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Tailgate Show presented by Odyssey Exteriors -The 2026 Season Starts on Sunday · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network tailgate show.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, with you tonight.
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  I'm so excited.
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  The football season is about to begin.
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  We only got a few more days left before Skullfest happening September 12, and the
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  Vikings home opener Sunday the thirteenth against the hated Green Bay Packers.
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  We're excited.
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  A word from our sponsors, and we'll be right back.
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  Well, welcome back everyone to another exciting episode of the Tailgate Show.
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  I am finally back.
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  My studio is only 85 degrees today, so I am I am stoked.
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  I am so ready for fall, guys.
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  Not only is it cooling off, but it's heating up on the field.
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  B, how are you doing tonight, brother?
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  Thanks for holding the fort down all summer.
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  No.
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  You know, I do what I can.
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  Sorry.
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  We did we're consistent, but, hey.
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  A lot of things happen in the summertime.
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  It is getting fall.
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  It's getting the end of baseball season.
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  Basketball's heating up.
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  We're getting ready to start football.
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  We're just, what, less than twenty four hours away from a start of a kickoff.
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  My birthday is around the corner, so it it's time to go.
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  Yep.
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  Well, we couldn't be more excited.
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  I couldn't be more excited to see this guy in the building with us too.
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  What's up, coach?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm timing your first.
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  What's going on, fellas?
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  We're gonna be talking about that, b.
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  I promise you.
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  That's huge news.
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  I love that card too.
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  That that's gonna be worth money.
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  But how we doing, fellas?
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  We ready?
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  We ready, man.
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  It's gonna be a big weekend.
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  Skullfest happening September 12.
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  We'll be doing our preview show, really diving into the game that will be that day as well as
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  sharing all the great vibes from Skullfest happening at the Crooked Pint in Minneapolis.
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  That's right on Washington Avenue.
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  And then on Sunday, we're going just down the road a few blocks to 903 Washington where the
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  VWO Army tailgate will be happening.
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  We will be there broadcasting our pregame show live.
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  Really excited about this weekend, man.
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  We finally get to show everybody what we're capable of, get to realize a few of these
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  dreams that we've been working on kind of in secret for quite some time.
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  So really excited, not just for the football season to commence, but for really the the
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  essence of what SPSN is and the tailgate show to finally show itself in real life.
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  No.
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  Definitely, it's gonna be fun.
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  Can't wait.
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  Got it off.
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  I'm definitely excited to be that guy.
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  Get closer to the list per se as to what's your name Packer game live.
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  This will be the closest I have.
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  Who knows about the ticket my price range.
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  I may attend the game, but, you know, just take baby steps to follow our dreams.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  B, you're completely right.
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  And, you know, it's crazy that we really and it really hasn't even been a year, but the
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  consistency of the drive, the passion that we all have, Bubba is doing huge amount of work
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  behind the scenes.
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  You know, big props to you.
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  But, you know, it's it's all coming together, and, this is it's starting to turn into what we
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  envisioned when we started.
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  Even though when we did start, it was kinda just like, hey.
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  Let's have a place where the casual fan can come and feel, accepted and welcomed and, free
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  to speak their mind, and now it's turned into something either bigger, but we're keeping that
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  same, mentality.
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  It's gonna be really fun to go and connect with a lot of these people in person that we've been
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  having on the show, right, to finally get to meet Rap and SK and Rob Haspels and and all
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  these guys that we've been forming these relationships with and to finally be able to go
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  out there, meet them in person, bring them on to the show, really show what we can do in a
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  live broadcast setting, not having to deal with Internet issues at least between our feeds and
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  different, you know, problems that we've been struggling through.
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  And I think pretty gracefully that we've been doing so, but now we're able to bring that to a
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  real, you know, kinda studio experience almost.
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  And not that there's not going to be bumps along the way there as well, But to get to do
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  this together with all of us in the same room, sitting at that same table, we've never had the
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  chance to do that.
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  You know?
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  We've never even been in the same room together, the three of us.
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  Cody, obviously, we got a chance to meet, you you know, up there in Hinckley before, and, b,
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  we got to go and and do the unreal celebrity softball game back in May together.
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  But all three of us have never been in a room together, and I think that's I think that's
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  what I'm looking forward to more than anything is the being together with my brothers and with
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  all these other Vikings fans this weekend.
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  It's really gonna be a lot of fun.
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  And speaking of being back together and getting the band back together, Harrison Smith returned
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  it to the Vikings on a one year deal.
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  The hitman is back.
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  We're not breaking any news to any Vikings fans here tonight, but how excited are you, B, to
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  see 22 coming back onto the field this football season?
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  Well, I I think it's it's definitely one of those things that I'm excited because now we
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  know where the leaders are gonna be, the captain of that defense.
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  Depending on how much he's gonna play, but I I still think he's gonna be the captain that boys
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  on the defense.
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  He's gonna get those guys together, maybe groom who the next captain will be.
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  But, no.
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  Definitely excited.
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  I think we all figured that it was going to happen after training camp a week or two before
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  the season started.
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  He I think it was three days ago, roughly.
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  So
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  Do b, do you think it's an issue do you think it's an issue and maybe they dropped the ball
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  or it was planned this way that the captains were already selected before Harrison steps
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  back into the room to maybe do exactly what you're talking about, to bring in that new, you
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  know, leadership to give a guy Mhmm.
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  You know, like a Metellus or somebody in there to give them that role and then to have
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  Harrison kinda be not necessarily an understudy, obviously.
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  He's never gonna be that.
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  But it allow him to kinda be in a not the man and still being there, being able to guide that
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  next realm of that next role of leaders.
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  Right?
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  That next class of leadership, so to speak.
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  No.
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  I I think I think it was perfect.
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  I mean, maybe they dropped the ball.
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  Maybe they did it on purpose, but I definitely think he's there to mentor the defensive side.
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  Honestly, you know, just give voice to the captains of the office society.
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  Just show them, you know, what the Viking lockers all in the way of being a Viking.
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  Coach, what are your thoughts?
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  I mean, I love it.
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  I think it's extremely important for the defense.
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  Just having that veteran presence, you know, in the defensive backfield, in the secondary, is
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  gonna help a ton.
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  Having him and Mattelis on the field at the same time is gonna be huge.
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  I think it was planned.
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  I mean, two is 36, 35, maybe even 37.
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  He's old.
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  Let's just say that.
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  And I just you know, he's proven his his work throughout the years.
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  He didn't have to go through a training camp.
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  He wasn't gonna go through a training camp or preseason.
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  It just strictly be ready for the season itself.
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  He knows BFLOW's defense, and, you know, we're we're probably not gonna use them as much as we
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  have in the past, obviously.
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  But, you know, packages that he does have that BFLOW has for him, I mean, I bet this was
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  planned in the works.
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  They were just waiting for a day.
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  You know?
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  Think that Harrison Smith has been in contact with the Vikings and knowing some of the new
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  schemes and packages that Buffalo has offered this year.
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  Well and it's it's no secret that they've been talking.
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  Right?
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  O'Connell has put it out there on on Dan Patrick's show and their own podcast that he's
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  been in communication with Harrison this entire time.
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  But do you feel like the Jamal Adams injury turned it from a it'd be nice to have you back
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  to like, hey, dude.
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  Get your ass off the couch.
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  We need you.
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  A 100%.
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  A 100%.
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  I think it was a, you know, the case type of thing.
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  And then they signed Jamal Adams, and it turned into even more like, hey.
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  If we need you, be ready.
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  And then as soon as Jamal Adams went down, that's when it really turned into, like, oh,
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  shit.
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  Then we should probably we should probably get this wheel turning.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  And I I think the cap hit was, like, 12 and a half up to 16 and a half with incentives and
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  different things like those.
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  And I I I didn't get all the details on it just because simply I don't care.
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  He's back.
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  That's the important thing.
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  I don't you know, f a cap is something that my buddy draft doctor Phil says a lot because
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  there's machinations behind the scenes that we don't see.
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  And a lot of things that even Nolan Teasley kinda referenced in his in his kind of post
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  preseason press conference, right, was like, look.
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  There there we look at this as a 70 man roster.
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  Yes.
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  We've dressed 53 for the day, but there's a lot of inner workings in the way you can use that
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  practice squad, not necessarily to hide guys, but to play that and timings of things.
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  Maybe why they kept four quarterbacks until a few days after, and then you kinda start to
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  move guys up and down and and make moves like you have.
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  Were there any surprise cuts for you, B, as far as getting down to the 53 man roster?
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  Was there somebody that ended up kind of, you know, going to the practice squad or getting
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  cut from the team completely that you thought really had a shot at playing on the team this
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  year?
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  I don't mean I'm trying to think about my head.
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  It just it you're came in and popped out.
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  Let me look at the cuts here.
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  I'll do it up to, but the receiver that kinda stuck out was
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  Yeah.
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  Bee, you're kinda dropping out there.
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  We got some technical difficulties on Bee's end.
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  We'll have to get back, to him.
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  But I I think the, the the big one for me, I guess, would be Dylan Bell, which I know he
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  wasn't an immediate cut, but kind of a casualty as they started adding guys.
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  Maybe been a casualty of the Van Noy signing eventually.
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  Yep.
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  Just because the guy gets cut or put on the practice squad or then cut from the practice
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  squad doesn't mean that they can't come back onto the team.
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  I think what was most notable to me be besides, like, who got cut is that nobody got claimed on
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  waivers from this team throughout the whole process.
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  Coach, what does that say to you about the lack of depth that this Vikings team continues to
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  have a problem with?
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  Well, I mean, I don't think I I can remember a year where we didn't have anybody claimed off
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  waivers.
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  Not one person.
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  You know, it's definitely eye eye popping.
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  It's glaring.
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  You know, you would figure you know, as a coach and I'm sure KOC has touched up on this, but,
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  you know, at the very beginning, you got over eighty, ninety players.
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  And your goal as a coach is to have every single one of them players to be on an NFL
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  roster by the time the season starts, whether it's yours or another team's.
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  I just we gotta get depth.
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  We gotta get depth.
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  I was shocked.
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  Not shocked, but that the punter, Hacker, when we released him I know we got this rookie.
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  All we needed to do was watch him hold, but, I mean, laces out, buddy, especially in the
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  playoffs to come, like, late fall.
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  He laces out, and that's all I gotta say.
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  Well and with Hacker not going to another team, you've had him in the locker room.
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  There's obviously been conversations much in the same way probably.
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  It's like, hey.
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  If you're available and this kid either gets hurt or just isn't cutting it, you're our first
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  phone call.
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  And you have to imagine that things like that are are happening as well and that that it's
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  there.
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  Alright.
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  We got b on his cell phone now.
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  We'll see
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  if that's a little bit better.
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  B, is that a little bit better?
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  Yeah.
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  It it should be yeah.
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  My oh, yeah.
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  That's much better.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  My my Internet service has been kinda wacky ever since we had that power outage last week
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  coding.
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  So
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  I feel you.
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  I feel
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  you.
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  But yeah.
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  No.
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  I Big b, what were you saying about, your biggest, shock?
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  So I I think, there was a receiver, and I think Bubba hit his name that I I kinda thought was a
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  little shocked that we didn't keep him.
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  But, overall, I just think keeping the four quarterbacks kinda threw me for a loop, which
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  made me really start thinking that they had some kind of plan for Harris and Smith.
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  And then all the rumblings that, you know, talk about JJ getting cut and traded, you know,
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  still kind of shocked that he's still a part of the team.
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  So it's kinda interesting to see what's gonna happen.
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  But, you know, without seeing a lot of preseason games and just seeing highlights, I
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  mean, you know you know, they they did what they could and made room.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, hey.
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  What's up, Paul?
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  Paul Schlothalg is the fourth musketeer.
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  Hey.
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  Paul will be with us producing everything behind the scenes for us both at Skullfest and
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  at the at the pregame show.
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  Paul, I haven't got a chance to talk to you about it yet, but we've we've been kicking
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  around the idea of maybe a halftime show as well.
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  So if you wanna hang out a little bit longer, I I know there's gonna be a crowd over at the VWO
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  tailgate kinda hanging out during that time.
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  I may be one of them.
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  I don't have the money for a ticket either.
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  So unless a miracle happens, which, you know, we're always open to, I'll probably be watching
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  with everybody from the VWO army tailgate as well and and happy to do so.
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  Right?
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  It's about being in the city.
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  It's about being there.
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  And, honestly, I don't wanna be in the stadium if this whole Kyler Murray thing goes tits up
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  in game one.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, that that that is something that I know we're gonna talk about it a little bit,
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  definitely dive into it this weekend.
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  But, yeah, the the quarterback play is gonna be probably a big con big talk about for the next
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  few weeks.
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  And how can it not be?
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  I mean, KOC has put all of his eggs in this basket.
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  I I think it's something the way things have played out, it looked exactly like a lot of us
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  kinda thought it would no matter what they were, you know, saying kinda talking out of the
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  side of their neck, all preseason and off season long.
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  But, we will, we will definitely see.
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  Paul, appreciate that.
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  I've been racking my brain about this too.
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  I can't afford Starlink yet, but that's definitely on the horizon when we talk about
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  doing more of these remote broadcast with the Internet issues.
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  We're having issues with hardline Internet right now.
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  So it gotta be gotta be on our toes all the time.
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  You the quarterback is still gonna be a huge massive question, I think, for the better part
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  of this first half of the season.
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  Right?
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  I think up until the trade deadline.
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  And you mentioned JJ McCarthy.
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  Look.
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  There's no value for this kid right now.
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  You did yourself no favor signing Kyler Murray.
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  You did yourself no favors with your off season program.
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  You did yourself no favors in the preseason.
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  So the the the coaching staff and the front office are really to blame for the situation
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  that they are in right now.
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  Holy.
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  Whether JJ McCarthy ends up being a bust, the kid can't stay healthy.
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  Although this last injury is leaving some questions out there.
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  Was he hurt?
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  Is he not hurt?
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  Are we protecting something here?
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  Is he protecting himself?
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  Right?
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  I think there was a lot of grumblings last year about him not being necessarily was was not
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  necessarily too hurt to play, but him playing damaged the team.
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  Right?
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  I I think what I think back to is that Giants game and the hand injury.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  That he had hurt the hand on a prior play, didn't say anything about it, and then went
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  back out there and ended up fumbling the ball and and having it cost the team down the road.
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  To me, I thought it was a little bit of a sign of maturity.
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  You're asking this kid to develop.
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  You're asking him to be more mature.
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  So he finally steps up and says, hey, man.
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  You know what?
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  Maybe I'm not okay to go.
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  I've tried it.
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  I don't feel like I'm a 100% out there.
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  So you see a little bit of change, and then everybody buries him anyway.
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  So it's really hard to figure out what the hell is going on all the time with this.
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  The relationship between KOC and the the JJ McCarthy, there's no value.
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  Do you really cut someone like this just to get rid of this?
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  It doesn't feel to me that JJ is a cancer in the locker room.
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  I I don't know, you know, internally.
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  There hasn't really been any grumblings or things coming out as far as that.
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  The only problem seems to be really between the head coach and your starting quarterback of
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  last season.
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  Right?
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  So the the the smart play to me, the kids under contract for two more years are are you know,
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  this year and another one at least.
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  I I don't think you see a fifth year option on this, at least what we've seen so far.
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  Things can change.
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  Kyler Murray has a problem staying healthy as well, but the, you know, the the prudent thing
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  to me as a front office would be if there's anything to this kid as a football player that
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  you do your damnedest to try and develop that football player.
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  That is what your job is as a head coach and a coaching staff.
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  That's Josh McCown.
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  That is your offense court.
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  That is everybody inside of that room.
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  You know, I'm not necessarily putting it on a Kyler Murray to help this young kid develop.
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  That's not what he's here for, but maybe a Carson Wentz.
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  Right?
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  And you don't hear anyone talk poorly about JJ McCarthy, at least off the field, I I feel
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  like, besides maybe the coach who has some remarks here and there.
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  You know what?
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  And I've talked about this before, you know, not ad nauseam, but we've touched on it.
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  Does does KOC hate the thought of JJ McCarthy more than he even hates the the actual man?
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  Right?
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  I don't wanna call him a kid.
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  He's 23 years old now.
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  Right?
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  Does he hate the thought of somebody who kind of had it maybe handed to him a little bit?
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  Maybe was a champion.
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  I haven't done a deep dive on KOC's career, but I don't feel like he was ever the man.
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  He's always been the understudy or the guy on the verge of getting cut.
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  Does he hate the idea of somebody who thinks that they should have these things?
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  Maybe has a little bit of entitlement to them because of their track record in high school,
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  college, and coming in.
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  And maybe that's a reason that and something that in his own ego, KOC can't get over.
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  Go ahead, Big B.
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  You got it first.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, you you made great points there, and maybe, I mean, maybe he's just kind of you
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  know, I mean, this probably goes back to last draft when we're all talking about who they're
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  gonna take, and, you know, we thought they're going one way.
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  They went and got McCarthy.
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  Some people are like, humming humming and hawing about it.
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  So, I mean, maybe he's kinda taken out what the lack of his input on last year's draft on JJ
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  too and just trying to be like, you weren't my number one pick, but, you know, you know, I I
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  just can't do nothing.
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  So pivot there to coach.
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  Coach, his job at that time was not to select the players.
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  It was to coach and develop the players that were brought to you.
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  As a head coach yourself, who I think has a pretty good track record of developing other
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  players, what say you if that should be the case?
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  I mean, that's that's my job.
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  I mean, I gotta I gotta make it happen.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  It shouldn't matter, you know, whether or not I had an easy route or if I was always looked
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  upon as the backup or, you know, just the rebound guy.
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  Just good enough, but, you know, not terrible.
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  But as a as a coach, you're just trying to find the best players at every position that'll
• 23:25
  mesh, that'll do their jobs, play for one another.
• 23:30
  You know, it's I hope that's that KOC is not looking at it like that, but you never know.
• 23:36
  He he does have an ego.
• 23:38
  We know this.
• 23:39
  But I just I hope he doesn't stoop down to that level.
• 23:48
  Well, I mean, it would be coaching malpractice, would it not, to have that ego get in the way
• 23:54
  and to not develop these players to the best of your ability because of your personal feelings
• 24:00
  towards x y z player?
• 24:02
  Mhmm.
• 24:02
  Mhmm.
• 24:03
  Yeah.
• 24:03
  I mean, shoot, I don't have to get along with you.
• 24:06
  I don't I I, you know, I don't hopefully, I like you, but if I don't, I mean, I'm it's not
• 24:12
  gonna, like, get in the way of business.
• 24:14
  It's not gonna get in the way of any playing time.
• 24:17
  Like, sure.
• 24:18
  We might not see eye to eye, but you do your job.
• 24:20
  I do my job.
• 24:21
  We're gonna be just fine.
• 24:24
  Well and and, Bobby, you're talking about KLC's count you know, stats and the thing.
• 24:30
  I I was just looking them up, and it it looked like two of his three years or four years of,
• 24:37
  you know, being the quarterback, he was always in the competition with somebody.
• 24:41
  I mean, his career, he ended up with a twelve and twenty one record, so he's not He's sucked.
• 24:47
  Yeah.
• 24:47
  Yeah.
• 24:48
  So, I mean so he under he's gotta understand what JJ is going through as a player that yeah,
• 24:55
  dude.
• 24:56
  I understand it.
• 24:57
  But I mean so, yeah, he could be minorly jealous that JJ's success being the national
• 25:03
  champion, highly recruited, you know, first overall or first round pick, you know, stuff
• 25:09
  like that.
• 25:10
  But, again, like you guys have said, and, coach, you brought it up too.
• 25:13
  You know, you're there to coach up a player.
• 25:15
  Granted, how much coaching does a player need?
• 25:17
  He's in the he's in the pros now, but, you know, you gotta set your eagle aside, and you
• 25:23
  gotta coach the team that's out there.
• 25:25
  I mean, we've heard a lot of coaches say that that, you know, this is their team.
• 25:29
  I mean, there's a great saying in Hoosiers.
• 25:32
  You know, that's my team, and, you know, I'm sticking with them.
• 25:36
  So, you know, it's you know, you just gotta do what you gotta do.
• 25:39
  But, yeah, you gotta put the ego aside and, you know, put the best product out there.
• 25:44
  Well
• 25:44
  and speaking of putting ego aside, a a lot of comments, especially on, you know, Purple Daily
• 25:50
  as, you know, Judd and Mackie and Declan were all kinda going over, you know, what the
• 25:57
  Vikings need to do to be successful this year.
• 26:00
  Right?
• 26:00
  What what is it gonna take for them to make the playoffs?
• 26:03
  And what a judge first point was honestly on that exactly that.
• 26:07
  KOC getting out of his own way as the play caller.
• 26:10
  And I think we criticized him heavily as a play caller last year.
• 26:14
  Now you made some moves in the off season.
• 26:17
  You brought in Frank Smith.
• 26:18
  You obviously brought in Kyler Murray.
• 26:21
  To do that, we saw some changes in the off season program, some different looks, pistol,
• 26:26
  which you've never seen them run at all, a new, you know, outside kinda running game.
• 26:32
  But all of that goes to shit if the guy goes right back to his same old tendencies when he
• 26:38
  gets into the game and and doing to that.
• 26:41
  Coach, can you talk a little bit about that?
• 26:44
  Right?
• 26:44
  Like, the Mike Tyson quote.
• 26:45
  Everybody's gotta play until they get punched in the mouth.
• 26:48
  And then you start to react a little bit more off of your instincts and what has worked for
• 26:52
  you in the past and not necessarily trying new stuff.
• 26:55
  If he's got 50 new plays in his book this year that he's never run before with live bullets,
• 27:03
  and then he has his 100 tried and true or however successful, you know, they have been to
• 27:08
  whatever degree that he is his confident in.
• 27:12
  Is this man going to have the balls to call the plays that the rest of his that are going to
• 27:19
  make the team successful over what he believes will work if he was the quarterback?
• 27:24
  Because I still think that that's how he calls every single game as if he were the one with
• 27:29
  the helmet on.
• 27:30
  I think it's gonna be tough.
• 27:32
  I think you're you're completely right.
• 27:33
  I think he still is trying to really relive his quarterback days.
• 27:39
  You know?
• 27:40
  As a
• 27:40
  player 21.
• 27:41
  Yeah.
• 27:41
  Can't wait to relive those.
• 27:43
  You're right.
• 27:43
  Right.
• 27:45
  You know, as a player turn coach, hey.
• 27:48
  It's hard to it's hard to get out of that player mindset.
• 27:51
  I'm not gonna lie.
• 27:52
  I just watched a YouTube video on Levyon Bell and his running style because I absolutely love
• 28:00
  his running style, just how patient he was.
• 28:03
  And he was saying, you know, all throughout high school, college, everything, coach trying
• 28:09
  to change his running style until he got to the Steelers and Mike Tomlin saw it.
• 28:15
  First first day, he was like, it looks just how it does on tape.
• 28:19
  Lebian was like, yeah.
• 28:20
  Like, I'd tell the coaches what they wanna hear, but when it comes you know, just in
• 28:25
  practice because I wanna play, when it come to game came to game time, like, he's back to his
• 28:30
  running style.
• 28:31
  I just think that, you know, KOC, he he he loves to just hulk that ball left and right,
• 28:38
  loves to pass, but you drafted a quarterback who handed off 80% of the time in college.
• 28:44
  Nope.
• 28:44
  Right?
• 28:45
  And then you expect something different?
• 28:46
  Like, it's
• 28:49
  just Well and beyond that, now you have hand Kyler Murray who is, I I would say, this point
• 28:55
  in his career, almost incapable of pushing the ball down the field like KOC wants to.
• 29:00
  So if somebody's gonna change their stripes, it sure as hell ain't gonna be Kyler Murray.
• 29:05
  In fact, we already know or else we wouldn't have to put a clause in there for, film time
• 29:11
  and less Madden and Call of Duty.
• 29:13
  You know what I'm saying?
• 29:14
  Well and that's the thing too.
• 29:16
  As coaches, you know, Cody, you could probably be the one that testify most of this is you
• 29:22
  gotta adjust your play calling and your game plan to the talent you got around you.
• 29:26
  I mean, if you don't got quick receivers that can catch the ball, you're not gonna call, you
• 29:32
  know, 60% of your pass plays.
• 29:34
  You're gonna probably rely on the run a little bit more.
• 29:37
  You know?
• 29:37
  So and that I think also goes to the the five guys up front too in the offensive line.
• 29:43
  You know?
• 29:44
  I mean, you know, you gotta adjust that around too.
• 29:46
  Each one of those guys down by, like, three inches so Kyler can see over them?
• 29:50
  Well, and that and that's the whole thing is I've been I mean, I've even brought that up,
• 29:54
  you know, just the conversation at work, and everybody said the same thing.
• 29:57
  Well, that's why you brought Kyler Murray in because he can scramble.
• 30:00
  Well, JJ can also scramble to it and so can Wentz a little bit, but, you know, if the Lions
• 30:06
  still can't protect, I mean, you're gonna be running around for with, you know, your head
• 30:09
  cut off a lot of times.
• 30:11
  I mean, they gotta give them that, you know, four, five, six seconds to let the play
• 30:16
  develop.
• 30:16
  Yeah.
• 30:17
  Not not in this NFL.
• 30:19
  You're gonna get three and a half seconds in a clean pocket.
• 30:21
  Right?
• 30:22
  If you get if you get three seconds in this day and age in the NFL, you better be able to make
• 30:27
  something happen.
• 30:28
  And if you need four or five seconds for a play to develop and you don't have, you know, you
• 30:34
  know, what Trent Williamson, right, in his prime maybe four or five years ago, you don't
• 30:39
  have that guy anchoring on your tackle spots and guys that can keep the pocket clean, then
• 30:44
  you need to adjust your playbook.
• 30:45
  And I guess that's kind of the point that I'm making is that the the tiger has to change his
• 30:50
  stripes, and that tiger is Kevin O'Connell, the play caller.
• 30:53
  I I think as a head coach, there's not there's nothing that he needs to change.
• 30:56
  His leadership style obviously works.
• 30:58
  The wolves love him.
• 31:00
  The players seem to respect him.
• 31:02
  He has a rapport with these guys maybe because he's been in these locker rooms and he's been a
• 31:06
  player.
• 31:07
  Right?
• 31:07
  There's that endearing quality, but he he needs to adjust his entire whatever his game plan was
• 31:14
  for the last five years of calling plays, pretty much throw all of that in the trash can
• 31:20
  and forget it.
• 31:21
  It doesn't exist.
• 31:22
  This team that you have now and this quarterback that you have hand selected now to
• 31:27
  lead your team are incapable of doing any of that old stuff.
• 31:31
  Yep.
• 31:31
  And I I just that's the biggest question mark to me.
• 31:35
  I think Kyler Murray can be successful, but he's not gonna be running what we've seen out
• 31:40
  of a KOC system.
• 31:42
  Yeah.
• 31:42
  I would say it's almost statistically impossible for that to happen.
• 31:46
  And I'll be very curious to see what it looks like coming out against Green Bay.
• 31:50
  Thank god Michael Parsons is not on the freaking field.
• 31:53
  Right?
• 31:53
  Because I I think if that's I think if that's the case, the line on this is probably, like,
• 31:58
  six or seven points to the packers.
• 32:01
  I don't know what the lines came out be, and maybe you can look that up, what they're at
• 32:04
  right now.
• 32:04
  I gotta assume that this game's damn
• 32:06
  near pick up.
• 32:07
  Believe it's I believe it's a point and a half Yeah.
• 32:12
  That's a up game.
• 32:13
  Yeah.
• 32:13
  Yeah.
• 32:14
  It's a that's a pick up, man.
• 32:15
  Like, it doesn't one and a half points is is nothing.
• 32:19
  Right?
• 32:19
  So they they they know it's gonna be close.
• 32:21
  I think if Micah Parsons is in this game, that's a three point swing Oh, yeah.
• 32:25
  On its own Yeah.
• 32:27
  Very easily.
• 32:28
  So and I think the Green Bay packers have a lot of questions on their side.
• 32:32
  We're gonna dig into a lot more of this game specifically and, you know, the packers and and
• 32:37
  the matchup on Saturday.
• 32:39
  We're gonna be bringing in other creators because we're gonna be live at Skullfest,
• 32:43
  another quick shout out for our guys.
• 32:46
  You know what?
• 32:47
  It seems like a lot of people are high on the Kyler Murray effect for this team.
• 32:52
  I am more in the wait and see bucket for sure.
• 32:58
  Yeah.
• 32:58
  No.
• 32:58
  Me too.
• 33:00
  You know, he's he's not gonna be like Kirk Cousins standing in that pocket, taking a hit
• 33:07
  while throwing.
• 33:08
  He everyone's is so hung up on the fact that he could make these plays last seven seconds plus.
• 33:15
  But, I mean, guys gotta drop back five steps and then start to roll out to either side just
• 33:22
  just so he can see the wide receivers and where they break.
• 33:26
  So, I mean, it's gonna be it's gonna be extremely intriguing to see who gives up, their
• 33:37
  pride, I guess, first.
• 33:38
  Is it gonna be KOC giving up and being like, hey.
• 33:42
  Who's that?
• 33:43
  I this is who I got a quarterback, or is it gonna be Kyler?
• 33:47
  Is that Cody?
• 33:48
  Who is that?
• 33:48
  Oh, I'm gonna get it.
• 33:50
  Was.
• 33:51
  I'm gonna get it.
• 33:54
  So the spread is Minnesota on ESPN.
• 33:56
  It's Minnesota minus a point and a half.
• 33:59
  Total, points is 46 and a half.
• 34:02
  So, you know
• 34:06
  23.
• 34:07
  That probably makes sense.
• 34:08
  I mean, each team gets, two touchdowns and maybe a couple of field goals or or the team
• 34:14
  that scores, you know, three touchdowns and a field goal wins is kind of how they're looking
• 34:19
  at this.
• 34:19
  I I think the Green Bay defense is still gonna be rather stout.
• 34:23
  Now they did did now did they lose their defensive coordinator or the offensive
• 34:26
  coordinator this year?
• 34:27
  The offensive coordinator is the one that left to go to Miami, or was that the defense?
• 34:34
  That I don't know offhand.
• 34:36
  Let me see if Let's I see.
• 34:39
  Regardless,
• 34:40
  you can save it for Saturday too, B.
• 34:42
  Really wanted to kinda bone in on on our team and and what we're building here.
• 34:47
  And we're gonna dig into some more of this stuff too, but I just wanna make a quick
• 34:50
  announcement to everybody.
• 34:52
  Now you know that we've been on Booms TV two point o for the last several months.
• 34:57
  We love what we've built over there, but the time has come to really break this SPSN off
• 35:02
  into its own thing.
• 35:04
  So we are now on Roku as the Scene Project Sports Network.
• 35:09
  You're gonna be able to search SPSN as soon as tomorrow on your Roku devices.
• 35:15
  That's so amazing.
• 35:16
  Rolling.
• 35:17
  We pulled the trigger on it.
• 35:19
  So you're gonna find all of our Scene Project Sports Network content on Roku, Amazon Fire TV,
• 35:25
  very soon.
• 35:26
  Definitely looking to have it locked in before we head out to Skullfest on Saturday.
• 35:31
  And and really getting this ball rolling, it couldn't have come at a better time as football
• 35:35
  season is here now.
• 35:37
  We have some great sponsors with Odyssey Exteriors and some really great creators like
• 35:41
  rap from the vocal bike.
• 35:43
  SK has his own podcast going on.
• 35:46
  We've had Dell on recently who's on with a bunch of his guys.
• 35:51
  I love that we're bringing all the creators together, and we really hope to bring them on
• 35:55
  and to give everyone one home to live under and to get away from the algorithms and to really
• 36:00
  build a solid community here.
• 36:01
  So if you're watching this on the replay, do me a favor.
• 36:05
  Go on to Roku device or an Amazon Fire device.
• 36:09
  Go ahead and search for the Scene Project Sports Network.
• 36:12
  Search e s SPSN and see if we pop up.
• 36:16
  And if we do, please download that app for us and make sure that you're getting all of our
• 36:20
  content there and watching us on your TV.
• 36:23
  I promise you, I'm even better looking on the big screen.
• 36:31
  Love it.
• 36:32
  I love it.
• 36:32
  How excited are you guys for this?
• 36:35
  Because I know I'm excited.
• 36:36
  This is something I've been working at for almost a year.
• 36:39
  But how excited are you to to not just be able to go to another app and to find our content on
• 36:45
  there, but to now see something that you guys have worked your asses off with me, over the
• 36:50
  course of the last nine months as well to now see SPSN with its own platform out there on the
• 36:56
  big screen.
• 36:58
  Well, Voto oh, go ahead, Voto.
• 37:00
  You start.
• 37:01
  I was just gonna say, I know, know, when you're in the lab, you ain't got AC in there.
• 37:07
  It gets pretty hot during the summer.
• 37:10
  There are a few episodes where, you know, I was opening the upstairs, and our AC went out,
• 37:16
  especially during them 100 degree days.
• 37:18
  And it makes them sweat just sweat and beads of sweat on camera worth it because we persevered.
• 37:27
  I had to do what we had to do.
• 37:29
  I'm excited.
• 37:30
  I'm I'm excited I get to finally go like, come to an event.
• 37:34
  I'm gonna be ready.
• 37:35
  I'm gonna be in Florida and all that.
• 37:37
  So I'm excited to see you guys.
• 37:40
  I'm excited to bring that $20 in that case up there too.
• 37:45
  So you already know what's up.
• 37:48
  I gotta get her off my back.
• 37:50
  Gotta get it off my back.
• 37:51
  You you better do something.
• 37:54
  You better do something.
• 37:55
  B, how does it feel for you that this has been a lifelong dream?
• 37:59
  And I know broadcasting the unreal celebrity softball game was one of those.
• 38:03
  But now, you know, knowing that, you know, not just your work here with the tailgate show, but
• 38:09
  you're hosting several other shows.
• 38:11
  You have rank them.
• 38:12
  You have beyond the bell.
• 38:13
  You have so much that you're contributing to the network right now.
• 38:16
  And, really, you're a huge reason of why I'm even able to take this swing to know that we
• 38:21
  have the content that's worthy of going out onto these other platforms, how does it feel
• 38:27
  for you to be a big part of this?
• 38:29
  Because I know that, you know, when you were part of the other network that there were big
• 38:33
  there were big dreams and aspirations there too, but never necessarily really got to that
• 38:37
  level.
• 38:38
  Now you see things kind of in motion, and you're a big part of that inertia.
• 38:42
  What does that feel like from your end?
• 38:44
  Yeah.
• 38:44
  Well, it definitely feels good.
• 38:46
  I mean, I've told you guys, even told the other network, you know, I'm in my mid forties.
• 38:51
  This is just a hobby of mine, but, you know, if if things come about of of it, great.
• 38:56
  I will be a part of it.
• 38:58
  I ain't going to not give a 100% of it.
• 39:01
  But, no, definitely, you know, you've gone out there.
• 39:05
  You've not taken no for an answer.
• 39:06
  You keep throwing our names out there.
• 39:08
  You're getting stuff done.
• 39:10
  I mean, you know, we joke about it.
• 39:12
  You know, I threw out there, oh, let's do a live feed of Adam Thielen's softball game, you
• 39:18
  know, just jokingly.
• 39:19
  And two days later, you asking me for contact information and so we get press passes and
• 39:24
  stuff like that.
• 39:25
  So, I mean, you know, sometimes the ball rolls quick and, you know, you're definitely the guy
• 39:30
  driving the force.
• 39:31
  And me, Cody, and everybody else are part of SPSN.
• 39:34
  I know Tim Hendrix is happy.
• 39:36
  I know Kevin Cherry, Crispy Crispy Bacon.
• 39:39
  You know, all those guys that joined me on Rankham and Beyond the Bell are definitely
• 39:44
  happy and going to be excited to, you know, spread our wings and, you know, have a channel,
• 39:52
  you know, and and stuff like that.
• 39:53
  It's all because of you, Bubba.
• 39:56
  Well, and I just wanna
• 39:56
  Christy is
• 39:57
  the resident Bears fan.
• 39:58
  Right?
• 39:59
  No.
• 39:59
  Kevin Cherry is.
• 40:01
  Oh, Kevin.
• 40:01
  Kevin Cherry.
• 40:02
  Well, yeah, we gotta get Kevin on next week for rivalry week.
• 40:06
  I I will definitely get him on.
• 40:07
  Alright.
• 40:07
  Crispy is a Dallas Cowboy fan, so we definitely give a crap about
• 40:11
  Well, he
• 40:12
  young he is how young he is, and he has he has been the
• 40:16
  same as his team is.
• 40:18
  Yeah.
• 40:18
  Since 1992 or '5 whenever they won those Super Bowls.
• 40:21
  So yeah.
• 40:23
  But, yeah, we'll definitely I'll definitely reach out to Kevin.
• 40:25
  I know he's been wanting to do a pick them show and and stuff like we did on the other network,
• 40:31
  and I'm just like, well, dude, I got the time and you know?
• 40:34
  But, yeah, we'll definitely get him on, you know, next week, and, you know, he could talk
• 40:40
  about his bears and how great, you know, he still he still got belief that Justin Fields is
• 40:45
  gonna be a great quarterback.
• 40:46
  Because every time I get a card of Justin Fields, he wants it.
• 40:48
  So alive.
• 40:50
  So
• 40:53
  Oh, great stuff, man.
• 40:55
  Well, I I know I'm really excited, and I really appreciate you guys.
• 40:58
  And I know that I expressed that a lot off camera, really just wanted to take a chance
• 41:03
  while we're on camera here together and tell you how proud of all of you I am.
• 41:08
  You know?
• 41:08
  And that goes out to all of our fans too.
• 41:10
  Thanks for,
• 41:11
  you know,
• 41:11
  being a part of this early on.
• 41:13
  Y'all got in on the Ground Floor as something that I think is gonna be a a staple, not just
• 41:18
  in Vikings football and and other, you know, avenues.
• 41:22
  Obviously, we're covering a lot of golf right now.
• 41:25
  We have visions of an NHL show this year, an NBA show, and all of this is working in in
• 41:31
  tandem with each other.
• 41:32
  And a lot of the guys and gals that tune in are tuning into all the shows and following these
• 41:38
  creators around.
• 41:39
  So really appreciate everybody tuning in.
• 41:41
  Make sure you're subscribing.
• 41:42
  Here on YouTube is fine too.
• 41:44
  Right?
• 41:44
  We'll continue to do our live shows here as well.
• 41:47
  But, hey, if you catch it the day after, a lot of this is, you know, kinda evergreen content,
• 41:52
  ton of interviews that we've been doing.
• 41:54
  Shout out to our guy, Pods, who's done some really great ones over the last couple of weeks
• 41:58
  that will be coming out both on the podcast feed here on YouTube and over on the Roku
• 42:03
  channel as well.
• 42:04
  So talked a lot about the offense.
• 42:07
  And now I kinda wanna move to the defense because I think that, you know, on this team,
• 42:11
  as it has been for many years now, is the bright spot of this team.
• 42:16
  And maybe this year more than any, late additions, Harrison Smith, Kyle Van Noy,
• 42:22
  bringing some leadership, but I think the most exciting part to me is the youth that has been
• 42:27
  infused into this defensive front and middle.
• 42:31
  You know, I don't know how much we're gonna see the safeties.
• 42:33
  I know everybody's really excited about Chuck e d.
• 42:36
  I don't know how much playing time some of these guys are gonna see on that back end, but
• 42:40
  you're gonna see both Big Citrus and Kayla Banks on the field a ton this year, and you're
• 42:46
  gonna see Jay Galday all over the place in that linebacking core.
• 42:51
  So how excited are you, Cody, as a defensive coach, to see this infusion of young talent
• 42:57
  that feels like they were I mean, these are hand selected Brian Flores guys from the draft.
• 43:04
  Well, I mean, I'm I'm ecstatic, honestly.
• 43:09
  You had mentioned this might be one of the most exciting, defenses that we've had.
• 43:15
  You know?
• 43:16
  And I always go back to the Williams wall.
• 43:19
  You had Winfield.
• 43:20
  You had Corey Chavis back there, Brian Russell, you know, Aaron Henderson, Eric Henderson, all
• 43:29
  them guys.
• 43:29
  But, like, with this team, it just feels different.
• 43:33
  It feels like instead of the, veterans, anchoring the trenches, they're more in the
• 43:42
  linebacking court in the secondary in a way, like, yeah, we can give our two rookies a
• 43:48
  chance playing the defensive line.
• 43:52
  And if they mess up, we have the experience and the knowledge, the veteran type players to help
• 43:59
  them out if if need be.
• 44:02
  I'm excited.
• 44:03
  Wanna see how much Harrison Smith's got in the tank.
• 44:07
  I hope he gets that fortieth interception.
• 44:09
  That's the only reason why I wanted him to come back so he can get that 40.
• 44:14
  I I think 40 is an like, to get one to get one in 17 games, and he's healthy, right, by by all
• 44:22
  reporting is that he's been staying in shape during the off season.
• 44:25
  Last year coming off an injury kind of in that training camp time and and into the beginning
• 44:31
  part of the season, he really wasn't himself until maybe week four or week five.
• 44:36
  And that's when this defense really started to last season.
• 44:39
  Now you're coming in with the guy fresh and ready to go week one, hitting it against a he
• 44:44
  might get it in game one.
• 44:45
  Right?
• 44:45
  Like, you know, Jordan Love is known for throwing up a couple of lollipops This is true.
• 44:51
  During, you know, his career.
• 44:53
  So I think it's definitely possible that he gets that monkey off the back early, and and
• 44:58
  this defense is off and running.
• 45:00
  I think the biggest difference between this defense and last year's defense, where they
• 45:04
  were still a top 10 scoring or maybe top five scoring defense, that they were a little
• 45:09
  lackluster in the takeaways department, which was a mainstay of why they were so successful
• 45:13
  in 2024.
• 45:15
  A lot of credit gets thrown to Sam Darnold, but, hey, the game's a lot easier when you're
• 45:19
  playing on the other half of the field.
• 45:21
  I know.
• 45:21
  Right?
• 45:22
  And I think that's gonna be a big part.
• 45:24
  Now are they going to replicate the 36 or 37 takeaways that they generated in 2024?
• 45:30
  Maybe not.
• 45:30
  But if they take the ball away, you know, 28, 29 times, that's that's several short fields,
• 45:37
  you know, and and only say half of those are theirs.
• 45:40
  That's probably 13 chances at touchdowns because of a short change and the way that KOC
• 45:45
  likes to use that playbook in those moments to really just throw a dagger at him.
• 45:50
  Right?
• 45:50
  If you get the ball back on a short changeover, he's going for the home run right away.
• 45:54
  And do we have that in there?
• 45:57
  And may it come from the running game?
• 45:58
  Who knows?
• 45:59
  Who knows?
• 46:01
  Another player I'm really excited about this year, Dallas Turner.
• 46:05
  And, b, I'll kinda kick it to you because I know you've been high on this guy for a while.
• 46:10
  I think he proved a lot in the later part of last year.
• 46:12
  Gennard's injury injury, obviously, having something to do with his increased playing
• 46:17
  time.
• 46:18
  But now you're moving into a year where he is the man.
• 46:21
  You traded Jonathan Grenard in the offseason, prayers with him as he's dealing with an injury
• 46:26
  to start this season, makes that trade look even better at the end of the day to me,
• 46:31
  especially floating it for a second round pick that may feel like a first round pick in this
• 46:37
  next year's draft.
• 46:39
  So what are your feelings on the young Dallas Turner coming into, what, year three now after
• 46:45
  kinda setting a bar last year?
• 46:47
  Now it's about raising that bar.
• 46:50
  No.
• 46:51
  Definitely, probably one of the best picks that the old regime had GM wise was Dallas Turner.
• 47:00
  You know, he didn't have a good rookie year.
• 47:02
  He kinda you know, he kept that with the second year, but he definitely came back or, you know,
• 47:08
  came back last year, lit it on fire, started getting the playing time, getting the reps in
• 47:13
  there, making plays, you know, kinda got that development in them, learned the playbook.
• 47:20
  And once he got his chance, he never gave it back, and I hope he has that same fire this
• 47:25
  year along with Ben Ginkle.
• 47:27
  You know, you talked about Kayla Banks and Big Citrus.
• 47:30
  You know, those guys, you know, they need to build around this young talent.
• 47:36
  Like you said, Bubba, they got a kind of a fifty fifty mix here, a good veteran talent.
• 47:41
  They got some good young rookies coming up.
• 47:44
  And the thing is is the defense is only gonna get better each year, each game, you know, that
• 47:49
  these guys stick together.
• 47:50
  And I think that's one thing with football is that the longer you guys stick together, the
• 47:56
  better off you are gonna be.
• 47:57
  Coach, you might be able to shed some more light on that part of it, but I think, you
• 48:02
  know, you look at the left, you look at the right, and it's the same guy snap in, snap out.
• 48:06
  You know where they're gonna be at, and I just think Dallas Turner and, you know, the rest of
• 48:11
  those young guys are just gonna be hungry this year to show that they can play.
• 48:16
  I mean, I think it's a put up or shut up year for him.
• 48:21
  Yeah.
• 48:22
  I
• 48:22
  mean, his first year, the trash.
• 48:24
  Scraping not even scraping the bottom of the barrel.
• 48:27
  Just trash.
• 48:28
  Yep.
• 48:29
  And then, you know, he showed some showed some size.
• 48:33
  Everyone's got a high hopes for him, but, you know, NFL start stands for not for long.
• 48:40
  Yep.
• 48:41
  For sure.
• 48:41
  What have you done for me lately?
• 48:43
  Yep.
• 48:43
  And I just I believe that this is his shot.
• 48:48
  I I mean, it sucks to say, but damn.
• 48:52
  Getting rid of JJ on the offensive side and getting rid of Dallas Turner on the defensive
• 48:57
  side.
• 48:57
  Like, a lot of people might call me crazy, but both aren't doing it for me.
• 49:04
  Yeah.
• 49:05
  Well, and that and that's the thing is, Cody, is, you know, you you said the scenarios just
• 49:09
  perfectly.
• 49:10
  NFL stands for not for long or what have you done for me lately?
• 49:13
  Hey, Danielle.
• 49:15
  And that's the one thing that's changed over the years.
• 49:18
  I mean, back in the olden days, it was, you know, hey.
• 49:21
  We're gonna groom our rookies.
• 49:22
  We're gonna, you know, insert them when we can.
• 49:24
  Now it's, hey.
• 49:25
  We need to win within three years or these guys are gone, and we're gonna start fresh again.
• 49:32
  You know?
• 49:32
  So, you you know, you're definitely on the track on that one.
• 49:37
  You know, weird how it how it changed from that?
• 49:40
  It it used to be, like you said, sit them for a couple years, let them learn, and boom, throw
• 49:46
  them out.
• 49:46
  Now it's like, hey.
• 49:47
  If I draft a quarterback first round, dude better be starting.
• 49:51
  Yep.
• 49:52
  Like
• 49:52
  Which to me was never fair for Dallas Turner, especially, because he didn't play every down
• 50:00
  in college.
• 50:00
  Nope.
• 50:01
  You were drafting him on traits.
• 50:03
  You saw something in him that a young player could develop.
• 50:06
  He was super young coming into the into the league, and he was undersized.
• 50:13
  And on top of that, when you were playing him, you were playing him in the Andrew Van Ginkle
• 50:20
  role more in coverage and kinda dropping back than putting him in the Jonathan Greinhard role
• 50:27
  on the other side as your kind of pure pass rushing outside linebacker.
• 50:33
  Right?
• 50:34
  You drafted a guy coming out of a four three system on traits that you could mold.
• 50:39
  So the fact you were able to get him any kind of playing time in that rookie season to get
• 50:47
  him onto the field, I think, was a positive.
• 50:50
  And you saw the positive and the dividends that that paid in year two where he came in and
• 50:55
  really produced in that role, getting to slide over to where he was maybe more naturally
• 51:00
  inclined to play, just putting his head down and going after the quarterback.
• 51:05
  And that's the role in which he will be in this year.
• 51:08
  I think it's really clever on their part to bring in a veteran who's done it from that
• 51:14
  position for a long time in a Kyle Van Noy to be that backup to that role because I think
• 51:20
  that's exactly where he's going to be.
• 51:22
  Now there's a lot of talk about him maybe playing in more of that Van Ginkle role where I
• 51:27
  don't know if that's necessarily true.
• 51:29
  To me, I think that that Galday is probably going to be over there because you have a
• 51:34
  pretty solid middle of the defense between Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman.
• 51:39
  I don't see a lot of reps in there.
• 51:41
  Van Ginkle's a big dude, and the role he plays in kinda moving around a lot as he's getting
• 51:48
  older and up there now on the north side of 30 himself, that it it's hard for him to stay on
• 51:54
  the field.
• 51:54
  I think what we're gonna see this year is more rotation and guys staying a little bit fresher.
• 52:00
  And I think that's how you have more success in the takeaway department and in the pass rush
• 52:04
  department this year.
• 52:06
  Well and don't get me wrong.
• 52:08
  I love the signing of Kyle Van Noy.
• 52:12
  But Van Gink, the just like, from the minute we got him, his ability to be disciplined on the
• 52:21
  edge Oh.
• 52:22
  And be able to pop out and get those swing passes in this same borderline diabolical.
• 52:29
  I wanna know how many he gets this year.
• 52:32
  But I I don't see Kyle playing the outsides.
• 52:37
  These players are just too fast.
• 52:39
  They're just getting too fast this like, these days.
• 52:43
  I I don't think
• 52:44
  he's gonna I feel like he's here to to go after the quarterback to to use that, to coach a
• 52:49
  Dallas Turner into some of those moves because it is different.
• 52:52
  Right?
• 52:52
  It's different playing in that outside linebacker pass rushing role than it is playing
• 52:57
  a traditional four three end where you're kind of there to set the edge first and then go
• 53:03
  after the quarterback.
• 53:05
  That is not necessarily the case in a three four defense.
• 53:09
  And, coach, maybe you can, you know, give us a little bit of insight into the differences
• 53:13
  between those.
• 53:14
  Because while you're both expected to be pass rushers, especially off of, you know, that edge
• 53:19
  there, the responsibilities from a four three defensive end and a three four outside
• 53:27
  linebacker are quite different in those roles.
• 53:31
  Can you kind of go in-depth a little bit on that for us?
• 53:34
  Well, I mean, on a, you know, three four defense, three down linemen, four linebackers,
• 53:41
  you know, most of the time, you're gonna send four rushers.
• 53:45
  If you're blitzing, you're gonna send four plus.
• 53:48
  And so with that three down linemen said four linebackers, you know, as a quarterback, I'm
• 53:53
  looking.
• 53:54
  I know three are coming.
• 53:56
  I just don't know which is the fourth one or fifth or sixth.
• 54:00
  You know?
• 54:01
  Or is you're calling a zoo call, and you're just sending the house.
• 54:05
  Everybody's coming.
• 54:06
  But with the four three, you know you got your four down linemen, and then your three
• 54:12
  linebackers.
• 54:14
  And at that point, you know, hey.
• 54:17
  I got basically one on ones on the outside.
• 54:22
  I got tag teams on the mid in the interior, and then I got the three linebackers.
• 54:28
  Which one of these are coming?
• 54:30
  Four three, is so much easier to read than three four, obviously, because we run the three
• 54:37
  four, basically, and we get and we're stomping the quarterbacks left and right.
• 54:43
  But it's just that element of surprise, disguise, and discipline, really.
• 54:51
  You know, the pre snap showings of you know?
• 54:55
  Are you you know, I might show on blitzing, but I'm really not.
• 54:58
  Might be way back off and then run up to the line trying to time that snap count.
• 55:04
  So, I mean, there's a there's a lot that goes into it.
• 55:07
  People think that it's just one player on the moving up to the line or moving back to the
• 55:13
  linebacker, but it's so much longer.
• 55:16
  Well and and the thing is that is something that Harrelson Smith was good at was timing
• 55:20
  that.
• 55:21
  You know?
• 55:21
  So
• 55:22
  Right.
• 55:22
  Right.
• 55:23
  Well and it's really great that he's back because as Jay Ward has developed back there,
• 55:27
  you have Jacob Thomas who really flashed.
• 55:29
  You have Jacob Thomas, who who was someone that got after the quarterback in college.
• 55:34
  Now you have someone like a Harrison Smith that knows not only, you know, the the processes,
• 55:42
  but he knows intimately some of these quarterbacks and their cadences and some of
• 55:47
  these, like, really fine tuned things that are in there that he can glean and that he can
• 55:53
  teach to these younger players for players that they may be facing for the next, you know,
• 55:57
  three, four years of their careers in purple and gold as well.
• 56:01
  So I appreciate that, coach.
• 56:03
  And I think we're almost oversimplifying Brian Flores' defense by calling it a three four.
• 56:07
  Yeah.
• 56:08
  Yeah.
• 56:08
  Know.
• 56:08
  1%.
• 56:09
  Bad at all.
• 56:10
  Right?
• 56:10
  It may be a it may be a one ten.
• 56:13
  Right?
• 56:14
  And everybody's dropping, or it may be a a a nine two, and you got the house coming, and
• 56:20
  you're dropping two safeties, and you are counting on those guys getting home and just
• 56:25
  overwhelming both on the physical side, but also on the mental side because they could show
• 56:30
  they could show nine, eight, nine guys on the line of scrimmage every single play and throw
• 56:36
  you three different looks on three different downs.
• 56:39
  Right?
• 56:39
  They they could bring it on first down, give you the same look on the line of scrimmage
• 56:44
  presnap, and then drop everyone on second down and then give you some anywhere in between.
• 56:50
  Right?
• 56:50
  So, you know, a little oversimplification on our part trying to describe this, but, that's
• 56:56
  the reason that Brian Flores and this defense has been so successful for the past several
• 57:01
  seasons here.
• 57:02
  And I think this year is gonna be, one of the best ever.
• 57:05
  If maybe not on, you know, statistically, although I think it will show on the stat
• 57:10
  sheet.
• 57:11
  I think in the disruption that it will be both pre snap and post snap for opposing QBs, I'm
• 57:17
  gonna be really interested to see what the, like, opposing QBR is against this defense in
• 57:22
  this year Regardless of what the takeaways look like and the scoring defense and whatever that
• 57:27
  is, I'm gonna be how much he is in the opposing QB's heads, and I think that's going to pay
• 57:33
  serious dividends should this team make the playoffs and play some late postseason games.
• 57:42
  Well that I think that's a key factor is that defense is gonna be the strong focal point this
• 57:48
  year for us.
• 57:49
  We're gonna go as far as that defense is gonna carry us until the offense shows something
• 57:53
  different.
• 57:55
  Well and on that note, how far can that defense takes us take us?
• 58:01
  So wanna get into season win predictions.
• 58:03
  I made some bold predictions early you know, in the off season.
• 58:08
  Not necessarily we are putting them on paper at that time.
• 58:12
  But now I'd like to go.
• 58:13
  We know who this team is going to be moving forward.
• 58:16
  We know who the 53 man roster is.
• 58:18
  We know who the QB is.
• 58:20
  I'm interested to see if there's been any adjustment one way or the other in kind of
• 58:26
  where our heads are at on the eve of the season here.
• 58:30
  So, b, I'm gonna start with you.
• 58:33
  What do you think the the season win prediction is all alone, just wins and losses here?
• 58:40
  And maybe we'll do a little kinda, like, prop bet different things out here after we finish
• 58:45
  our predictions.
• 58:46
  Oh, man.
• 58:47
  That you know, it is tough because, I mean, you know, the Vikings haven't been that good of a
• 58:54
  road team.
• 58:55
  They always play better at home.
• 58:57
  They struggle against the team they should put the to, but then they play good against the
• 59:04
  teams that, you know, they had no business being in the same field with.
• 59:09
  So let me just pull up their schedule here because I wanna just see who they're playing.
• 59:15
  Where are they?
• 59:17
  I mean, I know we got the two division games, and that and that's one thing too that the
• 59:21
  division's always been a battle no matter how good or bad the teams have looked.
• 59:28
  So let's see here.
• 59:31
  So there's some games in the middle there that we should win.
• 59:38
  Let's see.
• 59:38
  17 games.
• 59:42
  You know, I I I think the over under Vegas has put it at eight and eight and a half.
• 59:49
  I'm going over
• 59:50
  over I could see I could see a nine and eight team, ten and seven team, eight and nine team.
• 59:57
  So somewhere in in that mix.
• 59:59
  I'll I'll go I'll go a lot of it's gonna depend on the first few games that we see when this
• 1:00:05
  office gets going.
• 1:00:07
  I'll go nine and nine and nine and eight.
• 1:00:16
  Nine and eight, he's saying.
• 1:00:18
  Interesting.
• 1:00:19
  So that's what I got.
• 1:00:19
  I'll go nine and eight to start to see Eric for this.
• 1:00:23
  Outside of the playoffs, unfortunately, I think you
• 1:00:27
  are muted or am I on mute?
• 1:00:28
  Double digit wins.
• 1:00:29
  We were right there last year without any kind of ties or or anything like that happening.
• 1:00:35
  I think it's gonna be really tough to
• 1:00:36
  Bubba, I think I lost you.
• 1:00:39
  Did you?
• 1:00:41
  I can't hear you, Bubba.
• 1:00:44
  Well, that's unfortunate.
• 1:00:46
  Did my cat unplug my stuff?
• 1:00:49
  Let me check my settings.
• 1:00:51
  One, two.
• 1:00:51
  My mic seems to be working.
• 1:00:53
  Wonder if it's on your end.
• 1:00:54
  Cody, we'll bring you back in.
• 1:00:56
  Cody, can you hear me?
• 1:00:57
  Of course.
• 1:00:57
  A 100%.
• 1:00:59
  Okay.
• 1:01:00
  I don't know what happened with b.
• 1:01:03
  B, hang loose.
• 1:01:04
  I'm sorry you can't hear me, but Paul says he can hear me, so we're all good.
• 1:01:08
  B, maybe try going out and coming back in.
• 1:01:11
  We'll get it figured out here.
• 1:01:12
  So, coach, we'll kick it to you next.
• 1:01:14
  I got the schedule up on the screen.
• 1:01:17
  Kinda doing win and loss.
• 1:01:18
  B said nine and eight is where he expects this Vikings team to finish.
• 1:01:23
  What, what do you think that, this Vikings team is capable of this year?
• 1:01:29
  I mean, I'm not too far I'm not too far from big b.
• 1:01:35
  I think we're at least a double digit winning team.
• 1:01:38
  I'm saying, at least 11, eleven and six.
• 1:01:43
  We'll see how or eleven and five.
• 1:01:47
  You know?
• 1:01:48
  Eleven and
• 1:01:48
  six.
• 1:01:48
  Yeah.
• 1:01:49
  17 games.
• 1:01:50
  Yep.
• 1:01:51
  We'll see how it turns out if if we can stay healthy.
• 1:01:55
  If Kyler Murray can stay healthy, Aaron Jones can stay healthy, our wide receivers, o line,
• 1:02:03
  give JJ time to throw to JJ.
• 1:02:07
  We gotta make him happy this year, or it's absolutely ugly.
• 1:02:13
  I got
• 1:02:14
  a hot take.
• 1:02:15
  I got a hot take.
• 1:02:16
  Just Oh.
• 1:02:16
  Sue.
• 1:02:17
  I I so hear me out, fellas.
• 1:02:20
  Juwala Adams, he was gonna be that, safety linebacker type, kind of that pepper.
• 1:02:28
  Is that a hybrid?
• 1:02:31
  I almost think that we might throw Harrison Smith in that role.
• 1:02:36
  Just I mean, Harry the head man, he's he's got pop a little slower.
• 1:02:41
  So, I mean, he's still athletic enough to cover, tight ends.
• 1:02:46
  I'm that's what I would do.
• 1:02:49
  Just throw a
• 1:02:49
  lot of football.
• 1:02:50
  Smaller than Jamal Adams, was Yeah.
• 1:02:53
  And is.
• 1:02:54
  Right?
• 1:02:55
  No.
• 1:02:55
  Sorry.
• 1:02:55
  I don't think that, that's I think his playing time is gonna be limited.
• 1:02:59
  How crazy is it that they have three late starts in the first five games?
• 1:03:05
  Yeah.
• 1:03:05
  A lot of not a lot of 01:00 or or, you know you know, noon starts for us here on school time.
• 1:03:12
  There's only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven games, maybe another one with that bears
• 1:03:20
  game being TBD depending on where they're at at the end of the season, what that game's gonna
• 1:03:26
  look like.
• 1:03:26
  They don't even have a date selected for that yet because it could be really important or it
• 1:03:31
  could mean absolutely nothing at all.
• 1:03:32
  Free.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah.
• 1:03:33
  I mean, they got we got three three 03:00 games in the first before our bye week, so that's
• 1:03:39
  nice.
• 1:03:39
  And four primetime games.
• 1:03:41
  Right?
• 1:03:41
  So I think that schedule makers the schedule makers looked at this team and whether it was,
• 1:03:48
  you know, the the Kyler Murray signing or, you know, just seeing what this is.
• 1:03:53
  Maybe they just make for great television.
• 1:03:55
  Right?
• 1:03:56
  And and they draw and Vikings fans tune in.
• 1:03:59
  Right?
• 1:03:59
  You're not putting the Raiders on prime time.
• 1:04:02
  So, you know, maybe that is something to deal with it, but I wonder if that's gonna have an
• 1:04:06
  effect on this team because you're not really able to really lock into a rhythm.
• 1:04:11
  Right?
• 1:04:11
  You're not able to get into a flow necessarily.
• 1:04:14
  Now they don't go overseas this year.
• 1:04:16
  They stay in the central time zone, but they do go to Mexico, which playing at seven thousand
• 1:04:21
  plus feet down there in Mexico City is gonna be a crazy game with the forty niners.
• 1:04:28
  That one on NBC, Sunday, November 22.
• 1:04:31
  That's gonna be a real fun one to watch there.
• 1:04:34
  You know, for me, I had said early on I thought this team could could win 12 games in the
• 1:04:40
  offseason.
• 1:04:41
  That was assuming that you had some continuity.
• 1:04:44
  That was looking at how they won nine games last year against a very strong strength of
• 1:04:49
  schedule and saying, okay.
• 1:04:51
  They can can they win three more games the following year with stability at quarterback
• 1:04:57
  with, you know, kind of running back the same, you know, the same players out there, maybe
• 1:05:03
  slightly different scheme change with Frank Smith.
• 1:05:06
  Now you've added a a complete wildcard into this mix with Kyler Murray because there's been
• 1:05:12
  so many changes.
• 1:05:13
  So where I felt pretty confident that they may be able to squeak out of those first five
• 1:05:19
  games, maybe at a four and one even Mhmm.
• 1:05:23
  Maybe beating your rivals who are sleeping on you a little bit early in the season, knowing
• 1:05:28
  that that defense was going to perform at a high level.
• 1:05:31
  Now I'm worried about this team going one and four out of the gate and trying to scratch
• 1:05:36
  their way back into something, you know, even being there.
• 1:05:40
  You start o and one, it's an uphill battle.
• 1:05:43
  Right?
• 1:05:44
  Like, that it it's crazy to say that game one of the season is a must win, but for this
• 1:05:49
  Vikings team to have any playoff considerations whatsoever, it truly is.
• 1:05:55
  You have to go out and beat the packers minus Micah Parsons in week one to feel any good
• 1:06:01
  vibes moving forward through the rest of the season.
• 1:06:04
  That bears game in Chicago, one, you know, noon start time, there in the Windy City, that's
• 1:06:11
  gonna be brutal.
• 1:06:12
  Playing at the Buccaneers late September, they were having heat warnings down south.
• 1:06:18
  Right?
• 1:06:18
  Extreme heat warnings still on Labor Day weekend.
• 1:06:22
  So that's gonna be a tough ask at 04:05, five zero five, or, you know, four zero five on the
• 1:06:27
  West Coast.
• 1:06:28
  It's gonna be 98 degrees down there in Tampa Bay.
• 1:06:33
  And then you have to go back the next.
• 1:06:34
  You probably stay in Florida and and practice in that heat to play Miami, or I guess you come
• 1:06:40
  back home for the Miami game.
• 1:06:41
  Yeah.
• 1:06:41
  The Miami game's here.
• 1:06:44
  But you are you got some tough stretches now.
• 1:06:46
  Do I think they kick the Fins off of the Dolphins?
• 1:06:50
  Hell yeah.
• 1:06:51
  But if you're reeling from taking three l's in a row, two division rivals, what team is
• 1:06:57
  showing up on that Sunday back at US Bank Stadium to play the Dolphins.
• 1:07:03
  So I'm I'm nervous, man.
• 1:07:05
  I'm nervous about this thing here.
• 1:07:07
  Like you, coach, I think that they get to double digit wins.
• 1:07:10
  I think they squeak out a ten and seven season.
• 1:07:14
  But is that enough to even squeak into the wild card round and to play out there?
• 1:07:21
  You don't know how these seasons are going to shape up for other teams.
• 1:07:25
  You know, you have a historically deep draft.
• 1:07:27
  Does that play into the the machinations of front offices that are saying, hey.
• 1:07:33
  We are taken from the get go because we need a quarterback or we need a top 10 pick in this
• 1:07:38
  draft.
• 1:07:39
  Right?
• 1:07:39
  It's gonna be interesting to see, how bad some of the bottom feeding teams, want to be this
• 1:07:46
  year, you know, circling.
• 1:07:49
  You know, for me, falcons, panthers, commanders don't know what's gonna be happening there.
• 1:07:56
  You know?
• 1:07:56
  Do those games become less competitive?
• 1:07:59
  Because at the end of the season, they're like, hey.
• 1:08:01
  We don't even care about 2026.
• 1:08:04
  We're already eyeing the draft and eyeing next year and building for our future.
• 1:08:08
  So do some of those games turn into difficult difficult matchups to kind of where the other
• 1:08:16
  teams are bailing on the season?
• 1:08:18
  Or are the Vikings that team that are like, fuck, man.
• 1:08:21
  This thing's in the tank, and we're, you know, not necessarily tanking because I don't think
• 1:08:25
  the Wills will do that.
• 1:08:26
  But is there a coaching change if this team goes one and five to start the season and lose
• 1:08:32
  as they frequently do coming out of the bye week.
• 1:08:35
  Right?
• 1:08:36
  It's gonna be a wild start.
• 1:08:38
  I think that by the, you know, by the, the trade deadline that we are very much know where
• 1:08:49
  this team is, whether they're going to be buyers or sellers or are going to speak volumes
• 1:08:54
  about it.
• 1:08:55
  So for me, I think that playoff breaking it down kind of in, like, five week batches.
• 1:09:02
  Right?
• 1:09:03
  Because that's kind of how how it's going here.
• 1:09:05
  Right?
• 1:09:05
  Those first five games, if you're not walking out of there above 500, if you're not three and
• 1:09:11
  two by your bye week, you're in a lot of trouble.
• 1:09:14
  And then if you don't go out and win three of the next five games, which is a murderer's row.
• 1:09:20
  Right?
• 1:09:20
  I don't know what the colts are gonna be, but then you have at the lions versus the bills on
• 1:09:24
  Monday night, at the packers, at the forty niners in Mexico City, that is a tough stretch
• 1:09:32
  of games that you could come out of that stretch at one and four and be looking sub 500
• 1:09:38
  by week 12.
• 1:09:39
  Right?
• 1:09:39
  So there there's a lot to be told.
• 1:09:41
  This season is not gonna be easy, and it is all riding on the the decision to go with Kyler
• 1:09:49
  Murray and to say we're gonna make everything, you know, new to go.
• 1:09:53
  Hey, Kevin.
• 1:09:54
  We appreciate you, man.
• 1:09:56
  Hey.
• 1:09:58
  What up, Kevin?
• 1:09:59
  Hey.
• 1:09:59
  What's up, Kevin?
• 1:10:00
  So, you know, Bubba, you said that the first five weeks are crucial, and I and I agree with
• 1:10:05
  you.
• 1:10:05
  We've been talking about this since last year when the schedule got earlier this year when
• 1:10:10
  the schedule got released.
• 1:10:11
  You know, KLC's seat is kinda steaming right now, and to go o and two against the division
• 1:10:19
  to kick out the that's gonna put a big flame under that seat.
• 1:10:23
  And, you know, like you said, if we're under 500 or, you know, o and whatever at the bye
• 1:10:30
  week, I mean, we might see a coaching change.
• 1:10:32
  And then and then that next crucial five games is gonna be very crucial on what we're seeing
• 1:10:38
  with the interim coach or where this team's going.
• 1:10:42
  Yeah.
• 1:10:42
  I mean, if it goes tits up, we could be looking at a team that's, like, three and six, three
• 1:10:48
  and seven, 10 games in.
• 1:10:50
  Right?
• 1:10:50
  Like, if it's just bad and it doesn't get figured out, if they if it's that bad, will the
• 1:10:57
  wolves pull the trigger on a, you know, coaching change midseason and say, hey.
• 1:11:02
  The the KOC era is over, and this is the Brian Flores era because I think that's the only
• 1:11:09
  logical choice at this point to do that.
• 1:11:13
  Now do I believe that that's what's going to happen?
• 1:11:16
  I I I in my heart of hearts, no.
• 1:11:18
  I don't think.
• 1:11:19
  I think this team is more around hovering at that 500, but it it's it's not unheard of in
• 1:11:26
  the NFL, for things to just not like, it's an oblong ball that you're kicking all over the
• 1:11:32
  place.
• 1:11:32
  Right?
• 1:11:33
  Anything can happen, and this team has given me zero confidence in the preseason to say they
• 1:11:39
  got it figured out.
• 1:11:40
  Right?
• 1:11:41
  Like, a very much going out trying to figure it out.
• 1:11:43
  So I think that's why I'm most excited about this Sunday is to finally see it.
• 1:11:48
  Finally see it in action.
• 1:11:50
  Put it out there on the field.
• 1:11:51
  Let's see Kyler Murray, live bullets, and let's do that.
• 1:11:56
  Can't wait to be there in the city for opening week.
• 1:12:01
  Can't wait to be out there at Brewster's.
• 1:12:04
  Shout out to our guy, Kevin.
• 1:12:05
  Thank you, sir,
• 1:12:06
  for hosting.
• 1:12:06
  I've never met you in person, but I truly appreciate, you know, you opening your doors to
• 1:12:13
  us, everything that we're building here.
• 1:12:15
  Paul says they can't ship the Starlink any faster, and it won't get here until next week.
• 1:12:21
  We're gonna ask the NFL to change the schedule for us so that we can have our shit together.
• 1:12:26
  I'm sure it will go completely unnoticed by them, Paul, but it never hurts to ask.
• 1:12:31
  Right?
• 1:12:32
  Not like they got a trillion dollar franchise out there they're trying to build.
• 1:12:35
  Well, like, real quick.
• 1:12:38
  I'm like and I I might be taking a little something from Paul Allen, but I'm trying to
• 1:12:42
  find our first loss.
• 1:12:44
  You know?
• 1:12:44
  I mean
• 1:12:45
  Okay, Paul Allen.
• 1:12:46
  Be there.
• 1:12:47
  The Vikings, packers No.
• 1:12:49
  I'm just
• 1:12:50
  Vikings, packers, I mean, I I'll call it a split.
• 1:12:53
  We take home, they take home.
• 1:12:55
  There's our first one.
• 1:12:56
  Bears, I'm not convinced.
• 1:12:58
  I think they're trash.
• 1:12:59
  Buccaneers might be tough.
• 1:13:02
  Dolphins, saints, colts, I think we got it in the bag.
• 1:13:06
  Lions, just takes one one play.
• 1:13:09
  Bills, I mean, that might be our loss right there.
• 1:13:12
  But after that, I mean, you got the fal as of right there, we're six, seven, and o.
• 1:13:18
  Then Atlanta Panthers, Commanders, Jess.
• 1:13:22
  That's 11 wins right there.
• 1:13:24
  I mean, Cody, you you got a good head on your shoulder.
• 1:13:26
  And o.
• 1:13:27
  Right?
• 1:13:27
  You know what?
• 1:13:28
  All the way undefeated season, Cody's drinking the Kool Aid.
• 1:13:32
  He he's on the Kyler Murray train.
• 1:13:34
  MVP.
• 1:13:35
  Everything's gonna be everything's gonna be perfect.
• 1:13:38
  KOC, all of a sudden learn how to run the ball, and it's amazing.
• 1:13:42
  Right?
• 1:13:42
  Like And that's the thing is we look at the teams from what they did last year, but, like,
• 1:13:46
  okay.
• 1:13:46
  Yeah.
• 1:13:47
  We should beat this team, this team, this team.
• 1:13:49
  You know, packers, bears, lions might be a split.
• 1:13:51
  Could, you know, one play go either way?
• 1:13:54
  That Bills game is gonna be I mean, outside probably the first two games, probably our
• 1:13:58
  biggest test, being on national TV, Monday night football.
• 1:14:03
  We know how the curse is with the Vikings and Monday night games and stuff like that.
• 1:14:07
  Monday night quarterbacks.
• 1:14:09
  Yeah.
• 1:14:09
  Exactly.
• 1:14:10
  So, Cody, you you might be on something there that the Bills might be
• 1:14:13
  Maybe I just gotta be there for Monday night because they won in the Whiteout game on Monday
• 1:14:17
  night football when Daniel That maybe years ago.
• 1:14:20
  So they kicked the shit out of the bears.
• 1:14:21
  It was awesome.
• 1:14:22
  Yeah.
• 1:14:23
  That was my,
• 1:14:24
  like, official that was my official Vikings dumb.
• 1:14:26
  I decided before that game that I was like, I'm done.
• 1:14:29
  I'm done.
• 1:14:30
  I'm rescinding my my Chicago status, I guess, at least in the football realm, and and I'm
• 1:14:36
  out.
• 1:14:37
  I'm buying into this Vikings team, and and I still am.
• 1:14:41
  Right?
• 1:14:41
  I I I think, you know, I think it's just as likely to me, it sucks to even say this, but
• 1:14:47
  it's just as likely that this team wins 11 games as it is they lose 11 games.
• 1:14:53
  Yep.
• 1:14:54
  Right?
• 1:14:54
  I feel like it's a 30 it's a 30% chance of each of those things happening, and there's a 40%
• 1:14:59
  chance that this team goes nine and and eight and are outside of the playoffs again.
• 1:15:05
  And then we're kind of right back to where we were at the end of this season.
• 1:15:09
  Once again, not good enough play.
• 1:15:11
  What did the quarterback play look like?
• 1:15:13
  Are we is Kyler Murray gonna be here another year?
• 1:15:17
  Are we back into quarterback purgatory?
• 1:15:20
  And and we're just all resetting it.
• 1:15:22
  For me, I just like that's probably, like, the most likely scenario is that we are once again
• 1:15:27
  a middling team, barely missed the playoffs by a tie.
• 1:15:31
  Right?
• 1:15:31
  Because that's what it was this year.
• 1:15:33
  You missed the playoffs by half of a game essentially in a tiebreaker.
• 1:15:36
  And and and you're right back
• 1:15:38
  to who are we.
• 1:15:39
  And and if they don't have an identity by this year, how do you continue the the with this
• 1:15:45
  KOC?
• 1:15:46
  Like, how many excuses does the guy get before you finally say, you know what?
• 1:15:51
  We're ready to try something different.
• 1:15:53
  Yeah.
• 1:15:53
  Well and the thing is I think if we have a if we have a season like we have last year, I
• 1:15:59
  think KLC definitely will not be here, with most of that coaching staff.
• 1:16:04
  I think they'll turn it over to, hopefully, Flores.
• 1:16:08
  But, yeah, no, I don't wanna see another season like Liza because it was stressful game in and
• 1:16:13
  game out to see that play and be like, okay.
• 1:16:16
  What are we gonna do next week?
• 1:16:17
  And then you got Basar coming in.
• 1:16:19
  It's just like, oh my god.
• 1:16:20
  Can this get any worse?
• 1:16:22
  You know?
• 1:16:23
  But, yeah, definitely, I think if we have another season like last year, I mean, we're
• 1:16:27
  gonna hear JJ, you know, Jenna be talking.
• 1:16:30
  You know, we're gonna hear Addison.
• 1:16:31
  We're gonna hear, you know, you know, what is the future of this team that going into next
• 1:16:37
  year?
• 1:16:38
  Yeah.
• 1:16:39
  I mean, there's a lot of guys that may not be here.
• 1:16:41
  It was stressful.
• 1:16:42
  Coaching staff, but of the players.
• 1:16:47
  It it I mean, it was extremely stressful last week last year.
• 1:16:51
  How many weeks were we on Jefferson thousand yard watch?
• 1:16:55
  You you remember that?
• 1:16:56
  Like, that was ridiculous.
• 1:16:57
  It got to the point where and and we needed that to happen just for him just to make him
• 1:17:04
  wanna stay.
• 1:17:05
  It got to the point where you can't tell right now because I got the hat on, but I was losing
• 1:17:10
  hair.
• 1:17:10
  I was had to do my grip or comb over it.
• 1:17:14
  Straight up.
• 1:17:16
  Yeah.
• 1:17:17
  But I thought I
• 1:17:17
  said yeah.
• 1:17:18
  Mean yo.
• 1:17:20
  Me and Bubba, you know, witnessed it firsthand at the, you know, softball game.
• 1:17:26
  That team is out for each other.
• 1:17:29
  They they got each other's back.
• 1:17:30
  They had fun.
• 1:17:32
  You know?
• 1:17:32
  So they're they're for each other.
• 1:17:34
  I, you know, I think Boba brought it up earlier.
• 1:17:36
  I didn't see any, you know, bad blood or any bad press about, you know, JJ in the locker
• 1:17:42
  room and all that stuff.
• 1:17:43
  So, I mean, the team's there to win.
• 1:17:45
  It's just they need that leader to help them win.
• 1:17:49
  Yeah.
• 1:17:50
  And that's why we watch on Sundays and Mondays and Thursdays and Saturdays.
• 1:17:55
  Yeah.
• 1:17:56
  Wednesdays now.
• 1:17:58
  And Wednesdays now.
• 1:17:59
  Is to see how it plays out.
• 1:18:01
  And and and I don't mean to kinda throw cold water on everything.
• 1:18:05
  I I think it's my a little bit of my job to bring some reality into this as a newer fan who
• 1:18:11
  watched a a franchise that every year we were gonna win the Super Bowl growing up a bears
• 1:18:16
  fan, and then it just looked like trash every single year.
• 1:18:19
  And and I feel like a lot of, you know, Vikings fans are the same way on both sides of it that
• 1:18:23
  that you have all this belief in your team.
• 1:18:26
  And there's nothing wrong to me with believing in your team, but also knowing that things can
• 1:18:31
  go wrong.
• 1:18:32
  And we're we're a Kyler Murray injury away from being back to, like, what the hell are we
• 1:18:37
  doing?
• 1:18:38
  Right?
• 1:18:39
  And and maybe even without an injury, maybe it's just he goes out there and it's like, what
• 1:18:42
  the heck are we doing?
• 1:18:43
  You know?
• 1:18:45
  Like yeah.
• 1:18:46
  God.
• 1:18:46
  No.
• 1:18:47
  I can't sit through that.
• 1:18:47
  Do you remember the Seattle game last year?
• 1:18:49
  Do you remember that?
• 1:18:50
  I I was traveling.
• 1:18:51
  I had to drive during that game.
• 1:18:53
  You know what?
• 1:18:53
  You thought it was bad to watch?
• 1:18:54
  Try listening to a game like that.
• 1:18:57
  It was brutal.
• 1:18:57
  Listen to Paul Allen.
• 1:18:58
  I I couldn't
• 1:18:59
  even imagine case by a third quarter.
• 1:19:03
  Yeah.
• 1:19:03
  I I would I would I couldn't even imagine listening to Paul Allen on that game, and I've
• 1:19:07
  listened to him, like, cover some bad games.
• 1:19:09
  But but, no, it it it definitely starts up front.
• 1:19:13
  It definitely is gonna start with Kyle Murray.
• 1:19:16
  That big kick at 03:25 or whenever they decide to go, it'll be go time.
• 1:19:23
  You know, I just can't wait.
• 1:19:25
  Nope.
• 1:19:26
  Me neither.
• 1:19:26
  You guys already know we're gonna be at the Crooked Pint on Saturday, September 12.
• 1:19:31
  That is this Saturday for Skullfest.
• 1:19:34
  We'll be doing a live broadcast from the event.
• 1:19:37
  I'll be playing some music at the event.
• 1:19:38
  I'll be selling raffle tickets for the crew.
• 1:19:42
  I will be contributing in all kinds of ways and happy to do it with some great guys out there.
• 1:19:47
  Obviously, our guy rap at the VocalVyke YouTube channel SK.
• 1:19:51
  I can't wait to meet him.
• 1:19:53
  All the guys, man.
• 1:19:55
  I'm gonna tell you.
• 1:19:56
  He's smaller in person than you think.
• 1:19:57
  I'm just saying, like, a big personality.
• 1:19:59
  B, you you'll probably he's probably like it takes three of him to make you.
• 1:20:03
  But you're a big guy.
• 1:20:04
  You you earn your you earn your moniker.
• 1:20:06
  I will say that.
• 1:20:08
  I bet you would
• 1:20:08
  love just like my size.
• 1:20:11
  Yeah.
• 1:20:11
  But but, I mean, just just watching rap, I've caught some of his, you know, shows and stuff.
• 1:20:18
  He's just you know, is it's it's it's like he's just that cool dude.
• 1:20:23
  He's got the glasses on.
• 1:20:24
  He got the hat on, the swag the swag.
• 1:20:27
  I mean, that's just that's just how I envision.
• 1:20:29
  Like, he's just gonna walk in just like, you know, just this cool dude and, you know, and
• 1:20:36
  it's just gonna be fun to
• 1:20:37
  be to see that he has every bit of that in person, and and that's why we really wanted to
• 1:20:43
  come and to do our broadcast live from there because so much of his community is online, and
• 1:20:48
  they can't make it up to Minnesota.
• 1:20:50
  And they don't get to necessarily be a part of that.
• 1:20:52
  So it was really important to me to kind of give that vibe, bring those vibes, give them a
• 1:20:58
  hot mic to jump onto during that time and get to communicate with their fans, we'll probably
• 1:21:04
  dual broadcast it out over onto his channel as well through our our StreamYard and everything
• 1:21:10
  that we got going on so that his fans can come in and and, you know, kind of check all of that
• 1:21:15
  out and be a part of that, but that it doesn't have to be him running the show.
• 1:21:20
  Right?
• 1:21:20
  Because, really, it's about them engaging with their fans in person, the people that are there
• 1:21:25
  in the building and being there with them.
• 1:21:27
  But, you know, it doesn't hurt to go and spend ten minutes with the fans online that couldn't
• 1:21:32
  be there either.
• 1:21:32
  And it's been really awesome to watch what he's building to become friends and brothers with
• 1:21:37
  these people too.
• 1:21:38
  Right?
• 1:21:39
  And and we don't get to see each other every week, and we're not always on shows, but we're
• 1:21:43
  always talking.
• 1:21:44
  And it's gonna be a great time, man.
• 1:21:45
  Look at it.
• 1:21:46
  I already got our promo materials ready.
• 1:21:48
  We're gonna be passing out hundreds of these, getting everybody dialed in, get them on the
• 1:21:52
  website, get them on the email, and really start bringing bringing our community tighter
• 1:21:56
  and introducing ourself.
• 1:21:58
  Like, last year, we proved that we can do something.
• 1:22:01
  This year, it's really about, you know, engaging with that community, letting everyone
• 1:22:06
  know who we are and what we're all about, and we got a great chance to do that this weekend.
• 1:22:10
  So join us at Skullfest.
• 1:22:12
  That will be, like, I think 501 Washington, I do believe is the address.
• 1:22:17
  So it's right down there by the stadium at the Crooked Pint.
• 1:22:19
  And then on Sunday, we'll be moving just a few blocks down the road to 903 Washington for the
• 1:22:26
  VWO Army tailgate and our tailgate show pregame live from the tailgate.
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  And then as we spoke about earlier, all of the away games will be at Brewster's down there in
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  Cannon Falls.
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  A huge shout out to Brewster's and a thank you to Kevin and their crew for having us.
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  We're really thrilled to have a home for the tailgate show post, you know, during the away
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  games.
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  I don't know if I'll be able to make it up there for all of them, but we will have the
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  guys there in some capacity, you know, kinda doing the show live and engaging with our fan
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  base live from Brewster's.
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  It's gonna be a great time.
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  Sunday can't come soon enough.
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  I can't believe I gotta work all day tomorrow before I get to pack up and head up that way on
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  Thursday, but really looking forward to seeing both of my brothers here.
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  Coach Cody, Big B, thanks for all that you guys do.
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  Check out tailgate.thesceneprojects.com.
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  Get more information on our whole schedule.
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  We got a lot of good information up there.
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  We got some past episodes.
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  And sign up for the email list over there, and then make sure you are downloading the SPSN app
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  on Roku and Amazon Fire TV.
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  Will be live tomorrow.
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  It's one of my highest priorities to get done and really thrilled to just take this thing to
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  a whole new level this football season.
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  Nah.
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  Glad to be a part of it.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  Alright, fellas.
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  Long for the ride.
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  Let's get it.
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  Yeah.
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  I think we covered it all tonight.
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  We got two more shows before, the NFL season actually kicks off.
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  So with that, my name is Bubba Starts.
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  That's coach Cody Homedahl.
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  That is big b.
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  We love you guys, man.
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  Thanks for tuning in with us every single week.
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  We will be back here for the tailgate review show talking about the game that was Tuesday,
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  8PM.
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  But you can catch us live and in person at Skullfest, September 12 at the Crooked Pint in
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  Minneapolis, and then again on Sunday at the VWO Army tailgate.
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  Our coverage will start around 01:30 ish so we can kinda get our party done and participate in
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  the tailgate before everybody walks over to the stadium together.
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  Maybe a miracle happens, and we're all walking over there together too.
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  Crazier things have happened.
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  We did cover the celebrity softball game last May.
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  So appreciate y'all.
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  It's signing out.
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  Hey, Kevin.
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  Salute to you, sir.
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  We can't wait.
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  Kevin.
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  Thank
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  you.
• 1:24:58
  Operation Combating Veteran Suicide will be in the house during the season as well.
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  You know, it's gonna be a slow start as we kinda get our feet under us and get this thing
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  moving in the right direction.
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  But by the end of the season, when the Vikings are on the cusp of the playoffs and sealing
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  those playoffs, and then we're got to talk about playoff wins coming there and getting to
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  watch them Playoffs.
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  Whether it's from the tailgate.
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  Hey.
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  And you know what?
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  As the weather cools off, we might be doing some of the home games from Brewster's too.
• 1:25:27
  Like, I'm not going out and covering games out in the tailgate when it's negative 30 outside
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  in January.
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  Right?
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  So, hopefully, this team can keep their shit together, and we can do that.
• 1:25:38
  We we cannot wait to be there in person with you all this weekend.
• 1:25:43
  You guys be good to each other.
• 1:25:45
  We'll see you Saturday at Skullfest, and can't wait to see everybody at 903 Washington on
• 1:25:50
  Sunday.
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  Skull, baby.
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