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Speaker 1: Hey guys, we are heading into another week of Vikings football,

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Speaker 1: and that means we're heading into another week of the Tailgate.

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Speaker 1: And we have a fantastic guest, the incredible Jimmy Wisman.

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Speaker 1: If you love podcasts, you know his name. You can

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Speaker 1: follow him on Instagram. Wisman sucks w h I s

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Speaker 1: m A N. You already know how sucks is spelled.

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Speaker 1: He's an unbelievable comedian. He's got three killer podcasts. Check

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Speaker 1: out everything he does, the live tour dates. I love him.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna love him. He's a diehard Broncos fan. I

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Speaker 1: think you guys are gonna really enjoy this episode. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's tom dude. Hey, we gotta go here,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go Thank God sometime. Hey, everybody, welcome to

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Speaker 1: another episode of the Tailgate. I am joined by the

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Speaker 1: great Jimmy Whistman.

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Speaker 2: Hello Jimmy, Hello outside.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what this energy is. I try to

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Speaker 1: always bring a lot of energy at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the show, a little game show in it. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: here's the problem. The only thing I think about is

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Speaker 1: I need energy. I never think about the words, and

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Speaker 1: so it's always either way too long, like ladies and

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Speaker 1: gentlemen joining us on the show is a man who

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Speaker 1: it's way too short like I just did, and it

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Speaker 1: just falls off a cliff and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: When we podcast and make a Patreon episode, that's we

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Speaker 2: never know what to do there. Either. It's very similar

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Speaker 2: excited to do these shows. I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: The main problem with this episode, Jimmy, is because here's

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Speaker 1: in to a lot of football relevant like currently relevant things.

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Speaker 1: But all I think about a lot of people when

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Speaker 1: it drums up the pain of nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: And you're not wrong, because I recently watched that game

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Speaker 2: Really, it's really robbery that we didn't get to see

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Speaker 1: Who knows it could get better, it could get worse,

434
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Speaker 1: but in this moment, right now, to have him do

435
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: what he's done with so little knowledge and so little

436
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: you know time, the.

437
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: Little knowledge, he didn't even know the receiver's name.

438
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: Side and he didn't in the first one, he didn't

439
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 1: have Deresaw, he didn't have Jefferson. In the second one,

440
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: he didn't have Jefferson. It's wild. Yeah, now let's shift

441
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: here because I have no idea what in the hell

442
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: I need to make of what's happening in Denver. I

443
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: think it's difficult. It's difficult to go to Denver. It's

444
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: always difficult to go to Denver. But for you guys

445
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: to lose and give up seventy points to the Dolphins

446
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: in a way where literally every sports site on the

447
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: planet was like, you guys should just trade all your

448
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: players right now, you're the worst team. People treated them

449
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: like they were the little giants in the first act

450
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: of the movie. It was wild.

451
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 2: Oh, Peyton moranis is really.

452
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: Peyton Moranas is really turning this run. He's got a

453
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: real chip on his shoulder. But it's wild. It's wild

454
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: to see you guys now at four and five. It's

455
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: wild to see the Russ and Peyton thing kind of

456
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: working at times when it didn't seem like it was

457
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. What do we need to make

458
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: of your Denver Broncos, Jimmy.

459
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 2: I think that's a tough question because the way they

460
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 2: are weak to week they're different, and the game against

461
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: the Chiefs was I don't even know how to explain that.

462
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 2: How do you surprise them and then come back and

463
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 2: surprise the Bills two weeks later? It's it doesn't make

464
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 2: any sense to me either. But when I when you

465
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 2: watch the game and watch the highlights and watch the

466
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 2: big plays and and try to dissect what what is happening?

467
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 2: Where where's it? I'm just happy to see that Russ

468
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: last week played his ass off. He's he's he He

469
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 2: had play after play that that worked. His he's he's

470
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: essentially running back to the to the Seahawks russ when

471
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 2: he when he played like Mahomes plays today, a flip here,

472
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 2: a flip there at the last minute, uh uh, spinning

473
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 2: out of tackles. But then two plays later he drops

474
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 2: back eight yards and gets pummeled by four highs. So

475
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 2: you'd never know what to expect by anybody, but everybody

476
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: is playing their ass. A plane lights out Sutton and

477
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: and Jerry Judy and Jerry Judy is really the wild

478
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 2: card in the X factor in the whole thing, I think,

479
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 2: because receiver one obviously is the most important to to

480
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 2: your past game, and he is he can change a

481
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: game in a second with a forty yard bomb if

482
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: he gets some sort of streak and he's open and

483
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 2: him between him and Sutton. But you know the other

484
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 2: part is that these boys are so young, these they

485
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: are barely men. And seeing interviews with Judy and Sutton

486
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 2: sitting side by side, and I'm just like, yeah, I

487
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 2: want to tussle their hair. They're so young, and we're

488
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: expecting them.

489
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 1: The expectations are a little high.

490
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're expecting these boys to play these men. It's

491
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 2: so hard to call them men because you see their

492
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 2: faces and they have baby faces, they're so young. But

493
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 2: then you see the athleticism that they can display, and

494
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 2: it is bananas. And if they both get on the

495
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 2: same page, if they both are on play either side

496
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 2: of the field and are able to stretch the field.

497
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: But then you gotta have the run game too, uh,

498
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: to let them be able to do what they're doing.

499
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: And that I think is what what Denver has missed

500
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 2: a lot is that they didn't have a run game.

501
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 2: The run game was is just terrible, and the Bills

502
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 2: gave up a lot of big runs that which left

503
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 2: them open to be able to stretch the field.

504
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: It was crazy that the Bills allowed that. Two things. One,

505
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: we're seeing exactly what you're talking about in Green Bay

506
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: right now, where you know, the expectations on young developing

507
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: receivers is quite high and it's gonna be hot. It's

508
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for guys to meet that, especially when

509
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: maybe the quarterback isn't playing at a high level, although

510
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: it seems like Russ is rounding in shape. Secondly, and

511
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: maybe more importantly, why is it that Jerry Judy never

512
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: gets recognized as one of the funniest and best sports

513
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: names of all times.

514
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 2: Because there's.

515
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: It's spelled different and you don't even connect it. But

516
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: if you break it down, it's the name Jerry and

517
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: the name Judy, it'd be like, Oh, this is our

518
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: wide receiver Billy Tina. It's one of the best sports names,

519
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: and no one ever talks about it. We're just like, oh, yeah,

520
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: that's a man named Jerry Judy.

521
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: Cool. They are my grandfather and his sister's names.

522
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: It's exactly right. That's that's exactly right. The only way

523
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: that name, the only way that name is better. If

524
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: he's got if his middle name is two dy fruity,

525
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: it's fuck. It's a great, great name. I yeah, I don't.

526
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: I felt the same way about the Saints game. I

527
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: just don't like it. I don't until we can get

528
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson healthy and until we hit that bye week

529
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: and can really spend some time getting Dobbs integrated. Everything

530
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: that's happening to me is impressive. It's borderline magic, and

531
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: with that sort of stuff, you just you can't I

532
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: don't know if you can expect. If it keeps happening,

533
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the pre eminent story of the season.

534
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,959
Speaker 1: But it's this. This will be a challenging game because

535
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: there's there's some very talented people on that side. Uh,

536
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna be on that side of the field. And

537
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be the game that I think a

538
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: lot of Vikings fans thought it would be when we

539
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: watch them four or five weeks ago.

540
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, but you know this is this is probably

541
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 2: the gonna be the most fun game to watch. It

542
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: should be on paper and based on the last few weeks,

543
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 2: it should be the most fun game of the week

544
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 2: to watch because of the magic that's happening on both

545
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: sides in both places at the exact same time. Uh

546
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: and and and it's hard to pick a team to

547
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 2: root for unless you're an enormous fan of either one

548
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 2: because they're both they both have this this week. Really,

549
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 2: the season depends on a win for both. It's it's

550
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 2: not gonna it can it could It could make or

551
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: break either team.

552
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, you jump you you guys. Get a loss here,

553
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be immensely difficult in a crowded AFC to

554
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: climb back from four and six. The Vikings can probably

555
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: survive a loss, but conversely, if they get a win,

556
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: and go to like the the the challenge of a

557
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: loss is outmatched by the potential of a win, So

558
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: I think you have to almost look at it as

559
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: like the big part of the loss isn't just that

560
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: your record drops, it's what you lost in. You just

561
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: beat two teams that are, you know, in theory competing.

562
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: One of them will likely be competing for your wild

563
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: card spot. I don't know. I think it's gonna be

564
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: really fun.

565
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: It should be, and and you know, Russ, I think

566
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 2: i'd really I wish, oh man, I wish we could

567
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 2: go back in time. I am so mad still, even

568
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: even with him being a little bit successful, I'm still

569
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: so mad about the whole contract, the whole signing. It

570
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 2: felt desperate at the time, and now fast forward two years,

571
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: it looks real damn desperate based on what was going

572
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 2: to be available and how those how those quarterbacks are

573
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: performing today. It's just it's so maddening, and I'm I

574
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: don't I don't know where to sit with it or

575
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: where to leave with it. And I just hope that

576
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: Pat's not rote sting somewhere over this because it's such

577
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: it's such a heartbreak that he's dead and doesn't doesn't

578
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: get to watch what they're doing to this organization.

579
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: Now, Jimmy, only you could spend thirty minutes having fun.

580
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: And then right as I'm about to wrap up and

581
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: ask you for a score prediction, You're like, oh, and

582
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: by the way, I hated our most important contract, And

583
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mention our past away owner and I'm gonna

584
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna loop my projection of his opinion into my

585
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: opinion on the quarterback. Here, here's what I'll tell you

586
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: about Russ. I love a good NFL divorce. I much

587
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,959
Speaker 1: like a good neighborhood divorce. Yeah, I am there to

588
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: see what happens. She said he never took out the trash,

589
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: and now she left, So I want to see what

590
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: happens with the trash in that house. Is he gonna

591
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: take it out because a spite or is he just

592
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: gonna have the stinkiest house in the world. Either way

593
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: is a fun answer to me. So the Brady Belichick split, yeah,

594
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: super fun. It's super interesting. The Pete Carroll of men

595
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: that I have not enjoyed in a football sense in

596
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. Uh, the way Russ has beat

597
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: my favorite team, and the way Pete Carroll has chewed

598
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: his gum. Has put me in a position where I

599
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: savor that divorce. And but I here's what I will say.

600
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: You ready for me to climb this. You did this.

601
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: You did this by bringing up Pat You could have

602
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: just you didn't have to. You could have invoked him

603
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: anywhere earlier in the show with a this this one's

604
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: for John. You could have brought up one of the

605
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: good moments. But you had to bring his ghost into this.

606
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: A wow.

607
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: And one of the one of the great examples in

608
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: sports is the other russ I. And this is not

609
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: a basketball show, But I do not understand the hate

610
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: for Russell Westbrook, a guy who accomplished everybody, well, he

611
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: just was a stat stuffer. I goen a lot of

612
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: stat stuffers in the history of the NBA. None of

613
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: them averaged a triple double for like half a decade.

614
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: You're the dumbest person to ever exist in sports. What

615
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: are you doing? But because his athleticism, the decline of

616
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: his athleticism saw, you know, led to a decline in

617
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: his ability, and his style no longer fit in the

618
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: modern NBA. It got pretty ugly. People just started heaving

619
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: shots at this guy who's never been anything but a

620
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: model citizen is And so the Russ thing, like, Russ

621
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: is a weird guy, right, the team three, the stretching

622
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: on a plane, like everything that goes with it, it's

623
00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: it's weird. But I don't like everybody gets so on him.

624
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: I think he's just more willing to be open with

625
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 1: his weirdness. How many top of the world professional athletes

626
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: do you know that You're like, that's not a weird

627
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: person at all. Guess who I can guarantee is weird.

628
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: Let's just start listing them off.

629
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 2: All of them, every one of them.

630
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: At every famous comedian, you love, every top notch actor

631
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: to get to be the actual best at a thing

632
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers is probably the weirdest man on the planet,

633
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: and you need that weirdness to be like, you know,

634
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be the greatest at a thing

635
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: that every human being wishes they were great at.

636
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 2: Every child tries to be good at.

637
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: And me, I will scale the mountain and stand to

638
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: top of it. So whenever anybody goes hard on Russ,

639
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm quick to remember how ill it is. And maybe

640
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: it's true, Maybe he's the weirdest of the weird. Maybe

641
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: he's the guy at the newdest quality who won't stop

642
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: doing cartwheels. Maybe, but I don't know. I give a

643
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: little bit longer leash than most people.

644
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 2: I it frustrates me because it feels like his weirdness

645
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 2: distracts them from what we do, and that's play damn

646
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 2: football and win football games. We were one of the

647
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: I think the winningest NFL team for three or four

648
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 2: years historically, and then the last couple of years have

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Speaker 2: really put a botch in that. But they were. They

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Speaker 2: win games, and whether they win the season or the

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Speaker 2: super Bowl or a playoff game, it doesn't matter. But

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Speaker 2: those sixteen games those seventeen weeks matter and now more.

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Speaker 2: But they matter and we win. And with him, that

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Speaker 2: has not been a thing. And from day one he

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Speaker 2: has been in the news and now thankfully it's starting

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Speaker 2: to come together and hopefully that matters for the future,

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Speaker 2: but for right now, four and five, you better win more.

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Speaker 1: This, ladies and gentlemen, is the ending I wanted when

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Speaker 1: I shifted away from Jimmy's terrible take. This is what

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Speaker 1: we do at the end. You're gonna hate it. Everybody

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Speaker 1: hates it, But I need a score prediction. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: gotta give me a score prediction for Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I got a feeling it's not gonna be too big.

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Speaker 2: The race to thirty one isn't happening. It's going it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be so stupid. It's gonna be like nineteen thirteen,

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Speaker 2: Denver nineteen thirteen.

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Speaker 1: That's funny because I also I see the Vikings defense

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Speaker 1: playing well, and I have a thirteen as well. I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be Denver thirteen, Minnesota one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty eight. Jimmy, I appreciate you, buddy, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for doing the show.

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Speaker 2: Ah you're the best side.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you're the best. Thanks again to Jimmy

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