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Vikings United : Draft Insights, NFC North Analysis, and Minnesota Sports Playoff Updates · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  You are here tonight for Vikings United like we do every Tuesday.
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  This is the post draft special.
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  I'm joined as always by my guy, Big B.
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  What's shaking, B?
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  You know, everything's good.
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  Got to a baseball game yesterday.
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  Know this is a football show.
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  Can't wait to talk about everybody's opinions on the draft.
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  I know we kinda talk backstage quick.
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  I mean, we'll we'll we'll straighten it out.
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  We'll all be on the same page.
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  You know?
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  But, yeah, it was a fun three days of the draft.
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  I can't wait to hear what everybody has to say.
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  Hey.
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  Shout out real quick to the producer of the year, our guy Prince DiNero, Prince Walker.
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  That's one banging track, and we're glad that we can play it on Vikings United every single
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  Tuesday.
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  Let's bring in the coach.
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  Coach Cody, what's happening, brother?
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  What's going on, man?
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  How are we feeling, fellas?
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  Wrong sport, homie.
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  Just kidding.
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  Hey.
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  Hey.
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  Shout out to the wolves.
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  Wild rain well, wolves at wild.
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  I think wild right now, they're up two one Right now, trying to go up two one.
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  Yeah.
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  Good time.
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  A Minnesota sports fan.
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  Right?
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  One one.
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  Two teams in the playoffs at one time?
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  Who would have thought?
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  When's the last time that happened?
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  That's what I'm saying.
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  I got I got the wild stars one one.
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  One one?
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  The second one.
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  Yep.
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  You're late.
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  You're late.
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  You're late.
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  I'm late?
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  So it'll be two one.
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  Yeah.
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  It'll be two one wild.
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  Alright.
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  I'll bet.
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  I'll I'll bet it'll be two one here shortly.
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  There's somebody, but we are here tonight to talk some football.
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  The draft is over.
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  The Vikings, a little surprising, I I would say, in round one, but I think they really hit
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  it out of the park on Friday, and you got some really some really good players on Saturday as
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  well.
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  I thought they finished out well.
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  You know, I I don't necessarily know if I agree with, you know, the letter grade drafts.
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  I think that's really tough to do, especially when you're picking in the middle of the pack.
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  Right?
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  Like, if you're picking number one overall and then picking again at, you know, 33, right,
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  you're gonna have a much different draft than someone who's drafting 32 overall and then 64
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  in that.
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  So the the grading, I don't know where I'm gonna fall on that.
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  I I think I said off camera.
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  I feel like they're at a b minus, you know, b minus c range until you see if Kayla Banks can
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  be healthy.
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  If Banks is healthy, you're riding that to a b b plus and looking feeling really good about
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  this draft class.
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  But I think you've got contributors all over.
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  You got a starting fullback.
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  Right?
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  Mostly because this team doesn't have a fullback.
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  But, you you know, in what, the fifth round that they ended up drafting the kid from
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  Michigan, I think you got a contributor in Damon Claiborne later on.
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  You got Big Citrus who I know Thor had to just be jumping out of his skin when that happened.
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  Right?
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  Shout out to the Purple Daily and the Score North podcast who covered this so in-depth and
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  and really gave everyone a lot to a a lot to gain.
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  Right?
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  People were very informed, and I think that's why the Caleb Banks selection was so surprising
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  because as soon as you found out about the injury in the, you know, in the draft or in the
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  combine rather, that everyone else dropped him.
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  Right?
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  But you're talking about a guy who, on everyone's board before that was top 10,
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  possibly top five for the disruptor that he is.
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  And I think what happens to you at 18 there, do you go, we got a chance to take this guy right
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  now, and you're almost afraid of the regret of not taking him and then him going, getting
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  healthy, and being an absolute stud, you know, for another team and being like, we coulda had
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  that guy.
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  But yeah.
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  I mean, that's that's all gonna play out.
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  Right?
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  And, b, I think you alluded to this a little bit.
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  You know, it sucks that we have to watch Theinerman, who I think everyone thought was
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  gonna be the pick, go to Chicago and have to, you know, see him twice a year.
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  But I don't necessarily know that that's who they, that they thought I don't know that
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  that's the the player that they were looking for.
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  I I know everyone was kinda wowed by the speed.
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  I know everyone was, you know, you ended up getting a really good safety later on in in
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  Jacobi.
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  So who's more of that hammer?
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  I think you fix the flows system a little bit.
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  Right?
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  Like, you don't need a a free safety that can cover everywhere.
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  You need somebody that can come down and lay the hammer.
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  You can find a guy to play center field.
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  I I think is maybe the feeling there.
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  Guys with the Caleb athletic profile, they don't come around ever, really.
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  Right.
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  You know what I mean?
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  That guy's healthy.
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  We don't even sniff him.
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  He's gone in the first eight picks.
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  Right?
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  So I think there was the the regret of having regrets, right, of passing on him because of
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  the foot injury and drafting someone else and then having this guy go be a generational pro
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  bowler.
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  And you're like, we could've we could've taken it because you out at 18.
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  You know, I I think outside of the top 10 in draft picks, it's all kind of a crapshoot
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  anyway.
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  Right?
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  You know?
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  And after that.
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  So I I don't know.
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  I'm not as upset about it.
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  I wanna take a quick minute, though.
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  We're obviously gonna get coach Cody's breakdown of the whole draft and everything,
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  Coach, we haven't had much of a chance to talk, since you came back.
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  Well, I wanna get your thoughts and kinda let you rant here a little bit.
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  What, about the draft we're talking?
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  Yeah.
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  Or about everything?
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  Because we haven't
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  we haven't covered I know we got many other stuff you
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  can rant on.
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  Let's just start with the draft.
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  I mean, with the draft, it's tough.
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  You know, I think your grade of c plus, b minus, I think that's fair.
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  Just based on where we were in the draft.
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  And, I mean, we like you said, if Bates is healthy, he's gonna be gone way earlier.
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  Top 10 pick probably.
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  So I think that it was a great value pick.
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  It was a a swing for the fences pick.
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  And with that being said, with those following picks, you had to field bikings.
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  You're like, alright.
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  We got this guy.
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  You know, we have B Flo's defense.
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  If he isn't a 100% healthy or can't go all the snaps that we want him to, we have to go back
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  and get a second guy, and we did that.
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  So that was that was a plus.
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  I think we should have gone for the safety.
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  I think we should have gone for the running back.
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  I think we should have gone for a wide receiver at that point, offensive lineman, but you have
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  to figure out where everybody is in the draft, where you are in the draft, how it's playing
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  out.
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  All in all, I mean, I'm pretty satisfied with the with Banks.
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  I'm pretty satisfied with the that other d tackle.
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  What what do what do you call them?
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  Big citrus?
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  Yeah.
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  That's I I do believe that Thor Nystrom coined that phrase.
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  No.
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  That that is his nickname.
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  Oh, that is his nickname?
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  Okay.
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  Well, his yeah.
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  His because his last name is Orange.
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  Dominique Orange.
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  So big citrus is what they call him.
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  And he doesn't like it from what I've been Color original.
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  Too bad, son.
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  I I wouldn't like it either.
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  Who's really not gonna like it the
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  rest of the Sunny Delight.
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  Yeah.
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  But,
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  I mean, the other picks besides that, I'm
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  not gonna lie.
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  Like,
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  who who was the acting as GM?
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  What was his name again?
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  Rob Brazinski.
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  Shit shit the bud.
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  Just shit the bed.
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  Like, I'm telling you, shit the bed.
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  I do like if you're gonna get rid of Grenard though, and you know, like, he's gonna leave,
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  you can't resign him, you gotta get some value for him.
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  But two third round picks is all you could squeeze out of anybody's two third round picks.
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  Because they knew
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  were think you were thinking a second was all you were gonna get, and you ended up getting
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  two thirds, which I can't remember exactly which pick it was.
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  Was it that
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  I know
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  it was the ninety seventh overall or the ninety eighth overall that you And you get a third in
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  next year's draft, which we've all talked about being a much bigger
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  a deep draft.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  So I think the value of that people were saying those two thirds together was a high second,
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  late first round pick technically and, the point system that they have.
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  So I I don't think it was necessarily terrible value for that.
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  Maybe you were wishing to get a second in this year's draft, but I think you'd rather have the
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  third rounder next year.
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  We it was still a top 100 pick.
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  So you got two top one hundreds out of a player that and and something they pointed out today
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  on on on Purple Daily too, or or maybe it it was another show, but we don't know that he
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  didn't go to them and be like, I'm not fucking playing.
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  Right?
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  Like, I'll sit out the whole year.
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  Like, I don't care.
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  I'm not gonna play on this contract.
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  We don't know those conversations that are going on behind closed doors.
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  Right?
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  They were able to go out.
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  It definitely felt, and I think it got leaked later that this was pretty much in place, but
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  it was more of the Vikings seeing who was still on the board before they pulled the trigger.
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  So they didn't, you know, they didn't make the move early.
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  Think you're even more disappointed if they announced this two weeks ago when it seems like
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  the deal was kind of done and not signed.
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  But that you see the draft falling as it is, and you get safety Jacoby Thomas from Miami out
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  of that, and you're feeling pretty damn good about it.
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  You know?
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  I I think I think they got value for a player that was maybe not going to go out and perform
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  for you at all this year.
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  A little lower than people expected, Sherbah.
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  I think it's probably fair.
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  A guy, what, he's 31 b, or is he 29?
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  30
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  He's 31 years old?
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  Yeah.
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  We drafted him, and he's 31 years old?
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  No.
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  No.
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  Gernard.
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  No.
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  No.
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  No.
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  Gernard.
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  Gernard.
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  Oh, alright.
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  Alright.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  Gernard.
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  So he's kind of on the tail end of of his I think he's 28, 29, something like that.
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  Is it true you want a 100,000,000 too?
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  A 100,000,000 with 50 guaranteed.
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  Yeah.
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  We weren't gonna do that.
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  And I think what Brazinski came out and said was just completely threw Quasi under the bus
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  was like, look.
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  The last GM spent too much damn money.
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  Right?
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  Like, we don't have the money to give him.
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  We weren't ever going to be able to sign him.
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  Even if he does play this year, then you're not getting the value, and everybody's pissed at
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  you for that.
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  So I'm not bad about that at all.
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  I'm not.
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  And who knows?
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  50 he he wanted a 100 bill?
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  Yeah.
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  He said he signed immediately.
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  It was a 100 what was the deal be?
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  It was four years, a 100,000,000 with 50 of that guaranteed, I wanna say.
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  With Philly?
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  Yeah.
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  Let me see here.
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  Philly can have them.
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  He can have
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  him.
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  And you had already drafted, and I know I'm not gonna say that it's his replacement, but you
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  drafted a linebacker in Jay Galday, there.
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  That could be that disruptor coming off of that edge.
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  Not to the same level, but you're you're filling in someone there.
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  Are you gonna get another Gennard?
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  And, honestly, the dude tore his peck at the end of the season.
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  Right?
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  Like, the Dallas game, he tore that peck and was done anyway.
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  You know, I I don't think that stops him from being effective in next season, but, I mean, it
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  is what it is.
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  You you can't do it.
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  You are excited about Dallas Turner to end the year.
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  You have to, at some point you have to, at some point, like, make the move.
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  Right?
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  And and people are gonna be dissatisfied with it.
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  And I think from a defensive coach's standpoint as yourself, I don't think anybody on that
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  defense is sad.
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  And Brzezinski ever even said that.
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  Like, our team got worse because of this.
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  But Mhmm.
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  We were going to be worse off long term if we played it and didn't get any value, where at
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  least now you have the ability to you're probably not gonna draft another guy that's
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  gonna fill those exact shoes.
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  But can you fill in some rest of the pieces with some talent on your team that, you know,
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  make you competitive?
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  Right?
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  I I don't think we're we may never see, and Dallas Turner may never turn into the disruptor
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  that Jonathan Grenard was.
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  It's hell of a football player.
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  Right?
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  So he so he signed a four year cut four year $100,000,000 stitch with the Philadelphia
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  Eagles That includes a $50,000,000 guaranteed total and a $23,200,000 signing bonus.
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  So yeah.
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  So that was his contract after we traded him.
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  Bro got a $23,000,000 check as soon as he signed.
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  Yep.
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  Good for man.
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  But that's how it is.
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  NFL's a business, all sports.
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  And he's 28.
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  He'll be 29 next month, it looks like.
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  Right.
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  So I mean I wanna know when you make it a 100 mil.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and this was his big contract, and that's what he was That was yeah.
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  Kinda screws to the Vikings.
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  This is his chance to cash in.
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  It's the only chance he had, and they're going, we can't give you that.
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  We cannot give you that, but we respect you enough.
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  And and it sounds like what they did is they, you know, with the agent and everything, they
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  were just like, you go find somebody that'll give us value that we can, you know, feel
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  decent about.
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  I don't think it was gonna be a trade them at all cost, but you got the third.
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  You got two thirds.
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  Right?
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  You got this year's and next year's, which next year's may be valued at, you know, what what a
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  late second round pick may be because of the caliber of player that you're kind of
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  forecasting.
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  You're gonna get in that.
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  Now a lot of that depends on where the eagles are going to finish next year in the standings,
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  where the, you know, where the Vikings will be as well.
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  It doesn't have any, you know, regards over that pick.
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  But I think you've got pretty fair value here.
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  And I think I'm happier with the third in next year than just getting a second in this year's
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  draft because
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Have forecasted a little bit better.
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  So he he I don't think it was bad.
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  I I think we can fret about it, but what you got in the value was on the fringe and on the
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  line of what you were you were never gonna get a first round pick for him.
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  Right?
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  You you were not you know, he's not 23.
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  Right?
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  He's not he's not 26 coming off as rookie or his first extension there.
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  Right?
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  He is a veteran with a proven track record worthy of every bit of that $100,000,000 that
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  he got, and it's a matter of you got value and you're able to go.
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  What's up, g?
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  Thanks for joining us, man.
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  Hey, pods.
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  Appreciate you, brother.
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  You're always welcome to join us if you want to, pods.
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  You know what?
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  You got the link, man.
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  Yeah.
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  And I can't agree.
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  Camps 87, brother.
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  You got it.
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  Let Dallas Turner eat.
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  Yeah.
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  And and I don't think that Dal like, Dallas Turner and Jonathan Grenard are two very
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  different players.
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  Right?
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  You know, I I don't think Dallas Turner will ever be the size that you got out of Greinhard.
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  Right?
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  He's gonna be about thirty pounds lighter.
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  But can he disrupt?
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  And did you were you able to find other guys in this year's draft or in next year's draft that
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  can fill in those roles?
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  I think if the you can let a single player go that you're maybe a little, disappointed about,
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  but did were you able to make the rest of the team more competitive or that side of the ball
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  more competitive with it?
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  And, and I think, obviously, it's gonna take a few years to kinda let that play out, but it
• 22:51
  sure seems like Jacoby Thomas and Jake Galday are going to be players that can cause
• 22:57
  disruption from different parts of the field and are different players.
• 23:01
  But, you know, who knows what we get next year with that third round pick as well.
• 23:06
  Do we get another sleeper in there?
• 23:08
  Or maybe it's a wide receiver that's able to plug and play.
• 23:11
  And then you're going, hey.
• 23:12
  We we may have lost a generational.
• 23:14
  I mean, generational is probably not great.
• 23:17
  You lost a a a very a an a grade player.
• 23:21
  Right?
• 23:22
  But you were able to get two, you know, b to b plus players.
• 23:26
  To to me, with the where this organization is at, you needed that.
• 23:31
  You need to get younger across the board.
• 23:33
  You need more talent across the board, and, you weren't gonna pay him anyway.
• 23:38
  So you you got what you could, and you move on.
• 23:42
  Facts.
• 23:42
  No.
• 23:43
  Hey.
• 23:43
  Big b, if you could do me a favor, can you look up the stats for that Jake Goliday Goliday?
• 23:51
  I I was on I was literally on league calls all week.
• 23:55
  I missed the draft.
• 23:56
  I'm pissed off about it, but we drafted him second pick, sec second overall pick.
• 24:03
  Right?
• 24:03
  Yeah.
• 24:03
  We drafted him second
• 24:04
  overall pick.
• 24:05
  It was second round pick.
• 24:06
  Yeah.
• 24:07
  Yeah.
• 24:07
  Second round pick.
• 24:07
  51.
• 24:10
  Oh, shit.
• 24:11
  Who would I wanna know.
• 24:13
  Get a third in that b?
• 24:14
  I I wasn't watching live, or I was following into my phone, but I thought we were picked 49,
• 24:19
  not 51.
• 24:20
  I think they I think they did trade back a couple spots with Yeah.
• 24:24
  I think they I think they did.
• 24:26
  There's a lot of wheeling and dealing going on in the second and third day.
• 24:32
  Let's
• 24:33
  I love it.
• 24:36
  But I I wanna know
• 24:38
  And what's interesting
• 24:39
  about
• 24:42
  Galdi is, like, he had, I think, I heard, like, a 100 snaps at nickel last year.
• 24:48
  So talk about a guy that No.
• 24:50
  No.
• 24:50
  And and, like, this isn't just a inside linebacker Which
• 24:55
  is not?
• 24:56
  Lot people are explaining him.
• 24:57
  This is a guy that fits that amoeba.
• 25:01
  He can be anywhere on the field.
• 25:03
  You know?
• 25:04
  Yeah.
• 25:04
  Matales.
• 25:04
  Speed flow guy.
• 25:06
  Right?
• 25:06
  He has the athleticism to play these different parts, can cover anyone on an NFL offense is
• 25:12
  what it definitely feels like with him.
• 25:15
  And and it's gonna take like, Dallas Turner has to step up, and you're probably looking for a
• 25:21
  pass rusher, somebody that can come off the edge, that can be a a backup to that in
• 25:29
  So here here we got so his junior senior year, he played 12 games both, so he didn't miss a
• 25:37
  game.
• 25:40
  His junior year, he had 28 solo tackles, 30 assisted.
• 25:45
  In his senior year, he had 39 solo tackles, 66.
• 25:50
  So he's around the ball.
• 25:53
  He had six or seven total.
• 26:00
  Let's see here.
• 26:01
  No.
• 26:02
  I'm sorry.
• 26:02
  Let's see.
• 26:04
  He had one and a half sacks his junior year.
• 26:07
  He had three and a half sacks his senior year.
• 26:10
  He had a couple forced fumbles each year.
• 26:12
  So so he's around the ball.
• 26:15
  So that's a that's a big plus.
• 26:16
  He's definitely around the ball.
• 26:17
  He's six four two thirty nine.
• 26:19
  That's a big dude, man.
• 26:21
  Yeah.
• 26:21
  That's a big dude.
• 26:22
  Yo.
• 26:24
  Yo.
• 26:25
  Alright.
• 26:25
  Alright.
• 26:26
  Hold on a minute.
• 26:27
  He played 12 games that first season he had.
• 26:31
  How many tackles that junior won?
• 26:33
  No.
• 26:33
  No.
• 26:33
  No.
• 26:34
  Junior won, he still get in his feet wet, probably getting Yeah.
• 26:38
  Has 39 tackle.
• 26:40
  He had 39 total tackle since senior year and 66 assisted.
• 26:46
  I do apologize about that.
• 26:49
  Yeah.
• 26:50
  Man, I got big news for you, fellas.
• 26:53
  Uh-oh.
• 26:55
  Oh, man.
• 26:56
  Denied a call.
• 26:58
  Yo.
• 27:00
  Nope.
• 27:01
  Not the vikings.
• 27:02
  But going back to the AIF, I will be the defensive coordinator for the CNY Blue Devils.
• 27:11
  And I'm going to face the Cedar Rapids titans and the West Michigan, ironmen, and I'm going
• 27:18
  to get that goddamn ring.
• 27:24
  It's a thing.
• 27:24
  Finish off this season in the AIF?
• 27:28
  Because you just you just
• 27:29
  spoke against those teams, like, a month and a half ago.
• 27:33
  Yeah.
• 27:35
  Yeah.
• 27:35
  I did.
• 27:37
  Yep.
• 27:38
  Must have made a good impression.
• 27:41
  Hey.
• 27:41
  Yeah.
• 27:42
  I must have.
• 27:43
  It looks like we'll be able to bring a few of my few of my dogs out there.
• 27:47
  If, CNY wins the game against Cedar Rapids, then we play the championship against western
• 27:55
  iron West Michigan ironman.
• 27:57
  Oh, yeah.
• 27:58
  You already know what's going down, Bubba.
• 28:00
  Big b.
• 28:01
  You gotta be there for that.
• 28:02
  That'd be three championships in, like, six months.
• 28:05
  That's wild.
• 28:07
  Four to six days, one of the two.
• 28:09
  Hey.
• 28:10
  Hey.
• 28:10
  Well, this is the crazy thing about it is this is the crazy thing about it.
• 28:15
  Last year, this time, I was already head coach of the bears GM getting ready for the wee fest
• 28:20
  event Yep.
• 28:21
  And trying to build that season.
• 28:24
  Four and o, number one ranked with them.
• 28:26
  Move on to the cavalry.
• 28:27
  Six and o, number 11 ranked with them and the nation.
• 28:32
  And now I'm coming back and getting ready for another year, all in one year.
• 28:36
  This is crazy.
• 28:38
  Yeah.
• 28:39
  So no.
• 28:40
  Congrats to you, coach.
• 28:41
  Definitely, I love following your career and all your highlights and stuff like that just
• 28:45
  like Bubba.
• 28:45
  So we're we're we're in the we're in your back corner.
• 28:49
  So but back to the draft, my you know, you guys talked about your grade.
• 28:54
  I wanna give this this pick for Banks.
• 28:59
  I I don't wanna give it an f because, I mean, if he's if he's healthy, he's gonna be a stud.
• 29:03
  So I got to me, I gotta give it incomplete right now just because I wanna see what he
• 29:08
  could do on the field to stay healthy.
• 29:11
  I'm I'm not too upset as I was the night of the draft.
• 29:15
  You know?
• 29:16
  Like, where'd this guy come from?
• 29:17
  Because, you know, we all wanted Dylan, you know, who went to the bears who, you know, I I
• 29:23
  just hope that that does not come back to bite us in the butt.
• 29:27
  You know?
• 29:28
  I mean, that's the big thing.
• 29:29
  So but overall, the draft, I mean, yeah, we filled some spots, got some big dudes in there
• 29:36
  that, you know, like Bubba said, could probably most likely fill get some playing time this
• 29:42
  year, not just on specialties, but some meaningful snaps.
• 29:45
  So all these guys, hopefully, are coming in with a chip on their shoulder, know, and
• 29:50
  everybody wants to battle.
• 29:52
  Three, four, five, six, seven.
• 29:54
  I think that
• 29:55
  top eight picks because we have the three.
• 29:57
  So your first round pick, playing.
• 30:00
  Jake Galday, playing.
• 30:02
  Dominique Orange, playing.
• 30:04
  Caleb Tiernan is probably gonna be in the talk for swing tackle.
• 30:08
  Right?
• 30:08
  Your third round tackle that you took.
• 30:11
  Safety Jakobi Thomas.
• 30:12
  That guy has an open door to go in and take the starting safety job.
• 30:16
  Right?
• 30:16
  Your feedback, playing.
• 30:18
  Charles or, you know, Charles, what, Demings, quarterback.
• 30:23
  That guy's got a wide open door to if not the starting outside to a nickel cornerback at the
• 30:32
  three or four cornerback.
• 30:33
  Right?
• 30:34
  Your running back, Damon Claiborne.
• 30:36
  Damon Claiborne is gonna get the damn ball this year.
• 30:39
  Right?
• 30:39
  So and he I would even say the the center you took, now he's probably a practice squad guy
• 30:45
  more than likely, but he may show some promise to you Yeah.
• 30:49
  And end up getting playing time late in the season too.
• 30:51
  Now I think Blake Brandel kinda has that job.
• 30:54
  Maybe he doesn't see the field this year.
• 30:55
  But you look at the entire draft, and there's not one player on there.
• 30:59
  And because of where you picked them and the need you had for it, that I don't think there's
• 31:04
  one player on that list that doesn't at least have an opportunity.
• 31:08
  I I think a lot is still
• 31:09
  on the field.
• 31:10
  No.
• 31:10
  No.
• 31:10
  And Yeah.
• 31:12
  But there's some drafts that go by, and you're like, the the the the two sixth rounds and the
• 31:16
  three seventh round picks that you've got aren't even gonna sniff the field at any point.
• 31:21
  And I think that
• 31:22
  Well, and and that's the thing we gotta look at is who's gonna you know, who's on this I mean,
• 31:27
  we're gonna have to look at it back at this draft, you know, maybe next year or the year
• 31:30
  after.
• 31:31
  Be like, okay.
• 31:32
  Who's on this draft, you know, still?
• 31:34
  Because that's one thing last couple of years, the Vikings have not kept a lot of people that
• 31:40
  they drafted.
• 31:42
  You know?
• 31:42
  So and I might go back to the, you know, last GM.
• 31:46
  That might just go to the people not being good, which again would be the person that made
• 31:51
  that call on that draft pick.
• 31:52
  So but again, right now, I mean, I I like the draft.
• 31:56
  I think we got value.
• 31:58
  You know, I just wanna see we gotta see some performance on the field.
• 32:02
  I mean, we talked about this that the Vikings had to hit this draft, so we gotta see what
• 32:07
  they hit.
• 32:09
  Pods has a question here.
• 32:11
  I mean, and to
• 32:11
  answer If
• 32:12
  you were DC of the Vikings and played in the NFC North, which team's offense do you feel
• 32:18
  like you could get your defense to feast on in that NFC North?
• 32:23
  So which team, packers, lions, and bears, which offense as the DC now with the tools that you
• 32:32
  have and forecast the next season?
• 32:35
  Did he say for the Vikings or just in general?
• 32:38
  He said in that
• 32:39
  at North, but I'm gonna make it more For that.
• 32:40
  Okay.
• 32:41
  More general.
• 32:42
  I'm gonna say you're you're defensive core.
• 32:44
  You're Bflow.
• 32:44
  Right?
• 32:45
  You you are right there.
• 32:47
  Which team I I already know what mine is because I I think they've been sliding anyway.
• 32:53
  But which team are you like, I can't wait to kick their ass twice and absolutely humiliate
• 32:59
  them?
• 32:59
  Honestly, it's all of them.
• 33:01
  I mean
• 33:01
  I I wanna see if, me and Bubba are on the same page.
• 33:06
  It's all of them.
• 33:07
  I would say Green Bay.
• 33:10
  I'd say Green Bay.
• 33:12
  I think If you're you're saying the team on the slide
• 33:15
  the lions next year.
• 33:17
  I think with the pass rush that you just put up front, that that statue back there, we beat
• 33:22
  them with Max Brosber on Christmas day.
• 33:25
  Remember that.
• 33:26
  That's a very offensive.
• 33:28
  Embarrassing.
• 33:29
  Embarrassed the lions.
• 33:30
  Now you got a bunch of dogs out there.
• 33:33
  Man, I don't know what the lions did in this draft to get any better.
• 33:36
  They were drafting one pick ahead of us, and I don't know what they did.
• 33:40
  But I wanna see this I wanna see this Vikings team just I I would just wanna see the lions
• 33:44
  get wrecked all season long by everyone.
• 33:48
  Hey.
• 33:48
  Let one let's give
• 33:50
  a moment for Max Brosmer, one on Christmas Day against the lions.
• 33:54
  You know what I'm saying?
• 33:55
  Oh, man.
• 33:56
  He's going for, like, 65 yards, but who's who cares?
• 33:59
  Right?
• 34:00
  Hey.
• 34:00
  It was better than Seattle game.
• 34:02
  It was better than Seattle game.
• 34:04
  It was such
• 34:05
  a tough spot to put a guy in.
• 34:07
  How do you yeah.
• 34:08
  That's so bad.
• 34:09
  The the lions If you're if you're a quarterback
• 34:13
  coming in, you're like, k o c might fuck me this game.
• 34:17
  Like, they might throw me in and just completely fucked me this game.
• 34:21
  I think we have the we are going to have the most feared defense in the NFC North and
• 34:27
  possibly maybe not in the league because I think Seattle's defense are really tough,
• 34:32
  especially with that front that they put out there.
• 34:34
  And I don't know what they lost necessarily from this, you know, from that defense a year
• 34:39
  ago because that's what won them the Super Bowl.
• 34:41
  Right?
• 34:41
  That defense was just dominant.
• 34:43
  Dominant.
• 34:44
  Well, their their offense was good.
• 34:45
  How are you coming how are you coming to that conclusion,
• 34:48
  It wasn't spectacular, I guess, is my point.
• 34:50
  Right?
• 34:51
  It it it wasn't anything that
• 34:52
  was crazy.
• 34:53
  It was effective.
• 34:54
  How are you coming to that conclusion, though?
• 34:56
  Because we got two corners.
• 34:59
  Who's our safeties, though?
• 35:01
  Jacoby whatever from Miami and who?
• 35:04
  I I honestly, I think it's gonna be the cornerback that we rotated back there at the
• 35:09
  end of last year.
• 35:10
  Is it not buying them?
• 35:13
  It's
• 35:13
  Well, the key factor is too, does Harrison Smith show up?
• 35:18
  I mean, that's that's gonna be a key factor.
• 35:22
  You know?
• 35:22
  I don't know.
• 35:23
  He's probably gonna have to at this
• 35:24
  changes because you're you're probably not, I mean yeah.
• 35:27
  It's hard to say.
• 35:28
  It's hard to say what
• 35:33
  If you do that, are you gonna put him down in the box,
• 35:36
  or are you gonna
• 35:36
  have him over the top?
• 35:38
  I I think we if you got Jacoby Thomas on the field, you roll a Jacoby down into the box, and
• 35:44
  and you're putting if the hitman comes back, you just let him play center field and to be
• 35:48
  the Yep.
• 35:49
  Quarterback of the defense.
• 35:51
  Yeah.
• 35:51
  You you eliminate him, have him take bunch
• 35:54
  of hits,
• 35:55
  and and get rocked.
• 35:56
  And maybe he's looking at it right now like, yeah.
• 35:59
  Yeah.
• 36:00
  I like the 100
• 36:01
  likes
• 36:02
  you.
• 36:02
  Right?
• 36:03
  So, Bubba, here's what the Lions look at.
• 36:04
  Seven picks.
• 36:06
  The Lions had seven picks.
• 36:08
  They took two offensive players.
• 36:10
  The first pick was Miller, o offensive lot or offensive tackle.
• 36:16
  And then the fifth round, they took lot from Kentucky for a receiver, and everything else is
• 36:22
  all defense.
• 36:23
  Right.
• 36:24
  And what I heard is that they're We're
• 36:25
  on defense.
• 36:26
  They they've dropped a tackle, and I think they're gonna put him on the right side, and
• 36:32
  they're gonna move Penne over to the
• 36:36
  left side.
• 36:37
  So they took two edges.
• 36:39
  They took a linebacker, a d tackle, and a corner.
• 36:45
  Yeah.
• 36:46
  I just I I
• 36:47
  don't They're
• 36:47
  gonna switch they're gonna switch up their defense up here.
• 36:50
  Yeah.
• 36:51
  They're gonna switch up their scheme here pretty soon.
• 36:55
  It's gonna be interesting to see what happens in Detroit, man.
• 36:58
  They have their shot.
• 36:59
  Right?
• 36:59
  They they have their shot, the tee and anytime you get that far, players get more expensive.
• 37:05
  Right?
• 37:05
  It it gets harder.
• 37:06
  You lost your ostique to Chicago that that obviously had something cooking with with his
• 37:12
  offensive game planning and, you know, play calling creative guy, but I think the bears are
• 37:19
  gonna regress too.
• 37:20
  I think it's only natural for a team that I don't wanna say that they overachieved last
• 37:25
  year, but they had a fourth place schedule.
• 37:27
  They they barely beat a bunch of teams.
• 37:29
  The raiders were the worst team, and they they came down to a last second field goal that they
• 37:33
  blocked.
• 37:34
  Right?
• 37:34
  Like Yep.
• 37:35
  They were in line to lose that game.
• 37:36
  They should've lost to the Vikings.
• 37:38
  You know?
• 37:39
  So the the Bears team needs to improve a lot to repeat.
• 37:43
  I think Green Bay, you're probably I I I I would say when the power rankings and stuff
• 37:49
  come out to start the season, that most writers are gonna put Green Bay ahead in that division,
• 37:55
  and they're probably gonna call Green Bay to to win the division.
• 38:00
  That would be my guess.
• 38:01
  That's not what I'm saying.
• 38:02
  I I'm forecasting what, you know, the the writers and the AP are going to do.
• 38:08
  And I think that if you don't have the Vikings rising, everybody's excited about Kyler Murray.
• 38:15
  You know, you think you're pretty confident you're gonna get better quarterback play there.
• 38:20
  And with the retooling or not retooling, but the restocking that you really did of this
• 38:25
  Brian Flores defense, I don't know how you're not picking the the Vikings to challenge for
• 38:31
  that division championship at the end of the season.
• 38:35
  I just don't I don't see it.
• 38:37
  And I and I really feel like that after the draft, I'm more confident now than I was two
• 38:44
  weeks ago.
• 38:44
  Right?
• 38:45
  Or even So
• 38:45
  so here is How many
• 38:48
  wait.
• 38:49
  We we did pick an offensive tackle.
• 38:51
  Right?
• 38:52
  Yeah.
• 38:52
  Yeah.
• 38:53
  We got a tackle in the third round.
• 38:56
  We got a center in the seventh round and picked up Damon Claiborne who, has the home run
• 39:03
  hitting speed.
• 39:05
  And the reason that he dropped in the draft was because he's not great in pass protection, and
• 39:10
  he's not we don't give a shit.
• 39:11
  All your you were gonna take the ball and and run.
• 39:14
  Right?
• 39:14
  Like, we don't need you to do everything.
• 39:16
  We got guys for that.
• 39:18
  So and maybe he develops into something later.
• 39:22
  It doesn't matter.
• 39:22
  He's he's a fifth round he's a fifth round pick.
• 39:26
  If he can go hit a couple of home runs a year, break off those 50 plus yard runs, which you'd
• 39:31
  have not had on this team, then then he's done his job.
• 39:35
  Right?
• 39:36
  Like, not every back has to be in
• 39:38
  all four pits.
• 39:43
  I mean, if if KOC doesn't stick to his stuff and runs the ball, you know what I'm saying,
• 39:51
  not passing forty, fifty times, we'll be alright.
• 39:55
  We'll be alright.
• 39:56
  So here's what ESPN's got as of it doesn't give me a date.
• 40:04
  But for the 2000 Hey.
• 40:05
  We drafted better than the Vikings.
• 40:08
  So yeah.
• 40:09
  So here is the division winners for the NFC North ranked odds.
• 40:15
  Detroit plus one eighty, Green Bay one ninety, Chicago three twenty, and the Vikings at 600.
• 40:23
  So he's playing dark horse.
• 40:25
  Well and I'm not surprised by that because you have so
• 40:28
  much is.
• 40:30
  Well, you just have so much uncertainty at that.
• 40:33
  Even with Kyler, there there's uncertainty with the player and does he fit in the scheme, and
• 40:38
  there's just a lot of uncertainty.
• 40:39
  So I'm not surprised by that.
• 40:41
  I don't see Detroit.
• 40:42
  I I didn't think Detroit had it last year.
• 40:44
  I watched them play that opening game against Green Bay, and I was like, this team's cooked.
• 40:47
  So I don't know how you're forecasting them to come back and to, like, have this vast
• 40:52
  improvement after last season when they finished last place in the division.
• 40:56
  Now they have a last place schedule that they're playing against, then maybe that makes
• 40:59
  a little bit of a difference in that as well.
• 41:02
  But I think they're gonna have a lot of trouble winning games in the division.
• 41:07
  You might play a last play schedule out of your division, but you're gonna have a hard time
• 41:12
  winning games against any of those teams from a Detroit Lions' perspective.
• 41:22
  What, yeah.
• 41:24
  I I mean and and a lot to play out here.
• 41:27
  It's easy to look at all these guys on paper and to see it.
• 41:30
  Coach, you weren't here.
• 41:32
  Our mock draft two point o while you were out to dinner eating porter houses.
• 41:37
  We ended up trading out we traded 18 for, like, seven picks.
• 41:43
  Yeah.
• 41:44
  And got it.
• 41:45
  And we had a Oh my god.
• 41:46
  No.
• 41:47
  It it was the Patriots, they traded every pretty much all their picks in February to move
• 41:55
  up to get the 18 pick.
• 41:57
  And it ended up being kinda similar to what we got here.
• 42:01
  So we ended up with I I think we had an extra second rounder, but then we had the three third
• 42:06
  rounders.
• 42:06
  We ended up picking up some force in there too, but we got a ton of value because we had three,
• 42:14
  you know, three, four picks in the top 100, which is essentially the way it played out here
• 42:18
  for the Vikings.
• 42:19
  You had five players in the top 100 prospects.
• 42:23
  Right?
• 42:24
  Hey.
• 42:24
  That's a good draft.
• 42:26
  Sorry to Yeah.
• 42:27
  Sorry to cut you off, big b.
• 42:29
  Hey.
• 42:29
  What's the score?
• 42:32
  Last time I looked, it was one one.
• 42:35
  Did you wanna wanna refresh that real quick?
• 42:38
  I'm going to.
• 42:38
  Now it is two one.
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  Sweet.
• 42:40
  End of second.
• 42:40
  That's going that.
• 42:42
  I'm like that.
• 42:43
  Is
• 42:44
  it game seven?
• 42:46
  No.
• 42:47
  First time two two.
• 42:49
  Game five.
• 42:52
  Hey.
• 42:54
  There's Danielle chiming in.
• 42:57
  Hey, Danielle.
• 42:58
  Hey.
• 42:58
  What's going on?
• 43:00
  What's going on?
• 43:01
  Just called it hey.
• 43:03
  Big b.
• 43:04
  From our
• 43:04
  trip to Deadwood.
• 43:06
  We played boozy bingo with our friends at Tunes and Thrills, and Danielle won a crossbow.
• 43:12
  I still don't know how to feel about it.
• 43:14
  But, yeah, yeah, it's great.
• 43:18
  Right?
• 43:19
  You're like, oh, yeah.
• 43:19
  You won.
• 43:20
  Oh, you just got a weapon.
• 43:22
  Okay.
• 43:23
  Well, that's nice.
• 43:26
  It's nice.
• 43:27
  Run, Bubba.
• 43:28
  Run.
• 43:29
  I don't think I can outrun it.
• 43:30
  I I think it said 408 feet per second or some shit.
• 43:34
  I don't think I'm running that fast.
• 43:37
  What are the four what are the five d's of Dodge or four d's of Dodge?
• 43:41
  Just get out of
• 43:43
  town.
• 43:43
  Get out of town.
• 43:44
  Duck.
• 43:44
  What are they?
• 43:45
  Duck, dodge, dive, and dodge.
• 43:50
  Dip and dodge.
• 43:55
  No.
• 43:55
  So, I mean, I'm I'm pretty, I'd say I'm pretty bullish on, the draft.
• 44:01
  I think you drafted all the like, to me, there wasn't any surprises.
• 44:05
  I know a lot of people were, surprised maybe that you didn't take a wide receiver, but they
• 44:09
  just had Jawan.
• 44:11
  What's the thanks, Paz.
• 44:15
  That's funny.
• 44:16
  I his name just evaded me.
• 44:19
  Jawan hold on.
• 44:22
  I'm a look it up.
• 44:23
  Hey.
• 44:23
  I passed my move goal.
• 44:25
  Right on.
• 44:28
  Receiver?
• 44:29
  Yeah.
• 44:30
  Out of, San Francisco.
• 44:38
  Wait.
• 44:39
  We got a receiver out of San Francisco?
• 44:41
  No.
• 44:41
  No.
• 44:41
  They they had him in today for a for a visit.
• 44:45
  Oh, Devo?
• 44:46
  Devo Samuel?
• 44:47
  No.
• 44:48
  Juwan Juwan Jennings.
• 44:50
  I think he might return for three
• 44:52
  out Juwan with Jennings.
• 44:55
  Oh,
• 44:58
  you get a big body receiver.
• 45:00
  You get a guy that fills a need out here.
• 45:02
  I'm not saying he's gonna be the best player on the team, but you got somebody who, fills a
• 45:08
  need on this team in that wide receiver two three range, a bigger body than Addison, that
• 45:14
  can go out and get the ball and make contested catches.
• 45:17
  I I think that's a huge need, and it's probably not gonna cost you a lot of money.
• 45:21
  Right?
• 45:21
  So What is going on?
• 45:24
  What is going on?
• 45:25
  I thought we were gonna bring in Deebo Samuel for 80 mil.
• 45:29
  We don't have any money.
• 45:31
  We couldn't keep Jonathan Grenard on this team.
• 45:36
  I mean, I guess.
• 45:37
  But at this point, Deebo Samuel if we're if we're if Deebo if Deebo Samuel's on the table,
• 45:46
  I'm getting rid of Addison.
• 45:48
  I'm getting rid of
• 45:50
  Is Debo on the table?
• 45:52
  Didn't he sign a contract out in Washington?
• 45:56
  Oh, let's do it.
• 45:57
  He played in Washington last year, coach.
• 46:00
  You do realize
• 46:00
  that.
• 46:00
  Correct.
• 46:01
  Yes.
• 46:02
  Yes.
• 46:02
  Yes.
• 46:02
  Yes.
• 46:03
  But but I was busy.
• 46:05
  That was that was just like a that was that's like an off year for him.
• 46:11
  Oh, let's see.
• 46:11
  Dibault single contact.
• 46:14
  Skull indeed.
• 46:16
  We appreciate you being here with us.
• 46:18
  Just recapping the draft, talking a little bit about, you know, Jawan Jennings coming in for a
• 46:25
  visit today.
• 46:25
  Think he's under contract with I think he's a free agent.
• 46:29
  Let's see here.
• 46:30
  Okay.
• 46:30
  Let's go.
• 46:32
  Bring him in.
• 46:32
  I'm looking for him.
• 46:36
  And I don't I don't know that he's taking that, bud.
• 46:38
  So Dibault Taylor's contract with Washington commanders officially avoided making him an
• 46:43
  unrestricted free agent as of 03/11/2026, leaving a 12.3 dead cap hit on the team's book
• 46:52
  for 2026.
• 46:55
  So yeah.
• 46:57
  Yeah.
• 46:57
  But what was the contract?
• 46:58
  It was, like, 30,000,000 or something.
• 47:00
  Oh.
• 47:01
  If they
• 47:02
  were willing to eat 12, then they've saved 18 probably.
• 47:08
  Yeah.
• 47:08
  The contract paid him dealer saying the contract paid him 18,250,000 in 02/2025.
• 47:16
  So yeah.
• 47:18
  So they're they're expecting him to sign for about 15,000,000 on a multiyear deal this year.
• 47:25
  So that's what they're expecting.
• 47:27
  Yeah.
• 47:27
  And we barely had enough money to, like, cover our draft picks.
• 47:30
  That's kinda where we finished all the restructuring and everything that we do we did.
• 47:36
  But that that would be scary to have Samuel Jefferson Bro.
• 47:41
  You know Bro.
• 47:43
  On the same team?
• 47:45
  Yeah.
• 47:46
  That would be deadly.
• 47:49
  Yeah.
• 47:50
  But you gotta have someone that can get them the ball too, we still don't know
• 47:52
  if we have to.
• 47:54
  Five and seven.
• 47:55
  The office line is gonna be a play play.
• 47:57
  A six foot seven center in Blake Brandel starting and a five nine quarterback.
• 48:05
  Wait.
• 48:06
  He's six seven?
• 48:07
  Yeah.
• 48:07
  Blake Brandel is huge.
• 48:09
  He's I'm not
• 48:10
  a little bit.
• 48:11
  He was a he was a he tackle.
• 48:15
  Well and then we and then us, like, the simple Minnesota Vikings fans, they're like, well, why
• 48:22
  is JJ having all these balls bad down at the line?
• 48:25
  Because he's throwing this way only.
• 48:28
  Throwing way.
• 48:29
  Like
• 48:30
  Blake Blake is six six.
• 48:34
  Garrison or Durasol, he's six five.
• 48:39
  Devon Jackson, who started, is six four.
• 48:46
  Fries is six six, and O'Neil is six seven.
• 48:53
  And Kyler Murray ends right now five ten.
• 48:59
  And then they wonder like, hey.
• 49:01
  I mean, JJ well, JJ is six three, so JJ can see over these guys.
• 49:05
  Yeah.
• 49:05
  And I think a lot of JJ's battered balls are just inexperienced, kinda looking down
• 49:10
  receivers.
• 49:10
  And you got guys on the defensive side of the ball now that are trained to get their hands up
• 49:16
  and and are watching the quarterback sizes.
• 49:18
  They're rushing.
• 49:19
  So if you're staring down a receiver that's why Aaron Rodgers was so tough because he'd be
• 49:23
  looking in the stands and then throwing the ball.
• 49:26
  You know?
• 49:26
  Like, it's hard to pick up on.
• 49:28
  That comes with experience.
• 49:29
  What's sad is that you're you're you may not see that, you know, that experience develop.
• 49:35
  You know me, I'm not out McCarthy whatsoever.
• 49:39
  I I I think that you have a proven asset in a Kyler Murray, but he ain't going under center,
• 49:45
  which starts to make your team kinda one dimensional.
• 49:48
  Right?
• 49:48
  Like, he he has to play out of the shotgun because of his limited size.
• 49:54
  Right?
• 49:54
  Because of that.
• 49:56
  And and I don't I don't know that that's the it's weird because the team the rest of the
• 50:02
  team seems to be going in like a we're gonna play a smash mouth type of football.
• 50:06
  You don't draft a fullback in the fifth round because you're not going to run the ball.
• 50:11
  Right?
• 50:12
  You don't and and the fullback we drafted was actually listed as a tight end in Michigan.
• 50:19
  So he's kind of an HVAC.
• 50:21
  Right?
• 50:21
  Yep.
• 50:22
  A Clients are the type.
• 50:25
  Right.
• 50:27
  So it's gonna be, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens.
• 50:31
  I know everyone has, you know, mostly pegged Kyler as the starter.
• 50:36
  I I don't think that it's a a I don't think that you're wrong to assume that the guy is a
• 50:42
  proven product in the NFL.
• 50:45
  But, yeah, what if it's not working?
• 50:48
  What you know what I mean?
• 50:49
  Like, what if you get to camp and it's just like, oh, man.
• 50:51
  This is just this is not looking good.
• 50:53
  Then then you have trouble in paradise.
• 50:55
  And I think with the how you're feeling about the defense right now, especially with picking
• 51:01
  up a couple of defensive tackles that you think is gonna improve the pass rush and some other,
• 51:07
  you know, players along that line that you are, the offense has to show out, and it has to show
• 51:16
  out early, or it could be people's jobs in the balance.
• 51:21
  And, I I don't know that that changes at all with this draft whatsoever.
• 51:27
  Well and and and if he you know, if, Kyler Murray doesn't show out and perform or doesn't
• 51:34
  win that I wouldn't say it doesn't win that number one spot, but doesn't show out and
• 51:39
  perform given the chance.
• 51:41
  I mean, that just takes away from that whole quarterback guru that KOC's got going on.
• 51:49
  So I'm interested to see, a, who who they're gonna go with first, for first, string
• 51:56
  quarterback and how you like, because we figured out that KOC can have a quarter like, a
• 52:05
  veteran quarterback and have success with them.
• 52:08
  But how many years do they have to have in order for KOC to work his magic?
• 52:15
  You know what I'm saying?
• 52:16
  No.
• 52:18
  No.
• 52:18
  You didn't get a lot of help in the, like, weapons department on the offense.
• 52:24
  Right?
• 52:25
  You you didn't draft really anything in that department.
• 52:28
  I think it's Devon Claiborne, obviously, in the run game, but it's not like you went out and
• 52:31
  drafted a a new wide receiver and and were and were banking on that.
• 52:36
  So it's gonna be interesting.
• 52:38
  And I think we're gonna know a lot more, obviously, as we move through the summer, and
• 52:43
  and you have the veteran OTAs and you have, you know, all the mini camps and and how things are
• 52:48
  are playing out.
• 52:49
  But, you know, I I still think that, you know, by by whatever way, whether it's injury or just
• 52:57
  playing himself into it.
• 52:59
  I think JJ McCarthy, plays substantial time at starting quarterback again this year, which I
• 53:06
  think if you're the Vikings organization, that's a win.
• 53:09
  Right?
• 53:10
  Like, you you you're happy about that at the end of the day.
• 53:14
  Be and especially if he plays himself into that role.
• 53:17
  Right?
• 53:18
  Like, you you don't wanna see it because of injury happen, but maybe if that's the crack
• 53:23
  that's there, but then the kid's playing so well that you can't take him out, that's almost
• 53:27
  what you're what you're hoping for.
• 53:29
  And you're not out anything with the Kyler Murray contract because you paid him a vet
• 53:33
  minimum.
• 53:34
  Yeah.
• 53:34
  Right?
• 53:35
  So I I I think that's maybe the best case scenario.
• 53:40
  I know Pods, who I don't know if is listening anymore, but he's pretty much out completely on
• 53:45
  McCarthy.
• 53:46
  He, you know, he was calling him a third round pick, and it's he was definitely slandering the
• 53:52
  poor kid's name, but he also hasn't proven anything.
• 53:55
  Well, mean, I don't
• 53:56
  have any way to defend him out there either.
• 54:00
  Right?
• 54:00
  He he didn't play well for you know, to start the season.
• 54:04
  Fault to him, I don't think so.
• 54:07
  But, you know, you're looking to see some maturity from a very young man, 22.
• 54:12
  I think he just turned 22 this this year.
• 54:16
  Wife, baby, a lot of things going on in the in the personal life.
• 54:20
  Roman.
• 54:21
  Lock in, and, to go ball out and then I'll have that pressure on him of, look, man.
• 54:29
  If you don't, you might be, I won't say, out of the league, but you're definitely gonna be in a
• 54:34
  new city.
• 54:35
  Right?
• 54:36
  So it's it's gonna be interesting.
• 54:38
  I think
• 54:38
  I think I think if he doesn't make it here, he would probably be out of the city because look
• 54:43
  at the weapons we got.
• 54:44
  So if he you know, and the quarterback was burned.
• 54:47
  So so if McCarthy was Fuck.
• 54:51
  Yeah.
• 54:51
  You're not
• 54:52
  yeah.
• 54:52
  Devil's advocate, what if what if Kyler doesn't perform and then you go to McCarthy And
• 54:59
  McCarthy done, like, where the fuck are we then?
• 55:02
  Yeah.
• 55:03
  Well, you still got Winston.
• 55:04
  You still got At that point you think exactly.
• 55:08
  Max Brosman's got it something to prove.
• 55:11
  I will I will say that if Murray doesn't pan out, you only sign up for one year.
• 55:16
  You sign up
• 55:17
  for cheap.
• 55:18
  It is what it is.
• 55:19
  Yeah.
• 55:19
  Yeah.
• 55:19
  Yeah.
• 55:21
  McCarthy, at that point, McCarthy, you should probably update your LinkedIn, resume.
• 55:28
  Give Claudia a call.
• 55:29
  Max Brosmer.
• 55:30
  Yeah.
• 55:30
  And Max Brosmer, just stay hungry.
• 55:33
  I mean, shoot.
• 55:35
  McCarthy, you better wake up because you might end up, like, excellent playing for an arena
• 55:43
  football team, Colorado Spartans, and then cracking your ACL or some shit like you did.
• 55:49
  Like, just do what you need to do in the NFL right here, right now for us.
• 55:54
  Alright?
• 55:55
  Well and I wonder if there's not a little bit of that in KOC's brain where he's like, I I
• 56:02
  need someone that is talented enough that you're not just, like, giving McCarthy the job
• 56:09
  because of pure physical ability.
• 56:11
  And I think what they wanted to do and as more and more comes out that they really thought
• 56:15
  they had Daniel Jones kinda locked in, and you were gonna have Jones and McCarthy behind him
• 56:21
  learning for a year, and you kinda threw McCarthy kinda got thrown to the wolves because
• 56:26
  of bad management.
• 56:27
  Right?
• 56:28
  And and I don't know that anyone really wanted him out there.
• 56:31
  I mean, I I don't know that we'll ever have concrete answers to that.
• 56:35
  We can kinda speculate as far as what all those were.
• 56:38
  But the more time goes on and things leak out that it definitely seemed, that they were in
• 56:44
  that thing, you know, in that room, and Daniel Jones was like, well, screw it.
• 56:48
  If they're gonna kind of you know, if JJ's gonna be their guy and I may be out of the
• 56:53
  starting job six months in or a year in, and then I'm gonna be back to the backup, I'd
• 56:58
  rather go take a chance to beat out Anthony Richardson.
• 57:01
  Right?
• 57:01
  And and you kinda put it on him in that way.
• 57:04
  So and it sucks that, you know, I feel bad for Daniel Jones, you know, blowing out the
• 57:08
  Achilles last season, and he may never be the same player anyway.
• 57:12
  So hindsight's always there, but it's yeah.
• 57:16
  I think I think the Vikings are in a position now with this draft, and granted it's all
• 57:22
  rookie, you know, unproven guys, I think making that defense even more dangerous is is going to
• 57:30
  take more pressure off of the offense.
• 57:32
  Right?
• 57:33
  It it just has to be serviceable, convert on the short fields, and be, you know, a little
• 57:40
  bit of potent.
• 57:40
  I think you were putting I think the defense early on in the season, you know, Harrison
• 57:45
  Smith didn't quite have his legs underneath of him.
• 57:48
  You that defense really didn't start clicking until about halfway through the season.
• 57:53
  Right?
• 57:53
  And and getting up to that kind of peak form where they were the year before, I think
• 57:57
  they're gonna start out hot.
• 57:59
  I think the Vikings defense starts out with their hair on fire this year and really putting
• 58:04
  it on teams.
• 58:06
  And and you just need to go out there and put up as an offense 21 a game.
• 58:10
  And, honestly, if you only if you put up 21 a game last season, you're in the playoffs.
• 58:15
  So So are
• 58:16
  we are we saying right now the Vikings are gonna go as far as our defense could take us?
• 58:23
  I mean, is that our strong point right now?
• 58:25
  Absolutely.
• 58:27
  Yeah.
• 58:27
  Absolutely.
• 58:29
  So the less so the so the less field and less time our offense is on the field, the better
• 58:37
  we're off right now.
• 58:38
  Look.
• 58:39
  That's how we won 14 games.
• 58:40
  Everybody kinda likes to be like, oh, Sam Darnold was so good.
• 58:43
  Sam Darnold was carrying that team.
• 58:44
  Sam Darnold was playing a fucking you were on the other side of the field getting the ball
• 58:49
  all the time.
• 58:50
  Right?
• 58:50
  Like, that defense was, like, historically good defense.
• 58:53
  Makes offense really freaking easy.
• 58:56
  They had, what, 30 some turnovers that year, which means that 30 times during the season,
• 59:01
  Sam Darnold was probably starting with the ball on the other side of the 50 yard line.
• 59:06
  Yeah.
• 59:06
  That's 50.
• 59:07
  Be a
• 59:08
  really good player and a really good quarterback from that point.
• 59:11
  Right?
• 59:12
  And I think that get it gets washed out.
• 59:14
  And then you gotta kick her behind you.
• 59:17
  Come on, man.
• 59:18
  It was just so many things get washed out.
• 59:22
  The the, you know, the short term memory loss of fans that it was that defense that carried
• 59:30
  you in that 14 win season.
• 59:31
  It was never the offense.
• 59:33
  It was, like, the offense The Buffalo Bills game.
• 59:36
  Be that good.
• 59:38
  They didn't.
• 59:39
  And I Bills game, the Indianapolis Colts game.
• 59:43
  Like, I'm not gonna lie.
• 59:46
  Everyone wants to think about that Bills game and be like, oh, that catch from Jefferson.
• 59:51
  Jefferson wouldn't have had to make that catch like that if it were thrown good.
• 59:56
  You know what I'm saying?
• 59:57
  Our defense our defense coming up with that safety or, like, that touchback, whatever the
• 1:00:04
  hell it was, Eric Eric Kendricks give us a nudge in that game, man.
• 1:00:13
  Please.
• 1:00:14
  It was our defense that carried us.
• 1:00:16
  That's what carried the the ravens, the buccaneers.
• 1:00:21
  I feel like the team got a a they somebody had to come to Jesus moment.
• 1:00:28
  Right?
• 1:00:28
  In this offseason, they they came out and maybe there was sabotage on the part of Quasi.
• 1:00:35
  And and it sounds like as more and more stuff is coming on that him and the coaching staff
• 1:00:40
  were not necessarily in alignment with how to build a team.
• 1:00:44
  Right?
• 1:00:45
  And this And
• 1:00:46
  that's cost.
• 1:00:47
  And looking at the draft that they know at this point who they are.
• 1:00:52
  Right?
• 1:00:53
  They are defense first.
• 1:00:54
  This defense and and B flow system and what he's proven, you went and got the guy some dogs
• 1:01:01
  now.
• 1:01:01
  And you may have gotten him you may have gotten some freaking some mean ass pit bulls, right,
• 1:01:08
  in the players that you picked this year.
• 1:01:10
  Everybody's gotta go out and prove it, but this defense is gonna be dangerous.
• 1:01:14
  And if the offense can go out, be serviceable, you can get a let's say you get four, five
• 1:01:21
  hundred yards out of Damon Claiborne, right, busting off some big chunk plays that you
• 1:01:26
  didn't have at all last year.
• 1:01:29
  I think the the longest run we had last year was Addison's end around on Christmas day.
• 1:01:33
  Right?
• 1:01:34
  The 60 whatever yarder, from your running back.
• 1:01:37
  Be besides that, I think it was maybe, like, three twenty yard runs from Jones or Mason.
• 1:01:43
  But you have two guys that know how to do it.
• 1:01:45
  You you kinda replenish the running back stable and got a home run hitter out there.
• 1:01:50
  You you got some dogs on the defense.
• 1:01:52
  You maybe you can find I mean, there's talent out there after mini camp or after training
• 1:01:58
  camp too.
• 1:01:59
  Right?
• 1:01:59
  Like, the this team is not done being built.
• 1:02:02
  And it's
• 1:02:03
  After preseason too.
• 1:02:06
  Bro, there there's a lot to there there's still some holes.
• 1:02:09
  Right?
• 1:02:10
  I think you need a cornerback.
• 1:02:11
  If Hitman comes back, maybe you don't necessarily need another safety, but you
• 1:02:15
  probably need somebody there.
• 1:02:17
  It's it's gonna be interesting to see how the rest of this plays out.
• 1:02:20
  I think the fact that they got Juwan Jennings in there today, I don't think you let him
• 1:02:25
  leave.
• 1:02:25
  I think you got a guy there that has proven himself in the league that's not gonna cost you
• 1:02:30
  a bunch of money that you can plug into your wide receiver two or three spot.
• 1:02:34
  Right?
• 1:02:34
  I think probably wide receiver three on the list, but it allows you with another big body
• 1:02:39
  out there to run that Addison from, you know, in between those tag.
• 1:02:45
  Those end arounds start having more Mhmm.
• 1:02:47
  You know, effectiveness to them.
• 1:02:49
  You're you're starting to slot people into positions that make more sense.
• 1:02:55
  You know, the tight end situation, a little a little iffy, but I think you've got a guy with
• 1:03:01
  the the fullback.
• 1:03:03
  We're saying he's a fullback, but he's an HVAC.
• 1:03:05
  You could probably put him out as a blocking tight end as well because that's what he spent
• 1:03:09
  a lot of time doing in in college.
• 1:03:12
  So Yep.
• 1:03:12
  You you maybe don't which honestly takes a shitload of pressure off of TJ Hawkinson, who
• 1:03:19
  then you can just run out there on on your third downs.
• 1:03:22
  Right?
• 1:03:22
  It's just like No.
• 1:03:23
  Just go catch the ball hawk.
• 1:03:25
  You know what I mean?
• 1:03:26
  Like, you could go catch a few for us this year.
• 1:03:28
  We know you're not the same guy.
• 1:03:30
  We, made you, you know, strong armed you into a pay cut for that reason, and you you let it
• 1:03:36
  ride.
• 1:03:36
  But I think this team is noticeably better, after the draft and, with a lot to prove, with
• 1:03:44
  with a lot of young, hungry guys.
• 1:03:46
  And I think that's the coolest part is that everyone you drafted can see a future in the
• 1:03:51
  NFL on this squad right now.
• 1:03:53
  And whether it's it's it's right now for most of them.
• 1:03:57
  I think for six of the eight, you could be like, that guy has a chance to play substantial
• 1:04:02
  snaps on this team in 20 right now.
• 1:04:06
  Right now.
• 1:04:06
  And the center is the only one that I'm looking at where it's like, you know, he's probably a
• 1:04:12
  practice squad guy all year.
• 1:04:13
  Maybe makes it on the 53 at some point because you want that extra lineman, somebody gets
• 1:04:18
  hurt, whatever you have.
• 1:04:19
  But you the this team is noticeably better after this draft.
• 1:04:25
  And no matter what they do moving forward, the plus 600, whatever whatever the odds are right
• 1:04:31
  now, I think those change.
• 1:04:32
  I think they're probably Oh,
• 1:04:33
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:33
  They will.
• 1:04:34
  Plus plus four or plus 300, by the start of the season.
• 1:04:38
  I think you're gonna see some there's some shake up on that.
• 1:04:41
  And, yeah, I'm excited.
• 1:04:43
  I'm more excited now for the season than I was a week ago.
• 1:04:47
  I know that.
• 1:04:50
  No.
• 1:04:51
  I'm I'm always excited.
• 1:04:53
  I mean, the draft's over.
• 1:04:55
  You know, now everybody kinda cools off, looks to see what they need, and then they move into
• 1:05:01
  another stage of free agency.
• 1:05:03
  Then the, you know, camps will start up here.
• 1:05:06
  People get cut, moved around.
• 1:05:09
  Preseason will be here.
• 1:05:10
  Keep people get cut.
• 1:05:11
  You know?
• 1:05:12
  So this roster could look a little bit different come week one than it does right now.
• 1:05:17
  So Oh,
• 1:05:19
  and and how about our undrafted free agents?
• 1:05:22
  We got we got a few notable ones up on there.
• 1:05:26
  Yeah.
• 1:05:26
  We we we send a lot.
• 1:05:28
  So, you know, and those guys could always play a factor.
• 1:05:32
  So, you know, it is you know, you gotta be hungry to be in this league and, you know, so
• 1:05:39
  Facts.
• 1:05:41
  Stop biting me.
• 1:05:43
  Golly.
• 1:05:48
  Oh, man.
• 1:05:50
  How many how many days until the hall of fame game?
• 1:05:56
  That's typically
• 1:05:59
  let's see.
• 1:06:01
  August 1?
• 1:06:03
  Yeah.
• 1:06:03
  I think so.
• 1:06:04
  Who plays in that?
• 1:06:07
  Let's see.
• 1:06:11
  Scores.
• 1:06:12
  Let's see.
• 1:06:14
  Oh, they only have.
• 1:06:17
  No.
• 1:06:17
  They haven't released anything yet.
• 1:06:19
  So they they
• 1:06:20
  have There's gonna be a lot a
• 1:06:22
  lot to cover.
• 1:06:23
  It'll it'll be interesting.
• 1:06:25
  I want a clean, training camp, mini camp, all that.
• 1:06:32
  God help us if we have another 10
• 1:06:34
  old watch that happen.
• 1:06:35
  Cardinals versus the panthers.
• 1:06:39
  Let me find knock on wood.
• 1:06:42
  No.
• 1:06:42
  I was gonna say,
• 1:06:43
  come on, man.
• 1:06:44
  How you
• 1:06:44
  how you doing?
• 1:06:46
  No.
• 1:06:47
  And I and I think that we have a lot to be excited about.
• 1:06:51
  I know after night one, and I think that the the stadium reaction they got after they
• 1:06:58
  announced Caleb Banks.
• 1:07:00
  Yeah.
• 1:07:00
  What the Vikings were expecting, especially the media department where they're like, this is
• 1:07:05
  our moment.
• 1:07:06
  And then the, like, the collective groan from from the thousands that were gathered at US
• 1:07:13
  Bank Stadium.
• 1:07:14
  I don't think that went over well.
• 1:07:16
  But I think now that everybody's had a little time to digest it, and I I recommend
• 1:07:20
  I would I would say the fan base is probably fifty fifty right now after we got everything
• 1:07:25
  out there.
• 1:07:26
  Go go
• 1:07:26
  check out VocalVyke.
• 1:07:27
  Our guy, Rap Yep.
• 1:07:29
  With his channel, he had a foot doctor, foot surgeon on last night who kinda broke down the
• 1:07:35
  Nice.
• 1:07:36
  Multiple injuries to that foot, and it kinda put me at ease.
• 1:07:40
  And I think for a lot of that fan base and a lot of our friends
• 1:07:43
  Yeah.
• 1:07:43
  But, I mean, you know, being a big guy like I am and knock on wood that I don't get any
• 1:07:48
  injuries.
• 1:07:49
  But, I mean, that's a lot of pressure to put on that foot, knees, and everything.
• 1:07:53
  So, I mean, like I said, he he he gotta come out of every You
• 1:07:57
  have a lot different medical staff in the NFL.
• 1:08:00
  You know?
• 1:08:00
  Is it I don't do that.
• 1:08:01
  Rather than a college one too.
• 1:08:04
  And and what it sound like to me is that he kinda rushed things back.
• 1:08:10
  Right?
• 1:08:10
  And he's
• 1:08:11
  always trying to push.
• 1:08:12
  He knew he had an opportunity, and Florida wasn't that good, so he's probably playing a
• 1:08:15
  lot more snaps.
• 1:08:17
  Right?
• 1:08:17
  But he he knows where he's at in his career too And probably pushed it a little too hard,
• 1:08:22
  probably pushed it in the draft a little too hard.
• 1:08:24
  Yeah.
• 1:08:25
  Big ass dude out there running around in track shoes.
• 1:08:28
  You know what I mean?
• 1:08:29
  That I think he's gonna be okay.
• 1:08:31
  And and I'd like I said, highly suggest anyone listening to this, go and listen to the
• 1:08:36
  VocalVyke YouTube channel.
• 1:08:37
  He had a a great foot surgeon on last night, kinda put a lot of our fears to rest.
• 1:08:46
  And I'm excited.
• 1:08:47
  I'm excited for it.
• 1:08:48
  They're gonna let it say, oh, it heals.
• 1:08:51
  Thing with with what the doctor said last night was really that, like, it heals and it heals
• 1:08:57
  predictably.
• 1:08:58
  Right?
• 1:08:58
  It's not something that recurs.
• 1:09:00
  Usually, when it heals, it's all good.
• 1:09:02
  This young man just they they kicked that foot up.
• 1:09:05
  Right?
• 1:09:05
  Chill out.
• 1:09:06
  Get the twelve weeks.
• 1:09:07
  And when you come back, be ready.
• 1:09:09
  It it sounds like you'll miss rookie minicamp, obviously, because that's coming up here.
• 1:09:14
  So I think that's, like, in May, isn't it?
• 1:09:15
  The rookie minicamp?
• 1:09:16
  Oh, man.
• 1:09:17
  Absolutely.
• 1:09:18
  Like, within a few weeks.
• 1:09:19
  But But, coach, I mean man.
• 1:09:22
  We're drafting Dude, they can't even show up to me rookie minicamp.
• 1:09:26
  But, I mean, he's not
• 1:09:28
  gonna be on the field.
• 1:09:29
  Yo.
• 1:09:29
  I mean Oh my god.
• 1:09:32
  But you know?
• 1:09:33
  Oh, now he muted himself.
• 1:09:34
  Alright.
• 1:09:35
  But, again, being a player, you know, and, you know, I wish coach was here to, you know, get
• 1:09:40
  his point of view because he deals with it.
• 1:09:43
  I mean, it's there he is.
• 1:09:44
  I mean, how hard is it to keep your guys that are 90% you wanna get a healthy to just say,
• 1:09:52
  let's just get healthy.
• 1:09:53
  Let's worry about next game.
• 1:09:54
  I mean, they wanna play, you know, no matter what level you're at.
• 1:09:57
  So I get that he wanted to come back, but sometimes you just have to try to get through
• 1:10:02
  them and say, don't worry about this game.
• 1:10:05
  Let's go for the next game.
• 1:10:07
  Well, and it it depends on the type of player, if they're a rookie, compared to being a
• 1:10:14
  veteran, if they're on a bottom of the barrel scraping team or a championship team.
• 1:10:20
  If you are a rookie and you are on a championship team, then hopefully, have players
• 1:10:27
  on that team that will mentor you and be like, hey, man.
• 1:10:30
  Like, I know you wanna get I know you wanna get here, but, like, we'll be alright.
• 1:10:35
  We need yeah.
• 1:10:36
  Take your time.
• 1:10:37
  We need you for the long run.
• 1:10:39
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:10:41
  If you don't have that leadership, then they might just be like, hey, man.
• 1:10:44
  We need you right now.
• 1:10:46
  Like, we're we suck.
• 1:10:47
  We need you.
• 1:10:48
  And it it all depends on the leadership, all depends on the the the player.
• 1:10:52
  You know?
• 1:10:53
  If I'm a rookie, like, yeah, I'm anxious to get my ass out on that field, but I like to think
• 1:11:02
  Well and and I think I think his situation even more so is even more precarious.
• 1:11:08
  Right?
• 1:11:09
  Because he knows that he has an opportunity to go into the league, and you're playing on a bad
• 1:11:13
  team.
• 1:11:13
  Right?
• 1:11:13
  Like, Florida was not good this year.
• 1:11:15
  You had to be you had to have something.
• 1:11:19
  You couldn't afford to not be on the field.
• 1:11:21
  So you get hurt early.
• 1:11:23
  There's that, like, this is my chance.
• 1:11:25
  You feel it slipping away a little bit, and you come back and you're trying to maximize the
• 1:11:31
  time that you do have to perform in that way.
• 1:11:34
  Like, I can put myself in in well, I can't because he probably wears, a size seventeen.
• 1:11:39
  But I could put myself in half of his shoe and and kind of understand where he's coming from
• 1:11:44
  and wanting to do that pushing hard.
• 1:11:47
  I mean, the measurables were off the freaking charts at the combine before
• 1:11:51
  And and that's and that's the thing too is right.
• 1:11:53
  So You know, outside of trying to be healthy, I mean, he's got a motivated, you know, mind now
• 1:11:59
  that, you know, 17 teams passed on me, couple of them passed on me twice because of my foot
• 1:12:05
  injury.
• 1:12:05
  I'm gonna go out there and show these guys that they made a mistake.
• 1:12:09
  You know?
• 1:12:10
  Yeah.
• 1:12:10
  So so it sounds like a receiver we had back in the nineties that everybody passed on him.
• 1:12:15
  He was supposed to be a high pick, came out there just balled out.
• 1:12:19
  So, again, I I hope he does good.
• 1:12:21
  I hope he stays healthy.
• 1:12:22
  I mean, you know, so I mean, I'm just, you know, optimistic right now that that was the
• 1:12:28
  right pick.
• 1:12:30
  Yeah.
• 1:12:30
  No.
• 1:12:32
  Speaking of, teams passing up on a player, how do we feel about that Vanderbilt quarterback
• 1:12:40
  when, completely undrafted?
• 1:12:44
  The first high or the first Heisman finals to get undrafted?
• 1:12:49
  Yeah.
• 1:12:49
  You went to Baltimore.
• 1:12:51
  Right?
• 1:12:54
  Like, after the draft?
• 1:12:56
  Yeah.
• 1:12:57
  I last time I heard you was with some CFL team, Blue Bombers.
• 1:13:02
  Let's see here.
• 1:13:04
  They they had the first rights for him, Canadian wise or Canada wise.
• 1:13:09
  Okay.
• 1:13:11
  I thought I I thought he signed a a draft deal with the Baltimore.
• 1:13:16
  I would be.
• 1:13:17
  That's pretty wild that a a Heisman finalist would go completely undrafted, but that's, I
• 1:13:24
  mean, that's the league now, man.
• 1:13:27
  Well, I mean
• 1:13:29
  Yeah.
• 1:13:29
  He's trying to he he so he's runner Heisman runner-up, D'Angelo I can't pronounce his last
• 1:13:38
  name.
• 1:13:38
  Signed a three year deal with the Ravens after a scheduled tryout seven hours ago.
• 1:13:44
  So No shit.
• 1:13:46
  Alright.
• 1:13:46
  Alright.
• 1:13:46
  Well, a three year deal?
• 1:13:49
  That's what they're saying here from Fox Sports News that he signed a three year deal with the
• 1:13:53
  Ravens.
• 1:13:54
  Go crazy.
• 1:13:55
  Baltimore just waste a three year contract.
• 1:13:57
  Go crazy.
• 1:14:00
  Well, did they leave?
• 1:14:01
  Figure, did they give them time to learn behind them?
• 1:14:03
  Like, they didn't pay them any money.
• 1:14:05
  The contract's probably worth, like, $70.
• 1:14:09
  Hey, man.
• 1:14:09
  All's I'm saying again,
• 1:14:11
  He's he's got Lamar Jackson to learn from.
• 1:14:14
  So Well
• 1:14:16
  What's Lamar gonna teach him about playing?
• 1:14:18
  Run.
• 1:14:19
  Run to spin.
• 1:14:20
  Juke and run.
• 1:14:22
  My goodness.
• 1:14:24
  Yeah.
• 1:14:24
  Hey.
• 1:14:24
  Hey.
• 1:14:25
  And turn it off and hand it off to
• 1:14:28
  Derrick Henry?
• 1:14:29
  Yeah.
• 1:14:30
  For one more year?
• 1:14:31
  I could play quarterback.
• 1:14:33
  I could do that, maybe.
• 1:14:35
  No.
• 1:14:35
  I get hit from behind one time.
• 1:14:37
  That would be over.
• 1:14:38
  I'm old.
• 1:14:39
  Boys, I'm gonna be 40 in a week a week Thursday.
• 1:14:44
  No shit.
• 1:14:45
  A week on Thursday.
• 1:14:46
  So his contract
• 1:14:48
  That's hey.
• 1:14:48
  40 is
• 1:14:49
  a new 20.
• 1:14:51
  Looks to be just about just over $1,000,000 for all three years.
• 1:14:54
  So
• 1:14:56
  Alright.
• 1:14:57
  Alright.
• 1:14:58
  That that's not bad.
• 1:14:59
  He could turn out to some, but Yeah.
• 1:15:01
  I mean,
• 1:15:03
  you But you stand to believe your legs.
• 1:15:05
  If he doesn't, you're pretty much paying him as much as a practice squad player makes, bro.
• 1:15:10
  Pretty much.
• 1:15:10
  Pretty much.
• 1:15:11
  And and, I mean, at this point, you just you're paying them the money.
• 1:15:15
  You gave them a contract.
• 1:15:16
  Shut them up.
• 1:15:17
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:15:18
  He's he's not gonna be on
• 1:15:19
  social media.
• 1:15:21
  Like, you you can't be that type of player.
• 1:15:24
  Like, if Baker Mayfield was going into the draft around this year or, Manziel, they're
• 1:15:32
  going undrafted just because of the off on field antics and stuff like that.
• 1:15:37
  It's ridiculous.
• 1:15:38
  So speaking of surprise quarterback picks, what do we think about the Rams taking Ty Simpson
• 1:15:46
  at, what, 15 or something like that?
• 1:15:49
  I mean, Matthew Stafford ain't gonna play forever, man.
• 1:15:53
  Like Yeah.
• 1:15:53
  Matthew Stafford probably got, like, two, three years left.
• 1:15:57
  I like I mean, honestly, I like the pick because it I mean, you guys, you know, they're
• 1:16:02
  looking at the board and probably like, you know, this is our guy we want.
• 1:16:06
  Can we go get him in the early second round?
• 1:16:08
  Is he gonna last that long?
• 1:16:10
  They just went out and got the guy they wanted.
• 1:16:12
  So I I like to pick for them.
• 1:16:16
  You know?
• 1:16:16
  Yeah.
• 1:16:17
  I just don't think
• 1:16:18
  that you know?
• 1:16:18
  And and and Pod's kinda talking about taking JJ in the third round.
• 1:16:23
  It's like, look, dude.
• 1:16:24
  It doesn't matter what you think of the talent.
• 1:16:26
  It's a premium decision.
• 1:16:28
  They're not gonna be there in the third round.
• 1:16:30
  Right?
• 1:16:30
  Three one?
• 1:16:31
  Let's go.
• 1:16:31
  Three to one, baby.
• 1:16:33
  Let's go.
• 1:16:35
  In the third too.
• 1:16:36
  Right?
• 1:16:36
  So it's gonna
• 1:16:37
  be late.
• 1:16:37
  Game.
• 1:16:38
  Good deal.
• 1:16:39
  Let's go.
• 1:16:40
  Let's go.
• 1:16:40
  Yeah.
• 1:16:41
  I'm excited, man.
• 1:16:42
  Good for the wild.
• 1:16:43
  We were we were a little late starting our starting our hockey show this season, but I
• 1:16:48
  guarantee you we're gonna have one next year.
• 1:16:51
  I just
• 1:16:51
  I'm doing
• 1:16:52
  10 shows a week, man.
• 1:16:53
  Like, this Hey.
• 1:16:54
  Unbeknownable.
• 1:16:55
  I need more coho.
• 1:16:56
  We're we're hey.
• 1:16:58
  We're we're trying.
• 1:16:59
  I I dropped a couple of my I'm down from eight jobs to six.
• 1:17:03
  I'm proud to announce.
• 1:17:04
  Oh, wow.
• 1:17:07
  You just picked up a new coaching gig while we were on the show today.
• 1:17:12
  Alright.
• 1:17:12
  Well, then I went from eight to five to six.
• 1:17:15
  Eight to five to six.
• 1:17:19
  But yeah.
• 1:17:20
  No.
• 1:17:20
  It's yeah.
• 1:17:21
  I'm excited.
• 1:17:21
  It's gonna be a great year.
• 1:17:23
  I'm excited for this wild year.
• 1:17:25
  Just Minnesota sports being in the playoffs, postseason in general, just makes life a whole
• 1:17:31
  lot better.
• 1:17:32
  It makes our job a whole lot better.
• 1:17:36
  No doubt.
• 1:17:37
  No doubt.
• 1:17:38
  Yeah.
• 1:17:38
  And and we're not nobody's counting on the twins to do anything.
• 1:17:41
  So you really gotta soak this up because then it's like no sports for for eight for five
• 1:17:47
  months until football starts again.
• 1:17:50
  Hey, B.
• 1:17:51
  Speaking of the twins, man, how was the game last night?
• 1:17:54
  I know it was a little cold and wet.
• 1:17:55
  It was cold.
• 1:17:56
  It it was it was cold.
• 1:17:58
  I'm actually kinda shocked that they got the game in.
• 1:18:01
  I figured they'd get to, like, the fifth, and then the storms would start rolling in.
• 1:18:06
  But, no, it was a fun game.
• 1:18:08
  A buddy of mine, he's a Seattle fan, we went this year and last year.
• 1:18:13
  Of course, both games were last year was in a three hour rain delay, and we wait we reached
• 1:18:19
  out for that.
• 1:18:20
  This year was just, you know, they started right on time.
• 1:18:24
  The Twins started off four four nothing lead, then they scored two in the fifth, so four two,
• 1:18:31
  and then the Twins kinda took off from there.
• 1:18:34
  I think eleven four, eleven six was the final last night.
• 1:18:38
  Big, big outfield mistake by Rodriguez for Seattle that kinda changed again that led him
• 1:18:44
  to that four four run lead, but yeah.
• 1:18:48
  So right now, they're down three to one to the Seattle Mariners.
• 1:18:52
  So a little bit better game, still cold one out there.
• 1:18:54
  But Yeah.
• 1:18:55
  Who gives a
• 1:18:55
  shit, man?
• 1:18:56
  You're not there now.
• 1:18:57
  Well Hey.
• 1:18:58
  I don't wanna hear that.
• 1:18:59
  How cold was it?
• 1:19:02
  It was it was, like, in the mid fifties.
• 1:19:04
  Yeah.
• 1:19:05
  Oh, mid fifties.
• 1:19:06
  Alright.
• 1:19:06
  Well, different sport we're talking, but I just I
• 1:19:09
  recall a gopher game that
• 1:19:11
  I went to.
• 1:19:12
  It
• 1:19:13
  was snowing.
• 1:19:14
  But a gopher game in the winter, you know it's gonna snow.
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  I mean, come on.
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  There you go.
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  I don't know why.
• 1:19:21
  I didn't have my snow pants.
• 1:19:22
  I didn't have my gloves.
• 1:19:25
  I was I probably bought, like, ten, seventeen hot chocolates just to hold onto to keep warm.
• 1:19:32
  I'll never do that again in my life.
• 1:19:34
  Yeah.
• 1:19:34
  I don't know how you don't have you live in Minnesota, bro.
• 1:19:38
  Like, how do you not have four pairs of winter gloves?
• 1:19:41
  Well, I mean, usually usually because, you know, we're from Minnesota.
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  Like,
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  we don't like we don't.
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  You have AirPaws for hands.
• 1:19:49
  I'm I'm that dude, 20 degree weather wearing shorts and, like, a sweater, maybe a hoodie.
• 1:19:56
  But, like, this was just it was wet, slop, snow.
• 1:20:00
  Oh, man.
• 1:20:01
  Fuck all that.
• 1:20:03
  I'm not doing that again.
• 1:20:05
  I wear my snowboarding mittens to walk my kids to school.
• 1:20:08
  It's, like, three blocks.
• 1:20:11
  Don't like being cold.
• 1:20:12
  I don't like nope.
• 1:20:14
  I'm good.
• 1:20:14
  I get a bundle of but I'm also like, I have the ability to stay warm.
• 1:20:18
  So I dig it, man.
• 1:20:20
  I'm looking forward to, I'm looking forward to the rest of baseball season.
• 1:20:26
  We got some great stuff coming up on the network.
• 1:20:29
  We'll be we'll be covering some really great teams.
• 1:20:32
  We'll be getting ourselves into some awesome stadiums and having a really good time.
• 1:20:37
  I just really you know, not a lot of details right now, I I realized, to to share with
• 1:20:42
  everyone, but we got some great stuff coming from the Saint Paul's network.
• 1:20:47
  Shout out to coach Cody.
• 1:20:49
  Congratulations to you being back with the Saint Paul bears.
• 1:20:52
  We hope that opens up the door for us to be an official partner this year with the coverage
• 1:20:57
  team there as well.
• 1:20:59
  And, yeah, man, this network's gonna take off, and I'm really I'm proud of us, you know,
• 1:21:04
  bringing this all to fruition.
• 1:21:06
  This thing was kind of an empty property until I got together with you guys, and we started
• 1:21:11
  doing this every week.
• 1:21:13
  And I think it's been great.
• 1:21:15
  I can't wait to do pregame shows with the VWO at the tailgate.
• 1:21:19
  I can't wait to keep showing up weekly for Vikings United, and it's it's gonna be a great
• 1:21:25
  season, man.
• 1:21:26
  And the the overall goal, right, is to credentials.
• 1:21:29
  Right?
• 1:21:30
  Sometime in the next five years, being credentialed to go cover the Minnesota Vikings
• 1:21:35
  in house or on the coaching staff or wherever it may be, and I'm not gonna stop.
• 1:21:41
  Right?
• 1:21:41
  Like, I have when I get an idea like that in my head, I I don't stop until the mission is
• 1:21:47
  accomplished.
• 1:21:48
  So whatever way we can, we are getting on the field, at the Vikings.
• 1:21:53
  We are gonna be there in some capacity.
• 1:21:56
  I don't know if it'll happen this year, but you all help us keep growing the channel, and it
• 1:22:01
  will happen.
• 1:22:02
  And, we're gonna have a lot of opportunities for everyone else to to really join in on all
• 1:22:07
  the fun too.
• 1:22:07
  So it's gonna be an exciting year.
• 1:22:10
  You thought last year was something, coach.
• 1:22:11
  Wait till this year.
• 1:22:14
  Hey.
• 1:22:15
  I'm I'm just, you know, I'm just along for the ride.
• 1:22:19
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:22:19
  This has been an absolute pleasure for me.
• 1:22:23
  You know, starting mid midseason last week or last year with the Minnesota Vikings pregame
• 1:22:29
  show branching off to Vikings United and then hitting the scratch project, our golf podcast,
• 1:22:36
  and then the seven eight nine with our baseball one.
• 1:22:39
  We're just we're branching off one by one, and, you know, I'm just I'm excited for everybody to
• 1:22:45
  start hopping on board and just
• 1:22:47
  Well, I'm hoping a a wrestling show coming up.
• 1:22:50
  Hey.
• 1:22:51
  Yep.
• 1:22:52
  Are you feeling it?
• 1:22:54
  Yeah.
• 1:22:54
  It's crazy how much this, this network in particular
• 1:22:57
  in a year.
• 1:22:58
  Really flourished, man.
• 1:22:59
  Well, I needed a team, and that's that's what it really came down to.
• 1:23:03
  And and I spent a lot of time building up the scene projects, you know, team as well, and I
• 1:23:08
  was doing a lot, man.
• 1:23:09
  I did a lot last year, but those things are kinda, like, scheduled out.
• 1:23:13
  Right?
• 1:23:13
  Like, my other podcasts and stuff are are done for the year.
• 1:23:16
  So and this will kinda be the routine, right, is that finish all those things up, get way
• 1:23:22
  ahead of the game on on the stuff that can be more evergreen so that I can focus my daily and
• 1:23:28
  weekly stuff on the sports side and always be here.
• 1:23:32
  Right?
• 1:23:32
  Like, at this point, I I could stop doing scene projects episodes today, and I'm literally I'm
• 1:23:38
  scheduled out through the end of the year.
• 1:23:41
  Right?
• 1:23:41
  So, like, I don't have to do another one.
• 1:23:43
  So every one that you do just puts you that much farther ahead.
• 1:23:47
  Right?
• 1:23:47
  And that much farther ahead.
• 1:23:48
  So now it's about filling in the sports content and, you know, with the sports content come a
• 1:23:55
  little bit more of the support.
• 1:23:56
  People are watching and engaging with this content.
• 1:23:58
  So, yeah, I mean, everything was calculated.
• 1:24:00
  I know it looks like it's accidental because we're just, you know, three three dudes that
• 1:24:04
  show up on Tuesday and talk a little alright.
• 1:24:07
  But but everything has been really calculated on on the backside and and behind closed doors.
• 1:24:13
  And Mhmm.
• 1:24:14
  You know, I'm excited about what yeah.
• 1:24:16
  I mean, like, now that the draft's over, we can all breathe a little bit.
• 1:24:19
  There's not gonna be a lot of of football to talk.
• 1:24:22
  This is kind of just our excuse to get together with one another.
• 1:24:25
  I think of what's happening in Cody's world through this.
• 1:24:28
  But, you know, when training camp gets going and and there's gonna be a lot to talk about,
• 1:24:34
  I'm sure we'll take a little bit of a break at some point and maybe take a few weeks off
• 1:24:39
  possibly just because there's gonna be a lack of news with this show.
• 1:24:43
  But, I mean, it it's really just an opportunity to get together and talk with your guys.
• 1:24:46
  Right?
• 1:24:47
  Get to catch up.
• 1:24:48
  Yeah.
• 1:24:48
  It's not like we
• 1:24:49
  all have a ton of My buddy just texted me that I went to Seattle, he goes, really?
• 1:24:53
  Seven to one tonight, bottom of the ninth?
• 1:24:55
  Come on.
• 1:24:55
  Why couldn't this been last night's game?
• 1:24:58
  Because he was there.
• 1:24:59
  That's why.
• 1:25:01
  That's why.
• 1:25:02
  Well,
• 1:25:02
  fellas, I appreciate you guys continuing to show up with me.
• 1:25:06
  It's been a joy, to keep this thing going with, no matter how you felt about the draft.
• 1:25:13
  We got we got fresh fresh meat on the table, a lot of UDFAs.
• 1:25:18
  This team got younger, which was something that we, kind of waxed poetic about at the end of
• 1:25:24
  the season.
• 1:25:25
  They've done it.
• 1:25:26
  And and whether all of these players pan out and become there, I think what's important is
• 1:25:31
  that those young men can see a pathway to that.
• 1:25:34
  And nothing's more dangerous than a a a young man with a dream and a vision for how to get
• 1:25:41
  there.
• 1:25:41
  Right?
• 1:25:42
  There there's no pathway out there and no different, Cody, than you painting the picture
• 1:25:46
  for your guys and and them seeing guys elevating through the leagues and and having
• 1:25:52
  that movement, that makes everybody a little bit a little bit dangerous.
• 1:25:55
  Right?
• 1:25:56
  A little bit more dangerous than they were before to go out there and to deliver.
• 1:26:00
  Because I think when you step onto a stacked team as a young player and you don't see that,
• 1:26:06
  that you maybe don't have that same fire.
• 1:26:08
  That, like, no matter what I do, I'm not gonna beat out x y z player ahead of me who's making
• 1:26:13
  twenty, twenty five million dollars.
• 1:26:15
  Right?
• 1:26:16
  Like, I'm not beating that guy out.
• 1:26:17
  This team doesn't have that.
• 1:26:19
  It's got a lot of openings, and a lot of these young men coming in are gonna have an
• 1:26:23
  opportunity to prove themselves.
• 1:26:24
  And I think that makes for a dangerous team, and I don't mind if we're sleepers.
• 1:26:28
  I don't mind if we're playing underdog all year and everybody's doubting us.
• 1:26:31
  I I think it makes us, once again, that much more dangerous to come in and whoop some ass.
• 1:26:37
  And think that this defense, at the very least, is gonna do just that, just like the Saint Paul
• 1:26:42
  Bears are gonna do when their season gets moving.
• 1:26:44
  Hey.
• 1:26:45
  Hey.
• 1:26:45
  That's what I'm saying.
• 1:26:47
  You know, I don't mind I never mind being the underdog.
• 1:26:51
  I love it.
• 1:26:52
  I feed off that because I know what I got.
• 1:26:55
  I know what, like, what kind of players we got.
• 1:26:58
  So, you know, I'm a talk that talk, and then, you know, take all that negative feedback that
• 1:27:05
  I get, use it as fuel.
• 1:27:07
  We're gonna come out, perform like we always do, and then it's just one
• 1:27:11
  of them
• 1:27:11
  moments.
• 1:27:12
  So I kinda live for that.
• 1:27:16
  Us too.
• 1:27:17
  Well, you guys enjoy the rest of your night.
• 1:27:19
  Go finish off watching that wild game.
• 1:27:22
  Enjoy.
• 1:27:23
  We'll be celebrating with you as they close out the win, and we will see everybody else next
• 1:27:28
  Tuesday for Vikings United where we will be talking about, I don't know, more football news
• 1:27:34
  probably.
• 1:27:34
  Do you coach this weekend then?
• 1:27:36
  Are you heading out to the game this weekend?
• 1:27:39
  Me?
• 1:27:40
  Yeah.
• 1:27:41
  Nope.
• 1:27:41
  Nope.
• 1:27:42
  I'm good to go.
• 1:27:43
  I'm chilling.
• 1:27:45
  I'm actually getting ready for the Saint Paul Bears tryout.
• 1:27:49
  When's that?
• 1:27:49
  This weekend?
• 1:27:51
  Nope.
• 1:27:51
  Nope.
• 1:27:51
  It'll be we got about a month.
• 1:27:53
  About Okay.
• 1:27:54
  About a month.
• 1:27:55
  Yeah.
• 1:27:55
  So I'll be
• 1:27:56
  into that, though.
• 1:27:57
  Yep.
• 1:27:57
  I'll be dropping an announcement here, before the end of the week, getting players enough
• 1:28:03
  time to just plan out their trip to Minnesota from all over the country and outside the
• 1:28:09
  country and get ready to ball out.
• 1:28:12
  It's gonna be way different.
• 1:28:13
  I've learned a few things over the past year.
• 1:28:15
  So Yeah.
• 1:28:16
  Well, we'll if the timing works out.
• 1:28:18
  Maybe we can maybe I can shoot up there for a weekend and come dip in a training camp and
• 1:28:24
  start really, you know, building those relationships with the players and with
• 1:28:29
  management and and ownership and proving that we're we wanna be a part of this.
• 1:28:34
  Right?
• 1:28:34
  And I think that's important
• 1:28:36
  now, and we're just in a much different position with the network and everything this
• 1:28:40
  year.
• 1:28:40
  So thrilled, man.
• 1:28:42
  I'm so grateful that we get to do this every week.
• 1:28:45
  We get to show up for one another and, you know, talk football.
• 1:28:49
  It's a blessing.
• 1:28:50
  Now we get to talk golf and baseball and everything else too.
• 1:28:54
  So enjoy the rest of that wild game, and hopefully, they pull out not just the win
• 1:29:00
  tonight, but the series win as well and move on.
• 1:29:04
  Appreciate you guys.
• 1:29:05
  Thanks for everything.
• 1:29:06
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• 1:29:11
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