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Speaker 1: One of our favorites, captain joining us now former captain

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Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Wild. Also with fan Duel TV, West

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Speaker 1: Walls joins us to analyzed Minnesota Wild hockey smashed Edmonton

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Speaker 1: swept the season series. What do you think about what

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Speaker 1: you saw over the weekend against McDavid and Dryisidel and

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Speaker 1: Bouchard and the group? Good morning, love you and what's

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Speaker 1: on your mind?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Pa, I love you too, But it's yeah,

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Speaker 2: I yeah, they played great obviously to go up to Edmonton,

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Speaker 2: although if you look at the last five years, I

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Speaker 2: think we're I think Anthony had a charity showed in

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Speaker 2: the broadcast the Wild had won thirteen of seventeen games

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Speaker 2: against the Oilers, so it's not really that surprising, but

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Speaker 2: just the way that they did it going up there

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Speaker 2: and then, you know, laying a beating on the Oilers

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Speaker 2: was was very, very impressive. But I don't know that

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Speaker 2: we should be that shocked anymore. I mean, the Wild

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Speaker 2: they're one of the best teams in the league. I

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Speaker 2: mean they're they're just mopping up teams. I'm almost on

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Speaker 2: a regular basis every night. I think there's six to

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Speaker 2: one and one in their last eight and to be

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Speaker 2: perfectly honest with the PA, the Wild they're a better

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Speaker 2: team than the Edmond Ollers right now.

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Speaker 3: Even with Nickdavid and.

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Speaker 2: Dry Settle, the Wild have some some high end players

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Speaker 2: obviously with Capries Soft and Boldie and now Hughes, they've

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Speaker 2: got more depth scoring than the Oilers. And the bottom

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Speaker 2: line is the goaltending is just superior. You know, I

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Speaker 2: don't know what Edmonton's going to do going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And the way Tristan Jarry looked the other night against

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Speaker 2: the Wild giving up a bunch of goals. I know

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Speaker 2: Ingram came in a little later, but I don't know

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Speaker 2: how this there. You know, we say this every year,

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Speaker 2: can the can the Oilers get to the finals again?

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Speaker 2: Or win a Stanley Cup? And they end up getting

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Speaker 2: there every year. But I don't know how they're going

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Speaker 2: to do that with that type of goal tank. So

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Speaker 2: we'll see how it plays out. But the Wild are

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Speaker 2: they're They're clicking on all cylinders, PA, and they have

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Speaker 2: pretty much all season long.

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Speaker 1: Captain Wallsey, Uh, did you ever play with the defenseman

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Speaker 1: like Winn Hughes or anything like Wwin Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Uh, that's a good question.

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Speaker 3: Let me think about that.

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Speaker 2: You know, I played with Phil Housley when I played

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Speaker 2: in Calgary in the mid nineties for a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: I would say, if there's one player that kind of

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Speaker 2: reminds me a little bit of Quinn Hughes, was probably

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Speaker 2: Phil Housley. I'll never forget in training camp one year

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Speaker 2: and I didn't know Phil at the time. I'm just

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Speaker 2: trying to make the Calgary Flames and I remember in

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Speaker 2: training camp chasing him down for checking and I was

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Speaker 2: My plan was good to run Phil Housley right through

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Speaker 2: the wall. I had a good angle on him and stuff,

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Speaker 2: and he just kind of what Quinn Hughes is doing.

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Speaker 2: It's just one of those quick, little tight turns and

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Speaker 2: he's out the other side. And I'll never forget. And

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Speaker 2: this was thirty years ago, chasing Phil Housley because I

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Speaker 2: was gonna. I had him in the trolley draft and

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Speaker 2: three seconds later pa I was reading his the back

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Speaker 2: of his jersey, chasing him back into the offensive zone.

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Speaker 2: It was something I'll never forget. So if there was

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Speaker 2: one player, I would probably say Phil Housley. But listen,

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Speaker 2: let's be honest, there's only one Quinn Hughes in the

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Speaker 2: National hockey there's one, and there's obviously cal mccarr. We

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Speaker 2: all know how good he is offensively, probably has a

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Speaker 2: more polished two hundred foot game than Quinn Hughes, I

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Speaker 2: would say around the net defensively, but offensively, what he's

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Speaker 2: able to do with his footwork and skating and it's

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Speaker 2: just it's amazing. It's it's unbelievable to watch. And uh,

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Speaker 2: the fact that wild fans PA get a chance to

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Speaker 2: that kid play hockey, it's pretty special.

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Speaker 1: When when when he runs the point on the power play, Uh,

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Speaker 1: what like, like, what do you like about that? What

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Speaker 1: do you like about Hughes and the puck moving on

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Speaker 1: the power play?

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Speaker 2: I love that he's a willing shooter, PA, because you know,

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Speaker 2: doodling at the top of the zone and if you're

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Speaker 2: always looking for the next pass, then you're not really

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Speaker 2: getting a whole lot accomplished. But what I what I

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Speaker 2: love the most about him on the power play obviously,

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Speaker 2: I mean he touches so many different parts of the

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Speaker 2: I knew how dynamic he was obviously when we traded

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Speaker 2: and for me, if you're a willing shooter, it just

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Speaker 2: just it's it's really it's shocking to me that he's

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Speaker 2: only got three goals in the twenty four games that

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Speaker 2: he's been here. I mean, we've seen all the all

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Speaker 2: the assists and points that he's put up, but I mean,

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Speaker 2: he could very easily have seven or eight goals. And

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Speaker 2: I think he even said in one of his interviews

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Speaker 2: like he seven or eight or nine goals. He just

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Speaker 2: gets so many opportunities. So for me, Pa, the one

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Speaker 2: area is his ability to end willingness really to shoot

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Speaker 2: the pocket and take advantage of ericson X and his

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Speaker 2: big body around the front of the net. But he

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Speaker 2: does touch the power plays in so many different ways.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think since he's been here, Pa the

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Speaker 2: wild to score twenty two power play goals. And I

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Speaker 2: want to say it feels like four or five of

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Speaker 2: those goals have been off of the rush where he's

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Speaker 2: been able to spring Eric Sinek on a breakaway or

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Speaker 2: somebody else on a breakaway. So he touches the Wild

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Speaker 2: power play in so many different areas, and looking back

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Speaker 2: at the power play over the last couple of years

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs when the Wild have been in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: their power play has let them down. And you know,

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Speaker 2: we obviously we're a long ways from the playoffs right now,

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Speaker 2: but that's the one area that is going to really

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Speaker 2: separate the Wild from other teams as their power play

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's Wallsey, It's Minnesota Wild Hockey immortality.

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Speaker 3: Nine to noon.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, you mentioned the willingness to shoot by Quinn Hughes,

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Speaker 5: and whether it is looking back at previous playoff series

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Speaker 5: or just special teams in general focus on the power play,

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Speaker 5: it does feel I don't know if it's a mindset

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Speaker 5: or a philosophy or what it is, looking for the

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Speaker 5: perfect pass, and it's at some point it's not just

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Speaker 5: me as a rube banging on the glass, scream and

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Speaker 5: shoot at the top of my lungs. But in some

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Speaker 5: respect that willingness to be aggressive. Clearly that has made

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Speaker 5: its impact on a power play unit. It sometimes it

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Speaker 5: looks more artistic than it does functional.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I mean he has the ability to hit seams and

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Speaker 2: and and try to find you know, force plays through

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Speaker 2: the middle. For sure. But listen, the best power plays.

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Speaker 2: I killed penalties a lot in my career, especially the

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Speaker 2: last eight years with a while there, But the best,

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Speaker 2: the hardest, the most difficult power plays to stop. We're

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Speaker 2: not the ones where they made four or five six

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Speaker 2: things like that. The hardest power plays to stop were

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Speaker 2: the ones where they just continued, they would just relentless

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Speaker 2: then and then retrieving the puck and getting it back

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just like a constant wave as a

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Speaker 2: penalty killer that absolutely wears you out. And you know,

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Speaker 2: like so for me, that that's again I touched on

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Speaker 2: it earlier with PA's question. It's just his his his

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Speaker 2: willingness to shoot the puck, and especially with Eric Sinek

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Speaker 2: his ability to retrieve pucks is is second to none too.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, he's he's a special player and we're.

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Speaker 5: Fortunate to have him on the On the other side

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Speaker 5: of it, you mentioned you killed a lot of penalties

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Speaker 5: in your day, West. What have you liked about the

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Speaker 5: PK unit that I believe last three games they're ten

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Speaker 5: kind of an ebb and flow this year with the

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Speaker 5: penalty kill. But right now things are kind of getting good,

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Speaker 5: at least into the Olympic pause. What are you seeing?

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Speaker 5: What are you like in from that stet from that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been it's been good of late. And

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Speaker 2: just looking closer at the numbers over the last three

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Speaker 2: games because we're going to talk a bit a little

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Speaker 2: bit about in the pregame show tonight. But I think

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Speaker 2: that the opponents have averaged almost almost three shots per

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Speaker 2: power play, so it's not like ain't getting chances. Narto,

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Speaker 2: like the other teams are still getting chances. The wild

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Speaker 2: goaltending has been really good, especially on the penalty kill.

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Speaker 2: I think the safe percentage on the penalty kill has

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Speaker 2: been over the last week or so, has been right

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Speaker 2: near the top of the league. So if you're getting saves,

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Speaker 2: your penalty kill is going to be good. And it's

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Speaker 2: not really much more confusing than that. Face Offs have

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Speaker 2: still been a bit of an issue for the Minnesota

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Speaker 2: while killing penalties, and that's something that you know, I

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Speaker 2: would love to see get addressed here at the trade

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Speaker 2: deadline or I'm not sure what Billy's gonna do. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure he's got something up a sleeve, but that would

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Speaker 2: be an area for me, you know, helping out in

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Speaker 2: the faceoff circle on the penalty kill because in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's just so hard to score five on five.

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Speaker 2: The teams all the teams can check and and and

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Speaker 2: you know, keep the goals against down five on five.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, a lot of series are one with

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Speaker 2: special teams in the playoffs, and we've seen that over

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years with a wild on the

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Speaker 2: penalty kill. They have they have not been great on

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Speaker 2: the penalty kill, especially in the playoffs. So for me,

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Speaker 2: that's one area that if I'm Billy Garrett, I'm looking

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Speaker 2: at very very closely.

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Speaker 1: The Captain Wes Walls now Heinzy, who joins this radio

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Speaker 1: Real Estate Weekly. Last time we chatted, Heinze and I

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Speaker 1: chatted about and on the side talk he had with Tarasenko.

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Speaker 1: Now glad he has given them good offense, right, and

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Speaker 1: he's just super important to this equation, isn't he?

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Speaker 2: Well, he is because he can finish. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: hard to score goals in the National Hockey League. This

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Speaker 2: is a guy that scored forty goals in the NHL

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Speaker 2: and he's still pretty young, Like it's not like he's

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's thirty three, thirty four years old,

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Speaker 2: and you know, he's got all kinds of incentive to

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Speaker 2: score goals and play well if he wants to continue

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Speaker 2: to play, and by all accounts, he sounds like he

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Speaker 2: wants to continue to play. But yeah, his ability to

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Speaker 2: score goals. You know, obviously PA's not going to play

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Speaker 2: on the number one power play unit with all the

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Speaker 2: talent that the while they're able to possess on that

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Speaker 2: weeks ago when he went on his run and scoring

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Speaker 2: power play goals. Now you've got an insurance policy. You've

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to be perfectly honest with you, the even those

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Speaker 3: Key face offs.

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Speaker 2: So, without getting into too much it's too it's hard

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Speaker 1: Now West came into the NHL with the Boston Bruins.

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Speaker 2: But you know, for the NHL to have an incredible

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Speaker 3: They love it.

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Speaker 1: So I mean Vassilevski and Swayman and the way they

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Speaker 2: No, that's a pillow fight. That that's a pillow fight.

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Speaker 3: They were right into it.

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Speaker 2: So it's yeah, it's I read somewhere I think the

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Speaker 1: All right, So you're on TV tonight with Montreal in Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure the guys remember what happened two weeks ago.

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Speaker 5: Now with with this team, get two points tonight, get

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Speaker 5: Sounds like there's a piece missing potentially that can push

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Speaker 2: have his hands in there, and uh so we'll see

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Speaker 2: I still think. I still think I would. I would

437
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Speaker 2: love to see the Wild pick up one more centerment.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it's going to cost. There's been

439
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Speaker 2: some talk about, you know, you know, our obviously, our

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Speaker 2: greatest aass that everybody knows is yes for Volstead. You know,

441
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Speaker 2: if you give up yes for Revolstad, and you better

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Speaker 2: be getting a centerman that is young and someone that's

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Speaker 2: got a five, six, seven year deal. You would never

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Speaker 2: give up yesper for a rental for a year or two.

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Speaker 2: I think the risk is too big there. And so

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Speaker 2: you're looking at that number one centerment if there's somebody

447
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Speaker 2: out there that you could potentially find to take the

448
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Speaker 2: Wild maybe to another level. And this doesn't mean that

449
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Speaker 2: if there's no trades that happen at all, nortal that

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Speaker 2: I don't think that we can beat Dallas or Colorado,

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Speaker 2: because I do. I think we could beat them right

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Speaker 2: now in a seven game series, obviously with the goaltending

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Speaker 2: that the Wild have. But yeah, I don't know. You know,

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Speaker 2: the one intriguing name out there is for me is

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Speaker 2: Robert Thomas as a centerman out there in Saint Louis.

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Speaker 2: He's a you know, he's a very gifted centerment. He's

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Speaker 2: twenty six years old. I was just looking at his

458
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Speaker 2: face off numbers. He's played eight years in the league

459
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Speaker 2: and the last four years. His face off numbers he

460
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Speaker 2: was in the mid forties his first four years and

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Speaker 2: now he's in the mid fifties the last four years,

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Speaker 2: so he's figured out something in the face off dot.

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Speaker 2: He's right handed, as we were talking about a little earlier,

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Speaker 2: so doing a little bit more of a deep dive

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Speaker 2: on him, he might be somebody that I would potentially

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Speaker 2: be willing. I don't know if the Saint Louis Blueser are,

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Speaker 2: you know, in the market for a good young goaltender,

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. We'll see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of pressure on Billy Garrett for sure

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Speaker 1: And Adam joins us. Now, Adam, Paul Allen here, what's

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Speaker 6: Looking forward to flying to San Francisco tomorrow for my

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Speaker 6: And then of course we had the news by your Way,

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Speaker 6: which was kind of interesting and surprising, to be honest

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Speaker 6: with you. Why the timing we talk about quasi adapamenta

519
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Speaker 6: and the vikings letting them go.

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Speaker 4: These are almost always.

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Speaker 6: Done within three to five days after season's over, you

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Speaker 6: could do it after the draft.

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Speaker 4: Bridge is rare.

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Speaker 6: John Dorsey, the former CHUS GM, was actually fired in

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Speaker 6: June one year, and typically if you're going to fire

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Speaker 6: a general manager, you do it very.

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Speaker 4: Quickly after the season's over. The fact that they're doing.

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Speaker 6: This now and I understand they have the organizational meetings

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Speaker 6: and they gathered more information, but again, not only is

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Speaker 6: it the timing a little odd because it's so far

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Speaker 6: past when their season ended, then you've got the fact

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Speaker 6: that they gave him an.

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Speaker 4: Extension last year. It's definitely a strange situation.

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Speaker 1: How well do you know Minnesota Vikings executive vice president

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Speaker 1: of operations Rob Razinski, who's been with the organization nearly

536
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Speaker 1: thirty years I think three and a half decades total

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League, And I shared this earlier.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like, you know, Rob's going to be the

539
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Speaker 1: acting GM through the draft, no idea what happens after that.

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Speaker 1: But with Brazinski, he's he's never going to bang his

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Speaker 1: fist on the formica and say I am a film

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Speaker 1: grinding guy who like cut my teeth as a regional

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Speaker 1: scout for X amount of decades around the NFL. However,

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Speaker 1: he's a connector. And you know Kevin O'Connell, no matter

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Speaker 1: the level of say he has within this organization, you know,

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Speaker 1: Kevin wants to win so badly and takes so much

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Speaker 1: on his own that having a connector, a person who's

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Speaker 1: a connector like connects people together and helps behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes with somebody like O'Connell alleviating pressure and taking taking

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Speaker 1: some load off of him. That's a that's a key role,

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Speaker 1: not only in life but in football, don't you agree?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so, Brazinski, you have to remember Rick Biellen brought

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Speaker 6: him in, if I'm not mistaken.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, Rob was with Rick in

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Speaker 6: Miami and Rob not only one of the better contract

557
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Speaker 6: negotiers in the league. He's he's good at explaining things

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Speaker 6: and getting people there's they've had to do some complex

559
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Speaker 6: contracts over your talking to agents.

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Speaker 4: He's really good.

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Speaker 6: You're right with the connection part of it, and he'll

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Speaker 6: be smart enough.

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Speaker 4: To rely on.

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Speaker 6: Whether it's Ryan Mantins, Ryan Grickson, Sam DeLuca who came

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Speaker 6: in from Cleveland. Sam's dad Peters the actually the Eagles

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Speaker 6: one of the team doctors, believe it or not, which

567
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Speaker 6: is interesting. Uh. The pat Roberts has been there forever.

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Speaker 6: They've got a really good staff here.

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Speaker 4: To rely on.

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Speaker 6: I'm just I got it. One thing that I also

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Speaker 6: want to mention, I'm very surprised they went to Rob

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Speaker 6: over Grigson or those other guys to run the draft.

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Speaker 6: Just odd. Now, you're right, Rob's smart enough, he's been

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Speaker 6: around long enough. He's not gonna he's going to rely

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Speaker 6: on these guys to run the show.

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Speaker 4: I'm just kind of.

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Speaker 6: Because I wasn't at that press conference, I don't have

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Speaker 6: access to what Mark Wilf and the Wilf's were thinking. Uh,

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Speaker 6: the bottom line is Grigson in that grip. They've got

580
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Speaker 6: to run the draft, and it's just Robs. This is

581
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Speaker 6: not his bag, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: Right, and and really nobody does. I mean, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guessing and speculating, from what I understand, is

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Speaker 1: taking place as to exactly why quasi Udolpha Mensa was

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Speaker 1: relieved of his duties at this time of the equation.

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Speaker 1: The timing absolutely is peculiar. You know however, with you know,

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Speaker 1: with with the the Rob's brilliant, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much say he's going to have, and like the picks,

589
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Speaker 1: with this draft and everything. But you know better than

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Speaker 1: anybody because you've covered it for so long that drafts

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Speaker 1: and free agentcy it's never just one person. However, if

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Speaker 1: you're wif on Lewis seen and you hit on Grenard

593
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Speaker 1: and Van Ginkel, the general manager is always the first

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Speaker 1: person mentioned there. So it you know, just to paraphrase

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Speaker 1: what I know team president Mark Wilf said, is it's

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Speaker 1: not just one It's not a singular thing that led

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Speaker 1: to this. But after they had those after they had

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Speaker 1: those leadership type meetings, this is what happened. Man.

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Speaker 3: Now they going to move on.

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Speaker 6: One thing I'll add to what you just said about

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Speaker 6: Mark Wilf and the Wilfs is that these organizational meetings,

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Speaker 6: my sense is they got wind of some issues within

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Speaker 6: the personnel apartment late, and you know, they felt they

604
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Speaker 6: had to ack on it despite giving them an extension

605
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Speaker 6: last year. It's doesn't look good for them. They should

606
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Speaker 6: have known about this stuff. But honestly, they're not football people,

607
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Speaker 6: and it's despite them being in the league for obviously

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Speaker 6: a while, a long time they've been owners, they don't

609
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Speaker 6: have a football back, so it's hard to know about

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Speaker 6: these relationships. I could tell you about a couple of

611
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Speaker 6: clubs that had major issues during COVID because they were

612
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Speaker 6: not Everything was disrupted and guys were not on the

613
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Speaker 6: same page that you know, that could be a tough thing.

614
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Speaker 6: But this one's different where there were just some relationship issues.

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Speaker 6: And I know there's a story from the Athletic which

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Speaker 6: it's kind of interesting. The one I thought strong note

617
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Speaker 6: was that Casey was away from paternityally for two weeks. Typically,

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Speaker 6: if you're going to take it, it's a couple of

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Speaker 6: days away. And I know you could have meetings through zoom,

620
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Speaker 6: but that is atypical. That's definitely not typical of the

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Speaker 6: way things go in.

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Speaker 4: The National Football League.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so with the right to change this opinion, you know,

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Speaker 1: because here we are early February, combine hasn't even happened.

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Speaker 3: But like, if you were.

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Speaker 1: To cast your gaze the way of somebody outside of

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Speaker 1: this organization potentially becoming a new general manager, are there

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Speaker 1: hot names out there? Like yes, Like who's the new

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Speaker 1: Brett Beach Howie Roseman so to speak.

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Speaker 6: I got one, Uh, Mike Bradway, who's the son of

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Speaker 6: Terry Bradway, former Jets GM. Mike has been with Kansas City.

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Speaker 4: UH.

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Speaker 6: Bradfach brought him to UH to Kansas City. Bradwack just

634
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Speaker 6: interviewed for the Falcons general manager job. That was interesting, sir,

635
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Speaker 6: because all four of them had Philly ties. The finalists

636
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Speaker 6: front of the GM jobs kind of really odd. And

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Speaker 6: Matt Ryan, who grew up in Exton, PA. Of course

638
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Speaker 6: it's the overseer. But yeah, the guys, I would say, here, here,

639
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Speaker 6: you guys, here, here are the GM candidates. Any Widell

640
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Speaker 6: who interviewed for the Falcons. He's assistant GM with Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 6: He's omar CON's right hand man with personnel there. Uh,

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Speaker 6: just going across here, guys, that would make a lot

643
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Speaker 6: of sense. Lance Newmark, who's assistant general manager for the Commanders.

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Speaker 6: It was with the lines and part of their turnaround.

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Speaker 6: He's really really good. I mean, honestly, we could go

646
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Speaker 6: through a ton of them. We'll do this more as

647
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Speaker 6: we get closer.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 6: Mike Beale was a person director for the for the

650
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Speaker 6: Buccaneersho is really really good. There are a lot of

651
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Speaker 6: guys out there that deserve a shot.

652
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Speaker 4: Bradway.

653
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Speaker 6: For some reason, I think this might have been a

654
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 6: first interview despite see you just mentioned Brad Peach. Not

655
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 6: that Beeech should get a lot of credit, but when

656
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 6: you work on our team where the general manager is

657
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 6: really really going to get and gets a lot of

658
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 6: the credit, a lot of people don't know who you are.

659
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 6: And that's just what happened with Mike. But I'm glad

660
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 6: that he got an interview ed Dodds. By the way,

661
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 6: who's Chris Balage right hand man with the Colts. He's

662
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 6: really smart. It came from the Seattle system. I mean literally,

663
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 6: you could come up with fifteen of these guys. There

664
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Speaker 6: are a lot of them out there.

665
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Speaker 3: Who do you fancy in the Super Bowl? And why?

666
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: All right?

667
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 6: My heart is with the Patriots, for the people I

668
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 6: know with the Patriots. With my head tells me that

669
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 6: line should have been four and a half or five, no,

670
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Speaker 6: depending w s which book you look at. That's what

671
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 6: it is. But the Seattle's clearly the better team. And

672
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 6: I understand the Notts annoying this record. I totally get that,

673
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 6: but their story has been ridiculous.

674
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Speaker 4: I never saw this.

675
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 6: I thought eight or nine wins would maximize their potential

676
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 6: with the roster that they have. But Mike Rabel and

677
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 6: the job that he's done here, and one Patriot source

678
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,719
Speaker 6: told me that this is an interesting story. I'll give

679
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 6: you a Clipton's version thirty seconds. Rabel was a certain way.

680
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 6: He's always going to be intense, but you know, he

681
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 6: had a year off. But he's consulting for the Browns

682
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 6: as a coaching consultant for whatever happened during his time away.

683
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 6: He's connecting way better, not just with the players. So

684
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 6: sometimes he has meetings with coaches one on one to

685
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 6: talk about life, anything outside football where they don't talk football,

686
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 6: Like he never did that from what I understand in Tennessee.

687
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 6: So you talked about connecting earlier. That's that's really incredible.

688
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 6: And there's no way you could you could play at

689
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 6: this level that they're playing at without getting a total

690
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 6: buy in, the total buy in from their players. And

691
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 6: I cannot believe Paul for a first for a first season.

692
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 6: Think about what they're trying to do here. They're trying

693
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 6: to set an NFL record for most for going nine,

694
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 6: for literally going undefeedo on the road for the Super

695
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 6: Bowl that's never been done before that. I can't believe this.

696
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 6: I never saw this. It's really a remarkable story.

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Speaker 3: You, my friend, are terrific.

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Speaker 1: Love you safe travels to the West coast and perhaps

699
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Speaker 1: you maybe I'll see at the combine.

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Speaker 4: All right, oh no, that will definitely happen. All right,

701
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 4: talk to you that man.

702
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Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you a bud Adam Kaplan, NFL reporter KFA

703
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Speaker 1: and Sports Talk Thomas ten forty three, Good morning.

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Speaker 5: Fox and Studio. We'll get more conversation as to Quasi

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Speaker 5: Udopa Mensa being relieved of his duties last week, and

717
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 5: we heard from Mark Wilf now other kind of in

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Speaker 5: short order, Pa, we heard kind of some additions, so wow,

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Speaker 5: holy cats on the timing with Quacy. But then oh hey,

720
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Speaker 5: former Dolphins offensive coordinator Frank Smith is now the assistant

721
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Speaker 5: head coach. We heard about that kind of looks like

722
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Speaker 5: a background in O line and run game festivities. So

723
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 5: Frank Smith now the assistant head coach in Purple. Former

724
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Speaker 5: Steelers defensive backs coach Gerald Alexander, he's now our dB

725
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 5: coach and past game coordinator I believe as well. Career

726
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 5: in dbacks and with Deronde Jones going to the Commanders,

727
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 5: that was a vacancy that is no longer a vacancy. Additionally,

728
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 5: former Atlanta and Jacksonville defensive coordinator. Most recently he was

729
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 5: the Bills defensive assistant.

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Speaker 3: His name's Ryan Nielsen. Yeah, he's the.

731
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 5: New D line coach slash defensive run game coordinator.

732
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 3: So a few new faces into the mix.

733
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 5: And then oh, assistant O line coach Keith Carter was

734
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 5: indeed promoted to fill the spot vacated by Chris Cooper.

735
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 5: So we heard about Quacy yudofha Mensa and being fired

736
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 5: on Friday, But then right after that, boom, I mean

737
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 5: just a furious amount of reporting in terms of not

738
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Speaker 5: just quacy, but new things happening with the team. We

739
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 5: have four coaching vacancies effectively filled as.

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Speaker 3: Part of this.

741
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: Nielsen at one point a senior defensive assistant or the

742
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills.

743
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 3: Yep.

744
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: I think I think he and O'Connell left eyes. I

745
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: think they were together somewhere. I could be wrong with that,

746
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: and if I am, I apologize. But nevertheless, got to

747
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 1: know Keith Carter quite well last year his first year

748
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: with the team. Like him a lot and wish him well.

749
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: Not super familiar with the other hires. Eventually the hope

750
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: is I will be and and you know another thing,

751
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: maybe you got this in there. Don't want to step

752
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: on your touchdown call. But speaking of Vikings coaches or

753
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: former Vikings coaches, it you know, the the former offensive

754
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: coordinator here, Clint Kubiak, is probably going to become the

755
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: next head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I think

756
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: it's I think probably is going to happen. It's going

757
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: to happen. And Clint Kubiak was and is forever a

758
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: friend of this radio shows and would do a fair

759
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: amount of stuff with us when we were at the

760
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: Vikings facility and the ascension of that young man from

761
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: his time in New Orleans through now coordinating the offense

762
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: for what could be the soon to be Super Bowl

763
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: champion Seattle Seahawks. I just find myself very very happy

764
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: for Clint koobi act because it causes me to hearken to,

765
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, a handful of years ago, maybe a little more,

766
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: and some of the chiding and some of the criticism

767
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 1: that he would take, was it just it was ill founded?

768
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it was the twenty twenty one season, so

769
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 5: and that was in the that was in the age

770
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 5: of Okay, So, I mean we're going way back. Nor

771
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 5: have we got Gary stories from the lap of Uncle Gary.

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Speaker 3: You're a super Bowl week Yeah, h We'll think about

773
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 3: it at any rate.

774
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 5: Clint comes in twenty twenty one, we're fresh off of

775
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 5: negative friends and family affairs during the COVID year twenty

776
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 5: twenty and but you look statistically, you got to dig

777
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 5: into it.

778
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 3: It's a non playoff year.

779
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 5: And of course there's there's more news that I can

780
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 5: get to you with you this morning.

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00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 3: Of course, Manions back in passes over the Middle incomplete.

782
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 5: About that the Microsoft surface bit worked out he's the

783
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 5: OC for Philly now. Yeah, But but with Clint, you

784
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 5: could look into first down metrics. I've seen this broken

785
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 5: down quite a bit actually, but if you if you

786
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 5: look into kind of the meat, the meat on the

787
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 5: bone of Clint Kubiak's offense. Uh, he's big on first down,

788
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 5: the ability to mix and match you know, past scenarios

789
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 5: with with getting production on the ground. He's done terrific

790
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 5: work in Seattle, and so all the best to him

791
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 5: and such a cool opportunity. We used to talk about Clint.

792
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 5: Wasn't he a Colorado State kid?

793
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 3: Yeah? And didn't didn't he either pick off? Did he

794
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 3: pick off? That's right? Yeah? Left of the end zone?

795
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: So vertical.

796
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 5: So from all those bids to you know, we know

797
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 5: he's Gary's kid, but can he ultimately find the same

798
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 5: successes his dad did from a coaching standpoint, right, big

799
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 5: ups to to Clint for finding his way there. So

800
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 5: change is in the air on many fronts our coaching

801
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 5: staff and others.

802
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 1: With Clint and the quarterbacks coach for Seattle who also

803
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: used to be here, Andrew Jinoco.

804
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 3: All right, so those.

805
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: Two are favored to hoist the Lombardi Wow.

806
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 3: But with Clint.

807
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: It plays into something that I was saving nearest the

808
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: end of the show, but may do it again.

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00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 3: Then it's Fida.

810
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: It's Fida, Fida, Fida and Covenant culpability. Fida and the

811
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: Covenant culpability act because it's important to point out when

812
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: I or we are terribly wrong. Fida fairness and Sam

813
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Darnold act who major with unless he totally throws away

814
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and for sure looks like a player

815
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: who was worthy of a new three year deal from here,

816
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: there or anywhere. Yeah, So I'm not going to be

817
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 1: loud guy and be like, well, I never will forget

818
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: Week eighteen at the end of the twenty four season, Ken,

819
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: you never forget it professionally as long as I live.

820
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: So we are not only in the one liner business.

821
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: We're in the opinion formulating business. But when it involved sports,

822
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: and the opinion had been formulated here by yours, truly

823
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: and quite loudly several times, I don't believe that man

824
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: has what it takes to push through pressure, fight a

825
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: Fairness and Darnald act I was wrong. He pushed through

826
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: that pressure, and the man guiding him, Flint Kubiak, is

827
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Speaker 1: going to benefit from it becoming a head coach of

828
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Speaker 1: a National Football League team. So that's a title wave

829
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: of things that transpired right in front of us. And

830
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: it's for the good of them, and fight it for

831
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: me Aerness and Darnald Ack bad take, very bad taken.

832
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 5: Now that you so taking a step back from Donald,

833
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 5: still thinking about Clint and some others, Junoko, how about

834
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 5: Drew PETSI now we got to deal with that.

835
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 3: How are we gonna do?

836
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 6: Now?

837
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 5: He's the kidd, He's offensive coordinator and what was he

838
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 5: a Newberry guy?

839
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 3: Was he Yale Middleberry? Middlebury? Never forget it, Newberry, Middleburry.

840
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 5: It's Alberry Well Middlebury about to be trying to take

841
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 5: advantage of the middle of the field.

842
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 3: It's Flores's defense.

843
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: Newberry sounds like some ballyhooed new fangled junior college in

844
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: the middle of I mean Drew super smart, super super smart?

845
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, so uh all kinds of I guess would he'd

846
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 5: be a Zimmer era coach, right?

847
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 3: Clint? Connected to Gary? Yeah, connected to Kevin? I mean

848
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 3: there you go.

849
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Zimmer was the coach, I believe, Nor was the

850
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. And then you get like you end up

851
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: when Gary Kubiak started hanging out around here. I think

852
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: I might have been twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty nineteen maybe,

853
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: and we're doing the training Camp show from the exclusive

854
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 1: Vikings Vikings Audio Network perch overlooking at that time, which

855
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,479
Speaker 1: were five perfectly manicured practice fields, one of them being

856
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: the Mike Cusma, one of them being a field they

857
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 1: just didn't use that much, and they were like players

858
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: running on it.

859
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: We didn't really understand what was happening.

860
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: Very positive for those players, very positive, they were taking

861
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: positive steps. They were word clearly from turmoil they had

862
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: encountered physically speaking. God bless all of them. But Gary

863
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: came in and we're on the perch and we're watching

864
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: the zone read zone concept thing like Brad Berry out

865
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: there five ten yards down the field just mashing on

866
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: man and oh yeah, Dalvin just looking all smooth and everything,

867
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: and looked at each other like.

868
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 3: That was beautiful and everything.

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Speaker 1: But when it's third and one or fourth and one

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Speaker 1: and you gotta move Kenny Clark or a Keem Hicks,

871
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Speaker 1: how we can do that? Yeah, I mean, it wasn't

872
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Speaker 1: casting an aspersion by any stretch. It was wonder mint

873
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Speaker 1: right of two people who still see sports through the

874
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Speaker 1: eyes of children. We knew what would happen, we did.

875
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Speaker 1: We knew it would be good. We knew there would

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Speaker 1: be a way out of it. We just didn't know how.

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Speaker 1: But good luck to clink you Kubiak.

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Speaker 5: We had Wes Wallace on the show, just kind of

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Speaker 5: putting putting a rap and a pause in nine to

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Speaker 5: noon because I know we're going to be talking a

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Speaker 5: lot more about the Wolves next segment with our eleven

882
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 5: AM guests. But you got you got the Wolves tonight

883
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 5: kind of the second of two straight against the the

884
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 5: Memphis Grizzlies. Memphis, they could put some buckets out there, man,

885
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Speaker 5: despite being an awful John Moran with the elbow. I mean,

886
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 5: what a year for him. Just kind of a disastrous operation.

887
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Speaker 3: But you know, they they they make.

888
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 5: You earn it a little bit against them with a

889
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Speaker 5: couple of uh, well guys, you've never heard of a

890
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 5: lot having to fill out a lot of guys You've

891
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 5: never heard of trying to fill out a roster. That

892
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Speaker 5: was it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it was ugly.

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Speaker 5: But still, I mean you're giving up a buck fifteen

895
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Speaker 5: to that crew trying to figure out like, oh, tied Jerome.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen him since college, but okay, that's right.

898
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Speaker 5: He has a right to exist in the league. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Cam Spencer, who knew, No, it's or who knows who

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Speaker 1: he I mean, everybody.

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Speaker 3: Knows who he is, because he's just very good at

902
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Speaker 3: what he does.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kentavious Caldwell polpe off the bench. I mean just

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Speaker 5: it's not the way they drew it up anyway. You

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Speaker 5: got you got Wolves of course, and hoping to have

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Speaker 5: coach Finch on this week and then uh and then

907
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Speaker 5: the wild in Montreal.

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Speaker 1: Seed Edwards and Julius I think are both questionable this way. Yeah,

909
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: this toe thing, dude. Yeah, how's it been with Anthony?

910
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: Is he like questionable every game? And then maybe he

911
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: like a five in question in question, game time, decision,

912
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: check the shoot around, all that, but he plays four

913
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Speaker 1: or five.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he plays most of the ones. He's questionable. But

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Speaker 5: I will say this props to Wolves pr and just

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Speaker 5: how they've been handling it. They it's it's not lingering

917
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Speaker 5: into the eleventh hour and and most of the games

918
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Speaker 5: he's missed.

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Speaker 3: Someone can tell me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 5: It has been like day in advance where they're at

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Speaker 5: that that off day practice or shoot around or whatnot,

922
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Speaker 5: and it's like, yeah, it's and a plan. So it

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Speaker 5: hasn't been really a surprising or shocking thing, but the questionable.

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Speaker 3: I anticipat he plays tonight. You know, I have no idea.

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Speaker 3: I guess yes, you know who we missed today? Who's that?

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Speaker 3: Your guy?

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Speaker 1: The Eric the oh, the Grizzlies box Yeah, hassle team yeah, team?

928
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Speaker 3: How do we forget about him? All those names? I

929
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Speaker 3: got a lot going on upstairs. But that's that's news.

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