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Set 2: GBF- I Got a Thielen (w/ Adam Thielen) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: God bless football, Mikey A.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: God bless football, Taylor.
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: God bless football.
• 0:17
  Speaker 4: Why are you saying it like that, Mikey?
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Adam Thielen is going to join us in about five,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: six minutes here. I'm looking forward to catching up with
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: our friend from Lake Tahoe, Mikey A.
• 0:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, come on. Where's the zest? Where's some pep
• 0:28
  Speaker 4: in your step? Let's go.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: God bless.
• 0:30
  Speaker 4: God bless football.
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: I'm with Mikey today.
• 0:35
  Speaker 5: There hasn't been a worse stretch of coaches in all
• 0:39
  Speaker 5: of sports history than Adam Gase to Robert Sala to
• 0:43
  Speaker 5: to Aaron Glenn, and somehow they are getting worse with
• 0:47
  Speaker 5: each one.
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: It's the Jets, man. Like, I understand, Mikey. I understand
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: you being despondent. I understand that, but we still love football,
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: all forms of it. Despite the Jets.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: What was lovable about yesterday?
• 1:00
  Speaker 6: What was lovable about the Sunday we got? Was it
• 1:05
  Speaker 6: Saints-Steelers in Paris? Was that what made you think, God
• 1:10
  Speaker 6: bless football? Because it didn't do it for me. How
• 1:12
  Speaker 6: about that game last night? That barn burner that we
• 1:15
  Speaker 6: got to watch. Where it's, oh, it's going to be
• 1:17
  Speaker 6: the Chiefs. They're 6-0. They're taking on the Seahawks. Oh,
• 1:22
  Speaker 6: it's going to be so great.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: You know what? It was a boring game. God bless football.
• 1:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: How about that Browns game over the Titans? I mean,
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: how about, you know, I don't know, the Buccaneers upsetting
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: and blowing out the Panthers.
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: How about that Bengals second half, Mikey, eh?
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: How about that Bengals first half?
• 1:38
  Speaker 6: I was actually rooting for Snoop Hundley to win a floaty,
• 1:42
  Speaker 6: and frankly, I think it floatied away.
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, he floats too long. That's the problem.
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: He's never meant to float this long.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's correct.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: You keep him afloat for a half. You keep him
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: afloat even for a game. He's a Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 1: at that. You ask him to stretch it out to
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: three or four games, it gets ugly.
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, it does.
• 2:00
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you, we got a new easy floaty champion
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 8: Easy.
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  Speaker 7: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Not even like I close it down. It's Jameis Winston.
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  Speaker 6: Jameis Winston kept them so far above 500.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: Just till the starter, J.J. McCarthy, could come in.
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  Speaker 4: At least it's not.
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  Speaker 1: At least good things aren't happening to the other team
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: that plays in our building.
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  Speaker 6: Amazing what happens when you get a good head coach.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: Not even good. Mikey, not even good. Competent.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: He's a great head coach.
• 2:32
  Speaker 5: Well, Harbaugh's a great coach, and I think Days like Sunday,
• 2:36
  Speaker 5: you see the difference in coaching between the Jets and
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: the Giants.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I've been seeing it for my entire life. I mean, seriously.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Even when the Giants were bad, I was yearning to
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: be them. Let's get to winners and losers here from
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: the weekend. Taylor's winners and losers from the football weekend
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: here before we get to Adam Thielen.
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: Let me apologize.
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  Speaker 7: Let me apologize.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Mikey has winners and losers, but I have a feeling
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: just based on the start of.
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: This episode, who his losers are going to be.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: It's an awful lot of losers. Go ahead, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: I'll start with a winner for some positivity. Cam Scadaboo,
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: after being benched by John Harbaugh a week earlier. That
• 3:17
  Speaker 5: was how you respond, Scadaboo. Career-best performance against Houston. Rushes
• 3:22
  Speaker 5: for 124 yards.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: Touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: 42-yard run. Put the Giants in position in that overtime victory.
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  Speaker 5: First 100-yard rushing game of his NFL career.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: Remind me to put Scadaboo on the list of athletes
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: that could own Halloween later this week, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Scadaboo.
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  Speaker 7: Yes. Thank you.
• 3:39
  Speaker 4: Mikey?
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  Speaker 2: First loser. How about we go to... I lost my
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: thing here.
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  Speaker 6: How about we go to the Panthers and everything that
• 3:52
  Speaker 6: they had built up for us only to get just
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  Speaker 6: rolled by the Bucs who were sitting at two wins
• 3:58
  Speaker 6: coming into the game. Bryce Young, 14-27 for 163 yards
• 4:01
  Speaker 6: against the vaunted Buccaneers defense. I can't figure out the
• 4:09
  Speaker 6: NFC South. I think it's just a coin flip every week.
• 4:14
  Speaker 6: The Bucs are back in it. Squarely back in it.
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  Speaker 6: They put a chip back on Baker's shoulder. They put
• 4:20
  Speaker 6: a chip back on his shoulder by saying, oh, this
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  Speaker 6: other kid is pretty good.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: You see the score and don't watch the game, and
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: you see 43-13 and figure Baker did.
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  Speaker 4: A lot and he didn't.
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: No, they didn't have to. Their rushing attack was unbelievable.
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: Bucky Irving, yes. Taylor, go ahead here.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of NFC South and rushing attacks, the losers, the
• 4:41
  Speaker 5: New Orleans Saints rushing attack. The Saints had 18 yards
• 4:45
  Speaker 5: on 17 carries, and before kneeling it down to end
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: the game, 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers had more rushing yards than
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  Speaker 5: any Saints player.
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  Speaker 4: It looks good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he looks good.
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  Speaker 3: Rodgers, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The Saints, though.
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  Speaker 2: Bad.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: They asked Tyler Schuch.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure we've ever asked this much of a
• 5:04
  Speaker 5: second-year player to try to make a team relevant than
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: the Saints do with Tyler Schuch.
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But Aaron does look good. He's turning back the clock
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  Speaker 4: just a little bit.
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: Like two hours turned it back.
• 5:18
  Speaker 4: Mikey, you have a winner or loser here?
• 5:21
  Speaker 6: I've got losers all day. Here's my other loser. The
• 5:24
  Speaker 6: Houston Texans vaunted defense. Where the hell.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: Did it go?
• 5:29
  Speaker 6: Because they were supposed to be able to stop somebody
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  Speaker 6: like J.J. McCarthy easily, and all the Giants did was.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: Go, hey, you know what we're going to do? We're
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  Speaker 2: going to run the ball.
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  Speaker 6: And you figure the Texans would be like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 6: we'll stop that. Nope, they gave up 27 points to
• 5:41
  Speaker 6: the Giants behind J.J.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: Yep, the D in D'Amico Ryan's doesn't stand for defense.
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  Speaker 7: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Eco Ryan's. Amico Ryan's.
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: Put it on the ball. Should we call him Amico Ryan?
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  Speaker 3: Man, that defense is bad.
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  Speaker 5: Dominique Foxworth, who's been championing for the Texans defense, even
• 6:06
  Speaker 5: he came out today and said, that defense is dead
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: to me at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I texted him.
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  Speaker 4: None of us know what we're talking about.
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: My next winner, Mikey, and this is one where I'm
• 6:15
  Speaker 5: going to have to walk back some of my takes.
• 6:17
  Speaker 5: because he might be getting healthy, Bo Nix. And we're
• 6:20
  Speaker 5: taking it with a grain of salt because he did
• 6:22
  Speaker 5: it against the Arizona Cardinals. But yesterday was the version
• 6:26
  Speaker 5: of Bo Nix that Broncos fans have been waiting to see.
• 6:29
  Speaker 5: And Sean Payton, he opened up that playbook. Nix finally
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: showed some flashes of that explosive, dynamic quarterback, Denver Envision,
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  Speaker 5: when it drafted.
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  Speaker 1: No shame in doing it against the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 4: They just beat the Rams. How about that rush by
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: Bo Nix?
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  Speaker 2: What are the Rams?
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Bo Nix, the longest rushing score by an NFL quarterback
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  Speaker 5: since 2022.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: He's back.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Taylor, if you're going to walk one back, if
• 6:55
  Speaker 6: you're going to go ahead and take one on the chin,
• 6:56
  Speaker 6: I will too.
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  Speaker 2: My next biggest loser, Kevin O'Connell, the quarterback whisperer.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, man, dude, it's such a bad look for 1616
• 7:07
  Speaker 6: points with 10 of those points coming in the fourth quarter.
• 7:10
  Speaker 6: Kyler Murray doesn't look like he has any business on
• 7:13
  Speaker 6: an NFL field.
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: And the Colts are just a sinking organization.
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  Speaker 6: I might be one of those losers with Kevin O'Connell
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Can you call a team a sinking organization when they're undefeated?
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  Speaker 3: They're 6-0.
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  Speaker 7: I said the Colts.
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: Were a sinking organization.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the Colts. I'm sorry.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, they are. If only the Vikings had J.J.
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  Speaker 4: McCarthy.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: They'd be my pick to win the Super Bowl right now.
• 7:38
  Speaker 4: J.J.
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  Speaker 5: McCarthy made like four throws in that Giants game to
• 7:41
  Speaker 5: Malik Nabors that he didn't even try to attempt in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: And Kevin O'Connell, we hail this guy as a quarterback whisperer.
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  Speaker 4: Speak up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Finally, you guys are coming around.
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  Speaker 3: I've been with you there.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Jared Goff.
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  Speaker 2: He has.
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  Speaker 4: Goff hasn't thrown an interception.
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  Speaker 2: Might be the MVP.
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  Speaker 4: Just saying. He's having the best year of his career.
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: Guess who's not there? Ben Johnson. Anyway, sorry. Just bringing
• 8:04
  Speaker 4: that back up from last week.
• 8:07
  Speaker 5: So my next loser, the San Francisco 49ers. It feels
• 8:11
  Speaker 5: like the injuries have finally caught up to them. And
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: for weeks now, San Francisco has managed to overcome their
• 8:18
  Speaker 5: depleted roster, finding ways to win.
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  Speaker 3: But I think there's only so much.
• 8:22
  Speaker 5: Adversity a team could withstand before it starts showing up
• 8:25
  Speaker 5: in the win-loss column. The cracks were beginning to show
• 8:28
  Speaker 5: that second half against the Commanders. The good news for them,
• 8:32
  Speaker 5: the bye week couldn't be coming at a better time
• 8:34
  Speaker 5: right now. You rest up, get some of these guys back,
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: maybe get healthy, regroup, strengthen that team for the second
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: half of the season, maybe at.
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: The trade deadline.
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: I saw Christian McCaffrey on the exercise bike. He's home
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: away from home.
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: It was only a matter of time.
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: Put it on the ball.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: It's the stationary bike on the sideline. Christian McCaffrey's home
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: away from home.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike.
• 9:00
  Speaker 6: My next loser, Monday Night Football. Thursday Night Football is
• 9:04
  Speaker 6: just pantsing Monday Night Football. They are coming out with
• 9:07
  Speaker 6: banger after banger on Thursday night. I mean, this week alone,
• 9:11
  Speaker 6: we're getting Panthers-Packers. That's after Patriots-Bears, Seahawks-Broncos. And meanwhile, Monday
• 9:18
  Speaker 6: Night Football is trying to sell me on this Cowboys-Eagles
• 9:21
  Speaker 6: game tonight.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I might watch the World Series.
• 9:24
  Speaker 6: If nothing else, I'll tell you now, the World Series
• 9:29
  Speaker 6: is going to go on TV One.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: That's going to happen. And that's after they gave us
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: Commanders-Niners last week.
• 9:34
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Well, you get Bears-Seahawks next week, just to be fair
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: to Monday Night Football.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: It's an odd thing to want to be fair to,
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Monday Night Football.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: Jaguars-Ravens is going to be Thursday night.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: In fairness, Eagles-Cowboys sounded good before the season.
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  Speaker 2: Always does.
• 9:52
  Speaker 7: Always does.
• 9:53
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 9:54
  Speaker 6: But the Cowboys always will let us down. They will
• 9:57
  Speaker 6: always let us down. And someday, maybe.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: We'll learn.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: All right. We haven't learned on the Jets, me and you. Taylor,
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: one more here.
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: My last loser, and it's the biggest loser. We've talked
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: about it a bit. Aaron Glenn's job security. At this point,
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: it's not a matter of if Aaron Glenn gets fired,
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: but when. The only question now is how much longer
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: the Jets are willing to drag this out as they
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: get ready for a Raiders team that probably is going
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: to start or could start Fernando Mendoza. My biggest problem
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: with Aaron Glenn this week is besides just his general incompetence,
• 10:33
  Speaker 5: at halftime, he was yucking it up with the side
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: on the reporter, making fun of his own incompetence from
• 10:39
  Speaker 5: the prior week, where it's like, Aaron Glenn, if you're
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: not going to show signs of improvement, don't be looking
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: like you're having a grand old time laughing about how
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: you didn't know that your team didn't start with a
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: ball last week.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes when things are so bad and you're
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: so bad at your job, you just got to laugh.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: You just got to laugh. That's it. I mean.
• 10:57
  Speaker 6: See, I want to just flip the script. I got
• 11:00
  Speaker 6: Aaron Glenn as one of my biggest winners of the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that guy put together a staff that guarantees
• 11:06
  Speaker 6: he's not getting fired until the offseason.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: Because there is nobody.
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: On that staff you could point to and be like,
• 11:13
  Speaker 6: you know what? That's going to be my head coach.
• 11:15
  Speaker 6: You're looking at me funny because I know who you're
• 11:17
  Speaker 6: thinking about. You're thinking about Frank Reich. Oh, you're thinking
• 11:20
  Speaker 6: about it. Let's take a look at Frank Reich's last
• 11:22
  Speaker 6: few coaching stops, and then we'll go, hey, you know what?
• 11:24
  Speaker 6: Maybe you don't want that guy coaching your team. Not
• 11:27
  Speaker 6: to mention, he's got Garrett Wilson, and he refuses to
• 11:30
  Speaker 6: get him the ball.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: Well, let's make that guy.
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, how about the special teams coordinator? Oh, they have
• 11:35
  Speaker 6: one of the worst special team units in the world.
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: How about the defensive coordinator?
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Name him. Oh, you can't? That's why.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: If only they had J.J. McCarthy.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Gino's not the problem.
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: Gino's not the answer. He's not the problem.
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: He's not the answer either.
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, J.J. would be a better answer. Long term.
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: Remember when Kenyon Sadiq was going to be the next
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: biggest player?
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  Speaker 7: I remember it all.
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: Omar Cooper, though?
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a good player.
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: I think we found something.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Do yourself a favor. Don't go pick up
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Omar Cooper Jr.
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  Speaker 6: Because he's going to be nonexistent the rest of the
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: year because that's how this Jets team operates.
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: Taylor said they found something.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: What they found is someone who won't be playing for
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: the Jets in about three years. Adam Thielen next. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: He's retired. He has a new podcast called Dialed. Wherever
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  Speaker 4: Right now.
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  Speaker 1: You were on vacation last week. I'm wondering, how do
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: you like this retirement thing?
• 14:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's not bad. It could be worse. That's
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: for sure.
• 14:14
  Speaker 8: But no, yeah, we've, we've, we've had a good time
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: with the kids and I'm still staying busy.
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: I'm still working a little bit.
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: So doing the pod and doing ESPN and doing some
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: radio stuff. So staying busy when the kids are busy
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: and then, you know, enjoying my time with them and
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: coaching them and all the sports and, going on some vacations.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: So not bad.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: Very nice.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Are you enjoying the media thing? Doing ESPN, doing your
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: own pod, dialed? Are you enjoying all of that?
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: I love it. Yeah, I love it.
• 14:40
  Speaker 8: I love the flexibility of kind of doing it on
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: my terms, obviously, and when I want to do it.
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: Not when I want to, but when my kids are
• 14:48
  Speaker 8: busy in school, I can kind.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: Of make that time available. And yeah, I really enjoy it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: I love talking, obviously, football and staying around the game
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: and watching tape to get prepped for the shows and
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: doing all that.
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: Just keeps me around the game.
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: And, and unfortunately sometimes I, it keeps me too close
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: to the game where I like, man, I'm watching all
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: this tape.
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: I'm like, man, I can still do that.
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: And I could do it better than some of these guys.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: But, uh, I gotta, I gotta be careful there.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: I know how much you love football.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I know how much you love the locker room, all
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: the things that come with playing football. So I asked
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you how difficult was it to not have a locker
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: room to go to, uh, at the start of the season?
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: It wasn't difficult at all.
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: Cause I didn't have to go to training camp.
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: All was good.
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: But then when those, those games start going and you know, my,
• 15:34
  Speaker 8: my family went to the first game and you're, you
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: feel the energy and the atmosphere and, and kind of
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: watch some of the play and like my body's feeling
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: pretty good right now. Cause I haven't been hit in
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: a while. And then you're like, man, maybe I should
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: keep playing. But no, it's, it's, it is hard. It's
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: hard to like, give it up, man. I've been doing
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: it for so long. I've, I've given everything I've had
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: to this game. And so it's hard to, call it quits, right?
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: It's hard to give up those opportunities to go out
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: there and make plays, especially for a team that I.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: Grew up rooting for, right?
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: I grew up a Vikings fan and got to play
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: there for so long, and now I'm a huge fan again,
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: so it's hard to... you know, sometimes you're like, man, well,
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: I could go help that team.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: But it is what it is.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: I'm retired now.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can if you want to at some point,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: you know, if something happens.
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: I better not.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Wait, so as a Vikings fan, because you're a fan now,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: not a player, as a fan, how hard was it
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: to watch J.J.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: McCarthy perform that well for the Giants?
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, not hard.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: I loved it, man. I'm so happy for him. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: got to know him before he was on the Vikings.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Or sorry, before I was on the Vikings and played
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: with him. I was still in Carolina. We got to
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: throw together in the summers. And then, you know, we
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: got to play with him last year. And just so
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: happy for him. I mean, everyone loves that guy. Even
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: the organization, man.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: They love him. They love him.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: He's a great kid. He's a hard worker. He's got
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: a great mindset. He's got a great attitude. Everybody in
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: that building loves that guy. It just didn't work out.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: And so those are the guys that that work hard,
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: they do things right, that you root for and you
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: hope they have success. They just need a fresh start.
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: And both sides, they needed a fresh start with it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: So it is what it is. And I think everybody's
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: proud of him and excited for his new opportunity.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Adam, the Minnesota Vikings, the last undefeated team in the NFL,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I'm sure everybody saw that coming before the season got started.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: It still feels like, though, this Minnesota Vikings team is
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: kind of flying under the radar. What more do you
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: think they have to prove before people start taking them
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: seriously as a potential Super Bowl contender?
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know if they want people to think
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: of them as a Super Bowl contender. I think they
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: like where they're at, right? Just stay under the radar,
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: keep winning games. Now, if you're losing games, it's a
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: different story. But right now, it's like, hey, you're sneaking
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: them out. You're finding a way to win. You're gaining
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: confidence as a team. You're starting to get clicking a
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: little bit on offense. You're showing flashes of it, right?
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: And defense has played super consistent at an extremely high
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: level week in, week out.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Like, it is what it is.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: I've seen teams win Super Bowls with just good defense, right? Like,
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: the defense wins championships. Everyone talks about it. As an
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: offensive guy, it kills me to say.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: But It's true. And so it is what it is.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: And, and there's a little bit of like, and Kevin's
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: alluded to it in his press conference and things like that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: There's a little bit of like, he's calling plays based
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: off of his defense.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Like his defense is playing really well.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: And in the games, they're consistently continuing to play well.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Like he doesn't have to get super aggressive and doesn't
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: have to like put the ball at risk to have
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: turnovers and things like that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: So It's like keep winning games. Who cares? And eventually
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: they're going to have to, and he knows that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: Eventually you're going to play a team that has a
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: really good offense and a really good defense that you're
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: going to have to score points, and you're going to
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: have to be a little bit more aggressive in your
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: play calling, and they.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Just haven't been there yet. So it is what it is.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: You're 6-0.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: You're the last undefeated team. Keep sneaking away wins.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Listen, you know Brian Flores.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: You have played against his defenses in practice, and so
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what makes him different?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: What makes him so special?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: As a D coordinator?
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: He's not afraid.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: Most guys are like, you know, I'm not afraid of
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: once or twice or, or in the middle of the
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: game when the situations aren't win or lose territory, I
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: guess you could say, or, or crucial situations. But he's
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: a guy that doesn't care. Doesn't care the situation. Doesn't
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: care what quarter it is. The game's on the line.
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: Like he's coming after you and he's going to play
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: a cat and mouse game with you to say, you
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: don't think I'm.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Going to blitz here. All right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: You don't you think that I'm going to drop out
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: here or you think I'm going to blitz here?
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: I'm going to drop out like he plays this.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: Cat and mouse game so well because he's not afraid.
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: And I thought it was the coolest thing, the week
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: one uh playing green bay at home and in the
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: moment i was like man what is he doing but
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: now i look back i'm like i'm so glad he
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: did it but it's like the end of the half
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: and uh green bay's got some momentum oh sorry they
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: had momentum in the first half vikings go down we
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: finally score and start to gain some momentum back they
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: go down and he goes cover zero cover zero cover
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: zero And they go right down the field score right
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: before half. And everyone's like, man, including myself, like, what
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: are we doing? Like, situation football, you got to know.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: But then you, like, look back and you're like, I'm
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: so glad he did that because now every team is
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: afraid of that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: Because he doesn't care. And so he does a really
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: good job, too, of empowering his players. He's got guys
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: out there like Harrison Smith and Blake Cashman that he
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: trusts so much that if they see something that they
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: know that the offense maybe knows what they're doing, like,
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: they'll just switch out of it. And he's okay with that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: And he empowers those guys. And not all the guys,
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: trust me. He doesn't empower all the guys. But there's
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: a few guys that he empowers to kind of have
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: the keys and kind of be the coach on the field,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: which has really made them difficult to scheme up against.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Adam, knowing how much coaching matters to a team's success,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: are you still surprised by how quickly John Harbaugh has
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: turned the Giants into a team that's exceeding expectations and
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: might win that division?
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: And I'll say this, and I'll be honest here. Uh,
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: I was not, I, he's proven me wrong. I did
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: not think that was a good hire. Uh, I just
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: thought that, you know, he's, he's, he's had his time, um,
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: and maybe a little old school mentality. I don't know
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: if they work and he's totally proved me wrong. I mean,
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: he obviously knows how to win. He knows how to
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: lead a team. He knows how to develop and understand
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: talent and put guys in positions to have success.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: And, and I was wrong.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: I was, I was very wrong because he's doing an
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: unbelievable job with a team. that doesn't necessarily have all
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: the talent in the world, but they're just finding ways
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: to win. And he's putting guys, he's empowering guys to
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: have success and putting them in good positions. And he
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: trusted a guy that came from Minnesota three weeks ago
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: to be the starting quarterback and give them the reins
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: of the offense. And he's proven that those decisions were
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: the right moves. And so a lot of respect for him.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: And even though, again, I didn't necessarily think it was
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: the greatest hire, but obviously it was.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: And people are wrong at times, and I was wrong.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Phelan, what the hell is going on with the Browns?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: How are they in first place? What is happening here, man?
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Again, like, man, prove me wrong, and I love it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: They hire someone that was maybe a little bit of
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: a flyer hire that has been overlooked for a long
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: time as a head coach and done really well as
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: a play caller.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: But never really got the opportunity. And then, like, man, like,
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: turned it around, like, ASAP. Like, so cool. And there's
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: so many teams like that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Even, you know, Stefanski leaves Cleveland and gets fired and
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: then goes there and, like, rough start first couple games.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: And, like, look how well they're playing. Like, it's crazy.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: And that's what makes the NFL so great is you
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: never know. Like, going into the season, you probably couldn't have–
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: I mean, no one probably picked the division leaders right now.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: Like no one would have guessed that that's how it
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: was going to play out.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: And so that's why the NFL is so great.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: And that's why they are flying high as far as
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: people watching games and international, just the growth of the game.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: And I love it. I can't wait for Sundays. I
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: can't wait to put on all the games. four box
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: on the TV to watch all the games and watch
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: it with my son who's looking at his fantasy teams
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: and all that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: It's the best, man. It's the best sport.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Wait, so it just dawned on me. This is the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: first time you've had the opportunity to do this. So
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: what's a Sunday afternoon look like at the Thielen household?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: It's gross, right?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: It's great and gross.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Yes, it's unbelievable.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Honestly, it's the best thing ever. It's funny because when
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: I was playing... and we'd play on a Thursday game,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: or we'd have a bye week, and I got a
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Sunday to sit on the couch and watch football. I
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: was sitting on the couch and watching football, and now
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: my boys are into it, and they love it, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: so it's so fun.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: I took my middle child, my son.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: To the Gopher game on Saturday, Minnesota Gophers, and they
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: played Iowa, which is a big rivalry, and they won
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: the game, and And it's so fun. Like he's locked in,
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: he's getting up on the chair, waving the flag or
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: waving the towel. And it's just so fun. It's so
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: fun to watch the games with them and, and kind
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: of teach them the game. And my oldest son is
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: super into fancy football right now. So he's got his
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: team and he's watching all the games, got the iPad up,
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: like seeing how many points I'm like, actually, you probably
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: don't want to need to watch like your team, like like,
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: the entire time.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Like, just wait until the first game's over.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: They can check in.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: But he's like, no, no, no. Like, they just got
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: to catch. He got. 5 points. Like, it's fun.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: You'll learn quickly they're rooting for their fantasy team over
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: their actual team.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: They don't care about their actual team.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: They care about their fantasy team.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I've made sure I've set roots. We are
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Vikings fans in our house, and we are Timberwolves fans,
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: and we will root for our hometown teams.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: That's what we do.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: But yeah, you can root for individual players and do
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: all that, but we're.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Going to have roots first.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Adam, the one person that I think everybody wishes they
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: had on their fantasy team right now, Jackson Smith and Jigba,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: 867 yards through seven games played. It's the second most
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: since 2000, only behind Tyreek Hill. Adam, you're sixth on
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: this list, by the way.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: You had 822 yards through your first seven games in 2018.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: When you watch Jackson Smith and Jigba as a wide receiver,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: what makes him so special?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: He's an all-around guy, man. You can put him in
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: the slot. You can put him outside.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: It's something that throughout my career, that was what I
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: was trying to be. And the reason why is because
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: The OC is like you are at his disposal if
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: you can play everywhere, if you can run fast, if
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: you can change direction, if you can make contested catches.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Now he can line you up in the slot. He
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: can motion you. He can line you up outside. You
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: got one-on-one. He can put four by one and put
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: you as a single. Like there's so much they can
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: do with him because he's so versatile. He can take
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: the top off. He can run the intermediate routes. He
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: can run the choice routes out of the backfield. They
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: can do everything with him. And so that's what really
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: separates him and makes him different. And and really why.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: A lot of these number one guys that have a
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: lot of continued success, like Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, like
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: some of these guys is because they have they're versatile.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: They have to be.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: You can't be that guy, especially once you have one
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: year of a lot of success.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Every team is trying to take away Jason.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: So if he just lines up at X or he
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: just lines up at Z, like they're going to take
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: him away. But when you're able to line up in
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: the slot, you're able to line up in a stack,
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: you're able to motion, you're able to move you around
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: and trust that you can run all the routes and
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: you can do it all, now.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: You have a difficult time taking them away.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Adam, Las Vegas is so confusing because Kirk Cousins, by
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: any stretch, is having a good year. He leads the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: NFL in touchdown passes, I believe. He's right up there
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: in yardage. The team is off to a better start
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: than expected. But I'm wondering here, Mendoza is sitting there.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So if you're a player in that locker room, Do
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you want them to stick with Kirk Cousins? Do you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: think they should stick with Cousins or go to Mendoza now?
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Well, I haven't watched the last few weeks. But before that,
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: I watched a bunch of their games, just watching them back.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: And Kirk was playing fantastic.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, great.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: And so I don't think you switch. It's not a
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: Kirk problem, right? It's a full team thing. And their
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: whole plan and the whole purpose of bringing Kirk there,
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: knowing that they were going to draft Mendoza, was to
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: develop him and to help him to be that role
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: model of what it looks like to prepare what it
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: looks like to go through a tough stretch, right? Like
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: Mendoza has never been through a tough stretch of his career.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: And so you have to also learn how to do that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: And you're not in, you're not getting the bullets, right? You're,
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: you're getting live action without taking the bullets. And so
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: just keep developing them, put them in the background. They're
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: not going to win a Superbowl this year. Anyways, whether
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: he's in there or not, like do the right thing
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: and develop them the right way.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: And let Kirk be Kirk. He's doing a great job.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: And again, I haven't watched last week or the week
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: before and I'm going to do that. But, um, but yeah,
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: I think either way, especially for the next few weeks,
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: like you stick with Kirk and they went through a
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: tough stretch. And if you really look at in detail,
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: they barely lost to the, to the chiefs. Um, they
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: barely lost to the next week. I forget who they played.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Like they, they, they took it to the last seconds, right?
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Last week they got blown out, but like, it's not
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: like they're getting blown out every week or, or they're
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: Owen whatever, like they're still in it. And so just
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: stick with them and let Mendoza develop.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: We have a game for you. We'll get to it
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: in just a second.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But quickly before that, it just dawned on me, this
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: also just dawned on me, Halloween.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: You've never been home for Halloween, have you?
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: Not very often. No, I think we played on Halloween
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: a couple times. But yeah, no, I mean.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Excited.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: The kids are all fired up. We've already done some stuff.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: It's always fun to just be around them and be
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: a part of it and be nice cold Halloween, I'm sure,
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: in Minnesota, as it always is.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: But excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a big bar household? Like what kind of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: candy will you have at the house? Is it big
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: bars for the kids coming around the neighborhood or?
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  Speaker 7: That is not my responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: It is now, my friend.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: That's a great question. I'm not sure. But in the past,
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: because people know our house and our community and and.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: So like the doorbells ringing forever.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: So in the past, we just put a little sign
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: out there, put the bucket out there where those people
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: like take to and move on. But this year, I'm
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: sure we'll We'll be around a little bit. So we'll
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: see what.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: That looks like.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm always surprised. It's like Christmas, right? I don't know
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: what presents my kids are getting. I'm just as surprised
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: as they are. And so it'll be the same thing
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: with my candy.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: You're gonna find out at the same time they do
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: yeah exactly and they're gonna thank me for it and
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: i'm like yeah for sure like i knew exactly what.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: You'd like yes are you a big costume guy or no.
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: I am yeah we like we love we love to
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: do like the family themed costumes so we do one
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: family themed costume and then each kid gets to pick
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: their costume that they go as a trick-or-treater.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: We enjoy doing that.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Let's get to this game here. Check out his podcast, Dialed,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. He's all over ESPN as well,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: NFL coverage. Just one quick game here. Taylor, give me
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the imaging.
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: There's one table left at the hottest spot in town
• 30:18
  Speaker 9: and everybody wants it. Who's getting it? And who's getting
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: left outside? Greatness gets seated. Everyone else waits. This is
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: One Table.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: All right, so it's Thielen's Steakhouse in Minnesota, Minneapolis. By
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the way, I have you as the favorite since you're
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: retired now for Lake Tahoe. I mean, you've got to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: beat Marty Fish. Taylor thinks Marty Fish is bad for
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the tournament. Because he's become too good. Let somebody else
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: win it, yeah.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: He's become too good.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: He's won it like twice.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: I got sidetracked.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: So Thielen Steakhouse in Minneapolis, two guys walk in. You
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: determine which of those two guys gets the one seat
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: remaining in the restaurant. And we just have one for you.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Normally we go like five deep, but this one is
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: so good.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: It's so rich.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I'm interested in what your answer is going to be.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: So Taylor, go ahead.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: So Adam, Randy Moss walks in. Justin Jefferson walks in
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: who gets the table?
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: Oh, Justin Jefferson.
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: Easy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: That's an easy one. That's not even a question. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: played with Justin. Like that's my guy. Like it'd be
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: different if it was like, if it was like Chris Carter,
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: Randy Moss. Now I'm like, Oh shoot.
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: Like now I got to, I got to choose between
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: two legends that I didn't play with. And I have
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: like a super personal connection with, but, but yes, Justin
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: Jefferson all day. Like that's my guy.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: And I love Randy. He's my guy too, but I
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: don't know him quite as well as Justin.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Shame on us. Uh, Chris Carter, Randy Moss. Who you
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: going with? There we go.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: There we go. I like that.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: Um, man, Chris Carter, Randy Moss. Ooh, that's tough. Now that's,
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: that's real.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: Here's, here's my thought process.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: And I'll tell you who at the end of my
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: thought process is, man, like I grew up watching both
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: of them, obviously love them both. Um, Randy Moss, big
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: play guy, like unbelievable and never know what you're going
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: to get. Chris Carter, just like the consistency, run all
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: the routes, the toe tap, catch on the sideline. So
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: I would go with Chris Carter because that's who I
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: tried to emulate my game after. I could not do
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: the things that Randy Moss did as much as I
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: wanted to in the backyard. I wanted to be like
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: Chris Carter every single game. My dad would sit there
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: as he's watching the game and annoyed as crap of me,
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: but he would throw me a ball and I would
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: toe tap on the sideline, diving catch into the beanbag
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: chair and try to be like Chris Carter. So I would,
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: I would give it to Chris Carter. And then I'd
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: give all my apologies to Randy Moss. And he probably
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: never talked to me again. So hopefully he doesn't hear this,
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: but Chris Carter, my guy, that's a very good answer.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: And I lied to you.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: We have one more. Go ahead, Taylor.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Quick one.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Adam, John Randall walks in. Jared Allen walks in. Who
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: gets the table?
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: Well, that's actually hilarious because I right before you. That's
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: why I was late is John Randall was in my
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: my studio right here and we were doing the podcast dialed.
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: So he's my next guest.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: If it gets recorded because I was just scrambling to
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: get on here as I'm freaking out and they're telling
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: me to calm down. But I'm like, literally, we just
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: did this amazing podcast. So much good stuff from John Randall.
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: And I don't know if we have it, so I'm
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: still stressing out right now.
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: But John Randall would get the chair.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Welcome to our world, man. It'll be fun.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, my goodness.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: He had the greatest sack celebration of all time on
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: all fours, right? It was fantastic.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: John Randall.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, and like his energy and his attitude. And then
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: we got into a little bit of his trash talking
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: and where that came from.
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: And it's unbelievable.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: Like this guy would research these guys he's going against
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: and know everything about them.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: And would just have this elite trash talk. So I
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: wish I would have interviewed him before I started playing
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: in the NFL because then I would have had better
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: trash talking.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: I'm just hoping I can hear it. I mean, that's all. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Thank you for stressing me out more.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We're here to help you out. Me, Taylor, Mike, EA.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: We're here to help you out in any way.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: We can, okay?
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: All right, man.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: We appreciate the time. I can't have you on enough, man.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: We love having you. And you're fantastic.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: So enjoy retirement. Enjoy Halloween. Enjoy finding out what candy
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: bars you'll have in front of the house.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. We'll do it again. It's going to be
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: a great surprise. Thanks, guys. We'll talk soon.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: We'll do it again soon, man.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: Thank you.