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Vikings United: Wild Card Highlights and Coaching Rumors Explored · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  This is Vikings United, your ultimate destination for everything Minnesota Vikings.
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  Bringing together the most passionate fans, insightful analysts, and dynamic creators from
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  across Skull Nation.
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  Get ready for deep dives, spirited debates, and exclusive insights from coach Cody.
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  This is Vikings United.
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  So ferocious, so just so just wait before it was the dopest.
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  Wish up to Hoodoo, Purple and Nicole this.
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  Welcome in to the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and you are here tonight for Vikings United.
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  Man, that song gets me fired up.
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  I'm joined by my cohost, coach Cody.
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  What'd you think of the track, Cody?
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  That was awesome.
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  I definitely need that m p three.
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  You gotta send that to me.
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  That man.
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  Shout out to him.
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  Shout out to our guy Prince Walker, Prince Danero, and his guy, Chris Clay.
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  Big b, welcome back, brother.
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  Glad to have you on a Tuesday night.
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  Dude, you you ain't kidding.
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  That's like that's like almost to my top five of songs that just get you pumped.
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  Yeah.
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  He he's good out there.
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  That song that song I don't know if you saw me backstage, but I'm bobbing my son walks by.
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  Goes, was bobbing too.
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  So I mean
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  not played on the stadium every Sunday, man.
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  Like, that is
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  that is
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  You might have to do some connections to get them played.
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  It will be.
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  It will be soon
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  might wanna send off to KFAN there, not, you know, Chris Hockey, whatever you like that.
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  You know?
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  You know mean?
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  That snippet with Justin Jefferson against the Bills couple years ago, that was legit.
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  I like that.
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  Oh,
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  man.
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  What a what a great way to start every show.
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  Hey, Kevin.
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  Thanks for tuning in.
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  We're doing good, man.
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  Just
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  What's up, Kevin Cherry?
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  I know you're hyped.
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  Your bears are in the second round.
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  So
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  yeah, we're gonna we're gonna For now, Kevin.
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  That a little bit.
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  I, you know, never never gonna be sad watching the packers lose.
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  I don't care who they're playing.
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  Hey, Kev.
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  Hey.
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  My wife, Danielle, she's doing homework inside tonight.
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  No red cups.
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  No red cup.
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  Outside of me.
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  This is Ran out of red cups.
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  Red red cups equal w's, but the season, sadly, for the Vikings is over.
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  We got a lot of stuff to get into tonight, obviously.
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  We've had some movement in the coaching carousel already with the Steelers losing last
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  night.
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  We heard, you know, Mike Tomlin is out as the Steelers head coach.
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  What does that mean for Brian Flores and the Vikings?
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  Obviously, big news of the day.
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  The press conference coming out this morning.
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  Right before the press conference announced that Jordan Addison was arrested again.
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  We hate hate to see that.
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  We're gonna get into a lot more as that, but first, we're gonna get in.
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  Bring us all back.
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  Shout out to Pillars of Valor.
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  I tried a new flavor tonight.
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  So, I've been drinking the dark roast and, switched it up tonight because I needed a cup
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  before the show, obviously.
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  Obviously.
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  And
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  I gotta give you some.
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  It's empty.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, unfortunately, they, like, came to me, and then getting them back up to Minnesota is a
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  little bit of an issue right now.
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  So but I'm working on it, coach.
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  I promise.
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  No worries.
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  No worries at all.
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  Does a bag of coffee last you, like, a day?
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  I mean, you you got it.
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  The world threw it.
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  Yeah.
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  It it'll probably last me maybe a day and a half, you know, but I I'm excited for it.
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  Shout out to Pillar of Valor coffee.
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  Yeah.
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  We're gonna get we're gonna have to get Cody, like, a membership at, like, Starbucks or
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  something, you know, with everything he's got going on these days.
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  You know what I really need?
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  I need a I need a phone company to sponsor me.
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  That's what I really need because I'm struggling with these two.
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  Oh, man.
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  Well, let's start there.
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  Let's catch up a little bit.
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  First of all, we all gotta know how the tryouts go, coach.
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  Yep.
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  The tryouts went amazing.
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  A lot better than I expected.
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  You know, the just the turnout in general.
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  I never really, you know, thought about it, but, you know, the size and the number of
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  turnouts, you know, tells you a lot.
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  And, you know, a lot of players at at the trial were like, dang.
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  Like, there's a lot of people here.
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  Last last trial that I was with only had about four people.
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  One had seven.
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  So we were, we were right around 20.
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  So I was, it was it was nice.
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  A lot of competition.
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  Know, probably signed about at least half of them.
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  So we haven't you know, the other ones might be practice squad.
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  Who knows?
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  A lot of injuries happen.
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  So it was a it was a good time, though.
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  Well and now because you had this massive turnout and all these guys know other ball
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  players.
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  Right?
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  So that the next time, you're gonna have even more, turnout for these.
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  And as you keep going and to grow that database of players that you got going on, and then
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  they're gonna be pulling guys that are you know, there's always gonna be college graduates
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  that don't elevate to that level that wanna continue their career.
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  Like, this thing is just gonna continue to grow.
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  I mean, you really you know, I I know that you were with you were with another organization,
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  and then, obviously, you had your run with the bears.
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  And, you know, you've been growing this thing for a couple of years now to already be at the
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  level you're at, I think, is a huge testament to who you are as a man and the way that you
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  treat these players for them to have that kind of trust in you to pay money.
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  I know it's not a lot to come and do the tryouts, but still, they're they're putting
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  their money out there on the line.
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  They're taking time out of their day.
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  Some of these people were traveling from thousands of miles away to come and be a part
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  of this.
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  So it it really is a testament to you and everything that you bring to the table, coach.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  I appreciate that, and I'm blessed, honestly.
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  You know?
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  And I I think it's, know, more, you know, I tell my players all the time, you know, I care
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  about you as a player, but more as a person off the field.
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  And, just, taking the time to actually know them, and, you know, always come into practice
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  with the high energy, love and passion for them and the sports, itself.
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  You know, it just it shows a lot, tells a lot.
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  You know, every we all have things going on in in our life in the background, but you gotta
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  check it out the door.
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  It'll be right there waiting for you when you're done.
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  So
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  So, Cody, how is this gonna work with you being up here, coaching with your defense, or is it
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  gonna be the whole team?
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  And then some of them are down in, you know, wherever the Calgary are at.
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  I mean, how's that gonna work?
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  Or you know?
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  So the so the offense will be in Gillette, Wyoming.
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  They'll live there, and they'll practice.
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  The defense will be with me, and then I'll also have a scout team offense.
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  And, and then, you know, we got seven games right now.
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  Five are home.
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  So all we gotta do most of us are, you know, from around the five state area, so we can just
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  pick a meeting point and then jet out there.
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  And then for the two away games, they've gotta come through Minnesota just to get there.
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  So, you know, that's kinda how that'll work.
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  You know, I need smart players for that scout offense just to know, you know, the offense
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  that we're gonna be going up against and to potentially learn our offense because of the
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  injuries and call ups and everything like that.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  A lot of moving pieces.
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  Tell you what, Cody.
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  I I got a call coming up here soon with a tour bus company out of Nashville.
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  We're gonna see if we can work some magic with the theme projects and and get nice bus, get
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  some corporate sponsorships for the cavalry team as well, and keep growing our our
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  relationship and everything that we're building here, not just at SPSN, but the theme projects,
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  our parent network, and everything that's going on.
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  Big presser today.
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  Obviously, we had Quasi and Kevin O'Connell speaking.
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  I didn't watch the press conference myself.
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  I had a pretty busy day, interviews, and whatnot, you know, running this network as the
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  executive producer of the scene projects.
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  But I I did listen into the Purple Daily and kinda listening to their analysis of it.
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  I don't know if you had a chance to watch the presser, coach, if you had some of your
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  thoughts or, be either one.
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  Coach, we'll start with you.
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  I didn't get a chance to.
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  I did read a couple articles just, you know, off Google and stuff, but at that time, there
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  was no comment.
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  KOC and company were, you know, aware of the situation, but didn't really, come out and say
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  it at that point.
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  That's just, like, early in the morning.
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  So I, yeah, I didn't get to see the presser, but, man, that dude, he needs some help.
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  Chris Carter, where are you at?
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  And I don't he sits next to Justin Jefferson.
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  I don't know if any mentorship is gonna help.
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  Talk about that from the coaches standpoint.
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  Obviously, for those that don't know, Jordan Addison arrested again, for trespassing.
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  What that means, I don't know.
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  I don't know that there's a lot of details out about that.
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  Beacon fill us in in a minute.
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  But, coach, as a as the head of that locker room, knowing that you have a player that can
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  continues to be a, Danielle's got an opinion about it already.
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  That a teacher will say exactly this.
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  But do you kind of do you echo this sentiment where this kid continues to hurt his team?
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  There's probably gonna be another suspension along with this.
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  It could be it's obviously gonna be more than three games because he had the legal trouble
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  before.
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  You're looking at possibly six games.
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  That's a third of the season coming up into a contract year.
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  Do you just say, you know what?
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  You are a cancer to this team.
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  You're a bad role model for other young players that we have coming in.
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  If we allow you to stay on this team, what message are the Vikings sending to the rest of
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  them?
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  Because they've kinda turned this culture around and have built, you know, around someone
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  who's such a stand up, you know, not just football player, but a really great guy in
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  Justin Jefferson is that is your captain.
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  And then you have his number two.
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  Right?
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  That is the the exact opposite of that.
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  What do you do in this situation?
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  Well, I mean and I even said it on one of our interviews when I was with the bears, but I
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  would have got rid of them at the beginning of this year.
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  I would have tried to get value for them.
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  It was just it was too much.
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  You know, that three games probably cost us playoffs this year.
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  And now six games next year, like, I'd cut ties with him.
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  I you know, how many second chances does a person really deserve?
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  And he it's not like he's not you know, he might take the slap on the wrist or he might
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  get upset because he's not playing or anything, but that's the only reason why he's getting
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  upset is because he's not playing.
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  He's it's not he doesn't care nothing.
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  If he did, he wouldn't be he wouldn't do it over and over and over again.
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  Third time he's getting locked up?
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  It's just crazy.
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  Someone with all the opportunities and everything, and and I'm no one to judge anyone.
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  I I've made poor decisions, but I had to deal with the repercussions of those decisions.
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  Right?
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  And and not that he's not.
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  You're losing, but he doesn't play.
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  He doesn't get the paycheck.
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  Right?
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  You know, same with being injured, and I don't think a lot of people understand that, that
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  you're not getting your game checks as an injured player either.
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  So Right.
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  You know, it it's hurting him financially.
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  It's hurting him, you know, long term, especially with with because now his value is
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  completely tanked, and other teams are watching.
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  This isn't just with the Vikings.
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  Sure.
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  There may be a team like the Raiders or some bottom feeder that's gonna give somebody like
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  this a chance when his contract expires.
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  But at this point, the Vikings can't resign him.
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  You you he's completely destroyed his trade value in the off season because another team's
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  gonna have to deal with this suspension and the fallout from this.
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  So you you're kind of stuck.
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  And why would you save a roster position?
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  Because not to it's not like he came back and his play on the field was setting the world on
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  fire.
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  B, what are your thoughts on on it as a whole?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, it does suck as a, you know, person that watches the team.
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  You know, you're a pro athlete.
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  I mean, anything you do is, you know, gonna be under a microscope, good or bad.
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  But it looks like it was something to do with the Florida casino trespassing.
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  I you know, I don't know if he got banned or whatever from there.
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  But, yeah, he lost all trade out.
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  If I'm him or somebody that's close to him, his legal team or family, you know, maybe he just
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  disappear for a year, you know.
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  And, you know, if you wanna play again, go play the XFL for a year or whatever it's called now
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  or go join one of Cody's 25 teams.
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  If get rehabilitated, bikers do have to cut ties.
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  I mean, I I think it's you know, we cut ties.
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  You know, you disappear for a year, get your head out straight, maybe come back in a, you
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  know, a year or two.
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  But, yeah, it it they put the bike in a tough spot.
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  I think that opens the door for a nailer to get resigned.
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  I know that was a big talk in the off season.
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  What you do with, you do with nailer.
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  I think that just brings nailer back.
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  Well, you have to because I don't think you're going out and searching for a new number two
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  when you have a guy, especially in Speedy that performs so well this season.
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  You know, he kinda leveraged himself into there.
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  No.
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  They just don't have the money where they're gonna go get a a, you know, another high ticket
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  receiver.
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  And I think Speedy earned himself, you know, $6.08 say between 6 and $8,000,000 this year.
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  But, yeah, you can't the unfortunate thing is that you don't save any money by cutting him,
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  and I saw some people are like, well, you don't you don't cut him because it it's not about the
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  cap.
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  It's about culture.
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  Yeah.
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  Yep. You
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  You can't have this guy sticking around.
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  Well, and that's what I was gonna say.
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  Go ahead.
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  Go ahead.
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  Oh, I was just gonna say that, you know, if you could find a trade partner that will take them
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  for a two draft picks, then, you know I mean, yeah, you're gonna go that route, but, I mean,
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  everybody's joking around that Dallas is probably the only team that's gonna take a
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  chance out of because of everybody their past, but I I don't think anybody's gonna I mean, I
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  should say anybody.
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  I mean, there might be some team out there that's gonna offer a couple late late round
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  picks.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe a fifth and a sixth
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  Yeah.
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  For a full
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  surround pick.
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  That's just
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  But if you could get if you don't have to cut them and you say the caper because you move
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  them, I mean, I'm not eating none of that caps based unless I'm cutting them.
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  So but Right.
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  Somebody want to do a fifth and a sixth and, you know, down the road, I mean, yeah, you're
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  gonna you're gonna shuffle off.
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  He's not a Viking next year.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and you talk about culture.
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  You know, the Vikings have always been that stand up organization.
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  And when you have a player that keeps on acting out like this, that's gonna trickle down and,
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  you know, give other players the green light and be like, hey.
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  You know, we can we know we can get away with x, y, and z, this, that, and the third and be
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  just fine.
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  You know?
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  And that's not how we do things here.
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  You know?
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  It's he's not like a Randy Moss or a Jefferson.
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  He's a a two if that, or a three, number three wide receiver.
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  He's just he hasn't done anything in the league to think he can get away with that.
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  Yeah.
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  I think on both teams, he's a three at best.
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  Mhmm.
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  Hey, Gemma.
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  Thanks for tuning in.
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  Appreciate you.
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  Welcome to the show.
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  We are just, you know, discussing the this young man's future with the Vikings.
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  Bee, I'm with you.
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  You can't bring him back, especially because you're losing the leadership.
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  Shout out to Ham or Skolpig back there named after CJ Ham, who, I think will probably be
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  announcing an official retirement here very soon.
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  Jury's still out on Harrison Smith.
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  You are losing a lot of leadership out of this locker room, and you cannot have something like
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  this fracture that locker room and that culture before it's even had a chance to get
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  established.
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  And that's, you know, the long and short of it is the young man didn't do himself any favors.
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  His play on the field was awful this year.
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  His you know, besides the one good play on Christmas day, but that doesn't save a season
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  full of drops and and the three game suspension to start the season.
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  You single handedly cost your team the playoffs.
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  I mean, you can't tell me that if he's on the field that you, you know, win two of the three
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  games that you lost to start the year.
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  Right?
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  I I it just it's unfortunate.
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  It's unfortunate that someone with so much talent and all the opportunities in the world
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  to go and make something to play at the highest level in the NFL has just completely thrown it
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  away.
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  It's sad.
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  I feel for him on the personal level, but as a franchise, as a business, the wolves and, you
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  know, Quacey, they they have to be and I think you could see it on on KOC's face today as he
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  kinda comes up because I think the news broke, like, right before the presser today.
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  And they were notified of it.
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  Maybe they knew about it last night.
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  He gets a call at 4AM saying, you know, hey.
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  He's you know, that probably you're not going back to sleep after that.
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  That's one of your best that's one of your best players.
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  Right?
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  And and someone who I I thought wanted to be at the face of the franchise, but they've just
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  completely pissed it away at this point, and you have to cut bait.
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  I'm definitely with my wife, Danielle, and both of you guys that you you can't bring him back.
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  I don't care that there's no cap savings.
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  I don't care the talent that he had.
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  The the point is is that he played like shit this year too.
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  It's not like he was lights out when he came back from the suspension and all of it was in
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  there.
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  So there's a there's just there's no way I wanna see him in in purple next year.
• 23:42
  Not at
• 23:42
  all.
• 23:42
  And I don't
• 23:43
  think way I think that I would entertain him coming back is, you know, if he's you know,
• 23:49
  whatever his suspension is, he's gone for the year.
• 23:53
  And Chris Carter or Randy Moss or both of them take them under his wing for that year, and
• 24:01
  then maybe I talk about 2027 on okay.
• 24:04
  Let's bring him back.
• 24:05
  Let's see what he's done.
• 24:06
  But but like you said, Bob, I don't think any mentor is gonna help him because, I mean, he
• 24:10
  sits next to JJ in the locker room.
• 24:13
  So, I mean, that would be the only way I would entertain Bob from him coming back is if he
• 24:20
  takes the year off and then gets a mentor between, you know, Chris Carter, Randy Moss,
• 24:26
  Gary Rice, some of the greats that, you know, were role models.
• 24:29
  You know?
• 24:30
  Right.
• 24:30
  Well and it's just, you know, he put himself in a position that he really didn't need to be.
• 24:36
  I mean, if you knew you weren't allowed at a casino, why are you going there and getting and
• 24:42
  picking up that trespassing?
• 24:44
  You know?
• 24:45
  And if it if it was an incident that happened, like, bang, bang, bang, why didn't you just
• 24:49
  leave?
• 24:50
  Why don't you just get out of there?
• 24:52
  I mean, one stupid decision can cost millions.
• 24:59
  Yep.
• 25:00
  Yeah.
• 25:00
  Well, he's he's cost himself probably tens of millions of dollars.
• 25:03
  You were a first round pick, and you just you just completely blew it.
• 25:08
  And it's really sad to see it, happen because I think even if, you get brought on, it's at,
• 25:14
  like, vet minimums.
• 25:16
  It's people taking a flyer on you.
• 25:19
  And, yeah, it's unfortunate.
• 25:22
  I feel bad.
• 25:23
  As someone who's made mistakes and has had to pay for them, who's been there, right, I I feel
• 25:28
  bad that he's had to take that and then that he didn't have maybe better role models and, you
• 25:34
  know, just people around him to to help him do the right things and make good decisions.
• 25:39
  It's it's sad to see it.
• 25:40
  So with that, I think we can kinda put a pin in the Jordan Addison talk.
• 25:46
  Moving on to, the rest of the press conference, I mean, definitely sounds like, I mean,
• 25:53
  obviously, we kinda knew that.
• 25:55
  I don't think there was anything new, or that hasn't been reported on.
• 25:59
  They're looking for, quarterback help, But from the tone that, at least secondhand, I'm hearing
• 26:07
  this kinda through the Purple Daily podcast.
• 26:09
  I know that, you know, the sports dad was at the press conference asking some questions and
• 26:15
  kinda holding KOC's feet to the fire.
• 26:18
  But the tone seemed to be that they are looking for someone that can run this offense the way
• 26:26
  that KOC wants to run this offense.
• 26:29
  And to me, that sounds like a reversion to, you know, not the doing the things that you weren't
• 26:36
  that you were doing when you were losing and not doing the things that you were doing in the
• 26:41
  five game winning streak.
• 26:42
  And to me, that just like man, that's kinda it was kinda disappointing to hear that reporting
• 26:50
  from them.
• 26:51
  And we understand that, you know, chunk plays are a big part of this.
• 26:55
  But to hear that tone from KOC again, when you finish the season on a five game winning streak
• 27:04
  and granted you played a couple of bad teams and and kind of came out, you know mean, you
• 27:11
  kicked the crap out of the Redskins.
• 27:13
  The Giants game, obviously, JJ getting hurt in that second half where that the the lions game
• 27:18
  being what it was.
• 27:19
  But it just god.
• 27:22
  I do not wanna see the team come out and throw the ball 45 times a game to start next season.
• 27:27
  Yeah.
• 27:28
  I like I said, I didn't hear any of that, but, I mean, we've we've said it over and over on
• 27:35
  this show.
• 27:35
  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
• 27:38
  Obviously, the beginning of the season was all broken, we had to fix something and he did.
• 27:43
  And for him to go back on that, that's actually really surprising.
• 27:49
  I I wouldn't do that, honestly.
• 27:53
  You know, you you you you picked JJ where you did, and you wanted to pick him.
• 27:59
  And and now you're not gonna try to fully develop him.
• 28:02
  You're just gonna do, let's say, a year and a half because of his injuries and stuff, maybe a
• 28:08
  year, and then just throw him away.
• 28:10
  That's just that's a waste right there.
• 28:14
  Yeah.
• 28:15
  I mean, if if I mean, if we're talking new coaching staff, then, yeah, I can see them.
• 28:19
  Hey.
• 28:19
  We're gonna go a different way in coat in QBs.
• 28:24
  But, yeah, you drafted.
• 28:25
  You I didn't we move up a spot to get JJ too?
• 28:28
  I mean, I might think of a different draft, but I'm looking at I'm looking currently right now
• 28:33
  at the quarterback free.
• 28:35
  This is for next year.
• 28:37
  Daniel Jones, Aaron Rodgers most likely will retire.
• 28:40
  Daniel Jones will probably side resound to Colts.
• 28:43
  Russell Wilson might be out there.
• 28:44
  Mariota, Tyrod Taylor, Zach Wilson, Blackall, Picken, you know, and then Jimmy g.
• 28:55
  Outside of that, I mean, those are probably the last three are probably more interesting ones
• 28:59
  that I would think about bringing in because of the experience.
• 29:03
  Think about what KOC wants.
• 29:04
  You can already eliminate a lot of those guys just because, like, Tyrod Taylor doesn't fit
• 29:10
  the system.
• 29:12
  Mariota, same thing.
• 29:14
  You know?
• 29:15
  And a lot of these are just guys that you don't.
• 29:17
  There is are they gonna beat out JJ McCarthy even?
• 29:20
  Right?
• 29:21
  And I think most of the guys on that list aren't going to beat out McCarthy, or and
• 29:26
  aren't really to apply the necessary pressure to that you're kinda looking for in the in the
• 29:33
  quarterback room.
• 29:34
  I the Daniel Jones Daniel Jones blew out his Achilles.
• 29:38
  Right?
• 29:39
  Like, he ain't playing most of the next year.
• 29:41
  It's plenty like, and then when he comes back, he's not gonna be the same guy.
• 29:45
  We've seen these Achilles injuries the league.
• 29:48
  You know?
• 29:48
  I I think with a knee now, you know, people are coming back pretty good from these ligament
• 29:54
  injuries, you know, the ACL, MCL injuries.
• 29:57
  But and Achilles is a whole different animal, and it's a whole almost, I think, like, a
• 30:02
  twelve calendar month recovery time that they put on those even with the best doctors in the
• 30:08
  world.
• 30:08
  So
• 30:10
  I mean I mean yeah.
• 30:12
  No.
• 30:12
  I get that.
• 30:12
  I think, you know, like you said, it all depends on what KLC wants.
• 30:17
  But to me, I mean, Kenny Peck has only been a league for three years going on four.
• 30:23
  That might be a guy that, you know, has had some experience, might be able to push McCarthy
• 30:28
  a little bit.
• 30:29
  The other other one, Gardner Minchu, that's in KC right now.
• 30:33
  He's a free agent.
• 30:34
  You know, those might be the two guys, but like you said, KLC's kinda backtrack a little bit on
• 30:39
  what he wants in the quarterback.
• 30:42
  Yeah.
• 30:42
  Honestly, when you were reading off that list, the only name that really stood out to me is
• 30:47
  Pickens.
• 30:48
  Just because I'm curious.
• 30:50
  You know?
• 30:51
  Yep.
• 30:53
  And
• 30:53
  Yeah.
• 30:53
  Then you still don't know.
• 30:55
  You gotta get the guy in the training k, and and you really wanna make some of these
• 30:59
  signings as soon as possible so they can be available for your off off season, you know,
• 31:03
  team activities and getting to know them and stalling the system in their brains and kinda
• 31:09
  running with that.
• 31:10
  And I just we're
• 31:13
  still waiting
• 31:13
  to see what Bflow does.
• 31:15
  And now with Tomlin leaving the Steelers and everything going around, just it's it's pretty
• 31:22
  wild what's going to happen.
• 31:24
  But, yeah, there wasn't a single name on that free agent list that really perked my ears past
• 31:31
  the Kenny Pickett.
• 31:32
  You know, I just the minstroom mania thing, I I don't I don't think they really fit what KOC is
• 31:40
  trying to do anyway with I know that the chargers launched Greg Roman.
• 31:46
  So that looks like they're definitely going to keep Justin Herbert and continue building
• 31:50
  around him and and doing, you know, more to to build around him and kinda change their scheme
• 31:57
  maybe to fit more of what he can do.
• 32:00
  This I mean, it's reported that.
• 32:04
  And use the I mean, like, it's getting cloudier.
• 32:06
  Right?
• 32:07
  Instead of becoming clearer, I feel like it's getting cloudier.
• 32:10
  And it feels like yeah.
• 32:12
  It feels like to me, like, they don't want to go back to JJ McCarthy, and that worries me
• 32:20
  because he he is your best option.
• 32:23
  And even going through all of that, he seems like the best option.
• 32:26
  I mean, if you want somebody that learns, like, you know, that can learn from, like, we are all
• 32:31
  trying to get the Vikings to understand.
• 32:33
  You know, McCarthy's our guy, but let's bring somebody with some knowledge.
• 32:37
  Black was probably your guy then.
• 32:39
  I mean, Black was been around forever, you know, and, I mean, I don't know if I'd want him
• 32:44
  starting, but, you know, he might be able to fill in, but definitely somebody to learn from.
• 32:49
  Blackwood would be your guy.
• 32:52
  Yeah.
• 32:53
  I agree with that.
• 32:53
  I'll agree with that.
• 32:56
  Competent backup.
• 32:57
  Hey.
• 32:57
  There's been a lot of time.
• 32:58
  I mean, we don't know who's gonna get cut yet either.
• 33:01
  Kirk Cousins could be on his way.
• 33:03
  Obviously, that name gets thrown a lot.
• 33:05
  Hey.
• 33:05
  Sir Picasso just jumped in backstage.
• 33:07
  We're gonna Hey.
• 33:08
  There we go.
• 33:09
  What's up, man?
• 33:12
  Man,
• 33:14
  I'm here to bring bring her cousins back.
• 33:16
  That's what I'm talking about.
• 33:18
  I see.
• 33:19
  Let's go.
• 33:19
  I can't I I can't do it.
• 33:21
  I can't do it.
• 33:23
  The the way he works,
• 33:24
  I can't
• 33:24
  do it.
• 33:24
  This office of line.
• 33:26
  I mean, yo.
• 33:28
  But Yo.
• 33:28
  From here's what I'm what anybody says.
• 33:30
  There's not a single person that could disagree with me.
• 33:34
  He is accurate.
• 33:36
  If you give him time to throw that ball
• 33:39
  He'll tear you apart.
• 33:40
  Throw it with the best of
• 33:41
  them.
• 33:42
  Yep.
• 33:43
  No.
• 33:43
  You're right.
• 33:45
  And then not only that, you guys wanna talk about developmental.
• 33:48
  K?
• 33:48
  Look at what what he would bring to the table for McCarthy's growth, priceless.
• 33:55
  Like, that's that's it solidifies your franchise quarterback right there.
• 34:01
  Yeah.
• 34:02
  Possibly.
• 34:02
  I mean, you know, it does I mean, to me, it doesn't sound like, you know, looking on
• 34:08
  outside Atlanta that he's willing to be that teacher to panic.
• 34:12
  So why would he wanna be the teacher of JJ?
• 34:15
  You know?
• 34:15
  So
• 34:15
  Well, that's why he left in the first place.
• 34:17
  He wasn't trying to
• 34:18
  handle gonna cost.
• 34:19
  Exactly.
• 34:21
  Well, I think
• 34:21
  he's do you need?
• 34:23
  He just got 100 a and $80,000,000, bro.
• 34:25
  So he needs to stop talking about money.
• 34:28
  He needs to start taking all It's Kirk Cousins.
• 34:31
  Yeah.
• 34:32
  It's Kirk Cousins.
• 34:33
  He's still gonna be greedy.
• 34:34
  And Washington made him that way from all the franchise tags.
• 34:38
  So true.
• 34:43
  Yeah.
• 34:43
  This is like and I was just alluding to right before you jumped on that, you know, we went
• 34:49
  through a long list of quarterbacks that are available in the free agent market, and there's
• 34:55
  not a single one out there that you're like, oh, we gotta go get him.
• 34:59
  You know?
• 35:01
  And No.
• 35:01
  I was listening in.
• 35:02
  I wanted to make sure that I shared the post.
• 35:04
  I shared it on my post on my page before I jumped in.
• 35:08
  I appreciate that.
• 35:09
  Yeah.
• 35:09
  I got a Facebook restriction for sharing too many of my shows.
• 35:13
  So I I'm in the doghouse again.
• 35:17
  Be it happens to me all the time.
• 35:19
  This one's gonna last a week.
• 35:20
  I can still like stuff I can share onto my page, but I can't comment and I can't share
• 35:25
  into any groups.
• 35:26
  So that's usually how I promote the shows out there into the different, like, content groups
• 35:31
  and stuff, but it is what it is.
• 35:33
  I'm I'm ready to take this show strictly to YouTube at this point, really start building
• 35:39
  out the, you know, email list and growing our community of fans and looking to grow more.
• 35:44
  So appreciate you sharing it out there, though, Marcus.
• 35:48
  And Oh, Marcus.
• 35:49
  Right.
• 35:50
  It it's been a it it's been a day.
• 35:54
  That's what I woke up to this morning.
• 35:57
  It's been a week for some of us.
• 36:00
  Yeah.
• 36:01
  No.
• 36:01
  I feel that.
• 36:02
  I feel that.
• 36:04
  That that Mike Tomlin stepping down, that kinda surprised me.
• 36:10
  You know?
• 36:12
  All those consecutive seasons with a winning season, I think that was basically a either
• 36:20
  we're gonna let you go or you stepped down type of thing.
• 36:23
  I I think this is one that I could say that was actually a mutual agreement.
• 36:28
  I think Cody's nailed it that I think he went into the office.
• 36:31
  They started talking, and they're like, hey.
• 36:34
  We're gonna let you go, but we'll save faith and let you step down, you know, mutually.
• 36:39
  You know?
• 36:39
  So
• 36:42
  Well and I think he doesn't see a winning season in Pittsburgh.
• 36:46
  I know that they made the playoffs this year, but you kinda made the playoffs because of a
• 36:50
  stumbling Ravens team, you know, dealing with their own issues over the course of the season.
• 36:56
  And that I don't think he's done coaching.
• 37:00
  That's my personal feeling.
• 37:02
  I don't think he's done because he didn't retire.
• 37:04
  Right?
• 37:05
  He stepped away from the team.
• 37:06
  And to me, that says at the very least, he's gonna go do some interviews.
• 37:11
  And and I think it has to be the right job.
• 37:14
  You know, we've talked about, you know, some of the coaching vacancies, Atlanta and Baltimore
• 37:20
  kinda being, I think, the top two because of the talent still on those teams.
• 37:24
  What a a shot what at your former team to go to your biggest rival.
• 37:31
  And if he goes to Baltimore, I think that would be wild, which we talked about kinda having
• 37:36
  some ramifications possibly for the Vikings because I think that above the above the Ravens
• 37:45
  job that the Steelers job might actually be more attractive to Brian Flores than the Ravens
• 37:52
  gig.
• 37:55
  What's that?
• 37:56
  Marcus is gonna get on me for trying to get rid of beefalo again too.
• 38:01
  Well, no.
• 38:02
  I mean, we don't want beefalo to go.
• 38:04
  I mean, I know Marcus is big on beefalo bandwagon, and he's probably leading the
• 38:09
  charge.
• 38:10
  What if beefalo does walk?
• 38:11
  Do we welcome Tomlin back?
• 38:13
  Bring him back home?
• 38:16
  I mean
• 38:16
  That's, that's actually the, that's the next, painting that that sir Picasso is working on.
• 38:23
  He's got a big meatball canvas going on.
• 38:26
  That's why it's in secret, and he doesn't want anybody to know about it.
• 38:30
  But that's alright.
• 38:34
  I don't know what happened, Marcus.
• 38:35
  We we we lost your audio, man.
• 38:38
  Yeah.
• 38:39
  I don't know.
• 38:39
  Dip out and come back.
• 38:40
  We'll we'll get you back in.
• 38:43
  No.
• 38:43
  And I don't want people to to think that, you know, we we want, beefalo gone, and that's the
• 38:50
  reason that, you know, we say we're just kinda looking at it from the 10,000 foot view and
• 38:54
  going, you know, if I was if I was that man, what am I looking at?
• 38:59
  And, you know, where are we where are you going?
• 39:01
  Yeah.
• 39:01
  You're good now.
• 39:02
  There we go.
• 39:03
  There we go.
• 39:06
  Now listen.
• 39:06
  It's not a secret real quick.
• 39:08
  The b flow canvas is gonna get mounted on my ceiling above my bed.
• 39:16
  No.
• 39:17
  But for real, like, I I then I play defense, man.
• 39:19
  I just I I like what he does.
• 39:21
  I like what he brings to I like what he brings to the Vikings, and I love what he does for the
• 39:26
  players.
• 39:27
  Mhmm.
• 39:27
  You know?
• 39:29
  So
• 39:35
  I didn't even think about that Atlanta job.
• 39:38
  That would be a nice one to step into.
• 39:41
  Oh, yeah?
• 39:42
  No.
• 39:42
  And I I kinda missed that when Bea was going through them last week, and we had talked to we
• 39:48
  actually talked about it on your show.
• 39:49
  That's where it was on coast to coast.
• 39:50
  And you had mentioned it.
• 39:52
  And you were you were asking me about, you know, landing spots for people.
• 39:56
  And, yeah, I think that ATL, now the Steelers, because the storied franchise now I don't know
• 40:01
  if the team, talent wise, I don't follow them close enough to kinda know it.
• 40:07
  That I don't know if the team has it.
• 40:09
  They may be going for a full rebuild.
• 40:11
  You're losing that head coach.
• 40:13
  You know?
• 40:13
  And I don't know about a full rebuild, but they're gonna go through some growing pains
• 40:17
  next year regardless.
• 40:18
  And I think maybe that's what Tomlin kinda saw the writing on the wall.
• 40:22
  You got quarterback problems there, and Rogers ain't coming back.
• 40:25
  You know, he kind of alluded to it being the end of the road for him.
• 40:28
  So that team's gonna have some some bigger questions to to ask.
• 40:34
  And and I think that's why they they offer it to Tom.
• 40:37
  It's like, hey.
• 40:37
  You know, do we mutually part ways right here, and you're allowed to continue that streak that
• 40:43
  you have out of respect for you as a man and as a coach to go and to continue that streak as
• 40:49
  long as you you want to because it may not happen next year regardless.
• 40:54
  And, you know, you you have to put those two that Ravens in at the Atlanta job, and I think
• 41:01
  that's regardless of what plays out the rest of the season with these playoff teams.
• 41:05
  I don't see there were any of the remaining playoff teams making any kind of coaching
• 41:09
  changes, as far as head coaching go.
• 41:12
  Do you be?
• 41:13
  You follow the league a little bit more than I think the rest of us.
• 41:16
  No.
• 41:16
  I think I mean, unless their coach, you know, flat out just bombs this next couple of rounds,
• 41:24
  I think every head coach is safe right now.
• 41:28
  I mean, it's gonna come down to the coordinators wanting to leave.
• 41:31
  You know, definitely, the teams that go to the Super Bowl, they're, you know, their
• 41:34
  coordinators are gonna be big and, you know, hey.
• 41:38
  That's what we want, and they're gonna get interviews and stuff like that.
• 41:41
  So, yeah, I don't I I think you're right.
• 41:44
  I think there's no coach, right head coach right now that's gotta worry about their job.
• 41:52
  Marcus, you you came in a little bit late.
• 41:55
  We talked a lot off the top of the show about Jordan Addison, and and I wanted to go ahead
• 42:00
  and give you a chance to kinda give us your takes.
• 42:03
  I I mean, I know you've met some of these players and that you've been around these.
• 42:07
  I mean, you know them as as men, as young men, and you've been able to, you know, converse
• 42:12
  with them.
• 42:13
  You know?
• 42:13
  I said it.
• 42:14
  As someone who's made a lot of mistakes, I've I've I feel for them.
• 42:17
  Sometimes you can't get out of your own way.
• 42:19
  So I kinda want, like, both takes.
• 42:21
  Like, as a human being and as also the business of the of the Minnesota Vikings, and I guess
• 42:27
  you can kinda start wherever you'd like to there.
• 42:31
  Well, okay.
• 42:32
  So going off of from a fan standpoint, you're literally going, dude, not again.
• 42:40
  Like like, what the what in the actual but then also too, you look at it like this.
• 42:47
  I go, with everything that's on social media, we don't know what's accurate.
• 42:51
  We don't know what anyone's really you know?
• 42:54
  Because from what I read from his attorney and from the Vikings is stating that this is a
• 43:01
  mistaken identity or something to that effect.
• 43:03
  You know what I mean?
• 43:04
  Like, they they just they don't see this going anywhere.
• 43:08
  I did see that KOC had no comment, which is also that's actually kinda concerning for me
• 43:14
  when the coach doesn't wanna speak on it because that tells me that either he either, a,
• 43:18
  doesn't have your back or he's waiting for the details too.
• 43:22
  Right?
• 43:25
  As a friend, man, I just I I I like the kid.
• 43:31
  Think he has so much potential.
• 43:34
  But I think, like, a lot of a lot of these athletes today, I go off of this and for
• 43:40
  whatever reason, I can't think of how my put it.
• 43:45
  But
• 43:48
  what is it?
• 43:49
  Can you hear me?
• 43:50
  You're good.
• 43:51
  Yeah.
• 43:51
  That's actually a lot better now.
• 43:53
  Yeah.
• 43:53
  Okay.
• 43:54
  So I go off of, like, this quote or something, and I can't really remember exactly how Michael
• 43:58
  Jordan said it.
• 43:59
  But they give these athletes too much without allowing them to earn it.
• 44:06
  Yep.
• 44:06
  It's the summary of how he said it.
• 44:09
  But, like, back in the day, they had to go they didn't get name brands.
• 44:12
  They weren't getting these these deals with Nike.
• 44:17
  They weren't getting these commercial deal.
• 44:19
  You know what I'm saying?
• 44:19
  The sponsors and all this and that.
• 44:22
  They had to earn that stuff.
• 44:23
  And these players now, you start them off with all this money, and they get these giant heads,
• 44:28
  and they just think they're untouchable.
• 44:32
  And so I don't know.
• 44:35
  Like, I just I I hope the the things, you know, aren't accurate, and I hope that, you know,
• 44:41
  he's but at the same time, if you're guilty, then you should be punished.
• 44:47
  So
• 44:47
  Yeah.
• 44:48
  And with that, you know, we're we're probably looking at between a three I mean, he's getting
• 44:53
  more than the three games that he got already suspended.
• 44:57
  If, you know, a number I heard kicked around was six, that's a third of the season in a
• 45:02
  contract.
• 45:03
  I mean, it should
• 45:04
  be more because you're not this isn't like a first attempt.
• 45:06
  Right?
• 45:07
  Your first and third first offense, you get, like, a slap on the wrist.
• 45:10
  You get the this, this, this.
• 45:11
  You've already been suspended and missed out on three games last year that cost us the
• 45:15
  playoffs.
• 45:16
  Be honest.
• 45:16
  You know what I mean?
• 45:18
  Plain and simple.
• 45:19
  If he had been in those games, we don't want one of any of those three games.
• 45:22
  We're in the playoffs.
• 45:24
  Yep.
• 45:25
  So Hell.
• 45:25
  Now you're looking at missing out on almost half the season.
• 45:31
  No team is gonna wanna touch you.
• 45:34
  Like, you are costing yourself millions of dollars, like, let alone a job in general.
• 45:42
  So
• 45:44
  Yeah.
• 45:44
  It's sad.
• 45:45
  It's sad because this is someone, a first round pick that could have been, you know, built
• 45:51
  generational wealth for his family.
• 45:53
  And he's done nothing but take that away from his family.
• 45:56
  And I don't know that he's you know, has a wife and kids or anything.
• 46:00
  But, I mean, you could have been taking care of your mama and and and just, everything that
• 46:05
  comes along with it.
• 46:06
  So I'm, like, looking at the bigger picture and just like, man, you can't get out of your own
• 46:10
  way.
• 46:11
  And from someone who's who's done it.
• 46:13
  Right?
• 46:13
  Like, I've made mistakes.
• 46:14
  I've I've done time.
• 46:15
  You know?
• 46:16
  I've done hard time.
• 46:17
  And so it it's it's from experience and from a place of love that I do feel bad.
• 46:24
  But also as a fan, I'm pissed, and I I don't want them on the team.
• 46:28
  You're you're a you're a cancer to the culture that they're building.
• 46:32
  Something we touched on was that, like, you're losing a lot of leadership with CJ Hamm
• 46:37
  retiring, with Harrison Smith possibly retiring, losing a b flow out of that locker
• 46:42
  room even though he's on the other side of the football.
• 46:44
  It means something to have those kind of coaches.
• 46:47
  So this organization is going through a, you know, a leadership change, and you can't have
• 46:53
  guys like this in there that are first round picks and at the top of that, you know, food
• 46:58
  chain.
• 46:59
  And it's just and now it's opened the door for a speedy nailer that I think most people
• 47:04
  thought was gonna be gone because he was gonna be too expensive and to keep both of them
• 47:08
  wasn't gonna make sense.
• 47:10
  But now even though you're not gonna save any money on the cap, you're kind of forced to make
• 47:16
  the room for Speedy because you wanna have a guy in there that that's been with your team.
• 47:22
  Well, send them to send them down to Dallas.
• 47:24
  As I've stated before, Jerry Jones likes felons.
• 47:27
  You know?
• 47:28
  That'll all think he's a felon yet, but he's on that path.
• 47:33
  He and as you were talking about it too when you mentioned, like, being a cancer on the team
• 47:38
  and, obviously, it's apples and oranges, but at the same time, this was all Aaron Hernandez
• 47:43
  too.
• 47:44
  If you remember, like, leading up
• 47:46
  to his, obviously, end of his football career, like, he was constantly in some kind of
• 47:53
  trouble.
• 47:54
  Mhmm.
• 47:54
  Left and right for, like, the fur for, like, two seasons, and then look what happened.
• 47:59
  Right?
• 48:00
  So
• 48:02
  and I have say the last person.
• 48:04
  Coming through these hard times.
• 48:05
  Yeah.
• 48:06
  But like you said, dude, I've been locked up.
• 48:08
  I spent I've done hard time.
• 48:09
  I've done, you know, my fair share of whatever.
• 48:13
  But as an adult, as a grown man, I know that if if I'm hanging out with a certain type of
• 48:20
  person, this is going to happen.
• 48:24
  Mhmm.
• 48:25
  You know, I I just was talking with a buddy of mine today too, and I you know, he's like,
• 48:29
  well, I haven't talked to you in a while.
• 48:30
  I said, to be honest, bro, you hang out with trash.
• 48:34
  So, like, if you're okay with hanging out with trash, you stink to me.
• 48:39
  So I don't need
• 48:40
  that stink on me.
• 48:42
  At all.
• 48:42
  And I just but I said it was nothing against you.
• 48:45
  I didn't, like, I didn't want I just I walk away like that Homer Simpson disappearing in
• 48:50
  the shrubs.
• 48:51
  That's all
• 48:52
  it was.
• 48:52
  I just you know what I mean?
• 48:53
  Like, I and I said it had nothing to do with you.
• 48:55
  I wish you the best.
• 48:57
  You know?
• 48:57
  And just because somebody was a certain way to one person doesn't mean they're gonna be that
• 49:02
  way to you.
• 49:03
  I understand that.
• 49:04
  But at the same time, if you see people going down this thing and and you see it a lot with
• 49:09
  these athletes who come from problem areas, right, still trying to stick and cling to that.
• 49:15
  I gotta, you know, keep that loyalty factor.
• 49:18
  If they if your friends were that loyal to you, bro, they, you know, they would have your back.
• 49:22
  They would separate themselves from you.
• 49:24
  They would take you out of that situation that would cause more harm to you.
• 49:29
  Facts.
• 49:29
  Facts.
• 49:31
  I I couldn't agree more.
• 49:33
  You know, as a coach, I I I don't wanna see any player go down this this path that he's heading
• 49:40
  down.
• 49:41
  But, you know, I I've made my mistakes.
• 49:44
  I had to take accountability for it, and I had to make a decision.
• 49:48
  Like, do I wanna con keep on this road, or do I wanna, you know, turn the leave?
• 49:52
  Thank god I did.
• 49:55
  But, you know, for I just I want I want the best for him.
• 50:00
  I obviously, it's not gonna be here, and that's totally fine with me.
• 50:05
  But, hopefully, he can find the help he needs, find the mentorship he needs, and maybe get
• 50:12
  another chance down the road.
• 50:14
  But, for KOC not to make a comment on that, you know, like you said, it's either you know, you
• 50:23
  you almost have to as a coach.
• 50:25
  You know, you gotta have your players back no matter what.
• 50:28
  And, you know, but at the same time, you have to get all the information.
• 50:35
  I made a mistake last year where I, jumped to the conclusion of just what I heard.
• 50:42
  Turns out I was way wrong, made a huge mistake, and, you know, I learned from that.
• 50:48
  So maybe he just wanted to get more information as it came out, but, you know
• 50:55
  Sorry, Carmen.
• 50:56
  Yeah.
• 50:57
  I was just gonna I was just gonna say since we're talking about Addison, if he doesn't
• 51:01
  return, I have a I'll be I have a discount on a phenomenal painting on a grandpa.
• 51:07
  Hey.
• 51:07
  Let's go.
• 51:10
  Yeah.
• 51:11
  And and, Shelley, we don't we don't mean anything negatively on your guy.
• 51:15
  We're just kind of, you know, talking about the reports that are coming out.
• 51:18
  It's really I mean, it sucks.
• 51:21
  You know?
• 51:21
  We want what's best for these players, and we want what's best for this team.
• 51:25
  But at the same time, what you have to be able to separate your feelings about a person from
• 51:31
  what it means to the business and to the team as a whole.
• 51:34
  Exactly.
• 51:34
  So I might I might like that finger a whole lot, but if it's got gangrene, man, it's gotta
• 51:40
  go.
• 51:40
  And and that's yeah.
• 51:43
  Right.
• 51:45
  Let it go.
• 51:47
  You know?
• 51:47
  Yeah.
• 51:48
  It's it sucks, man.
• 51:49
  It sucks bad, but he keeps doing it to himself.
• 51:52
  It's not like bad things are happening to him.
• 51:54
  And and you know what?
• 51:55
  It's speculation right now.
• 51:57
  And if it's true, I know the law the legal team's coming out mistaken identity.
• 52:01
  I I don't know what's, You know?
• 52:03
  We'll see as it all comes out.
• 52:05
  I've been I've been on the defensive side of these things.
• 52:09
  Right?
• 52:09
  It wasn't me.
• 52:10
  What are you talking about?
• 52:11
  I'm pleading
• 52:12
  not guilty.
• 52:13
  And then two months later, you end up taking a deal and pleading guilty anyway.
• 52:16
  So I hope that I hope Marcus is sitting in the parking garage and and Shelly gets a chance to
• 52:22
  come and and give us her take on it because I know that, you know, she's a compassionate
• 52:26
  individual and, you know, that she gives a lot of people the benefit of the doubt, obviously,
• 52:32
  or you two probably wouldn't be together either.
• 52:34
  Right?
• 52:35
  You know, you guys come from very different worlds.
• 52:37
  And and my wife the same way.
• 52:39
  Right?
• 52:39
  My wife comes from a really good family.
• 52:41
  She'd never been in trouble in her life.
• 52:42
  You know?
• 52:42
  She never even had
• 52:43
  a speeding ticket.
• 52:44
  Never smoked a cigarette.
• 52:46
  Never Right.
• 52:47
  Done drugs, nothing ever in her whole life.
• 52:50
  She she is physically a saint.
• 52:52
  I think when she comes out, that's it gets brighter in here.
• 52:55
  Like, her aura just you know?
• 52:59
  But no.
• 53:00
  You you I mean, you're a 100% right.
• 53:01
  And that that canvas, when she saw when I was talking about is we were actually going down to
• 53:07
  meet him, and it was around her birthday time.
• 53:11
  And she had always talked about this Muhammad Ali that I did.
• 53:14
  She goes, if you're ever gonna paint something for me, I wanna do, a big and it was a two foot
• 53:18
  by three foot camera.
• 53:19
  She goes, I want something big like that.
• 53:21
  So I just said, okay.
• 53:22
  So then I just surprised her, and it was Jordan added his first touchdown.
• 53:26
  He was holding the ball, pray finger up to God.
• 53:28
  He's and the canvas turned out phenomenal, naturally.
• 53:32
  I mean, you know?
• 53:33
  But and Jordan Addison, when he saw this canvas, she turns it around.
• 53:38
  He stood up from his chair, he goes, I want that.
• 53:42
  And I told her she should've sold it to him right then and there.
• 53:45
  I'd have painted you something new.
• 53:49
  But Yeah.
• 53:49
  They shouldn't.
• 53:50
  It was her birthday present.
• 53:52
  She wasn't gonna let it go, and it is a it's one of my it's still one of my favorite
• 53:55
  canvases.
• 53:56
  It's beautiful.
• 53:56
  But yeah.
• 53:59
  Alright.
• 53:59
  Well, I think we can kinda put that to bed for now.
• 54:02
  Like I said, if Shelly dips in, while we're still on the show, I'd love to get her take on
• 54:07
  it as well.
• 54:08
  But, yeah, moving on.
• 54:11
  You guys wanna talk about some of the games we saw during wild card weekend?
• 54:17
  Bear down.
• 54:18
  Oh, well, too soon.
• 54:19
  Too soon.
• 54:20
  Sorry.
• 54:23
  It doesn't bother anybody here.
• 54:24
  I say that was the easiest thing for me growing up a bears fan and then starting to root for
• 54:29
  this team, and it didn't happen overnight.
• 54:31
  Right?
• 54:32
  Like, I was watching Vikings games since I got together with my wife.
• 54:35
  I was watching the games with her.
• 54:36
  I'd I always be rooting for them.
• 54:37
  I was never rooting against the Vikings except for two times a year.
• 54:41
  So, really, it only changed two games a year for me at the end of the day.
• 54:46
  And Right.
• 54:47
  You know?
• 54:47
  And I and being, you know, now a Vikings fan that I'm still rooting against most of the same
• 54:52
  other teams.
• 54:53
  But, you know, I maybe don't celebrate the wins.
• 54:56
  And for me, it made me realize that, like, I'm not on the field.
• 54:59
  I don't know what the hell I'm even celebrating anyway.
• 55:01
  Right?
• 55:02
  Like, it's you know, like like, I had nothing to do with that team winning the Super Bowl.
• 55:07
  For me, I wanna be more about the Super Bowls and the wins that I'm creating for my team.
• 55:12
  Right?
• 55:12
  Now when the Scene Project Sports Network are out there celebrating wins or the Scene Project
• 55:16
  on our national tour, like, that's how hyped I'm gonna be for our wins.
• 55:20
  It's like I won the Super Bowl, not because of some team that I root for.
• 55:24
  And that was kind of a mentality shift.
• 55:26
  And maybe, coach, you could talk about that a little bit too.
• 55:30
  Like, does it do you watch and are you a fan of the sport, or is it different for someone that
• 55:36
  is in that position that that, like, celebrates their own wins and has their own team?
• 55:41
  Oh, no.
• 55:41
  I'm definitely I'm definitely still still a fan.
• 55:45
  Still a fan.
• 55:46
  You know, I can't get enough of it.
• 55:49
  When I do get the time, I don't care who the teams are.
• 55:52
  You know, you just wanna watch football.
• 55:54
  Just wanna watch sports in general.
• 55:56
  I mean, we were talking about that TGL golf thing before we started tonight.
• 56:01
  You know, that I've never seen that before, but that looks legit.
• 56:06
  But, you know, it it's it's difficult.
• 56:10
  It's difficult.
• 56:11
  I just I can't wait until I'm in the playoffs because it's gonna happen, and then I won't
• 56:17
  have to worry about, you know, watching it.
• 56:21
  I can't wait to cover those games and to be on the sidelines and capture every
• 56:26
  minute of it.
• 56:27
  And, man, we're there.
• 56:29
  It's it's already happening, coach.
• 56:31
  That that's why we've gotten a chance to get to know each other in this and and to be there for
• 56:36
  those moments and to watch your journey.
• 56:39
  It is really the, like, underlying current of the whole show.
• 56:42
  Right?
• 56:42
  Like, the that's the big storyline that we're following.
• 56:46
  Biggest surprise, I guess, from the weekend, everybody can just go around and do it.
• 56:52
  I'll let you guys start, coach.
• 56:53
  We'll we'll start with you.
• 56:55
  Biggest surprise from wildcard weekend.
• 56:58
  I'm gonna say the bears packers game, it did not look good.
• 57:03
  It it was looking ugly, but and they found a way.
• 57:09
  And that's what you gotta do in the playoffs.
• 57:11
  You know, that's what the good teams do.
• 57:14
  They'll find a way, and, you know, the bears aren't two seed for, you know, just shits and
• 57:21
  giggles.
• 57:21
  So And they've been all year.
• 57:23
  Right?
• 57:24
  Yeah.
• 57:24
  Mean, they've they've been doing this fourth quarter comeback thing all year, kinda been
• 57:27
  there.
• 57:28
  We were hoping that was, like, the the Vikings were gonna have so much success, you know, in
• 57:33
  last season was was because of those same things, that experience of being in that
• 57:37
  moment.
• 57:37
  But, yeah, crazy comeback.
• 57:39
  Down twenty one three at halftime to turn it around like that is just wild.
• 57:45
  Well, and then, you know, the Carolina panthers game against the rams, I was pulling for the
• 57:51
  panthers.
• 57:51
  Not gonna lie.
• 57:53
  I've always been a fan of that team and the jaguars against the bills.
• 57:57
  I was hoping the jaguars are gonna come out and pull that, but, you know, Josh Allen, he's
• 58:04
  gonna he's gonna make magic every time.
• 58:06
  Well, and experience matters in those moments too.
• 58:09
  And I think that's what we've kinda seen.
• 58:11
  Like, if you're gonna beat the experienced players, you gotta kick the shit out of them
• 58:16
  like the Texans did to Pittsburgh and Aaron Rodgers last night.
• 58:19
  Whoo.
• 58:21
  B, what was your biggest surprise of the weekend?
• 58:24
  Well, I think I think number one is the Rams, Panthers game because the Rams are favored by
• 58:29
  10 and a half going into that game, and they only won by three.
• 58:33
  I mean, that, you know, that shows fight on the Panthers.
• 58:36
  I mean, you know, Cody probably proud if you're on that sideline that you're you're dogged by
• 58:41
  10 and you only lose by three.
• 58:43
  I mean, you know, you'd be happy with that, I guess, I mean, outside of a w.
• 58:48
  And then last night's game, I mean, I went I fell asleep right before the fourth quarter
• 58:52
  started, and it was, like, thirteen six or something.
• 58:56
  I wake up at the end of the game because, you know, the news was on and, you know, it kinda
• 59:01
  woke me up what they're talking about.
• 59:02
  And I'm like, oh, I wonder who won the game or what the score was.
• 59:05
  I and to see it was 30 to six, I'm just like, wait.
• 59:08
  What happened here in the fourth quarter that I missed?
• 59:11
  You know?
• 59:12
  So
• 59:12
  That defense just Yeah.
• 59:14
  Unreal, man.
• 59:16
  And I definitely I don't watch enough of the league.
• 59:19
  Right?
• 59:19
  I I got a life.
• 59:20
  Well, I got a lot of shit going on.
• 59:22
  And so you had asked me to make picks, and I kinda picked the experience of Tomlin and
• 59:27
  Rogers Yep.
• 59:27
  In that game not knowing that the Texans defense looked like that.
• 59:32
  They they look legit because defense travels.
• 59:35
  And to go into a hostile environment in Pittsburgh against all of that experience on
• 59:40
  the other sideline and to do that, that definitely makes them that makes them some
• 59:45
  serious contenders.
• 59:46
  Now their next game is a is that the Patriots now?
• 59:49
  Is it Patriots Texans?
• 59:50
  Yep.
• 59:51
  Yep.
• 59:52
  Yep.
• 59:52
  It's gonna be a fight because the Patriots with with an MVP candidate and Drake May, I mean,
• 59:58
  that's gonna be a crazy game.
• 59:59
  That might be the game of the playoffs to be perfectly on.
• 1:00:02
  Now that the Texas keep playing the way their defense is playing.
• 1:00:08
  That build broncos game is gonna be a good one, though, too.
• 1:00:11
  The broncos game.
• 1:00:12
  Yeah.
• 1:00:12
  See, I'm excited for the San Fran, Seattle game.
• 1:00:16
  Those ones are always good ever since Richard Sherman, Michael Crabtree days.
• 1:00:22
  Yep.
• 1:00:23
  I think Kittle going out with a concussion probably means he's not back for the next game.
• 1:00:29
  I think that has effect on San Francisco.
• 1:00:32
  I think I had picked them over the eagles in that game anyway.
• 1:00:36
  I think that the eagles just didn't have it this year.
• 1:00:39
  Just kinda watching a few of their games, mostly the one against the bears where the
• 1:00:43
  bears just ran it down their throat the whole time.
• 1:00:45
  But, yeah, I think San Francisco is gonna have a really tough time against that Seattle team,
• 1:00:52
  very rested.
• 1:00:53
  Right?
• 1:00:53
  I I think that that I mean, that could end up being I don't know.
• 1:00:57
  I wouldn't say a route, but it could be more than a touchdown win for Seattle, you know,
• 1:01:01
  coming down at the end, you know, maybe win by seven to 10 with their that Seattle defense is
• 1:01:06
  no joke either.
• 1:01:07
  It seems like, you know, the top teams in this, you know, in this playoffs to me all start with
• 1:01:13
  their defensive side.
• 1:01:14
  Marcus, sir Picasso, what was your what was your biggest surprise of the weekend?
• 1:01:21
  Well, I think the biggest surprise was the Steelers game because you automatically
• 1:01:26
  obviously, a Vikings fan, I don't like Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs.
• 1:01:32
  Like, period.
• 1:01:33
  So I'm sitting there going like, you just assume he's gonna come in and do exactly what
• 1:01:37
  Aaron Rogers does.
• 1:01:39
  Right?
• 1:01:40
  But this time, his touchdowns were for the other team.
• 1:01:43
  So, I mean, it just it is what it is.
• 1:01:47
  But, again, too, going back to alluding to a Vikings fan, watching the bears and packers
• 1:01:52
  game, I'm sitting here watching Green Bay, I went, this is why I don't root for Chicago or
• 1:01:57
  for anybody else because every time, they let me down.
• 1:02:00
  Like, I just didn't want Green Bay.
• 1:02:02
  I told them to brother thirty eight years of my life.
• 1:02:05
  But, like, I tell people too, like, the the difference for me is considering myself a super
• 1:02:12
  fan.
• 1:02:12
  I'm a fan of fans.
• 1:02:14
  Right?
• 1:02:14
  I have a lot of friends that are diehard Packer fans.
• 1:02:17
  I have a lot of Chicago bears fan.
• 1:02:19
  You know?
• 1:02:20
  And then fans across, you know, from Texans to everywhere.
• 1:02:23
  So I watch them for them, but I watch football for me.
• 1:02:26
  I'm the guy who you're sitting next to on the couch, and I'm like, oh, they're lined up at
• 1:02:31
  you know, they're lined up at a fourth, or they're not gonna make this in the middle.
• 1:02:34
  Oh, watch your watch your white out.
• 1:02:35
  He's gonna get out in the middle or and I'm and I'm kinda depicting which way they're gonna go
• 1:02:39
  like I would if I was a coach or something just because I I rewatch the games.
• 1:02:45
  I don't have a life.
• 1:02:47
  Right?
• 1:02:48
  I watch football, then I paint, and then I watch the games all over and over again during
• 1:02:52
  the week.
• 1:02:53
  But I like to see the structure of the defenses.
• 1:02:55
  I watch to watch how these teams go, specifically if we're gonna play them or not.
• 1:03:00
  But I just I like that, you know, like like coach, man.
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  I like that coaching aspect of football, so I pay attention to schemes and to lineups and
• 1:03:10
  formations and everything.
• 1:03:11
  So I don't know, man.
• 1:03:14
  I'm I'm super excited for the Texas defense.
• 1:03:17
  They showed that they are that they are going to be a force in this playoffs.
• 1:03:23
  And the the Rams too.
• 1:03:24
  The Rams, I root for the Rams just because I got a couple buddies on this team, you know,
• 1:03:29
  that I've painted for.
• 1:03:30
  So, you know, I just always give them little shout outs, not to mention I get to repost my
• 1:03:35
  paintings that I did for them.
• 1:03:36
  So but, no, man.
• 1:03:40
  It's I think that Buffalo I think if we're gonna talk about who who deserves to win out of
• 1:03:48
  all the teams in the playoffs, I think Buffalo deserves a Super Bowl.
• 1:03:54
  I don't know.
• 1:03:55
  They barely they have the talent.
• 1:03:57
  Yeah.
• 1:03:57
  Well, I barely
• 1:03:58
  And Kittle is out for the rest
• 1:03:59
  of the playoffs.
• 1:04:02
  Is it a concussion?
• 1:04:04
  Wasn't it an Achilles?
• 1:04:06
  I thought it was an Achilles.
• 1:04:08
  Yeah.
• 1:04:08
  It's an Achilles.
• 1:04:09
  He's done for the year.
• 1:04:10
  Oh, man.
• 1:04:11
  I know got out for a year.
• 1:04:12
  Yeah.
• 1:04:13
  Damn.
• 1:04:14
  I didn't I I thought, he just took a hit.
• 1:04:17
  I really wasn't, kinda No.
• 1:04:18
  I was thinking about that because he posted a picture of his ankle.
• 1:04:21
  It looks jacked up.
• 1:04:22
  Oh, man.
• 1:04:23
  That's awesome.
• 1:04:24
  Yeah.
• 1:04:24
  Has a tomorrow, so he's gonna be done for the playoffs.
• 1:04:28
  That's a huge
• 1:04:29
  hit in San Francisco.
• 1:04:30
  Yep.
• 1:04:31
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:31
  Just just for him not being on that field.
• 1:04:34
  Yeah.
• 1:04:34
  Ramifications not just for the playoffs here, but for all of next season for that team.
• 1:04:40
  Mhmm.
• 1:04:41
  Feel bad for the guy.
• 1:04:42
  He's such a cool such a cool dude.
• 1:04:45
  I I saw a lot of very here.
• 1:04:48
  We got Kevin Cherry tuning in, Bears fan.
• 1:04:50
  Obviously, Kev, shout out to you, man.
• 1:04:53
  Congratulations to the Bears.
• 1:04:55
  I mean, exercise a big demon.
• 1:04:58
  You know?
• 1:04:58
  Beating the packers in the playoffs is such a big thing.
• 1:05:02
  Does that build the confidence?
• 1:05:04
  Now they they had some big losses in that game too.
• 1:05:07
  Their middle linebacker, TJ Edwards, out and done for the thing, bad ankle injury there.
• 1:05:13
  If you watch the replay on that, that was horrific.
• 1:05:16
  And then they lost their left tackle, Trepillo.
• 1:05:21
  Is that how you say his name?
• 1:05:22
  As well.
• 1:05:24
  So now that, you know, throwing in a guy that was on coming off of that in Braxton Jones who
• 1:05:31
  played a lot last year and has been part of the team for a few years now.
• 1:05:36
  But you're going up against a seasoned Rams team and a coaching staff that's gonna know how
• 1:05:43
  to exploit a few of those things.
• 1:05:45
  So I think they're up for a tall task against the Rams, but to see that team go from, you
• 1:05:50
  know, three wins next year or last year rather to where they're at this year.
• 1:05:56
  Yeah.
• 1:05:57
  Sorry.
• 1:05:57
  I meant to get that back up there.
• 1:06:00
  Yeah.
• 1:06:01
  And it's the defense, they don't really get the takeaways against the packers either.
• 1:06:06
  It was just the pack like, to me, it was more surprising to not watch the bears kinda do what
• 1:06:12
  they've done all season as much as to watch the packers just implode.
• 1:06:16
  Yes.
• 1:06:17
  They get into the How same
• 1:06:18
  do you score
• 1:06:19
  the three touchdowns and make everything look easy in the first half of football and then to
• 1:06:24
  come out and just three and out, three and out, three, like, what what are you doing?
• 1:06:29
  What are you what is going on?
• 1:06:31
  And and not that I ever want the packers to win.
• 1:06:33
  Fuck the packers, and I don't mind saying that.
• 1:06:37
  Yep.
• 1:06:37
  And all
• 1:06:37
  Back it up.
• 1:06:38
  I'll double down.
• 1:06:39
  Bug over.
• 1:06:39
  Matt LaFleur, I I don't lie.
• 1:06:41
  I think he's smug.
• 1:06:42
  I I hate I hate his attitude, and I think he deserves
• 1:06:46
  about resigning him.
• 1:06:47
  I
• 1:06:48
  think he earned that the handshake from Ben Johnson after the game.
• 1:06:53
  I didn't see it live, but, obviously, it's kinda become a meme now that you know what?
• 1:06:58
  You you've earned that.
• 1:06:59
  You've earned this hate from the team.
• 1:07:02
  And I'm sure, Kev.
• 1:07:04
  I'm sure, brother.
• 1:07:06
  That it's nice to see, and maybe that shakes things up in Green Bay.
• 1:07:12
  You know, it would be pretty wild to see them kinda let go of the floor.
• 1:07:16
  I don't think that's happening.
• 1:07:18
  Although you have a lot of the pundits in Green Bay and around Wisconsin kinda calling for it.
• 1:07:23
  I'm good friends with not good friends, but I'm Facebook friends with Jim Morris who own he's
• 1:07:28
  the owner of El Bandido Yankee tequila, a little free plug for them.
• 1:07:31
  I've done some work with them in the past.
• 1:07:33
  No.
• 1:07:33
  There there's reports that the Panthers are working to extend LaFleur for a few more years.
• 1:07:38
  So
• 1:07:39
  Wow.
• 1:07:40
  No.
• 1:07:41
  Well and, I mean, he's won.
• 1:07:43
  He's won for you, but he kind of always gets to the playoffs at this point.
• 1:07:47
  And
• 1:07:47
  and Yeah.
• 1:07:47
  But he came into a winning organization.
• 1:07:50
  Right.
• 1:07:51
  Right.
• 1:07:51
  You came into somewhere him that has a losing record.
• 1:07:54
  Send him to Oakland and see or Las Vegas and see what happens.
• 1:07:59
  You know what I mean?
• 1:07:59
  Start start from the ground up and see what he does.
• 1:08:02
  See, that would be a goal.
• 1:08:04
  Either.
• 1:08:05
  Yeah.
• 1:08:06
  And I say I I agree.
• 1:08:08
  I I don't think you can let him go, Kev.
• 1:08:10
  I don't.
• 1:08:10
  It it would be asinine, to be perfectly honest.
• 1:08:13
  This guy's done nothing but win since he got there.
• 1:08:16
  You're not losing a lot.
• 1:08:18
  I don't know what their free agent market or anything looks like, but you still have Jordan
• 1:08:21
  Love who is capable of playing to a relatively high level.
• 1:08:25
  I'd say he's, you know, on the upper half of quarterbacks.
• 1:08:28
  I don't think he's in that top tier yet.
• 1:08:31
  Can he maybe evolve to that?
• 1:08:33
  Only time will tell with these guys.
• 1:08:35
  You know?
• 1:08:35
  You're losing a lot of what I would call that top tier of quarterbacks with, you know, people
• 1:08:39
  that are not that Aaron Rodgers played at that level anymore, but I think a lot of guys just
• 1:08:43
  because of his history would kinda put him into that upper, you know, upper tier of maybe, you
• 1:08:48
  know, 10 quarterbacks in the league because of that.
• 1:08:50
  But, yeah, I I don't think you can let a guy go.
• 1:08:53
  I think you just have a lot of fans that are emotional right now.
• 1:08:57
  You just got beat by the bears.
• 1:08:59
  Right?
• 1:08:59
  That's gotta sting for them.
• 1:09:02
  And and you just calm down.
• 1:09:04
  Take a few breaths.
• 1:09:05
  Watch the rest of the playoffs.
• 1:09:07
  The bears probably don't get past the rams.
• 1:09:09
  They can surprise me again.
• 1:09:10
  Who knows?
• 1:09:11
  The more I pick against the bears, the more they win.
• 1:09:13
  So maybe y'all can you can thank me at the end of the season if they win a Super Bowl for for
• 1:09:19
  bailing on them.
• 1:09:20
  And and I'll
• 1:09:20
  tell want the Super Bowl to come to the NFC North?
• 1:09:24
  I mean, obviously, you're a bears fan, so I know where you stand.
• 1:09:27
  But
• 1:09:29
  And I all my family are bears fans.
• 1:09:31
  Right?
• 1:09:32
  Like, I have very few people that I know that aren't.
• 1:09:34
  You know?
• 1:09:34
  And now getting in and knowing more Vikings fans and spending more time up there that but
• 1:09:41
  they it's still I mean, this franchise has a lot to prove.
• 1:09:45
  Like I've said from the from the get go with this team, like, you were playing a fourth
• 1:09:50
  place schedule.
• 1:09:51
  You you barely beat a lot of really bad teams.
• 1:09:54
  The Vikings beat you once.
• 1:09:56
  The the packers beat you once.
• 1:09:58
  The lions swept you, so you still got a lot to prove moving forward as a as a franchise.
• 1:10:04
  Did you get in?
• 1:10:05
  Did did you, you know, take advantage of an implosion by the cheese heads and to, you know,
• 1:10:12
  come out on top in that game?
• 1:10:13
  You still gotta go prove yourself in the rest of these playoffs and have a lot more to prove
• 1:10:18
  moving forward in the next season.
• 1:10:19
  But, hey, man.
• 1:10:20
  For the fans, for that fan base to see them beat the packers at home, that they deserve
• 1:10:26
  that.
• 1:10:26
  That fan base deserves that because they've been through hell.
• 1:10:28
  I would know I was there for all the bad times.
• 1:10:30
  I obviously didn't get hyped when they won the game.
• 1:10:33
  I was more of like, okay.
• 1:10:34
  Wow.
• 1:10:35
  Wow.
• 1:10:35
  That that happened.
• 1:10:36
  But I haven't had to go through the lows of the last season and a half either, and that's been
• 1:10:42
  nice.
• 1:10:43
  See, I hope I hope he doesn't sign that extension, and I hope he finds a different
• 1:10:49
  team.
• 1:10:50
  Yeah.
• 1:10:50
  It's nice to have success early in your career and get established and get that reputation.
• 1:10:56
  But, I mean, they've been that that fan base, you know, what he does one bad thing or gets a
• 1:11:04
  unsportsmanlike penalty or something, then they're calling for his head.
• 1:11:08
  And I would just like to see him start somewhere different.
• 1:11:12
  Maybe, you know, like, starting at a lower tier team or a team that has some questions and
• 1:11:20
  build that up and hopefully go against the packers and then beat them and, you know, then
• 1:11:25
  you'll really have a chance to smile.
• 1:11:27
  I mean, that's what I did, coming from the Minneapolis warriors, well established team,
• 1:11:33
  high pedigree, you know, almost champions and, national champions year in, year out, and to
• 1:11:41
  step away from something that I knew was almost a guarantee to, you know, the role as head
• 1:11:48
  coach and GM is of the Saint Paul Bears and with a new team building from the ground up,
• 1:11:54
  you know, that's that really shows you what you're
• 1:11:57
  made out of.
• 1:11:59
  100%.
• 1:12:00
  That's why I call, like, the Tom Brady effect.
• 1:12:02
  Right?
• 1:12:03
  Like, you wanted to go you gotta go somewhere to make sure that you can still do it.
• 1:12:07
  That it's not just like, I didn't walk into this winning team.
• 1:12:10
  Because that's what people are gonna say, like, yeah, myself included, that he walked into a
• 1:12:14
  winning culture.
• 1:12:16
  Whereas if you go to a team that has a had a poor season previously and you build that up,
• 1:12:22
  then you know that you're the championship quality.
• 1:12:25
  You're the hit factor.
• 1:12:26
  You're what, you know, helps bring these things up.
• 1:12:29
  Absolutely.
• 1:12:29
  They
• 1:12:30
  weren't a bottom feeder.
• 1:12:32
  Right?
• 1:12:32
  Like, they they they changed coaches because they weren't winning in the highest level
• 1:12:37
  because they were always in the play.
• 1:12:39
  Right?
• 1:12:39
  Like Right.
• 1:12:40
  They were already there and we're looking for him to be the guy that kinda got them over the
• 1:12:44
  hump, and it hasn't happened.
• 1:12:45
  So, yeah, crazy to to have been a fan of, like, a really bad organization most of my life and
• 1:12:51
  to see them, you know, make it to the playoffs on a season that wasn't really going you know
• 1:12:56
  what I mean?
• 1:12:57
  Didn't go the best and you lost, I would say, your best player.
• 1:13:00
  Micah Parsons, as soon as he got to Green Bay, he was the best player on the team either side
• 1:13:04
  of the ball.
• 1:13:05
  Side.
• 1:13:05
  And and to still make the playoffs, you know, and and then you're like, nope.
• 1:13:12
  Fire him.
• 1:13:13
  Cut everybody.
• 1:13:14
  You know?
• 1:13:14
  Like, Cole, just take a breath, guys.
• 1:13:17
  I know it hurts right now, but just take a breath.
• 1:13:21
  You're gonna be okay.
• 1:13:23
  Well and that's that's just, like, what luck.
• 1:13:26
  You know?
• 1:13:27
  You trade away two draft picks, a a phenomenal defensive tackle to bring in Parsons.
• 1:13:33
  Couple weeks later, you know, he gets hurt, and now your first round exit in the playoffs.
• 1:13:39
  That's definitely not what they had in the plans, you know, in the cards when they made
• 1:13:44
  that trade.
• 1:13:45
  But I I mean, he well, LaFleur, he he got lucky just landing in that spot.
• 1:13:54
  And with the packers, I mean, we if we're the Vikings, we gotta figure out what what they're
• 1:13:58
  doing scouting quarterbacks because you got far for a decade plus.
• 1:14:03
  You get Rogers.
• 1:14:04
  You sit him for a few years, like, four or five, Then you got him for a decade or
• 1:14:09
  whatever.
• 1:14:09
  You draft Jordan Love.
• 1:14:10
  You sat him for three, four years.
• 1:14:13
  That might just be the thing.
• 1:14:14
  So let's just set a quarterback for three,
• 1:14:15
  four years.
• 1:14:16
  Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  You sit them through that rookie contract and not show the world anything so that when they
• 1:14:21
  get up to that level, you're like, yeah.
• 1:14:23
  You know, we can we can we're just gonna extend you.
• 1:14:26
  And you sign them for, like, twenty
• 1:14:28
  And it'd be great.
• 1:14:29
  Yeah.
• 1:14:29
  Five years, right, instead of letting them prove it on the rookie contract and then owing
• 1:14:34
  them a half $1,000,000,000.
• 1:14:36
  Like, Patrick and, you know, everything that he brings, and and we'll see if he's the same
• 1:14:42
  player coming back.
• 1:14:43
  Right?
• 1:14:44
  That might look like bad money at the end of his career because you don't know what he's
• 1:14:47
  gonna be coming back from that knee injury.
• 1:14:49
  He might never be the same guy.
• 1:14:51
  Now he's got the he's got all the money.
• 1:14:54
  Right?
• 1:14:54
  So he's gonna have the best doctors, all the stem cells, and all Right.
• 1:14:58
  All all the, you know, advantages of our medical system being what it is now.
• 1:15:04
  But there there's some question marks in KC, which is kinda crazy.
• 1:15:08
  B, can you run down the games that we got coming up this weekend?
• 1:15:12
  I sure can.
• 1:15:13
  Let me just pull it up.
• 1:15:14
  I had it pulled up here.
• 1:15:17
  Alright.
• 1:15:18
  NFL
• 1:15:20
  division.
• 1:15:20
  Got it.
• 1:15:22
  So Saturday, the 03:30 game will be the Bills versus the Broncos.
• 1:15:28
  Broncos are favored by a point and a half.
• 1:15:31
  The Saturday night game will be the the Seattle's the 40 niners visited the Seahawks.
• 1:15:38
  Seahawks are favored by seven and a half.
• 1:15:40
  I would guess that's gonna go up some more, you know, throughout the week.
• 1:15:45
  Then Sunday, we got Texans versus the Patriots.
• 1:15:48
  Patriots are favored by three.
• 1:15:50
  That's at 02:00 central time.
• 1:15:53
  And then and then we follow it up with the Rams versus the Bears.
• 1:15:58
  Rams are favored by three and a half.
• 1:16:02
  So Bears are the only dog home team, which understandable.
• 1:16:07
  Right?
• 1:16:07
  Rams team is gonna be good.
• 1:16:08
  That might be a battle there.
• 1:16:12
  But not invincible.
• 1:16:13
  Right?
• 1:16:14
  Not not invincible by any means.
• 1:16:16
  They didn't look particularly great in Carolina, and it was really on them.
• 1:16:21
  They were dropping a lot of balls.
• 1:16:22
  Nakua had a couple of big drops.
• 1:16:24
  Devonte Adams coming back off the injury a couple of drops.
• 1:16:28
  I think they tightened a few things up, and they start to look more like a Super Bowl
• 1:16:32
  contender this week because the bears give up huge plays.
• 1:16:36
  They're giving up almost six yards of play, I think.
• 1:16:38
  That defense, although opportunistic, isn't particularly good.
• 1:16:41
  They have no pass rush.
• 1:16:43
  And that's ultimately what it comes down to.
• 1:16:45
  You lost one of your I mean, the green dot.
• 1:16:47
  You lost the guy who calls your defense from that team.
• 1:16:50
  That alone is gonna have an effect.
• 1:16:52
  Andy was a major part of it.
• 1:16:54
  You know?
• 1:16:55
  It just I think that they're fighting it out.
• 1:16:58
  The bears are fighting an uphill battle.
• 1:16:59
  I think the the the lines reflect that now.
• 1:17:04
  And, but you at this point, you can't put anything past them.
• 1:17:08
  But the Rams are not the Packers.
• 1:17:10
  Right?
• 1:17:10
  And they are getting healthier where where the Packers were not.
• 1:17:14
  So I I think they got an uphill battle, but, you know, Soldier Field is gonna be raucous
• 1:17:21
  with another playoff game.
• 1:17:22
  You've exercised the demons.
• 1:17:24
  I I don't think I've heard a double doink reference right in here.
• 1:17:29
  You know?
• 1:17:30
  In fact, it was the other team.
• 1:17:31
  Right?
• 1:17:31
  McManus less seven points out on the out on the field.
• 1:17:36
  And you gotta feel pretty confident as the bears team going in that you can beat anyone.
• 1:17:41
  Right?
• 1:17:41
  You you've you've played with the best of them in this year.
• 1:17:44
  You've won in those moments.
• 1:17:46
  I think a lot of people are still gonna be picking this Rams team because of that.
• 1:17:51
  Obviously, Vegas favoring them.
• 1:17:53
  What's the most intriguing game to you guys?
• 1:17:57
  Bee, I'll let you go ahead.
• 1:17:58
  What what's the game you're kinda most excited to watch?
• 1:18:04
  Honestly, they're all gonna be, I think, intriguing as to a point.
• 1:18:08
  I mean, you got the you know, you know, we talked about the Bills.
• 1:18:11
  Personally, I don't want the Bills to go any further because I want all four versus all four
• 1:18:14
  in the Super Bowl, but they deserve it.
• 1:18:18
  You got the upstart broncos.
• 1:18:20
  You got the, you know, 49 to Seattle, that division rivalry there.
• 1:18:25
  I mean, you know, they're, what, a couple of plays away from flip flopping where see you
• 1:18:29
  know, San Fran is the number one seed.
• 1:18:32
  You got Texas, the Patriots.
• 1:18:34
  I I I I get another young upcoming team.
• 1:18:38
  And then, of course, you got the Bears and the Rams.
• 1:18:42
  You got the Rams that have done it.
• 1:18:44
  You got the Bears that are hungry for it.
• 1:18:47
  I I think they're all gonna be intriguing games, especially, I would say, come to the
• 1:18:52
  bears game.
• 1:18:53
  I bet you a lot of bears fans are are gonna want that to be a cold game because you got a
• 1:18:57
  dome team going outside.
• 1:19:00
  Think that would be a big
• 1:19:01
  negative 20.
• 1:19:02
  It's snowing.
• 1:19:03
  It's like Yeah.
• 1:19:04
  Exactly.
• 1:19:05
  I think I think you want it to be the worst worst possible, you know, weather game that you
• 1:19:12
  could get just to have a chance because I think I think if this was indoors or in a in a nicer
• 1:19:17
  climate, I think this game is gonna be ugly.
• 1:19:20
  But being a set soldier field, you know, so I mean, right now, I could I I can pick a winner
• 1:19:27
  of any of these games, really.
• 1:19:28
  Mean, they're gonna
• 1:19:29
  be Rams, Texans, Super Bowl.
• 1:19:31
  Honestly, I think you could shuffle the deck, and and you could see, the Super Bowl being any
• 1:19:37
  of the teams that are left in there.
• 1:19:39
  I I think it's a lot of and a lot of different story lines.
• 1:19:43
  Right?
• 1:19:43
  It's not, you know, the Rams.
• 1:19:46
  Obviously, the niners have have been there before, but a lot of the experience on that
• 1:19:50
  team isn't on the field.
• 1:19:52
  Right?
• 1:19:52
  I think Fred Warner is still gonna be out for this next game.
• 1:19:57
  They were talking about a possible comeback for the NFC championship game, so that still puts
• 1:20:01
  him a week out from returning.
• 1:20:03
  Losing Kittle with the Achilles is massive for San Francisco, and, obviously, Vegas is
• 1:20:08
  reflecting that.
• 1:20:10
  I don't think they look particularly great in Philadelphia.
• 1:20:13
  They were good enough to beat a kind of, you know, ailing Philly team for whatever reason.
• 1:20:19
  But, you know, that Seahawk team rested with the way that defense and it's more on the
• 1:20:24
  defensive side of the ball.
• 1:20:25
  Right?
• 1:20:26
  The offense just has to play to not make mistakes.
• 1:20:28
  This, I I think you've proven, and even in the bears game, that you can kind of get after that
• 1:20:34
  San Francisco team.
• 1:20:35
  Right?
• 1:20:36
  You you have
• 1:20:36
  to do
• 1:20:37
  them a little bit and
• 1:20:38
  I think if the NFL wants, I think NFL wants for rating purposes, is Bill's Rams or Bill's
• 1:20:46
  Diners.
• 1:20:46
  I think that's what the NFL is hoping for.
• 1:20:49
  You know?
• 1:20:50
  But I think as a fan, I mean, I want something new.
• 1:20:53
  So I don't want the Bills in there.
• 1:20:54
  I don't want the Niners in there.
• 1:20:55
  You know, I you know, for personal reasons, because I don't wanna hear you talk about
• 1:21:01
  Right.
• 1:21:01
  Like, this there.
• 1:21:03
  You know?
• 1:21:03
  So the most experienced team running up in the AFC championship game against the, you know,
• 1:21:08
  against the Chiefs every year and losing out on the craziest of plays and just like
• 1:21:13
  Right.
• 1:21:14
  Right.
• 1:21:14
  If it's gonna be the Bills year, it's this year.
• 1:21:17
  You don't have to
• 1:21:18
  go to the home, and you
• 1:21:20
  don't like, don't this up.
• 1:21:22
  Right?
• 1:21:23
  You gotta get there.
• 1:21:24
  And you almost screwed it up against Jacksonville who, you know,
• 1:21:29
  had great But I think it would be nice to see the Broncos, the Patriots, the Bears because
• 1:21:35
  those are three of the top, what, five quarterbacks that got drafted last year.
• 1:21:40
  So, you know, let them all out and see who's the top of the that class.
• 1:21:46
  See, I
• 1:21:48
  For that reason, I don't think any three of those teams actually makes it to the next
• 1:21:51
  round.
• 1:21:53
  Think it's gonna be interesting to watch that bears, chargers game, but more so the, or,
• 1:22:01
  yeah, the rams.
• 1:22:02
  Yeah.
• 1:22:03
  Your Rams.
• 1:22:04
  But more, the Broncos, Bills won.
• 1:22:07
  You know, big b, you've pointed it out.
• 1:22:10
  They don't have to go past the Chiefs this year.
• 1:22:12
  Like, if it if they're gonna get it done, it needs to happen now.
• 1:22:16
  And, know, I wanna see I want I wanna see if Denver's got if the if Denver's for real,
• 1:22:24
  especially when it comes to playoffs.
• 1:22:26
  I'm not gonna lie.
• 1:22:27
  My Super Bowl pick, I would love to see Seattle against, Houston, and then I want Seattle to
• 1:22:35
  take it.
• 1:22:36
  I want Sam Darnold to get that ring against a good defense.
• 1:22:40
  It just I know it.
• 1:22:41
  I know it.
• 1:22:42
  But if we if we really want
• 1:22:44
  storylines.
• 1:22:45
  He wants the storylines on Vikings.
• 1:22:47
  Playoffs, man.
• 1:22:49
  We should have wanted them, and if we wanted them, we would have paid them and kept them.
• 1:22:54
  I just
• 1:22:55
  I really think the Vikings really did want them, but they just don't want them at that
• 1:22:59
  price tag.
• 1:23:00
  You know?
• 1:23:00
  And they you know?
• 1:23:02
  Got a way to win.
• 1:23:03
  Price tag that Seattle paid.
• 1:23:04
  Like, that's the thing to me is that they didn't pay him any more than what the reported
• 1:23:08
  offer was.
• 1:23:09
  I think at the end of the day, Sam picked Seattle over the Vikings.
• 1:23:15
  That's probably true.
• 1:23:16
  You know, it's kinda like Kirk Cousins.
• 1:23:18
  You
• 1:23:18
  know?
• 1:23:18
  What they should have done was put the offer on the table during the season.
• 1:23:22
  Right?
• 1:23:22
  Like, letting it run out was was the mistake.
• 1:23:26
  That's stupid.
• 1:23:27
  Assign him to something longer term middle of the season before he had kinda, you know,
• 1:23:32
  finished in that way would have been the move.
• 1:23:35
  Let it let it get play out is what kinda happened.
• 1:23:38
  You know, Cody, you brought it up a while ago or a little bit ago with the packers.
• 1:23:43
  You know, they're stacking those quarterbacks for two, three years, letting the veteran play
• 1:23:49
  out and then moving on.
• 1:23:50
  I mean, you saw it with Favre, you saw or Rogers, and then you saw it with Love.
• 1:23:55
  You know, once Love gets up there, you're probably gonna see it again.
• 1:23:59
  Everybody should be looking at the Packers for what they're doing in that quarterback room.
• 1:24:04
  Mhmm.
• 1:24:05
  Yeah.
• 1:24:06
  No.
• 1:24:06
  I'm tired of this.
• 1:24:07
  Because Mahomes had that success, you know, that that it kind of changed the model where
• 1:24:12
  it's like, oh, you gotta win when they're on the rookie contract, and that's not necessarily
• 1:24:16
  true.
• 1:24:16
  Sometimes it's okay to let them ride out.
• 1:24:18
  Don't let them get that huge value on that rookie contract.
• 1:24:22
  Right?
• 1:24:23
  And then to have them long term at a much smaller cap hit.
• 1:24:29
  Yeah.
• 1:24:29
  I mean, we gotta figure out something because, just off memory, you know, the quarterbacks
• 1:24:36
  that we've had that have started for us, like, I'm going back to Tavares Jackson, Christian
• 1:24:39
  and Ponder.
• 1:24:40
  Like, we are not doing good at all in that category when it comes to drafting QBs.
• 1:24:45
  I mean, our last franchise quarterback I mean, can we all agree?
• 1:24:49
  Dante Culpepper?
• 1:24:49
  Dante Culpepper.
• 1:24:50
  Yeah.
• 1:24:51
  Yeah.
• 1:24:54
  So but I I would I want I really wanna see the Houston Texans make some make some noise.
• 1:25:02
  Drake May might be having MVP here.
• 1:25:04
  But I
• 1:25:05
  mean, every other I said they made some noise last night.
• 1:25:08
  Every other game was cool.
• 1:25:09
  I don't think anybody expected that.
• 1:25:11
  I mean, they ended Aaron Rodgers' career and and chased Mike Tomlin out of Pittsburgh.
• 1:25:16
  That's what I'd be telling my team the next day.
• 1:25:19
  Yeah.
• 1:25:20
  And and that and that actually like, that does a lot to your team, confidence wise.
• 1:25:28
  You know, I'm you know, it's not to that magnitude, but when we took the a semi pro
• 1:25:33
  team, the Minneapolis warriors down to Omaha and, played the two time defending champ,
• 1:25:40
  national champions in arena league, almost on a one thousand day winning streak.
• 1:25:45
  And we went down to beat them, And then, you know, the the, everything started to trip down.
• 1:25:51
  Right?
• 1:25:52
  Uh-huh.
• 1:25:53
  Was it the last play of the game too?
• 1:25:55
  Yeah.
• 1:25:55
  Last play of the game.
• 1:25:56
  And, you know, after that, the coach got fired and stuff like that and just, you know, that
• 1:26:02
  David Goliath type of thing where
• 1:26:04
  a thousand day winning streak lose one game and get fired, man.
• 1:26:08
  I'd be pissed.
• 1:26:09
  Yeah.
• 1:26:10
  Well, I mean, he, you know, he was he was coming on saying how other teams were giving us
• 1:26:17
  the script and, that we knew their plays and stuff, but we didn't know their plays.
• 1:26:22
  We couldn't even we couldn't even hear our own, we couldn't like, our quarterback, we we
• 1:26:27
  couldn't hear nothing in there.
• 1:26:28
  So I don't know how we would have been able to do that.
• 1:26:31
  Did you guys know did quarterback I mean, in that game too, if I remember right, did your
• 1:26:36
  starting quarterback get hurt and you had to play a quarterback that barely threw the ball
• 1:26:40
  around?
• 1:26:41
  Yeah.
• 1:26:42
  Starting got quarterback got hurt on, like, the first or second drive, and then we used a wide
• 1:26:46
  receiver as a quarterback.
• 1:26:49
  Yeah.
• 1:26:50
  That's why you got fired.
• 1:26:51
  That that's I probably That's why you probably got fired.
• 1:26:55
  But
• 1:26:56
  Yeah.
• 1:26:57
  Five six quarterback.
• 1:26:59
  For sure, Marcus.
• 1:27:00
  I I think, I think that the, the Texans team all as a complete team is much better than
• 1:27:07
  Chicago is, but you never know, man.
• 1:27:09
  That's and I think that's why the wolves as an organization are always like, we're the goal is
• 1:27:13
  to get into the tournament.
• 1:27:15
  Right?
• 1:27:15
  Mhmm.
• 1:27:16
  Because you never know what can happen there.
• 1:27:17
  And, you know, you've seen it, the Minneapolis miracle and other things that are like crazy
• 1:27:22
  shit happens in the playoffs.
• 1:27:24
  It's it's just the nature of football, really.
• 1:27:26
  You know?
• 1:27:26
  That's why you play with that oblong ball, and you never know which way it's gonna bounce.
• 1:27:30
  But, you know, we talked about some injuries on Chicago side.
• 1:27:34
  It's gonna be really tough for them.
• 1:27:35
  I mean, they just they had to sign a a linebacker off the street.
• 1:27:40
  I think it's the other Sewell brother, actually.
• 1:27:42
  So they have Noah Sewell who's Peine's brother, and then I think they just signed the third one
• 1:27:48
  to a deal.
• 1:27:49
  Now I don't he signed to the practice squad, so he probably won't play, but they've had to
• 1:27:53
  kinda retool on the fly now with some key positions.
• 1:27:56
  Left tackle and middle linebacker, you lost both of your starters at those positions.
• 1:28:01
  You survived for a half against the packers now.
• 1:28:04
  I think with, you know, the planning that Sean McVeigh is gonna have against that game
• 1:28:10
  planning against the middle of the field, and not that they can't slide some pieces around,
• 1:28:13
  but I think Chicago's got a tough test ahead of them.
• 1:28:16
  Now they come out of that game with the w against the Rams.
• 1:28:19
  You in that locker room, you have all the belief in the world.
• 1:28:22
  Right?
• 1:28:22
  A 100%.
• 1:28:24
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:28:24
  You know that you have a chance to win the Super Bowl at that point.
• 1:28:27
  You can beat anyone on any given Sunday.
• 1:28:29
  So, yeah, there's
• 1:28:30
  a noise to it.
• 1:28:32
  Even with the bears, having to be in a a home game, you know, Stafford and Davonte Adams,
• 1:28:39
  they've spent time in the NFC.
• 1:28:41
  They've played in cold weather games there.
• 1:28:43
  So, I mean, you have some of your star players that have experience that know you know,
• 1:28:50
  they've they've been going
• 1:28:51
  to check out.
• 1:28:52
  Maybe Stafford doesn't have a lot of experience beating the bears, but goddamn Davante Adams
• 1:28:57
  sure does.
• 1:28:58
  Exactly.
• 1:28:59
  Exactly.
• 1:28:59
  And, you know, you you hit the nail right on the
• 1:29:02
  with Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:29:04
  You hit the nail right on the head is, you know, just get into the dance.
• 1:29:09
  I don't care what seed it is.
• 1:29:11
  As long as you get me into the playoffs, I'm good for one or two.
• 1:29:15
  At least one or two.
• 1:29:16
  You know?
• 1:29:17
  Anything can happen.
• 1:29:18
  That's why, you know, they call they say any given Sunday, with, NCAA, March madness.
• 1:29:25
  Yep.
• 1:29:26
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:29:27
  It just fits.
• 1:29:27
  Every like, Cinderella teams, you all you gotta do is go on a run, honestly.
• 1:29:34
  Get that catch momentum and just run with it.
• 1:29:37
  Coach, is there something to, you know, having a little bit of rust?
• 1:29:41
  I know DeVonte dealt with some injuries, obviously, coming off the hamstring and
• 1:29:45
  everything.
• 1:29:46
  He looked a little rusty.
• 1:29:47
  It didn't look like, you know, comfortable catching the ball like we're accustomed to in
• 1:29:51
  there.
• 1:29:52
  Is it possible, you know, in a week's time and given that that leg's probably a little sore
• 1:29:57
  after playing too, is it possible to come back and to I don't know.
• 1:30:03
  I mean, I I don't think he's gonna be at that top level that he was, but you have to expect a
• 1:30:07
  little more from him, going forward into this week's game than he's trying to show it in
• 1:30:12
  Carolina.
• 1:30:12
  Right?
• 1:30:13
  Yeah.
• 1:30:14
  You know, and, you know, it's we all say it.
• 1:30:17
  It's it's been a known fact.
• 1:30:20
  Nobody is a 100% healthy, especially during playoff time.
• 1:30:25
  And when players are hurt during the season, a couple weeks or whatever, leading up to the
• 1:30:30
  playoffs, they're gonna push it a little bit more.
• 1:30:33
  You know?
• 1:30:35
  They're gonna probably tell you they're a 100% when they're 75, 80%.
• 1:30:40
  You know?
• 1:30:41
  And so I think he with an extra week, he should be able to get right.
• 1:30:48
  You know, all these NFL teams spend millions, billions of dollars on, you know, the best
• 1:30:53
  technology, the best, training staff, and, health team.
• 1:30:58
  So, I think he should be alright.
• 1:31:01
  But, yeah, you could definitely tell he had some rust on him.
• 1:31:03
  There were he had a few drops that, you wouldn't expect from Davante Adams.
• 1:31:08
  Even Puka Nakula had a couple big drops, and it's like
• 1:31:12
  That one that that was they I mean, getting them down inside of the five yard line and and
• 1:31:17
  probably goes in for a touchdown.
• 1:31:19
  Mhmm.
• 1:31:19
  Pretty wild.
• 1:31:20
  Just kinda stone hands out there.
• 1:31:23
  But, yeah, you you have to imagine that you're not gonna have those again, especially against
• 1:31:29
  a bears team that gives up that kind of, you know, that kind of yardage too, especially to
• 1:31:35
  wide receivers.
• 1:31:35
  Well, and the thing is too, I mean, I mean, it's almost coming down to that the 2025 season
• 1:31:41
  was the superstar dropping all the easy passes.
• 1:31:45
  I mean, we see that a lot of games where the sheer handed receivers drop so many balls at
• 1:31:51
  crucial times that that might be what the Brown.
• 1:31:54
  Remembered for.
• 1:31:55
  I mean, we can talk about the Vikings, but, I mean, all these receivers are dropping crucial
• 1:31:59
  ball at the wrong time.
• 1:32:03
  Yeah.
• 1:32:03
  You saw you saw it in every game almost.
• 1:32:06
  AJ Brown had a horrible game.
• 1:32:10
  You know, DK Metcalf had a big drop at the end of the game for the page for the Steelers.
• 1:32:19
  You know, it's just you're paid you you train your whole life to catch a ball, run routes,
• 1:32:26
  score touchdowns.
• 1:32:28
  And, you know, I don't know if it's just mental and they're just, you know would have
• 1:32:36
  to ask.
• 1:32:37
  It's something like that.
• 1:32:39
  Something.
• 1:32:39
  Just, you know, any anything.
• 1:32:42
  Just, being distracted a little bit can drastically change things.
• 1:32:48
  I can't emphasize that enough.
• 1:32:54
  Gonna be another, crazy weekend of football this weekend, and I'm, looking forward to it.
• 1:32:59
  It's gonna be a great time.
• 1:33:02
  Yeah.
• 1:33:02
  I don't know that I have much else to talk about, guys.
• 1:33:06
  Obviously, the the press conference today didn't tell us a whole lot that we didn't know.
• 1:33:11
  There hasn't been any coaching changes as of yet with the Vikings.
• 1:33:15
  I think they were trying to get through this one so they didn't have to talk to anyone about
• 1:33:18
  it.
• 1:33:19
  So do the presser now.
• 1:33:21
  Go out there and make your coaching changes and kinda do what you're gonna do and then only
• 1:33:27
  have to release the press releases and then not have to talk to the draft.
• 1:33:30
  So, you know, whether that's the right thing to do or not, the I would imagine over the next
• 1:33:36
  couple of weeks, we're gonna start to see some moves and some press releases coming out from
• 1:33:41
  this Viking team.
• 1:33:41
  I know they did say on Purple Daily today that Mike Petten is retiring.
• 1:33:45
  So this assistant head coach and whether they keep the title and and that's still a job or
• 1:33:50
  not, whether that's an opening that Brian Flores steps into, whether there's some other
• 1:33:55
  organizational structural changes as far as maybe some more control for the coaches over,
• 1:34:00
  you know, player development and and selections, right, moving forward?
• 1:34:06
  I don't know necessarily know because they don't have to make it public on what what the
• 1:34:12
  team kinda does behind the scenes in the front office and others.
• 1:34:16
  But, you know, so we know there's been some movement, right, with with Mike Petten retiring
• 1:34:23
  and leaving that open here.
• 1:34:24
  So so we'll see what moves forward.
• 1:34:26
  But right now, not a ton not a ton of moves on the Viking side.
• 1:34:31
  So we'll kind of keep an eye on the on the news ticker while we're watching football, and
• 1:34:37
  they'll probably try to sneak it in on on some Saturday and Sunday press releases or something
• 1:34:42
  if it does happen so everyone's distracted by the playoffs.
• 1:34:45
  But we'll see what happens.
• 1:34:47
  Obviously, a lot more fallout to come from the Jordan Addison news.
• 1:34:51
  We'll get some more facts from that as as much as we can.
• 1:34:56
  Any parting shots on the way out the door here, fellas?
• 1:35:00
  I I think we'll start seeing coaches fall or signing, I should say, once Harvaugh figures
• 1:35:07
  out where he's gonna be.
• 1:35:08
  I think that's gonna be first.
• 1:35:09
  Everybody's gonna be waiting for him.
• 1:35:11
  And unless they know they can't get Harbaugh, then they're gonna be like, okay.
• 1:35:14
  Let's see who we get.
• 1:35:16
  But I don't think Tom or Flores is gonna sign anywhere until they know where Harbaugh's at.
• 1:35:20
  I think that's gonna be the big piece of the puzzle on where he's gonna go, and then we're
• 1:35:25
  gonna start seeing these coaches drop off like flies.
• 1:35:28
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:35:29
  100%.
• 1:35:29
  I agree.
• 1:35:30
  I agree.
• 1:35:32
  Last words, though.
• 1:35:34
  I just hope my car makes it.
• 1:35:36
  I'm about to drive, five hours, head back home up up, just a little north of Duluth,
• 1:35:41
  Minnesota.
• 1:35:41
  So it's gonna be
• 1:35:43
  a long time.
• 1:35:44
  Interview up there or mountain bi or what?
• 1:35:48
  No.
• 1:35:48
  No.
• 1:35:49
  No.
• 1:35:50
  Ice fishing trip.
• 1:35:51
  So Oh, okay.
• 1:35:53
  Awesome, man.
• 1:35:54
  Well, have a great time out there on the ice coach.
• 1:35:57
  I hope you get to relax a little bit.
• 1:35:59
  Get away from the game.
• 1:36:01
  Get away from, you know, as much as you work.
• 1:36:04
  You deserve it.
• 1:36:04
  You deserve a good weekend of relaxing, and I hope you're, you know, with your friends and
• 1:36:09
  family.
• 1:36:10
  And hey, brother.
• 1:36:15
  No.
• 1:36:16
  Kev, we don't want you getting hurt out there.
• 1:36:18
  Think I've seen you now.
• 1:36:20
  I I don't want to I don't wanna see your career end on a horrible kicker.
• 1:36:26
  So, you know, in an emergency, I think coach would be there, and you'll have a spot for it.
• 1:36:33
  We'll get you an honorary ring.
• 1:36:35
  Right?
• 1:36:35
  I I hope that works well because my ass is not getting out in a, on a football field anytime
• 1:36:41
  soon.
• 1:36:41
  I haven't played since I was 15.
• 1:36:44
  And, yeah.
• 1:36:45
  I mean, I'm Aaron Rodgers' age.
• 1:36:47
  He looked over it, peeling himself off the turf last night where he was like, I'm fucking done
• 1:36:51
  with this shit.
• 1:36:52
  I'm done.
• 1:36:53
  I am
• 1:36:54
  done.
• 1:36:54
  This is a young man's game.
• 1:36:56
  I I am I am over this.
• 1:36:59
  I've made my money.
• 1:37:00
  But he's the guy too that I could see that he'll say, yeah.
• 1:37:03
  I'm done.
• 1:37:03
  But, you know, you don't file the paperwork just in case somebody calls, you know.
• 1:37:09
  You know, how many times did Jeff George come out of retirement to throw the ball around?
• 1:37:13
  You know?
• 1:37:13
  So
• 1:37:14
  It's Jeff George.
• 1:37:15
  Oh, look at that.
• 1:37:16
  Man.
• 1:37:17
  Yeah.
• 1:37:17
  We've had a Brad Johnson reference, a Jeff George reference.
• 1:37:21
  The ghost of Dante Culpepper was, there.
• 1:37:25
  Hey.
• 1:37:25
  There you go.
• 1:37:25
  Yeah.
• 1:37:26
  I can't There you go.
• 1:37:27
  All around when I was 13 too, Kev.
• 1:37:29
  That doesn't mean Yeah.
• 1:37:33
  Well, shout out to Kev.
• 1:37:36
  Shout out to Coast to Coast Entertainment, man.
• 1:37:37
  I had a blast with you guys, B.
• 1:37:39
  Yes.
• 1:37:39
  You all stay up way too late for me.
• 1:37:41
  My wife kicked me out of bed, but I had a blast coming on the show with me with you guys.
• 1:37:47
  That that was awesome.
• 1:37:48
  My my picks sucked, turns out, but I was kinda doing it all on the fly.
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  And, dude, there you go.
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  There you go.
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  I I hope you survived the tryout.
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  Right?
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  That that's why
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  I know how Cody runs his teams, and I've seen some of the guys that he's head out.
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  Shout out to Cornelius, Walo, and some
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  of the guys that came out
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  and joined us when we did the event out there at at the casino last year.
• 1:38:18
  But there's some big there's some dogs out there that that Cody's pulling in for these
• 1:38:22
  tryouts.
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  I'm not even trying to step out there, get hit one time and and my life, not just my career.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  Wally's a big one.
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  He's a big dog.
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  He's a big boy.
• 1:38:32
  Well and he's been a guest on the program as well.
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  So it was really cool to get to know him a little bit.
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  Did he come out for your tryouts for the cavalry?
• 1:38:39
  No.
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  No.
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  He he had pretty sure he had work or had some family thing.
• 1:38:46
  I can't quite remember, but he'll definitely probably find his way on the team.
• 1:38:51
  Staying in touch.
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  At least for kicking.
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  Yeah.
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  See, you know what, Kev?
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  I don't want you to go out there and pull a hammy trying to kick a ball.
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  Right?
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  Like, we don't we don't heal up as quickly as we think we do.
• 1:39:02
  Appreciate you guys, man.
• 1:39:04
  It's great great to spend some time talking ball with you.
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  Looking forward to watching these games and enjoying it.
• 1:39:11
  Obviously, I'm on I'm on Bee's text list now as well when big news breaks, especially related
• 1:39:18
  to the Vikings.
• 1:39:20
  And been been crazy kinda watching.
• 1:39:22
  I think we've kinda seen the coaching the moves on the coaching carousel we're going to.
• 1:39:27
  I don't know if there's necessarily any one of the coordinators right now that are left in the
• 1:39:33
  because you have a lot of young coaching staffs in the playoffs right now.
• 1:39:37
  Kev, my answer is no.
• 1:39:39
  You guys start your show way too freaking late for me.
• 1:39:43
  My wife damn near didn't let me into bed.
• 1:39:45
  I mean, I'm ending this one, and I'm like, drowsy.
• 1:39:48
  And you guys didn't
• 1:39:49
  start No.
• 1:39:50
  We'll to we'll have to come up with the show that we can you know, just like a round table
• 1:39:55
  discussion on c two c and that's a little bit earlier we get everybody on just kinda
• 1:40:00
  be filming my pics, b, I will film my pics prerecorded.
• 1:40:05
  I will send them on to you.
• 1:40:06
  I don't mind appearing in that way, but, yeah, staying up till 11:30 midnight for me, man.
• 1:40:13
  I'm too old for that.
• 1:40:14
  I'm just not used to it.
• 1:40:15
  We wait.
• 1:40:16
  Man, I got this kitten.
• 1:40:17
  This kitten's up at 4AM, dude.
• 1:40:19
  He's killing me.
• 1:40:21
  Yeah.
• 1:40:21
  No.
• 1:40:22
  Just we don't try to come up with something to have everybody on just a guys night.
• 1:40:26
  You know?
• 1:40:27
  So Let's plan for some crossover shows.
• 1:40:29
  Maybe we can do a Super Bowl watch along.
• 1:40:32
  I know Cody's been talking about it since we don't have a dog in the fight, and, you know,
• 1:40:37
  Kevin might be.
• 1:40:39
  And and
• 1:40:39
  We we could just ban Kevin from the the show too.
• 1:40:44
  Ban him.
• 1:40:44
  I think that would be fun, man, because, obviously, we're all gonna be watching the
• 1:40:47
  game.
• 1:40:48
  I don't mind putting it on next to me
• 1:40:49
  and doing
• 1:40:50
  a little watch along.
• 1:40:51
  Cody, so it's funny, b, we were on we did a pregame show, and then there was another what
• 1:40:56
  who were we playing?
• 1:40:57
  We were playing the Giants at that point.
• 1:40:59
  I can't remember.
• 1:41:00
  Yeah.
• 1:41:00
  He's watching he's watching a guy that's doing, like, you know, some knockoff PA type call in
• 1:41:07
  the game too.
• 1:41:08
  Said he was shotgun in a beer.
• 1:41:10
  He spilled it all over himself, and somebody somebody floated him like a $50 super chat.
• 1:41:15
  And Cody's like, what the fuck?
• 1:41:17
  What the oh, man.
• 1:41:19
  What are
• 1:41:19
  you doing?
• 1:41:19
  Oh, man.
• 1:41:20
  Was great.
• 1:41:20
  If that's all it takes if that's all it takes, yeah, we're gonna make some money here.
• 1:41:27
  Well, everybody, thanks for tuning in.
• 1:41:29
  We had a great group of guests tonight.
• 1:41:31
  As always, sir Picasso joined us for a while.
• 1:41:34
  Big b from the coast to coast network, coach Cody Hamadol from the whatever team.
• 1:41:41
  Every team in
• 1:41:45
  the Midwest, I think he's a coach for.
• 1:41:47
  Yeah.
• 1:41:48
  We're just waiting for the gophers to steal them away from us and then eventually the
• 1:41:51
  Vikings, but we're we're just so grateful for you, coach.
• 1:41:57
  I know I speak for Bea as well to have your insight into the game.
• 1:42:01
  And it means a lot because I don't know shit about football.
• 1:42:05
  Just go back and watch the coast to coast episode from last week.
• 1:42:08
  I'm clueless, but I love to get together.
• 1:42:11
  I love to talk about it as so many of us fans do too.
• 1:42:14
  I've been reaching out to some other creators, you know, sent a message over to the VocalVyke
• 1:42:18
  and and some other Vikings podcasts that are out there.
• 1:42:22
  And, yeah, see if we can get some people tuning in with us and join in some other creators
• 1:42:26
  around this team.
• 1:42:27
  Obviously, especially as we move through draft coverage and kinda getting everybody's takes, I
• 1:42:31
  I think that's gonna be really fun.
• 1:42:32
  So for my cohost, Big B and coach Cody, my name is Bubba Starts.
• 1:42:37
  This is the Scene Project Sports Network, and this has been Vikings United.
• 1:42:41
  We'll see you all next Tuesday at 8PM.
• 1:42:44
  Later, guys.
• 1:42:45
  Later.