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Now here's your host of Vikings 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.960 Country from KFAN and the Vikings Radio Network. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:51.320 Mus Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Vikings Country. Here we 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:57.640 are Blaine, all in Blaine, Ah. We're hanging out here 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:03.200 and our special guest is Andrew Depaula and Andrew. This 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.160 is a first. I've been doing this for thirty years. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.080 Fifteen years of doing Vikings Country. We've never had to 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.800 stand outside and sit here with everybody else that's having 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.240 heaters outside of blame rock Ball. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:17.839 Yeah. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.399 Well, I never thought I'd have to say this to you, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:20.480 but I'm glad to be your first. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.960 I appreciate that our fine folks at Miller Lite, our 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.600 official Viking sponsors of Vikings Country. This is gonna just 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.280 be absolutely weird. We are literally sitting right outside the 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.720 door and we're sitting there hanging out with everybody that's 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.240 just pulling darts. We're sitting right by the garbage can 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.840 that has that top, you know, where you can bump out. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.760 It's just ridiculous here on Boxing Day. Thank you for 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.320 hanging out with us on Boxing Day. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:48.080 Thank you for having me. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:49.760 Do you even know what Boxing Day is? 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:49.880 No? 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.320 I looked it up because it was kind of bugging 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.120 me because I knew it was like a Canadian thing. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.640 But apparently Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.400 Originally it was a holiday to give gifts to people 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.120 in need, but today Boxing Day it forms a part 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.760 of Christmas celebrations, with many people choosing to take advantage 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.440 of Boxing Day sales. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.240 Are you a big Boxing Day Hills kind of guy? 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.440 No, No, I haven't been. I didn't even know that 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:17.839 was the thing. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.160 Do you do like the Black Friday thing? 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.200 And I'm like, are you buying anything or is it 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.040 just Amy your wife? 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.600 It's my wife, Yeah, yeah, she's the one buying everything. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:26.920 I used to be big in than the Black Friday. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.280 I used to go out and check out the crowds 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.320 and see what the deals were like. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:30.560 But not anymore. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.240 You never like tent it out like early on, because 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.760 I know at one point you worked at best Buy. Yeah, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.519 you probably saw those guys that would actually tent out 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.359 just going okay, I'm gonna get myself a fifty five 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:43.360 inch plasma. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.720 Yes, yes, And to be honest with you, I'm pretty 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:46.640 sure that ruined it for me. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:49.079 All Right. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.519 So you worked as a bartender. So you finished school 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.560 at Rutgers yep, in twenty ten. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:56.360 Yep. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.840 Then between that in twenty fourteen, before or you actually 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.680 got I think it was with Tampa Bay, correct, correct, Ye, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.160 before you made a team, you were not only working 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.920 at your family's pub, but also at best Buyas I 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.240 mentioned the family pub, is. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.160 It still a thing? 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.400 Still a thing? Yep? Oh nice yep. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.160 And then as we're sitting here at a bar and 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:25.440 bowling alley, what is the absolute worst drink anyone could order? 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.720 When it comes to you being a bartender because I 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.120 know I'm the one that has. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.280 Probably ordered this before. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.839 Gosh, the worst drink anyone can order. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.920 Yeah, I mean something that doesn't have the alcohol named 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.080 in it, because I don't know. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:40.000 I don't know how to make that. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.080 I'm I'm a frozen dacre guy. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.160 And you could just watch the shoulders drop of the 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:46.160 bartender going. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:50.640 You're that jackass. That's not that's not great. What's your 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.960 most famous drink? What do you did you create anything? 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.120 No? No, no, no no. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.880 I created the giveaway because I don't know what it is, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:00.280 and so. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.280 Here you go, it's on the house. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.480 Well then now also not only do your parents your 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:09.320 dad still owns the pub, but then also you've started 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.720 up your own company there with the bagels. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:13.000 Yeah. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.159 Yeah, we started the bagel shop beginning of this year, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.480 did construction on it last year, got that going. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.159 It's just been awesome. It's been a lot of fun. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.000 It's been a learning process for sure, but it's been 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.040 really cool to see like our local community kind of 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:27.640 take to it and just kind of take it as 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.479 their own and adopt it. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.920 So it's been fun. You live on an island, right, technically, yes, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:34.800 gol Ken island y. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.120 Yeah, and so that's why you're like, well, we don't 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.279 have any bagels here show. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.920 So the closest bagels shop kind of like what we have, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.760 is across the Chesapeake Bay. And so if you live 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.719 on the island, you just despise crossing the bridge. It's 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.920 just not it's not fun. There's a lot of traffic. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.920 You never know what's gonna happen when you get over there. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.279 So anything you can do on the island or on 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.560 that side of the bridge, you try to get it 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:58.200 done over there. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.240 And there wasn't really good bagel shop. Decided to make one. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.240 When I'm getting ready for Vikings Country, I get a 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.800 little on the creepy side. I you know, like Stockerish. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.160 I realize that you guys steam your bagels rather than 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.240 others that like boil the Bengals. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.400 What's the difference in that? 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.480 Not a huge difference. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.599 So when you boil them, you literally drop them in 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.880 a vat of boiling water. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.560 They sink to the bottom, and then when they. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.880 Rise after about fifty sixty seconds, you scoop them, put 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.159 them on the baking train, and you pop them in 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.400 an oven. Ours a similar process, except the first three minutes, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.800 they're steamed, and then the steam shuts off, and then 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.760 they're baked for another nine to ten minutes, depending on 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:36.920 how many racks you have in there. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.960 We are literally Vikings Country with Miller Lyte. Outside of 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:42.960 blamed for Paul. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.719 We're standing out here with jackets on hands and pockets, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.839 hanging out with our smoking friends chess outside the doors here, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.479 which it is awesome. Andrew Depaula is my guess number 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.480 forty two, of course, the long snapper. At what point 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.120 in your life does one realize, you know what, I 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.760 could probably throw this thing between my legs and actually 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:05.919 be great at it. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:07.279 Yeah, so funny enough. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.480 When I was younger, it was something my dad could do, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.360 And to be honest with you, I didn't know it 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.000 was a football move technique. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.840 Like I thought it was just a fun party trick. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:16.880 Dad's just being goofy. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.720 Yeah, he's just been ripped in between his legs. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.800 So I could always throw a football, I guess from 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.520 baseball and whatnot. But you know, I decided to go, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.479 you know, hey, let me just chuck this thing between 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.600 my legs like my dad does. And then it was 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.040 a skill I turned into in college. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:32.239 I was a backup. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.040 I was the emergency guy until I had to be 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:40.080 the starter my final year of college and just worked 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.280 out that I was good enough to take it to 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:41.800 the NFL. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.280 Now, this show, Vikings Country has a long history of 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:46.720 long snappers. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:47.719 Being on the show. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.360 Legendary and ridiculous superstar Mike Morris has been on the 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.719 show multiple times. Colin Leffler, which, by the way, my 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.720 wife got lost in his eyes while she was dancing 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.680 with him at Jared All. It was a weird situation 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.679 and I never thought i'd get her back. And Kevin 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.400 McDermott on here as well. But it's so much fun. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.480 I love what you guys do. And how like the 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.440 science of long snapping really is. People don't understand, you know, 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.800 how many rotations are going to go between a snap 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.160 for a punt versus a snap for you know, a 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:23.720 feel goal. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:25.960 Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a lot that goes into it. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.120 It's a little, you know, tiny little nuances that help 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.760 make your job or help do your job better. And 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.600 the more you understand it, just like anything else, the 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.360 better you can be at it. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.840 All Right, So how about this, I loved your Pro 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.200 Bowl video. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.840 Okay, so I loved it, and we're here, We're here 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:43.800 at a bowling alley. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.680 Yeah, and I loved it because you go out and 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.480 I saw it was a house ball twelve ouncer I 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.520 saw on that, yeah, or twelve pound or whatever it is, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.400 and I saw that you were throwing that thing. And 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.440 what I loved about it in the video is that 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.880 you actually threw a little curve on it. Now, I 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.040 will say you went on the Brooklyn side, and all 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.360 bowlers know that, Oh you liked your Brooklyn more than 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:11.960 on the Pocket side, and you knocked them all down. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.360 How many takes did that take? 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.240 That actually is funny. It it takes. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.160 And I threw four strikes, really, yeah, and it was 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.000 funny enough that one was the only one that I 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.160 went back door. The other ones were in the pocket, 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:25.960 so for some reason he used that one. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:27.960 But it was great. There's a lot of fun putting 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:28.240 that together. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.800 You have a background in bowling, because honestly, when I 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.400 saw you actually throw that thing out and then curve 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.520 it out, I'm like, Okay, he's done this before. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.520 This might surprise some purists, but I'm actually a straight 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:40.120 ball bowler. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:41.200 Yeah, oh too. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.720 I had to put the curve on it for the 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.679 for the video they requested. But starting in high school, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.800 close buddy of mine, we would try to go bowling 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.160 like once every two weeks, just have like a little 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.640 competition going. We continued it through college when we both 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.360 were back home on break and actually I just talked 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.040 to him the other day. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.560 We're trying to get it fired up again. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:09.560 But your ninth season in the NFL has a long snapper, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.080 which I absolutely love. I also love the fact that 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.240 you were really supporting all your teammates, not only yourself, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:16.800 but you know with the Pro Bowl. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.959 You're a pro bowler. Dude, you went to the Pro Bowl. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.480 How sweet is that there's only thirty two long snappers. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:24.400 You went to the Pro Bowl. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:25.760 Yeah, it was cool. It was really cool. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.360 It was quite an experience something I'll remember forever. Cool 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:30.760 part was I got to bring, you know, my two 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.640 oldest my daughter and my son. They got to share 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:34.960 in it with us. I got to get some pictures 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.319 with them on the field, so that'll be something I 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.240 can always look back on and show them and be like, hey, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.520 you know you, Oh that was really cool. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:48.000 Let's go through these somewhat quickly here, because your other 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.800 teammates that you were also promoting to try to get 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:51.880 into the Pro Bowl here. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.480 CJ. Ham I mean what I mean, quality human being. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.800 Obviously, Minnesota, we absolutely love the Hammer, but CJ. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.800 Hamm he's one of I mean, he's one of the 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.240 best guys. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.800 I mean, he's so down to earth, he's so pure, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.200 and he's just such a great, great football player. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.760 He's so smart. He knows his job, he knows his role. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.440 He studies the playbook, I mean every day, studies what 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.200 he has to do. He helps bring people along, he 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.160 helps make people better. He's a coach on the field. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.000 I mean, that's why he's one of our captains. And 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.480 he's just an amazing, amazing human being. And he's also 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:25.640 a really good football player. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.079 Josh Mattelus, I mean he is a switch Army or 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:34.000 Swiss Army knife for the defense and obviously you know 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.480 him especially with Special Teams and how much he meant 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.520 for everybody there. But Josh vintell Us. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.600 Yeah, I mean he's he's such a great player. Again, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.440 you know, it was such a loss to the Special 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.520 Teams to lose him, you know, I mean, I know 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.000 he's been bawling and playing his heart out on defense, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.080 and he's been doing amazing, such a great job. But 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.560 he was such a player and a specimen on special teams, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.280 you could plug him in anywhere and we wouldn't have 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.640 to worry about him. We could be like, Okay, go 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.959 to wing, go to left guard. I mean, he got 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.319 she probably could be even returned to the ball if we 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.319 asked him too. So, I mean, you know, losing him 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.120 on special teams was a big blow, but I mean 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.280 he's been making such an impact on defense it kind 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:08.200 of evens itself out. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.679 Andrew Andrew de Paula. Sorry, I'm sitting out here and 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.400 I'm catching some of that. I'm wafted some of that 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.800 smoke as we're sitting outside Blainbrook Ball here with Miller 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:23.839 lytton Vikings Country. As we continue on Harrison Smith. I mean, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.840 what do you say about a guy who is just 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:31.640 a constanmate, consummate pro and just one of the best 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.719 leaders in the entire locker room. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.280 Yeah, I don't think I can say too much that 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.360 hasn't already been said about that man. I mean, he 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.960 leads by example. He's been doing it for so long 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.959 and at such a high level. You know, he's really 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.959 the person, the guy that a lot of guys will 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.679 look to in certain situations be like, Okay, how's he 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:48.920 doing it? 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:49.160 All right? 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.600 I want to emulate him. I want to do it 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.400 like him. Even I do the same thing, you know, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:53.800 I look at him and be like, Okay, how's he 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:54.120 doing it? 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.240 All right? I want to be like that guy, because when. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.000 You've had success for as long as he has, I 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.600 think you want to try and do a thing he does. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.000 How about TJ Howkinson, who we don't know if he's 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.480 gonna be able to play the rest of this year, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:12.120 But you also are listed as a tight end. So 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.720 is there is there a chance to me? Not only 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.680 TJ's had a tremendous year and definitely is should be, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.160 you know, in the Pro Bowl. But do you feel 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.880 that there's a chance that you'll be going out? 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:24.960 You know? 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.880 No, rout, No, No, I think those days are long 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:29.280 behind me. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.520 I mean, well, yeah, I'm gonna ask you later about 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.080 what it's like to be in the team room and 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:34.560 stuff like that. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:35.960 We have more coming up on the way. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.400 This is Vikings Country with Miller Light, the official beer 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.240 sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings. We also have Paul Allen 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.600 and Paul Charchion. They have the Friday Football Feast that's 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.439 gonna be coming up of course here on Friday this week, 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.200 and you can find it at k FA and dot 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.040 com and Vikings dot com as well. 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I like it. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.160 I appreciate it that you came out and hung out 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.760 with us. Okay, gotta ask you this before we get 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:42.760 into the five typically stupid Vikings Country questions. This season 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.480 is almost kind of like last season where you get 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.720 to the end of a game and you go, what 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:50.800 the hell happened? 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.560 How did that happen? It's such a. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.320 Change from last season to this season. Yeah, yeah, it's 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.520 a little different, little different. We were on the better 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.000 end of some of those games last year, and this year, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.440 you know, we're just not really edging out the ones 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.000 that we did last year. So you know, all we 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.880 can do is go back to work and hopefully not 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.360 get in those situations and just close them out. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.800 Earlier, we just got done with Christmas. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.280 Here this is Boxing day of course, the Special Teams room. 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.200 So what did you get Greg, Joseph and Ryan Wright 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.840 for Christmas? 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.880 I didn't get them anything. We actually we do like 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.600 a white elephant gift. So there's a bunch of us 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.800 that will come in together and we'll buy a gift. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.560 You know, there's a certain minimum on it. We'll put 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.760 it in the middle, wrapped up, not knowing who's who's. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.600 Then you go, first person goes, the next person can 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:38.600 steal or pick a gift. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.720 You know that kind of game. So we did that. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.800 There was probably about like twenty of us that did 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.760 it this year. What did you end up with? 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.720 I ended up with You ever heard like the ray 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.200 Ban smart glasses? Yes, okay, I ended up with those. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.000 Oh oh that's a white elephant. Yeah. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:53.520 Yeah. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.080 Now you got to figure out how to work the things. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.440 I don't know what's going on. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.000 I just you have to ask your wife, Amy, Amy, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:01.840 how do I do this? 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.960 What's going on. That's way, babe, babe, babe. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.080 The Power Trip guys meets Austin and Chris Hockey and 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.040 Corey Cove. They have been going on and on and 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:16.600 on about you're at the plate at bat prowess at 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.120 Adam Thielen's charity softball game, continuously going yard. They're like, 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:25.280 you have no idea this guy Andrew just was knocking 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:26.640 him out, tater after tater. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:28.640 Yeah, it was fun. It was fun. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.640 I played baseball in high school, enjoyed it, really enjoyed it, and. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:34.840 I guess I still got a little bit left in me. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:35.800 I don't know. I don't know. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.680 All right, Andrew, let's talk about fake because I know 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.800 you've had a couple of fakes in your career as 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.280 a long snapper. But against the Broncos, I mean that 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.320 direct snap to ty Chandler goes for thirty one yards, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.480 gets the first down. I mean that could not be 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.840 easy because now you're throwing it through the wickets normally, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.200 but now all of a sudden you gotta veer that thing. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.120 How hard is that to actually do that? 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.760 I wish I could say it's hard. I want to 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.600 tell you guys, it's it's really hard. But it's actually 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.959 not that bad, you know. I mean, as long as 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.120 you get the angle right and you know, tie, there 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:13.480 we go. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.879 As long as tie is in the right place. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.560 Uh you know, I just try to give it to 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.280 him in the right spot where he doesn't have to 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.760 come back or stop. He can catch it clean and 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.600 just kind of go make it quick. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:24.960 Yeah. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.720 Again, We're here at Blainbrook Bowl with Piller Life, the 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.639