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Vikings United: Draft Insights, Coaching Analysis, and John Macdonald Interview · 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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  Holler school.
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  Purple and cold.
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  This is how we roll.
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  Purple and cold.
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  Now holler school.
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  Purple and cold.
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  This is how it goes.
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  Purple and and Now holler.
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  I'm going to sit and scroll again.
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  You know the name.
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  It's a Minnesota thing.
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  Put that on the purple blood that's running through these golden veins.
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  Hail, sleet, snow, rain regardless.
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  We gonna go to games.
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  Billion dollar stadium on Sundays.
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  They don't close the bank.
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  Gold.
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  This how we go.
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  Purple and gold.
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  Now holler as gold.
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  Purple and gold.
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  This how it goes.
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  Purple and gold.
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  We holler as gold.
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  Purple and
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  Welcome in to the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  You are here tonight for Vikings United.
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  We got my cohost, Big B, in the house with me as always.
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  B, what's going on?
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  Nothing much.
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  Ready to talk some football?
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  Can't hear you,
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  Can't hear me.
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  Alright.
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  I'll back out.
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  You're good.
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  You're good.
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  Oh, I'm good now?
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  Okay.
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  Yep.
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  No.
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  Just got done with our work today, my Friday, so get a couple days off to get stuff situated,
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  relax, and just can't wait to talk about what everybody's thoughts are on any news stories
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  for the NFL this week.
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  Yeah.
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  And we're kinda hitting that low.
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  Right?
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  But we got some really cool stuff tonight.
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  I got a chance to talk with international fan of the year for the Minnesota Vikings.
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  He was on the stage at the draft.
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  John McDonald, pretty epic, conversation with him.
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  So we're gonna be out there.
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  We got a full house tonight too.
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  Let's bring in coach.
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  Coach Cody, what's going on?
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  What's going on, fellas?
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  How we doing?
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  We're doing good.
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  What's up, coach?
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  Man.
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  I had to get my flat bill game on because we got sir Picasso joining us back in the fray.
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  Oh, snap.
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  Let's go.
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  Let's go.
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  Fresh.
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  What it do?
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  What it do?
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  Good to see you, brother.
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  Feel me?
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  Belated, man.
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  The appreciation.
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  Yep.
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  Mine's tomorrow.
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  So when we get together next time, now we know.
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  Next year, I'm coming up to you.
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  We'll have a joint birthday.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm done.
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  I don't, I'm down.
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  I don't really celebrate my birthday.
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  Neither do I.
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  My my kids made me do so.
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  Tomorrow.
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  My kids got track day, man.
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  So I'll be out there freezing my ass off watching little kids run, you know, 40 yard
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  sprints.
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  It's gonna be awesome.
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  Picasso, I wanna introduce to one of our new cohosts on the show.
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  And with us, our guy, Pods.
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  Pods, meet Picasso.
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  Picasso, meet Pods.
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  What's going on, sir?
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  How are you doing?
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  I'm doing pretty good.
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  How are you guys?
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  Man, great night.
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  Great night.
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  We got a full house for real.
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  Living our dream.
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  We do.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yeah.
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  We're having a having a great one.
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  It's been it's been a wild time since the last time we saw you, Marcus.
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  It's been a a lot has happened.
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  We got through the draft.
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  We've had some some interesting, you know, free agents visiting in the last week as well.
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  I know not everyone is real high on mister Jennings, but I think he'd be a great fit to
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  this team.
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  Would love to see them sign another wide receiver no matter who it is.
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  But would love to just you know, since we haven't talked to you since the draft, kinda
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  get your overall thoughts on what you thought about the draft and those the draft picks
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  coming in.
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  Man, I I well, while I got posted on my Darth Viking page, I gave us a b plus.
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  Naturally, being a Vikings fan, we wanted to see a couple beefy offensive linemen.
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  You know?
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  I think that we needed to hit the safety position pretty hard.
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  But, all in all, man, I'm happy.
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  And I think that with as long as our guys can stay healthy, I'm good for it, and I and I
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  never doubt Flores.
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  So if Flores is picking you on the defense, then you got something.
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  Well and the thing with, and I know everyone on draft night was really surprised by the Caleb
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  Banks pick, and I'm sure that the Vikings were surprised that he was still there.
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  And I know he had the injury, but you're talking about someone in all of these scouting
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  reports and everything leading up to the draft that is, you know, bringing this guy as a top
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  five, you know, top 10 possible top five pick.
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  So I think more of the fact that he was there and Beefalo's probably in there going, you
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  don't draft him, I'm out the door.
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  Right?
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  And
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  if you
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  pass on this guy, I'm done.
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  It it's being and and I don't think that you had to be threatened in that.
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  And I I know everyone had, you know, Theinamin coming to the Vikings forever.
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  You ended up getting a safety later.
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  So it's not like they ignored a position of need.
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  And it sounds like they got a guy who's gonna fit in that b flow personality with Jacoby
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  Thomas.
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  Right?
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  So value.
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  I I just a hammer is what he is.
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  Right?
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  A a
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  guy, people like him, and, you know, not just on the field, but off him, he's a leader.
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  I think you got somebody there.
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  You had five picks on the top 100.
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  Right?
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  Like, that's nothing to scoff at.
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  I know people, you know, maybe got a little bit down about the grenade trade.
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  No.
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  You shoulda got a second this or that.
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  The two thirds that you got, especially with the deep draft next year, is essentially a
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  second round pick.
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  So you're splitting hairs at that point.
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  And I think you'd rather have a third this year and a third in next year's draft where who
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  knows where it's gonna be.
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  Right?
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  Every season's different.
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  Did this you know, it was the Eagles we ended up trading with with Gernard.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  Bomb.
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  Right?
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  They're they're an injury away from, you know, who do they have behind Jalen Hurd?
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  Jalen Hurd goes down this year, which she's not necessarily prone to do, but shit happens in
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  the NFL.
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  I know we're looking at that as, like, a mid late third right now.
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  It could turn into a very high third round pick, and you're going into next year with
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  another three, four top 100 picks.
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  I was pretty happy with it.
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  You did get offensive line help.
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  You got a center.
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  You got an offensive tackle.
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  You got another dog in the Iowa State, you know, big citrus.
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  Like, you got I felt good about it.
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  I was right where you are, Marcus, where it was like c plus, like, b minus range.
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  If if banks works out, you're b plus.
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  I think it's hard to, like, grade it as an a without having a high top first round, second
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  round pick.
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  Like, you're picking in the middle of the draft.
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  So to me, all things considered, you're like a c to start.
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  Right?
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  You're average.
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  You're getting an average draft just by consequence of where you're picking.
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  So to come out with, like, a b plus in that and I think you're gonna have six at least of these
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  guys that see significant playing time this year, like, right.
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  So Good enough.
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  I I don't know many teams that can do that in any one draft class.
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  I I just felt like, like, Deanerman was that that was the my go to.
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  That was like, I had
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  the only hope it would take.
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  So
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  Where was Banks projected to go?
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  Do we remember that?
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  Do we remember seeing that Big B got us
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  before it came out that he was hurt, they were saying he was gonna be a top 10 pick.
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  Mhmm.
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  With everything going and and from reports that I heard with possibility of being a top five.
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  Right?
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  Honestly, the Giants probably take him with those two top what they have?
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  Two in the top eight or whatever they ended up after the trade?
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  And I and I right.
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  I realized they obviously had a deep run on the safeties going, look.
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  We can get a guy that we're gonna be really happy with in that third round.
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  Right?
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  They're eyeing the Jacoby Thomas in that second tier, which is honestly what we did a lot of in
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  our mock drafts was looking farther down.
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  You you really only had maybe two positions.
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  Now Banks was never on our radar, as far as that goes just because we were kinda doing, you
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  know, big board and taking the draft as it comes.
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  But I everything that I heard and Skoldoc was on with our guy rap with vocal bike, he doesn't
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  seem to be concerned about it.
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  Give the kid time to get healthy, which it seems like he never really had because he also
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  realized where he's at in his career.
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  He had to get into the draft this year.
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  Florida didn't have a great season.
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  You risk more injuries.
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  You don't have NFL doctors in the collegiate ranks.
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  Right?
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  You don't have those insurance plans and and things in line for you.
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  So I think in his head, he knows he's rushing back and then out there running around in track
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  shoes.
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  You break something that was probably stressed because you played on a foot that wasn't a 100%
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  for the back half of the season, just trying to make your case for the NFL.
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  So, like, as a man, I I look at the young man and go, it's unfortunate.
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  You but you probably made the right decision for yourself, and now you got a chance to play
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  in the league, man.
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  Can you get healthy now and and go be the force that the Vikings believe you can be?
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  Well, not only that, but, I mean, he gambled on himself and, came out well.
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  I was just looking at what we signed our draft picks for, and I believe he's a little over
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  twenty two mil.
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  And the second round pick our second round pick, I'm blanking on his name, but I think
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  he's a little nine.
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  So it's like, hey.
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  I'm just just being in the first round.
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  Like, that's a a over half.
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  And so just
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  Engel alone gambled, and he ended up getting a first round, you know, pick paycheck.
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  Like, he went from potentially only making 9,000,000 to getting 13,000,000 more.
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  That's huge.
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  Yeah.
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  And and, unfortunately, for him, he probably lost an extra 30,000,000.
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  Right?
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  Because the top 10 picks more
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  like So so what I'm seeing here, you know, googling Caleb Baker's pre draft ranking, they
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  had them hovered around the thirty seventh to fifty second pick pre draft.
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  Had them in the they had him in the early to late second round.
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  I think that was that was after the the end
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  That's the reviews came out.
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  So, yeah, that was the pre draft ring.
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  So
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  Before the combine, they had they were looking at him as a top 10 pick hands down.
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  And that I think that was pretty ubiquitous with everybody.
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  And you may have to go back.
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  Maybe Dane Brugler's beast would came out before that.
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  I'm not sure when some of those
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  So Google, before the twenty twenty six combine Florida State's tackle with Collin Banks was
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  regarded as a high upside draft prospect with the mid to late first round grade often listed
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  between, in the 50 to 60 range by major scouting outlets.
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  So
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  Wait.
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  Did he play at Florida or Florida State?
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  Florida.
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  Florida.
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  Yeah.
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  He was a gator.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  He he definitely made the right decision coming out of college because Florida used to be a
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  powerhouse and had great, like, modern facilities and stuff.
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  But the falloff that Florida as a university has had over the last ten to twelve years, it's
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  actually really sad to look at because it just doesn't seem like that program cares right now.
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  And I can understand why he'd wanna get out, come to the league, and be around people who
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  are gonna rally around him and try to get him to be the specimen that he is.
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  Well, that really goes from football and basketball for them.
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  Mhmm.
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  Let's just be honest.
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  I was kinda looking forward to maybe a bit another big tight end too.
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  You were looking forward to, like, an Eli Stowers, right hand?
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  No.
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  To be honest, I can't think of this guy's name, but Sadiq?
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  Were you
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  thinking Sadiq maybe?
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  No.
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  I don't I don't think that was it either.
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  There there was another tall
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  There was a guy who was, like, six seven.
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  Every mock draft that we did, Marcus, redrafted a tight end in, like, the fifth or sixth round,
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  and we're pretty happy with the guys that we had picked.
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  And maybe those guys just weren't there.
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  I know we we ended up with no sixth round, traded back a couple of times, picked up that
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  extra fifth round, and got some ballers.
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  I think they feel okay, especially with Hawk coming back on a restructured deal this year
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  that you're gonna kinda get by.
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  I think they like Josh Oliver.
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  Right?
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  And that's pretty, you know, obvious.
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  He's it's not like he can't catch the ball.
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  Now he's probably not as elusive and big as maybe you would like from, like, that u tight
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  end position.
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  Right?
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  But the guy blocks his ass off.
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  He's Oh,
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  I understand.
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  Yeah.
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  You know?
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  So I I I and I think we're gonna see we're gonna see what I think we wanted to see last
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  year with the people they've brought in on the coaching staff and some of the adjustments that
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  have been made, little bit more investment on the offensive line and bringing some guys in
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  and and the moves that they've made, it seems like they're going to commit to the run-in a
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  power running game a little bit more.
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  Talk about the Damon Claiborne getting a home run hitting running back in that backfield.
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  How do you feel about finally having some of that, you know, what, four four three, four
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  four b speed back there?
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  Who was that to?
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  You.
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  Me?
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  Yeah.
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  I was asking you what what he what Claiborne ran his 40 in.
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  I don't know if you have that.
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  I can look.
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  I think he has, like, a four three seven.
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  Picking up somebody that can finally hit a home run from the backfield that's not named Jordan
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  Addison.
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  Well
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  Right.
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  If if if we use them.
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  Right?
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  I mean, Who
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  was the guy you guys had a few years ago?
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  He came out of Florida State.
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  Was it it was one of the Cook brothers, not James, but Galvin.
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  Galvin.
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  Galvin.
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  He was supposed to be that home run back.
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  He was.
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  He got hurt.
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  I mean
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  I wasn't really following the team then.
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  Did they let him walk, or or what ended up happened with Dalvin Cook?
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  Because I thought he was a hell of a running back.
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  Yeah.
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  We let him walk.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  He he was get there.
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  So he used him a lot.
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  He
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  was alright, but he wasn't as fast.
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  Like, he I don't consider
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  him that.
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  He didn't have that breakaway speed.
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  If he got little Power back.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and Daman will kinda be that first one that we've seen around here maybe since the the
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  AP days, honestly, that can break one off.
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  And granted, he's not the same guy, you know, as far as breaking tackles and, you know, I
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  mean, AP's a generational, I would consider.
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  AP can do it all.
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  What yeah.
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  I mean, probably I mean, he I think he is regarded as one of the best.
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  If he could have stayed healthy, you know, may have been right up there with, you know, any of
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  the So Clay so Clayborne's official time was four point three seven for the 40.
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  I
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  knew it.
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  Man.
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  Coach, can you
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  talk about how fast that actually is?
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  Like, have you seen guys?
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  Now you got a guy that's pretty fast on your team with the cavalry.
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  Mhmm.
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  Now I don't know if Speedy's moving on, but, like, we probably don't have an official 40
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  time on that.
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  But, like, how fast is that to put in, like I mean, that's a flash to me.
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  I can't remember.
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  Hey.
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  What up?
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  We're twinning.
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  Hey.
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  I got 240 of them.
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  You know, we we we actually coordinated.
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  We had so much speed with the cavalry and the bears.
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  It was ridiculous.
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  Speedy is well, it's fast, but I'd almost put Bo Butler fastest fastest player I've ever
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  seen.
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  Fastest.
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  He just gets cooking.
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  We I I actually had a few a handful of players hitting, like, four three.
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  One hit four two nine or four two seven, something like that.
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  So we we had we had a bunch of speed, and it's ridiculous just watching them go right past
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  you.
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  Like, get going.
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  Four two just sounds like a touchdown in sub ten seconds is what it sounds like.
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  Yeah.
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  Pretty much.
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  And then and then, you know, considering we play arena, so it's 50 yards.
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  I mean, by the time
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  you get in five seconds.
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  Yeah.
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  That's dope.
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  Yeah.
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  We're getting a little bit of a tour, man.
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  Is the basement done, Marcus?
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  I can't hear anybody, bro.
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  Oh, no.
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  Well, we can hear you.
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  Yeah.
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  We can
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  hear you.
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  I'm sitting here.
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  Check it out.
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  Oh.
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  Oh.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Finally got my office done.
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  Take that table.
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  So and then I'm actually getting a we're gonna get a t, T shirt press.
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  So I but it actually prints ink.
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  It's not heat press.
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  But it's gonna be about the size of that purple line.
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  Dog, your basement looks perfect for a tattoo shop.
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  Yeah.
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  Just saying.
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  Yeah.
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  The wife's room, bro, she she wanted glass walls, but I looked at the price on some of
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  those, bro.
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  They wanted, like, $8.
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  So I just got a couple of French doors, and I framed them in.
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  There you go.
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  There you go.
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  I like that.
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  She's got it.
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  Yeah.
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  All all her
• 21:31
  She's her game day gear, which mind you at 04:30 in the morning when when it's dark and
• 21:35
  I'm going to work, that's a little startling.
• 21:38
  Gonna go.
• 21:39
  I don't know if
• 21:40
  I can just stand in there shadowing me.
• 21:44
  But, yeah, then we got a barn style doors everywhere.
• 21:50
  Yeah.
• 21:50
  Shelley and I Shelley and I did all the work ourselves.
• 21:53
  Yeah, man.
• 21:53
  You guys knocked it out of the park.
• 21:55
  It looks so good.
• 21:56
  Yeah.
• 21:56
  Know you were a fiend when you got a coffee bar in your master bedroom.
• 22:02
  Damn.
• 22:03
  I'm jealous.
• 22:05
  That's diabolical.
• 22:07
  But I love it.
• 22:08
  Step in master bath.
• 22:10
  Yeah.
• 22:11
  That tub, man.
• 22:14
  Yo.
• 22:14
  Can you do ice wash Shelly's closets?
• 22:16
  I'm putting her on the blast right now.
• 22:18
  Yeah.
• 22:18
  She got eight closets in her closet.
• 22:21
  She said it his and hers, and that's just yours and mine.
• 22:24
  Mine's upstairs.
• 22:27
  I gotta go upstairs to change clothes.
• 22:29
  Oh, jeez.
• 22:30
  Vader outfits.
• 22:33
  It's Vader outfits, three T shirts, and 200 hats.
• 22:36
  Yeah.
• 22:36
  Vader's up in
• 22:37
  the Yeah.
• 22:38
  Actually.
• 22:41
  Speaking of that oh, man.
• 22:44
  Oh, man.
• 22:45
  It is just show and tell today.
• 22:46
  Yeah.
• 22:47
  And you don't know you
• 22:49
  don't know what you got.
• 22:50
  I only I only got one.
• 22:51
  I only got one of them with me right now.
• 22:53
  But There you go.
• 22:54
  Shout out Skunk Golf Company.
• 22:57
  You feel me?
• 22:57
  I got another one.
• 22:58
  Let me join you.
• 22:59
  Hey.
• 23:00
  I don't have the white one.
• 23:01
  So
• 23:02
  Yo.
• 23:02
  That one is dope.
• 23:03
  No.
• 23:04
  I would I think I got the I I have to go in my car.
• 23:07
  That's where my box is, but I got a couple of the skunkheads.
• 23:10
  I think I got the silver and the black one.
• 23:13
  We're gonna
• 23:13
  have I
• 23:14
  got this too.
• 23:14
  Check this out.
• 23:15
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• 23:21
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• 23:25
  in the world.
• 23:26
  Dope.
• 23:26
  I love that.
• 23:27
  Oh, got a
• 23:27
  Good.
• 23:28
  Drop here
• 23:28
  in the last couple of weeks, and, yeah, really excited for all the guys to be outfitted.
• 23:34
  But, yeah, they got some great hats, and, yeah, we've just been we've a lot
• 23:39
  of stuff.
• 23:39
  Putting together a video of me wearing the gear.
• 23:43
  So Same.
• 23:44
  There you go.
• 23:44
  I I just finished two custom portraits.
• 23:48
  I did some branding for stroke of luck charity.
• 23:53
  So the guy's his son was 14 years old, suffered his first stroke.
• 23:56
  Doctors told him that kids that age don't have strokes.
• 23:59
  He's sitting here trying to advocate for his son saying, I know my kid.
• 24:03
  Something's not right.
• 24:04
  This is not.
• 24:06
  Find out that the kid did have a stroke.
• 24:09
  I heard you talk
• 24:09
  to him.
• 24:10
  And now he's he's actually suffered two strokes, had to re walk again.
• 24:15
  But they got a a JJ Wetterholt.
• 24:19
  So apparently signed with the Saint Louis Cardinals.
• 24:24
  Oh, that was dope.
• 24:26
  This is got the portrait we did I did for him.
• 24:30
  Awesome, man.
• 24:31
  That's awesome.
• 24:31
  And then we put their logo in here.
• 24:34
  What?
• 24:37
  Then That
• 24:37
  kid's gonna be good, by the way.
• 24:39
  JJ?
• 24:40
  Yeah.
• 24:40
  He's gonna be really good.
• 24:41
  And the other portrait has their logo on the top.
• 24:49
  Yeah.
• 24:49
  Nice.
• 24:50
  Well, yeah, we're gonna have to, have to have you connect us with them too.
• 24:54
  We got some really cool, some some really cool stuff.
• 24:57
  We're not quite announcing yet, but, I'm planning a couple of trips up, up that way this
• 25:04
  summer and, would love to connect with them.
• 25:07
  And, yeah, man, it just
• 25:10
  They're they're out of Baltimore.
• 25:11
  To the family.
• 25:13
  Yeah.
• 25:13
  100%.
• 25:14
  Yeah.
• 25:14
  They're out of Baltimore.
• 25:15
  They saw some of my work online.
• 25:17
  The guy just happened to reach out to me, not even knowing my connection with helping out in
• 25:22
  charity work.
• 25:23
  And, so I just had one conversation with him, and I told him, you know, let let me help you
• 25:28
  out.
• 25:28
  Let's help raise money for you.
• 25:30
  And now they're already talking about wanting to do a football and basketball.
• 25:34
  He did already tell me that they work closely with Ray Lewis, so we're hoping to do something
• 25:38
  with Ray.
• 25:40
  So I'm like, bro, I'm a Vikings fan, but I'm a football fan, bro.
• 25:44
  So that would be dope as you know what I mean?
• 25:47
  Yeah.
• 25:47
  I'm not stupid.
• 25:49
  Bro, if you could get
• 25:50
  Ray Lewis to do his tunnel entrance.
• 25:54
  Yo.
• 25:55
  Oh, No.
• 25:56
  That was
• 25:59
  That's the that's the thing I miss about 52 the most, man.
• 26:02
  Every Sunday, he'd come out of that tunnel and just hit that, and I'm just like
• 26:06
  Yep.
• 26:06
  Oh, it's it's gonna be a game.
• 26:08
  See, that that and Brian Dawkins coming out of it.
• 26:12
  Yeah.
• 26:13
  Brian Dawkins is a beans too.
• 26:15
  Yep.
• 26:16
  Well, guys, I I loved chatting and everything, but we gotta run a quick ad for our sponsors,
• 26:24
  and then I'm gonna run a little interview that I did with John McDonald.
• 26:27
  So John was the Vikings international fan of the year, and he got to go out on the stage and
• 26:35
  announce the draft pick for Charles Demings.
• 26:38
  Just so cool.
• 26:39
  So I had to chat with him for a few minutes.
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  Well, so happy to have my friend John McDonald on the show with us for Vikings United.
• 27:59
  John is one of the international fans of the year, the only selection for our Minnesota
• 28:05
  Vikings.
• 28:05
  Speaking of selections, you got to go make one for the Vikings during the draft, John.
• 28:11
  We're here to talk about that experience, man.
• 28:14
  It had to be an absolute thrill for you.
• 28:17
  Yeah.
• 28:18
  Yeah.
• 28:18
  It's one of the one of the greatest.
• 28:20
  As I keep saying to people, this is the Mount Everest of NFL fandom, picking a future player
• 28:27
  for your team on stage live at the draft.
• 28:30
  You you can't I can't think of a bigger bigger step than that, really.
• 28:37
  Nope.
• 28:37
  You sure can't.
• 28:38
  And I don't think, many of us fans will ever sniff anything even close to that.
• 28:44
  So I was really happy already being friends with you and kind of following your journey a
• 28:48
  little bit.
• 28:49
  It was a perfect time to have you, invite you in to Vikings United and and talk about this.
• 28:55
  What player did you get to announce?
• 28:57
  Charles Demings.
• 29:00
  Fantastic.
• 29:01
  No.
• 29:02
  It it wasn't quarterback.
• 29:03
  They wouldn't allow me to say quarterback.
• 29:05
  Defensive back because they wanna they wanna keep him on the cheek wanna keep him on the
• 29:08
  cheek.
• 29:09
  Steven Ethel Austin.
• 29:11
  Yep.
• 29:13
  So funny.
• 29:14
  So what was the, you know, pregame?
• 29:16
  You flying out, obviously.
• 29:17
  You're you're from, The UK, flying into the, you know, into Pittsburgh there.
• 29:23
  Talk about just everything from the flight, the anticipation, and that moment leading up to,
• 29:29
  you getting to step on the stage.
• 29:31
  Yeah.
• 29:31
  The the Vikings were very generous.
• 29:33
  They flew they flew me and a friend out there for, we landed on the Tuesday evening, and then
• 29:40
  we've done a q and a with Roger Goodell on the Wednesday.
• 29:44
  We got all backstage on the on the Thursday just before the, just before the draft.
• 29:50
  We got to see the where all the players would be sitting when they're getting picked.
• 29:53
  We got to walk the red carpet on the Friday Thursday or Friday.
• 29:59
  It it was just so much.
• 30:01
  Literally, from 8AM in the morning till about midnight, we were nonstop until Saturday night.
• 30:09
  It was nuts.
• 30:12
  Yeah.
• 30:13
  And for a guy that you know, I know you work nights, so you're probably used to a little bit
• 30:17
  quieter lifestyle, in your day to day life to kind of be thrust out into the spotlight like
• 30:24
  that for four days.
• 30:26
  It's just a whirlwind, isn't it?
• 30:28
  Oh, it was just an utter utter whirlwind, and I'm still still coming down off it now.
• 30:33
  But, yeah, it's just what I'm trying to explain to people over here, just people I work with is
• 30:38
  like, yeah.
• 30:39
  It's a pretty big that's a pretty big deal.
• 30:41
  Pretty big deal what I've just done.
• 30:44
  Yeah.
• 30:44
  And I understand that a lot of international fans don't maybe understand how big the NFL is
• 30:51
  and how big of a production that all of these moments are.
• 30:55
  And, on an international level, it's not as big as football.
• 30:58
  And, obviously, you have Premier League soccer around The UK, which is just a massive, you
• 31:03
  know, fandom and some of the wildest fans on the planet.
• 31:07
  But the NFL really goes above and beyond with their production of everything.
• 31:13
  Right?
• 31:13
  It's not just on game day.
• 31:16
  It in the draft, in many ways, is one of their marquee events of the year, and it's an awesome
• 31:21
  opportunity for them to give back to the fans and the fan bases of all of these teams.
• 31:28
  And what an incredible, you know, a a portion of that that the international fan of the year
• 31:34
  from each team gets to gets to come out and experience that.
• 31:38
  And not just one day, you were out there for nearly an entire week soaking it all in.
• 31:44
  Has this, has it deepened your love for the team now that much more?
• 31:50
  I I've always had a great relationship with the team because work being over the Vikings being
• 31:55
  over here so often, I run a fan club over here, and the Viking Vikings front office work hand
• 32:01
  in hand with us.
• 32:02
  But the the steps the Vikings took just to give us the extra experience and the NFL and
• 32:08
  everything they put on is just unbelievable.
• 32:10
  I mean, I haven't even got round two.
• 32:13
  I was, I had Brian O'Neil do an interview with me in Pittsburgh because he was then announcing
• 32:19
  picks as well.
• 32:20
  So Vikings have got that on their social media that they're gonna gonna release at some point.
• 32:25
  But, yeah, it's just been a bit really hectic.
• 32:30
  Yeah.
• 32:30
  No off season for you, John.
• 32:33
  No.
• 32:33
  No.
• 32:34
  No.
• 32:34
  I do I I absolutely love it.
• 32:36
  This the experience is is something very few Vikings fans or any any NFL fan would ever get
• 32:43
  to experience.
• 32:44
  Yeah.
• 32:45
  Wait.
• 32:45
  And can you talk a little bit about now assuming that you were, probably got to attend
• 32:50
  last year when they played in The UK?
• 32:54
  Yeah.
• 32:54
  I did I did actually both games that were over here.
• 32:57
  We don't, because we played two games.
• 32:59
  We played the Dublin game, and then we played the London game.
• 33:02
  And I actually cycled between the two games, raising money for charity.
• 33:07
  We raised just about £6,000 for mental health charity over here in The UK.
• 33:13
  So, yeah, between those two games, I was I I kind of set up all the pregame for for every
• 33:18
  every every game and then was just like, like, you you guys all need to be there at this point
• 33:24
  and trying to run trying to run the club whilst I'm cycling between the two two games.
• 33:29
  But, yeah, it was yeah.
• 33:30
  The the Vikings have always put on a great show over here in in London and in Dublin now.
• 33:37
  Pretty incredible.
• 33:38
  And talk about your, your fan group that you run and shout that out too so we can have help
• 33:44
  you grow that with more of our UK fans.
• 33:47
  The the greater network, the Scene Projects, has quite a bit of a footprint over there.
• 33:51
  So I'd love for you to shout out the the group that you run.
• 33:55
  Yeah.
• 33:55
  We we I help run The UK and Ireland Minnesota Vikings fan club.
• 33:59
  Yeah.
• 33:59
  We've been going for just over ten years now.
• 34:02
  But, yeah, with the Vikings playing so many games over here in the last couple of years,
• 34:06
  it's really grown exponentially.
• 34:08
  And to any of your, fans who come over for a game, look us up because we do a great party on
• 34:15
  this especially on the Sunday morning.
• 34:17
  I mean, the Vikings the first time we played over here when we were part of the club was the
• 34:23
  Saints game, and the Vikings came down and were kind of babysitting us, just guiding us.
• 34:28
  Then since then, they were just like, no.
• 34:30
  No.
• 34:31
  You guy you guys do the Sunday morning.
• 34:32
  We don't wanna get involved.
• 34:33
  You do that too well.
• 34:34
  We don't wanna get involved in that.
• 34:36
  We'll we'll do our own thing, but you guys on the Sunday morning, no.
• 34:39
  That's all over to you.
• 34:40
  We'll send our fans your way.
• 34:43
  Just incredible.
• 34:44
  And I love the buy in from the team to make sure that they are nurturing those
• 34:49
  international fandoms.
• 34:50
  And talk a little bit about that because, you know, we're we're playing sometimes late in the
• 34:55
  evening.
• 34:55
  You know, the night games are a lot harder.
• 34:57
  There's six hour difference between Minneapolis time and, your local time there in The UK.
• 35:04
  Do you find it difficult sometimes just to engage live with the games, or has the
• 35:10
  technology that we have now really made that a nonissue?
• 35:14
  It really has made it a lot less of an issue now because fans are fans that we we've got a
• 35:20
  couple of different chats, everything like that.
• 35:22
  We've got European fans we've chat to as well.
• 35:25
  So so we all feel so connected now.
• 35:27
  It's not not like you're just sitting there, like, what what it was ten, fifteen years ago
• 35:32
  when you'd feel like you're sitting there alone.
• 35:34
  The only person in the only person watching this game at silly o'clock in the morning at
• 35:40
  the start kicking off at 01:00 in the morning over here.
• 35:43
  You don't feel so alone.
• 35:44
  You've got fans.
• 35:45
  Oh, that's a great great catch.
• 35:46
  Oh, I have my stream.
• 35:47
  I haven't caught up with that one yet.
• 35:48
  Quite.
• 35:49
  You get a couple couple with thirty seconds difference.
• 35:52
  But, yeah, it's it's brilliant, and it's just yeah.
• 35:55
  It's the the enthusiasm of all European countries for the Vikings is exponential.
• 36:01
  It's one of and it's due to the Vikings putting so much effort into their international market
• 36:09
  because it's just I cannot speak highly enough of them and key Keisha Wyatt, who's director of
• 36:15
  international marketing, she will go absolutely above and beyond.
• 36:19
  She's put players over here where we we've done meetup.
• 36:22
  They've organized big meetups with fans and players.
• 36:24
  It's just absolutely amazing, and I cannot speak highly enough of everything the Vikings
• 36:29
  are putting into the international marketing over here.
• 36:33
  Yeah.
• 36:33
  I just think it's incredible.
• 36:35
  What a what an awesome organization to get to work beside.
• 36:38
  We are good friends with quite a few members now of the Viking World Order, super fan group,
• 36:44
  season ticket holders in Section 140.
• 36:47
  We'll be doing some pregame action, live from their tailgate hosted by sir Death later on
• 36:53
  when the season gets going.
• 36:55
  But when we're not and we have the away games, we're here in studio.
• 36:59
  So we'd love to have, some of you international fans, people from your group, and the other
• 37:04
  European fans that you know to to come on with us and help celebrate this team and talk a
• 37:09
  little ball and talk about, you know, the perspective from an international fan's sake.
• 37:14
  I think it's really, important for us to build those bridges in the fandom as well, not just
• 37:20
  with the team, but with each other.
• 37:22
  So I really appreciate you taking a few minutes for me today, chiming in with us.
• 37:27
  You're always welcome on any of our shows and to come back and to talk Vikings football with
• 37:32
  us whenever you like, John.
• 37:34
  Thank you so much for having me, and I'll definitely take you up on that offer.
• 37:38
  Definitely take you up on that offer.
• 37:39
  Well, we've all been seeing your face all over Vikings Internet land, and it's been an
• 37:44
  absolute pleasure getting to know you a little bit better today, getting to hear a little bit
• 37:48
  about that experience on stage.
• 37:51
  And, we can't wait to, connect more with you and the rest of your fan base and to keep
• 37:57
  growing.
• 37:57
  So thank you for being on the show tonight, and thank you for being part of the scene.
• 38:03
  Thank you very much for having me.
• 38:04
  Thank you.
• 38:09
  That was our buddy, John McDonald.
• 38:12
  Now, we lost Marcus, who I know has relationship.
• 38:17
  Those super fans all all get together a a lot, but such a cool conversation to have with John,
• 38:25
  talk about his experience at the draft.
• 38:27
  It was just really incredible.
• 38:29
  And, obviously, he's been kinda making the rounds on all the other Vikings fan podcast and
• 38:36
  whatnot.
• 38:36
  So really grateful that I got to spend some time with him and to get that shot.
• 38:41
  Six hour difference.
• 38:42
  So he wasn't quite able to come on and do it live with us.
• 38:44
  Yeah.
• 38:45
  Well, I him on the show.
• 38:47
  How did you get that contact?
• 38:49
  Oh, I saw him online, and I've actually been friends with him on Facebook longer.
• 38:54
  So I had him on Facebook, and then I just started seeing him everywhere.
• 38:59
  He was on the Vikings.
• 39:00
  And, actually, what it what it had happened was that I saw him on they had a, like, a blog post
• 39:08
  or something they made on the actual Vikings Okay.
• 39:14
  On the Vikings website or on the app.
• 39:17
  And I saw his face on there and saw him on the stage.
• 39:20
  It was like, hey, man.
• 39:21
  You know, sure you've probably seen this already, but this is that.
• 39:24
  And then, yeah, just made the offer.
• 39:25
  Said, hey.
• 39:26
  You know, if you if you could give me ten minutes of your time, I would love to have you
• 39:30
  on and, you know, talk talk some ball and talk about that experience.
• 39:34
  And like he said, the the Mount Everest.
• 39:37
  Right?
• 39:37
  The the pinnacle of any Viking fan as close as you're gonna get.
• 39:41
  I mean, even being on the field, I don't know.
• 39:44
  Like, because a lot of people can get on the field.
• 39:46
  Very, very few get the opportunity to go out there at the draft and announce a draft pick
• 39:51
  like that.
• 39:51
  It's freaking incredible, man.
• 39:52
  So,
• 39:53
  yeah, really, really glad that I reached out and and so thankful to John for coming on the
• 39:58
  show.
• 39:58
  That was cool.
• 39:59
  Anybody.
• 40:00
  No.
• 40:01
  That that that definitely was I mean, it is definitely a honor to do that for him.
• 40:09
  I mean, I guess, in any
• 40:10
  case odds.
• 40:11
  Try it again.
• 40:13
  You know, so good good for him.
• 40:15
  I mean, like you said, it's a select few that get to do that and just to, you know, be able
• 40:22
  to announce a pick for your favorite team.
• 40:24
  I mean, you know, that that that would be something I would definitely talk about
• 40:30
  forever.
• 40:31
  So You feel me?
• 40:32
  You feel me though?
• 40:33
  What an unbelievable experience.
• 40:35
  Oh,
• 40:36
  man.
• 40:36
  Million thing.
• 40:37
  You feel me?
• 40:38
  Like, Bubba, you made up a good great point.
• 40:40
  A lot of people can get on the field at an NFL game.
• 40:44
  You know, I've done it.
• 40:45
  But I don't think I'll ever be able to say that I've announced a draft pick.
• 40:50
  That's that is what, like, Everest
• 40:53
  right there.
• 40:54
  Well, the thing is too is, you know, to be able to announce it, but just to be on the stage, a
• 41:00
  part of it, I mean, we've seen groups go up there and, you know, maybe that's something
• 41:04
  that, you know, when the draft comes here that maybe mister Bubba there with the, you know,
• 41:09
  mind behind everything just to do, and we all could be a part of that experience.
• 41:14
  I
• 41:15
  mean Hey.
• 41:15
  You know I'm
• 41:16
  working every angle, man.
• 41:17
  We're trying to get out there and more.
• 41:19
  I'm doing whatever I can to get more Hey.
• 41:21
  With the organization, brother.
• 41:23
  And I
• 41:24
  am I am doing my doing my darndest to make sure that it's happening because I know that we we
• 41:31
  have something special here.
• 41:32
  And all we all we need to do is to get that introduction, just meet the right people that
• 41:37
  can open those doors for us.
• 41:39
  You know, our relationship with Marcus and and and just that whole VWO crew, the the the
• 41:47
  organization knows who they are.
• 41:48
  Right?
• 41:49
  Like, they know people inside of there.
• 41:51
  So it it definitely helps to to have those relationships and to continue fostering them.
• 41:56
  And I think for us, especially with our veteran connections and being you know, having pillars
• 42:01
  of valor as a part of what we do and, obviously, operation combating veteran suicide,
• 42:06
  They're watching those things.
• 42:07
  They they don't wanna work with just anyone that's out there.
• 42:10
  They wanna work with people that are doing things and doing big things in the community as
• 42:14
  well.
• 42:15
  So we're just trying to do our part and and to put ourselves on their radar and, for the right
• 42:20
  reasons.
• 42:21
  Right?
• 42:21
  Right.
• 42:22
  Not not because pods are streaking across US Bank Stadium.
• 42:28
  And only and only a skunk speedo.
• 42:30
  Right.
• 42:31
  Right.
• 42:31
  Oh, skunk speedo.
• 42:33
  Do not give Aubrey any ideas.
• 42:38
  Why would why would I give her ideas?
• 42:40
  I I guess we need to figure out this here.
• 42:42
  Aubrey's Aubrey's one of the co owners of Skunk.
• 42:45
  That's like
• 42:46
  Oh, okay.
• 42:46
  Gotcha.
• 42:47
  Gotcha.
• 42:47
  Gotcha.
• 42:48
  Okay.
• 42:50
  In respects to the interview though, like, you know how he was trying to articulate how big of
• 42:57
  an honor or, like, how big of a thing for the fandom it is to be able to announce a pick, it
• 43:02
  would pretty much be the same thing as if whatever your Premier League team like, me, I'm
• 43:08
  a Liverpool fan.
• 43:09
  Right?
• 43:10
  So for me, it'd be like me getting to announce, oh, we just got Christian Polasek or some crazy
• 43:17
  transfer, and I get to do that on, like, Sky News or something and announce that, that would
• 43:23
  be in insane.
• 43:25
  You you get to, like, be like, oh, and either way, we are transferring you know, we're
• 43:32
  getting transfer fees ready, and we're gonna bring in Holosec.
• 43:35
  And it's like that'd be, like, the equivalent in The UK of bringing in a number one draft
• 43:42
  pick or a number one free agent site.
• 43:46
  Yeah.
• 43:46
  So
• 43:48
  pretty pretty incredible stuff.
• 43:50
  And just, grateful.
• 43:51
  Grateful that, you know, when I reach out now, people answer, and and it and it feels good to
• 43:57
  know that we are becoming a home for the fans and for Vikings fans to come and and spend some
• 44:04
  time and really NFL fans.
• 44:06
  Right?
• 44:06
  We've had other, teams fans on and stuff too.
• 44:09
  And, really, we just like we like talking ball, and that's what it's about.
• 44:13
  It's about the camaraderie that the NFL brings to all of us.
• 44:17
  And, you know, when the season gets going, the blood boils a little bit hotter.
• 44:24
  But especially in the off season, you know, everybody's zero and zero.
• 44:27
  Right?
• 44:28
  Everybody's undefeated, so it's a lot of fun to just
• 44:32
  talk The biggest stories you got is mini camp and stuff.
• 44:36
  Right.
• 44:36
  Right.
• 44:37
  And that's why we probably won't be on very long tonight at all because what what are we
• 44:41
  gonna talk about?
• 44:42
  Right?
• 44:43
  There's not much there.
• 44:44
  It was nice to have as far as
• 44:46
  serpentine Dunbar, Dunbar, Dunbar, Dunbar,
• 44:57
  but Diggs needs to keep little Dunbar, Dunbar, Diggs in his pants.
• 45:00
  That's true too.
• 45:02
  That's true too.
• 45:03
  Alright?
• 45:04
  And I I would I just wanna say something real quick.
• 45:06
  Bubba, I'm gonna use one of my favorite metaphors for you.
• 45:09
  Alright?
• 45:11
  You built it, and now the opportunities are coming.
• 45:15
  Yep.
• 45:16
  Facts.
• 45:17
  Yep.
• 45:18
  I I appreciate it.
• 45:20
  And hey.
• 45:21
  All they got all the Vikings gotta do is check out my resume, and then I'll probably help us
• 45:27
  get on that draft stage.
• 45:28
  You feel me?
• 45:31
  I just won't get out
• 45:32
  of your resume and be like, alright.
• 45:34
  Defensive backs coach now.
• 45:37
  Thank you.
• 45:37
  Yep.
• 45:38
  Get him in there.
• 45:40
  Get him in there.
• 45:41
  It's, pretty I feel now
• 45:43
  I feel awkward having this one.
• 45:45
  I gotta put my He's gonna go get this strong one.
• 45:47
  I was wondering how long you're gonna take out the Switch hats there.
• 45:50
  I'm so
• 45:51
  jealous that you two got the Vice hat, man.
• 45:53
  I really
• 45:54
  I'm I'm I'm not a fan.
• 45:56
  I like the pants.
• 45:57
  Go buy a vice hat.
• 45:59
  Oh.
• 45:59
  The vice pretty sick.
• 46:01
  The vice are pretty sick.
• 46:02
  We're gonna look good, man.
• 46:03
  We gotta get pods out for the skunk classic since Bee's gonna have to, you know, be at work
• 46:08
  and and make sure that they don't sink the island.
• 46:12
  Me and
• 46:12
  Bee are twinning.
• 46:13
  No.
• 46:15
  And then you and Coach are twinning.
• 46:17
  You got it.
• 46:18
  Yep.
• 46:18
  We coordinated this.
• 46:20
  Right.
• 46:20
  Right.
• 46:21
  Absolutely coordinated this.
• 46:23
  I think I already showed it off, but do you mind if I show it off one more time for the
• 46:26
  viewers?
• 46:27
  Go ahead.
• 46:27
  Sure.
• 46:28
  Alright.
• 46:29
  So just again, Skunk does more hats.
• 46:32
  They also have some polos, but I'm gonna show off my favorite bit.
• 46:36
  This is the black polyester pullover, and then it's got the hood, and then you've got the
• 46:42
  Skunk logo on here.
• 46:44
  Yeah.
• 46:44
  Step forward or step so they can see the whole logo.
• 46:47
  You did get the gray pullover.
• 46:48
  Nice, b.
• 46:49
  Those are nice.
• 46:50
  Yeah.
• 46:52
  I mean
• 46:53
  I got the black, dude, and it was cold today, so it came in clutch.
• 46:57
  Yo.
• 46:57
  I got I got the I got the vice hat and then the polo to match.
• 47:03
  That's dope.
• 47:04
  And then I got the black one with the gray skunk and then a polo to match that one.
• 47:10
  So they really like, they set us up.
• 47:12
  They actually set us up.
• 47:14
  I'm I'm grateful for that.
• 47:16
  Yeah.
• 47:16
  Now if I could just get on the damn golf course, it was 39 degrees when I got up this
• 47:20
  morning.
• 47:21
  You know what I'm gonna do, though?
• 47:23
  I'm gonna get a, I'm gonna get a driver head cover that's a skunk, and then I'm gonna get a,
• 47:31
  a five wood cover that's a fox for my channel.
• 47:35
  So I'll have the skunk,
• 47:36
  and then I'll have the fox.
• 47:38
  Nice.
• 47:39
  Yeah.
• 47:40
  No.
• 47:40
  I'll be, big beef If you, want just let me know when you're free.
• 47:44
  Well, no.
• 47:45
  I I got no when you're free.
• 47:47
  Hey.
• 47:47
  Because you're the guy that has 20 different things going on in a twenty four hour day.
• 47:51
  They went from
• 47:52
  same two days off for twenty years.
• 47:56
  I'm off I'm off I'm off Thursdays, you know, or I could do it early afternoon when I'm off
• 48:03
  typically at three.
• 48:04
  So
• 48:06
  Bad.
• 48:06
  Bad.
• 48:06
  And
• 48:07
  I called coach today.
• 48:08
  He picked up the phone on, like, the second ring.
• 48:11
  He he must have been waiting for a call.
• 48:13
  Don't ask for something.
• 48:14
  I mean No.
• 48:15
  I I dropped one of my jobs.
• 48:18
  No.
• 48:21
  No.
• 48:21
  I I got a little bit more freedom now.
• 48:23
  A little bit more freedom.
• 48:24
  I was able to drop one of my jobs.
• 48:26
  I'm actually moving.
• 48:27
  Big deal, I'll let you know.
• 48:28
  Very close.
• 48:29
  So
• 48:30
  Okay.
• 48:31
  But, yeah, it's a lot of big things going on lately.
• 48:35
  A lot of big things.
• 48:36
  Big changes.
• 48:38
  It's in the air because there's there's a lot of big changes coming here at the sports
• 48:42
  network, especially it is growing and and a lot more teams to cover.
• 48:48
  I got ten days or so.
• 48:51
  I'll be visiting with the Sioux Falls Canaries talking about some coverage of their team, you
• 48:56
  know, there.
• 48:57
  Baseball?
• 48:58
  And, yeah, a a lot more a lot more on the horizon.
• 49:01
  We talked a little bit about BoomBall on seven eight nine this week and some possibilities
• 49:06
  there.
• 49:07
  Always kinda looking for other opportunities.
• 49:10
  Right?
• 49:10
  You you gotta knock on all those doors, and once we find them, we're good to go.
• 49:15
  Well, there's an opportunity in a couple weeks where that guy's gonna be doing a trial.
• 49:20
  So I hope to be there, we'll try to get some, interviews going and stuff like that.
• 49:26
  So Yeah.
• 49:27
  Would be fun.
• 49:28
  May 23.
• 49:30
  May 23, 5PM to seven.
• 49:32
  I gotta ask coach something.
• 49:33
  What's up?
• 49:35
  Coach, given how Flores is I in my opinion, outside of Steve Spagnola and I know I'm a
• 49:42
  Chiefs fan, but just given his record, everything he's done with the New York Giants
• 49:45
  and with the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 49:47
  When I look at Flores, though, and what he was able to accomplish in Miami and what he was
• 49:51
  able to do with that defense in Pittsburgh and absolutely what he's done with Minnesota, what
• 49:58
  do they need to do to get a serious offense to help him out?
• 50:02
  Because I feel like the possessions that Flores' defense have be that give the offense
• 50:08
  the extra opportunity to score has just not been capitalized on.
• 50:12
  Yeah.
• 50:12
  It's sickening.
• 50:13
  It's absolutely it's
• 50:14
  the future.
• 50:16
  I well, I it's we got a a k o c k o c.
• 50:21
  We've talked about it on our, Minnesota Vikings pregame show, but just run the ball.
• 50:27
  You know?
• 50:28
  Just run the ball.
• 50:29
  You didn't have to throw thirty, forty times with Brosemer and put him out to slaughter.
• 50:35
  You know what I'm saying?
• 50:36
  You don't have to do that with JJ.
• 50:39
  Our offensive line needed help.
• 50:40
  We did we addressed the situation.
• 50:42
  So JJ is not ready.
• 50:45
  JJ needs to sit behind somebody.
• 50:47
  Well, I mean
• 50:48
  Well, he's got Kyler this year.
• 50:49
  He could
• 50:50
  sit he could sit behind him and still be taller.
• 50:53
  You you wanna know something that's gonna sound, like, really offensive to Kyler Murray,
• 50:59
  but I'm gonna say it because I believe it.
• 51:01
  I've been watching Kyler Murray since he was in Oklahoma and he won that Heisman.
• 51:04
  That system won him a Heisman.
• 51:08
  Yeah.
• 51:09
  He's a phenomenal athlete, but he's not a good quarterback.
• 51:15
  Well and that and that's the thing I've been saying too.
• 51:17
  It's like, k.
• 51:18
  Yeah.
• 51:19
  Kyle's got the experience.
• 51:20
  Kyle could probably do a little bit more than JJ could do, but, again, can our offensive line
• 51:26
  help Kyler do that stuff?
• 51:28
  I mean, that's the whole that's where I'm stuck at is is our offensive line good enough to
• 51:33
  Yeah.
• 51:33
  Let Kyler do that.
• 51:34
  Offensive line could do that, though, B.
• 51:36
  I don't know if Kyler Murray can make those decisions in the pocket or outside of the
• 51:43
  pocket to get the ball downfield because I feel like Kyler just he throws in double coverage a
• 51:49
  lot.
• 51:50
  He throws into, you know, shadow safeties coming Like I
• 51:54
  I believe I believe this is the best receiving card he's had in his career.
• 51:59
  So you know?
• 52:00
  I don't know about that.
• 52:01
  He had, at one point, DeAndre Hopkins, Marquise Brown you know, Marquise Hopkins Brown in his
• 52:06
  prime.
• 52:08
  Possibly.
• 52:08
  Right?
• 52:09
  Zach Kurtz for a little bit?
• 52:11
  Yeah.
• 52:12
  Yeah.
• 52:12
  So maybe Okay.
• 52:13
  So So
• 52:14
  but but the thing is I think our office our office alone has to be productive for us to
• 52:19
  help the defense out, I think.
• 52:22
  So I'm gonna it's I think that, but, I just saw a YouTube short a couple days ago.
• 52:29
  It was Brock Purdy talking about, just the quarterback position and him and himself.
• 52:35
  He I think he said, like, 40% or 50% of the time, he actually can see the wide receiver
• 52:43
  because Yep.
• 52:44
  All of his linemen are six six, six seven.
• 52:46
  He's short too.
• 52:48
  So it's it's all timing.
• 52:50
  How many how many steps is your wide receiver gonna take or how many strides?
• 52:53
  Where is he gonna be?
• 52:55
  Do you, is there gonna be a linebacker sitting there that you gotta loop it over?
• 53:00
  You know what I'm saying?
• 53:01
  Like
• 53:02
  Yeah.
• 53:02
  And if homeboy is too busy
• 53:04
  playing video games bread.
• 53:05
  You
• 53:07
  know what I'm saying?
• 53:08
  If if he's too busy trying
• 53:10
  to play zombies or Call of Duty or something and not actually trying to play
• 53:14
  If you're gonna play some video games, at least be playing CFB or freaking Madden.
• 53:19
  Yeah.
• 53:19
  Something.
• 53:20
  Something.
• 53:22
  But,
• 53:23
  I just JJ McCarthy, he he like, if if Brock Purdy's saying something like that and he was
• 53:31
  able to make it to a Super Bowl, You know what I'm saying?
• 53:34
  Like, JJ, you gotta put in some work.
• 53:36
  You gotta put in some work.
• 53:38
  You gotta be able to anticipate and trust yourself.
• 53:41
  This
• 53:43
  is his first off season.
• 53:44
  Right?
• 53:45
  True.
• 53:45
  True.
• 53:46
  First healthy off season.
• 53:47
  Yep.
• 53:48
  So to say that Kyler is better than the quarterback that JJ McCarthy was last year, I
• 53:53
  think that's evident.
• 53:54
  Is he going to be better than the JJ McCarthy that shows up in camp this year with a year of
• 54:00
  experience under his belt with a healthy off season?
• 54:04
  And and and what I liked about the move, one, you got him cheap.
• 54:07
  Right?
• 54:08
  Right.
• 54:08
  You can't you can't fault them for the regardless of who the quarterback is, to to get
• 54:15
  a guy of that athletic profile for a million bucks.
• 54:19
  Right?
• 54:20
  Like, pretty incredible situation.
• 54:23
  Now Kyler comes here and signs because he believes that he has an opportunity to start.
• 54:27
  I think they're doing right by not announcing him as the starter, although everyone is
• 54:32
  assuming he will be.
• 54:33
  What I'm interested to see is even if he does start the year as the starter, how
• 54:37
  long is that?
• 54:38
  I mean, it is.
• 54:38
  What is JJ McCarthy gonna show us in camp?
• 54:41
  And then leading up to that, and what is he gonna show the coaching staff running the scout
• 54:45
  team in that QB two spot, which he never really got to do.
• 54:50
  Right?
• 54:51
  Because he was injured early on in that rookie season that he he didn't get to
• 54:56
  show that.
• 54:57
  Injured in a preseason game?
• 55:00
  Yeah.
• 55:01
  Yeah.
• 55:01
  That was, the first preseason game against Oakland?
• 55:05
  I think it was the first or second preseason game, his rookie, he got hurt.
• 55:09
  Okay.
• 55:10
  Here's my question, though, to you guys as far as JJ McCarthy goes.
• 55:15
  Yes.
• 55:15
  He has work to put in physically, but I also think mentality wise and maturity wise, he's
• 55:21
  got a lot of work to put in because I don't wanna and excuse my language, but I don't wanna
• 55:26
  see any more of this fucking nine shit.
• 55:29
  Like, get in there.
• 55:31
  Get in the playbook.
• 55:33
  And the only nine I should be seeing is your ass across the pylon or throwing dart.
• 55:40
  I Yes.
• 55:41
  You know, Paul, I'm with you.
• 55:42
  I don't I don't like the I don't like the whole nine thing.
• 55:48
  I mean, because you're a rookie.
• 55:49
  You haven't earned a big thing yet.
• 55:51
  Right now.
• 55:52
  Yeah.
• 55:53
  Just a kid from Michigan who won a national championship.
• 55:56
  Good for you.
• 55:57
  You go to a blue blood school that paid all that pays just as much as payroll.
• 56:02
  It's almost these NFL schools do to beat up on the little ones.
• 56:06
  Great.
• 56:06
  You are now with the competition.
• 56:10
  These guys will literally eat you because it is in their contracts and incentives to sack you
• 56:17
  as many times as possible.
• 56:19
  Yep.
• 56:20
  Past deflection.
• 56:21
  I I I I'm just I'm with you on that.
• 56:24
  I the I don't know that he ever backed down from any of that.
• 56:27
  You know?
• 56:28
  No.
• 56:28
  He's never done.
• 56:29
  No.
• 56:29
  He He
• 56:30
  did not got back in down.
• 56:31
  Were the errant throws, you know, the the sailed throws that are in there for whatever
• 56:38
  reason.
• 56:38
  Now I don't know I don't know how that happens because some of them were awful.
• 56:41
  Right?
• 56:42
  There there's no defending some of the ones that went
• 56:44
  I I think a lot of It's 20 lot of
• 56:47
  the pride
• 56:47
  to in
• 56:48
  JJ's head.
• 56:49
  No.
• 56:50
  And I think pride is on to something that, you know, it wasn't the fact that he wasn't making
• 56:55
  the throws.
• 56:56
  He was probably just anticipating too quick.
• 56:58
  I mean, there was times I was watching the game and, you know, I kept hearing that the
• 57:03
  quarterback the play up here is faster.
• 57:06
  It just seemed like you could see that with the way McCarthy acting.
• 57:09
  Like, he was anticipating something that did happen, and that's why he threw it quick.
• 57:14
  Later in the season, the bears no.
• 57:17
  Not the bears game.
• 57:20
  I'm trying to think of the
• 57:21
  game made him look stupid.
• 57:23
  No.
• 57:23
  There's another game later in the season where he just looked phenomenal, and everything he
• 57:27
  did is just like, okay.
• 57:28
  We got something here.
• 57:29
  Let him learn.
• 57:30
  That game in Lambo that you're talking about, Pods, they made KOC look stupid because that
• 57:36
  first half, they were running the ball, and then you did the tight end sneak tag.
• 57:40
  I remember that game vividly.
• 57:42
  KOC shit the bed.
• 57:44
  And then Gabe Gabe put the offensive line.
• 57:46
  Ryan Kelly got run over by it was horrible, man.
• 57:52
  It was so bad.
• 57:53
  Miles
• 57:53
  Garrett.
• 57:53
  Right?
• 57:54
  That's the that's the one that
• 57:55
  got the other Is this the lightest game I'm thinking of, like, this season where McCracken
• 57:59
  had a pretty good game, and he actually looked like he knew what he was doing?
• 58:03
  I think
• 58:03
  I don't know if I think it was just trying to keep our playoffs game of the year.
• 58:08
  To be perfectly honest, that Sunday night game in Dallas, he looked like an NFL quarterback.
• 58:13
  Maybe it was Dallas.
• 58:14
  Maybe it was Dallas I was thinking about.
• 58:15
  Where he had that stiff arm and he got out of off the line, got the guy's face.
• 58:19
  And
• 58:20
  That was the one where he brought it in on the QB the fame.
• 58:22
  Right?
• 58:23
  And he and he walked in on the the QB keeper and
• 58:26
  And and did the dirty
• 58:28
  I think physically, he has the tools.
• 58:30
  Like you said, Pods, it's some maturity in there.
• 58:32
  Don't know if he's on the same lane for Lee.
• 58:35
  On that game because he had a great game in Dallas.
• 58:38
  But we also have to realize that Dallas was the twenty ninth ranked defense last year.
• 58:42
  Yep.
• 58:43
  They were terrible.
• 58:44
  They tried to win their
• 58:46
  defense.
• 58:46
  Yeah.
• 58:47
  They bun ass.
• 58:48
  Yep.
• 58:49
  Yeah.
• 58:49
  They were boning.
• 58:50
  Everybody thought that Dallas is gonna go heavy defense early, you know, and maybe make some
• 58:56
  moves
• 58:56
  and stuff.
• 58:56
  Thing for me when it comes to Minnesota.
• 58:59
  Because, like, look, I have my AFC team.
• 59:01
  I love the Chiefs.
• 59:02
  I'm born and blood.
• 59:03
  You guys know this.
• 59:05
  But in the NFC, I've always watched the Vikings.
• 59:08
  Mhmm.
• 59:09
  Because, you know, I liked, you know, for a while, my favorite rivalry was to watch the
• 59:15
  Vikings and the Packers.
• 59:16
  Like, it got nasty with those two teams, and I loved it.
• 59:21
  Mhmm.
• 59:21
  You know?
• 59:22
  I don't see that grit from the offense.
• 59:25
  Like, I don't see that 2,009, you know, pushing people back, owning them on the line.
• 59:34
  Like, we have that defense now on the Vikings where we can succeed and give our offense more
• 59:40
  opportunities.
• 59:41
  Now we need to get some boys in there.
• 59:43
  We're gonna punish in the trenches.
• 59:45
  I'm hoping that the new back that came in can really pop off some explosive plays, whether
• 59:50
  that's pulling and pushing to edges and getting him around those edges, whether it's counters,
• 59:56
  half back draws, whatever it is.
• 59:59
  Last year last year was a lot of injuries along that offensive line, but I all I I ultimately
• 1:00:04
  think that it's an offensive philosophy that we hope is changing.
• 1:00:08
  I kinda mentioned off the top that there's been some coaching changes and things that you feel
• 1:00:12
  like are signaling a a return to a little bit tougher, you know, not necessarily full blown
• 1:00:20
  smash mouth black and blue division football, but to having a strong, you know, power running
• 1:00:26
  game
• 1:00:26
  to complement the difference that you have on the outside.
• 1:00:29
  Up the passing game.
• 1:00:30
  Mhmm.
• 1:00:31
  Like, even if it's just shallow crossers.
• 1:00:33
  I mean, if all you do is throw the ball here.
• 1:00:37
  I'm a I'm a do this comparison.
• 1:00:39
  And, coach, you'll see where I'm going with this.
• 1:00:41
  Mhmm.
• 1:00:41
  I feel like if you're gonna throw the ball 30 to 40 times, it's the equivalent of just
• 1:00:47
  jacking up 30 threes a game.
• 1:00:49
  Yeah.
• 1:00:50
  Yeah.
• 1:00:50
  NBA game.
• 1:00:52
  If you live by the play action and the deep pass and that's all you're doing, you're gonna
• 1:00:57
  get figured out by the end of the first quarter, and then you're not gonna get away
• 1:01:01
  with anything else even if you try bubble screens and all this.
• 1:01:04
  And what it tells me too is when you have to pass the ball that much, you are telling that
• 1:01:09
  DC, oh, they can't run the fucking ball.
• 1:01:11
  Send everyone.
• 1:01:12
  Yep.
• 1:01:14
  Like, how many times did JJ McCarthy get hit after the first quarter?
• 1:01:20
  I wanna know that stat.
• 1:01:22
  How bad was it after the first fifteen minutes?
• 1:01:25
  How many pressures?
• 1:01:26
  How many dropbacks did he You're lucky that he's built the way that he is, and he is as
• 1:01:32
  athletic as he is because last year could have gone worse.
• 1:01:36
  Look at Carson Wentz.
• 1:01:37
  Right?
• 1:01:38
  Like, Carson Wentz got completely destroyed.
• 1:01:41
  Abolished.
• 1:01:42
  Right.
• 1:01:42
  Yeah.
• 1:01:42
  Destroyed.
• 1:01:43
  So, you know, I I I think it's easy to blame the young quarterback and and to bail on a
• 1:01:49
  young man.
• 1:01:50
  I don't think the Vikings are totally out on him.
• 1:01:52
  I think if they were, you would have seen them just move him for moving him's sake around the
• 1:01:57
  draft this year.
• 1:01:59
  Think they wanna see what he can do.
• 1:02:02
  I think they wanna see him in training camp.
• 1:02:03
  What can you do in an off season, a healthy off season?
• 1:02:06
  Show us what you have in training camp.
• 1:02:08
  You know, they're not yes.
• 1:02:10
  They're kind of, you know, calling it a a competition a little bit out there.
• 1:02:13
  I don't know how many people believe that, but I think you're gonna see, what you have in the
• 1:02:20
  young man this year.
• 1:02:21
  If he comes out and training camp looks trash, then you have to start addressing your future
• 1:02:29
  at the quarterback position because I don't believe that Kyler is the answer long term
• 1:02:34
  Bubba.
• 1:02:34
  Either.
• 1:02:35
  I have to have to say this too.
• 1:02:38
  You have to start questioning the coach at this point too because isn't he supposed to be a
• 1:02:42
  quarterback whisperer?
• 1:02:43
  Hey.
• 1:02:43
  We've been doing this.
• 1:02:44
  Quarterbacks he's had has done nothing.
• 1:02:46
  No gas service on that.
• 1:02:48
  Don't think McConnell's not here because he would definitely go off on that.
• 1:02:53
  I'm not really confident in the Kyler Murray trade, but we got him for good trade signing.
• 1:02:59
  But we got him for good value.
• 1:03:01
  We got him for the vet minimum.
• 1:03:02
  And and it was it was more of an insurance policy because, I mean, McCarthy couldn't get
• 1:03:09
  the ball to eighteen.
• 1:03:10
  And if we heat if eighteen has another year like last year, we're not gonna have 18.
• 1:03:16
  Yeah.
• 1:03:17
  So I
• 1:03:18
  Also, inside of that, you don't have any other real weapons.
• 1:03:22
  Hockinson, a major down year.
• 1:03:25
  Addison, a major down year.
• 1:03:27
  Your other you know, your best target was Jalen Dues no longer with the team.
• 1:03:33
  Right?
• 1:03:33
  Speedy out there.
• 1:03:35
  You didn't get a chance to work with Jefferson in training camp because he was hurt or nursing
• 1:03:42
  a hamstring.
• 1:03:43
  Right?
• 1:03:43
  So and and it's really nice to hear that McCarthy and Jefferson have been getting
• 1:03:48
  together this off season.
• 1:03:49
  And even, you know, Jets, you know, alluded to it.
• 1:03:54
  Like, you gotta get used to seeing it come off his hand and expecting that ball and catching
• 1:03:59
  the ball off of someone.
• 1:04:00
  It's not always, yes, it it hits the game.
• 1:04:03
  It's it's throw and catch, but, you know, the the kids got some pop on it, and maybe it looks
• 1:04:09
  a little bit different.
• 1:04:10
  I I guarantee you it flies a lot different than a Kirk Cousins lollipop does.
• 1:04:16
  But let me tell you this too, dude.
• 1:04:18
  Like, I don't wanna see Justin Jefferson end up in a situation like he hopped in Texas where
• 1:04:25
  he's got a new quarterback every year.
• 1:04:29
  Yeah.
• 1:04:30
  I know.
• 1:04:30
  Like, can you imagine just for a second and this is all fantasy because in a perfect world,
• 1:04:37
  in a logical world, this would happen, but it won't.
• 1:04:40
  They need to sign Juwan Jennings, whatever it takes to get another slot guy.
• 1:04:44
  We need that guy in the slot to open up the underneath route.
• 1:04:47
  What I've been saying is that I like the Jennings because you bump Jennings outside and
• 1:04:54
  you run Addison.
• 1:04:55
  Then you have three guys that can you have three guys that you could mix and match.
• 1:04:59
  Right?
• 1:05:00
  You and everybody can be coming in and playing all three positions.
• 1:05:03
  And I think more of that is what you need, not having guys that are specifically into one
• 1:05:08
  role.
• 1:05:09
  You wanna be so versatile with those three receivers, especially if you're gonna play them
• 1:05:14
  all the time that you could be motioning them in and out and lining all three of them up kind
• 1:05:19
  of wherever, and you have the brains and the route running.
• 1:05:23
  I yeah.
• 1:05:24
  At least with Jefferson, I you know, Addison could probably do it, but let let
• 1:05:28
  Addison could definitely do
• 1:05:30
  guy and run it out there.
• 1:05:32
  And he just needs to catch the damn ball, man.
• 1:05:34
  I I I hope that his his immaturity is behind him at this point, and we can get a productive
• 1:05:40
  season out of him whether that's to let they did sign him to the fifth year option.
• 1:05:45
  I know that doesn't necessarily mean that he wouldn't This
• 1:05:47
  is a proven year.
• 1:05:48
  Candidate this season.
• 1:05:49
  That's a business move because it adds value to the contract that he's on.
• 1:05:54
  Uh-huh.
• 1:05:54
  Well and like Paz just said, you know, that fifth year option, this is a perfect year for
• 1:05:59
  him because, you know, if
• 1:06:01
  This is not a This isn't, oh, we still want you.
• 1:06:05
  This is
• 1:06:05
  Yeah.
• 1:06:06
  You, we still want you.
• 1:06:07
  Yeah.
• 1:06:07
  And if he puts up good numbers and people are almost like, well, do the Vikings really want
• 1:06:11
  him?
• 1:06:12
  Let's see what we can offer him.
• 1:06:13
  And, you know, so I mean, it's one of those things where, yeah, it's a proven year for him.
• 1:06:18
  I mean, on and off the field.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah.
• 1:06:20
  If he does if he does any more stupid shit, I mean, it's just gonna give us leverage.
• 1:06:26
  You know?
• 1:06:27
  Judd
• 1:06:27
  on on Purple Daily last week was like, you know, mister Addison, I think, just needs to
• 1:06:35
  stay home this summer.
• 1:06:37
  Like, just just stay at your house.
• 1:06:39
  Don't do anything stupid.
• 1:06:41
  You have an opportunity.
• 1:06:43
  You are still in the league, but you're getting to a point where teams just don't wanna take
• 1:06:48
  flyers on these guys that are problems.
• 1:06:49
  The talent that is coming out of the college ranks now, guys guys like that are getting to
• 1:06:55
  be a dime a dozen, and you got a really deep draft next year.
• 1:06:59
  Right?
• 1:06:59
  Well, and that's and that's another thing I've been saying too is add the Vikings and acid
• 1:07:04
  need to get him you know, I I hate to say that an adult needs a mentor, but he needs somebody
• 1:07:10
  like a Moss and a Carter to kind of be his wing guy or his, you know Moss.
• 1:07:17
  Moss.
• 1:07:17
  Carter?
• 1:07:18
  No.
• 1:07:19
  Carter made more bad decisions off the field than Moss ever did.
• 1:07:23
  Well, I don't know.
• 1:07:24
  But
• 1:07:24
  what you need, though, is someone who walked that walk to to come in and say, hey, man.
• 1:07:30
  Like, I've been there, done that.
• 1:07:32
  And once I pulled my head out of my ass, I became one of the most respected men in the
• 1:07:36
  league.
• 1:07:36
  Right.
• 1:07:37
  Check out my gold jacket.
• 1:07:39
  But
• 1:07:41
  I mean,
• 1:07:41
  I got to shake man's hand and say it.
• 1:07:43
  I mean, it was pretty incredible.
• 1:07:45
  I don't know, Pods, if I've told you about my experience at the PGA event I was at last year
• 1:07:50
  getting to interview Chris Carter and Ronda Barber, but pretty incredible, man.
• 1:07:55
  And sir Nick Faldo.
• 1:07:57
  Yeah.
• 1:07:57
  Pretty incredible.
• 1:07:58
  Set up.
• 1:08:01
  It it'll be, on a long list of screw ups of my life.
• 1:08:05
  Don't you worry, buddy.
• 1:08:06
  It won't be the last ones.
• 1:08:07
  Don't you worry, buddy.
• 1:08:09
  Coach, I got one more thing for you.
• 1:08:11
  Yes, sir.
• 1:08:11
  And for Bubba and Dee.
• 1:08:13
  Look.
• 1:08:14
  You wanna know the main reason I don't like the Kyler Murray signing?
• 1:08:17
  Let's hear it.
• 1:08:18
  I don't like it for JJ McCarthy because, look, I I think McCarthy is not the guy, but I want
• 1:08:24
  to see I would love to be proven wrong and him show me he is the guy.
• 1:08:29
  Uh-huh.
• 1:08:30
  But I don't think bringing in Kyler Murray is gonna give him that opportunity to be the guy
• 1:08:34
  because Kyler Murray is not a good quarterback.
• 1:08:37
  I'm sorry.
• 1:08:38
  He's just not.
• 1:08:40
  And I don't feel like he's the appropriate mentor with how he already approaches the game
• 1:08:46
  and is immature, and I definitely don't feel like he's a bridge quarterback that could sit
• 1:08:50
  there.
• 1:08:50
  Like, I know this is gonna sound crazy.
• 1:08:52
  I would have rather you guys brought back Kirk Cousins.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah.
• 1:08:56
  Todd, you you got a great
• 1:08:57
  way too much money.
• 1:08:59
  But do you feel like on that on that side, do you feel like that's why they were really
• 1:09:03
  adamant about getting Carson Wentz back on this team and in that QB room because you realize
• 1:09:09
  that Kyler
• 1:09:11
  Yeah.
• 1:09:11
  He was a major
• 1:09:12
  pressure point.
• 1:09:13
  Right?
• 1:09:13
  Kyler is an athletic profile that you could because, like, at no point last year was JJ
• 1:09:18
  McCarthy worried about Max Brosmer taking his job or Carson Wentz for that matter minus an
• 1:09:23
  injury.
• 1:09:24
  Right?
• 1:09:24
  And they literally trotted Carson out there until his arm fell off before they were forced
• 1:09:29
  to kind of either, you know, wait for JJ to get healthy or run Brosmer out.
• 1:09:33
  Yeah.
• 1:09:34
  So if I if I'm if I'm JJ, you know, and okay.
• 1:09:39
  Everybody's don't think I'm the guy.
• 1:09:41
  They bring in Kyler Murray.
• 1:09:43
  Okay.
• 1:09:43
  Now I just got demoted in my eyes because you brought in somebody that most likely will be
• 1:09:49
  named the starter game one of the preseason.
• 1:09:52
  Now I'm gonna take that motivation.
• 1:09:54
  I mean, that's what Kyle or that's what JJ has to do is take this as motivation that, okay.
• 1:10:00
  You're not coming in and taking my job that easy.
• 1:10:02
  I'm gonna put up the biggest fight that I can to keep my job, and I'm gonna make you number
• 1:10:07
  two, you know, unless it's an indie.
• 1:10:09
  I hope you're right.
• 1:10:10
  And I hope you're I hope I'm too.
• 1:10:11
  Being number two.
• 1:10:12
  Straight up, I mean, at that point, you know, does he have that dog in him?
• 1:10:17
  Like, if he really believes he's nine, let's see it pop out.
• 1:10:21
  Let's see you compete
• 1:10:22
  with the dog.
• 1:10:23
  To believe that he's the one.
• 1:10:24
  I mean, we don't need to believe he's nine.
• 1:10:26
  We do have to believe that he's the one.
• 1:10:29
  You know what?
• 1:10:29
  Do you know how many greats have worn nines?
• 1:10:33
  In my opinion, two.
• 1:10:36
  And they are tough to live up to.
• 1:10:38
  Coach, who's the first one?
• 1:10:39
  Baltimore, Tennessee.
• 1:10:42
  Steve McNair.
• 1:10:44
  Steve Aaron McNair.
• 1:10:46
  Oh my god.
• 1:10:47
  Yes.
• 1:10:48
  I had I had
• 1:10:48
  to think because I was thinking McNair and somebody else.
• 1:10:51
  You said when you said Baltimore,
• 1:10:53
  Tennessee is, like, off.
• 1:10:55
  What?
• 1:10:55
  In my opinion, the greatest player to wear the number nine and the greatest player to, like,
• 1:11:04
  ever sling the football that I've And seen do I love Mahomes, but I'm not even talking about
• 1:11:12
  accolades.
• 1:11:12
  Drew Brees was the best quarterback I've ever seen.
• 1:11:16
  Yeah.
• 1:11:17
  Man, could just
• 1:11:19
  he was he's the
• 1:11:20
  best arm talent I've ever seen when he played for the chargers and then what he did with the
• 1:11:24
  Saints.
• 1:11:25
  At five nine.
• 1:11:26
  The greatest player to wear nine.
• 1:11:28
  Yeah.
• 1:11:29
  I agree with that.
• 1:11:30
  You know, we're also talking about him playing with a a a elite offensive mind in Sean Payton.
• 1:11:39
  The way that they designed that offense to kind of push everything to the outside to open up
• 1:11:44
  that middle of the field so he could see.
• 1:11:46
  I don't know that KOC has that.
• 1:11:47
  I don't know that there's anything in the playbook No.
• 1:11:50
  That is KOC needs
• 1:11:52
  an offensive coordinator.
• 1:11:54
  Well, he has one.
• 1:11:56
  I don't I think you I think it's opposite.
• 1:11:58
  I think he needs an offensive coordinator.
• 1:12:01
  I think he is a good head coach.
• 1:12:03
  I think he has control of the room.
• 1:12:05
  He is a leader of men inside of that.
• 1:12:08
  We watch a lot of his pressers and a lot of his other things.
• 1:12:11
  Is he a little arrogant?
• 1:12:12
  Sure.
• 1:12:12
  Yes.
• 1:12:13
  I think he gets I think he's so arrogant he gets in his own way as a play caller because he
• 1:12:17
  wants to be the quarterback.
• 1:12:19
  That's what I've always kinda stated
• 1:12:20
  in You just kinda nailed it with the saints, you know, created an offensive brief since
• 1:12:26
  driving.
• 1:12:27
  That is something the Vikings need to do.
• 1:12:29
  They have to tailor their office around what the quarterback can do.
• 1:12:35
  I mean
• 1:12:36
  I mean, damn.
• 1:12:37
  Look at what he did for Bill Nix this year.
• 1:12:38
  And we and we still need to, you know, get all bets aligned.
• 1:12:42
  That's right.
• 1:12:43
  Yeah.
• 1:12:43
  So, I mean, that's the whole thing is, you know, the the coaches in general I mean, coach,
• 1:12:49
  you could you could say that if you got a guy that, you know, can't throw the ball deep,
• 1:12:54
  you're not gonna design a lot of deep balls.
• 1:12:56
  You're gonna
• 1:12:57
  Dink and dunk.
• 1:12:58
  Make them short.
• 1:12:58
  I mean, you're gonna run a little bit more and do it short.
• 1:13:01
  You know?
• 1:13:02
  So, I mean, that's something that the coaching has to do is they gotta build their team around
• 1:13:06
  the talent they have and not
• 1:13:08
  See, but that's where, KOC and, you know, him being so arrogant, you know, instead of trying
• 1:13:14
  to tailor it to the quarterback, he's like, no.
• 1:13:17
  You're gonna learn it this way, my way, and, know, it's not working.
• 1:13:22
  Simplify the playbook.
• 1:13:25
  So that that too because I don't know
• 1:13:27
  if there needs to be a simple play.
• 1:13:28
  He just has to he just has to build playbook to fit who's ever gonna be the quarterback.
• 1:13:33
  Do you guys remember talking about it, probably, like, week seven, week eight,
• 1:13:38
  something like that?
• 1:13:39
  But all the false start penalties that we had
• 1:13:42
  I was at that game.
• 1:13:43
  Or or the timeouts because we couldn't get the play call.
• 1:13:46
  It was atrocious, dude.
• 1:13:48
  No.
• 1:13:48
  But that was the first that was the first home game, wasn't it?
• 1:13:51
  I wasn't sure.
• 1:13:52
  Won that game.
• 1:13:53
  Wasn't that the first home game?
• 1:13:55
  Yes.
• 1:13:56
  No.
• 1:13:57
  No.
• 1:13:57
  It was They
• 1:13:57
  it was after a long stretch.
• 1:13:59
  It it was when they came home from the
• 1:14:01
  Europe trip.
• 1:14:02
  Mhmm.
• 1:14:03
  They
• 1:14:03
  had been gone for a while and came back.
• 1:14:05
  It was veteran appreciation.
• 1:14:07
  It was everything, man.
• 1:14:08
  I was I was there.
• 1:14:10
  It was so god awful to try and watch.
• 1:14:12
  Like, just couldn't get anything going.
• 1:14:14
  It was brutal.
• 1:14:14
  When you have issues like that and you're playing worse than a division two college team,
• 1:14:22
  you know you've dressed up the playbook too much.
• 1:14:24
  Like, if you have your offensive linemen jumping off sides or your tight ends on
• 1:14:29
  receivers jumping off sides like that, it's because the guys aren't around you.
• 1:14:34
  They're not they're not getting it.
• 1:14:36
  You need to simplify it for these kids.
• 1:14:38
  Yeah.
• 1:14:38
  And it was and it was everybody.
• 1:14:40
  It was Jay it was Jefferson too.
• 1:14:42
  No.
• 1:14:43
  Was jumping off sides.
• 1:14:44
  Yeah.
• 1:14:44
  It was it was weird.
• 1:14:45
  And I don't know that it was, you know, it was McCarthy playing, and I don't know that the
• 1:14:50
  cadence was that much different between what Carson had been doing.
• 1:14:53
  And then going back to me, that that probably shouldn't be an issue.
• 1:14:56
  You don't you definitely don't want it to be an issue.
• 1:14:59
  I know it can be, but they were at home.
• 1:15:01
  It's not like you were doing this on the road.
• 1:15:02
  You could hear a pin drop in that freaking stadium, man, and it was just like, what?
• 1:15:07
  That's embarrassing.
• 1:15:08
  Nine nine false start penalties.
• 1:15:10
  It was bananas.
• 1:15:12
  Was absolute bananas.
• 1:15:13
  Tough to watch.
• 1:15:14
  Backwards.
• 1:15:15
  Yeah.
• 1:15:15
  There was eight five eight false starts against the Ravens November yeah.
• 1:15:19
  In November, that game.
• 1:15:22
  Coach, Bubba, the there is one thing I need to know for the Vikings.
• 1:15:26
  And let's just be honest.
• 1:15:29
  Okay?
• 1:15:31
  Say we bring in Ja'Won Jennings this year.
• 1:15:35
  Do you start looking potentially if the season starts to go sideways because of court because
• 1:15:41
  I'm telling you, the only reason this season's gonna go sideways, if it does, is quarterback
• 1:15:46
  play.
• 1:15:47
  Yeah.
• 1:15:47
  And if you can run the ball, that's it.
• 1:15:49
  That's the only because there's nothing that Flores is going you know, Flores is gonna give
• 1:15:54
  you the opportunity to win.
• 1:15:55
  Like, if you get decent quarterback play from these guys, you can easily go eleven and six.
• 1:16:01
  Just decent.
• 1:16:03
  Middle of the road.
• 1:16:05
  We you we need to get that guy.
• 1:16:09
  So who is that guy?
• 1:16:10
  Who are some free agent quarterbacks coming up?
• 1:16:13
  Or who's the draft class next year is supposed to be deep.
• 1:16:16
  Who do you want?
• 1:16:17
  Who is the guy for this offense, though?
• 1:16:19
  Because that's the other thing I need to know is, like, who is the quarterback?
• 1:16:24
  Like, what quarterback do you want?
• 1:16:26
  You have a pocket passer.
• 1:16:28
  You have an uber athletic guy.
• 1:16:30
  Who do you want, and who does that playbook for?
• 1:16:33
  I'll deflate this to Bubba and Big B because I'm not even gonna look for this year.
• 1:16:41
  Yeah.
• 1:16:41
  I mean, you gotta look at this year.
• 1:16:44
  Now if it does go sideways and we can't get the quarterback play, I honestly I hate to say it
• 1:16:51
  because we need assets, but maybe you'd start looking at because JJ is not gonna Jefferson's
• 1:16:56
  not going to wanna go through another year if it happens to get this year.
• 1:17:00
  Like, if this season goes bad, Jay will.
• 1:17:04
  Well, yeah.
• 1:17:05
  So then do you, you know, throw your chips in the hat and do a Mike Dicker, and you move up
• 1:17:13
  to get Manny and have him be your franchise to kind of burn it down?
• 1:17:17
  I don't I don't I'm not full on it, but
• 1:17:21
  And then you're back to square one with the rookie quarterback.
• 1:17:24
  Well, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:17:25
  Yo.
• 1:17:25
  Your best case scenario right now is that you see a massive jump from JJ McCarthy, and he is
• 1:17:32
  your quarterback of the future.
• 1:17:33
  Like, that is best case scenario.
• 1:17:35
  I think the Vikings, if you go in the draft, you try to get Dante Moore.
• 1:17:40
  But Yeah.
• 1:17:43
  Mean, I mean, I'm I'm a coach, so we can't look past this year.
• 1:17:46
  We have to look at what we got this year.
• 1:17:48
  Right.
• 1:17:48
  Well, in any
• 1:17:49
  of these But maybe we start talking about that
• 1:17:51
  In college.
• 1:17:52
  You know, mid season or something if it does go sideways.
• 1:17:55
  Is there any veteran quarterbacks right now who were, like, on one year deals, two year deals
• 1:18:01
  that you could potentially bring in this season?
• 1:18:05
  How many do they think something about that Okay.
• 1:18:08
  Okay.
• 1:18:08
  How that would even be in that conversation.
• 1:18:11
  Right?
• 1:18:11
  That you
• 1:18:12
  Well, let's see here.
• 1:18:12
  That are
• 1:18:13
  no doubt want to, one, leave their team and, two, are are poised to make this team better.
• 1:18:22
  Damn would it be good if you found another Sam Darnold.
• 1:18:27
  Yeah.
• 1:18:27
  I don't listen.
• 1:18:28
  I was like a sturdy bear.
• 1:18:29
  The Sam Darnold conversation to me is a moot point.
• 1:18:33
  If you were to run the damn ball against the Rams, you'd probably win that game.
• 1:18:37
  Run the ball, which once again brings us back to the coach, and we we kinda beat that dead
• 1:18:43
  dead horse even when they were winning five in a row at the end of the year be mostly because
• 1:18:49
  you got to running the ball, controlling the clock, going out there.
• 1:18:53
  What was that one drive they had that was, like, eleven minutes or something, right, at
• 1:18:56
  the end of the year?
• 1:18:57
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:18:57
  Eleven minutes and 87 yards.
• 1:19:00
  That was legit.
• 1:19:02
  Like I feel like know that KOC is on the sideline just, like, with puke.
• 1:19:07
  He's got as he's calling, run, run.
• 1:19:10
  So right now, looking at the current free agent crop, you got Rogers, Wilson, Cooper Rush,
• 1:19:20
  Jimmy g, Teddy Bridgewater, Brett Ripken, and three guys I don't even know.
• 1:19:26
  Oh my god.
• 1:19:27
  No more than
• 1:19:28
  next year's free agent class.
• 1:19:30
  No.
• 1:19:31
  That's that's right now.
• 1:19:33
  What about next year?
• 1:19:34
  Let's see here, dude.
• 1:19:37
  If you look at
• 1:19:37
  it this year, you gotta look at year's because these are also potential people who could be
• 1:19:41
  traded.
• 1:19:42
  You know who I think
• 1:19:43
  would be the perfect quarterback for
• 1:19:44
  the Vikings offense, but you're never
• 1:19:47
  gonna get him because he's on under contract?
• 1:19:49
  I think Baker Mayfield would thrive in this offense.
• 1:19:52
  I yeah.
• 1:19:53
  Well, Baker Baker is gonna retire a a buck.
• 1:19:56
  He's not gonna to him.
• 1:19:57
  Right.
• 1:19:57
  But speaking of it, so next year, right now available, Kyler Murray, Deshaun Watson,
• 1:20:04
  Stafford, Baker Mayfield, Justin Fields, Anthony Richardson, David Mills, Marcus
• 1:20:12
  Mariota.
• 1:20:15
  Let's see.
• 1:20:16
  Anybody else?
• 1:20:17
  Mac Jones is out there for next year.
• 1:20:19
  Mac Jones?
• 1:20:20
  You gotta imagine Mac Jones is gonna get a deal.
• 1:20:24
  He didn't get
• 1:20:25
  he didn't end up getting traded then.
• 1:20:27
  Right?
• 1:20:27
  No.
• 1:20:28
  Yeah.
• 1:20:28
  He's he'll be 28 next year.
• 1:20:31
  Right.
• 1:20:31
  Somebody's gonna lose their quarterback early season.
• 1:20:34
  Mac Jones probably gets traded early season and gets an extension.
• 1:20:39
  The Matthew Stafford one
• 1:20:40
  Matt Stafford.
• 1:20:41
  It would intrigue me because there's history between him and KOC.
• 1:20:46
  Mhmm.
• 1:20:46
  If it
• 1:20:46
  totally includes even if it doesn't Eight forty?
• 1:20:49
  See them spending money
• 1:20:50
  How old was here.
• 1:20:52
  He just won MVP at 39.
• 1:20:54
  Well, no.
• 1:20:55
  No.
• 1:20:55
  And I get that.
• 1:20:56
  Eighteen years of the league at 40.
• 1:21:00
  How old was Favre when we got him?
• 1:21:02
  40.
• 1:21:03
  He was at
• 1:21:03
  40.
• 1:21:04
  Yeah.
• 1:21:04
  I I get it, coach.
• 1:21:06
  I I mean but, again, look at but but, again, look at Favre but look at Favre coming in.
• 1:21:11
  Look at who our offensive line was and how good he was.
• 1:21:15
  I mean
• 1:21:15
  That's true too.
• 1:21:16
  So so, mean, again, we're going back to the offensive line play.
• 1:21:20
  My personal choice in the Stafford, but that's the one that's like there's enough smoke there
• 1:21:27
  and there's enough history between them to consider that as, like, your target if you're
• 1:21:33
  looking down that road.
• 1:21:35
  It because, ultimately, this coaching staff is only signed through the 2028 season.
• 1:21:44
  Right?
• 1:21:45
  They got matching deals to get them through to where everything expires together.
• 1:21:49
  So, you know, they're looking at it.
• 1:21:51
  And if things don't go and you have another season where it's double digit and you have an
• 1:21:56
  early exit and everybody's like, well, Kyler didn't quite live up to it, and JJ's not the
• 1:22:03
  guy.
• 1:22:03
  And you're willing if you're willing to give KOC one more shot, to me, that's the move.
• 1:22:09
  It is probably Stafford to the guy has all the things because you still have all
• 1:22:14
  the weapons.
• 1:22:15
  Right?
• 1:22:15
  Like I said, though, best case scenario for this Vikings team is that JJ proves he's the
• 1:22:21
  guy this year, shows you enough.
• 1:22:23
  You go out, maybe win a playoff game this year.
• 1:22:26
  You know, you don't make it all the way to the NFC championship game possibly.
• 1:22:29
  But winning a playoff game, even if it's in the wild card weekend and having something to hang
• 1:22:35
  your hat on, to me, that that's your best case scenario.
• 1:22:38
  And that's not your best scenario is Kyler goes out there, loses the first four games, KOC gets
• 1:22:45
  fucking fired.
• 1:22:47
  Four and I don't know if I wanna I don't even know if I
• 1:22:49
  want Stafford to go through that.
• 1:22:52
  It's especially if we don't have a good offensive line because what they did to Carson
• 1:22:59
  Wentz, someone in that organization needs to catch charge.
• 1:23:03
  What they would do to
• 1:23:04
  because that was brutal.
• 1:23:05
  Like it would look like Aaron Rodgers week one with the Jets.
• 1:23:08
  Well, and and the thing is too is, you know, if we do have a season that goes sideways, we
• 1:23:14
  gotta convince Jefferson to stay.
• 1:23:17
  And that one of
• 1:23:18
  those long term deal, though.
• 1:23:20
  It's not
• 1:23:20
  like his deal is up next year.
• 1:23:22
  He can No.
• 1:23:22
  No.
• 1:23:23
  But but again, you know, he starts he starts, you know, wanting out.
• 1:23:28
  I mean, you know, how about how productive is he gonna be?
• 1:23:31
  If Jefferson wants out, you're getting a first round pick for that man.
• 1:23:35
  Well, yeah.
• 1:23:36
  Yeah.
• 1:23:36
  We definitely are.
• 1:23:37
  If he wants out, then you're going, okay.
• 1:23:40
  Well, we're trying to get as far up in the first round as we can.
• 1:23:42
  You go get yourself a running Williams then.
• 1:23:45
  I
• 1:23:47
  don't know if that's necessarily true, Barber.
• 1:23:49
  I think if he makes
• 1:23:50
  the playoff and loses again, his job's safe.
• 1:23:53
  I think if they stumble out the gate, that he's more likely to lose his job.
• 1:23:57
  I don't think Here's what I gotta say.
• 1:23:59
  Well, I think if they make the playoffs and he loses first game, if it's a good competitive
• 1:24:04
  game, he doesn't get fired.
• 1:24:05
  But if it's a blowout, then you might be talking.
• 1:24:09
  I don't think the Wills would do it.
• 1:24:11
  I think it has to be bad early.
• 1:24:13
  Otherwise, he's
• 1:24:14
  I I I'm with you, Bubba.
• 1:24:15
  I think it has to be bad early for him, Bubba.
• 1:24:17
  Coach,
• 1:24:19
  b, I think if you want Jefferson to stay and I know you guys say he's gonna retire as a buck.
• 1:24:25
  I but if you offer the bag and you offer enough to him, I think if you go out there and get
• 1:24:31
  Baker, that would really probably make Jefferson happy, Addison happy.
• 1:24:36
  Any receiver really coming into the league or potential people looking to sign, that would
• 1:24:42
  make people extremely happy.
• 1:24:44
  Like, hey.
• 1:24:45
  You're our guy.
• 1:24:46
  Like, we want you look at our receivers.
• 1:24:48
  Would you rather be he just lost Mike Evans.
• 1:24:51
  No.
• 1:24:52
  What what would you consider the bag?
• 1:24:54
  Whoever for Baker with how he's turned his career around and what I think he's done on a
• 1:24:59
  mediocre bucks team that's done its best to not put talent around him, I would be willing to
• 1:25:06
  offer Baker four years, 250,000,000.
• 1:25:12
  Holy shit, dude.
• 1:25:14
  Damn.
• 1:25:15
  Oh.
• 1:25:16
  $60
• 1:25:17
  a year?
• 1:25:19
  Yeah.
• 1:25:19
  That's banan no.
• 1:25:21
  I'm not giving Baker Mayfield
• 1:25:22
  I'm not I I wouldn't even trade a third round pick for him.
• 1:25:27
  Alright.
• 1:25:27
  That's realistic.
• 1:25:28
  And that's if you that's the guarantee.
• 1:25:30
  That's like we're playing Madden, not smack flares.
• 1:25:32
  It's a realistic deal for Baker.
• 1:25:34
  Than Mahomes' deal.
• 1:25:35
  Mahomes is only getting 50.
• 1:25:37
  So
• 1:25:38
  right now, it's projected that when Baker comes a free agent next year, if he if he is, 33.3.
• 1:25:47
  That's what they're projecting, his average to be.
• 1:25:51
  Give him four years a 135,000,000.
• 1:25:56
  At at a 40
• 1:25:57
  That would be lower
• 1:25:58
  than 32?
• 1:25:59
  Yeah.
• 1:26:00
  That would be around that value.
• 1:26:02
  I don't know that I don't know that they have that money.
• 1:26:04
  I don't know what the cap projected out that far.
• 1:26:06
  I don't because there's a lot of money tied
• 1:26:08
  up to Jefferson.
• 1:26:09
  Gets bigger every year or something.
• 1:26:10
  Middle.
• 1:26:11
  Yeah.
• 1:26:11
  Down the road that it makes it tough.
• 1:26:14
  Like I said, best case scenario for the Vikings is still JJ is your guy even if he's behind
• 1:26:22
  Kyler for this entire season, that he's able to show you something behind the scenes, and
• 1:26:27
  you're trotting out a 23 year old quarterback in 2027 that has some experience under his
• 1:26:34
  belt.
• 1:26:34
  He also has that time that learning time back there Yeah.
• 1:26:39
  To show
• 1:26:40
  I'm convinced he's gonna be a benchwarmer, though, for the rest of his career.
• 1:26:43
  Well, I did that may be true as well.
• 1:26:45
  I did I think he's too athletically talented to
• 1:26:48
  to end up having record breaker for Mac Jones.
• 1:26:52
  So what was everybody's thought when, you know, Brock Purdy, mister irrelevant, got the call?
• 1:26:59
  Everybody didn't think he was gonna do good.
• 1:27:01
  You know, I mean, granted he's had a lot of weapons and a lot of office you know, good
• 1:27:05
  offensive line.
• 1:27:06
  But
• 1:27:06
  People who thought Brock wasn't gonna do good never watched him at Iowa State.
• 1:27:10
  Well, then why did he go last pick of the draft that year?
• 1:27:14
  I mean
• 1:27:14
  Because outside of, like, four or five teams in the NFL, the other 28 teams
• 1:27:22
  Already had a quarterback.
• 1:27:23
  Don't know how to draft quarterback.
• 1:27:25
  Maybe.
• 1:27:26
  But no.
• 1:27:27
  I I I mean, you know, McCarthy definitely has to prove it to the foundation himself that he's
• 1:27:34
  the guy.
• 1:27:35
  So this is you know, just like we're talking about KLC, this is making a breaker for
• 1:27:40
  McCarthy too.
• 1:27:41
  Mean Well, I feel like he won't have as as many distractions.
• 1:27:45
  I mean, right away at the beginning of the season.
• 1:27:47
  He got married and a kid.
• 1:27:48
  He got married, had the kid come in
• 1:27:51
  and Yeah.
• 1:27:51
  They just got married recently.
• 1:27:54
  So had the baby first and then just got prince.
• 1:27:56
  Yeah.
• 1:27:56
  And then married a different man.
• 1:27:59
  Yeah.
• 1:27:59
  I don't know.
• 1:28:00
  Maybe divorce him, take the kid, and have him kind of, like, look at Donchins.
• 1:28:04
  Wow.
• 1:28:05
  Damn.
• 1:28:07
  That's diabolical.
• 1:28:08
  Man.
• 1:28:09
  She's been with him through all of
• 1:28:14
  I'm sorry.
• 1:28:14
  That was too soon.
• 1:28:15
  But, hey,
• 1:28:16
  you can't deny after the things happened with Luca.
• 1:28:19
  I ain't worried about it.
• 1:28:20
  I'm trying not to hear
• 1:28:21
  you pretty good, man.
• 1:28:22
  Right.
• 1:28:23
  Right.
• 1:28:23
  Right.
• 1:28:24
  We've been on here for ninety minutes.
• 1:28:26
  It is my birthday tomorrow, so I I wanna thank you all for the gifts that are on their way.
• 1:28:32
  It's funny that I made sure you guys got gifts today.
• 1:28:35
  My cat just knocked my camera out.
• 1:28:37
  That's why
• 1:28:37
  I went to do that.
• 1:28:39
  She
• 1:28:40
  Hey, man.
• 1:28:41
  We enjoyed our gifts.
• 1:28:42
  Cool.
• 1:28:43
  Cozy, your vice had a stick.
• 1:28:45
  Me and Bea are twinning.
• 1:28:48
  Last thing I wanna say in regards to just football in general, this is as you guys know,
• 1:28:53
  I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan.
• 1:28:54
  Right?
• 1:28:54
  So I just wanted to say that I'm really excited to see how Ernest Johnson plays.
• 1:29:01
  Like, that's like, the back out of Nebraska.
• 1:29:05
  Like, I I I wanna see this.
• 1:29:07
  Yeah.
• 1:29:08
  No.
• 1:29:08
  I'm I want I'm excited for every every rookie, honestly.
• 1:29:13
  Every player, you know, whether they're coming off an injury or a good year.
• 1:29:18
  Hey.
• 1:29:18
  That's okay, Barbara.
• 1:29:19
  Coach Yo.
• 1:29:20
  It is.
• 1:29:21
  Yo.
• 1:29:22
  Gotta go.
• 1:29:22
  Yep.
• 1:29:23
  Same
• 1:29:23
  here.
• 1:29:23
  Hanging out with guys.
• 1:29:25
  No problem.
• 1:29:26
  Have a great birthday.
• 1:29:28
  Coach, good luck with the cavalry.
• 1:29:31
  Be go get some swings in.
• 1:29:33
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:29:34
  Definitely.
• 1:29:35
  Let's get it.
• 1:29:36
  Happy birthday, Bubba.
• 1:29:37
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