1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Unreal is back with their limited edition Vikings drop, so 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: head over to unarl dot com for more details. As 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL, 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: Ticketmasters the safest and most convenient marketplace to score fully 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: verified Viking tickets. So get those touchdown celebrations ready and 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 1: score your tickets today at ticketmaster dot com slash Vikings. 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Cy, Thank you for coming back for 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: another episode. It is Atlanta Falcons week and here on 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: the tailgate. It's a huge episode for us because, man, 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: do we have a giant guest for you this week. 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: He's one of the greatest comedians, one of the biggest 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: comedians of all time. H You may know him as 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: one of the creators of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. 14 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: He hosted Smarter Than a Fifth Grader and on and on. 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: You know who I'm talking about. You might be a redneck. 16 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: The incredible Jeff Foxworthy joins us. He's a diehard Georgia 17 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: Bulldogs fan, Falcons fan, Braves fans. We talk a little 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: ninety one World Series, we talk Super Bowls, and this 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: is a really fun one because he's got family, a 20 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: son in law who's a huge Vikings fan, so he's 21 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: always had a lot of love for the Minnesota Vikings. 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: This has been one of my favorite episodes we've done. Guys, 23 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: I think you're really gonna like it. And hey, make 24 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,279 Speaker 1: sure you go see Jeff if you have the chance. 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: He is going to be in Las Vegas on December 26 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: thirteenth and fourteenth at the Palms Casino Resort, So make 27 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: sure you go snag those tickets. If you check in 28 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: the description of this episode in your podcast app, they 29 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: will be right there. You can click the link and 30 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: get tickets to that show. Hey, and while you're here, 31 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: give us a review, give us five stars. You it 32 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: really help us out. Enjoy the show. Everybody the Rocket 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: Rockett's a better man. I here, ladies and gentlemen. We 34 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: are joined by the great Jeff Foxworthy. Jeff, thank you 35 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: for showing up and talking to us a bit. 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 2: I'm excited to be here. I'm always loved Minnesota. I 37 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 2: did my last comedy special there. I always love playing 38 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 2: up there, and my football team has broken my heart 39 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 2: so much that the Vikings are You know how you 40 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 2: always have to have like the second team because I'm 41 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: a Falcons fan. I grew up in Atlanta. But they've 42 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: gutted me so bad that the Vikings are my fallback team. 43 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 2: And my youngest daughter married into a family of insane scoldiers, 44 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: so you guys are my backup team. So this, actually, 45 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 2: this weekend's kind of hard for me. 46 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: It's funny because you would think someone who's had their 47 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: heart broken so much would choose an organization that doesn't 48 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: constantly break their fans' hearts. You could have gone with 49 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 1: you could have gone with the Chiefs. You came over 50 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: to another damaged, scared fan base. 51 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 2: Oh dude, my son in law, his name is Brendan, 52 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: and we talk about this all the time. I'm, like 53 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 2: I said, next to the Falcons. You guys find a 54 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: way to lose in the most imaginative leg, and the 55 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: Vikes never lose until within the last sixty seconds. Yes, 56 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 2: it's creative, hey, but ten and two right now, right? Yeah? 57 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: So it's weird, it's and it's funny until you win 58 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: the big one for the first time, which neither of 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: us have experienced. I think you don't trust anything, and 60 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: so even at ten and two, you feel this interesting. 61 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: I was home over Thanksgiving, spending time. I was at 62 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. You feel this odd combo energy 63 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: of this is so great. Oh no, how's it going 64 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: to end? It just permeas it's through people. 65 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: Well see, I'm that way, Like I'm a Georgia Bulldogs fan. 66 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 2: So we we had not won the Natty since nineteen 67 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 2: eighty with herschel Walk, forty one years. And you know, 68 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: then we played Bamman like seventeen and they in overtime 69 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 2: beat us, and then the Falcons turn around twenty eight 70 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: to three and lose. I get it. It's like, so 71 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 2: I actually I was not going to go to the Bulldogs. 72 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, I've wasted too much money going 73 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 2: to these games. But in twenty one when they played 74 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 2: in Indianapolis, and then like the week of the game, 75 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: me and my brother and my two buddies couldn't stand it. 76 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 2: And so we drive up to Indianapolis and we win 77 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 2: the Natty and I told my I called my son 78 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 2: in law. I said, it's worth it for all the heartbreak, 79 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 2: this may be the greatest moment of my life. And 80 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: you guys, see, I'm old enough to remember as a 81 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: kid the Purple people eaters and it was like, you 82 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 2: guys just kept going to the Super Bowl and could 83 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: never win it, and then I was it ninety nine. 84 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: Into ninety nine when you guys, when you guys crushed 85 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: my soul as a child. 86 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 2: Well, we had to come up there and play you there, 87 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 2: and I thought, we're going to get our teeth kicked in. 88 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: There's so much better than us. 89 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: That's what. But that's what I've been telling everybody this 90 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: year when they worry that the egos are the Lions, 91 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: I go get you just never know in one game 92 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: if you're if you're some version of good, you just 93 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: never know. 94 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, especially you know, that's kind of what I'm going 95 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: through in college this season with Georgia, because they can 96 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: look unbeatable and they can look horrible. Because we were 97 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: talking about it and I thought, you know, the Lions 98 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: are playing so good that it's probably going to end 99 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 2: up being the Falcons and the Vikes in the playoffs. 100 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 2: In the playoffs, and so Arthur Blank invited me and 101 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: my son in law, Brendan down to watch the game. 102 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 2: And he's so funny because he's sitting there at the 103 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 2: I mean, we're in Arthur Sweet on the fifty yard 104 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: line and he's watching the bikes on his phone between 105 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 2: his legs, and so I'm like, dude, let's go, let's 106 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: go watch Kirk and because this is gonna end. God, 107 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 2: we played awful last week like the Chargers, and just 108 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: just so now I don't know the Bucks are on 109 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: a roll. So maybe you guys end up with the Bucks. 110 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 2: But what do you guys have won like five straight. 111 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 2: I really like this football team and I like Darno. 112 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: You know, when Matt Ryan when we were going through 113 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: all that and he was kind of the guy. I 114 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 2: always thought, this guy hasn't shown what he can do. 115 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 2: I think he's better. Uh, and obviously he is. 116 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: I mean, well and we've you know, the interesting thing 117 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: that's happened is with you know, now Daniel Jones has 118 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: come to Minnesota and you this when he signed. You 119 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: saw these former players and analysts do this thing where 120 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: they all go, oh, they were commending Daniel Jones on 121 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: the right choice. And to me, what that felt like 122 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: was this coach, this Kevin O'Connell, has created an environment 123 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: and has a reputation where if players want to be 124 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this is a Bulldog fan where 125 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: it's such a heavily you're you're in the You're you're 126 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: in a recruiting competition as much as you are in 127 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: a football competition. And if players want to be in 128 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: your culture and in your environment, you know, so to 129 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: see Sam succeed the way he is and then see 130 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: another guy who got a raw deal somewhere people you know, 131 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: he thinks try to come here, I think that's an 132 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: If you're a fan, you look at that and you 133 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: get pretty excited about that. As weird as it sounds. 134 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 2: I mean, Koc is like a such a good quarterback, 135 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: and so when Sam went to you guys, I thought, well, 136 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: at least he's going to get a fair shot with 137 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 2: a good team to see if And I think he's 138 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 2: been fabulous this year, absolutely, you know, when you look 139 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: at what it did for y'all, freeing all the cap 140 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: space when Kirk left, and then you put it on defense, 141 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden, you're suffocating quarterbacks. And 142 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 2: I'm like, and I've always liked Kirk. I put Brendan 143 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: told me years ago, he said, do you know Kirk Cousins. 144 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 2: Every year his wife buys him a you might be 145 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 2: a redneck if page a day calendar. That's his one 146 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 2: thing that he has to have in his Christmas stocking. 147 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 2: And so I always like Kirk because of that. But 148 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 2: we spend a lot of money, you know, and what 149 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 2: Sam's like ten MILLI a year and I think Kirk 150 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 2: like thirty five or something. 151 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, uh, it's ultimately as much as you know, 152 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: you want sports to be about the competition, and it is, 153 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: but you also have this piece of you that goes 154 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: It's kind of an interesting math equation. You know, how 155 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: much how much better do you guys perform than what 156 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: you pay them? And you get a rookie on a 157 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: rookie day. It's really it really that's where you start going, Oh, 158 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: some of these gms, either they're lucky or they're good, 159 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: but when they hit on the math equation, it gets 160 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: really fun. 161 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 2: Well, and then you have the thing because I know, 162 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 2: both of us sweat out draft night because we're both 163 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: notorious for blowing draft dames. And yeah, so then so 164 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 2: we signed Kirk for a bazillion dollars and then instead 165 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 2: of taking Brock Bowers, we go ahead and draft Michael Pennix. 166 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 1: It was my thought it was the most interesting thing 167 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: coming into the season in the whole league. 168 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: What You're like, what because I knew from watching I'm like, 169 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: bron Bowers is going to be one of the best 170 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 2: players in the NFL, and damn ify. 171 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: And I think to see what he's doing. I don't 172 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: think people quite understand how the tight end position is 173 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: probably the most difficult other than left tackle, the most 174 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: difficult non quarterback transition on the offense to the pros. 175 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: So much blocking, so much route running. You never see 176 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: these guys break out in their first year. You certainly 177 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: don't see him breakout on bad teams, and you damn 178 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: sure don't see him breakout with a carousel of below 179 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: average quarterbacks. It doesn't seem to matter who's throwing the 180 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: ball like he's got I might end up being the 181 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: greatest tight end to ever play football energy in his 182 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: rookie season. 183 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: Oh and we saw it at Georgia that the cat 184 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 2: was just different, you know. And I mean, but you guys, 185 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 2: you know, Hockinson, you guys got a great tight end. 186 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 2: You always You're Minnesota does something that I'm always jealous 187 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 2: of is like you always have a pair of really 188 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: good receivers. Yeah, in the Falcons. I mean, maybe like 189 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 2: Julio and Roddy White for a couple of years, but 190 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 2: we never seem to be I mean, we got Drake 191 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 2: London now, and Drake's good, but you guys always seem 192 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 2: like you have a pair of them. 193 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: So I think about that a lot, because there are 194 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: things I don't know how it happens or why it happens, 195 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: but organizations and areas kind of you're right becomes synonymous. 196 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: The Vikings had Moss and Carter feeling and digs, and 197 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: now they have Jefferson asked, yeah, you go to Chicago, 198 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: It's like it's like there's a banner in their building 199 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: that says, we must have a middle linebacker right your 200 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: braves teams for that whole run in the nineties, it's 201 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,599 Speaker 1: like we're gonna have essentially two to three aces constantly 202 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: right all the way up through. So I don't know 203 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: why or how like that happens. Somebody explained it, I think. 204 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,839 Speaker 1: On the show last week about the Bears, his name 205 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: good comic named Daniel van Kirk. He said, maybe it's 206 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: the when you come into a place that has history 207 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: like that, you know, like if you come into like 208 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: in Georgia, when you walk into the building and you 209 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: see a bunch of pictures of the bulldogs of herschel Walker. 210 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: Everybody goes, hey, man, you gotta there's some stuff to 211 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: live up to here. But if you walk in at 212 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 1: you know, a different position, that's maybe just the aura 213 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: of the previous people creates that. I don't know, but 214 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: it is weird that it kind of repeats itself historically. 215 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: And you guys just I mean, when I think of 216 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: the Vikings, I always think of like great wide receivers. 217 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 2: It was funny because like, all right, i'mmist trying to 218 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: flip my screen around. 219 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: You can see my wall of like oh sure, yeah. 220 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: Remember being stuff. So I'm trying to do that for 221 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 2: my son in law. So every year I buy him, 222 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 2: it's it's usually a Vike to put in his office. 223 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 2: And so I wanted to get him with Jefferson, and 224 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 2: he would not allow me to do it until he 225 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 2: signed his second contract. He's like, no, he's gonna break 226 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 2: my heart. He's gonna go somewhere else. And so so 227 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 2: I did finally get a sign Jefferson for him in there. 228 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: But now is he so is your son? Is he 229 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: from Minnesota originally? Or is he one of these places 230 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 1: that his family was? And then they grew up somewhere else. 231 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 2: He and his forty five cousins, all of their aunts 232 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: and uncles are from Minnesota. 233 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: I'm catching strays with that one. Jeff as a man 234 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: who's got a mom with eight brothers and sisters, and 235 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: I have a but you you hit it on the head. 236 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: Is he Swedish too? Is he a giant Nordic Swedish person? 237 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: Now he's Irish poorly. But they're all they're all Minnesota people. 238 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 2: I mean they're Twins fans, they're Vikes fans. He's taught 239 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 2: my grandson. He's three now, but I found him last year. 240 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: He's two years old, two years old, down at my 241 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 2: farm in the middle of a field, and I videotaped 242 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 2: him singing the Vikings fight song two years old, every 243 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 2: word of it, at the top of his lungs with it. 244 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 2: Because we had to negotiate because he was a Vikings 245 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 2: and a Notre Dame fan. Another one that would break 246 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 2: your heart. And I was a Bulldogs and a Falcons fan, 247 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 2: so two more that would break your heart. So before 248 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: he was born, we had serious negotiations and who was 249 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 2: going to get the college team and one was going 250 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: to get pro and one was going to get caught, 251 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 2: and so I ended up I took the Bulldogs because 252 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: the twenty eight to three. I never trust the Falcons anymore. 253 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 2: I mean I root for them, I follow them, but 254 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 2: it's like it's like day a hooker, you know, It's 255 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 2: like every year, you're like, you're not gonna cheat on me. Right, 256 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 2: You're not gonna break You're not gonna break my heart again. 257 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: Right if I get if I get all invested again, 258 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 2: You're You're not gonna break my heart. Oh no, I'm 259 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: not gonna break your heart. And then you get invested 260 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 2: and then they break your heart. And so I went 261 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: with the Bulldogs and he took the he took the Vikes. 262 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: Especially given the state of what's happening in college football 263 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: and the elevation of the SEC, I think that was 264 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: the right call. I think you made the right decision. 265 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 2: I think I did too. But now, like in pro 266 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: the NFC North is like the SEC, and in the 267 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 2: NFC South it's kind of like the Sun Belt. 268 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: Now, yeah, there's a little easier nobody Wolves to win 269 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: the conference. Uh are they down? Are they near you 270 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: in Atlanta? 271 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? 272 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: What is the what is the game day ritual, So 273 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: let's go pro not college. Are they coming over? Are 274 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: you get like I have my nephew comes over. I 275 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: have an adult because I've got a big hillbilly family 276 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: where somehow I've got a nephew two years younger than me, 277 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: you know, and so he'll come over. We have you know, 278 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: we've got the multiple TVs for the multiple people rooting 279 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: for multiple teams. There's just curse words coming from different angles. 280 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: Do you guys get together or do you commiserate afterwards? 281 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 2: It depends on how big the game is, because he's like, 282 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 2: if it's a really big one, he'll go into a shell. 283 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 2: And he's got a one year old and a three 284 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 2: year old, So I allow them to come over here 285 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 2: while I kind of clear space for him. I'm running 286 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 2: like his wing and he'll tell me, first of the wait, 287 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 2: look Sunday, I gotta have I gotta be all it. 288 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 2: Can you take the kids? 289 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: You're his NFL babysitter wing man? 290 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. And then but it's somewhat like if he 291 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 2: comes to our house, he has every TV in the 292 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 2: house on and he's he can't sit down. I've got 293 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: footage of him like when the Vikings win in the 294 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 2: last second. Well, I was with him in the car 295 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 2: the other day when he lost his mind. But this 296 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 2: dude like rips his shirt off, is out in the 297 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:23,959 Speaker 2: front yard beatings, screaming skull. He loses his mind and 298 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 2: then like in was it eighteen? He eighteen? I can't 299 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 2: remember who they lost to. But he announced he was 300 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 2: going on a hunger strike. He was as down as 301 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 2: I've ever so, I literally, I mean, he's got a 302 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 2: bad Viking problem. So I went, this is how good 303 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 2: of a son in law. I went to Honey Baked 304 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: Ham and got him a Honey Baked Ham sandwich and 305 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 2: soup and took it over there. 306 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: So he was sick. 307 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 2: So yeah, like he has pneumonia because the Vikings lost, 308 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 2: and I'm in there like, dude, you got to eat 309 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: you got it. 310 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: It's I remember I've told this probably on this show. 311 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 1: I've told it to other people. I was doing so 312 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: the one that got me ninety eight, I was so. 313 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: I was young. I was fifteen, And you think that 314 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: was such a special team. You remember them, You thought 315 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: you were gonna get blown out. I think everybody thought 316 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: this was the start. They didn't realize it was their 317 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: best chance at the mountaintop. You thought we're about to 318 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: go into ten years of Randy Moss mania. And so 319 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: that one hurt. But the one that like truly. 320 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 2: Hurt Barvan, New Orleans. 321 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: Barvan, New Orleans. It was farv and and I'm a 322 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: broken record, but I remember when he hit Sidney Rice 323 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: on a pattern up the middle and he crossed the 324 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,439 Speaker 1: fifty yard line. I thought, I let myself believe it. Jeff, 325 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: I thought to myself, and I bet you've heard your 326 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: son in Las Ades ex actors. I thought to myself, 327 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 1: oh my god, we're going to the super Bowl. And 328 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: then when he missed that kick, I remember the next week. 329 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: You know, you remember from back in your club days. 330 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: I know the landscape has changed immensely, but there are 331 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: comedy clubs and then there are a few of those 332 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: clubs where you're like, I wait all year to perform 333 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: at this club, and one of them is Comedy on 334 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: State in Madison. So I have Comedy on State the 335 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: next week, and I go there and I felt like 336 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: someone broke up with me. That's how pathetic that I 337 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: felt like. I felt like my heart it's to this day, 338 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 1: it's my least fun comedy week at one of the 339 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: best clubs. But I just I didn't enjoy a thing. 340 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 1: I was miserable. Same thing. Pathetic, a pathetic excuse of 341 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: a person. 342 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 2: Well, when the Falcons twenty eight to three, and my 343 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 2: daughter looks at me this is the fourth quarter and 344 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 2: looks at me and says, start of the fourth quarter, 345 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Dad, we're gonna win the Super Bowl. 346 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: Oh no. 347 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 2: And then the Patriots come storming back. But then Ryan 348 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 2: connects with Julio Jones and we're now we're in field 349 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: goal range. Great, Julio catch. All we have to do 350 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 2: is run it three times and kick the field go backwards, 351 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 2: just don't go backwards. We pass it three straight downs 352 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 2: and he gets sacked twice, and you're like, all we 353 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: had to do was run the ball up the middle 354 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 2: three times in a row and kick the field goal. 355 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 2: So I and dude the next day, because you're probably 356 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 2: like me, if I'm in the car truck, I'm listening, 357 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: I got sports talking, and I've never seen anything like this. 358 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 2: This whole city was like it was dead. Like the 359 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 2: guy would come on and go, I don't have anything 360 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 2: to say. If anybody wants to call in, you can 361 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 2: call in and it would just be like dead air. 362 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 2: But yo, were I mean that year you guys, you 363 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: guys were the best team in the NFL that year. 364 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, I think that's I think that's kind of 365 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: the travesty of some stuff. And I actually think this 366 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: about your ninety one Braves team. Now, you guys went 367 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: on to win a win a championship with one of 368 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: those nineties Braves teams. What was it ninety six? You 369 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: guys got one ninety. 370 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 2: Five, ninety five against the Indians. But but, and as 371 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 2: a lifelong baseball fan, I still say the ninety one 372 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: World Series is World Series of all time, best World 373 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 2: Series ever? 374 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: What I don't and somebody who I fell off on baseball, 375 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: like I could write a ted talk about my frustrations 376 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: in the uh you know, but it looks like the 377 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: Twins are gonna have new owners. Like we're like, we're 378 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: heading a good direction again. But you're a little cute 379 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 1: who grows up with Kirby Puckett saying hop on my 380 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: back and hits that homer in six. But I don't. 381 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: It's not just the greatest World Series of all time 382 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: the Game seven. I watched it again as an adult. 383 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: It's greatest pitching performance, greatest game. It's it's everything. 384 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: Molts and Jack Morris in Game seven. Now, if Lonnie 385 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 2: Smith doesn't get deeked out at second base, we probably 386 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 2: win that game one to nothing. 387 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: Yep. 388 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 2: But Smoltz and Jack Morris were two warriors that night, 389 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 2: and I mean it was one of those when it ended, 390 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 2: I couldn't even get out of my chair. You're just like, 391 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 2: I'm exhausted. But it was so much fun because they 392 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: both were last place the year before. 393 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: Yep, and climbed up the ranks. You know, the thing 394 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: I like about baseball, and I love minor league baseball, 395 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: but the thing I love about baseball isn't necessarily the 396 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: baseball itself. It's a little corny, but I like the 397 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: romance of it. I don't think it's a coincidence that 398 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: baseball makes the best sports movies and by leaps and 399 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: bounds like a really long ways, and I just think 400 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: because there's something Baseball is this interesting collection of individual 401 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: sports masquerading as a team sport. It's a pitcher against 402 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: a batter, right, it's a guy catching the ball. It's 403 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: it's not so much connected in the same way the 404 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: other sports are and so I think when you have 405 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: a game like that Game seven, where you have Jack 406 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 1: Morris going ten innings and John Smoltz going the distance 407 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: and not giving up a single run, there's just something 408 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: so this is corny but soul touching and poetic about 409 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: something like that that it's almost hard to create moments 410 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: of tension like that in other games because of how 411 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: fast they move and how much the play intertwines. 412 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 2: You know, I would agree, but like in football, like 413 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 2: you guys had one of those moments. So Cousins tears' 414 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 2: achilles and then it's like, what Hall's gonna start all the. 415 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: Dobbs things, you guys, Yes, And so Hall gets hurt 416 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: on the first drive, and. 417 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 2: They bring in Josh Dopps, who's been with Minnesota for 418 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 2: like ten minutes. He doesn't he doesn't even know anybody's 419 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 2: name in the locker room, and he couldn't have known 420 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 2: the playbook. No, it was pretty much like O'Connell just said, 421 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 2: run here, throw there, backyard football. Just yeah, And you 422 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 2: had to be in the huddle going go, you go 423 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 2: five yards and turned towards the car, you go to 424 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 2: the Smith's front yard into a button hook and and 425 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: leads him down the field at the end of the game, 426 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 2: and they so, to me, that's that's a movie. 427 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: No, that's it. That's a good point. 428 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 2: But baseball is much more of a individual storyline thing 429 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 2: than football. 430 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 1: Yeah you can. You are, like, I just the the 431 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: amount of affection I have for Jack Morris. It's almost 432 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: like I see this whole personality and backstory and I've 433 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: built so many narratives into a human man because of 434 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: one game I watched him pitch, as opposed to some 435 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: other sports where you just it's more about the physical 436 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: accomplishment of the moment, the mindset of what it takes 437 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: to have. In Game seven of the World Series, have 438 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: your manager be like, we're gonna send a reliever and 439 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: then you go, the hell you are, I'm going out, 440 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 1: and then you do it and you shut them. That's 441 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: wild to me. 442 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 2: Well, and John Smoltz is one of my best friends, and. 443 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: So that's cool. 444 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 2: And you know, he's always been honest about when he 445 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 2: had it and when he did and he's like, dude, 446 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 2: I had it that night, I had it, he said. 447 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 2: And then you realize, oh, hell, jack'scot it too, And 448 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 2: I mean that was just one for the ages It's 449 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 2: still my favorite World series of all time. 450 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: Does Smoltz look back. I'm always curious about because as 451 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: opposed to the Falcons loss or that Vikings fave intercept 452 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: where you feel like you did something wrong, Like when 453 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: you're that high level of an athlete, like you're one 454 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: of the greatest pitchers to ever walk out onto a 455 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: mound and you perform at your highest level and someone 456 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: just out high levels you by a Smith. Does he 457 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: walk away from that going, God, damn, I was just 458 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: a part of something special. Or does that burn in 459 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: a way that is unique? 460 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 2: I think probably the former is in John. It doesn't 461 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 2: matter what you're doing. You could be playing ping pong 462 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 2: or whatever. He's he's the most competitive human being I've 463 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: ever I've ever been around. But he's like you just 464 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 2: kind of tip your hat that night, go, you know, 465 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 2: and what could have been? You decliney Smith out and 466 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 2: we end up with the bases loaded and nobody out 467 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: and don't score. I remember that summer I was playing up. 468 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 2: I was playing in many apples. I can't remember which club, 469 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: and I went out because the Twins were such a 470 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 2: story that summer and went out to the Old and 471 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 2: and all I remember is new smoking in the Metrodome 472 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 2: uh uh. And the way they announced Kirby Pucketgerby Pucket. 473 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: It is forever cemented into every Minnesotan's brain. 474 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 2: And and Dan Gladden out there with the official redneck 475 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 2: uh hair. 476 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: Dan Gladden looks like his dad was one of your 477 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: old albums. Uh. I want to ask you one more 478 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: question about Kirk and I'll get you out of here. 479 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 1: We appreciate you being a part of the show. Uh. 480 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 1: Kirk was so interestingly, I think divisive in the fan base, 481 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: Like if you were a part of the organization, you 482 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: know I've always said and you probably know this, knowing 483 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: that you know a little bit about him now that 484 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: he's in Atlanta. First class human being, right, yeah, first 485 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: class human being and an all time accurate arm right. 486 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: And where it gets muddy for the fan base is 487 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: the argument of kind of like what you were saying earlier, 488 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: and then you add on top of that, right, how 489 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: right you need things to do versus how off schedule 490 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: and whether you should have you know, the old line 491 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: needed there just gets into this big, never ending argument 492 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,239 Speaker 1: and it kind of went from Washington, it followed him 493 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: to Minnesota, and it existed there. And what I am 494 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: curious at this moment is you guys walk into this game, 495 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: which is a you're right, Tampa's playing, Well, this is 496 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: a big game for you guys. It's a big game 497 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: for him. 498 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. And I asked my 499 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 2: son and all of this last week. I said, is 500 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 2: he going to get booed when he gives back to Minnesota? 501 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 2: And he said, nah, Vikings fans aren't like that. 502 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll they'll they'll clap while whispering something negative in 503 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: their spouse's ear is what they will do. It's like, oh, well, 504 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: you're so great this guy is. You know, that's what 505 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: will happen. I will say, you hit it on the head. 506 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: Sam has played so well, They've built the rosters so well. 507 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: Anybody who's booing, like I think, if you didn't like Kirker, 508 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: didn't want Kirk, maybe you feel vindicated now. But anyone 509 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: who comes to boo to me, it's like, what do 510 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: you what it's like when Diggs left? But you got 511 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: justin Jefferson like let him let him go, let it, 512 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: let it, let it, let it live. So I think 513 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: you might even be surprised how warm of a welcome 514 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: he gets at the bank this weekend. 515 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, Kirk. To me, it's and it's a little bit 516 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 2: like Georgia always has a pro style quarterback. I think 517 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: if Kirk probably would have had more success fifteen years 518 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 2: earlier because and Ai tipped my hat that he was 519 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 2: able to come back from the Achilles thing. 520 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. 521 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 2: But in the open but in the first game of 522 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: the season looked horrible. The whole team looked horrible. And 523 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 2: then I'm like, oh, it's going to be one of 524 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 2: these years where we're the worst team in football. And 525 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: then they kind of got it together and started playing 526 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 2: well and we're Okay, we're six and six. When we 527 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 2: lost three in a row, Hell, three weeks ago, we 528 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 2: were on top of the world. But same thing with Georgia. 529 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 2: I think football has changed and you have to be 530 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: at least semi mobile as a quarterback. And I think 531 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 2: back to like was friend Tarkinton forty years ahead of his. 532 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: Time, one hundred percent, because. 533 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 2: He's one of the players for me being a little 534 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 2: kid that I just remember going, dang, you can't tackle 535 00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 2: this guy. You know, he extends plays forever. And I 536 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 2: think that's no pun intended Kurt's Achilles hill is he 537 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 2: just can't move well. 538 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: It's really interesting. History is funny. You grew up and 539 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: you saw those purple people leater teams. I think if 540 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: they win two or three of those Super Bowls, the 541 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: Vikings are considered, uh, you know, a cornerstone franchise. He's 542 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: considered one of the greatest quarterbacks. It's just funny how 543 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: that happens. But your other point, it's so interesting and correct. 544 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: You think about because I love basketball too, I'm a 545 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: big basketball guy, and I think about what if Reggie 546 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: Miller got to play in today's day and age with 547 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: the way he shot the ball back in the nineties 548 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: when they took three threes a game in that same way, 549 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: imagine if you pourted Kirk back to the Troy Aikman nineties, 550 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: where you had these big, bruising running games. You didn't 551 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 1: have all these motion offenses, all these college concepts that 552 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: have as the rules have changed, you know, offense has 553 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: become so dynamic and so strong. I think you're exactly right. 554 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: I think you put Kirk in the nineties and he's 555 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: probably a Jim Kelly type. 556 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 2: I agree, I think he is. But like even with George, 557 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 2: I'm like, man, moving forward, we got to have a 558 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 2: quarterback that can move, you know. I mean, I don't 559 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 2: need him to rush for one hundred yards a game, 560 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 2: but he's got to be able to get outside of 561 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 2: the pocket and extend plays. 562 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: And you look it out of the way. 563 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. You you look at the the franchises that that 564 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 2: are doing well in the NFL, that all of them 565 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 2: have a quarterback that's mobile. 566 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh. It is the way things have probably 567 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: permanently changed. I don't think they're going to go back 568 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: to guys who are like I'm going to stand here now. 569 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 2: I will tell you this as an outsider looking in Okay, 570 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 2: probably as a Vikings fan. It's it's a lifetime of frustration. 571 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 2: But I think other people look at y'all is one 572 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 2: of the top tier football teams because you have been 573 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 2: always think of the Vikings like the Vikings. Oh, the 574 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 2: Vikings are good. The Vikings are good. I never think 575 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 2: of them as a bad team. I always think of 576 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 2: the Vikings as being good. But it's like you get 577 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 2: right up to the top of the thing and then 578 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 2: find a way to. 579 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: Fall off the mountain. We hang out on the mountain, 580 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: but we like to fall. 581 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys, you've got that falcon thing where they 582 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 2: know how to break your heart. Yeah, you guys are 583 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 2: such good fans. You'll come back the next week and 584 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 2: you know, be right there. 585 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 1: But we'll be right there cheering for Kirk. That's what 586 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: we'll be doing. 587 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 2: But maybe this is the year. I mean, your defense, 588 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 2: your defense is so much better wild and this I 589 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 2: think this iteration of the Vikings, this team has hard. 590 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 2: You know, they could have folded last week, I think. 591 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 2: And and to me, that's the difference in great teams 592 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:10,839 Speaker 2: and teams that aren't is having each other's back and 593 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 2: having that hard. 594 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: In the belief in those moments that you're going to 595 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 1: figure it out. 596 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 2: And I think this team has that more than the 597 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 2: Vikings have had in recent years. It's like, do you 598 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 2: not agree? 599 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I very much agree. I think I would 600 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: pair that with because I always say I think locker 601 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 1: rooms are sports. Locker rooms are unique places, and you 602 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: hear all these cliches and you think they're dumb, but 603 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: they actually believe them. And locker rooms take on a 604 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: personality of their own. And if you lose three close games, 605 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: next time you're in a close game and you think 606 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: that's who you are. And so I do think it's 607 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: a big deal that they have developed this persona. You know, 608 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,720 Speaker 1: they blew a few teams out and now they've figured 609 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,319 Speaker 1: out how to win gritty. The other thing I would 610 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: add on top of it is exactly what you said earlier. 611 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: They freed up all this money, but it's next year. Also, 612 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: this is a team that is ten and two, that 613 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: has a rookie quarterback on their roster that is a 614 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 1: very affordable contract that is about to walk into seventy 615 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: five million dollars of cap space. And so I'm very 616 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 1: very I'm enjoying every minute of the season and I'm 617 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: always the sky is falling, Jeff, But I have bought 618 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: in to I don't know a right place, right time, 619 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: right moment. We might go on a run and then 620 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 1: but it's gravy because I think the GM and the 621 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: organization is so strong that you use that seventy five 622 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,319 Speaker 1: million bucks this offseason and you put a couple more 623 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: people on this team and we might be walking into 624 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,240 Speaker 1: next year in a real big time window. 625 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 2: Dude, I don't think there's anybody that wouldn't take your head, coach. 626 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 2: I think O'Connell. I mean, what a great surprise. He's 627 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 2: been right, and hell I would take him today nothing again, 628 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 2: Raheem Morris. But I think he's going to be around 629 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 2: for a long time. And I I just feel like 630 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 2: you guys are on the on the right track. 631 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: Can I pitch you my Can I pitch you my 632 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,880 Speaker 1: craziest theory because I'd be curious what you think about 633 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: this because we talked to a lot of people on 634 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:16,439 Speaker 1: this show. 635 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 2: It says, Okay, you have a fan brain that has 636 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 2: been permanently damaged over the years. But yes, I would 637 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 2: like to hear the theory. 638 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: But see, we have people on the show and some 639 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,480 Speaker 1: of them are fans. But you are You are a 640 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: You are clearly a deep than Oh yeah right, you 641 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 1: of of your Yeah, you're a I'm gonna be you 642 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 1: take this word however you would like. But you're a maniac. 643 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: I can see it, I can feel it, I can 644 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: sense it as one of my own. I have a 645 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,359 Speaker 1: maniac radar. So I'll pitch this to you and you 646 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: won't think I'm telling you the moon landing was fake. 647 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 1: I have been waiting for a coach and an organization 648 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 1: and to break the quarterback structure in the NFL, right, 649 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 1: because again this is salary cap, right, the salary cap rule, 650 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 1: and you know quarterbacks. Now there's this thing where in 651 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 1: the last however many years, the only quarterbacks, the only 652 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: teams that have won a Super Bowl with a quarterback 653 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,240 Speaker 1: that makes more than twelve percent was Brady one year, 654 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,919 Speaker 1: and then Mahomes a couple times because he's Mahomes. That's 655 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: ever since the salary cap started. People don't they don't 656 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 1: realize salary cap started right around the time Tom Brady 657 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 1: started going. And then he took a cheap deal because 658 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,880 Speaker 1: of his model wife every year and cruised with awesome rosters. 659 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: You know, tough thing about being a GM or a 660 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,919 Speaker 1: head coach is you screw up, You're gone. Right, There's 661 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 1: not a lot of franchises like you know, the Vikings 662 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 1: are very supportive franchise, the Steelers, where the leash is 663 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: a little longer. I've been waiting for a coach who goes. 664 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 1: I don't care about having a Hall of Fame quarterback. 665 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: What I'm gonna do is either take a reclamation project 666 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 1: or a second, third or fourth round draft pick every 667 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: single year. And I'm such a good quarterbacks coach that 668 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: I am gonna work that guy through his cheap deal, 669 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,839 Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna find another one, and I'm gonna 670 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,840 Speaker 1: keep doing that. And tell I, if I get a 671 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: Mahomes someday, obviously I'm gonna keep the Mahomes or a 672 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I thought Harbaugh might do it in San 673 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:29,400 Speaker 1: Francisco when he was cycling through guys. Kevin O'Connell, like 674 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 1: we're playing in the fantasy world. He is so highly 675 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: respected and so good at quarterbacks. I have the belief 676 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: that give him a good roster and give him any 677 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: quarterback he won with Josh Dobbs just saying plays into 678 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 1: his headset. He I don't think anyone will ever do it. 679 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,759 Speaker 1: But if anyone was meant for that crazy break the 680 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: salary cap quarterback thing, it is Kevin O'Connell. 681 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 2: It is. But to your point, I'm not sure that's 682 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:01,960 Speaker 2: a great thing. And you know I had a I had, 683 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 2: We had Michael Vick, you know, which is like one 684 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,880 Speaker 2: of the first guys to break the bank. Yes, we 685 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 2: ended up running the team because we had no money 686 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 2: for anything else. But I, like, I wasn't excited when 687 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 2: y'all took McCarthy and then like when you started playing 688 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 2: exhibit and I'm like, holy cow, look what Donald has 689 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,360 Speaker 2: done with McCarthy. I think that's one of the saddest 690 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 2: things of the year. I was excited to see what 691 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,880 Speaker 2: he could have become because I think you're right. I 692 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 2: think if you've got and and that's O'Connell's biggest strength 693 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 2: is he's so good with quarterbacks. And I don't think 694 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 2: you need to have my homes to win it. But 695 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 2: because look what, all right, so you take all the 696 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,800 Speaker 2: Kirk's money off the books and and look what Florida's 697 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,439 Speaker 2: did with the defense. I mean, you are a much 698 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,919 Speaker 2: more complete team this year than you were last year 699 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 2: because you freed up so much money. 700 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: I'll always put the money in uh in defense always 701 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,319 Speaker 1: that is that is my dumb guy brain, give me 702 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 1: all the defenders. 703 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:22,720 Speaker 2: Well, as a Georgia Bulldog fan, defense wins championships and 704 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,759 Speaker 2: it still does. And if you look at twenty one 705 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 2: and twenty two, that's how Georgia won the Natty. Because 706 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,720 Speaker 2: your offense doesn't need to score forty points a game. 707 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 2: Put together an offense that's good enough to score twenty 708 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,800 Speaker 2: four game and you're probably gonna win most times. 709 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,600 Speaker 1: And it's I always think it's easier to play offense 710 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,759 Speaker 1: when the game is tilted your direction as opposed to 711 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: defense when it's tilted your direction, because they're still trying 712 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,520 Speaker 1: to come back, so make it make it easier when 713 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,719 Speaker 1: you do that. Jeff, you're the king. This is great now, dude, I. 714 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 2: Have enjoyed it. This is one of those weeks where 715 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 2: I can't really lose. I mean, if the Falcons win, 716 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,000 Speaker 2: I'm happy because then maybe we But if the Bikes win, 717 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,000 Speaker 2: my son in law is going to be so happy. 718 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: So well, I hope your son in law ends up happy. 719 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: This meant a ton to us, Jeff, this was fantastic. 720 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: I really really appreciate it. Thank you for spending time 721 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 1: with us. 722 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,400 Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Sed, you've bet all right. Great care of y'all. 723 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 1: And hey, thank you guys for listening to our podcast 724 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,800 Speaker 1: feed well you're here. 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