that it's so easy for a guy, you know, the 830 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,320 Speaker 7: one guy out of a group of friends who strikes 831 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 7: it rich by becoming a professional athlete, and his group 832 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,360 Speaker 7: of friends didn't have those same skills, And hey, I 833 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 7: can throw them a bone, I can give them a 834 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,680 Speaker 7: little here, I can tell them a little something, and 835 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 7: they can go make some money, no harm done, no 836 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 7: victims involved. That's part of it too, And I just 837 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,719 Speaker 7: think that that what was overlooked in this whole wild 838 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,280 Speaker 7: West approach to legalizing gambling and having these ads everywhere 839 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,359 Speaker 7: everywhere we look, and an whole generation of kids growing 840 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 7: up where it's as normal as anything else. It's going 841 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 7: to create incentives, and it's going to create temptations, and 842 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 7: it's going to make it easier for people to say, 843 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,799 Speaker 7: you know what, I'm going to go get mine and 844 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,880 Speaker 7: I'm not going to feel bad about it, because everybody's 845 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,240 Speaker 7: getting there is one way or another. 846 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:40,479 Speaker 2: Championship game weekend games weekend in the NFL AFC. Does 847 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 2: winning the next two solidify Sean Payton's place in the 848 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 2: Pro Football Hall of Fame? 849 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:51,000 Speaker 7: I think so because look, without a second Super Bowl win, 850 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,759 Speaker 7: and specifically without becoming the first coach to ever win 851 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 7: Super Bowls with two different franchises, and no one has 852 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,920 Speaker 7: ever done that. You had guys like Parcels who won 853 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,560 Speaker 7: and gotten back, but no one's ever taken two different 854 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,439 Speaker 7: teams to a super Bowl championship. The guy who does 855 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,000 Speaker 7: that is the guy who breaks through the current Mike 856 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,399 Speaker 7: Holmgren Mike Shanahan. There's a logjam of coaches that can't 857 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 7: get in, and they're always changing the rules and the 858 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,359 Speaker 7: voting thresholds, and it's one of the reasons why I'm 859 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 7: very frustrated with the whole Hall of Fame process. They 860 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 7: change the rules all the time. The consistency isn't there. 861 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,880 Speaker 7: It's going to be hard for a coach who retires 862 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,920 Speaker 7: with one Super Bowl win to get past all the 863 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,319 Speaker 7: other guys that are still stuck there, whether they have 864 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 7: one or where they have two, like Mike Shanahan. So 865 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,799 Speaker 7: you get too with different teams. That's what puts you 866 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,879 Speaker 7: in that Belichick category, not that it's the same. The 867 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,880 Speaker 7: Belichick's a no brainer. He's going to jump past everyone 868 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 7: else who's waiting in line, who maybe already should be in. 869 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,239 Speaker 7: That's the kind of thing that's going to get Payton in. 870 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,840 Speaker 2: So so, how does one win this one with Jared 871 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 2: Skidham at the Helm, Well, I. 872 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,759 Speaker 7: Don't think it's impossible. He's been in the program for 873 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:03,239 Speaker 7: three years. Sean Page believes in him, and now Sean 874 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 7: Payton has the card to play with his players all 875 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,560 Speaker 7: week long. Nobody believes in us. Look at everything we've accomplished. 876 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,279 Speaker 7: No one thinks that this is a twenty two man 877 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 7: starting roster. They think it all rose and fell with 878 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,800 Speaker 7: bow Nix. I mean, think about that. Bone Nix was 879 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 7: viewed as a liability to the team. You know that 880 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 7: he's not yet where he's going to be. He could 881 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,759 Speaker 7: maybe become Drew Brees at some point, but it's not 882 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,160 Speaker 7: like he's out there slinging missiles all over the place 883 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 7: like Peyton Manning or Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady. And 884 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,840 Speaker 7: so yeah, you take out Nicks, you put in Stidham, 885 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,800 Speaker 7: who was there in Denver longer than Nicks and in theory, 886 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,320 Speaker 7: knows how to go out and run the offense the 887 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,000 Speaker 7: way Sean Payton wants it to be run to the hell. 888 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,880 Speaker 7: Have an opportunity, right because I don't know how much 889 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,200 Speaker 7: of a fall off there is. And the benefit that 890 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 7: they pick up from it is we can now have 891 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 7: a legitimate and true and authentic no one believes in 892 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,480 Speaker 7: us moment that can fuel a team to win a game. 893 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,359 Speaker 7: Maybe they weren't supposed to. 894 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:07,760 Speaker 2: Win NFC Mike Florioprofootballtalk dot Com p FT Sunday marks 895 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,800 Speaker 2: the fifth road trip in six weeks. For the Rams 896 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,520 Speaker 2: seventh time in the last nine weeks. They played away 897 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,640 Speaker 2: from home. But no big deal, right, given so many 898 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,560 Speaker 2: road fans infiltrate so far. 899 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,319 Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think it's an issue at all. I 900 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 7: think they're well suited to playing on the road. You 901 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,360 Speaker 7: look at what they did in that game in Seattle 902 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,800 Speaker 7: Week sixteen. They had five hundred andy one yards of offense, 903 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,360 Speaker 7: They were up thirty to fourteen in the fourth quarter, 904 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 7: they just fell apart. They had the punt return that 905 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 7: got Chase Blackburn, the special teams coordinator fired, because that 906 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,000 Speaker 7: started at all. That moved everything in the direction of 907 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,040 Speaker 7: the Rams and or the Seahawks. Excuse me, the Rams 908 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,520 Speaker 7: suddenly stopped functioning on offense after that until they drove 909 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,399 Speaker 7: down the field at the start of overtime to score 910 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,960 Speaker 7: a touchdown. And other than that, the Rams win that game. 911 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,920 Speaker 7: So they're capable of going up there and winning that game. 912 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,239 Speaker 7: And yes, the Seahawks was pretty damn good in their 913 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,719 Speaker 7: playoff went over the forty nine ers, winning forty one 914 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 7: to six, and their defense looked incredible in the thirteen 915 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,719 Speaker 7: to three loss to end the regular season. They seem 916 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,839 Speaker 7: to be far better than they were when they gave 917 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 7: up five hundred and eighty one yards. 918 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:14,680 Speaker 1: To the Rams. 919 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,719 Speaker 7: But it wasn't all that long ago that they gave 920 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,239 Speaker 7: up on the same field where they're going to be 921 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,880 Speaker 7: playing on Sunday, five hundred and eighty one yards to 922 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:21,680 Speaker 7: the La Rams. 923 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 2: Mike Florio PF team PFT. You know we and with 924 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,600 Speaker 2: the head coaching opportunities, man, that was quick for Jeff 925 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,120 Speaker 2: Afflee decoordinator for a couple of years with Green Bay 926 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,080 Speaker 2: and Boom head coach of the Miami Dolphins. 927 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: That's a tricky job down there, isn't it. 928 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,439 Speaker 7: Well, it's always tricky because look, this function in any 929 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,000 Speaker 7: NFL team that has a history of it comes from 930 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 7: the top. And you've got an owner who doesn't live 931 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,600 Speaker 7: in Miami, he's not in the building on a regular basis. 932 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,680 Speaker 7: You'll have different people with different agendas, different fights. There's 933 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,960 Speaker 7: no one there to really resolve it the right way. 934 00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 7: And now that you take a couple of packers got 935 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,440 Speaker 7: in John Eric Sullivan and Jeff Halfley, and ideally they 936 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,320 Speaker 7: work together, they cooperate, they try to address the issues 937 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:08,759 Speaker 7: that the team has had in the past. They're gonna 938 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,719 Speaker 7: have a ninety nine million dollar cap burden on the 939 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,719 Speaker 7: back end of the Tua tongue by Lowa contract that 940 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,200 Speaker 7: they have to deal with. But you know, Halfley made 941 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,360 Speaker 7: the ultimate bet on himself, leaving Boston College's head coach 942 00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:24,360 Speaker 7: during the earlier years of the college football chaos, rolling 943 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,000 Speaker 7: the dice on a defensive coordinator job in the NFL, 944 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,920 Speaker 7: and two years later here he is head coach of 945 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,040 Speaker 7: the Miami Dolphins. So we'll see what happens. I'm surprised 946 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,719 Speaker 7: that neither the Dolphins nor the Titans pressed paws on 947 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,959 Speaker 7: their searches once Sean McDermott became available, because I'll take 948 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,640 Speaker 7: a proven winner who's gone to seven straight playoffs. But 949 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,040 Speaker 7: at least Halfley has been a head coach. You know, 950 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,000 Speaker 7: so far, we haven't seen a first time head coach 951 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,880 Speaker 7: hired in this cycle, and there may not be many 952 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,200 Speaker 7: of them because teams are looking for guys who have 953 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 7: shown they can do it. When you hire someone who's 954 00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,560 Speaker 7: never been a head coach before, you're taking the chance 955 00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,200 Speaker 7: that he just doesn't have the skill set, because it's 956 00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,440 Speaker 7: a very different skill set to go from x's and 957 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:02,759 Speaker 7: o's to running a full team. 958 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,640 Speaker 2: Does anybody want to coach Arizona or Las Vegas. I mean, 959 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 2: I know we have second interviews at least with Arizona, Like, 960 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 2: does anybody really want to coach those teams? 961 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,759 Speaker 7: Well, you'll hear people say from time to time that 962 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,160 Speaker 7: there's only thirty two of these jobs, and that's true, 963 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,319 Speaker 7: but one of them's in Arizona and one of them 964 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,080 Speaker 7: is in Cleveland. And what you're doing, especially if you 965 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,640 Speaker 7: have head coaching experience, if you had a head coaching 966 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,200 Speaker 7: job that didn't go well and you rebound with a 967 00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,560 Speaker 7: team that you possibly won't be the head coach at 968 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 7: for very long. It's the Eric Mangini, it's the Adam Gase. 969 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,440 Speaker 7: After that second one, you're never heard from again. So 970 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,520 Speaker 7: making the right decision the second time around is critical. 971 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,480 Speaker 7: I don't think Robert Solid takes the job in Tennessee 972 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,239 Speaker 7: unless he firmly believes it's going to be a much 973 00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,160 Speaker 7: different outcome for him than it was with the Jets, 974 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:56,000 Speaker 7: where it never really got off the ground, no pun intended. 975 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,320 Speaker 7: He never had a quarterback, he only had access to 976 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,439 Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers for four plays one season and five games 977 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,279 Speaker 7: of another, and he got fired after Week five. So 978 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,160 Speaker 7: I think he sees cam Ward and what he can 979 00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,879 Speaker 7: be a lot of cap space, new stadium. He sees 980 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,160 Speaker 7: an opportunity, But I don't see that same opportunity with 981 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,799 Speaker 7: the Cardinals, who have never had Paul. They've been around 982 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,759 Speaker 7: for over one hundred years, They've never had a head 983 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,719 Speaker 7: coach for more than six years. Wow, no one has 984 00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,359 Speaker 7: made it more than six years and the two here's 985 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,759 Speaker 7: your trivia answer and press your friends and family or 986 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,560 Speaker 7: strangers who care. Jim Hannifon and Ken wizen Hunt made 987 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:29,240 Speaker 7: it six years. 988 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 1: Wow. 989 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,040 Speaker 7: Nobody else has made it six and no one has 990 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:34,919 Speaker 7: made it longer. Bruce Arians lasted five. 991 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's brilliant. With Robert Sala and that Titans job, 992 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,400 Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe five year deals are the norm 993 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,080 Speaker 2: these days for like second second time coaches. Five years, 994 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,120 Speaker 2: I mean five years. That's aggressive, don't you think. 995 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,000 Speaker 7: Well, that's what dysfunctional teams have to do to get 996 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,920 Speaker 7: someone who may have options to take the job. Halfley 997 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,879 Speaker 7: got a five year deal. When the forty nine ers 998 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,359 Speaker 7: hired Kyle Shannan. I think he got a six year 999 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,920 Speaker 7: deal because they had gone Jim Harbaugh, Jim tomsull A, 1000 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,040 Speaker 7: Chip Kelly. It was so bad you had the owners 1001 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,239 Speaker 7: sitting up there explaining why you can't fire the owners. Hey, 1002 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,080 Speaker 7: you know what, you just can't do it. In some 1003 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,319 Speaker 7: cities that would be the best way to turn things 1004 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:17,880 Speaker 7: around is to find a way to get rid of 1005 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,239 Speaker 7: the owner based upon incomfidence. But you know, Paul, I 1006 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,120 Speaker 7: say this all the time. You got to pass two 1007 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,879 Speaker 7: tests to drive a car. You got to pass zero 1008 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:25,880 Speaker 7: tests to own an NFL team. You just have to 1009 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,920 Speaker 7: either show up with the biggest bag of money or 1010 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:28,960 Speaker 7: have your name in the will. 1011 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:29,600 Speaker 1: That's it. 1012 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,839 Speaker 7: That's the only qualification. You don't even need to know 1013 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,440 Speaker 7: a thing about football. So you get these teams that 1014 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,440 Speaker 7: have owners that just keep spinning their wheels, and it 1015 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,760 Speaker 7: puts the coaches who they're going to hire in position 1016 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:42,360 Speaker 7: to say, I don't want a four year deal. I 1017 00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,359 Speaker 7: want a five year deal. I want a six year deal. 1018 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,879 Speaker 7: And you proved the world by paying that extra money 1019 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,160 Speaker 7: and making that extra commitment that we're going to stick 1020 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,319 Speaker 7: with this guy a little bit longer. The buyout may 1021 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,880 Speaker 7: save And how I think the buyout saved Aaron Glenn 1022 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:55,759 Speaker 7: this year in New York. And we all know the 1023 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,160 Speaker 7: buyouts save Zach Taylor in Cincinnati there'd be a clean 1024 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,640 Speaker 7: sweep in the AFA North if Mike Brown was willing 1025 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,080 Speaker 7: to pay the remainder of Zach Taylor's contract. 1026 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,480 Speaker 2: Buy out terrorism. I forgot about that all right. Lastly, 1027 00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,480 Speaker 2: a minute and forty seconds, you get it off. Two 1028 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,719 Speaker 2: interviews Now for Flores in Pittsburgh. What do you think 1029 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:14,840 Speaker 2: happens next there? 1030 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,279 Speaker 7: Well, he's under consideration with the Ravens and the Steelers 1031 00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:24,920 Speaker 7: and the coordinator's job with the Commanders. I believe at 1032 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,040 Speaker 7: the end of the day that Brian Flores will be 1033 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,760 Speaker 7: back with the Vikings as defensive cornat That's what I believe. 1034 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:36,480 Speaker 7: I don't know it, but reading the tea leaves, knowing 1035 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,840 Speaker 7: the things that have been reported, the other stuff that 1036 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,960 Speaker 7: is out there that you hear about on the grapevine, 1037 00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:42,719 Speaker 7: and you know, these teams are going to do a 1038 00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,800 Speaker 7: deep dive. They're gonna look at what happened in Miami. 1039 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,759 Speaker 7: They're gonna look at what happened in Pittsburgh during his 1040 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,000 Speaker 7: one year there. They're gonna look at his time in Minnesota. 1041 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:53,040 Speaker 7: The thing that he has in his favor in Pittsburgh, 1042 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,759 Speaker 7: they loved him during the one year he was there. 1043 00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,520 Speaker 7: They loved him and that's the kind of hard nosed 1044 00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,880 Speaker 7: defense style they like. Now. I'll say this, even though 1045 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,279 Speaker 7: the Steelers have gone defensive coordinator with their last three 1046 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,240 Speaker 7: hires dating back to the first Nixon administration in nineteen 1047 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,279 Speaker 7: sixty nine, Chuck Nobill, Kauer, Mike Tomlin all defensive coordinators, 1048 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,160 Speaker 7: they understand that in the nineteen years since they hired 1049 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,640 Speaker 7: Mike Tomlin, the game has changed. It's offensive now, it's 1050 00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,960 Speaker 7: player safety now. And they may decide we got to 1051 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,880 Speaker 7: go with an offensive coach this time around. But the 1052 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,200 Speaker 7: formula that has been very successful, and I'll submit to 1053 00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,719 Speaker 7: you that with each successful head coaching higher in Pittsburgh 1054 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,839 Speaker 7: that lasts at least fifteen years, it's gone twenty three years, 1055 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,760 Speaker 7: fifteen years, nineteen years, you put more pressure on yourself 1056 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,640 Speaker 7: to get it right. So I think Floria is going 1057 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,759 Speaker 7: to get serious consideration in Pittsburgh. I don't think he's 1058 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,960 Speaker 7: gonna get serious consideration in Baltimore. He will in Pittsburgh, 1059 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,880 Speaker 7: and we'll see whether or not the Steelers are comfortable 1060 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:49,960 Speaker 7: making that move. They're gonna have a lot of options. 1061 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,680 Speaker 7: The problem is having a lot of options, you eventually 1062 00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,320 Speaker 7: got to pick one. It's like being at the cheesecake 1063 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,680 Speaker 7: factory and flipping through that phone book menu. A lot 1064 00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,400 Speaker 7: of stuff looks good. You got to ultimately pick. 1065 00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:02,799 Speaker 2: One brilliant Call you next way, Mike Florio p f T. Yeah, 1066 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,479 Speaker 2: you know, we we have a joining us next calls 1067 00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,680 Speaker 2: Patriots games, and of the Patriots play this weekend against 1068 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,919 Speaker 2: the Broncos in the AFC Championship Game. 1069 00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:13,400 Speaker 1: A Bob socius now