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Speaker 2: Network, Frustrated and Kate fa n dot com. Two minutes

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Speaker 2: two seconds past the hour of three o'clock Central Standard Time,

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Thursday, production of the often combustible, occasionally controversial

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Speaker 2: Bumper to Bumper program on a rather chili fri a

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Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon here in the Twin cities of Minneapolis and

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Speaker 2: Saint Paul. My name is Dan Barrero. I host the program,

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Speaker 2: guards he produces the show. Did we blow it? From

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Speaker 2: a production standpoint? Not naming the first snow nomie of

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Speaker 2: the year?

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Speaker 1: Now, inches did we get?

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Speaker 2: I think officially didn't we get like five inches of snow?

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's enough for a Snownomie. I mean in some

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Speaker 2: years when it was consored, we had two inch snownomies

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Speaker 1: Less than that. Yeah, you probably right to that. Yeah

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Speaker 1: we had. We had to please a sponsor. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just asking.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I my gut tells me you did not

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Speaker 2: want to encourage it because you didn't want it to

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Speaker 3: Well, when did what snow storm are we talking about?

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Speaker 3: Because it's snowed the other we had one like a

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Speaker 3: week ago. I was gone, so that I know that's

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Speaker 3: is it too late?

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Speaker 2: Is the statue of tsunami limitations up to where we

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Speaker 2: not try.

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Speaker 1: To force it.

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Speaker 2: I do know that our nominees available, there's a button list,

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Speaker 2: an abundant list. Our SAMI correspondent Ryan Donaldson is available.

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Speaker 1: I know that.

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Speaker 2: He's very good at it. Yeah, that's good to know,

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Speaker 2: So we'll tell us. We'll take that under invisement. We

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Speaker 2: are here until six o'clock tonight out I'm assuming for

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Speaker 2: Vikings programming, and then we've got eventually Minnesota waild to hockey.

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Speaker 2: I think pregame is seven forty five tonight. It's an

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: There's no reason. It's why I shouldn't be a full

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Speaker 2: thirty minute pregame show. But I don't think Fallness wants

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Speaker 1: It's weird.

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Speaker 3: He wants to do a two hour long postgame show

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Speaker 3: and pregame he's not interested in.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't make much sense to me. It doesn't make

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Speaker 2: any sense to me as well. He's an interesting fellow.

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Speaker 2: I Austin, writes Austin and Apple Valley rights eight inches

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Speaker 1: I've stumping someone again.

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Speaker 3: The show will never be Do you think enough people

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Speaker 3: understand that they do right well for us?

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Speaker 1: We do. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's still funny.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to get that graphic from Fox nine

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Speaker 3: that was so good. Apple Valley digs out. They're still

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Speaker 3: mad at us about that. I don't know if we

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Speaker 3: want to rear and then you're not gonna get that.

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Speaker 3: If you if you keep going too far in that,

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Speaker 3: you're not gonna get You're not gonna get your shoes.

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Speaker 3: My shoes. Yeah, did you go and get your shoes?

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Speaker 3: And I didn't go to get my I couldn't either today,

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Speaker 3: no time. So we're busy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's these things to do. And they text says, hey,

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Speaker 2: I think you can order him online. Actually we can

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Speaker 2: interested in any case. We we're done at six and

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Speaker 2: we got three outstanding guests today. Sean Salisbury has scheduled

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Speaker 2: for the bottom of this hour three point thirty, and

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Speaker 2: Andy Lueger will stop by for the entire four o'clock hour.

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Speaker 2: Here's this is gonna be the hard part with the

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Speaker 2: former US attorney. He wants to talk nothing but vikes.

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Speaker 2: Oh really, Yes, he's a football rule we used to play.

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Speaker 2: But he thinks he has all the answers of what

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Speaker 2: So but I don't want to Maybe it's better to

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Speaker 3: Here's the cheap shot that you can open with. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think line that particular college conference does not allow

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Speaker 3: So workshopping a little bit like your club has something

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Speaker 2: I think he'd like that. He's sensitive, he's a he's a.

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Speaker 2: He's he's basically, you're with us, you're against us on

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting should know that. We'll see how that goes.

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Speaker 3: I have to let him in probably at three forty

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Speaker 1: Russo Radio schedule for five oh two, Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: he's as I told him, you're always Russo Radio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No matter where, that partner never changes. So we

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Speaker 1: Along, But.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at a headline you're familiar with, bring me

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, Well, via SI dot com, they have a

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Speaker 3: story regarding the kind of previewing the Winter meetings, which

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Speaker 1: And here's the quote they highlight.

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Speaker 2: From world class baseball reporter Kenny Rosenthal on the Twins

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Speaker 2: off season plan. Excuse me, I don't know that they

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Speaker 2: know what they're going to do.

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Speaker 1: We know it's not good baseball. They're working through it. Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure there's been a couple of sentences better

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Speaker 2: I don't mean not clarity coming to reporters about their plans.

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Speaker 3: I mean clarity within their own organization. I don't know

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Speaker 2: What I was told this week is that they'll have

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Speaker 1: Now, look, we all can I think mock.

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Speaker 2: And ridicule the organizations that try too hard to lay

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Speaker 2: of times it's it's empty nonsense.

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Speaker 1: Right, But.

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Speaker 2: This, I mean, none of this surprises me. It's I guess,

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Speaker 2: You know, my position has been, they do know what

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Speaker 2: Because their plan is withdrawal. Their plan is contraction without

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Speaker 1: It's Kenny Rosenthal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, guys as plugged in as anybody, pretty good pedigree baseball, and.

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Speaker 2: Is this a big league organization? Maybe you've already given

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Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure, but I still don't think it's

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Speaker 2: A big time ball writer for I think ESPN confirming

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Speaker 1: They're sniffing around Joe.

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Speaker 3: For a couple more years. I think it is so again,

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Speaker 2: Do they how there? Do you think when they get

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Speaker 1: That's I think what it has to be. How far

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Speaker 2: And we still don't know the names of the minority investors.

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Speaker 1: We still don't know that they exist.

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Speaker 2: The Commissioner insists that they do and say it's just

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Speaker 2: they can go lower.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's like a limbo bar.

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Speaker 2: It's bizarre, and it's like they're serving it up on

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Speaker 2: a platter for snarky individuals like me. And is it

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Speaker 2: maybe I'm falling into the trap. Maybe after the winter meetings,

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Speaker 2: we're going to find out they're going to spend an

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Speaker 3: Going to be sixty million above the payroll from when

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Speaker 1: It by thirty million. That's possible. I don't know, Twins,

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Speaker 1: writes Randy in Duluth.

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Speaker 2: Twins have concepts of a plan. They will announce it

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Speaker 3: I heard the Twins have a framework of a plan.

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Speaker 2: He's not naive. He I could see the upper deck

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Speaker 3: it was a hundred percent. Of course, I'm sure he's

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00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 3: frustrated he doesn't have enough bodies, but I like that

441
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,199
Speaker 3: approach that he just said to everybody that was there,

442
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 3: a buffalo wild wings, I've done this before, we'll do it.

443
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. And that's an advantage.

444
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: And I that's why the minute the decision was made,

445
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 2: I just thought the Big Ten shouldn't be a conference

446
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 2: in which you have you're forced to go with a coach,

447
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 2: even if he's got a chance to be good to

448
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 2: learn about being a head coach on the job. It

449
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 2: just doesn't. It doesn't. I'm sure there are samples of

450
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 2: where it's worked, but it doesn't make any sense to me.

451
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 2: And I think that's to me what what Nico represented

452
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 2: and is it's a bonus that he's got history here.

453
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was essential, but it's a bonus

454
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 2: because he has some context from which to work and

455
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 2: he comes in I think with his eyes open as well,

456
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,120
Speaker 2: because he's been here when it was better and he's

457
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 2: observed it when obviously after the fall with Clem. It

458
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 2: got a lot worse. Hoosiers crushed, Bozich, flushed Nico, blushed

459
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 2: Wolves and thought Wolves are in action tonight it's the rematch.

460
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 2: It is Pelicans thought they let one get away last time,

461
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 2: so they might plant their feet.

462
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 3: They'll be ready tonight. They'll be ready. Have no idea

463
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 3: who's playing for them, but they'll be ready. Is Ion back, No,

464
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 3: he's out for a while. Jonas is out now for

465
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 3: two to four. Well, not only that, you saw the

466
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 3: big media report, was it Scham's Yeah, he wants out.

467
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 3: He's already before the season. They talked at it apparently.

468
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to figure out is this is he

469
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 2: advancing the story where this is more active than before,

470
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 2: because obviously there'll be a lot of teams interested in him.

471
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: Here's what a team that makes no sense for me

472
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 1: being interested in Oki City?

473
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 2: Tell me what you think, because one of the speculation was, well,

474
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 2: if you look around the league, they're going to be

475
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 2: looking for draft picks, those and young players, those kinds

476
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 2: of resources. So the logical, a logical fit would be

477
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. Sure, And my comeback to that is, I'm

478
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 2: not sure why Oklahoma City it wouldn't even possibly explore it.

479
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: They wouldn't. It doesn't make any now. Again, they're not going.

480
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 2: To be I don't think they're going to finish like

481
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 2: seventy eight and four.

482
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: That's their current pace.

483
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 2: But they've got so many things going doing it the

484
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 2: way they're doing it, can you imagine, I mean, you

485
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 2: bring it a guy like that, top five player in

486
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 2: the league, A lot lot of things are going to

487
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 2: have to change and revolve around them.

488
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: So why why would so? I understand people saying, well,

489
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: they got the resources, so if.

490
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 2: You're Milwaukee, you'd like to talk to Yeah, for sure,

491
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 2: But I have no idea why they would go away

492
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 2: from the model that they have embraced so effectively. And so,

493
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 2: you know, I think almost historically, I just don't think

494
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 2: right now there's any other franchises that are kind of

495
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 2: doing it the way they're doing it. They have a

496
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 2: legitimate superstar, but it's one they sort of groomed themselves.

497
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 2: It wasn't one that they had to go out and

498
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 2: get as already being established and who are you going

499
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 2: to give up? It doesn't make any sense, No, it doesn't.

500
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 3: Although I do kind of like the novelty of Jannis

501
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 3: going from a small market to an even smaller market.

502
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 3: That's true, because that's usually never happened before. Right when

503
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 3: you ever had anybody going to Oklahoma City as some

504
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 3: type of destination, even in speculation.

505
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: No, they're not doing that.

506
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 2: By the way, as we continue the basketball conversation, much

507
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 2: to the chagrin of Kevin Falness, exactly that's what I

508
00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,959
Speaker 2: was going to get to. But there's already the Clippers.

509
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 2: I'm probably I've probably never been as appreciative of Chris

510
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 2: Paul's game as I should be when you factor in

511
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: the number of ball people I respect who say he's

512
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: an all time great.

513
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: But I'm having a hard time.

514
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 2: Fostering up the suitable outrage that has been generated elsewhere

515
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 2: under the classification of how dare this organization get rid

516
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: of this point god legend in the middle of the night.

517
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm not that worked up over it a

518
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 2: because the only reason it was middle of the night

519
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 2: had to do with some flight delays. So this notion

520
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 2: that there's some we get I believe way too hung

521
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 2: up in the idea that there's a big distinction between

522
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: cutting a legendary player at two in the morning or

523
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: the following morning at nine am. Sorry, I just don't

524
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: think it's that big of a deal in this case

525
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 2: had more to do with circumstances, and what I have

526
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 2: read and what I've continued to hear is Chris Paul

527
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 2: has been too much like Chris Paul there, and it's

528
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 2: no different than he ever was. The guy thinks he

529
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 2: is in charge of everything, wants to run everything. When

530
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: you're a point god, you can get away with that, right.

531
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: People will tolerate that because you're really good at your job.

532
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 2: When you are an occasional bench player, they're not going

533
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 2: to have any tolerance for it.

534
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: So I'm not.

535
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 2: Look, the Clippers have been their own worst enemy. But

536
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 2: I guess I'm having a hard time making that big

537
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 2: of a production or how dare they do that to

538
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 2: Chris Paul. Chris Paul knows the approach he takes, and

539
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: at some point I just can't lose any sleepover now.

540
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 2: The question I'm getting to is will he lands somewhere?

541
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 2: And if you're if you're a Wolves fan, do you

542
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 2: have any interest in Chris Paul?

543
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: I have none.

544
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 2: I don't think I do either, because again, I think

545
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: you've already got you know, a veteran older guy. Okay,

546
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how much Chris Paul has left. And again,

547
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: we don't need the clubhouse lawyering if you're not going

548
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: to be a main player, right, I just it's just,

549
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 2: I just seasons are too long.

550
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: There's enough, there are enough challenges there.

551
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 3: I just so I would be stunned if there's much

552
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 3: sniffing done by the Timberwolves, whatever they might do at

553
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 3: the point guard position, I will be surprised that Chris

554
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 3: Paul will land here.

555
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: I thought about it for about ten seconds. Would that

556
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: make sense?

557
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 3: And I'll be honest, I haven't watched a lot of

558
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: Clippers on league pass this year, not want to make

559
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 3: to watch.

560
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: Well there they've been a mess. They have been. They're

561
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: old and not very good.

562
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 2: And who's the Miami Heat player they they Norman Powell

563
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: they traded to. I mean they in a sense exchanged

564
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: him for who's the injured guys with the Suns last

565
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 2: year's Season's already over the guard who used to be

566
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: with Washington. Oh, Bradley Bradley Beal. Yeah, that's the trade

567
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 2: in a sense they made. Beale is done. Paul's terrific.

568
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: So they've brought on some of their issues themselves. But

569
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 2: I just yeah, I don't. I don't know. So we'll

570
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: see because I do think and we even talked about

571
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: this with Mike Conley. He knows it comes with the territory.

572
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 2: The discussions are going to be ongoing, don't you think.

573
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: Yeah.

574
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 2: Lastly, somebody said that there's an internet rumor and this

575
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 2: one makes absolutely zero sense that the Wolves are on

576
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 2: the verge of trading for Kevin Durant. Now I ask you,

577
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: have you checked the Houston Rockets start to the season

578
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: in their record, they're pretty good, they're fourteen, they're they're outstanding. Yeah,

579
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: they're the three seed right now. Let me see, Rockets

580
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: are gonna go. You know what, This isn't working out

581
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 2: for us. So we're only fourteen to five, and hey,

582
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: let's see if we can do.

583
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 3: A favorite another team, not only well in the another

584
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 3: NBA team, but a team in our conference. Where does

585
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 3: this stuff come from? Do you have any Have you

586
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 3: heard that one? No, but I'm kind of curious. The

587
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 3: sights that you're visiting. Well, actually, I'm starting to worry

588
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 3: about it. I didn't visit it. It was it was

589
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 3: I wrote about it. Oh, did he he actually wrote

590
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 3: about it. I'm worried about his site. Well that could

591
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 3: be too, but I mean it's like it's durant.

592
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: Might have made sense when last trade deadline there was

593
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: talking to you, willing to come here and they couldn't

594
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: get it done then, and then in the summer it

595
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: was I don't want to go there. I want to

596
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: go to Houston.

597
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: So tight gun melt tight.

598
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 2: There's ones that make kind of sense and some that

599
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: don't make much sense at all.

600
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: Let me get to a couple of texts. We'll go

601
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: to forty two.

602
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 2: Might as well, m yep, Tom Izzodean Smith, Roy Williams

603
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: for a few worked out okay, start the head coaching

604
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: careers in big basketball conferences.

605
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's not unprecedented.

606
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 2: That's a fair Pointzo was Heathcote's guy for like fifty

607
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 2: years exactly, And I think that wasn't Roy Williams, Dean

608
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 2: Smiths guy. He was, yes, and then went to yeah.

609
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: So I again, I just think they were further along

610
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 2: in that regard. Somebody's asking about James Harden rumors.

611
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 3: I've raised the name before. I don't know if you

612
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: were on that day or not.

613
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 2: We've talked about it, so and yeah, and it's it

614
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 2: sounds on one level. Let me back up and say,

615
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: I have no idea what the Clippers plans are moving forward.

616
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: They're like the Twins.

617
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 2: I don't think I know James Harden would refuse to

618
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 2: show up here. I don't think he likes the cold.

619
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 2: Although he was in Philly, right, Yeah, wasn't Philly he

620
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,959
Speaker 2: was for a while, was he?

621
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think he was.

622
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 3: He's been everywhere pretty sure was in Philly, Houston, maybe

623
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 3: Philly in any case.

624
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 2: But if if it's possible, do I think it's as

625
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 2: preposterous as I an idea to me as I initially

626
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: might have thought, no, even though it's like and it's

627
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: a hell of a flyer if you're going to do

628
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: something that would be very, very dramatic. But oddly I've

629
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,239
Speaker 2: come to like this version of James Harden better than

630
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 2: previous versions. Now, the fatal flaw you could come back

631
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: with is yeah, but even in the playoffs, this new

632
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 2: version it's more of a distributor. Yes, he's fallen off

633
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 2: the edge of a table in some important game, so

634
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 2: I you know, we're a long way from here to there.

635
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be They're gonna be a bunch of those.

636
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I unless something gets stabilized here in that regard,

637
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 2: like out of nowhere. Tonight, Dillingham scores thirty five and

638
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: dishes for tennis sists.

639
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: Just everything clicks.

640
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: He gets extra minutes because somebody is either hurt or

641
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: foul trouble, and it starts a trend where he's kind

642
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: of figured it out.

643
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: Barring that, I.

644
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: Just don't see, you know, the rest of the players,

645
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: of the rest of the players right in terms of

646
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: who's who can possibly run the show, so well have to.

647
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 2: We'll continue to monitor. You know, I haven't caught up

648
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: on the show in a while. We haven't had Sam

649
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 2: Mitchell on, so we should probably catch up with him.

650
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: You know. The interesting about Sam. Do you remember last

651
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: year Sam's.

652
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 3: Suggestion, which got dismissed by a lot of the insiders,

653
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 3: was what about making Nikhil Alexander Walker You're starting point guard?

654
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some people thought it was crazy. Is it

655
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: a reach? He's played really well for Atlanta.

656
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Speaker 2: In fact, he's flourished without who's their main Their main

657
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Speaker 2: score has been out hurt Trey Young. He's played great

658
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Speaker 2: for them, so you know, will we will that be

659
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Speaker 2: the love we lost?

660
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Speaker 1: I don't know it's possible. He's averaging twenty a game

661
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: right now? Is he really? How about it? What's his

662
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: assist total?

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Speaker 3: Is he?

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Speaker 1: Is he running it? Is he the lead guard? I

665
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Speaker 1: don't know that.

666
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Speaker 3: I would imagine, yes, twenty points three point five assists? Okay,

667
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 3: well that's not a huge number if you're but he's Yeah,

668
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 3: he's playing well and he can guard.

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing. You know, we always knew it.

670
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's he is the two way player and

671
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 2: I'm not. You know again, I know we could. You

672
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 2: couldn't bring everybody back, But in any case, so a

673
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 2: lot of hoop talked there, very encouraging result at the Barn.

674
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: I have no idea what the crowd ended up being.

675
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: But again, I think when people looked at this schedule,

676
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Speaker 2: they go having big ten games early is gonna stink

677
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 2: because they might get routed early, and then it's another

678
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 2: reason for people to look the other way. The beauty

679
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 2: of what they did last night is it goes the

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Speaker 2: other direction. I know they do have a very tough

681
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Speaker 2: they're at Purdue.

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Speaker 1: Is it next week? Next week? Produce Purdue they're number one.

683
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Speaker 3: But I don't think anybody is going to lose their

684
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 3: minds if we go to Purdue and do not dominate.

685
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Speaker 1: But we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Let's pause here. Sean Salisbury is going to join us

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Speaker 2: on tomorrow's show. Travel issues reared their head this afternoon,

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Speaker 2: to join at the top of the hour. I was

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Speaker 2: just meeting him up at the vestibule. I hope I'm

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Speaker 2: not out of breath.

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Speaker 3: Turn Town, we still have it. We start Town we

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Speaker 3: still have it. Yeah, that's got an endate of like

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Speaker 3: year twenty twenty two to twenty. We're keeping that one forever.

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we? Right real quick, I can find this

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Speaker 3: is from Clayton in Rochester. What do the Twins even know?

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Speaker 3: below wolves and five people work hard for it, man,

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Speaker 3: they really really do work hard, watching Nikiel, Sam Darnold,

712
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones doing so a lot of other teams like

713
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Speaker 3: scrolling Facebook and seeing an ex happy with someone way

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Speaker 3: better looking than you. It hurts. That's from Kyle in Iante.

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Speaker 3: But remember, as we talked about.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, we're on the right side of the great what's

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Speaker 2: his name?

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00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 1: Our new goaltender, what's the nickname?

719
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 2: The Greywall of Saint Paul, who we acquired from some

720
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: smart draft day maneuvering, moving up a couple of spots

721
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 2: to steal him, assuming that he wasn't going to be

722
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Speaker 2: available if we waited till twenty two. I think we

723
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: moved up to twenty yep, and right now that looks

724
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 2: like a stroke of genius. So we are occasionally on

725
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: the other side of things. We do we must fairness

726
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 2: and savagery take that under consideration.

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00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: We didn't.

728
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Speaker 2: I don't think discuss this in much detail yesterday, and

729
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: I don't even know if we had the sound or not.

730
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 2: But there's been some discussion reaction to a couple of

731
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 2: things that the quarterback whisper had to say, most recently

732
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Speaker 2: about his number one quarterback, by the way, who has

733
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 2: been completely cleared right, he's not a concussion protocol.

734
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Speaker 1: He met the media today, and he met the media

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Speaker 1: today EyeBlack on.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he had any EyeBlack, but I didn't watch.

737
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Speaker 3: I did read a couple of things that piqued my interest. O'Connell.

738
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Speaker 2: It's purely about decision decision making at this point. I

739
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 2: want him to have a clear head and a clear

740
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: mind to just go play, but play with an understanding

741
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 2: of the decisions that I make have to be of

742
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: the utmost importance. Because we learned our turnover number is

743
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 2: where it is. It's not a winning formula. I don't

744
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: want him overthinking or worrying about if the fundamentals need

745
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 2: to be changed.

746
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: Let's just make the throws, Let's just throw and catch.

747
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: Let's just play with great rhythm and understanding of the plan.

748
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: Now last things that are easily correctable.

749
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Speaker 2: That's kind of what Shaun Salisbury said to us a

750
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 2: week ago. Yes, almost word for word.

751
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's it's still tricky, but because in a.

752
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 2: Sense it's sounds, it was cool to say just fling it.

753
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: But in truth, sometimes when quarterbacks do that, it gets

754
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 2: even worse because they can throw five picks.

755
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: However, all of.

756
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 2: These comments this week kind of come off as.

757
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 3: Maybe I put too much in the kid's head. So

758
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: then you're back to, well, should it have taken you

759
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 3: this long to figure it out? It's infuriating, isn't it

760
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 3: supposed to be?

761
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 2: Incrementally, you add those things after some success with more

762
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 2: fundamental and basic things, and then okay, now he might

763
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 2: be ready.

764
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Speaker 1: For the next step. And then we're gonna add a

765
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: couple of wrinkles. But I don't want to.

766
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 3: I don't want to have him thinking about that stuff

767
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 3: in the beginning, just because I got the big fat playbook.

768
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 3: How long have we been talking about bass balance ball

769
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Speaker 3: bros And Bahamas? I mean they were talking about his

770
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 3: posture in the pocket, you know, having he's got to

771
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 3: get better posture in the pocket. They're happening to do

772
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 3: all these things. Do you want to hear what JJ

773
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 3: said today? This one just no, you know, but it's

774
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Speaker 3: like it's along.

775
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Speaker 1: The same line. OK.

776
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Speaker 3: A lot of the mentality has changed, for sure. I

777
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 3: was so focused on doing every rep perfectly and making

778
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 3: sure every little detail was crossed and checked off. Coach

779
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 3: O'Connell and Coach McCown have talked to me like, hey,

780
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 3: let's worry about that stuff in the offseason. Go out there,

781
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 3: play your ball and execute the play. That frees up

782
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: a lot of space. Mentally, be instinctual, react and respond

783
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 3: to what the defense is giving me.

784
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Speaker 2: Well, but let me throw out another possibility. They are

785
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: making it up as they go along, As we talked

786
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: about with the Twins earlier. It's almost like, all right,

787
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 2: we've tried that approach and we are at least talking

788
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: publicly about it. So what are we left with, Well,

789
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: we'll go the other direction and that maybe that'll make

790
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 2: us sound smarter. And there's no guarantee that anything is

791
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: going to change quote unquote with this approach, or that

792
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: the approach itself is even going to really change.

793
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Speaker 3: But you got to it's almost like, well, we can't keep.

794
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Speaker 1: Talking about that stuff, so we'll go to the other extreme.

795
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, I just know this is a first guest

796
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 3: at the time, we've talked about it, like you can't

797
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 3: and I know they hadn't. Well, they did play the

798
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 3: Packers here a minute ago, but like, you can't be

799
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 3: thinking about your posture when Michael Parsons is a second

800
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 3: and half behind you.

801
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: You just can't. It's not working. You think about that

802
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: in the offseason.

803
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 3: And even though when he was coming off the international

804
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 3: trip that goes all the way back to October, late September,

805
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 3: early October, the things they were talking about that they

806
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 3: were doing on the practice field just made no sense

807
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 3: like that they were And I know the reporters are

808
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 3: asking about it so because they're obsessed with the process

809
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 3: of whatever's going on with the with a QB development.

810
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 3: So I defend them a little bit there, but I just,

811
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Speaker 3: I mean, we've talked about this for two months now,

812
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 3: how it just felt like everything was cloudy, And that's

813
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 3: what Salisbury said. As a coach, my job is to

814
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Speaker 3: remove clutter, and I feel like the way they handled

815
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Speaker 3: JJ is like when my kids come in the house

816
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 3: and just throw their shoes in snow pants everywhere and it's.

817
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Speaker 2: Just all right there. And clutter means a couple of

818
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 2: different things to me. One is are you throwing too

819
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 2: much stuff in his head about base body balanced Brosmer.

820
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: But also are you putting too much on his play plate? Yes,

821
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 2: so to me it's a little bit of those. Both

822
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 2: can represent clutter. And that's the part that still slays

823
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 2: me is because it wasn't if what they're if they

824
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 2: believe what they're saying. Now, this is one hundred percent

825
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 2: confirmation of what we've been saying all along, which shouldn't

826
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 2: have been that.

827
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Speaker 1: Difficult to figure out from the beginning.

828
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Speaker 3: Corrects the thing with a young quarterback, because it's always

829
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 3: easier to.

830
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Speaker 1: Add, right, is it not?

831
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Speaker 2: I mean, just you build Okay, we got kept kind

832
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 2: of pedestrian and maybe not as wide ranging as we

833
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 2: like to use my playbook because of everything that's in there.

834
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Speaker 3: But I it's a long season, it's a long career.

835
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 3: It's the idea is we're looking for some success. Uh,

836
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 3: We're looking for some continuity there and gain a little

837
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 3: confidence and then we can we can always add things

838
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 3: and then I'll eventually look pretty as the head coach again,

839
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 3: you know, I'll be fine. So it it's so clear

840
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 3: that there's been too much of an emphasis on the

841
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: wrong things almost from the beginning here.

842
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: Now, maybe his accuracy is so bad it won't matter.

843
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 2: It wouldn't have mattered, but it's hard not to sec

844
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 2: It's almost like they're asking on the basis of their

845
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: comments this week, they're begging us to second guests or

846
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 2: in this case, first guest first settle all along it

847
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: say well, this is exactly what we've been talking about,

848
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 2: all right, top of the hour pause, we will probably

849
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: talk some vikings for the next guest, because he's a

850
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Speaker 2: big time vikings rube, and though I know has a

851
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: lot on his mind regarding the JJ McCarthy saga. And

852
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 2: then we will get to a lot of different subjects

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00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 2: that are closer to home in terms of what he

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Speaker 2: once did as a couple of times. Minnesota US Attorney

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