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Speaker 1: they came through as a coach, they went through scouting,

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Speaker 1: with the squad. And I think it's also showing that

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Speaker 1: But I mean you look at you know, Andrew Berry

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Speaker 1: the past two years. This is where the old guy says, yeah,

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Speaker 1: also it's a range at this point, but there are

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Speaker 1: whether this is intentional or not, some have relationships with Quacy.

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Speaker 1: So we could see things ramping up in the next week.

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Speaker 1: It could be after the super Bowl. It's really going

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Speaker 1: to be tough to see. I'm excited. It just kind

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Speaker 1: it might need to be after the super Bowl, depending

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Speaker 1: on who that higher is. But as much fun as

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Speaker 1: to kind of feel that buzz and that energy level,

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Speaker 1: I'm super pumped for that to happen with the new

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Speaker 1: reason why, especially last week on the podcast, we were

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Speaker 1: telling fans like, pump the brakes and just try and

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Speaker 1: be as patient as possible, because there is a plan

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Speaker 1: in place. There are people that are making these decisions.

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Speaker 1: Now that you have Quacy here in the building, he's

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Speaker 1: going to be making the best decision possible with everybody

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Speaker 1: else that's on the panel, and I just feel like, again,

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Speaker 1: you're going to see other teams making hires or making decisions,

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Speaker 1: and if something on our end is taking a little

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Speaker 1: bit longer than you think it should, just understand there's

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Speaker 1: people with the process in place, and just kind of

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Speaker 1: pump the brakes and trust the process as we've heard

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Speaker 1: in the past here as a Vikings fan, and just

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Speaker 1: try and understand that it might not happen immediately, but

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Speaker 1: they are going to get the best person possible for sure.

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Speaker 1: And as the host of this podcast, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: also make the call to put it on hiatus again

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Speaker 1: until we hire a head coach. You know, the great

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Speaker 1: thing is we've got a front office who's working really

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Speaker 1: hard on that, and the intention is to have someone

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Speaker 1: guys some more background information into how the both coaching

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Speaker 1: search and the GM search have gone. Plus there might

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Speaker 1: on the podcast very soon as well. So we have

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Speaker 1: a lot of big things in store for you guys

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Speaker 1: coming up here on the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. But for now,

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Speaker 1: we will be taking that quick hiatus that we talked

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Speaker 1: about last week until we hire our coach, and then

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Speaker 1: it'll happen on Friday and we'll be back here next week.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna say what if the head coach is hired

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Speaker 1: on I mean, it might happen. I just feel like

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Speaker 1: it's the kiss of death saying yes, we're going to

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Speaker 1: suspend the podcast because we're gonna take our hiatus. You

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Speaker 1: know that, it's just going to accelerate the timetable. I'm

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Speaker 1: okay with that. I am into I'm totally fine with that.

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Speaker 1: I think I think the anticipation will be killing us

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Speaker 1: to know, so right now, let's let's go ahead and

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Speaker 1: put the jinks on it for sure. Thanks again for

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Speaker 1: listening to this episode of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast, and

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Speaker 1: thank you so much to Lindsay Young, Vikings dot Com

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Speaker 1: writer for being with us today. Make sure you go

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Speaker 1: and check out all of their great pieces of work

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Speaker 1: on the website right now, because, like she said, it

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Speaker 1: maybe the offseason, but there's so much going on. We

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Speaker 1: have so much for you, guys. We appreciate you listening

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Speaker 1: today and all your excitement this week as the Vikings

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Speaker 1: introduced general manager Quasi Adolpho Mensa and for now Skull

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