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A Dry Episode? Austin picks the NCAA Bracket? Kyler to the Vikings? | TSH Ep. 130 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the Schoolhob. I'm Evan and I'm Austin, and we're
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: We like drinking beer and talking about the Vikings. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: we do. And you know, it's March and most people
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  Speaker 2: are filling out brackets for college basketball, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: normally fill one out, but I think I might this year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I love college basketball. I fill
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  Speaker 2: one out every year, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we can compete against each other with our brackets.
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  Speaker 1: But March doesn't just mean college basketball. It's also the
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  Speaker 1: peak of NFL free agencies, so we're definitely going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Vikings have made a lot of moves. They
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  Speaker 2: could have made a lot more, but they've They have
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  Speaker 2: made quite a few moves in free agency and with
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  Speaker 2: their own team this year, and I think I think
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  Speaker 2: we can give our own opinions about all those moves too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: here at Man Center. But that's okay. Sometimes we just
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  Speaker 2: gotta shake it up a little bit. Another just weird
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  Speaker 2: thing is I don't think we're drinking any beer tonight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit of a solo parent this week.
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  Speaker 2: The wife got to take a fun trip and because
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  Speaker 2: of that, you know, I'm just trying to be a
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  Speaker 2: little responsible here. So I got the kids have already
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  Speaker 2: gone to bed, but since I'm the only adult in
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  Speaker 2: the house, I'm abstaining from the form any alcohol right now.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, a dry episode for me, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: You know I always have one of these. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's okay. It's always fine to take a day off,
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  Speaker 2: for a week off, or however long off you want
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  Speaker 2: from from a good, nice cold beer. But trust us,
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  Speaker 2: we will be back at the Schoolman Center and with
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  Speaker 2: some nice, frothy cold beers very soon. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait. It's March. You know what that means, right,
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  Speaker 2: Free agency, NFL free agency. That's the only fun thing
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  Speaker 2: in sports that happens in March, right.
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  Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people that would
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  Speaker 1: beg to differ. In fact, I would beg to differ.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big college, big college basketball fan. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say that I'm like the most knowledgeable fan, but I
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  Speaker 1: love college basketball.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the NBA at all.
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  Speaker 1: And so college basketball kind of hooks me in in
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  Speaker 1: this season where there's no really football anymore. The news
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL yes cycle kind of keeps me hooked
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But I don't know college basketball, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just get excited. I sat down with my daughters
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  Speaker 1: tonight for the first time ever. They picked their.
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  Speaker 2: Own brackets, and we've got this little We've got this
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  Speaker 2: little family pool going with my sister, her husband, her kids,
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  Speaker 2: my wife, me and my kids.
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  Speaker 1: We all got a bracket that we've picked. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty pumped. Do you have a bracket that you made?
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  Speaker 2: You know, college basketball is one thing that I really
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  Speaker 2: really any basketball. If I'm in attendance at the game,
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  Speaker 2: I can get pretty hyped. I can enjoy the sports
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  Speaker 2: atmosphere of at all. And you know, I understand the
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  Speaker 2: game well enough to be able to watch it and
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  Speaker 2: not have too much confusion. But yeah, I haven't really
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  Speaker 2: filled a bracket out for a handful of years. I've
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  Speaker 2: never really been too deep into it. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: the few times I have filled a bracket out, it's
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  Speaker 2: been I'll take five minutes and be like, oh, this one,
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  Speaker 2: this one, this one, and then kind of submit and
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  Speaker 2: forget about it. But yeah, so no, no, to answer
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  Speaker 2: your question, I haven't filled our bracket out so far.
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  Speaker 2: Well on air production meeting. I think you should fill
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  Speaker 2: out a bracket right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can use technology in a way to
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  Speaker 1: maybe put your screen up here. We can figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: If we have to pause the recording and work out
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  Speaker 1: the logistics, we can do that. But I think you
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  Speaker 1: should make one. You should make your picks right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that I will share my picks after you make
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  Speaker 1: your bracket, and then maybe we could make an alert
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  Speaker 1: bet out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Loser has when it's all said and done, I feel
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  Speaker 2: I feel a little unprepared for this, but yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: let's go for it. I'll make a bracket. That's fine,
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  Speaker 2: and you know what, don't tell anybody, but I actually
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  Speaker 2: don't mind my alert, So if I lose, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: okay with me. On the show, Forrest and I just
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  Speaker 2: recently shared, aw we each had our own shot, but
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  Speaker 2: we shared a shot of Alert out recently and I
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  Speaker 2: think he was kind of, you know, jokingly upset about it,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't mind it. So let's go. I'll make
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  Speaker 2: a bracket and we we'll see what happens here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's do it. You got something that
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  Speaker 1: you can share your screen with over there where you
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  Speaker 1: can pull that up and we can make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think we might be able
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  Speaker 2: to get this figured out here. Give me just a
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  Speaker 2: moment here.
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  Speaker 1: So while you get that set up. Something exciting for
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  Speaker 1: our casual listener out there is that our alma mater,
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  Speaker 1: the University of Northern Iowa, is back in the NCAA
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  Speaker 1: tournament for the first time in ten years. So that's
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  Speaker 1: been a particular interest for me. I love our You
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  Speaker 1: and I Panthers, and I've been basically a big You
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  Speaker 1: and I Panther fan ever since I started going to
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  Speaker 1: school there in January of twenty ten, which is when
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  Speaker 1: they historically beat It was that March that they beat
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  Speaker 1: Kansas to go to the Sweet sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll you Forrokmanesh, I'll never see you quote Forrokmanesh.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding me with that shot. I think
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  Speaker 1: the quote from whoever was calling that game. But anyways, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: exciting time to be a Panther fan. They're back in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Dance for the first time in ten years.
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  Speaker 1: They I would also like to add, and I may
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  Speaker 1: have mentioned this in our last episode, but they were
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  Speaker 1: the first team ever in conference history Missouri Valley Conference
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  Speaker 1: history to win four straight games over four straight days
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  Speaker 1: to win the conference tournament.
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  Speaker 2: No other team had ever done that. The only other
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  Speaker 2: winners of the conference tournament have had first round byes
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  Speaker 2: in that tournament, and you and I didn't get that
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  Speaker 2: luxury this year. So that just proves that they're they're
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  Speaker 2: playing really good basketball right now. They're getting hot at
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  Speaker 2: the right time. And when I show you my bracket
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  Speaker 2: here in a little bit, you'll see that I've got
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  Speaker 2: I've got big, big dreams for the U and I Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, All right, well, I did figure out how
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  Speaker 2: to pull up a bracket here. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: click around in ESPN and fill this bracket out really quick.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm ready whenever you are to get my
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  Speaker 2: picks going here. All right, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just start picking away, and you can see you
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  Speaker 1: and I twelve seed against Saint John's the third game
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  Speaker 1: down there. So yeah, right off the back, I think
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  Speaker 1: when did they play this Friday?
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday? All right, Well, I'll just go go down
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  Speaker 2: the list here. Obviously I think they're a number one seed, right,
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  Speaker 2: so Duke is gonna take uh Sienna and they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna win that game Ohio State TCU. I'm an
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  Speaker 2: Iowa Hawkeye fan, so you'd think, you know, big ten,
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  Speaker 2: I'd want the Ohio State Buckeyes to win, But no,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go TCU for that one. And then Evan,
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  Speaker 2: I'm at Saint John's Northern Iowa. You gotta do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing. You've got to the world, you gotta, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to make it the This is the rematch of
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  Speaker 2: the century, I think, right, rematch Saint John's. You and
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  Speaker 2: I have a little bit of a history.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, if you pick Kansas and it'll be you
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  Speaker 1: and I Kansas again, and you and I could knock
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  Speaker 1: them out of the Sweet sixteen yet again, which would
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  Speaker 1: be man incredible.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well we'll move forward Kansas, and then is
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  Speaker 2: this California Baptist. I think so sure, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter because we're gonna go with Kansas. Anyways, keeping on
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  Speaker 2: down the line, which which section of the bracket of
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  Speaker 2: my ends like the East East. But if you just
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  Speaker 2: keep scrolling straight down, you'll go through all the regions,
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  Speaker 2: all right, and then once you pick all of the
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  Speaker 2: first round games, it'll bump you over to the second round,
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  Speaker 2: all right. Just to recap really quick, I've got Duke
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  Speaker 2: over Siena, TCU over Ohio State, Northern Iowa of course
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  Speaker 2: over number five seed Saint John's. Kansas is moving on
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  Speaker 2: over I'm assuming that's California Baptist, and then we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go Louisville, louisll I. How we want to say that
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  Speaker 2: South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: South Florida played really well in their conference tournament, just
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  Speaker 1: saying I'm not saying you have to change your pick,
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  Speaker 1: but well, another time.
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  Speaker 2: We know who you picked in this game. I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember who, to be honest. All right, next step and
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  Speaker 2: there's Michigan State or North Dakota State. You know what,
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  Speaker 2: front of the show, Blue, I'm about to put a
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  Speaker 2: smile on your face, both you and I and North
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  Speaker 2: Dakota State are gonna make it on, even though in
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  Speaker 2: North Dakota State's game seems like it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: lot more difficult than you and I is all right,
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  Speaker 2: U c l A, U c F. Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a little big ten bias. Here go with U
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  Speaker 2: c l A. Moving on, Yukon or Furman. I know
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  Speaker 2: at some point I'm gonna have to pick. I guess
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  Speaker 2: I already have picked a Cinderella. I picked a couple
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  Speaker 2: so far. So never mind, We're going Yukon on this one.
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  Speaker 2: There shouldn't be any concern. And I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: first round for a whole region here. Moving on to
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  Speaker 2: the south. Former college roommate of mine is a diehard
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  Speaker 2: Florida fan, so CJ here you go, Florida's moving on,
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  Speaker 2: and then obviously Iowa or Clemson. You know, you know
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  Speaker 2: we're definitely gonna go Iowa here. This this could be
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  Speaker 2: the year, man, This could be the year that we
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  Speaker 2: have a couple teams make it deep from the state here,
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  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt or McNeice. Oh Man, there's always a twelve that
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  Speaker 2: upsets the five. There is, but I've already picked I've
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  Speaker 2: already picked a twelve this year, you and I and
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  Speaker 2: I picked a fourteen in North Dakota State. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go Vandy here, Nebraska or Troy. Man. I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska fan at all. I know, Evan, some near and
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  Speaker 2: dear people in your life are big Nebraska fans. We're
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  Speaker 2: going Troy on this one, so sorry to those people.
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  Speaker 2: Old move Fred Hoiberg, good coach. Right North Carolina or
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  Speaker 2: what is VCU Virginia Commonwealth? Oh okay, you could have
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  Speaker 2: given me a thousand guesses and I would not have
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  Speaker 2: gotten that. You could have given me ten thousand guesses
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  Speaker 2: either way. North Carolina's moving on, Illinois or Penn Big ten.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Illinois. Let's go Saint Mary's or Texas A
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  Speaker 2: and M. I hate We're going Texas A and M
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  Speaker 2: in here. I feel like I've been picking too many
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  Speaker 2: straight of the of the higher seed. I guess two
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  Speaker 2: so far, and then to finish it out for the south,
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  Speaker 2: Houston or Idaho. Man, I'm tempted. I don't know anything
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  Speaker 2: about these teams at all. We'll go Houston. We'll stick
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  Speaker 2: to it. You had me going on to the West, Evan.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even realize Long Island was a school me.
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  Speaker 1: Either, but I guess they all right, we're gonna go Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough to pick a sixteen seed, Villanova or Utah State.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go. We'll go with a nine seed the Utah State.
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  Speaker 2: There another school I'd never heard of before, high Point.
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  Speaker 2: We're definitely going big ten with Wisconsin over a high Point,
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii or Arkansas and Evan. I think, wasn't there a
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  Speaker 2: former somebody that we attended you and I with and
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  Speaker 2: we also attended high school with had some connection to
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii after the un I days as far as coaching.
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  Speaker 2: So just for that, we're gonna go Hawaii. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know who I'm talking about, no, I think I do. Oh, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: b y u? Or is this oh this is the
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  Speaker 2: playing game game? Yeah? And that n CSU unless there's
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  Speaker 2: another one that's North Carolina State University. You're right, I
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  Speaker 2: think so yeah, I do have a sibling that attended
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina State University. So just for that, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go with either I'm assuming that's Texas or
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  Speaker 2: n CSU and those just hang on so you know
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  Speaker 2: how that works.
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  Speaker 1: Those playing games, I think they start tomorrow on Tuesday, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they're Tuesday and Wednesday, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: basically whoever you picked, so it'll change. So if you,
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  Speaker 1: let's say, yeah, Texas wins, this will change to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: If NCSU wins, it'll change to North Carolina State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that works, That's that's fine. I'm good with either
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  Speaker 2: of those two. Gonzaga or Kenesas State. We're going Gonzaga, Gonzaga, Gonzaga.
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  Speaker 2: I might be really annoying a lot of people there.
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  Speaker 2: Miami or Missouri.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go Missouri, I like, I like the idea of that.
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  Speaker 2: And then Purdue or is that like Queen's University like
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  Speaker 2: New York. I think it doesn't matter. We'll go Purdue
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  Speaker 2: Big ten. All right. I think I'm chugging along. I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm doing all right. Yeah, one more region first round. Hey, uh,
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  Speaker 2: since I know you're listening front of the show, Forest,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you happy here. Michigan's gonna move, move on,
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  Speaker 2: get out of the first round over either unbe or
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  Speaker 2: is that Howard? Yeah? Probably all right? And then we
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  Speaker 2: have Georgia or Saint Louis, and I'm gonna go Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I picked a couple of nine seeds
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech or Akron Texas Tech. You're gonna you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do that. Hopefully I picked the correct twelve seeds over
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  Speaker 2: the correct five seeds, and then Alabama over Hofstra. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I might be boring. This is gonna be Bama for sure,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Tennessee or Miami of Ohio or Southern Methodist University. Is
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  Speaker 2: that right? M Miami of Ohio just you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: they were undefeated in the regular season, only team in
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  Speaker 2: college basketball to be undefeated, but their strength of schedule
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  Speaker 2: was like second to worst in the country. Oh, all right,
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  Speaker 2: you know what we're going. We're going either one of
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  Speaker 2: those teams just off of that that situation there, either
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  Speaker 2: Miami Ohio or SMU Virginia or right State. Right, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be wrong, So Virginia's going on a couple
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  Speaker 2: more here for the first round. Hopefully this is somewhat entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky or Santa Clara. We'll go, We'll go Santa Clara.
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  Speaker 2: Fun fact, I have witnessed Kentucky lose in the first
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  Speaker 2: round of the NCAA tournament in the past. Front of
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  Speaker 2: the show, Forest and I were in attendance in Indianapolis
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  Speaker 2: in what do we determined? That was twenty two when
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky lost to Saint Peter's and then Saint Peter's went
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  Speaker 2: on to make it all the way to what was it,
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  Speaker 2: the the Elite eight yep, and they lost in North Carolina. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that Dave Forest and I we saw his favorite
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  Speaker 2: Michigan team win. We saw Saint Peter's win, We saw
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  Speaker 2: Murray State win, and then I forget Tennessee. I think
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: we saw Tennessee win. So that was a lot of fun.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: That just shows you know, I can enjoy basketball if
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I'm there. But even that year, I don't think I
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: filled out a bracket. But in Kentucky or Santa Clara,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: just to repeat history here for me, I'm gonna go
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: with Santa Clara and then Iowa State or Tennessee State. Man,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna do it. Iowa State moving on, all right, Okay,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: now I think you gotta go speed round here for
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the round of thirty two. All right, well, I've already
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: talked about each of these teams at this point. Here.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Duke over TCU, we're doing it IV. We're making history again.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Northern Iowa over Kansas. I have a feeling you made
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: that pick too. Depending on what bracket you're gonna use
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: against me, we're tracking. Yep, all right for an the
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: show Blue, I'm sorry, Louisville is gonna beat North Dakota State.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: The magic is over for NDSU this year, U C
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: l A or Yukon. We'll go Big ten again there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Florida or number nine Iowa or nine seed Iowa. Sorry, CJ,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I was gonna win it there. Vanderbilt or Troy Fandy.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta pick the higher seeds sometime. Illinois
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: or North Carolina two pretty historically decent basketball teams in NCAA,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Is that right? I know North Carolina for sure. Yep.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Either way North Carolina, you're going on Texas A and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: M or Houston. We'll go Houston on that one. In
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the West, we got Arizona or Utah State. Arizona's moving forward.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin or Hawaii Wisconsin. They may be drunk on the court,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: but they're gonna win that one. Gonzaga or Texas slash
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: n CSU. Gonzaga is gonna win. Missouri or Purdue. Will
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: go Purdue for that one. Michigan or Georgia Forest, I'm
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: sticking with you. I think Michigan is a force to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: be reckoned with this year. Obviously, they're one of the
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: four one seeds. So Texas, Texas A and M or Bama.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: We'll go to Texas. All right, Sorry, I said Texas
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: A and M. That's Texas Tech and that's who we're
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: going with in that game. Virginia over Miami of Ohio
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: or SMU. And then I think Iowa State's gonna make
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: it out of the round of thirty two as well.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: All right, sweet sixteen, Northern Iowa. The dream is dead.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Duke is gonna beat Northern Iowa. Louisville or UCLA. We're
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: gonna go Louisville, Iowa or Vanderbilt and evan Iowa is
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: gonna make it to the elite eight. In in my
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: bracket here, North Carolina or Houston, we're going Carolina, Arizona
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: or Wisconsin. We're going Arizona, Gonzaga or Purdue Big ten. Purdue.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Let's go Michigan over Texas Tech. And then Virginia is
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: going to beat Ohio or Sorry I keep saying that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I think I've done it every time. Virginia is gonna
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: beat Iowa State man, Louisville's over Duke to make it
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to the final four. I'm just having fun with this.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: At this point, I was making it to the final
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: four as well over North Carolina. Purdue is beating Arizona
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to make it to the final four, and Michigan is
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: going on over Virginia. So that's three Big ten teams
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: in the final four. The dream is dead for Iowa.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: The Louisville is going to beat them to make it
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to the championship game. And then Michigan's making it to
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the championship game. And here we go. Michigan is my
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: national champion. How many points will be scored and the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: championship will go one thirty five.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: That's my prediction. All right, you gotta check both of
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: those boxes. You might as well enter into the contest
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and see if you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Well, all right, I'm hitting submit and there we go,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: boom boom, Michigan wins it all and I can prove it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I've only submitted one bracket now if you're still looking
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: at my screen. But yeah, that was fun. Well, the
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: real fund will come as we keep track of it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe we should post our brackets against each other. Yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: but honest, mine really quick. Yeah, let me, let me
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: stop sharing. I can't. All right, here's mine so we
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: don't have to go pick by pick. But you yeah, yeah,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I've got you and I in the Elite eight. But yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, hey, no, Sweet sixteen. They they lose to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Duke in this week.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I think I did the same, right, Yep, I think
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you did. I picked Southern Florida. Here you had Louisville going.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: All the way to the championship game, and I have
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: them getting beatn Furst round. Here's my final four right here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I've got Duke in North Carolina. That would be a
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: historic matchup if that ends up happening. Oh, I've got
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Arizona Michigan. On the other side of the bracket. The
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: one seeds. I think Florida is truly the weakest one seed,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: so I think we were both right to have them
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: out early on. But I did have them.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I've got Iowall get into this second round, but then
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they lose to Florida, Ah okay.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And then Iowa State. I think I have Iowa State
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: losing in the second round as well the Kentucky So
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: you and I the farthest advancing Iowa school in the.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I can be happy with that. I do have Michigan
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: going to the championship game, but sorry, front of the Show, Forest,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I like North Carolina. I think they're
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a good team. They're a young team. Really, I think
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Duke could win it. I think Michigan could win it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it'll be really interesting to see what happens. So,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: all right, and.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Then Michigan's gonna win the championship, and then the Timberwolves
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: are gonna draft the point guard of from Michigan and
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: he's going to turn into a bust. That's that's my prediction.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: There you go, I know nothing about basketball. That was
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: not shade at GJ. McCarthy.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Well, that's fun, and I'm glad that we could incorporate
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a little college basketball. It definitely humors me a little bit,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and it was fun to watch you pick a full bracket.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So what we can do is we'll put our stuff
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: into a group with each other, and then each week
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: during the tournament, you and I can just quickly go
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: back to check in on our brackets, see how we're doing,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: see how we compare with each other, and loser has
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to take a shot of alert.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: All right, sounds good. Loser, does the ESPN score them?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Then will we get like a number score based on
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: how well we did? Okay, I'm good with that, where
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the ESPN gods choose who gets to take a shot
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: him alort, I love it. Well, since we're a Vikings podcast,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: we probably should talk about the Vikings, shouldn't we? Like, Yeah,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: like I said, NFL free agency, I feel like we've
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: our recording schedule has been a little a little hit
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: or missed in the last week or two, so I
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: don't remember really how much we've we've jumped into free agency.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I think we recorded like our last episode was right
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: after the first day of free agency. Yep, is that right? Okay,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: So the Vikings at that point had signed just one external,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: non Viking player, and they've done a few more things
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: since then, so there's plenty to talk about. Well, we
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: should talk about Sean Borman's tweet, because I think he's
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: got a really good tweet. Yeah, and you shared this
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: with me, Actually, you texted it to me while I
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: was working last week, and I think I basically responded
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: with something like that's pretty comprehensive to this point, like
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: that that does a good job of just condensing everything
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: that's happened into one list, and so I don't know,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: maybe we can just kind of we can maybe just
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: highlight a few of the things. I can do that
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: quickly and then we can really dig into it. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: there's one obvious, big signing that the Vikings have made
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that I know for a fact, we haven't talked about
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: on the show yet, and we definitely want to give
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: some time to that topic. But let's just kind of
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: warm things up here. Let's what the palette with some
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: of these other things. So the Vikings have cut the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: two middle guys on the defensive line Javon Hargrave Jonathan Allen.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: That saved like twenty two million dollars in cap space,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: which is nice. They also restructured Justin Jefferson, Christian Darisaw
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Byron Murphy, so another big chunk of change they're saved.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: They tendered Jalen Redmond, bo Richter and Xavier Scott, which
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: was nice. All three are very young promising players.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: For my money, bo Richter, Zevier Scott, they're both guys
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: that like they're nice to tender. It's nice that you
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: have their rights, but easily they could either one of
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: them take a leap and become starter material, or either
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: one of them completely be replaced by a rookie, an
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: incoming rookie, or you know, maybe another player that's been
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: on the roster that hasn't performed yet until now, like
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: it could go anyway. And then obviously Jalen Redmond, he's
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: probably a starter at this point. Yeah, just to keep
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: going down this list from Sean Borman's tweet, which we'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: link down below. T J.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Hawkinson had his contract adjusted. Aaron Jones was originally slotted
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to be released, but then he like magically reappeared and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the Vikings saved some money by bringing him back. A
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: big question mark right now is Jonathan an Art. What
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: happens with him? Are they going to trade him? Are
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they going to restructure him? He's one of the more
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: expensive players on the roster right now. And then some
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: other guys that they're keeping around, Eric Wilson, I haven't
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: paced Junior, and Andrew Depaula. Those are good keepers.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I think Ryan Kelly retired, c J. Hamm retired, both
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: of which are pretty significant losses. They're definitely locker room
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: guys for sure, and Ryan Kelly is a really really
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: good center. But obviously we didn't get him as a
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Viking in the prime of his career, missed a lot
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of time with concussions, but wish him nothing but the
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: best in retirement. And then we've got a few other
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: question marks here Harrison Smith. What's going to happen with him?
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Is he going to retire? Is he going to come back?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I know the team kind of struck some fear into
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the uneducated fan base by designating him for a post
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: June first cut, and a lot of people took that as, oh,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: they cut him, he's gone, and well no, it really
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: just buys Harrison Smith and the team a little bit
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: more time to figure things out.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: So they had to do that contractually by the time
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the league year ended. Otherwise it would have been a
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: complete mess for money wise. I don't know the exact
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: details of what it would have been, but either way,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: they had to do that. I'm not a huge fan
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: of having to do that because that opens the door. Yes,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I know, it's overwhelmingly he's either definitely going to retire
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: or he's if he plays, he's going to come back
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: and play with the Minnesota Vikings. But I mean, cutting
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: him no matter what opens up the door for anybody
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to give his agent a call or for his to
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: give anybody a call, And even if they're like, hey,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I know you're going to go back to the Vikings,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: but hear me out here, like, what if you know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: what if the Ravens call him? You know what any
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: any team Like what if a team that is, what
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: if the Chiefs who are gearing up to be back
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: to form again, or you know, another contender calls and
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: they're like, hey, just give us one year and you'll
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: still go back to the Vikings and sign your one
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: day contract and retire there, but just give us one
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: give us your last year. Him being cut makes that
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a possibility. Nothing I've seen has told me that that
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: could happen or that that will happen by any means,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: But just the door open for that, I don't like.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I don't like it at all.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's maybe one of the biggest remaining question
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: marks for a returning potential returning player is what's going
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: to happen with Harrison Smith? Yeah, and then a couple
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: other extension candidates Brian O'Neil, Jalen Redmond, Blake Cashman all
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: could receive contract extensions. I don't think any of them
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: have as of this moment that we're recording on Monday, March.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Sixteenth, but you never know, and these guys have all
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: played well enough that they could be deserving of that,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely. And then the last thing on Sean's
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: tweet here is a checklist for top needs, and he's got,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: let's see seven things listed, quarterback, cornerback, center, interior, defensive line, safety,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: running back, and punter. The only things he's checked off
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: of this list are quarterback and corner back as well
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: as I can enunciate that, So center, defensive line, safety,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: running back, and punter are all still kind of these
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: unfilled needed positions. So that's kind of a summary of
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the tweet, and I think with that as some background,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: we should really get into it here and let's talk.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can start with quarterback because that's a big
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: check mark on a box that was a big question mark.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Pretty much since the season ended.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And actually, honestly, like even during the season, the Vikings
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: were struggling with quarterback play and they thought JJ McCarthy
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: was the answer, but he was hurt and then Carson
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: wentz basically like crucified himself on the field for the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: sake of the team. And then JJ got healthy and
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: didn't play great, and then he got hurt again, and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: then Max Brosmer played and he was somehow worse than
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And then JJ McCarthy came in and helps the Vikings
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: win the last five games of the season, and there
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: was kind of this like, well, maybe he could be okay,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I guess, but I don't think many Vikings fans were
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: super excited about it. And that's when the rumors started
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to swirl about, like, well, okay, Kyler Murray, he's going
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to be a free agent, and Mac Jones could be
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: and Malik Willis was never in the picture, but he
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: could be an option. And there are a couple other
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: guys that their names were floating around the rumor mill.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: But we now have confirmation. I think as of what
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: like Thursday or Friday last week, Kyler Murray is in
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: fact a Viking. Yeah, Thursday afternoon they announced officially Keller
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Murray signed with the Vikings one year, something like one
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: point three million dollars that the Vikings are going to
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: pay out and the Cardinals are on the hook for
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: like thirty six million dollars of Kyler Murray's salary this year,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: so he is essentially free for the Vikings this year.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: We'll dive into this, but here's the main reason why
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: no fans should be furious about this is because there's
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: no risk. Really, the biggest risk would be taking starts
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: and playing time away from JJ McCarthy if Kyler Murray
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: were to, as expected, win the quarterback battle and start
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: most or all of the season. Even if Kyler Murray
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: is only a Viking for twenty twenty six, the worst
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: thing that could happen, and hopefully the worst thing that
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: will happen, is that it slows the development of JJ McCarthy.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: And that's if you're like me and you still think
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy is potentially still a quarterback of the future
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings. I go back and forth on how
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I feel about this, and even I want to hear
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: how you feel about Murray's signing. The biggest saving grace
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: for me is that, yeah, he is no risk. It's
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: not like the Vikings are you know cutting you know,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a handful of player so that they can afford to
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: pay Kyler Murray forty million dollars this year on approve
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: it one year kind of almost franchise tag like situation.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: It's a million bucks. It's I think Andrew Depaula, the
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: All Pro long snapper, is going to be on the
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: books for more from the Vikings than Andrew or than
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray is. I expect Kyler Murray probably to win
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: the job in camp. Probably, you know, if he's even
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: truly competing for the job, it may have already been told, like, hey,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: you're QB one. I think it would be naive to
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: think ja Ja McCarthy is still QB one for this
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: team right now. You know, people have said, oh, Kyler
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Murray doesn't even really fit into Koc's play style his offense,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: but there's plenty of time to figure that out if
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: that even really is true. Ultimately, at first, I wasn't
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: super excited about Kyler Murray. I thought it was doing
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: a detriment to the future of the Vikings, and I
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: thought it was a move made by a scared coach
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: who doesn't want to get fired. But honestly, since then,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I've had some time to come around, I think it
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: was responsible to go out and pick up Kyler Murray.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: At the time was the probably the best free agent
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: in sports after he got officially cut from the Cardinals.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: And anytime you can add such a dynamically great player
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: like that, who's had his own up, ups and downs
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: in his career, but anytime you could add someone who's
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: so good for pennies, I mean, when you're talking about
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the salary cap, he's not even one percent of the
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: salary cap, it's a no brainer. You gotta do it, yeah,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: because if you don't and somebody else picks him up,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: he's going to play well for somebody else too. So
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: I just think it was a move you got to make.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Whether or not you think the Vikings are moving on
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: from JJ McCarthy or not, it's just a smart move
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: that they had to make. That's my opinion. What do
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: you think about it? Of Yeah, it's tough for me
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: to come up with like a good metaphor for what
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: this signing is because it is kind of so unprecedented
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: in sports world, right, Like it's a player doesn't sign
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: a player of his cat doesn't sign with another team
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: for this little money while still being guaranteed such a
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: hefty paycheck from his previous team. I have to reference
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: this really quick, just because I know you're gonna roll
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: your eyes. But there is a Moneyball scene where the
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: GM Billy Bean.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Confronts David Justice, and David Justice has kind of got this,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you know, haughty attitude about him, and he basically tells
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Billy being like, yeah, the Yankees are paying me fifteen
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: million bucks, so you know, yeah, I think I'm big stuff.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: And Billy Bean's quick to point out like, well, yeah,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: that's what they think of you. They would rather pay
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: you to play against them than to play for them,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and he basically tells the player in that moment, the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: GM tells the player, Listen, I want to get every
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: last ounce of baseball you've got in you, and you
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: want to keep playing the game.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Let's do that. Let's make this work for both of us.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: And so I think, to come down to what that
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: means for the Kyler Murray situation, I'm a little fearful, honestly,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: that Kyler Murray might have this like, well, it doesn't
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: matter what I do because this other team is paying
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a bulk of my salary. I don't have to perform
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: for you guys, and I'm making really good money, like
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I'm making starting quarterback money from another team. So I
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: worry about the dynamics of all of that more than anything.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: And I know there are gonna be people out there
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: that'll say, well, oh, he was a Viking span when
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: he was a kid, so you know that means he's
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: gonna play well. I don't know when you when you
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: get into this category of making twenty thirty forty million dollars,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I don't really think it matters who you play for,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Like I think you are in a totally different category
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: than anybody else. I also worry about his health. Obviously,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: he's not the healthiest quarterback and he spent time not playing.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think how many games did he start this
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: last season. Did he start any games this last season?
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I think it was like five at the most. So
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: let's let's pull that up.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: So while you look at that, I'm worried about that
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: as well, just his longevity at the position, even if
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: he does if he makes it, and if he's the
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: proverbial week one starter. I worry about that with him
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: because that's an issue that the Vikings have dealt with
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: really since moving on from Kirk Cousins. And they moved
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: on from Kirk Cousins because of an injury and then
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: so I guess it's his attitude, his his health and longevity,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and then it's just the it comes down to who
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: who does Kevin O'Connell and who does the organization think
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: is the future of Vikings quarter back? And Kevin O'Connell,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I think, was kind of quoted telling Kyler Murray. He
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: kind of sold Kyler Murray on coming to the Vikings
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: with this, like, Hey, I view this as more than
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: a one and done type of thing, and I see
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I can visualize this becoming more than just your here
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: for a year and then you leave and get a
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: bigger contract elsewhere. I can see you being the future
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: of this franchise. And I don't know if that's true.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's hearsay that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that as well. It could as far
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, that could be a rumor. But I
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: don't think about it logically, Like he's twenty eight right now,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Theoretically he's not going to be done playing. He's probably
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: got at least five six ish years at least, you know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: left in the tank before even starts thinking about retirement,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: as long as he's still healthy and can still play.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: So it's not crazy to think that he could, you know,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: play this year and then sign a five year contract
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: with the Bikings after this year. It's just logically that
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: that could happen. Did you figure out how many games
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: he played this year? Yeah, so he had. In twenty
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: twenty five, he played five games. They were the Cardinals
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: were two and three in those games, and I forget
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: what his his injury was, but whatever it was, it
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem like anyone's still concerned about That's just saying
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: his season was cut short by a persistent foot injury,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: so apparently that's not still a concern. But for a
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: mobile quarterback, you'd want his feet to not be injured.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard a sentence about him still being injured
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: or questioning his availability for this coming season, so I
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be concerned until you hear something like that. But yeah,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: he only played five games in twenty twenty five, all
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: seventeen in twenty twenty four, but then again only eight
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: games in twenty twenty three. But yeah, I've only seen
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: him play a full season looks like three times so
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: far in his career. But I'm not overly concerned about
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: that for this one year with the Vikings I'm not
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: really either concerned about like his attitude or his mentality.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I think you said, when you get to the point
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: that you're making ten or yeah, tens of millions of
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: dollars every year, it's more about giving your best to
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: whoever's giving you your paycheck right then, Which is kind
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: of funny because the Cardinals are giving him most of
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: his paycheck this year, but he's a Viking this year.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I think I don't think we should be concerned about
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: his work ethic this year. Yeah, his overall, he's got
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: twenty thousand pass yards in his career for a guy
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: with what's seven years, that's not bad. It's not five
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: thousand yards every year, but it's not bad. Almost thirty
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: two hundred rush yards. One thing that's interesting to me
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: about him is his touchdown to interception ratio, which is
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: basically right at two touchdowns for every interception, which I mean,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: you can win a lot of games going two to one,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: and that's you know, if you look at his season
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: by season, it's not like he had a few years
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: where he threw a bunch of touchdowns and no interceptions
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: and then one year where he threw a ton. It's
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: pretty consistent every year two to one touchdowns. This past
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: year twenty twenty five six touchdowns, three interceptions, twenty twenty
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: four twenty one touchdowns, eleven interceptions, So I would expect
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: that if he starts for the Vikings this year, it's
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: probably going to be something like, I don't know, twenty
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: four touchdowns, twelve interceptions. So that's something like that. But
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: you can win a lot of games doing that, especially
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: if you have a defense, which if you're in the
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I'm pro Kyler Murray camp. I'm pretty sure most of
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: his career with the Cardinals they never had a good defense.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: And the Vikings. I mean, you talk about that five
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: game wins streak for the Vikings at the end of
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, most of that it's thanks to the
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: defense and another player that we've talked about here today,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Harrison Smith, because he kind of came on and came
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: back to you know, prime Harrison Smith form. So I
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: think there's reasons. If you're looking for reasons to be
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: excited about Kyler Murray, they're there, and it's not crazy
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: to think that he could be good. But it's definitely
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: it's the Vikings and it's the quarterback position. It's gonna
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: divide all of us fans into no, I want JJ
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: or no, I'm good with Kyler, or I just don't
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: care win the freaking super Bowl. I think it's not
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: necessarily an underrated part of his game. But he's not
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: a bad rushing quarterback. He's pretty decent. I mean, he's
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: not a justin field. It's like, probably should be a
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: running back instead of quarterback kind of a player. He's
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: not that Fie got traded today, by the way, Yeah,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: to the Chiefs. Yeah, so that'll be interesting, interesting how
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: that develops, especially because Patrick Mahomes was down and out
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: with an ACL at the end of the season. So yep.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Anyway, he averages Kyler averages six hundred and twenty four
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: yards on a seventeen game average season. You think about it,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that's like an RB three, RB two those that's those
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: are numbers that they would put up. And so the
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Vikings I think are in a kind of a precarious
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: spot with the running back position. They have Aaron Jones,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: who they originally deemed too expensive to bring back for
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: his age and production, but then he I think Aaron
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Jones must have gone to the team and said I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: don't want to play anywhere else.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I'll take a pay cut. You have to think that's
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: how that conversation went. Probably, yeah, they keep him. They've
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: got the young guy Jordan Mason, who I thought Jordan
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Mason would easily slide into that RB one role with
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Jones gone, and then they'd bring somebody in or elevate
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Xavier Scott to that RB two role. But now that
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: you add a pretty mobile quarterback, if he can stay healthy,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: you've got this really interesting mix and you can do
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of RPO style stuff that like when the
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Vikings had Kirk Cousins, you just couldn't You couldn't do that.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: You had a true pocket passer guy, and you I
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: think you and I witnessed Kirk Cousins rushing for one
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: of his few rushing touchdowns, had a twenty yard rush
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: for a touchdown against the Cardinals, And yeah it was
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: against the Cardinals, no less. But anyways, I think that
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: adds a whole different dynamic. The Vikings haven't really had this.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Athletic quarterback who can get outside of the pocket and
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: make plays with his feet. So if if he ends
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: up laying and if he ends up starting, I'm excited
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to see that, but I don't know. I still have
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: some reservations about all this, and I'm kind of in
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the camp of like, I'll believe it when I see it,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you know, when we get to training camp, when we
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: get to the preseason, I'll believe it when I see
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: it kind of thing.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: It's definitely going to be interesting to talk about and
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: to watch and see how things play out throughout the offseason.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Side note here you mentioned Kyler's average rushing per season
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: six twenty four. That would have put him at second
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: on the twenty twenty five Minnesota Vikings if he had
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: had if he had been on the team and had
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: that many yards, but Jarones had what's that behind Aaron Jones? No, sir,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones was second at five forty eight, where he
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: missed a bunch of time too. And then Jordan Mason
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: was first on the team in rushing with seven fifty eight.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Kyler Murray with six twenty four would have
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: been right smack dab in the middle of those guys.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: So I mean, and then when you look at the
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: actual quarterback for the Vikings this past season, there wasn't
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of rushing that came from them. JJ McCarthy
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: had one hundred and eighty one yards. He did have
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: four touchdowns and what won in the first game, which
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: was pretty exciting. But then Carson Wentz had fifty seven
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: rushing yards. So JJ, who was a little bit mobile
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: at times in his ten games, that's still what eighteen
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: yards of rushing per game from JJ McCarthy. It's not
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: like the offense relied on mobile quarterbacks or being able
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: to gain yards out of specifically planning for the quarterback.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many times JJ McCarthy or any
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: of the quarterbacks had like a designed run or even
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: like an RPO. I don't think that was really a
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: part of the game plan. Which when you sign Kyler
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Murray in March, that gives you plenty of time to
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: be like, all right, what can we sprinkle in here?
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: What can we add in? And honestly, if you're still
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: holding out hope for JJ McCarthy, a guy who has
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: the ability to be mobile, sprinkling in some of the
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: mobility plan into the playbook, that's not a terrible thing
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: to add in either.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: So I think we've talked talked enough about Kyler for now.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like maybe we can sprinkle this in as
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: we go and as we hear more rumors and whatnot
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: come out, we can address those, of course, But he's
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: not the only player on the team, and he's not
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: going to be the only player that the Vikings rely on.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Borman had listed out the possible extensions O'Neil, Redman, and Cashman.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Who do you think is the most likely and who
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: do you think is the least likely to get that
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: extension this year?
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So I think the reason they were listed specifically
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: in this tweet had a little bit to do with
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: how it would help the cap situation. I do know
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Brian O'Neil right now, he's entering the last year of
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: his deal. Yeah, he's on the books for quite a
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: bit of Money's twenty something million dollars this year. Again, listeners,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Evan and I are never going to be super experts
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: on the cap or anything like that. Any any dollar
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: opinion we have has been assisted by someone else, I can.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I can promise you that. But so those three, Brian
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: O'Neil getting an extension for him could potentially ease the
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: cap situation right now for the Vikings, which I think
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: if they're they're they're good now, but they're not able
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: to make many other moves at the moment, and it
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: would just lock up Brian O'Neil for probably the last
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: few years of his career with the team, which I
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: think we should all be excited about. He's a really
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: good right tackle and has only ever been a really
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: good right tackle for the Vikings. Jalenman to him getting
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: an extension would be nice because you're locking up an
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: up and coming, hopefully elite level player in the future
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: here for like, I think I've said this in previous episodes,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: the sooner you can sign a guy long term, especially
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: a guy that's good, the cheaper they'll be. The longer
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: you wait to give a guy an extension, more likely
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: than not, if they're worth giving an extension, the more
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: expensive they're going to be if you wait too long. So,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Jalen Redmond, if you sign him long term now, maybe
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: you can get him for five ten million bucks a year,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: But if he goes out this year it has ten
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: to twelve sacks, he's going to be right up there
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: with the other elite defensive tackles that'll be on the market.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: So and then Blake Cashman, I think he's also entering
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: the last year of his deal. He it was noticeable
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: the overall performance of the Vikings defense when he was
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: not on the field. He's not one that he's going
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: to get, you know, ten sacks and ten interceptions and
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: do anything that's going to make him the MVP of
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: the league. But he also he is the green dot.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: He him being on the field for the Vikings makes
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: it so everybody else their job is that much easier.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: He is truly the quarterback of the Vikings defense, and
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: it just performs the way it should when he's out there.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: We saw that when he was on injured reserve for
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: four or five games and twenty twenty five, the defense
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: did not play the same way without him.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's where like I would take this list
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: and I would turn it into more of a wish list.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Then who's more or less likely at the top of
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: my wish list is Blake Cashman. For that reason, he
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: is the quarterback of the defense, and we saw firsthand
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: how badly the defense performed when he wasn't out there.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: And I think with Brian Flores back, you have this
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: wonderful consistency on that side of the football. I think
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: you do everything you can to bring Cashman back, and
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: like you said, he's not going to be this stat junkie.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I think though, like I remember saying during the season,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: like he just consistently led the team in tackles, Like
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: I think he was hugely the whole game in tackles. Yeah,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and he led all players in tackles most of the time.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: So and that just proves like he's got this football acumen.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: He he's got a nose for the ball and he
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: just finds it and he's good at putting other other
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: guys in position to make the play too. So at
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: the top of my wish list is Blake Cashman, but
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I definitely want to see O'Neill and Redman stick around
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: long term as well.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think O'Neill, he's what thirty one, he's definitely
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: got maybe one more contract in him before he's done.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: But he's worth every penny too, because you want to
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: bolster both sides of the lot, and I think with
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Darisa on one side and him on the other, now
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: you just have to, you know, fill the gap in
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: the middle and make sure you've got good guys that
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: are keeping that wall nice and solid for whoever's under
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: center JJ McCarthy, Tyler Murray, whoever? Right?
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, last question and then I think
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: we should wrap it up here. Ye, Borman has the checklist.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: We've talked about quarterback. We've talked about Kyler Murray quite
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: a bit and whether or not.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: He can.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Make it above JJ McCarthy on the depth chart. We
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: haven't really talked about cornerback, but Borman checks that one
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: as net were good, but he leaves some other I
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: think pretty obvious ones unchecked. And this is where I
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: want to know what's your priority. If you've got your
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: GM hat on, what's what's what's next? Now that you've
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: saw to this quarterback puzzle, at least maybe you've at
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: least calmed the storm of the quarterback piece for now,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: what do you pursue next? The center? Do you try
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: to plug up the middle of the interior defensive line
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: with those spots left by Hardgrave and Allen? Are you
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: looking for a safety? Running back? Is kind of an
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: interesting one, especially because Aaron Jones is now coming back,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: or punter Ryan right, the plus sized punter, he's gone.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: It's maybe not the most consequential position on the field,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: but you do want good specialists to ensure that you
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: can compete in all three phases of the game.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: So what do you tackle first? I mean, it's funny
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: you mentioned punter, because truthfully, like a punter can flit
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: the game. It can take You know, if if the
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: offense stalls at the fifteen yard line, a good punt
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: can still keep the opposing offense inside of their own
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: twenty yard line. That would be like an incredible punt.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: So there is an opportunity for a good punter to
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: totally change the game in moments. Not necessarily for the
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: whole game, but definitely in moments. So they need a
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: punter for sure. But I feel like you can find
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: those guys. Center for me to answer your question, is
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: the most pivotal position left to fill right now. There's
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: a few guys in house that they could try to
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: fill that role with. Blake Brandell could be a center.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of some of the other guys,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: but even just the fact that I can't all right
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: off the top of my head, name some of the
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: other guys tells you it's something that needs to be
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: looked at. Could be as important as a first round pick.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of safety and running back being
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: taken in the first round, but those are, you know,
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: big name guys. Those are two positions that are kind
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: of flashy, and of course it's going to get a
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: lot of attention. But center can absolutely make or break
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: the center of the offensive line. They can make the
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: right offensive protection call and the quarterback doesn't get sacked,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: or they can make the wrong call and the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: does get sacked. I just think if everything else on
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  Speaker 2: the O line, for me, when everyone's healthy, is pretty solid.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like Will Fryes for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: but I think they just you mentioned uneducated football fans earlier.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the uneducated football fan that doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: Will Fryes at right guard. So yeah, if they can
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  Speaker 2: do something to solidify the center position, I'll feel a
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  Speaker 2: lot better about the Vikings this year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you think about the center, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a guy who touches the ball on every play,
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  Speaker 1: So aside from the quarterback, he's probably the next most
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  Speaker 1: consequential player when it comes to a play happening the
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  Speaker 1: right way on the offensive side of the ball. Right like,
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  Speaker 1: he's got to get the ball into the quarterback's hands,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got to do it the right way. And
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  Speaker 1: not only that, he's got to be able to assess
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  Speaker 1: what the defense is giving him, get guys in the
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  Speaker 1: right position, and get the ball snapped on time, right
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  Speaker 1: like it's it's a pretty consequential position.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think I tackle center first, and you know, try
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  Speaker 1: to get the best possible guy that you can. You
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  Speaker 1: want a guy that's smart, like, oh gosh, now I'm
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: blanking on his name. He just played in the Super
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Bowl with the Patriots, whom I think Jarrett Yeah, that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: guy cur Bear. Yeah, now he's a bear. He had
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  Speaker 1: the smarts for sure, but he was just undersized and
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  Speaker 1: he got bowled over quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: So you want a.
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  Speaker 1: Guy that has a little bit of size on him,
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  Speaker 1: who can handle h whatever's coming his way and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just get run over. But you also don't want just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a big brick wall that has nothing going
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  Speaker 1: on up top, because then I think that's when you
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  Speaker 1: end up having all these false starts.
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  Speaker 2: And illegal shifts and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And so you need you need a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: You need a little bit of a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: So absolutely, yeah, Well, it'll be interesting to see how
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  Speaker 2: everything shapes up. There's still a lot of holes to
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  Speaker 2: fill and a lot of things to kind of clean
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: up for the Vikings, i'd at this point though, I mean,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I'm fairly optimistic that they'll put a decent team on
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  Speaker 2: the field. I'm not going to sit here and say
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to win the NFC North and they're
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: going to be one seed anything like that or no,
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  Speaker 2: but no, I think we can be pleased with how
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: things have gone so far. I am interested to see
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: how this gmless team continues to navigate the off season,
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• 1:02:17
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• 1:02:22
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• 1:02:29
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