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Now welcome, happy yours by 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:18.480 day from mine, my god, Frob Say, Francis, Franka stantaball 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:28.320 ladies and gentlemen your BF. With that, we welcome you 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:33.039 inside up studio at thirty four. This is the BFFs. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.840 Here's Frank Staffele, I am Greg Susman. Frankie. What's happening, buddy? 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.520 Happy Thursday to you. No football, No Thursday Night football tonight. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.840 It kind of feels weird, but we will talk about 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.360 the alternate Thursday Night football broadcast which are airing on Saturday. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.840 It's Saturday, sleep right, so we'll we'll jump into that. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.000 Get some updates on some injuries here, but before all that. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.800 How did you sleep, buddy, weird man? I woke up 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.560 and I look, I was, I must be trying it off, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.760 like so like a light on outside my window. It 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.920 was one thirty and I've been sleeping for very long. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.960 Then there's one of those nights when you just woke 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:09.440 up like a lot, just tick on the clock. I 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.640 woke up like four thirty and then eventually woke up myself. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.480 Well though, I feel good. I feel a lot better 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.120 than I did um earlier this week, where I was 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.280 battling the sickness early on. Right now Thursday, we're toward 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.239 the end of the week. Light at the end of 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.320 the tunnel here, Yes, when we get Gregg speaking in cliches, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.880 that's how you know what's gonna be. How are you, buddy? 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.760 I'm doing well. I don't nearly sleep as well as 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.320 you do every night. Last night was fine, but yeah, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.720 rearing and ready to go. Here, Greg, let's go more 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.320 cliches should we start? Let's go? All right? So on 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.800 the program today, Virginia Zakis will join us on the program. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.440 A lot of injury updates, we hope, specifically for players 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.920 that reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Well Virginia. We're gonna preview 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.200 the Saturday games today. We have a lot of Sunday 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.200 games to get you tomorrow. But I want to start 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.200 on the news that we're hearing about Dalvin Cook. I 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.560 think it makes the most sense. So the news came 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.480 out early this morning. If you're listening to our station 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.320 all day, you've heard it. Dalvin Cook not expected to 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.120 be available on Sunday. In fact, with the Vikings seemingly 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.120 liked locked in to that sixth seed unless they win 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.280 two in a row and the Packers lose two in 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.280 a row, they're gonna rest Dalvin Cook for each of 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.200 the next two weeks and get him ready for the playoffs, where, hey, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.519 they may wind up facing any they're gonna face. They're 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:36.520 gonna face the You, they face the Packers potentially again 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.560 in the first round. They'll face the Packers, or they 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.360 will face the Saints. Wow. Yeah, so most likely I 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.600 think face the Packers in the first round. So they 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.720 want Dalvin Cook to be ready for that one. Yeah, absolutely, Greg. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.800 And of course, right before we come on the air, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.120 here I see a little road O World blurb update 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.200 on Dalvin Cook. What it once was saying that he's 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.400 going through his normal preparation for Week sixteen, like nothing 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.560 is wrong. He's coming in, he's doing what he normally does. Yeah, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.240 it doesn't look like Dalvin Cook is going to play, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.400 so I wouldn't read too much into this. We got 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.360 the report earlier today that he is looking doubtful for 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.000 this week. It's on Monday Night football, So the earlier 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.840 we get this information, obviously the better it. Teams. Like 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.040 every single year, Greg this time of year in the 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.000 Fantasy playoffs, in the Fantasy Championship, we have one or 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.159 two big names going into either a Sunday night game 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.360 a Monday night game that we don't know who's gonna play, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:36.880 and it kind of pauses hysteria for fantasy football. You 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.000 don't know if it's gonna if Madison is gonna play. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.480 You don't know if Mike Boone is gonna be the guy. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.120 You almost want everybody is to sit except Mike Boone 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.000 just so he can have a full workload and a 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.120 good match up against the Green Bay Packers. So these 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.320 are all things that you have to consider. You know, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.920 maybe just have another Minnesota Viking player available, a Green 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.880 Bay Packers player, just in case you don't know what's 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.320 gonna happen, but there's a lot that's going to happen 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.839 before Monday. I can assure you that I think Saturday 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.160 be the big day to know whether or not Alexander 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.599 Madison will be available for this one. Saturdays when they 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.520 have to give out the injury designations. Today, of course, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.200 was the first day of practice for Minnesota. The first 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.039 time we heard from Mike's Diammer or you don't believe 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.080 anything out of now, You said that Dalvin Cook kind 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.240 of going through his normal routine here today. I think 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:18.520 they do hold them out right, like, I think they 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.600 see the bigger picture. They see that they're going to 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.040 the playoffs. They make sure down with Cook's healthy. What 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.479 I do believe from Mikesammer, maybe this is not even believing. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.800 You know, that's exactly what I said earlier in a 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.559 month Greig, when he was first dealing with the shoulder, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.200 I said, after that Seattle Seahawks game, send him out 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.480 a few games. You need him for this Packers game 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.880 because it's a huge divisional matchup. So who knows, maybe 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.560 he would have been less likely to reinjure himself if 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.080 he sat out until now. While he was recovering from 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.560 this shoulder injury. So again, well, I don't really believe 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.120 anything about Mike Zimmer. One thing I kind of do 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.479 want to believe is that he was asked, how would 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.600 the offense change if they don't have Alexander Madison and 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.400 they don't have Dalvin Cook, and he says it wouldn't. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.800 We would just do what we do and Mike Boon. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.120 But they hope it doesn't come to that. So I 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.360 want to take that statement because that was a big 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.440 statement that I read this morning as all right, the 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:10.880 Vike he's needs to be and they're gonna beat the 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.800 Packers on Sunday, they and on Monday, and they do 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.400 want to beat the Packers. They gotta play their game, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.479 and more cliches there you go. You have to play 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.080 their your own game, and that is mostly running the football, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.920 and against the Packers, what's the way to win? Run 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.040 the football. The secondary is very good. So if Dalmin 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.320 Cook doesn't play and they don't want to have to 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.040 go to Mikepoon, we hopefully doesn't come to that. It 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.480 certainly seems like the idea we're all circling around is 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.000 that Alexander Madison's the guy on Monday night and he 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.719 gets his normal workload. I think if he is active, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.640 he is going to play the majority of the snaps. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.680 He's going to be the man on Monday. From what 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.720 I have read Madazine. This comes from Ian Rabbitport madasine 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.440 is day to day, but it's hopeful to play on 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.880 Monday night. Yeah. I saw that as well, and again 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.279 it's you know, take what you will from Mike Zimmer's quotes. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.760 I saw earlier today on Alexander Madison. He said, quote, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.760 he's doing better, He's got a good chance for Monday, right. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.000 I also saw that Jeff Ratcliffe of PFF quote tweeted 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.000 that and said that Mike Zimmer said the same thing 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.720 about Adam Feeling in week eleven and then he didn't 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.120 play until week fifteen. So you gotta take what Mike 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.560 Zimmer says with a grain of salt. But I think 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.560 either way, you know, if Alexander Madison is active, Greg, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.480 while he will see the majority of the workload, it's 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.640 still going to be split. Like Dalvin Cook has been 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.000 great this year, but Alexander Madison has still had a 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.120 role in the games that Dalvin Cook was really good. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.920 So it would likely be Madison steps into that Dalvin 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.360 Cook roll. Mike Boone steps into the Alexander Madison role 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.160 normally when both him and Dalvin cooker healthy, So it 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.560 would probably be a sixty thirty five split something like that. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:55.960 And we know what they want to run the football. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.080 You're right about that because the Vikings have the second 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.800 highest rushper rush percentage in the NFL. Green Bay package 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.800 allow a ton of fantasy points of running backs, so 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.560 you're right. Someone's gonna be a beneficiary here. You've gotta 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.680 pay attention. I want to reach some quotes from Vikings 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.560 practice so you could play along with us and try 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.000 to understand what's happening. We'll do that on the other side, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.160 your VFS rolling on right after this. 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Here 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.840 are some quotes I wanted to read you. Uh. These 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.640 all come courtesy of Courtney Cronin, who's an ESPN writer 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.400 who covers the vikings. Davin Cook addressed whether his new 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.560 shoulder injury presents a pain management issue or puts him 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.400 at risk for further damage. We placed through it as 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.760 we had said. The last shoulder injury was all pain manager. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.000 There's no more damage he could have done. He said 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.920 this quote, It's just about getting healthy, paint and all 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.920 that comes with the game. You can bear so much, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.319 you can do so much. It's all about being healthy. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.240 And I think that's where I'm when I'm at my 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.040 best for the team. So let's let's translate that. Let's 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.320 use our translator, Google translator. Frank, What did Doblin Cook 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.720 just say? Dalvin Cook has said that as long as 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.520 he is hurting this badly in his shoulder. He is 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.760 not going to play. I think he says, quote, I'm 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.559 not healthy. I'm much better when i'm healthier than I 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.360 currently am. I can't help the team like I want 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.960 to help the team. I'm not playing on Monday night. Yeah, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.160 And I think that's fair. And it's all semantics, right, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.600 because you know this is what we heard last time. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:06.080 It's he can't further injure his shoulder. It's all pain tolerance. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.959 Well what does that mean. I mean, it's basically the 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.000 same thing anyway though, right, because it's not on Sunday, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.800 it's not the same thing. That's something he got tackled. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.920 All he did was get tackles normally and then he's 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.400 writhing on the ground in pain. So whether or not 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.640 you want to call that him being hurt badly because 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.640 it's a pain tolerance issue or re injuring the shoulder, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.839 it is different, because I don't think that it is 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.280 really that different. I think it's semantics, like either way, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.840 he's not gonna play through explain it. He's not gonna 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.960 play through it either way. So being hurt badly for us, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.800 he's a shoulder, right, he hurt badly is if I 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.080 hit you and I break your collar bone. You are 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.360 hurt badly. If I hit you, you go out writhing 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.320 in pain, but you can come back a week later. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.920 You couldn't injure yourself any further. It's just about pain management. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.840 That's how it's different. But it's not gonna I don't 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.320 think that's him in the short term. And you say 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.720 we get better, But him playing for you shoulder injury, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.520 there is no risk. There's no theoretically different risk than 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.080 if he was undid healthy of a chance that tearing 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.600 his collar book or separating his shoulder. It's all about 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.719 the pain, him playing through pain, and right now the 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.480 pain has reached the point where he can making the 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.120 pain worse. So it's enhancing that he's making the pain worse, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.959 But the injury itself can't get worse. It's not he's 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.520 not a bigger risk to separate or dislocated his shoulder. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.640 I understand what you're saying, like in terms of something 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.120 bigger than what it is. That's what it means. But 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.679 he's still further injuring himself. No, he's not further injuring himself. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.679 He's just causing he's creating more pain. Yes, again, it's 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.000 all semantics. If he can't play through it, he can't 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.400 play through it anyway, So does all we care about 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.760 from bigger it's not a big, bigger injury and that 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.800 it's going to be something he's surgery on for instance. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.679 All right, I mean either way, like I don't think 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.760 he's not gonna play great. Let me give another quote 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.920 translate Dowale Cook runs the ball and catches passes in 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.400 his absence, just to myke eximmer to the roles of 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.559 other running acts change, especially in the passing game. No, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.960 they can catch the ball, they're good in protection. They're 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:10.800 just different guys. Really, the system doesn't change much. So, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.679 as I told you in the first segment, they run 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.839 the ball the second most in the NFL. I don't 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.800 think that they're going to shy away from that. They're 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.400 going to try and run the ball effectively, set up 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.560 play action, take deep shots with Stephan Diggs, Adam Felan Will. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.760 I think likely see more of a workload. I know 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.600 that they're saying that the offense is not going to change, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.360 but like when Dalvin Cook was healthy this season and 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.640 at his best, he was getting twenty plus touches in 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.040 the game, so I don't know that either Alexander Madison 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:39.480 or Mike Boone is going to see that work away. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.880 The disagree. I think they trust Alexander Madison, and I 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.800 think of Alexander Madison, you're you're really optimistic on Madison. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.360 I'm not nearly as optimistic as you are about what 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.560 about him playing in general or about him play, because 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.640 I think there's different things, like I have no idea 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.480 because we've seen I'm not optimistic at all a bunch 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.880 of running backs, not just this year, every single season 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.000 and try and come back from an injury too soon, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.200 and either you're not effective or you end up reinjuring 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.480 yourself throughout the course of the game. So I'm not optimistic. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.160 I don't even know that he plays. To be honest, 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.440 what's what I'm saying. I'm not optimistic necessarily of him playing. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:13.920 I have no idea how he's going to play. I 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.480 I don't and we'll see. Obviously it'll se the injury destination. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.439 But I think if he plays, much like we've seen 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.760 with Dalvin Cook over the last two weeks, they're going 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.880 to try to give him a monster workload. I don't 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.280 think they back off. I'm not saying it's gonna be effective. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.320 I'm not saying he's not going to re injure himself. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.199 I am saying, though, that I think they're going to 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.800 try to be who This is what me translating the quote. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.760 They're gonna try to be who they are, and they 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:44.559 trust Alexander Madison significantly more than they trust them Mike Boon. Well, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.240 they trusted Mike Boone and he came through for them 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.120 last week. And you know, I'm going to remain consistent 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.960 when I say that about young players. They gave him 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.360 an opportunity in that game against the Chargers. Mind you, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.079 a lot of that was garbage time, but he comes through, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.640 He runs for two touchdowns. He has a great athlete profile, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.400 he was a preseason darling Mike Boone was. So I 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.360 think that they do like this kid, and I think 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.199 that you know, they're not gonna run Alexander Madison out 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.959 there unless he is. You're right about that, and I 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.920 don't know that he's going to be I'm a little 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.280 bit more pessimistic. I don't know that. I don't think 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.480 Madison's gonna shoot suit up this week either. I think 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.480 that it's going to be Mike Boone, and if that's 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.200 the case, he's probably gonna see around twenty touches. They'll 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.400 work Amra Abdullah in a little bit here. The way 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.280 to beat the Packers is on the ground. They have 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.080 a great pass rush, they have a solid secondary. I'm 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.760 not gonna go as far as to say the Packers 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.720 have a great secondary. They have a solid secondary. I 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.120 think r Alexander has some upside, but they do have 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.360 a really good pass rush. So I do think that 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.240 the Vikings are going to continue to run the football 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.720 with whom again, I think we won't really know until 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.440 that lead up till Saturday when we see the final 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.600 practice before for the Vikings. Salad Cook says, I'm going 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.680 through my normal routine of getting ready for Monday night. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.640 What he told us about road a world, and we're 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.400 going to see how it goes. I've been in the 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.000 training room every day, starting my mornings early every day 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.600 and just grinding and get my shoulder so I can 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.240 be available. I'm going to go through my normal preparation. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.360 If I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go. Obviously. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.000 Immediately after the game he initially injured a shoulder, He'll 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.920 say I'll play. I will be there next week. He 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.880 said the same thing last time. He is never no, no, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.440 he's agreed. He is not saying this last time he 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.240 said I'll play next week. He's not saying I thought 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.840 I thought you were saying that. He said that this week. No, no, no, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.120 he didn't. So I think it's injuring. I don't think 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.080 he's gonna play. Yeah, he's a different injury in the 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.280 last time. He's also saying, Oh, but I thought he 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.440 couldn't you know, further injury anything. It's a different I 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.600 mean that that would be further injuring it, am I right? 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.680 So I it's all semantics, right. Everyone will say, oh, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.320 it's a pain tolerance thing, it's another injury, can't come in. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.040 I don't know. I don't buy that, man, Like, there's 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.320 so many different things that can happen with your shoulder. Look, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.520 I'm not a doctor. We could save it for and 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.200 inside injuries and we'll find out from her. But you know, 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.400 say whatever you want, Like you're play in the NFL. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.520 You're getting tackled by a three fifty pound guy and 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.920 this guy lands on you and on top of your shoulder, Like, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.440 I have no doubt that's something different can come out 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.800 of that injury. That's just it is what it is. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.120 Like I think once you're hurt, like yeah, you're gonna 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.360 be susceptible to all the different kinds of things. And look, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.200 he only did was get tackled. It didn't even look 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.000 that bad on Sunday and the guys on the ground 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.320 writhing in pain like this risk was always there with 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.160 Dalvin Cooke. Here's the last quote I want to quote 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.680 I wanted to give you in regards to this. They 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:17.960 we can move on, want to come back on Virginia 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.040 joins us like he's coach. Mike Zimmers said, Alexander Madison 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.000 is quote doing better, says on Mike Boone. We hopefully 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.520 we don't need him on Monday, So voted Mike Boone. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.600 Ever do heard that quote? That's what made me think, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.480 if Madison is available, did Boone fumble at all on 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.680 this past week? Gosh? And that that was like a 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.320 damning quote. That's the quote that made me think, if 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.240 Madison is available, they're going to ride Madison like they 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.840 would if he was healthy. Yeah, I guess, and they 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.800 shouldn't play him unless he's one. We've heard that before. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.320 We heard the same thing with t Y Hilton last 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.800 week and the guy only plays you know of the snaps. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.520 Still saw a lot of targets. But last week, no, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.000 he did not fumble. My Boone did not fumble in 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.760 that game. I don't know that that seems I don't know. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.080 It seems like a very damning quote for you know, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.240 a young player in Mike Boone who just performed pretty well. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.120 He's only twenty four years old again a second season 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.640 undrafted out of Cincinnati. I like the athletic profile too, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.879 but it's kind of messed up. Mike Zimmer, way to 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.640 uh wait, way to put some some faith and confidence 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.680 in your young players. As I said, I I think 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.760 that there's a reason why bood has been number three 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.879 in the depth chart all year, where four when a 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.800 mirror Dulo was ahead of him. He believes that the 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:33.879 other guys give a better chance to win significantly, and 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.359 that includes Alexander Madison even on a bad manco You 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.720 know what's hilarious is that Mike Boone also has like 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.359 this dread bund thing, the dreaded trail. Yeah, I know 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.280 that sounded to the closer or like calls Alexander Madison 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.119 and Dalvin Cook, the Dreaded duo. Who whoa, whoa. There's 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.679 three in this mix that would make it a dreaded trio. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.239 I guess they all go to the same barber, Greg, Yeah, yes, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.600 so Frank, Yes, all right, coming up next to zakas 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.239 will join us. We'll get into all this with her. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.400 We'll put a bow on this conversation. We'll move over 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.080 some of the other injuries that are are affecting your 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.720 fantasy lineups here uh this week. We will also um 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.520 then start pleading the Saturday games. I really want to 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:16.879 get into all three of those games if we can. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:18.720 I don't think it's gonna be tough in that final segment, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.320 but we've got we've got a lot of talk with Yeah, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.520 that's true. We have that that final three minute. You 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.960 gotta talk about Prascod Perriman, like we've been talking about 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.400 Prascod Perriman. We have some of the questions that I'm getting, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:36.960 are they're crazy? I was asked Perriman or Bell, and 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.919 I paused, exactly and I paused, all right, break. Virginia 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:48.359 Zak is up next here on the the FFS. I 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.159 want to be the next Daily Fantasy Millionaire. Dunk on 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.320 your NBA DFS competition with Daily Rodal dot Com and 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.840 dominate on fandel and DraftKings this season. Compete with the 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.720 pros with Daily Rotal dot Com, Optimi and the most 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.120 accurate projections in NBA DFS, plus lineup alerts, breaking news, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.000 lake swap support and much more safe ten percent on 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.760 winning NBA DFS advice with promo code dunk. Visit Daily 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:26.760 road dot com backslash dunk to learn more. I'm calling 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:32.240 and I can get off inside injuries with Virginia Zakis. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:37.560 But a scratch, scratch, arms off. That's out of the week, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:42.280 Week sixteen. Your championship is online and I break it 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.760 down with us. It's Virginia Zagas of inside injuries. What's 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.000 happened Virginia? Hey guys, how's it going good? How are 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.000 you how here? How are you hanging in there? Hanging 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.200 in there? Got the go ahead today to start trying 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.640 to h do a little bit of walking. So looking 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.520 forward to that. All right, the little things, the little 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:04.200 things exactly put it in perspective. Absolutely. Let's start where 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.479 we've been talking about the whole show, Virginia, and that's 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.919 what's going on in Minnesota. Where Dalvin Cook re injured 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.560 his shoulder, made his shoulder worse, whatever you want to 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.600 call it, but he is significantly hampered by that shoulder 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:21.439 injury once again. Alexander Madison still out with his ankle injury, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.840 which means on Monday Night Football it may be all 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.760 about Mike Boone Virginia One. Are the chances that either 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.440 Dalvin Cook or Alexander Madison play on Monday how significant 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.800 or both of these two injuries. Yes, there's been some 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.120 conflicting reports on Dalvin Cook. Um. Some people have said, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:39.560