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Speaker 1: Good morning, Okay, Happy Monday to you and welcome to

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Speaker 1: nine to Noon. Excellent work per usual by the master

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Speaker 1: mixer of the Monday Montage, Eric Nordquisz, producer of nine

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Speaker 1: to Noon and one of the co hosts of the

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Speaker 1: Friday football Feast. Ain't no feast, Ain't no feast anymore Feastless.

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Speaker 1: Talked to Wayne Larravy this morning, missed him on the

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Speaker 1: phone call play by play guy for Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 1: and he called back, I missed it.

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Speaker 2: Let me this voicemail Chicago BESN.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, given the Bears beat the Packers a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, Matt Lafleur I had a lot to say

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Speaker 1: following a yesterday's l to the Minnesota Vikings, but when

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Speaker 1: pressed on his matchup potentially against the Chicago Bears in

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Speaker 1: the postseason, mister Laflour said.

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Speaker 3: And I will have my venges in this life for

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Speaker 3: the next.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if we ever nine to Noon will Montage

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Speaker 1: end of a season with Queen.

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Speaker 2: And we are the champions.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if nine to Noon ever will Montage end

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Speaker 1: of a long season with Queen. We are the champions

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Speaker 1: every single year, every single year. It's Brian McKnight and

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Speaker 1: one last cry and that seems to be what it

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Speaker 1: was yesterday at us Bank Stadium for the likes of

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Speaker 1: Harrison Smith, c j Ham, members of their families in

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Speaker 1: the stands, and even some teammates. C j Ham is

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Speaker 1: a professional and personal mentor for young Vikings running back

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Speaker 1: Xavier Scott, and Xavier was very emotional on the sideline

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Speaker 1: as cj Ham was embracing set back and his teammates

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Speaker 1: tears dropped the eye of the Duluth native two. Green

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Speaker 1: Bay went third preseason game on it with the Sorels

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Speaker 1: and Kenny James of the world. Lafleur took a time

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Speaker 1: out with the second left to make sure his squad

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Speaker 1: didn't get shut out. The venerable cj Ham scored the

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Speaker 1: game's only touchdown. Took both teams an hour to convert

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Speaker 1: a third down Dallas Turner. Dallas Turner took advantage of

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Speaker 1: an overmatched backup tackle, which is what he's supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: It looks like he's heading the right way in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: Reiker's the best kicker in the National Football League and

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Speaker 1: don't at me, Will Reiker is the best kicker in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, and don't at me Jefferson at

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Speaker 1: his first one hundred yard game since London and Green

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Speaker 1: Bay heads to the wild Card round to play Chicago.

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Speaker 1: And it stinks the Minnesota Vikings are not going to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Seriously. I don't use the word hate frequently.

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Speaker 1: I just hate it. I just hate it.

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Speaker 2: Hate it.

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Speaker 1: Expected to play out birth into the season, didn't get it.

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Speaker 2: Three quarterbacks played.

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Speaker 1: Two would be too many, and a season that was

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Speaker 1: a big fat uh uh ran my floor as to

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh scenario and for Ol Friday at the feast by

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Speaker 1: somebody who knows more about the inner workings of the

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Speaker 1: game than me.

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Speaker 2: And I'm now off that take up and at him?

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Speaker 2: Ye allan up and at him. I'm now off that take.

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Speaker 1: Hear me when I tell you this, I am off

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Speaker 1: my big Tomlin will fix the race with the Rooney's take.

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Speaker 1: Let the record show plenty of time to chat b

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Speaker 1: flow in the Minnesota bike, plenty of time to discuss

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Speaker 1: McCarthy and the play leave play leave, play leave, play

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Speaker 1: leave and so on. I would love to see the

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Speaker 1: defense and the kicker in the playoffs. I think everybody

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Speaker 1: else would too. The supports Minnesota Vikings football and are

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Speaker 1: take it a day with the twenty four hour rule

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Speaker 1: to just hate the fact that Minnesota Vikings are not

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. But case arasserra right, whatever will be

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Speaker 1: will be case Arrasserrah. So, what did you think of

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Speaker 1: the season? Talkbacks around nine to forty five and during

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Speaker 1: the week of interested talkbacks on all this Vikings non

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Speaker 1: playoffs stuff, and if you're so inclined, the careers of

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Speaker 1: you do the talkbacks. But first our final locker room

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Speaker 1: drive bys of twenty twenty five. The Minnesota Vikings finished

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Speaker 1: on a five game winning streak and O'Connell has won

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Speaker 1: more than he's lost three of his four years.

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Speaker 2: Harry and C. J.

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Speaker 1: with safety Theo Jackson, my man won fifty seven games

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Speaker 1: to start his career sans a sack, and now he

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Speaker 1: has won in consecutive games. Leo Jackson started the drive

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Speaker 1: bys with the safety asking him Theo overall, what did

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Speaker 1: you think of this old nine to eight?

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Speaker 3: You know, it was definitely a season that we didn't

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Speaker 3: plan on having. You know, I feel like we had

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Speaker 3: a lot of growth since since the start of the season.

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Speaker 3: To finish off this way, you know, I feel like

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Speaker 3: that were going in the right direction for next year.

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Speaker 1: And the Vikings beat Green Bay by thirteen to close festivity.

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Speaker 1: It's very emotional with Kevin the coach taking a time

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Speaker 1: out so Harrison Smith can get that ovation. And just

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Speaker 1: like the Lions game, you guys went to eleven on

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Speaker 1: him on the sideline. You know, if this is it

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Speaker 1: for Harrison Smith, you being a safety, what what have

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Speaker 1: you learned from him?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 1: What? What? What? What can you model after? The way

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it's kind of hard to model to to, but

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Speaker 3: you know, just I feel like just the way he

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Speaker 3: during during the game. I feel like I've picked up

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Speaker 3: a lot on that, and you know, just really just

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Speaker 3: trusting what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: And lastly, what about c J. Ham?

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Speaker 1: I mean CJ got super emotional too at the end.

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Speaker 1: Holy cow. I mean, a couple of great guys and

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Speaker 1: dynamite players, but c J. Ham too, Man, what's it

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Speaker 1: what's it like?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: What has it been? Like being a teammate with CJ.

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Speaker 3: That's my dog man, you know, special teams. Me and him,

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Speaker 3: we bump bonded a lot over over over these last

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Speaker 3: four years.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: Uh, that's tough. I don't even know what to even

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Speaker 3: things that you can say about C CJ. So you know,

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Speaker 3: I told me this with me, I said, I hate it,

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Speaker 3: but I love that for you, you know. So you know,

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Speaker 3: probably I'm probably gonna call them a couple of times,

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Speaker 3: but you know, I'm happy for him.

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Speaker 2: I enjoy your off season.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your kindness as usual, and congratulations, I'm

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Speaker 1: finishing with a winning record.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate you. That's THEO Jackson.

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Speaker 1: As the drive buys are underway here in a Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings locker room that is celebratory following a sixteen to

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Speaker 1: three victory over the Green Bay Packers. Border Battle one

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Speaker 1: thirty one goes the way of the Minnesota Vikings and

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Speaker 1: let's see what we can do over here. They're rolling

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Speaker 1: in and out of this locker room. And here we go.

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Speaker 1: A couple of offensive linemen too, of my favorite to

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Speaker 1: Michael Jergins. Not many starts. I have less than a

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Speaker 1: handful of starts for you, ma'am, but they came at

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Speaker 1: the end and and you you played quite well. What

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Speaker 1: do you think can possibly pave the way not only

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Speaker 1: for you, but like the offensive line and everything moving forward.

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Speaker 5: I think it's just continuing to get reps all together.

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Speaker 5: You know, like you said, we a lot of different

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Speaker 5: combinations in the line this year. You know, I'll say

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Speaker 5: it a little differently than you said it, but you know,

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Speaker 5: we have a lot of fun together. We spend a

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Speaker 5: lot of time together. And I think you know, we

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Speaker 5: were an ascending group and throughout the all season we're

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Speaker 5: here at the end of the year. And you know,

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Speaker 5: just going to hit that stride in the off season

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Speaker 5: and carry that momentum.

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Speaker 1: It's like twenty four to twenty five different offensive line

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Speaker 2: It's been unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: And and you're still very young in your career and

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Speaker 1: there are many many starts ahead of you as your

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Speaker 1: career rolls on, Like what what did this experience help

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Speaker 1: then the Packers today stuff like that, like, like, what

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Speaker 1: did you learn into the season that really has you

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Speaker 1: pining to come back and improve next year?

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Speaker 5: You know, I think it's just taking those reps and

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Speaker 5: learning what it's like to be out there in a

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Speaker 5: it's best for the line, especially.

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Speaker 2: For me coming from an RPO system.

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Speaker 5: Learning how the different aiming points in the blocks and

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Speaker 5: how to attack those combos. Something I've gotten more comfortable

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Speaker 5: with throughout the year. And you know, something that now

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Speaker 5: visualize and grow on it, and you know, do a

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Speaker 1: My man, what can you say about the guy to

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Speaker 1: my right, Will Fries, I mean, all those offensive line combinations,

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Speaker 1: My man's out here starting all seventeen.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe that guy missed a snap.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a warrior, especially coming off a you know,

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say it, but you know, after

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Speaker 5: last season, and it's a great guy, great, great to

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Speaker 2: He's awesome, He's he's really happy he's here.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your off season. Thank you for the job. Oh appreciation,

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Speaker 1: Michael Jurgens, Will Will seventeen stars didn't miss a snap.

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Speaker 1: I mean we we've discussed it before a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We ain't got to get in depth into it, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, like when you got here, you were coming

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Speaker 2: From afar because you've had an excellent career.

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Speaker 1: You know that Will's working himself back into shape and

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Speaker 1: beating the Green Bay Packers for a nine to eight record,

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Speaker 1: and you made all the starts. I mean, that's just congratulations. Man.

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Speaker 1: I know you're paid to do that. But all those

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Speaker 1: offensive line combinations that had to be difficult, right.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm first off, I'm really lucky to be

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Speaker 6: able to make it through the year healthy, and I

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Speaker 6: it wasn't easy the whole year, but you know, having

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Speaker 6: Like those guys are rocks and it's awesome playing next

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Speaker 6: to him, and you know, they they you know, home

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Speaker 6: to the teammates, and you're right.

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Speaker 1: Tackle Brian O'Neil played in his seventeenth border battle today

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Speaker 1: against Green Bay.

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Speaker 2: And you know, even like Blake Brandle, I mean the.

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Speaker 1: Position flexibility he has he had to step in for

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Speaker 1: Brian in that Detroit game. I mean, you guys have

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Speaker 1: like it was a very cohesive, tight group, like you

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Speaker 6: Oh man, it's it's the best group of guys in

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Speaker 1: And lastly, you decompression time, right, just just get away

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Speaker 8: He's he really is the best, unbelievable player, unbelievable person,

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Speaker 2: All the other stuff he's okay with, but he loves this.

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Speaker 2: I got to stop you real quick. I mean, what happened.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your off season. May God bless your family, and

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Speaker 1: Byron Murphy Junior, one of our very favorites here in

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Speaker 1: Mister van Ginkole. What's going on, my man? Everything good?

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Speaker 2: What what's it like being a teammate with Harrison Smith? Uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's special.

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Speaker 10: I've learned a lot from him, had some great conversations,

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Speaker 10: you know, something that I will cherish forever. And who

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Speaker 10: knows that if this will be his last game or not.

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Speaker 10: You know, he's had a hell of a career. I

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Speaker 10: mean I got to watch him growing up and then

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Speaker 10: I get to play with him. It's it's something that's,

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Speaker 10: you know, truly special to me. And you see a

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Speaker 10: guy like that play at this type of level, it's

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Speaker 10: it's special. And the way he can impact the game is.

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Speaker 1: It's one of one, Andrew, and that that's one of

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Speaker 1: many things that I genuinely appreciate about you. Is hell,

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Speaker 1: some of the most simplistic things are special to you.

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Speaker 1: You know, the these simple things in life. Hey Dallas, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: good job, Bud, Dallas Turner a couple of sacks today.

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Speaker 1: But like pregame, when you saw Jim clinsauser on the

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Speaker 1: sideline carrying too North Dakota meet Rock Valley, Iowa. You

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Speaker 1: wanted to meet Jim, you know, because I know you

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Speaker 1: have appreciation for his game from like when you were

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Speaker 1: growing up, but it's like the simple things like that,

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Speaker 1: you know those are important.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's huge.

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Speaker 10: You know something that you hear on the radio from

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Speaker 10: you know UPA's it's special when you get a meet

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Speaker 10: a guy like that with his impact to this team,

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Speaker 10: to this organization, and you know that's what they do

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Speaker 10: a great job here with all the legends and guys

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Speaker 10: that have had success and you know, made an impact

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Speaker 10: on this team. It's true, it's cool and when you

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Speaker 10: get a meet guy like that, you get a really

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Speaker 10: I'm just dig into what it means to be a

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Speaker 10: Viking and be a part of such a great organization.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, with Brian Flores and the defense, say, you guys,

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Speaker 1: unfurl the more you're playing it two years for you now,

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Speaker 1: you know, but you did miss some time this year.

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Speaker 1: The farther you get into the season are the tricks

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Speaker 1: and the deception and like the expectations easier to decipher,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, it's one of the most underrated stories

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Speaker 1: in the NFL because the record's nine and eight that

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Speaker 1: the Vikings defense is absolutely one of the best overhaul

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Speaker 1: defenses in the NFL, but it's not going to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: so nationally not a lot of people talk about it.

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Speaker 1: But is is flores defense easier to decipher for veterans?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I think if you want to play

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Speaker 10: in Flora's defense, you have to be smart and dependable.

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Speaker 10: And we do so many different things. We vary from

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Speaker 10: week to week. We're constantly changing and evolving, and you know,

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Speaker 10: Flow does a good job of putting us in positions

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Speaker 10: to succeed that game. And depending on who we're playing

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Speaker 10: and who they got over there is depending on how

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Speaker 10: we're going to play them and attack them. And so

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Speaker 10: you got to be smart. You gotta be able to

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Speaker 10: play multiple positions. You got to be able to move

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Speaker 10: and you know, have good instincts and when you got

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Speaker 10: guys like Harrison Smith, that can allow you to be

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Speaker 10: in the best position, the best play possible, and it

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Speaker 10: allows you to play fast and kind of expect plays

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Speaker 10: that are coming and which ultimately leads to turnovers and

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Speaker 10: puts a lot of pressure on them.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, congratulations to you and your wife on the

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Speaker 1: birth of your newest child. What is said child's name

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Speaker 1: and how many do you have now?

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Speaker 10: Little boy's true at Wildler and this our third little boy.

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Speaker 10: They're super grateful. My wife Sam's a trooper and this

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Speaker 10: is a great job. So very blessed.

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Speaker 1: Oh I would say, you know, hey, go enjoy Turk

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Speaker 1: and Caicos or maybe this elongated vacation.

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Speaker 2: To warm weather.

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Speaker 1: But you got all I know, well, you got the

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Speaker 1: new baby, and you got a stable over there. But

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Speaker 1: hey man, God bless you. Genuinely, genuinely appreciate not only

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Speaker 1: the way you play, but the prayers we have before

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Speaker 1: each and every game, and just your kindness. So look

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing you at OTAs. And thanks for everything.

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Speaker 2: Yep, thank you, Pa, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: The gink is on fai yam final drive buys for

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Speaker 1: the two zero two five timber Tech timber tech dot

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Speaker 1: but into twenty twenty six, providing the What's the on

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Speaker 1: deck nine to Noon, which includes vikes bites around the

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Speaker 1: Corner orchestrated by Nordo, who did good work with the

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Speaker 1: One Last Cry Monday Morning montage. I'm Paul Allen, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: this is nine to Noon.

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Speaker 2: The fan.

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Speaker 8: What up?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back nine to Noon? It is time for Vikes

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Speaker 2: by it's Vike's bite, not the Vike's bite that is correct.

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Speaker 11: Vikings ending their season sadly yesterday without a playoff Berth,

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Speaker 11: but they did add end the season with a fifth

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Speaker 11: consecutive victory in Border Battle one thirty one, CJ. Ham

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Speaker 11: scoring his second rushing touchdown of the season. Just kind

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Speaker 11: of on this note, and we're gonna bring up Harrison

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Speaker 11: Smith as well. Awesome interview that Ben Lieber had with

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Speaker 11: Harrison's Smith in the locker room. Will be playing that

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Speaker 11: back later on nine to noon.

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Speaker 2: But just CJ.

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Speaker 11: Ham and you think about the journey from Duluth Denfeld

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Speaker 11: and finding his way, trying out, making the team, carving

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Speaker 11: out a spot for himself even I mean, now we're

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Speaker 11: talking through two regimes PA where the offense changes, his

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Speaker 11: snaps may go down on offense, and CJ Ham's like,

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Speaker 11: all right, well, I'm just going to go become the

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Speaker 11: baddest ass special teams captain and handle business in that

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Speaker 11: area and finding his way into a nearly decade long career.

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Speaker 11: There's kind of thoughts on seeing CJ get his way

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Speaker 11: into the end zone yesterday in the finale and what

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Speaker 11: really CJ has meant over again nearly a decade in purple.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's been a bastion of excellence. And I don't

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Speaker 1: throw that term out too often when it comes to

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Speaker 1: football players, but on and off the field, as a father,

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Speaker 1: as a husband, balancing the hours and the time that

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Speaker 1: goes into lasting decade in the National Football League, where

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Speaker 1: the lines are long, when the gigs are hard to find,

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Speaker 1: man and the diminishing nature of the fallback is very apparent.

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Speaker 1: Just a bastion of excellence, as salt of the earth.

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Speaker 1: He took what he had, made the most of it

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Speaker 1: for a decade and gets to walk away from the

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Speaker 1: game on his terms, which is rare in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. So nine to Noon applaud CJ.

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Speaker 11: Ham absolutely vis bites how about this Vike's bite. So

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Speaker 11: Tom and everybody thanks again, Tom and everybody associated with

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Speaker 11: Zone Coverage Zone coverage dot com. They cover all sorts

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Speaker 11: of the Minnesota sports scene, but in particular Vikings related

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Speaker 11: coverage coverage. Mister John bonus Tom Schreier putting together Nordo's

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Speaker 11: numbers on a weekly basis, and Tom handed me this yesterday.

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Speaker 11: The Vikings have held their opponents to minus three net

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Speaker 11: passing yards or fewer in the first half. They did

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Speaker 11: this yesterday for the second time this season, becoming the

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Speaker 11: first team to do so since the Jets in twenty

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Speaker 11: twenty three, first time in Vikings team history since two

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Speaker 11: thousand and three when the stats started being measured. As

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Speaker 11: we closed the book on things, there are many things

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Speaker 11: that this team has to sweat, this fan base has

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Speaker 11: to sweat, as we've discussed pa, but one thing we

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Speaker 11: can't sweat is how good this defense was really for

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Speaker 11: the totality of the season, shutting down the pass getting

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Speaker 11: to the QB. Sadly, the turnovers and the takes weren't

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Speaker 11: there where we needed them until it was a giving

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Speaker 11: season in which we were takers on Christmas Day against

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Speaker 11: those kiddies. Yep, But all the same, the shutdown factor

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Speaker 11: and this defense over the course of twenty twenty five

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Speaker 11: one of the many pleasures I think, despite not being

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Speaker 11: a playoff team, that you can sink your teeth into

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Speaker 11: and really enjoy about what we watched over the seventeen

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Speaker 11: and and did.

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Speaker 1: So through myriad injuries to key players like Blake Cashman

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Speaker 1: came into the game yesterday with one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: seven tackles. If he had gotten eighteen yesterday, he would

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Speaker 1: have had the most tackles in a single season of

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Speaker 1: any Viking in the history of the team.

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Speaker 2: All Right, well, green Bay with what.

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Speaker 1: It offered yesterday in third preseason like fash third preseason game,

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Speaker 1: like fashion, Emmanuel Wilson and Chris Brooks couldn't get through

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage to get to Cashman. But like

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Speaker 1: Cashman had won thirty seven and he missed four games,

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Speaker 1: so he would have been a cinch to crack Greenway's

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven record of one fifty four. Grenard in out

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Speaker 1: finishes the season on ir Van Ginkel gone a month

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Speaker 1: and change. Harrison Smith misses a couple to start the season.

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Speaker 1: So through all of that to be able to achieve

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Speaker 1: what this defense achieved, it finishes the season pretty.

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Speaker 2: Much exactly in my heart.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to share pretty much exactly what I said

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Speaker 1: after that Lions game that it's one of the more

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Speaker 1: underrated stories in the NFL that nationally, like nobody know

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Speaker 1: Am Newton, no Ryan Clark, no stephen A Smith, no

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Speaker 1: Dan Orlovski. They ain't talking about it. Why nine and

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Speaker 1: eight terrorism, Yeah, this is nine and eight. This is

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Speaker 1: nine and eight radio, that's nine and eight terrorism unless

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Speaker 1: something changed with the afternoon games. I believe the Vikings

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Speaker 1: finished first in the league in fumble recoveries. They were

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Speaker 1: near the top and forced fumbles. It was like weeks

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Speaker 1: like weeks seven through thirteen or something, they were allowing

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Speaker 1: twenty six points per game and their take give was

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Speaker 1: minus thirteen. Then during the four games up to the

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Speaker 1: Packers game, they were given up twelve a game, so

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Speaker 1: that obviously got better off yesterday and their take give

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Speaker 1: the turnover differential went to plus seven. Yeah, So I

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Speaker 1: mean they put that pedal to the metal at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season with what they had, so that

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Speaker 1: that you know, it's it's when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: sweats and the pragmatic nature of the pillars of sweats.

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Speaker 2: For now, when did the reap flores?

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Speaker 1: Is the play leaf play leave forever with McCarthy and

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Speaker 1: can we finally nail more draft picks and have them

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Speaker 1: help post taste and for years to come, So that

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Speaker 1: that's where my mind is heading into this offseason.

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Speaker 2: Bikes Bikes.

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Speaker 11: They did remain number one in fumble recoveries, by the way,

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Speaker 11: I think. Let me see here it was thirteen and

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Speaker 11: that was according to PFR Pro Football Reference, that's still

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Speaker 11: number one in the NFL. Now that the Week eighteen

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Speaker 11: games all all finished up, we now officially really know

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Speaker 11: who our opponents are going to be road and home.

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Speaker 11: Of course, we all celebrate Happy Schedule Day once the

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Speaker 11: spring hits.

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Speaker 2: But road schedule looks cool. Road schedule's interesting.

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Speaker 11: You get Bears, Lions, and Packers, of course, but then

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Speaker 11: you're going to hit up the Saints and the Bucks

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Speaker 11: of the NFC South, and you get to go see

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Speaker 11: Drake May Pa and you get to go see Bravele

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Speaker 11: and Drake May out east. The New York Jets, New

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Speaker 11: York Jets first team, by the way, in nearly a

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Speaker 11: century to not have an interception via their defense all

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Speaker 11: season long.

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Speaker 1: The Jets finished was zero interceptions, no picks, Oh my heavens.

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Speaker 11: No picks, and it was only three or four takes

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Speaker 11: by the defense in totality the entire season. So Patriots

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Speaker 11: and Jets on the road, and then it will be

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Speaker 11: the Niners of the NFC West is they finished third

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Speaker 11: in that division. The third place bit also impacts the

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Speaker 11: home schedule, as you'll be seeing the Indianapolis Colts and

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Speaker 11: the Washington Commanders part of the AFC South and NFC West.

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Speaker 11: So that's where our home and road opponents may have

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Speaker 11: been impacted by finishes, and that's.

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Speaker 1: Where we sit into twenty twenty six. By not finishing

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Speaker 1: last in the division. The Minnesota Vikings went from getting

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Speaker 1: the Giants, Cardinals and Titans to the Commander's forty nine

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Speaker 1: Ers and Colts. I mean, it's not precipitous with the change,

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Speaker 1: but you put the Niners in there, and it kind

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Speaker 1: of is of Jaden finds the Fire and Danny Dimes

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Speaker 1: as opposed to Titans in search of new coach, Cardinals

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Speaker 1: who knows what's up with them, and the New York

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Speaker 1: Giants also in search of a new coach.

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Speaker 11: Okay, well, I think the Colts are going to have

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Speaker 11: issues specifically early in the season, unless I mean Riley Leonard.

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Speaker 11: You saw him try to air it out in that

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Speaker 11: finale against the Tit they excuse me the Texans yesterday,

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Speaker 11: but Danny Dimes terarn his achilles. I don't see how

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Speaker 11: there's any shot that he would be available if they

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Speaker 11: and I think he's going to be a free agent.

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Speaker 11: Let's say they choose to bring him back. How on

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Speaker 11: earth would he be available by opening day in terms

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Speaker 11: of finishing third for me? And maybe people will discount

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Speaker 11: it or look at it different differently. I don't necessarily say, oh,

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Speaker 11: my goodness, we have to play the Commanders instead of

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Speaker 11: the Giants.

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Speaker 2: I don't really look at it that way.

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Speaker 11: Yes, record wise, Colts significantly at this stage better team

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Speaker 11: than cam Ward and the Titans. Maybe that's subject to change.

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Speaker 11: The only one that I really think of is Man.

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Speaker 11: It would have been nice to play the Cards with

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Speaker 11: the potentially a new head coach for versus Shanahan and

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Speaker 11: the Niners on the road. So I just how can

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Speaker 11: you sweat this schedule at this stage of the season.

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Speaker 11: I'm still sweating the fact that we're not playing a

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Speaker 11: game this weekend that I'm going to watch.

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Speaker 2: I hate it.

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Speaker 11: An NFC North border battle that my team is not

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Speaker 11: involved in. Yeah, I believe that'll be on Saturday night.

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Speaker 11: But there you are, there's the twenty twenty six schedule.

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Speaker 2: To put a rap on you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not and I'm not and I'm not saying that,

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Speaker 1: you know, my vibe or my feeling is the right

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Speaker 1: way to look at it. I'm just saying it's my

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Speaker 1: vibe end or my feeling, So I get it. And

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Speaker 1: what that is is, I'm not on the we only

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Speaker 1: missed by a half game bit. It's like a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have brought that up to me a lot

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Speaker 1: the last weekend. Well it's really after Duvernet's kick return.

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Speaker 1: It's what I said then, is what I feel now.

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Speaker 1: When you know there is a super long shot, super

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Speaker 1: long shot that you make the postseason, and you have

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Speaker 1: three major holidays in front of you, Thanksgivings a New

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Speaker 1: Year's Day, that's a shame on you. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: an absolute shame on you to know that you're ninety

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Speaker 1: five percent not going to make the playoffs and you

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Speaker 1: got three major holidays in front of you. So they

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Speaker 1: never after the du Vernet kick return, they never were

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Speaker 1: making the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And the half.

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Speaker 1: Game thing, big deal, man, big deal with the freaking

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Speaker 1: half game thing.

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Speaker 11: Well, you know what, I'll say this for listeners and

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Speaker 11: fans that are clinging, appreciating that there were reasons to

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Speaker 11: be optimistic. Kind of okay, So how am I going

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Speaker 11: to sum up this season?

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Speaker 2: Fire?

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Speaker 11: Everybody? This was a complete mess. You told us the

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Speaker 11: roster was set to win. Now you moved on from

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Speaker 11: Rogers and Darnold and all these opportunities with veteran qbs.

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Speaker 11: You said the kid was ready. He clearly was not.

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Speaker 11: And this thing's a complete mess. Whole regime's got to go.

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Speaker 11: That's one way that you can sum it up. The

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Speaker 11: other end of it, I do appreciate the idea that

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Speaker 11: some are saying, you know what, this did suck. The

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Speaker 11: quarterback wasn't ready. We saw growth pieces, but it wasn't

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Speaker 11: good enough. We had one hundred injuries, and yes, if

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Speaker 11: we can just freaking stop DuVernay, we are, and I

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Speaker 11: forget what the other if the Bears had lost here

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Speaker 11: and maybe it played this way, technically, they were close

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Speaker 11: to even potentially winning the NFC North.

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Speaker 2: So this is silver lining season.

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Speaker 11: And those that look to burn the thing down or

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Speaker 11: those that are looking for consolation in some of those ideas,

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Speaker 11: I'm not really mad at it. To your point, though,

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Speaker 11: I'm not sitting here going, yeah, we were just a

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Speaker 11: Duverney kick away.

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Speaker 2: I can't I can't get there at this stage. The

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Speaker 2: the I think I'm into the equation.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're they're like yesterday had some highlights to

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Speaker 1: it being in the building wasn't nearly as energetic or

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Speaker 1: emotional as Christmas Day against the Lions, where Harry the

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Speaker 1: hit Man was repeatedly honored on the sideline and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, and it was a really really touching situation.

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Speaker 1: They were touching moments yesterday, don't get me wrong. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but one thing that I'll never forget. And I'm glad

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Speaker 1: into the game, you know, because I got wrapped up

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Speaker 1: yesterday on the potential of well, how long did do

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Speaker 1: you have quick twitch access to how long the game took? Like,

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Speaker 1: like what the final time of the game was.

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Speaker 11: On a total game time? I mean, not as quick

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Speaker 11: twitch as you probably. Sorry, Well, here here's the bit.

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Speaker 11: It's with Clayton tone terrorism. It was super predictable.

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Speaker 1: Green Bay would run seventy or eighty percent of the

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Speaker 1: time clock runs. Now you got the Vikings with the

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Speaker 1: ball and they're going to play a regular offensive game.

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Speaker 1: Then you get into John Hussey, the white Hat, the referee,

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Speaker 1: and John Hussey's group called calls the fourteenth most penalties

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Speaker 1: of the seventeen staffs.

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Speaker 2: It's two to forty two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Hussy, they don't throw many flags. Hussy wants

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Speaker 1: to get out of their fast too. Tune terrorism Green

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Speaker 1: and goal gonna run. So it's I got wrapped up

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Speaker 1: yesterday over and Hussey did his part too, by the way,

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Speaker 1: but I got.

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Speaker 2: Everybody trying to get out of there.

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Las Vegas earlier this season, Philly b Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas thirty one zip. That game took two hours and

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Speaker 1: thirty one minutes. In nineteen ninety six, Indianapolis Colts and

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Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers played. That game took two minutes, twenty

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Speaker 1: nine seconds, fastest game in the history of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I thought we were going to crack that yesterday. Into

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Speaker 1: the game, man, I'm like, we're going to crack this today. Now,

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Speaker 1: I got this Hussy steam too.

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Speaker 12: Man.

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Speaker 1: He never throws any flags, but see see after I

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Speaker 1: explained that early in the game, I'm like, John Hussey

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Speaker 1: and the Hussy crew might be my favorite. Of all

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Speaker 1: the officiating crews in the NFL. Games are always in control.

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Speaker 1: With John Hussey, he's just he's a cool cat, and

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Speaker 1: he's just.

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Speaker 2: His staff is really really good. So I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we got Hussy today.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: He's one of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: He and his staff up and he kind of validated

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Speaker 1: that that later in the game when referee John Hussey

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Speaker 1: took the went on the microphone after a vike during

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Speaker 1: the Vikings time out and said the vike he said

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Speaker 1: this to everybody in the stadium. The Vikings took a

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Speaker 1: time out to honor Harrison Smith. John Hussey said that

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Speaker 1: on the microphone in the stadium.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't remember the last time a referee

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Speaker 1: said something into a microphone that was non infraction related,

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Speaker 1: and and everybody stood. John Hussey is the bomb man.

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Speaker 1: But to forty two. So we missed it. You know,

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Speaker 1: we missed it by about fifteen minutes down.

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Speaker 2: Oh admit, we're behind it.

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Speaker 11: I was actually looking at the clock and thinking to myself, Okay,

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Speaker 11: we got a Wolves game at five. Yeah, so we

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Speaker 11: got to fill this time with fan line. Yeah, and

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Speaker 11: I'm thinking to myself, season ending fan line. Can you

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Speaker 11: stretch this? Can we take the coach maybe a minute

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Speaker 11: or two a couple extra questions here before before we

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Speaker 11: get to fan line and put a rap on this thing.

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Speaker 2: But it was as it should have been.

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Speaker 11: Most likely, is you've got a team that has nothing

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Speaker 11: to play for non postseason year and the other team's

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Speaker 11: just trying to get out alive and get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So John Hussey on the microphone time out Vikings. They

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Speaker 1: took the time out to honor Harrison Smith, so good

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Speaker 1: place went nuts. Matt, Yeah, I love that it's Vikes bites.

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Speaker 1: Some talkbacks around the corner. I might drop in some

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Speaker 1: later in the show if not. Plenty of time this

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Speaker 1: week to formulate some Vikings takes and talkers and tedium

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Speaker 1: and tie them to maybe Tuesday talkbacks. So your talkbacks

820
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Speaker 1: are around the corner. Followed by the analyst Pete Burstch

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Speaker 1: and in Booth, analyst for the Vikings Audio Network. All

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Speaker 1: that's around the corner in KFA.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Paul Nordo.

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Speaker 12: I think it goes without saying the biggest talker this

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Speaker 12: offseason will be the quarterback situation. Me personally, I think

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Speaker 12: McCarthy showed it up Flashes to at least earn A

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Speaker 12: on the roster, but I wouldn't be surprised if they

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Speaker 12: brought in some competition for him this coming off season.

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Speaker 12: I would love to get your guys' thoughts on this

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Speaker 12: and what or not you still believe he could be

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Speaker 12: our future franchise quarterback going forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to be on the minds of football

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Speaker 1: fans and a lot of Vikings fans for days, weeks,

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Speaker 1: and months. And welcome back to nine to noon talk

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Speaker 1: Back Central for this segment. I mean, yes, there will

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Speaker 1: need to be some form of a different or a

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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback brought into the Minnesota Vikings franchise.

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Speaker 2: However, I would make JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: Minus seven hundred to be the starting quarterback for the

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Speaker 1: Vikings Week one next year. Yeah, minus seven hundred minimum,

841
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Speaker 1: massive favorite, meaning if you want to win one hundred,

842
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Speaker 1: you've got to put seven hundred up to get my

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Speaker 1: one hundred. And if you don't think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the case, you put up your one hundred and

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Speaker 1: nine to Noon gives you like five fifty something like that.

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Speaker 1: So he's prohibitively favored us. When it comes to what

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Speaker 1: I or we believe about what's next for JJ and

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Speaker 1: like franchise quarterback and stuff like that. That that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna take some while for me. That's gonna take

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Speaker 1: a while for me to unpack, because yes, I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to watch JJ McCarthy version two start eleven Week one

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Speaker 1: next year. But a franchise quarterback, that's a big, big tag.

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Speaker 1: I gotta think that out a little bit.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, and he just needs I mean, there's no way

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Speaker 11: after what we've seen, you know, six and four of

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Speaker 11: this and total TD's that there's no way that you

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Speaker 11: could prognosticate that he's the franchise QB or will be

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Speaker 11: at this stage.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you, though, Yeah, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I am I'm not going to go through days, weeks

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Speaker 1: and months of talking about JJ McCarthy every single day. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a nine to noon mandate. That's

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Speaker 1: an edict. It'll be chatted about, it will be discussed,

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Speaker 1: and if new things emerge to me from a background

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Speaker 1: standpoint that I feel without a breaching trust I can share,

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Speaker 1: I will share. But until we see him not play

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Speaker 1: leaf play leaf play leaf play leaf play leaf play leave.

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Speaker 1: It's very hard for me to formulate a conclusive opinion.

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Speaker 11: Exactly, but but I I would happen to agree with

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Speaker 11: you here.

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Speaker 2: I think he's the massive favorite. To start. There will be.

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Speaker 11: Another QB name, you know, raising the level of that room,

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Speaker 11: I think is how it's been phrased. Yeah, in the

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Speaker 11: in the last week or so and and and that's

875
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Speaker 11: the goal. But still I think I think McCarthy would

876
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 11: be in a very good spot to start well and

877
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 11: and and you know, from a from a veteran backup standpoint,

878
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 11: I have no idea. I mean, I'm gonna wait for

879
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 11: teams to play in the postseason and then some rumors

880
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 11: from reliable people to circulate as to potentially like but

881
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 11: names can be made available.

882
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: One thing that.

883
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: I know I do feel and won't change from is

884
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: no matter how substandard people believe a certain name is,

885
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: I will yield to to what what what happened here

886
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: in the regular season with Sam Darnold and and some

887
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: of the things they got out of Carson Wentz when

888
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: he was healthy, some things they got out of Nick

889
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: Mullins when he was healthy, and and the way Daniel

890
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: Jones will set up for success to go somewhere else,

891
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: sadly go somewhere else. So, uh, it's not really the name.

892
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 1: It the individual name on which I'm going to focus.

893
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 1: But it's the philosophy and the theory of what you

894
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: just said there where you said, uh, fortifying the room

895
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: or raising the level. But but I I will actually I.

896
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: Have no idea it was available.

897
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 11: Well, but if you look at the name, so I'm

898
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 11: not interested in reading the names for you, that does

899
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 11: play into it for me. Why why he would be

900
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 11: massively favored now I'm looking at the free agents save

901
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 11: for And this is also what makes him heavily favored.

902
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 11: Is the alternative would be team makes massive blockbuster move

903
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 11: for a guy from another team, and you've seen the

904
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 11: superstar stuff being bandied about, and what so and so

905
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 11: would look like in purple and gold, and just the

906
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 11: lack of likelihood there combined with what is out there,

907
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 11: I just it's too early to give up on this investment.

908
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, or is it? You know? You know what

909
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 2: I mean. So, but it's way, way, way too early

910
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 2: for me.

911
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: I mean because like in his I don't have the

912
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: game calling depth chart in front of me. But up

913
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: to yesterday's game, he was three and oh in his

914
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: previous three starts, and his completion percentage was sixty six.

915
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: His yards per attempt was eight and a half. Yeah,

916
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: eight and a half's a fat number. Might even lead

917
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: the NFL if you do it over the course of

918
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: a season. And he had seven touchdowns against two picks.

919
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's to each their own with their taste

920
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: as to what you want to say, exponentially with jumps.

921
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: But there was a jump in improvement for the twenty

922
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: two year old during the course of the season.

923
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 2: There was.

924
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: So the expectation is with maturity and with knowledge and

925
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: physically growing into age twenty three, he turns twenty three

926
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: and like just a few weeks. Well, then the expectation

927
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: is that it will be even better next year.

928
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 11: And I don't know what that would look like. Yeah,

929
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 11: I agree with you. There more more talkbacks here. Well,

930
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 11: this one's a little more pessimistic, but an optimistic bent

931
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 11: towards the end.

932
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 2: Hy Paul, Here's what I think of the season.

933
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 13: Quasi out, koc can stay, Flores hopefully stays. We need

934
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 13: to find a new quarterback. Harrison Smith is a Hall

935
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 13: of Famer and C. J. Ham dalut Dunfeld stand up,

936
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 13: lut dunf Den, He'll stand up.

937
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 2: Thanks for the talkback. Let's do let me see here,

938
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 2: let's do one more.

939
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 14: Good morning Nordo and Pa Mike from Tampa. Great to

940
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 14: see the Vikings win five in a row, but I

941
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 14: still feel like this season was a big disappointment. We

942
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 14: don't know where we are with JJ, too many injuries,

943
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 14: too many things went wrong with him. We spent a

944
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 14: lot of money in the offseason last year to do

945
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 14: not a lot. It's not very nice to see us

946
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 14: out of the playoffs yet again. Need to see a

947
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 14: playoff win in a deep playoff run next year, or

948
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 14: I think that we need to move on from the

949
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 14: current leadership.

950
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: What do you think, well, moving on from the current

951
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: leadership if that includes the head coach, let's you know,

952
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: let's not forget well a he has a really really

953
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: good regular season record o and two in the postseason,

954
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: very easy and amenable with whom to work for, people

955
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: with the vikings that matters. So yeah, I mean, if

956
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell's included in the leadership, then you can just

957
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: go out and draw lines back because that ain't happening.

958
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: I don't believe that the timing is right to move

959
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: on from general managers and or personnel people, certain personnel

960
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: people at this stage of the equation. So I make

961
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: it minus eighteen hundred to win one hundred that Quasia

962
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: doofa Mensa will be the general.

963
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 2: Manager in the next year.

964
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: And finally, off the tone of I think it was Mike,

965
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: Mike and Tampa. Yeah, I'm I'm greatly disappointed too. And

966
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: it's strange in that this really all just hit me

967
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: within like the last half week, where you know, like

968
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: I said, after Duverne had that kick return and Santos

969
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: walked off on the vikings that for all intents and

970
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: purposes as I go, that was it. I mean, the

971
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: percentage was too bad to make the postseason. You got

972
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: monsters in front of you on the schedule, and that

973
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: three to eight percent I was out on that. So

974
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: when you Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's stay in front

975
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: of you and you know you're not going to make

976
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's why I started introducing these are human

977
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: nature games, and from a human nature standpoint, it was

978
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: ten of ten try for every single player on that

979
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: team to win five consecutive. Well, that comes back to

980
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: leadership too. That's that's the word culture that is trite

981
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: and overused in a lot of different places.

982
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 2: It's not here, you can believe me or not.

983
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: It's not because if it was, then you would have

984
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: problems with effort and you'd be benching people and things

985
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: like that over the final month and change. But you know,

986
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: I was the one who loudly said into the playoffs.

987
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a qualifier into the regular season,

988
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: training camp and stuff.

989
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 2: There was a qualifier.

990
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: Unless you have debilitating, massive injuries and have like a

991
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: quarterback carousel, well then maybe making the playoffs would be

992
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: more difficult than I think. But I'm disappointed they didn't

993
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. And yeah, it's I was there for

994
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: all three quarterbacks, just like everybody else was, and all

995
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: of the injuries and the twenty five offensive line.

996
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a lot. That is a lot.

997
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: But they invested in a roster to make the postseason

998
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: and advance through the postseason. And if you're investing in

999
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: people who are coming off previous debilitating injuries and they

1000
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: have to miss time again, well who should be surprised?

1001
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,439
Speaker 1: All right, So therefore that's a look in the mirror

1002
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: moment in my opinion, And I ain't talking about me.

1003
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm disappointed they didn't make the playoffs. I

1004
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: mean I was greatly, greatly disappointed recently that they didn't

1005
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, man, because I started thinking about some

1006
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: ideas and takes and talkers and stuff like that into

1007
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: the season. Then you look at the totality of it

1008
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: and you recognize the defense finished as one of the

1009
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 1: best overall defenses in the NFL against Sam Darnold, Jordan Love,

1010
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, Jayden Dan Annuals at all. It wasn't a

1011
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: Flukey Clayton tune every single game thing, and the kicker

1012
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: is the best in show.

1013
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 2: Don't at me.

1014
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: So it's just a freaking shame that they're not bringing

1015
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: this defense and this kicker into the postseason. It's really

1016
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: starting to bug me. So let's call the animals.